The Chess Players Society of Nigeria

On Wednesday the third NH Chess Tournament starts in Amsterdam. It pits five rising stars against five veteran grandmasters. For the highest scoring youngster there is a special pirze: he will be invited to the 2009 Amber Blindfold and Rapid Tournament in Nice, in the luxury of the Cote d’Azur. Both Magnus Carlsen and Sergey Karjakin started that way. Tournament details.

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We repeat the previous Staunton Memorial headline. Top British GM Michael Adams drew a highly complicated game against Peter Wells in round eight, and then beat Jonathan Speelman in round nine to score 7.0/9 point, one more than his nearest rival Loek van Wely. Jan Timman follows with 5.5, behind him Short and Smeets with 5.0 each. Rounds 8-9 reports.

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“The Organizing Committee is deeply disappointed and bewildered by the attempts of some circles to break up the competition,” writes Chairman Arsen Kanokov. “If the world championship is not shifted to another country, it will be impossible for the Georgian chess players to participate,” writes the Georgian Chess Federation. Background information and a WSJ article by Garry Kasparov.

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