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Chessbase News
April 23, 2018
An exciting encounter with a happy ending for Veselin Topalov. Both players played razor sharp, although Mamedyarov criticized his game afterwards as "too risky". For a long time, one had the impression that the local hero had everything under control, but Topalov's bishop turned out to be stronger thanÃâà...
Chess.com
April 23, 2018
The fourth round of the Gashimov Memorial in Shamkir, Azerbaijan saw the first decisive game of the tournament. With his win over Shakhriyar Mamedyarov, it's Veselin Topalov who grabbed the lead today. Just like at the 2017 London Chess Classic, Shamkir's draw curse was broken in round four. AndÃâà...
Chess.com
April 22, 2018
And on the third day, no one rose again in Shamkir. Three rounds and fifteen games have resulted in a perfect fifteen draws. Each player in the event therefore has the distinction of being on both shared first and shared last place. The first player to draw his game was Radek Wojtaszek who improved on aÃâà...
Chessbase News
April 22, 2018
GM Alex Yermolinsky reports that things could have changed today round three, which saw the Bulgarian ex-FIDE World Champion Veselin Topalov miss a winning chance against Ding Liren. Unfortunately, of the two ways in which Topalov could sacrifice his knight, Topalov chose the wrong one, and DingÃâà...
Chess.com
April 21, 2018
While it was mostly Giri himself who spoiled some very promising positions back in 2016, today it was his opponent Veselin Topalov who let a technically winning position peter out to a draw. This was after Giri had found a brilliant trick, missed by Topalov, which turned out to be an incorrect combination!
Chessbase News
April 20, 2018
4/20/2018 – The Vugar Gashimov Memorial in Shamkir, Azerbaijan began with five draws. The top game between Shakhriyar Mamedyarov and Magnus Carlsen was rather unspectacular. The best chances for a victory were held by Chinese Grandmaster Ding Liren, but at the crucial moment against Radoslaw Wojtaszek,Ãâà...
Chess.com
April 16, 2018
A very interesting name on the list is Veselin Topalov, the great Bulgarian player who sadly isn't playing much chess anymore these days. He played a Champions Showdown match with Hikaru Nakamura in November in St. Louis, and was also at the 2017 Paris Grand Chess Tour, but his last classicalÃâà...
AZERTAC News
April 5, 2018
The tournament's participants include Magnus Carlsen (Norway, 2843), Shahriyar Mammadyarov (Azerbaijan, 2814), Vladimir Kramnik (Russia, 2792), Liren Ding (China, 2778), Sergey Karjakin (Russia, 2778), Anish Giri (Netherlands, 2777), Veselin Topalov (Bulgaria, 2749), Teymur Rajabov (Azerbaijan,Ãâà...
AOL
March 29, 2018
MOSCOW, RUSSIA - MARCH 29: (L-R) Grand-masters Viswanathan Anand, Peter Svidler, Levon Aronian, Anish Giri, Hikaru Nakamura, Veselin Topalov, Fabiano Caruana , World Chess Federation (FIDE) president Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, russian grand-master and winner Sergei Karjakin, Presidential AideÃâà...
Chessbase News
March 25, 2018
... two tournaments, in which the players directly played for the title (San Luis in Argentina, 2005, won by Veselin Topalov, and Mexico City, 2007, won by Viswanathan Anand), but there was no classical candidates tournament, in which the winner gained the right to challenge the reigning world champion.
AZERTAC News
March 9, 2018
The tournament's participants include Magnus Carlsen (Norway), Shahriyar Mammadyarov (Azerbaijan), Vladimir Kramnik (Ryssia), Anish Giri (Neteherlands), Liren Ding (China), Sergey Karjakin (Russia), Veselin Topalov (Bulgaria), Teymur Rajabov (Azerbaijan) and Rauf Mammadov (Azerbaijan).
Spectator.co.uk
December 1, 2017
But for me the real drama came further down the field: an amazing game between the former world champion Veselin Topalov (from Bulgaria) and Romanian prodigy Bogdan-Daniel Deac. Topalov was 41, Deac 15, but chess is a young man's game and the Bulgarian was up against it, until he made aÃâà...
Chess.com
November 9, 2017
Every November the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis (CCSCL) lets its hair down with their "Showdown" event. This year it will be four concurrent Showdowns, and like the Wild West, only one man will survive from each battle. Unlike a real Western showdown, the "loser" remains alive andÃâà...
Chess.com
October 23, 2017
In November some of the world's strongest grandmasters will be returning to St. Louis for what is called the Champions Showdown. The four matches are Hikaru Nakamura vs. Veselin Topalov, Fabiano Caruana vs. Alexander Grischuk, Wesley So vs. Leinier Dominguez and Magnus Carlsen vs. Ding Liren.
St. Louis Public Radio
September 7, 2017
Recently, a group of young nationally-ranked chess players from the United States were given such a chance by former world chess champion Veselin Topalov. Traveling to Albena, Bulgaria, six young players were invited to attend the first American-Bulgarian Chess Camp at the end of July. Along with sixÃâà...
Novinite.com
January 1, 2017
Renowned Bulgarian chess player Veselin Topalov has slumped below the world's best 20 players for the first time for more than 16 years. Global federation FIDE's fresh ranking indicates he is now positioned on the 21st spot, five spots below the previous place which he gained in April. His coefficient as ofÃâà...
Chessbase News
December 31, 1999
Participants. Magnus Carlsen Shakhriyar Mamedyarov Radoslaw Wojtaszek Anish Giri Ding Liren Sergey Karjakin Veselin Topalov Teimour Radjabov Rauf Mamedov David NavaraÃâà...
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