31/08/2011, 18:36 | |
![]() The first games of the 2nd Round were played on Wednesday August 31 at the World Cup in Khanty-Mansiysk. |
31/08/2011, 18:21 | |
![]() The Opening Ceremony of the 7th Ugra Governor’s Chess Cup took place on Wednesday, 30 August in Khanty Mansiysk. |
31/08/2011, 18:05 | |
![]() In the first game of the second Round Vladimir Potkin of Russia playing White attacked Alexey Shirov in a very energetic way and it seemed that he did not play a very exhausting tie-break the day before. |
31/08/2011, 17:56 | |
![]() The chess player from Saint Petersburg started his second Round with a beautiful victory. After the game the Grandmaster told the journalists how he gets prepared to the game. — Please tell us about the tie break games at first. — The distinctive feature of this tournament is tie break games. I have some experience of [...] |
31/08/2011, 17:49 | |
![]() We saw Yuri Drozdovskij at dinner after tie-breaks. To my question about the development of the games the winner of the most difficult match of the first Round said: «He missed all the goals»- and left to get some sauce. |
31/08/2011, 13:32 |
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31/08/2011, 13:06 |
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31/08/2011, 13:03 | |
![]() Azeri Grandmaster Vugar Gashimov confidently outplayed his opponent of the 1st Round Erik Hansen from Canada and was qualified to the next round. |