Feb-15-20 Carissa Yip 
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SimonWebbsTiger: Cairns Cup 2020, Round 8. Women's World Champion Ju Wenjun 0 -- Carissa Yip 1 and in great style too! |
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Apr-24-19 Yanofsky vs Fischer, 1962 
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SimonWebbsTiger: This game, and other long games not given as a draw before no play remained, makes me wonder if Magnus Carlsen found a certain amount of inspiration from Robert James. |
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Apr-23-19 Jonas Buhl Bjerre 
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SimonWebbsTiger: Big media event on 22 May 2019 in Copenhagen featuring, among other things, Carlsen vs. Jonas. |
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Apr-23-19 Kaare Hove Kristensen
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SimonWebbsTiger: IM norm #3 in the bag after the Grenke Open 2019. |
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Apr-10-19 Gashimov Memorial (2019) 
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SimonWebbsTiger: Where is Tolengoy's trolling about that fish Carlsen and the brilliance of So? |
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Sep-27-18 Batumi Olympiad (2018) 
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SimonWebbsTiger: @<saffuna>
Here is a relevant passage on communication between a player and his/her team captain; quoted from FIDE's official rule book: <6.3.9.4 During the games the captain must refrain from interfering in
any way. He is, however, entitled to advise his players ... |
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Jul-29-18 Jon Ludvig Hammer 
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SimonWebbsTiger: Hammer won this year's XtraCon Open, Denmark, which finished today. He tied 8½/10 with Andreikin but had the better tie break. |
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Jul-29-18 Vincent Keymer 
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SimonWebbsTiger: 7½/10 at this year's XtraCon Open in Denmark, which finished today, netted the young lad his 2nd GM norm. |
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May-01-18 Ljubomir Ljubojevic 
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SimonWebbsTiger: @Morfishine
I respect Ljubo but not those stupid questions he came up with. I am reminded of a painful moment when Tiviakov asked Nakamura, I forget which tournament, what he thought about the US bombs on Nagasaki and Hiroshima. Hikaru, quite rightly, gave a disgusted look ... |
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Apr-30-18 Jesper Sondergaard Thybo
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SimonWebbsTiger: He won clear 1st at the Copenhagen Chess Challenge yesterday, securing his 1st GM norm. He also, recently won a Euro jr. championship. |
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