From 30 May to 1 June has been celebrated the twenty-first edition of the Magistral Ciudad de León "2008, in the city of León (Spain). In the first semifinal, Vishy Anand (India) won with difficulty by 3,5-2,5 Francisco Vallejo, while in the second, Vassily Ivanchuk (Ukraine) Alexey Shirov won fácilente to 3-1. In the end, Anand, Ivanchuk defeated by 2.5-1.5 after a serious error made by the World Champion at the last and decisive game.
The tournament was discussed by GM Miguel Illescas and IM Michael Rahal.
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From 20 to 31 July takes place the 41st edition of the Biel Chess Festival Biel, Switzerland). Among the various tournaments highlights of Grand Masters, which will involve: Magnus Carlsen, Leinier Dominguez, Evgeny Alekseev, Etienne Bacrot, Alexander Onischuk and Yannick Pelletier.
ICC broadcast daily items each day and will have video summaries of "the best part of the day" by the IM Michael Rahal.
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Ivanchuk wins clearly in Bazna
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The third edition of Super Regilor tournament 2009 was held in the city of Bazna (Romania), from 13 to 25 June. The participants included the great masters: Boris Gelfand, Vassily Ivanchuk, Alexei Shirov, Teimour Radjabov, Gata Kamsky and Liviu D. Nisipeanu.
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From 2 to 12 July has been celebrated the 37th edition of the Sparkassen Chess-Meeting - also known as Festival Dortmund. In the super tournament XX FIDE master class, with the participation of Carlsen, Kramnik, Jakovenko, Leko and Naiditsch has set an excellent manner Vladimir .
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