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Update Kramnik - Van Wely (Draw) Ivanchuk - Polgar (Draw) Adams - Gelfand (Draw, what else) In other interesting games in the other groups, Harikrishna was winning against Short but he seems to have messed up his winning chances. Same with Stellwagen and Li Chao, they both lost significant winning edges against Humpy and Irina Krush respectively. Hou Yifan is putting up a good show against the 2700 Bacrot. A draw is still possible although Bacrot is piling on the pressure now. The other prodigy Negi is almost equal against Sweden's Pontus Carlsson.

The Group C has some fresh new faces, none fresher than Caruana, who should already be a strong contender for the title. Negi did not have a great year last year, but what the heck when you are 15 and the world at your board ? Van der Weil will be interesting to watch here. Ushenina, Krush and Zhaoqin bring in the ladies charm and agression at the board. GM Group C GM Evgenij Miroshnichenko UKR 2651 GM Fabiano Caruana ITA 2594 GM Friso Nijboer NED 2559 IM Arik Braun GER 2541 GM Parimarjan Negi IND 2514 GM Dimitri Reinderman NED 2510 GM Efstratios Grivas GRE 2509 GM John van der Wiel NED 2496 WGM Anna Ushenina UKR 2486 GM Pontus Carlsson SWE 2481 WGM Irina Krush USA 2475 GM Zhaoqin Peng NED 2419 IM Mark van der Werf NED 2389 Dennis Ruijgrok NED 2330

Six rounds of the North American open have been completed. GM Alexander Shabalov is leading the strong field with 5.5 points. He has won all his games except one. GM Hiraku Nakamura and GM Varuzhan Akobian along with IM David Pruess. FMs Alex Kretchetov and Jake Kleiman are ranked high in a strong field. Nakamura was held to two draws by IM Joshua Friedel and GM Jesse Kraai. No results of a few rounds of Irina Krush have been published. The top 20 after round 6: 1 GM Alexander Shabalov 5½ 2 GM Hikaru Nakamura 5 3 GM Varuzhan Akobian 5 4 IM David Pruess 5 5 GM Ildar Ibragimov 4½ 6 GM Julio J Becerra 4½ 7 FM Alex Kretchetov 4½ 8 FM Jake Kleiman 4½ 9 GM Nikola Mitkov 4 10 GM Jesse Kraai 4 11 GM Gildardo J Garcia 4 12 GM Dashze Sharavdorj 4 13 IM Vladimi Mezentsev 4 14 FM Slava Mikhailuk 4 15 Denys K Shmelov 4 16 FM Robby Adamson 4 17 Dennis Monokroussos 4 18 GM Anatoly Y Lein 4 19 FM Matthew Beelby 4 20 Rodelay Medina 4

The Turkish Chess Federation, following the example of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, wants to give Women's chess a bold face. They attempt this by organizing the first Women's super tournament sponsored by İş Bankası. The total prize money is $ 16, 000. The Turkish Chess Federation is also making an attempt at bringing up a Women dream team for the future and aim to win medals at future olympiads. The tournament will be a round robin and starts on the 10th of March 2008 (arrival) and will finish on 20th March 2008 (departure). There will be eight invited players and the best two Turkish women player, according to the FIDE ElO List. Notable absentees this year are Judit Polgar - does not play in Women events. Koneru Humpy - Second strongest female ever Alexandra Kosteniuk - Pregnancy and children. The event will still be a pretty strong one. The following players are confirmed for the 2008 edition: 1 Cramling, Pia GM SWE 2531 2 Zhu Chen GM QAT 2531 3 Zhao Xue WGM CHN 2530 4 Hou...