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Still a teenager, but already the World Women's Champion, the Chinese star Hou Yifan leads with none other than Michael Adams at the Gibraltar Chess Tournament. Behind her are several International stars including former World Championship contenders! She beat Le Qiang Leim in the previous round, but what caught the whole World's attention was her win against Judit Polgar. We have to go back decades to find a loss by Judit against another female player! Rankings after Round 8 (From Chess-results) 1 GM Hou Yifan CHN 2605 6.5 2859.0 2 GM Adams Michael ENG 2724 6.5 2843.0 3 GM Short Nigel D ENG 2677 6.0 2790.0 4 GM Mamedyarov Shakhriyar AZE 2747 6.0 2778.0 5 GM Sasikiran Krishnan IND 2700 6.0 2750.0 6 GM Almasi Zoltan HUN 2717 6.0 2748.0 7 GM Howell David W L ENG 2603 6.0 2737.0 8 GM Movsesian Sergei ARM 2700 6.0 2726.0 9 GM Gopal G N IND 2566 6.0 2720.0 10 GM Svidler Peter RUS 2749 6.0 2714.0

Viswanathan Anand, Carlsen, and Kramnik are Chesshousehold names. But how many of the others invited to this years Corus Chess tournament do we know? We present these talented but relatively lesser known players in a different, interesting way. Be aware that most of them are super stars in their own country/region. Pentala Harikrishna Look at this www.chessmetrics.com list. 1 Kramnik, Vladimir 2541 2 Bu Xiangzhi 2520 3 Kundin, Alexander 2494 4 Radjabov, Teimour 2474 5 Leko, Peter 2466 6 Kamsky, Gata 2462 7 Polgar, Judit 2458 8 Ponomariov, Ruslan 2452 9 Bacrot, Etienne 2432 10 Harikrishna, Pentala 2381 According to Jeff Sonas, this is the list of the highest ratings of 14 year olds, ever! Sure, No. 3 Kundin is not popular, but No. 10 is not a bad ranking to have, especially if you go down the list and find Jakovenko, Aronian, Naiditsch, Short, Kasimdzhanov, and last but not the least Topalov at Nos 12, 13, 17, 30, 44 and 50! i warned you No. 10 is not bad! (Probably No. 11 now...

The European Union Championships are being held at Liverpool. The biggest news so far? Nigel Short's losing ringtone. Leading Standings after round 5: 1 Alberto David LUX 4½ 2 Viktor Laznicka CZE 4½ 3 Thal Abergel FRA 4 4 Michael Adams ENG 4 5 Emanuel Berg SWE 4 6 Bitalzadeh, Ali NED 4 7 Daniel Fridman GER 4 8 Daniel Gormally ENG 4 9 David Howell ENG 4 10 Georg Meier GER 4 11 Normunds Miezis LAT 4 12 Maxime Vachier-Lagrave 2681 4 Top Participants 1 Adams, Michael g 2735 2 Bacrot, Etienne g 2691 3 Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime g 2681 4 Short, Nigel D g 2655 5 Tiviakov, Sergei g 2645 6 Fridman, Daniel g 2637 7 L'Ami, Erwin g 2610 8 Beliavsky, Alexander G g 2606 9 Laznicka, Viktor g 2601 10 Baramidze, David g 2593 11 Smeets, Jan g 2593 12 Berg, Emanuel g 2592 13 Werle, Jan g 2591 14 Kotronias, Vasilios g 2574 15 Luther, Thomas g 2570 16 Andersson, Ulf g 2562 17 David, Alberto g 2562 18 Dgebuadze, Alexa...