May 18
The sixth game for the Chess World Championship between V.Anand - B.Gelfand ended with a draw on the 30th move. On the 20-th of May will be the next game. Gelfand will play with white.
May 9
In the first round of the U.S. Men's Championship 2012 in six games was recorded only one draw. Among the winners - Gata Kamsky and Hikaru Nakamura.
May 1
FIDE has released a new rating list. Men's world top ten: M.Karlsen (Norway) 2835, L.Aronian (Armenia) 2825, V.Kramnik (Russia) 2801, V.Anand (India) 2791, T.Radjabov (Azerbaijan) 2784, S.Karjakin (Russia) 2766, H.Nakamura (USA) 2775, F.Caruana (Italy) 2770, A.Morozevich (Russia) 2769, V.Ivanchuk (Ukraine) 2764. Men's FIDE top 100.
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