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Isle of Man 01+02: Wesley held by Harika

10/3/2016 – In a total field of 133 players we see no Russians – not a single lone GM or IM. But: 75% of the Gold Medal United States Olympic team is in the Isle of Man to win the tournament. And: almost 20% of the total participants in the event are Indians. After two rounds of play 16 players are on 2.0/2 – but not world number 6 Wesley So, who was stopped by Indian number two female Harika Dronavalli. Big report with lots of annotated games + Round three live!

Isle of Man International tournament 2016

10/2/2016 – This tournament is taking place from October 1st to 9th, 2016. The participants include Fabiano Caruana, Wesley So, Hikaru Nakamura, Michael Adams, Pavel Eljanov, Wang Hao, Alexei Shirov, Hou Yifan, with a total field of 132 players. The first round saw clean wins by most of the top seeds (Peter Leko, 2709, drew against an untitled 2363 player). You can watch the action of round two here on our news page.

Isle of Man winner: Harikrishna in interview

10/19/2015 – As the Isle of Man tournament came to an end the tournament winner, Pentala Harikrishna, packed his bags to travel to the World Blitz Championships in Berlin. In between his travel and intense schedule he found time to give us a small interview. Apart from this we have a beautifully annotated game by one of the GM norm scorers from this tournament. Big pictorial report.

Pentala Harikrishna succeeds on Isle of Man

10/15/2015 – Pentala Harikrishna is the winner of the PokerStars Isle Of Man tournament 2015. In the last round Nigel Short tried hard to beat the Indian Grandmaster but finally had to content himself with a draw. The tournament had a strong field and a superb organisation. And the island itself made Alina l'Ami ask some fundamental questions. Report, pictures, analyses...

Isle of Man: Nigel Short wins brilliancy

10/8/2015 – Nigel Short, born 1. June 1965, is the oldest player in the World's top 100. And he is still tactically alert. Which he proved in round 5 of the Isle of Man PokerStars Open when he countered a dangerous piece sacrifice by Alon Greenfeld with a countersacrifice, which brought him a quick win. With 4.0/5 Short now shares the lead with ten other players.

Chess stars on the Isle of Man

10/7/2015 – PokerStars is one of the biggest internet platforms for poker. But they also support chess and organise the PokerStars Isle of Man Tournament, a nine round swiss open with attractive prizes, a strong field, and a lot of chess stars. Four players can boast of a rating of 2700+, 13 players of 2600+. After four rounds seven players share the lead with 3.5/4 each.

Isle of Man: rain and sunshine (part 2/2)

10/17/2014 – In this second part of her chronicle, Alina L'Ami shares her impressions of a place that mixes the deeply traditional with the modern at every step of the way, and that remains both part of the neighboring world, and apart in its own ways, such as a currency that can only be used there. It certainly helped that it had a friendly people and beautiful landscape.

Isle of Man: rain and sunshine (part 1/2)

10/16/2014 – The combination of poker and chess at the Isle of Man was a fun change of pace, but in spite of this, for most players, it was the open that was the biggest draw, attracting top British and foreign players. The star was eventual English legend Nigel Short who beat Howell in the last round to take first, but there was so much more to it as told by Alina L'Ami in her wonderful report.

Three leaders at Isle of Man tournament

10/10/2014 – 76 players from all parts of the world take part in the PokerStars Isle of Man tournament. After six rounds all of them lost some of their chips. However, with 5.0/6 French GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, GM Gabriel Sargissian from Armenia and GM Gawain Jones from England suffered the least losses and lead the field. Six players follow with 4.5/6 each.

PokerStars Isle of Man combines chess and poker

10/7/2014 – The PokerStars Isle of Man Tournament kicked off at the Villa Marina on Douglas’ seafront with players from seventeen countries participating in the myriad tournaments. By virtue of the sponsor, a number of activities involving original combinations of chess and poker are also there, with top players of both modalities. Here is a report with video, and pictures by Alina L'Ami.
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