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Saturday, January 1, 2011

What was most memorable chess event of 2010?

Chess news and chess trivia blog (c) Alexandra Kosteniuk, 2011


Hello Everyone,

We found this nice survey result voting for which was held via the chess news portal www.chess-news.ru.

Of the chess events of 2010, readers of Chess-News selected the world championship match between Viswanathan Anand and Veselin Topalov as the most memorable.

The voting results were as follow:

1. Match for the title of world champion Anand - Topalov - 31% of votes
2. FIDE elections - 21%
3. The victory of Russian women's team at the Olympics with a perfect result - 13%
4. The victory of men's national team of Ukraine at the Olympics - 10%
5. Exit Magnus Carlsen in the cycle world championship - 8%

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2 comments:

  1. Saira Fernando, MadridJanuary 1, 2011 at 12:27 PM

    For me it was the G-Star Carlsen versus The World Event.

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  2. Sebastian Wolff, MarylandJanuary 2, 2011 at 5:54 AM

    I'd go for Carlsen winning London Chess Classic with that draw with Kramnik

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