China leads the first World Women's Team Chess Championship 2007. The event is taking place from 19 to 30 May in Ekaterinburg (Russia), with women's teams from Russia, Ukraine, China, Armenia, Georgia, Netherlands, Poland, Vietnam, Germany and Botswana.

After round 5 China leads with 9 points, Russia - 8 points, Ukraine - 7 points...

Standings:
http://www.chesswomen.com/en/championship/tabl/fulltab.php
Live games:
http://www.chesswomen.com/en/championship/tabl/pairings.php

"Tomsk 400" won the Russian Team Championships with a perfect 9/9 score. The event was take place in Sochi on Black Sea. The "Tomsk-400" team members was Alexander Morozevich (6/8), Dmitry Jakovenko (4Ѕ/7), Sergey Karjakin (5Ѕ/8), Rustam Kasimdzhanov (1Ѕ/3), Ernesto Inarkiev (3Ѕ/7), Vladislav Tkachiev (4/7), Victor Bologan (4Ѕ/6) and Pavel Smirnov (6/8).

Final Round 9 standings:

Bulgarian top grandmaster Veselin Topalov had lost his game against Shakhriyar Mamedyarov in 3-th round of M-Tel Masters 2007 chess tourney. They had played in Anti-Meran gambit.
Michael Adams beat European champion Liviu Dieter Nisipeanu in French Defence.
Indian grandmaster Krishnan Sasikiran, who played at this round with black pieces, beat American Gata Kamsky in Queen Gambit.

View live games: http://www.soloajedrez.com/sofia07/
Official web-site: http://www.mtelmasters.com/bg/

Round 4 /May 13-th, 2007/:

Peter Leko and Vladimir Kramnik play a rapid match April 25th-29th 2007 at the National Theater of Miskolc Hungary. It will be an 8 game match - on 25-th, 26-th, 28-th and 29-th of April 2007.
Games starts at 16.00 h. and 17.30 h. local time.

Official web site: http://www.lekokramnyik.hu/eng/

The 8th Individual European Chess Championships (EURO 2007) took place from April 2nd to 15th, 2007 in Dresden, Germany in the International Congress Center. The event was an 11 round Swiss.

Men:
Seven players tied for first. The top two on tiebreak, Vladislav Tkachiev of France and Emil Sutovsky of Israel, faced each other in a playoff, which Tkachiev won 2-0. He was duely crowned Eighth European Chess Champion. Second place is for Emil Sutovski, 3rd is Dmitry Jakovenko (RUS).

Women:
A round before the end of the tournament it was clear that nobody could catch Russian IM Tatiana Kosintseva, who led the field by two full points. Second is Antoaneta Stefanova (BUL), 3rd is Tatiana's sister - Nadezhda.

Six of the strongest GM’s of the world will compete for the title in the tournament M-Tel Masters 2007, which starts on May 9 in Sofia. The Bulgarian fans of the ancient game will be able to watch live Veselin Topalov(ELO 2772), the European Champion for 2005 Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu from Romania (ELO 2693), the youth World Champion Shakriyar Mamedyarov from Azerbaijan (ELO 2757). The other participants are the former World Vice-Champions Gata Kamsky from USA (ELO 2705) and Michael Adams from England (ELO 2734), as well as the young Indian talent Krishnan Sasikiran (ELO 2690).

Vladimir Kramnik is the proud winner of the 16th Amber Blindfold and Rapid Tournament. In the last round the World Champion coasted home with two draws against Paco Vallejo to finish two points ahead of Vishy Anand.

Kramnik won the prestigious blindfold and rapid event for the sixth time, following earlier victories in 1996, 1998 (shared with Shirov), 1999, 2001 (shared with Topalov) and 2004 (shared with Morozevich).

Kramnik’s superior performance in the blindfold competition was the basis of his success. His score of 9 out of 11 was the second highest in the history of the tournament, half a point short of the record that Morozevich set last year.

The rapid competition was an easy prey for Anand. The Indian grandmaster finished with 8Ѕ points from 11 games, two points ahead of a group of four players, Carlsen, Ivanchuk, Kramnik and Leko.

Full article: http://www.amberchess.com/

Final Standings:

Saturday March 24 Round VII
15.00	Blind	Svidler-Anand	1/2-1/2
		Vallejo-Ivanchuk	1/2-1/2
		Carlsen-Radjabov	1/2-1/2
16.30	Blind	Leko-Kramnik	0-1
		Gelfand-Van Wely	1-0
		Aronian-Morozevich	0-1
18.15	Rapid	Anand-Svidler	1-0
		Ivanchuk-Vallejo	1-0
		Radjabov-Carlsen	1/2-1/2
19.45	Rapid	Kramnik-Leko	-
		Van Wely-Gelfand	1/2-1/2
		Morozevich-Aronian	1/2-1/2

Tueday March 27 Round IX
15.00	Blind	Carlsen-Kramnik
		Svidler-Van Wely
		Vallejo-Morozevich
16.30	Blind	Aronian-Anand
		Leko-Ivanchuk
		Gelfand-Radjabov
18.15	Rapid	Kramnik-Carlsen
		Van Wely-Svidler
		Morozevich-Vallejo
19.45	Rapid	Anand-Aronian
		Ivanchuk-Leko
		Radjabov-Gelfand

Official site: http://www.amberchess.com/
LIVE games: http://www.amberchess.com/pgnviewer/

Standings after round 8:

Thursday March 22 Round V
15.00	Blind	Gelfand-Vallejo	1-0
		Carlsen-Leko	1/2-1/2
		Svidler-Aronian	1/2-1/2
16.30	Blind	Morozevich-Radjabov	1/2-1/2
		Anand-Van Wely	1-0
		Ivanchuk-Kramnik	1/2-/12
18.15	Rapid	Vallejo-Gelfand	1-0
		Leko-Carlsen	1/2-1/2
		Aronian-Svidler	1/2-1/2
19.45	Rapid	Radjabov-Morozevich	1-0
		Van Wely-Anand	0-1
		Kramnik-Ivanchuk	0-1

Saturday March 24 Round VII
15.00	Blind	Svidler-Anand
		Vallejo-Ivanchuk
		Carlsen-Radjabov
16.30	Blind	Leko-Kramnik
		Gelfand-Van Wely
		Aronian-Morozevich
18.15	Rapid	Anand-Svidler
		Ivanchuk-Vallejo
		Radjabov-Carlsen
19.45	Rapid	Kramnik-Leko
		Van Wely-Gelfand
		Morozevich-Aronian

Official site: http://www.amberchess.com/
LIVE games: http://www.amberchess.com/pgnviewer/

Standings after round 6:

Monday March 19 Round III
15.00	Blind	Leko-Vallejo	1-0
		Gelfand-Aronian	1-0
		Carlsen-Svidler	1/2-1/2
16.30	Blind	Van Wely-Radjabov	0-1
		Morozevich-Kramnik	0-1
		Ivanchuk-Anand	1-0
18.15	Rapid	Vallejo-Leko	1/2-1/2
		Aronian-Gelfand	1-0
		Svidler-Carlsen	1/2-1/2
19.45	Rapid	Radjabov-Van Wely	0-1
		Kramnik-Morozevich	1/2-1/2
		Anand-Ivanchuk	1-0

Thursday March 22 Round V
15.00	Blind	Gelfand-Vallejo
		Carlsen-Leko
		Svidler-Aronian
16.30	Blind	Morozevich-Radjabov
		Anand-Van Wely
		Ivanchuk-Kramnik
18.15	Rapid	Vallejo-Gelfand
		Leko-Carlsen
		Aronian-Svidler
19.45	Rapid	Radjabov-Morozevich
		Van Wely-Anand
		Kramnik-Ivanchuk

Official site: http://www.amberchess.com/
LIVE games: http://www.amberchess.com/pgnviewer/

Standings after round 4: