photos and video Today, May 11th, at Grand Hotel Sofia was the opening of the exhibition of Ivailo Ninov, who drew caricatures of the six players in the Mtel Masters supertournament. Ivailo Ninov is a famous Bulgarian artist, popular for his artistic and political sketches and caricatures. At the end of the tournament, he will [...]

Mamedyarov seemed a bit surprised with Gata’s 4…Bg4, as he later admitted at the press conference, but he quickly pulled himself together to gain significant space advantage, sacficing a pawn in the process. In order to complete the development, Kamsky allowed doubled pawns on e6, and already on the next move he sacrifised a Knight [...]

Exclusive for ChessDom only minute after the game with Topalov Italian candidate master Alex Brunetti had his take against Veselin Topalov in a 30-min game. The winner of the last year’s “Play like Topalov” competition is exclusive guest of the Mtel Masters. In an interview for Chessdom.com he revealed some interesting details about his run [...]

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Topalov arrived in Sofia at 18:00 local time and brought interesting news. He has been writing a book that will be published soon. He also commented on the other players in the 3rd Mtel Masters.