BOTW:2015.05

7-piece Lomonosov tablebases free for Android users

The 7-man Lomonosov Tablebases – 140 Terabytes of them! – are now available free on Android. Set up a position on the ChessKing App, and in a few seconds it shows you distance-to-mate and best moves. Requires and Android device and an internet connection.

The screenshot shows the app solving the endgame from a game in the  Nakamura-Aronian blitz match in St.Louis last fall.

You can get the app from Google Play: here

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.convekta.android.lomonosovtb

FIDE Khanty-Mansiysk Grand Prix
May 14-26, 2015

The last event in the FIDE Grand Prix Series takes place in Khanty-Mansiysk. A 12-player single Round Robin, featuring: 
Caruana*, Nakamura, Grischuk, Giri, Vachier-Lagrave, Karjakin, Tomashevsky, Gelfand, Jakovenko, Svidler, Dominguez, Jobova.

Top point earners from the Grand Prix series qualify directly for the Candidates Tournament. 

The Grand Prix events have all had live GM commentary, hi-def video, and post-mortems from the players, and the KM event should be the same.
Round 1 begins May 14, 3pm local time, 6am EST.

Follow the action on the official site.

http://khantymansiysk2015.fide.com/

*just announced: Caruana will be switching to the US Chess Federation beginning in September. The move will make the US the #2 or #3 ranked team at the next Olympiad.

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American Continental Championship 2015
Montevideo, Uruguay
May 14-24, 2015

Canada's two top-rated players -- Anton Kovalyov and Eric Hansen -- will be playing. Top finishers qualify for the Candidates knock-out matches, which is what Eric did in 2012.
Unfortunately, their web coverage last time was almost non-existent, so don't expect more than a final cross-table and games.

Homepage
http://fuajedrez.org/Torneos/Continental

Standings
http://chess-results.com/tnr169788.aspx?lan=1