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3-29-2008
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Chess News
USA and Canada |
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US Seniors
An apparent PRESS RELEASE
from The United States Chess Federation (USCF) announces the 2008 US
Senior Championship to be held at the Boca Marriott Hotel, Boca Raton,
Florida from April 28 to May 3.
One feature of the event is
Dr. George Dean, who will be
giving a talk on his collection, the evolution and historical significance
of the chess pieces and some anecdotal tales about how he acquired some of
the sets such as the world’s only two Farbarge chess sets. |
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Where is it?
All the World Champions up to the time of Fischer
played there. Past winners include Rubinstein, Euwe, Alekhine,
Capablanca, Fine, Reshevsky, Gligoric, Bronstein, Smyslov, Keres,
Korchnoi, Larsen, Botvinnik, Tal, Spassky, Portisch, Karpov, Timman,
Nunn, Speelman, Short, Bareev, Judit Polgar, Khalifman, Sasikiran.
Clue: The first Women’s World Chess Champion,
Vera Menchik, lived there. |
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I looked at USCF’s Chess Life OnLine
for a URL for this tournament, and it wasn’t there. So I pressed ‘Press’
and nothing happened. Well, USCF have been having Senior moments for 25
years, and at least this is appropriate coverage. Wait… the link was just
a bit s l o w and did come up, but did not list
this tournament. zzzzzzzzz

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North
American Chess Association
Announces
9th North American FIDE Invitational
Chicago, IL - March 22 - March 28, 2008
10 players from around North America come together in
the ultimate mental challenge with 7 of them in search of gaining their
International Master titles bestowed by the World Chess Federation, FIDE.
Participants include:
IM Mesgen Amanov - TKM
IM Angelo Young - PHI
IM Arjun Vishnuvardhan - IND
FM Mehmed Pasalic - GER
FM Raja Panjwani - CAN
FM Gauri Shankar - IND
FM Teddy Coleman - USA
FM Igor Tsyganov - USA
FM Albert Chow - USA
NM Marc
Arnold - USA |
Who is it?
A New columnist joins the ranks of Chessville’s
authors, who will write about two things – tactics and strategy generally,
and also chess in the military.

I introduce to you Andy Hortillosa, who I think is
Captain Hortillosa, but I’m sure he will introduce himself with his chess. |
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Event specifics can be found at
www.nachess.org/fide.
All games
will be broadcast LIVE on the World Databank of Chess by MonRoi at
www.monroi.com/wdc - but I
couldn’t even find a listing at Monroi for the tournament, instead I found
this information at
http://www.nachess.org/fide/
and then
tried to find a photo or two of the players, but there were not any at
all.
With two
rounds to go here are round 7 standings:
1st -
5.5/7.0
FM Pasalic
2nd -
5.0/7.0
NM Arnold
3rd -
4.5/7.0
FM Panjwan
4th -
4.0/7.0
IM Amanov
5th - 6th
- 3.5/7.0
IM Young, FM Coleman
7th -
3.0/7.0
IM Vishnuvardhan
8th - 9th
- 2.5/7.0
FM Tsyganov, FM Shankar
10th -
1.0/7.0
FM Chow |
Why did they do it?
I recently decided to collide with chess publisher
Bob Long, who wrote here at
Chessville last week.
“Bob”, I said, “How come you published my favorite
chess book of all time, the Thinker’s Press, Thoreauvian ‘Journal of a
Chess Master’?”
Then we started talking of this and that and the
other thing, and I said, “Wait, Wait! What about a
20-Questions interview
at Chessville?”

So if you would like to ask a contemporary chess
publisher a question or two, check out Chessville’s forum, where editor
Atkins will select half a dozen questions or so to forward to Bob.
But!
Hand’s off Gerzadowicz, he’s mine! |
Chess News WORLDWIDE
and the Americas:
Chess
and Mathematics
Prof. Dr. Christian Hesse to give lecture on “Chess
and Mathematics”
The new patron of the Chess Olympiad Dresden
2008 is Christian Hesse, Professor for Mathematics at the University
Stuttgart. The avowed chessfriend will promote the worldwide largest chess
event which will take place in Germany for the first time after 38 years
from 12 to 25 November 2008. He will publicly lobby for the event in
Dresden. Thus, Hesse wants to get involved with promoting an attractive
programme of collateral tournaments in the first place. Besides, the former
youngest German professor plans to give a public lecture in the frame of the
workshop „Chess and Mathematics“ from 21 to 23 November 2008.
The
special edition stamp sale for the
Chess Olympiad 2008 was launched at 9 am this morning by Dresden's incumbent
mayor Dr. Lutz Vogel together with the president of the Saxon parliament,
Erich Iltgen, and Dr. Heidi Brandt as representative of the Deutschen Post
AG with a short ceremony. For one day the special branch post office can be
found in the city hall cellar from 10am to 3pm for all souvenir hunters to
purchase the collector’s pieces on the occasion of the Chess Olympiad 2008
in Dresden. The postmark which will be stamped with was designed especially
for this promotion day.
Chess playing sportsmen
ACP [Fri Feb 15th, 09:00]
Greek
basketball player Papadopoulos and Brazilian football star Baptista have a
common passion: playing chess as a pastime. In an article which
appeared on a website of the Real Madrid, both famous sportsmen claim to
have learnt the game at an early age. Since then, they enjoy playing
chess as a way of relaxing during competitions and keeping their mind fresh.
Real Madrid organized a game between them and interviewed them on their
passion for chess. The full article can be found
in
Spanish here.
Reading the article, it transpires that
Papadopoulos is probably a better chess player than Baptista. Not only
was he born in Russia, which he claims to be the ideal country for becoming
a good chess player. But Baptista himself admits never to have studied
games of strong players.
However it is,
we were pleased to read an article where famous sportsmen reveal their
passion for our game. We remember that boxing champions Lennox Lewis
and the Klitschko brothers made no secret either of their love for chess.
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Annual
Amber
Over
March 15 to March 27
Blindfold and Rapid, total 2008 prize-fund is 216,000 Euro. Participants:
Vishy Anand, India
Vladimir Kramnik, Russia
Veselin Topalov, Bulgaria
Alexander Morozevich, Russia
Shakhriyar Mamedyarov , Azerbaijan
Peter Leko, Hungary
Vasily Ivanchuk, Ukraine
Levon Aronian, Armenia
Boris Gelfand, Israel
Magnus Carlsen, Norway
Sergey Karjakin, Ukraine
Loek van Wely, The Netherlands
Final Blind Standings:
1-4. Aronian 6.5
Kramnik 6.5
Morozevich 6.5
Topalov 6.5
5-7. Anand 6
Carlsen 6
Leko 6
Both Gelfand and Ivanchuk won their rapid games to even up the match
score against Mamedyarov and Topalov. Therefore, there are no
changes in the final combined standings of the 2008 Amber.
Final Round Rapid Results:
Van Wely-Anand 1/2-1/2
Karjakin-Kramnik 1/2-1/2
Gelfand-Mamedyarov 1-0
Ivanchuk-Topalov 1-0
Aronian-Leko 1/2-1/2
Carlsen-Morozevich 1/2-1/2
Final Combined Standings are:
1. Aronian 13½

[captioned with Carlsen at Gibraltar]
2. Carlsen 11
Kramnik 11
Leko 11
Topalov 11
6. Anand 10
Ivanchuk 10
Morozevich 10
9. Karjakin 8½
10. Gelfand 8
Mamedyarov 8
Van Wely 8
Sorry no pictures, once again, and once again the organizers make a
no-copying presentation, and text reporting was also brief or completely
absent on what has to be the toughest event in the chess calendar. So if
you want to see the players go to the
Official website.
Next up,
Leko vs Carlsen in Miskolc,
Hungary
Press release
But! I gleaned this information from Chessbase
who didn’t say who released what, so assume this commentary is all ‘the
release’.
The
present year’s most prestigious clash in Hungary is going to be organized
at the National Theater of Miskolc.

The No. 1
Hungarian GM, Péter Lékó takes up a duel of eight games against the
Norwegian Wunderkind, the challenger, Magnus Carlsen this time.
As the first
move of the Lékó+ series Péter Lékó played against Michael Adams in 2005.
The exciting duel ended up with a tie of 4-4.
In 2006
Lékó’s opponent was the twelfth world champion of chess, Anatolij Karpov,
who, during his carrier, gained 166 competition victories, setting a
record that can not likely be broken in the future. The two leading
players fought in the new shrine of chess, the beautiful National Theater
of Miskolc.

The
auditorium was totally sold out. The fans on the spot and via
internet were amazed by the games – with good reason. The homepage
of the event, www.lekokarpov.hu
received more than three millions clicks. |

What to Play? When the KID was really
young. Continued from last week. Moves and commentary draw on The King
Hunt in Chess, W. H. Cozens. 1970.
White: A. Alekhine, Black: F. D.Yates
1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.g3 Bg7 4.Bg2 0-0 5.Nc3 d6 6.Nf3
Nc6 7.d5 Nb8 8.e4 bNd7 9.0-0 a5 10.Be3 Ng4 11.Bd4 gNe4 12.Nxe5
Nxe5 13.c5

That’s where we left the soon to become World
Champion in 1923, after 13. c5, and the result did the KID all sorts of
good.
13...dxc5
14.Bxc5 b6
15.Bd4 Ba6
16.Re1

Threatening f4 then an exchange of dark square
bishops leaving Alekhine to prosecute his favorite attack against a
weakened King position.
16...Qd6!
This sets up a truly diabolical trap if white
proceeds 17. f4. Do you see it? Alekine did, and proceeded otherwise. So
what was he afraid of… continued below –
analysis moves are in red type.

Then, analysis moves:
17.f4 Nd3
18.Bxg7 Qc5+
19.Kh1 Nf2+
20.Kg1 Nh3+
21.Kh1 [its easy now, isn’t it?]
ANALYSIS

21. …Qg1+!
22. Rxg1 Nf2++
But – Alekhine saw it, and instead played:
17.Bf1 Bxf1
16.Rxf1 c5
[and this game continues next week, but beware, dear reader, since here is
another snare – would you capture en passant in this position?

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Lékó put
himself in the lead by winning the third game, and he could preserve
his advantage till the end, gaining a victory of 4.5-3.5.
Check out
Chessville's Forum
This
week you can find 20-Questions for Bob Long; or chat about the Pirc
Robatch; or How to take your game to the next level; or about 30 other
topics. One technical area is that by agreement with Convekta,
you can ask them questions about their software – they monitor the
thread and reply directly – so if you have Rybka or Chess Assistant
questions, that’s the place to go. Its moderated, its couth, and
you are welcome! |
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3-22-2008
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Chess News
USA and Canada |
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XIX Pan American Youth Festival 2008, Villa
Carlos Paz, Provincia de Córdoba - Argentina; June 29 – July 6, 2008.
I. INVITATION
The Confederation of Chess for America (CCA), the
Federación Argentina de Ajedrez and the Asociación de Ajedrez de la
Provincia de Córdoba are pleased to invite all National Federations of the
Americas to the XIX Pan American Youth Festival 2008.
This event will be held in the touristic city of,
Villa Carlos Paz, Cordoba, located in the central region of the Republic
of Argentina: from June 29 to July 6, 2008.
The International Airport of Cordoba, Ingeniero
Tarabella (Pajas Blancas) is located 50 minutes away from the tournament
site in Villa Carlos Paz.
There are excellent hotels and touristic venues near
the tournament site. All of this, plus, the pleasant climate and the
cordiality Argentineans are known for, will allow the chess players to
feel at home.
II. GENERAL CONDITIONS
This
event will be following the rules and regulations written in this
invitation. In case of any omissions, the Regulations for the Pan American
Youth Festival will be in effect. These regulations can be found at
http://www.presamerica.com.mx/.
Participant Age Requirements: General (Absoluta) /
Girls
Under 8: Players must be born after January 1, 2000
Under 10: Players must be born after January 1, 1998
Under 12: Players must be born after January 1, 1996
Under 14: Players must be born after January 1, 1994
Under 16: Players must be born after January 1, 1992
Under 18: Players must be born after January 1, 1990
Tournament Format: 9 Rounds, Swiss System.
Time
Control: 90 minutes per player plus 30 seconds incremental per each move.
For manual clocks the time control is 2 hours per player, sudden death. |
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DaVinci Riddles, & Greco Revisited

Following the discovery of two chess diagrams
which appeared in last week’s Parrot, a lively correspondence has
emerged, and various commentators are researching several aspects of
them.
Firstly, those looking at the materials as direct
chess instruction might wonder what just two pages of tolerably
obscure chess positions can indicate? Are these part of a wider range
of papers, collected together in a Codex, and which circulated around
Europe before Greco?
Secondly, there are those who examine the
materials more symbolically, including the interesting
mathematics invoked by 64 squares – as well as medieval sub-structures
of drawings which often reveal complex geometries.
Pending more research and reports, the two sides
of things are not necessary mutually exclusive, but I would like to
ask readers a question.
“What happened to Greco?”
His own secret chess instruction materials were
published in Paris between 1610 and 1612, then, the most famous chess
teacher in Northern Europe simply vanished from the scene.
In
about 1650 a story emerged that he went to the West Indies, but why
would a chess teacher go there? |
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Characteristic: Each National Federation may register as many players as
it wishes. All participants must be endorsed by their FIDE
recognized, national federations.
Tie Breaks System
1. The Sum of the progressive scores.
2. Bucholz
3. By age in favor of the youngest player.
TITLES, PRIZES AND OTHER CONDITIONS:
General Section (Absoluta) Categories Under 10, 12, 14, 16, and 18: The FIDE
Master Title is awarded to the Champion of this category.
Girls Section Categories Under 10, 12, 14, 16, and 18: The FIDE Women Master
Title will be awarded to the Champion of this category.
Note: In case of a first place tie, the titles will be given to up to three
players per category.
General Section (Absoluta) Categories Under 16 and 18: The Champion of this
category will earn a 9 Rounds Norm towards their International Master Title.
Girls Section Categories Under 16 and 18: The Champion of this category will
earn a 9 Rounds Norm towards their Women International Master Title.
Note: In case of a first place tie, FIDE Master Titles and FIDE Woman Master
Titles will be awarded for the second and third places.
In case there isn’t a tie for first place, in the categories under 10, 12,
14, 16 and 18; the players in second and third places will receive the
Candidate FIDE Master Title. In the Girls Section, the title for the second
and third places will be the Candidate FIDE Woman Master.
Full information
from ajedrezfedarg@hotmail.com

Atatürk
International Women Masters Chess Tournament
in Turkey.
The youngest player of this
tournament won the event by a full point. Yifan Hou took a quick draw
against Javakhishvili to ensure herself of a first place finish. Zhao Xue
defeated the former tournament leader to finish clear third while Pia
Cramling drew Anna Ushenina to finish in clear second.
Final round results:
WIM YILDIZ Betul Cemre 2207 0 - 1 GM
CHEN Zhu 2548
GM CRAMLING Pia 2524 ½ - ½ IM USHENINA Anna 2484
WGM YIFAN Hou 2527 ½ - ½ IM JAVAKHISHVILI Lela 2470
WGM XUE Zhao 2517 1 - 0 IM ATALIK Ekaterina 2408
IM DRONAVALLI Harika 2455 ½ - ½ IM KRUSH Irina 2473
Final
standings:
1. WGM YIFAN Hou 2527 CHN 7
2. GM CRAMLING Pia 2524 SWE 6
3. WGM XUE Zhao 2517 CHN 5½
4. IM ATALIK Ekaterina 2408 TUR 5
5. IM JAVAKHISHVILI Lela 2470 GEO 4½
6-7. GM CHEN Zhu 2548 QAT 4
IM DRONAVALLI Harika 2455 IND 4
8. IM KRUSH Irina 2473 USA 3½
9. IM USHENINA Anna 2484 UKR 3
10. WIM YILDIZ Betul Cemre 2207 TUR 2½
This news first reported by
Susan Polgar.
Official site.

Annual Amber
March 15 to March 27;
Blindfold and Rapid, total 2008 prize-fund is 216,000 Euro.
Participants:
Vishy Anand, India
Vladimir Kramnik, Russia
Veselin Topalov, Bulgaria
Alexander Morozevich, Russia
Shakhriyar Mamedyarov , Azerbaijan
Peter Leko, Hungary
Vasily Ivanchuk, Ukraine
Levon Aronian, Armenia
Boris Gelfand, Israel
Magnus Carlsen, Norway
Sergey Karjakin, Ukraine
Loek van
Wely, The NetherlandsThe average rating of the
players is 2752, which is a Category 21 FIDE event.
Leaders in Blindfold Chess:
1-4. Ivanchuk, Kramnik, Topalov, Carlsen 2½/4
Leaders in Rapid Chess:
1. Aronian 3
2-5. Anand, Leko, Topalov, Ivanchuk 2½
Full Combined Standings:
1-3. Topalov, Aronian, Ivanchuk 5
4. Anand 4½
5-7. Leko, Carlsen, Kramnik 4
8-10. van Wely, Mamedyarov, Karjakin 3½
11-12. Gelfand, Morozevich 3
Stop-press: Current combined standings:
1. Aronian 6½
2. Anand 5½
Carlsen 5½
Ivanchuk 5½
Kramnik 5½
Leko 5½
Topalov 5½
3. Karjakin 5
4. Mamedyarov 4
Morozevich 4
Van Wely 4
5. Gelfand 3½
Official
website.
Check out
Chessville's Forum
Last week
… fascinating discussions on the future of chess, the universe and
everything. This week, the same old backward pawn struggles,
discussed. It is a moderated forum, so there are no bad questions
there, instead – good company from other chess players!
The
Championships of Russia among boys and girls under 20
take place in Saint-Petersburg 8th-18th March. Time control: 1 hour 30
min. for 40 moves, 30 min. till the end of the game with an increment of
30 sec. per move since the first. The players who will take 1st place in
the tournaments get right to participate in the World Championships under
20. |
What to Play? This is when the KID
really was a young opening. F.D. Yates was born in Yorkshire in 1884, and
never made a very big splash in chess until his mid twenties - while at
the Karlsbad tournament in 1923 he played A. Alekhine, who was soon to
become World Champion.
In the 1930’s Max Euwe completely drove the KID out
of fashion and mostly it was Boleslavsky who brought it back after WWII.
White: Alekhine, Black:Yates
1.d4 Nf6
2. c4 g6
3. g3 Bg7
4. Bg2 0-0
5. Nc3 d6
6. Nf3 Nc6 [a provocation to White to play d5, when the knight
redevelops to b8 and d7 or a6.]
7. d5

7. … Nb8
8. e4 bNd7
9. 0-0 a5 [protecting c5 from a pawn to b4 advance]
10. Be3 [Alekhine frustrates the Nc5 plan another way, so Yates
goes about establishing it on e5 instead.]
10. … Ng4
11. Bd4 gNe4
12. Nxe5 Nxe5
13. c5 [Let’s pause here at the edge of a famous game and assess
if White’s plan to extend the range of his king bishop and also play f4 is
sound? Game continues next week.]

Moves and commentary draw on
The King Hunt in Chess, W. H. Cozens. 1970 |
No apologies for giving these results in full – there are the brightest of
the bright in Russia, and in a year or two will be all over the chess
headlines – and of course because Chessville has big readership in Eastern
Europe. One very noticeable fact in showing the results in full is
to view the decisive game rate, especially its gender relation, and also
white-black scoring, subjects now occupying the attention of rules maker
all over the world.
Final
standings:
1 Sjugirov - 8.0 [Sanan Sjugirov, captioned]
2 Chadaev - 8.0
3 Ponkratov - 7.5
4 Andreikin - 6.5
5 Linchevsky - 6.5
6 Romanov - 6.0
7 Papin - 4.5
8 Nechepurenko - 4.5
9 Popov - 4.5
10 Shimanov - 4.5
11 Rakhmanov - 4.0
12 Lovkov - 1.5
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Round 1
Shimanov - Papin 1-0
Sjugirov - Popov 1-0
Linchevsky - Lovkov 1-0
Romanov - Chadaev 1/2
Ponkratov - Nechepurenko 1-0
Andreikin - Rakhmanov 1/2 |
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Round 2
Papin - Rakhmanov 1/2
Nechepurenko - Andreikin 1/2
Chadaev - Ponkratov 1-0
Lovkov - Romanov 0-1
Popov - Linchevsky 0-1
Shimanov - Sjugirov 0-1 |
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Round 3
Sjugirov - Papin 1/2
Linchevsky - Shimanov 1-0
Romanov - Popov 1-0
Ponkratov - Lovkov 1/2
Andreikin - Chadaev 1/2
Rakhmanov - Nechepurenko 0-1 |
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Round 4
Papin - Nechepurenko 1-0
Chadaev - Rakhmanov 1-0
Lovkov - Andreikin 0-1
Popov - Ponkratov 0-1
Shimanov - Romanov 1/2
Sjugirov - Linchevsky 1/2 |
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Round 5
Linchevsky - Papin 1/2
Romanov - Sjugirov 0-1
Ponkratov - Shimanov 1-0
Andreikin - Popov 1/2
Rakhmanov - Lovkov 1-0
Nechepurenko - Chadaev 1/2 |
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Round 6
Papin - Chadaev 0-1
Lovkov - Nechepurenko 0-1
Popov - Rakhmanov 1-0
Shimanov - Andreikin 1/2
Sjugirov - Ponkratov 1/2
Linchevsky - Romanov 1/2 |
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Round 7
Romanov - Papin 1-0
Ponkratov - Linchevsky 1-0
Andreikin - Sjugirov 0-1
Rakhmanov - Shimanov 0-1
Nechepurenko - Popov 1/2
Chadaev - Lovkov 1-0 |
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Round 8
Papin - Lovkov 1-0
Popov - Chadaev 1/2
Shimanov - Nechepurenko 1-0
Sjugirov - Rakhmanov 0-1
Linchevsky - Andreikin 1/2
Romanov - Ponkratov 0-1 |
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Round 9
Ponkratov - Papin 1/2
Andreikin - Romanov 1-0
Rakhmanov - Linchevsky 1/2
Nechepurenko - Sjugirov 0-1
Chadaev - Shimanov 1-0
Lovkov - Popov 1/2 |
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Round 10
Papin - Popov 1/2
Shimanov - Lovkov 1/2
Sjugirov - Chadaev 1/2
Linchevsky - Nechepurenko 1/2
Romanov - Rakhmanov 1-0
Ponkratov - Andreikin 1/2 |
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Round 11
Andreikin - Papin 1-0
Rakhmanov - Ponkratov 1/2
Nechepurenko - Romanov 1/2
Chadaev - Linchevsky 1/2
Lovkov - Sjugirov 0-1
Popov - Shimanov 1-0 |
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View games
Games in PGN
The
participants of the girls tournament: Charochkina Daria 1990 wm 2383
Moscow, Vasilkova Svetlana 1988 wm 2359 Moscow, Girya Olga 1991 wf 2342
Moscow, Gunina Valentina 1989 wf 2295 Moscow, Bodnaruk Anastasia 1992 wf
2317 Moscow, Tarasova Viktoria 1989 wm 2267 Saratov, Ivakhinova Inna 1989 wm
2250 Ulan-Ude, Ambartsumova Karina 1989 wf 2228 Moscow, Severiukhina Zoja
1990 wf 2199 Izhevsk, Meleshko Anna 1989 wm 2215 Primorsk region, Shlakich
Anna 1991 2244 Saint-Petersburg, Savina Anastasia 1992 2202 Moscow.
Final
standings
1 Bodnaruk - 8.5 [Anastasia Bodnaruk, captioned]
2 Gunina - 7.0
3 Vasilkova - 6.5
4 Charochkina - 6.5
5 Girya - 6.0
6 Savina - 6.0
7 Severiukhina - 5.5
8 Ivakhinova - 5.0
9 Tarasova - 5.0
10 Shlakich - 4.5
11 Ambartsumova - 3.0
12 Meleshko - 2.5
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Round 1
Shlakich - Tarasova 1-0
Vasilkova - Savina 1/2
Severiukhina - Girya 1-0
Charochkina - Meleshko 1-0
Bodnaruk - Ivakhinova 1-0
Ambartsumova - Gunina 0-1 |
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Round 2
Tarasova - Gunina 0-1
Ivakhinova - Ambartsumova 1-0
Meleshko - Bodnaruk 0-1
Girya - Charochkina 0-1
Savina - Severiukhina 1-0
Shlakich - Vasilkova 1/2 |
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Round 3
Vasilkova - Tarasova 0-1
Severiukhina - Shlakich 1/2
Charochkina - Savina 1-0
Bodnaruk - Girya 1/2
Ambartsumova - Meleshko 1-0
Gunina - Ivakhinova 1-0 |
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Round 4
Tarasova - Ivakhinova 1/2
Meleshko - Gunina 0-1
Girya - Ambartsumova 1-0
Savina - Bodnaruk 0-1
Shlakich - Charochkina 0-1
Vasilkova - Severiukhina 1-0 |
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Round 5
Severiukhina - Tarasova 1-0
Charochkina - Vasilkova 1-0
Bodnaruk - Shlakich 0-1
Ambartsumova - Savina 0-1
Gunina - Girya 0-1
Ivakhinova - Meleshko 0-1 |
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Round 6
Tarasova - Meleshko 1-0
Girya - Ivakhinova 1-0
Savina - Gunina 1-0
Shlakich - Ambartsumova 0-1
Vasilkova - Bodnaruk 1-0
Severiukhina - Charochkina 1-0 |
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Round 7
Charochkina - Tarasova 1/2
Bodnaruk - Severiukhina 1-0
Ambartsumova - Vasilkova 1/2
Gunina - Shlakich 1-0
Ivakhinova - Savina 1/2
Meleshko - Girya 0-1 |
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Round 8
Tarasova - Girya 1/2
Savina - Meleshko 1-0
Shlakich - Ivakhinova 0-1
Vasilkova - Gunina 1-0
Severiukhina - Ambartsumova 1-0
Charochkina - Bodnaruk 0-1 |
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Round 9
Bodnaruk - Tarasova 1-0
Ambartsumova - Charochkina 0-1
Gunina - Severiukhina 1-0
Ivakhinova - Vasilkova 1-0
Meleshko - Shlakich 1/2
Girya - Savina 1/2 |
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Round 10
Tarasova - Savina 1-0
Shlakich - Girya 1/2
Vasilkova - Meleshko 1-0
Severiukhina - Ivakhinova 1-0
Charochkina - Gunina 0-1
Bodnaruk - Ambartsumova 1-0 |
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Round 11
Ambartsumova - Tarasova 1/2
Gunina - Bodnaruk 0-1
Ivakhinova - Charochkina 1-0
Meleshko - Severiukhina 1-0
Girya - Vasilkova 0-1
Savina - Shlakich 1/2 |
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3-15-2008
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Chess News
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Chessbags
of the Week
An editorial
flurry of comments broke out among Chessville’s staffers last week about
JanXena’s handbag mention – [as well
as a discussion on the serious issue of playing conditions and
remuneration for women in chess] – so the Parrot decided to investigate
what women chess players keep in there?
A wide ranging
survey of five male chess cronies answered the question “what do women
players keep in their handbags” this way:
a) one
supercomputer running Rybka, with wireless link to “earrings”
b) last 3 month’s Vogue magazines
c) 2 year’s supply feminine hygiene products
d) 107 cosmetic products
e) 22 credit cards
f) one can pepper spray
g) one police whistle / ear-piercing air-horn / illegal Chinese tazer set
to ‘max’. |
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Dear Reader, who are you?
Recent
analysis of our readership is very interesting. There is a
strong following of Chessville in the USA, and in Canada, but also
throughout Spanish-speaking Central and South America.
There is
substantial readership from Eastern Europe, and from India.
Write to
TheParrot, if you
wish, and tell us about chess playing and conditions in your country.
We are pleased to be perhaps more international in scope than any
other site reporting chess, and our general philosophy of publishing
is “of the players, for the players.”
As a
world game we would like to report you all to each other since we are
together a world community.
Cordially, The Chessville Team |
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The
average guess of the weight of the bag was 17 pounds, and that every women
player had at least 3 bags, with exactly similar contents, but in
different colors, some of which was due to spilt make-up.
On
the serious side Chessville is become active in support of players
remuneration, and we are all pleased to announce that
Goddesschess is once
again sponsoring a $350 "Fighting Chess" prize for the upcoming 2008 U.S.
Women's Chess Championship! AND Susan Polgar has agreed to be the
judge for the "Fighting Chess" prize at The Frank K. Berry U.S. Women's
Chess Championship.
Prizes -$25,000. Seeding - The 10
contenders for the title will be determined as follows:
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U.S. Women's Champion (Irina Krush)
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6 Top-Rated Women players on the
March Rating List
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3 Wild Cards selected by Frank K.
Berry (One of these wild cards will be top female finisher at the
Qualifier Open)
MonRoi will again be a sponsor,
and will carry the official website and host LIVE games.
Just
to be fair each male crony had to turf out his wallet and have the
contents analyzed, and with remarkable consistency each had:
a)
$28 cash
b)
one debit card
c)
one USCF membership card, expiration date 1999
d)
one ‘Lucky-Brand’ condom, expiration date 1999
e)
one business card; ‘Steve’s auto repair and towing, reasonable rates’
f)
one business card; ‘Steve’s repair-all and not-bad used-tool shop’
g)
one spare car key
h)
one electronic key-card, ‘Marriott Hotel’
Average weight, 5
ounces. Average age of wallet was 17 years. Now, if any chess player’s out
there do not ‘profile’ with the above, write to the Parrot.
Chess News WORLDWIDE
Women
have Draw Problem [They don’t know how to do it.]
After
the last round of Linares and all those draws, it is interesting to review
the first round of the Atatürk
International Women Masters Chess Tournament in Turkey. Here are
results of previous rounds, which contain completely unexpected results; the
previous Women’s World Champ going 0-4:
The first two rounds were very
decisive, with 9 from 10 games not resulting in draws. Though round 4
produced 4/5 draws.
Krush 1-0 Zhu Chen
Javakhishvili 1-0 Zhao Xue
Ushenina 0-1 Hou Yifan
Yildiz 0-1 Cramling
E. Atalik 1-0 Harika
| Luck?
Well… here are round 2 results:
[ps, the caption for the two
players might well be ‘absolute attention!’] |
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GM CHEN Zhu 2548 0 - 1 GM CRAMLING
Pia 2524
WGM YIFAN Hou 2527
1 - 0 WIM YILDIZ Betul
Cemre 2207
WGM XUE Zhao 2517 1
- 0 IM USHENINA Anna 2484
IM DRONAVALLI Harika 2455
1 - 0 IM JAVAKHISHVILI
Lela 2470
IM KRUSH Irina 2473 ½ - ½ IM ATALIK Ekaterina 2408
Skipping a round, here are results
from Round 4, and current standings:
GM CHEN Zhu 2548 0 - 1 WGM YIFAN
Hou 2527
WGM XUE Zhao 2517 ½ - ½ GM CRAMLING Pia 2524
IM DRONAVALLI Harika 2455 ½ - ½ WIM YILDIZ Betul Cemre 2207
IM KRUSH Irina 2473 ½ - ½ IM USHENINA Anna 2484
IM ATALIK Ekaterina 2408 ½ - ½ IM JAVAKHISHVILI Lela 2470
Standings after 4 rounds:
WGM
YIFAN Hou 2527 CHN 3½ [caption]
IM ATALIK Ekaterina 2408 TUR 3
GM CRAMLING Pia 2524 SWE 3
IM DRONAVALLI Harika 2455 IND 2½
IM KRUSH Irina 2473 USA 2½
WGM XUE Zhao 2517 CHN 2½
IM JAVAKHISHVILI Lela 2470 GEO 2
IM USHENINA Anna 2484 UKR ½
WIM YILDIZ Betul Cemre 2207 TUR ½
GM CHEN Zhu 2548 QAT 0
Quaere?
Is Irina [captioned top] the most active American player overseas, of either
gender? Another fun thing to do is to visit the official site and
learn to use the navigation buttons in Turkish – this is well worth the
effort, since the photographs are good, and there are lots of them.
Here is another picture of Irina
listening to an unidentified man, and deserves one of those “make up your
own caption” labels. From Irina’s body language I hope he
is not lecturing her on <yikes> overweight handbags.
You can also watch
live from the
Official Site.
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Annual Amber -
March 15 to March 27

Blindfold and Rapid, total 2008
prize-fund is 216,000 Euro. Participants:
Vishy Anand,
India
Vladimir Kramnik, Russia
Veselin Topalov, Bulgaria
Alexander Morozevich, Russia
Shakhriyar Mamedyarov , Azerbaijan
Peter Leko, Hungary
Vasily Ivanchuk, Ukraine
Levon Aronian, Armenia
Boris Gelfand, Israel
Magnus Carlsen, Norway
Sergey Karjakin, Ukraine
Loek van Wely, The Netherlands
The average
rating of the players is 2752, which is a Category 21 FIDE event.
Official website.
Check out Chessville's Forum
Last week I
was joking around over there with a writer who was commenting on how daft
chess players are perceived by the general public, and I said, “write a
column about it.” He is wavering…
The
Championships of Russia among boys and girls under 20 take place in
Saint-Petersburg 8th-18th March. Time control: 1 hour 30 min. for 40
moves, 30 min. till the end of the game with an increment of 30 sec. per
move since the first. The players who will take 1st place in the
tournaments get right to participate in the World Championships under 20.
Participants boys tournament: Popov Ivan born 1990 g 2595 Moscow,
Andreikin, Dmitry 1990 g 2573 Saratov, Romanov Evgeny 1988 g 2543
Chelyabinsk region, Rakhmanov Alexander 1989 g 2524 Moscow, Nechepurenko
Roman 1988 f 2495 Ufa, Ponkratov Pavel 1988 m 2489 Chelyabinsk, Papin
Vasily 1988 m 2475 Rostov region, Chadaev Nikolai 1988 m 2471 Moscow,
Lovkov Roman 1988 f 2457 Saint-Petersburg, Linchevsky Daniil 1990 m 2440
Leningrad region, Shimanov Alexander 1992 m 2441 Saint-Petersburg,
Sjugirov Sanan 1993 m 2491 Lipetsk region. |
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What to Play?
More eye-watering moves from English Players in
the English Defence. Featured Game is Garces-Keene, Lausanne 1977.
1.d4 e6
2. c4 b6
3. e4 Bb7
4. Nc3 Bb4
5. Bd3 [Keene’s own annotation notes that 5. d5?! Posed
black no problems in Tartakower Reti, Goteborg 1920, after 5… Qe7! 6.
Be2 Nf6 7. Qd4 ed 8. ed Qe4 ‘black was at least equal’]
5…f5 [diagram of the eye-waterer...

...other moves tried have been 5… Bxc3+,
Bronstein – Miles, Teeside 1975, black attempting a Nimzo blocked
middlegame, but Bronstein was better by move 12.]
6.Qe2 Nf6
7. Bg5 [if 7.f3 0-0! –not fe 8. fe Bxc3+ 9. bc Nxe4 10. Qh5+ g6
11. Qg4 Nf6 12. Qh3 0-0 13. Bg5 Mason-Tinsley, London 1899, though
Keene asks what happens now if 13. …Qe8.]
7. … fe
8. Bxe4 Bxc3+
9. bc Bxe4
10. Bxf6 Qxf6
11. Qxe4 Nc6
12.
Nf3 0-0
13. 0-0
and we have threaded the maze – the questions for
players is, who would you rather be? What are your ambitions as
white and black? Another diagram is indicated at this point, see
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Round 5
standings
1-2 Linchevsky, Sjugirov - 4.0
3-4 Ponkratov, Chadaev - 3.5
5-6 Andreikin, Romanov - 3.0
7 Papin - 2.5
8-9 Nechepurenko, Rakhmanov - 2.0
10 Shimanov - 1.5
11-12 Lovkov, Popov - 0.5
Participants girls tournament: Charochkina Daria 1990 wm 2383 Moscow,
Vasilkova Svetlana 1988 wm 2359 Moscow, Girya Olga 1991 wf 2342 Moscow,
Gunina Valentina 1989 wf 2295 Moscow, Bodnaruk Anastasia 1992 wf 2317
Moscow, Tarasova Viktoria 1989 wm 2267 Saratov, Ivakhinova Inna 1989 wm
2250 Ulan-Ude, Ambartsumova Karina 1989 wf 2228 Moscow, Severiukhina Zoja
1990 wf 2199 Izhevsk, Meleshko Anna 1989 wm 2215 Primorsk region, Shlakich
Anna 1991 2244 Saint-Petersburg, Savina Anastasia 1992 2202 Moscow.
Round 5
standings
1 Charochkina - 5.0
2 Gunina - 4.0
3 Bodnaruk - 3.5
4 Shlakich - 3.0
5-7 Girya, Savina, Severiukhina - 2.5
8 Vasilkova - 2.0
9-10 Ivakhinova, Tarasova - 1.5
11-12 Ambartsumova, Meleshko - 1.0
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Internet.
Rounds start at 15-00 Moscow time (+3 GMT). |
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What to Play?
...Continued

Here is the make-or-break point of this game.
13…Na5?! Allowed White to get a better game Sosonko – Keene,
Haifa 1976, since White plays 14.Ne5!
In this featured game versus Garces, Keene
improves with 13.Qf4! and a draw was agreed at move 26.
Perhaps the greater point is that Black has snookered White’s winning
chances at move 13 in positions where White neither advances his
d-pawn to d5 and also does not prevent the pin and exchange by playing
a3.
Is
this satisfactory? Not to English players, who continued to
Question White. Let’s go a little deeper next time. |
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3-8-2008
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Chess News
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Letter of the Week
From
Dennis M. Taylor,
Assistant Attorney General,
Department of Consumer and Regulatory
Affairs,
1 North Capitol Street, NE, Room 9401,
Washington, DC 20001
Dear Parrot,
While I certainly understand your frustration,
“no board” for USCF is no option. USCF is a corporation; corporations are
legally run by boards. Yes, the best boards set policy and review how
staff implements that policy. Yes, USCF and its board problems are an
abomination. However, a board must be in place. I have done
extensive work with USA Table Tennis. USATT has had some unbelievable
board activities over the past five years. However, I was always able to
tell people that as bad as things were at USATT, USCF was worse.
That is especially true now. The US
Olympic Committee essentially performed a coup at USATT and will be
placing people of its choosing on the Board. Principal among these
will be people from the world of business that know how to run an
organization. I suspect that some of them will have no clue as to how to
properly play the sport. Until something similar happens at USCF, I fear
that the internecine feuding will rule the day, and the organization will
sink to new depths.
My statements are not an endorsement or
repudiation of any one USCF board member or any group of USCF board
members. Regrettably, I have fallen into a “pox on both your houses”
mentality.
Sincerely,
Dennis M. Taylor |
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Chess
Tributes
Every time I watch an
awards show the most genuine response from the recipient seems to be
that it is awarded by peers.
Here is one of the most
remarkable chess tributes of all time, the following being merely the
last paragraph of it:
And
even though until the end, for example in Buenos Aires, 1939, as I am
about to demonstrate, he could still evolve true pearls of the chess
art, he had not sufficient stamina for obtaining practical success in
a big tournament. All the same, Capablanca was snatched from the
chess world much too soon. With his death we have lost a very
great chess genius whose like we shall never see again.
- Alexander Alekhine
The game then illustrated was J. Enevoldsen
(Denmark) J.R. Capablanca (Cuba)
From 107 Great Chess Battles, 1939-1945;
Edited
and translated by Edward Winter. Dover.
[Editor: Here is that game:
Enevoldsen,J - Capablanca,J [E32]
Buenos Aires ol (Men) f-A (14), 1939
1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.Qc2 0-0 5.a3 Bxc3+ 6.Qxc3 d6 7.g3 Qe7
8.Bg2 e5 9.d5 a5 10.b3 Nbd7 11.Nf3 Nc5 12.Nd2 Bf5 13.0-0 Nfe4 14.Nxe4
Bxe4 15.f3 Bg6 16.Be3 b6 17.b4 Nd7 18.Rfc1 axb4 19.axb4 f5 20.f4 exf4
21.gxf4 Nf6 22.h3 Rxa1 23.Rxa1 Re8 24.Ra3 Bh5 25.Qc2 Ne4 26.Bd4 Qh4
27.e3 Qe1+ 28.Kh2 Bf3 29.Ra2 Re7 30.Qa4 Kf7 31.Qa8 Nd2 32.Bxf3 Qf2+
33.Kh1 Qf1+ 34.Kh2 Nxf3+ 35.Kg3 Nxd4 0-1 |
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June 5 to 8, 2008
Riviera Hotel & Casino
LAS VEGAS INTERNATIONAL CHESS
FESTIVAL
Susan Polgar World Open for Girls and Boys
The Susan Polgar World Open Chess Championship
for Girls June 7-8
The Susan Polgar World Open Chess Championship
for Boys June 7-8
Full information:
http://www.vegaschessfestival.com/polgar/ |

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Player of the Week:
Youngest
US Master ever! Nicholas Nip
has broken the US Chess Federation's record for the youngest master at the
tender age of 9 years and 11 months, shattering the previous record of 10
years and 79 days held by Hikaru Nakamura. His new rating on the MSA website
stands at 2207. Nicholas earned the final 20 rating points on March 5 in a
G/60 quad tournament at the Mechanics' Institute in San Francisco, defeating
FM Ron Cusi (2339) in the climactic game.
The youngest master
record is considered one of the most hallowed marks of the USCF. Future
World Champion Bobby Fischer was considered a prodigy when he became a
master at the age of 13.
Chess reporter of the Week
is Michael Aigner, who broke the story. Photo of Nicholas by ChessDryad.
Check out Michael’s site for his full commentary at
www.fpawn.com.
Joke of the Week
This
week’s joke is provided by Windows Vista chess program, as seen on U-Tube.
With a black pawn on c2 White castled Queenside, and then black ignored a
capture which would win the game, so White proceeded with RxK [I’m not
making this up], and then, the game carried on… If you think the rules of
chess haven’t really changed since Elizabeth the First and Isabella of
Spain played it, 400 years ago, you’d think maybe they should employ a
real chess player to inform the techno-nerds of what the rules are,
wouldn’t you? But… What do you think after watching this old nonsense
about Chess Titans?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOqaQlIZcGU |
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Coming Soon, to a Chessville near you
Having recently introduced a new column on
Women’s Chess, JanXena, the next
new CV column will be from the Military on mil-Chess and also Tactical
Training.
Then there are plans to ‘do’ a history of
Hastings in serial format; a chess bio or two; a new column on
openings; maybe a ‘constant-joke’ column on chess from real life
experiences.
Finally, we have a writer all set to go, but
can’t decide what his topic is!
But
most of all, these initiatives come from you, the chess public. If you
would like to write with us, or help with Chessville’s infrastructure,
write to
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Chess News WORLDWIDE
Its not over ‘till the Riot Police Sirens Sing
The crushing
display of police force was sign that authorities would allow no critical
mass of dissent or independent opposition as the Kremlin celebrates
Medvedev's victory.
"Fifteen
years ago I wouldn't have thought that my children would be growing up in
a country that reminds me so much of the Soviet Union," said Alexander
Ivanov, 48.
In St.
Petersburg, Garry Kasparov — the former chess champion who is now an
ardent Kremlin foe — and his co-leader in the Other Russia opposition
coalition appeared at a simultaneous protest. Unlike in Moscow, the
group had permission for the rally in St. Petersburg.

A crowd
estimated by police at up to 3,000 gathered in a square and marched toward
the heart of the city, shouting "Down with the Police State!" and "This
City is Ours!" Police did not intervene.
Zyuganov,
Medvedev's nearest challenger with almost 18 percent in near-complete
results, said he would dispute the outcome. Zhirinovsky, with 9 percent,
threatened to do so as well. |
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What to Play?
As ani fül no, strong players do not move their
queen out in the openings, unsupported by the rest of the crew…
Karpov-Miles, Bugojno 1978
1.c4 b6
2.d4 e6
3.d5 Qh4

A shocking move – Hort commented “here we see an
example of chess from another planet… I think Miles deserves the
credit for this queen move – it seems to be quite interesting and is
probably a playable idea.”
Indeed, neither then nor subsequently, was 3.Qh4
refuted, comment the authors of The English Defence, Keene,
Plaskett and Tisdall. Macmillan, 1987. |
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Liberal
opposition leaders Kasparov and Mikhail Kasyanov were barred from running
after authorities said they did not meet the strict requirements for
gaining a spot on the ballot. Associated Press writers Lynn
Berry, Maria Danilova, Angela Charlton, Peter Leonard and Mansur Mirovalev
contributed to this report.
OMON, riot
police officers detain activists of the vocal opposition group co-led by
former chess champion Garry Kasparov as they try to hold an unsanctioned
protest over Russia's presidential election, Moscow, Monday, March 3, 2008.
Police detained dozens of people at a planned opposition protest Monday over
Russia's presidential election, in a strong show of force the day after an
election that was dismissed by Kasparov and other liberal opposition leaders
as a farce. (AP Photo/Sergey Ponomarev)
2700 CLUB: Morelia Linares
The second
half of this super-strong contest is about to resume in Linares – here was
the picture so from the first half in Morelia:
1 Anand - 4.5
2-3 Shirov, Topalov - 4.0
4-5 Aronian, Carlsen - 3.5
6-7 Radjabov, Ivanchuk - 3.0
8 Leko - 2.5
The stage was set for the final round:
Standings
after 13 rounds:
1. Anand 8.0
2. Carlsen 7.5
3-4. Aronian, Topalov 7.0
5.Radjabov 6.5
6. Ivanchuk 6.0
7-8. Shirov, Leko 5.0 |
Final
round 14
March 7th
Vishy Anand (8) -
Veselin Topalov (7)
Magnus Carlsen (7.5) - Teimour Radjabov (6.5)
Peter Leko (5) - Levon Aronian (7)
Alexei Shirov (5) - Vassily Ivanchuk (6) |
And
the winner is [opens envelope] after 69 moves the last contender for the top
place Magnus Carlsen couldn’t overcome his opponent, and with four draws in
the last round, Vishy kept sole control of his lead, and wins it!
Although it must be said, Carlsen is also a big winner here, and his ELO has
soared to make him perhaps number 4 in the world – not bad when you consider
he is half the age of two players ahead of him.
But Carlsen will not become world
champion!
Not with a huge qualifying cycle, and
a money-based system during a recession, and a risky knock-out section…
Final round 14 results:
Vishy Anand (8) 1/2 Veselin Topalov
(7)
Magnus Carlsen (7.5) 1/2 Teimour Radjabov (6.5)
Peter Leko (5) 1/2 Levon Aronian (7)
Alexei Shirov (5) 1/2 Vassily Ivanchuk (6)
Final Standings
1. Anand 8.5
2. Carlsen 8.0
3-4. Aronian, Topalov 7.5
5.Radjabov 7.0
6. Ivanchuk 6.5
7-8. Shirov, Leko 5.5
The
Championships of Russia among boys and girls under 20
take place in Saint-Petersburg 8th-18th March. Time control: 1 hour 30 min.
for 40 moves, 30 min. till the end of the game with an increment of 30 sec.
per move since the first. The players who will take 1st place in the
tournaments get right to participate in the World Championships under 20.
Participants of the boys tournament: Popov Ivan born 1990 g 2595 Moscow,
Andreikin, Dmitry 1990 g 2573 Saratov, Romanov Evgeny 1988 g 2543
Chelyabinsk region, Rakhmanov Alexander 1989 g 2524 Moscow, Nechepurenko
Roman 1988 f 2495 Ufa, Ponkratov Pavel 1988 m 2489 Chelyabinsk, Papin Vasily
1988 m 2475 Rostov region, Chadaev Nikolai 1988 m 2471 Moscow, Lovkov Roman
1988 f 2457 Saint-Petersburg, Linchevsky Daniil 1990 m 2440 Leningrad
region, Shimanov Alexander 1992 m 2441 Saint-Petersburg, Sjugirov Sanan 1993
m 2491 Lipetsk region.
Participants of the girls tournament: Charochkina Daria 1990 wm 2383
Moscow, Vasilkova Svetlana 1988 wm 2359 Moscow, Girya Olga 1991 wf 2342
Moscow, Gunina Valentina 1989 wf 2295 Moscow, Bodnaruk Anastasia 1992 wf
2317 Moscow, Tarasova Viktoria 1989 wm 2267 Saratov, Ivakhinova Inna 1989 wm
2250 Ulan-Ude, Ambartsumova Karina 1989 wf 2228 Moscow, Severiukhina Zoja
1990 wf 2199 Izhevsk, Meleshko Anna 1989 wm 2215 Primorsk region, Shlakich
Anna 1991 2244 Saint-Petersburg, Savina Anastasia 1992 2202 Moscow.
Shahcom Company provides live coverage of games in the playing
hall and via Internet. Rounds start at 15-00 Moscow time (+3 GMT).
3-1-2008
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