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| Jul-18-09 | | kramputz: < Albertan > ....<United States IM Irina Krush defeated Canadian FM Vladimir Pechenkin, the opening was a Dutch Defense: \ Event "2009 > It looks like a very funny looking <1.e4 Nf6 2.e5 Nd5 3.d4 d6 4.Nf3 > Dutch Defense. |
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| Jul-18-09 | | Micah Hughey: New Chessbase.com article on the Canadian Open:
http://chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp... |
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| Jul-18-09 | | Micah Hughey: New video from the Canadian Open:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1fd...
Earlier videos:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lzlx...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lzlx... |
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| Jul-18-09 | | eternaloptimist: Gunguly made a very unwise choice to play the French Defense (Winawer Variation) against Shirov. Only 2 people have EVER beaten Shirov playing the black side of the Winawer (to my knowledge). Those 2 players are Burmenko (in 1986) & Timman (in 1996). Shirov's record in the cg database.: +9 -2 =9. Needless to say it's been a LONG time since someone has beaten Shirov w/ the Winawer. A lot of players have the mentality that you should try to draw w/ black against the really strong players & try to win w/ white, but I think you should at least play an opening that you will have a REALISTIC CHANCE to win w/. |
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Jul-18-09
 | | PhilFeeley: Looks like Ed Porper is going for his GM norm. Good for him! |
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Jul-18-09
 | | Kasputin: Chessbase has all 3 youtube videos on one page, along with some pics, analysis, etc... http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail... I have to say that vids (unlike most that show chess in action) really give a sense of the excitement of tournament play (especially the first one) - really wish I could be there. Looks like the organizers have done a fantastic job. Congrats to you! If you sign into the official site, you can follow the games live. According to the pairings, Shirov has black against Bluvstein. What can I say? I hope it is great game. A Canadian GM against a fan favourite - I guess I would be happy with any result as long as it is a hard fought and exciting contest. Perhaps Adams has the best shot to win the tournament. If Shirov and Bluvstein draw and Adams wins (this may be the most likely of all possible outcomes), then Adams is in the driver's seat with one final round to go. |
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| Jul-18-09 | | eternaloptimist: Actually, for that matter, Shirov has won close to 50% of his games in which he was playing white against the Winawer. Even if Ganguly was playing for a draw, it was a bad choice. Shirov does have the same # of wins as draws against it (in the cg database), but why didn't Ganguly play 1...e5 against him? Shirov excels in sharp positions where he can attack, & you usually end up w/ these positions in the Winawer. 1...e5 w/ a probable Ruy Lopez would have made the game strategical & kept the game more closed & given Ganguly a better chance than by playing a Winawer. |
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Jul-18-09
| | Kasputin: Adams and Porper just drew -at least I think that is what happened. I was watching the game and the 1/2-1/2 came up after white's 16th move. But then black made a reply. Nothing else seems to be happening, so I guess it is a draw. Anyway, Porper picked the Alekhine. Probably a good choice. |
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Jul-18-09
 | | Wild Bill: OK, everybody, let's hear it for Irina who is tied for first after the penultimate round. |
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| Jul-18-09 | | Gambitor: A FM has just beat a +2700, here is the game
[Event "2009 Canadian Open Chess Championship"]
[Site "Edmonton"]
[Date "2009.07.18"]
[Round "8"]
[White "Ni, Hua"]
[Black "Hommeles, Theo"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteELO "2701"]
[WhiteTitle "GM"]
[BlackELO "2412"]
[BlackTitle "FM"]
1.e4 d6 2.d4 Nf6 3.Nc3 e5 4.Nge2 Nc6 5.f3 exd4 6.Nxd4 Be7 7.Bb5 Bd7 8.Nde2 O-O 9.Nf4 Ne5 10.Bxd7 Qxd7 11.O-O c6 12.Kh1 Rfe8 13.b3 Rad8 14.Qd4 b6 15.Bb2 Qc7 16.Nce2 Bf8 17.c4 d5 18.cxd5 cxd5 19.exd5 g5 20.Rac1 Bc5 21.Qd1 gxf4 22.b4 Rxd5 23.Qb3 Rd2 24.Nxf4 Ned7 25.Bc3 Qxf4 26.Bxd2 Qxd2 27.bxc5 Nxc5 28.Qc3 Qxc3 29.Rxc3 Re2 30.Ra3 a5 31.Kg1 Nd5 32.Rf2 Re5 33.Rd2 Kf8 34.Kf2 Ke7 35.h4 a4 36.Rd4 Kd6 37.Rc3 Kc6 38.Rc2 Kb5 39.f4 Nxf4 40.Rxf4 Nd3 41.Kg3 Nxf4 42.Kxf4 Rc5 43.Rb2 Ka5 44.Ke3 Rc3 45.Kd4 Rg3 46.Rf2 h5 47.Rxf7 Rxg2 48.a3 Rg3 49.Rf5 b5 50.Rxh5 Rxa3 51.Rh8 Kb4 52.h5 Rh3 53.h6 a3 54.h7 a2 55.Ra8 Ra3 0-1 |
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Jul-18-09
| | Kasputin: Nice ending to the game that <Gambitor> just posted. It's one of those situations where opponents could both queen passed pawns but the second pawn queened skewers the opponent's king and queen. |
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Jul-18-09
| | Kasputin: According to the official site: "9-way tie for the lead after 8 rounds! GM Mark Bluvshtein CAN, GM Alexei Shirov ESP, IM Edward Porper CAN, GM Michael Adams ENG, GM Surya Ganguly IND, GM Eugene Perelshteyn USA, IM Irina Krush USA, FM Jonathan Tayar CAN & FM Theo Hommeles NED" |
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| Jul-19-09 | | eternaloptimist: It's good to see 2 American players tied for 1st place in this trnt.. IM Irina Krush is 1 of my favorite players, & she has only lost once in this trnt. (to GM Ganguly). GM Perelshteyn hasn't lost to anyone, but he hasn't won as many games as I thought he would. Although, he keeps improving from trnt. to trnt., & is bound to break through & win another trnt. soon. |
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| Jul-19-09 | | Micah Hughey: Kasputin,
Yeah, it was me who was doing the relay for the Adams-Porper game on a Monroi device. I was also holding the Monroi device for the Shirov game, and one device bumped the other and suddenly it displayed 1/2-1/2!!!! I didn't know how to fix it, but Zeljka from Monroi fixed it about 5 minutes later. The Adams game went on for many moves, but eventually both games ended in draws. Watch live tomorrow, 12:00 PM local time, 2:00 PM Eastern, 18:00 GMT. |
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Jul-19-09
 | | HeMateMe: at the chess base pages devoted to the Canadien Open, note the groovy characters in the animated still frames. Doesn't that remind you of the old Charlie's angels photo shots, when they would end a sequence? |
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| Jul-19-09 | | siggemannen: aren't those stolen from iPod-advertisement? |
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Jul-19-09
| | Kasputin: Hi <Micah Hughey> - since you can accurately predict outcomes, can you tell me who is going to win today? I'm kidding of course. Thanks for the explanation.
I think you all did a fantastic job on the tournament! |
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| Jul-19-09 | | RonB52734: Krush - Adams
click for larger view12...*
Opening Explorer |
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| Jul-19-09 | | RonB52734: Adams - Perelshteyn
click for larger viewfollowed by 8...e6, 9.h3 Bxf3 10.Qxf3
Opening Explorer has only one game with 8...e6 |
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| Jul-19-09 | | RonB52734: Sorry, second diagram is SHIROV - Perelshteyn |
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| Jul-19-09 | | RonB52734: Porper - Ganguly
click for larger viewfollowed by 11...Nc5, 12.g3 Nf6 13.Qc2 Qe8 14.Nh4
Opening Explorer only has one game with 11...Nc5 |
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| Jul-19-09 | | RonB52734: Krush - Adams after 20.Qc3
click for larger view |
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| Jul-19-09 | | RonB52734: Shirov v. Perelshteyn after 18.Qf3
click for larger view |
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| Jul-19-09 | | RonB52734: Porper v. Ganguly after 26.Rad1
click for larger view |
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| Jul-19-09 | | indianchessupdates: . Three Indians have won different tournaments today
so Ganguly may be the Fourth one
http://indianchessupdates.blogspot.... |
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