page 1 of 1; 20 games    Game   Result Moves Year Event/Locale Opening 1. Morozevich vs Ivanchuk   1-0 41 2004 13th Amber Blindfold B30 Sicilian 2. Ivanchuk vs Topalov 1-0 48 2004 13th Amber Blindfold C45 Scotch Game 3. Morozevich vs Vallejo-Pons 1-0 41 2004 13th Amber Blindfold B12 Caro-Kann Defense 4. Kramnik vs Van Wely   1-0 24 2004 13th Amber Blindfold B30 Sicilian 5. Ivanchuk vs Svidler 1-0 38 2004 13th Amber Blindfold E76 King's Indian, Four Pawns Attack 6. Gelfand vs Van Wely 1-0 38 2004 13th Amber Blindfold B33 Sicilian 7. Shirov vs Vallejo-Pons 1-0 36 2004 13th Amber Blindfold C11 French 8. Morozevich vs Bareev   1-0 45 2004 13th Amber Blindfold B12 Caro-Kann Defense 9. Kramnik vs Svidler 1-0 43 2004 13th Amber Blindfold B41 Sicilian, Kan 10. Leko vs Vallejo-Pons   1-0 37 2004 13th Amber Blindfold C11 French 11. Ivanchuk vs Leko 1-0 40 2004 13th Amber Blindfold B33 Sicilian 12. Kramnik vs Gelfand   1-0 49 2004 13th Amber Blindfold B90 Sicilian, Najdorf 13. Leko vs Morozevich 1-0 53 2004 13th Amber Blindfold C61 Ruy Lopez, Bird's Defense 14. Topalov vs Anand 1-0 61 2004 13th Amber Blindfold B48 Sicilian, Taimanov Variation 15. Anand vs Vallejo-Pons 1-0 31 2004 13th Amber Blindfold B90 Sicilian, Najdorf 16. Svidler vs Topalov 1-0 31 2004 13th Amber Blindfold C42 Petrov Defense 17. Morozevich vs Shirov 1-0 29 2004 13th Amber Blindfold C77 Ruy Lopez 18. Ivanchuk vs Gelfand   1-0 40 2004 13th Amber Blindfold E05 Catalan, Open, Classical line 19. Leko vs Gelfand 1-0 35 2004 13th Amber Blindfold C42 Petrov Defense 20. Anand vs Gelfand   1-0 55 2004 13th Amber Blindfold C42 Petrov Defense  page 1 of 1; 20 games      REFINE SEARCH:   White wins (1-0) | Black wins (0-1) | Draws (1/2-1/2)

Mar-31-04    ruylopez900: Morozevich regularily outdoes himself in the blindfold section of this tournament. Over the last two years his performance rating has been 220 and 150 points above his ELO rating. Same's happening this year! Mar-31-04    Taidanii: I had no idea that Leko was an experienced blindfold player. Mar-31-04    vonKrolock: instead of those blindfold and rapid games, i would like to see a good classic event, whith adjournments to demonstrate that Chess is alive besides some efforts to finish it Mar-31-04    refutor: you know adjournments wouldn't be a bad idea...everyone's got the same computer so what's the big deal? ;) Mar-31-04    square dance: <refutor> i think part of the problem is that people feel that the games are stale enough largely because of computers. to let them affect the middle game as well would only hurt the game more. thats just my guess though. Mar-31-04    ruylopez900: <vanKrolock> Linares was a classical chess event. Look what happened. Chess doesn't seem to be alive if you look at it =(. Apr-01-04    vonKrolock: the adjournments, a break for eating, sleeping or resting was one of the charms of the old days... yes, today every player have his analizing software, so conditions are equal for everybody, and a player would have at least to filter a lot of analisis in a short time... what's happening today is that a magistral live game is no more a balanced work of art, the level is declining, becoming more 'sport-like', and Chess is more than sport - Yes, the question of the short draws is another preocupation, but adjournments will not affect those players whith peacefull moods, maybe on the contrary... (sorry for my limited english & time to tip here... i will return to the subject - search in the web some views of Postal Chess spetialists - they dont trust always in computer analisis>>>) Apr-03-04    PizzatheHut: At what playing level do GMs usually play in blindfold? I've heard that one time Robert Huebner play 12 players rated 2300 in a blind simul and didn't lose any games. If a Super GM played blindfold against a 2550 GM with sight of the board, who would win? Apr-03-04    Hidden Skillz: im pretty sure 95% the sight would beat a super gm.. Apr-03-04    Sneaky: I don't know about that. Ivanchuk is famous for not looking at the board while he plays. (He usually looks to the side, or at the lights above.) For many players it's not much of a handicap at all. Apr-03-04    refutor: shirov does the same, when he came to north bay in 1994 everyone was amazed that he spent more time looking at the ceiling than actually at the board...of course the level of competition may have had something to do with that as well ;) Apr-04-04    vonKrolock: to play one game blindfold dont particullarly affects one strenght, because the sight of board and pieces is only an auxiliary function to brain... this same concept explains that , for example, Beethoven was able to conducts an orchestra and compose while completely deaf... For the play of a series of games blindfold in simul, that's another discipline, but again the analogy whith music is possible;;; some people can control only his own instrument whith atention and hard work, while a conductor or composer of simphonies shall visualize and control a whole series of complex operations Apr-04-04    Lawrence: <refutor>, have you seen this? "It was '90, Paris, and I was paired against this relatively unknown youngster from Latvia. I played my normal game, and was quite astonished when I noticed that he would only look at the board from time to time, and that most of the time he spent staring at the ceiling! I still remember thinking that there was something quite wrong with the fellow! ''I will have no problem with this fellow'' I thought.".......Kevin Spraggett's first game against Shirov.

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