page 1 of 2; games 1-25 of 30  Game   Result Moves Year Event/Locale Opening 1. A Volokitin vs C Bauer   ½-½ 24 2005 38th Biel Chess Festival B01 Scandinavian 2. Nakamura vs Carlsen ½-½ 25 2005 38th Biel Chess Festival C91 Ruy Lopez, Closed 3. Y Pelletier vs Gelfand   ½-½ 28 2005 38th Biel Chess Festival E15 Queen's Indian 4. A Volokitin vs Nakamura ½-½ 41 2005 38th Biel Chess Festival C80 Ruy Lopez, Open 5. Carlsen vs Y Pelletier   ½-½ 25 2005 38th Biel Chess Festival C18 French, Winawer 6. C Bauer vs Gelfand 0-1 43 2005 38th Biel Chess Festival D45 Queen's Gambit Declined Semi-Slav 7. Gelfand vs Carlsen   ½-½ 29 2005 38th Biel Chess Festival E12 Queen's Indian 8. Nakamura vs C Bauer 1-0 78 2005 38th Biel Chess Festival B56 Sicilian 9. Y Pelletier vs A Volokitin   ½-½ 29 2005 38th Biel Chess Festival E94 King's Indian, Orthodox 10. Carlsen vs A Volokitin 0-1 37 2005 38th Biel Chess Festival B46 Sicilian, Taimanov Variation 11. Gelfand vs Nakamura   ½-½ 20 2005 38th Biel Chess Festival D17 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav 12. Y Pelletier vs C Bauer   1-0 49 2005 38th Biel Chess Festival A73 Benoni, Classical, 9.O-O 13. A Volokitin vs Gelfand ½-½ 26 2005 38th Biel Chess Festival B90 Sicilian, Najdorf 14. C Bauer vs Carlsen ½-½ 36 2005 38th Biel Chess Festival A13 English 15. Nakamura vs Y Pelletier 1-0 52 2005 38th Biel Chess Festival C02 French, Advance 16. C Bauer vs A Volokitin   ½-½ 56 2005 38th Biel Chess Festival E67 King's Indian, Fianchetto 17. Gelfand vs Y Pelletier   ½-½ 38 2005 38th Biel Chess Festival E16 Queen's Indian 18. Carlsen vs Nakamura ½-½ 30 2005 38th Biel Chess Festival D17 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav 19. Nakamura vs A Volokitin ½-½ 41 2005 38th Biel Chess Festival B46 Sicilian, Taimanov Variation 20. Y Pelletier vs Carlsen 1-0 15 2005 38th Biel Chess Festival E34 Nimzo-Indian, Classical, Noa Variation 21. Gelfand vs C Bauer   ½-½ 71 2005 38th Biel Chess Festival A40 Queen's Pawn Game 22. A Volokitin vs Y Pelletier 1-0 28 2005 38th Biel Chess Festival B48 Sicilian, Taimanov Variation 23. Carlsen vs Gelfand ½-½ 26 2005 38th Biel Chess Festival B96 Sicilian, Najdorf 24. C Bauer vs Nakamura 1-0 41 2005 38th Biel Chess Festival D47 Queen's Gambit Declined Semi-Slav 25. Y Pelletier vs Nakamura 1-0 31 2005 38th Biel Chess Festival E97 King's Indian  page 1 of 2; games 1-25 of 30    REFINE SEARCH:   White wins (1-0) | Black wins (0-1) | Draws (1/2-1/2)

< Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 9 OF 9 ·  Later Kibitzing > Jul-26-05    810609: <cu8sfan> so now you have 3,5/6? Congratulations, you are better than Vladimir "50 %" Kramnik! :-) Jul-26-05    Montreal1666: <cu8sfan:> Now you need one more win! Jul-26-05    percyblakeney: <cu8sfan> Congratulations, you're ahead of some 2000 players, not bad at all! Jul-26-05    percyblakeney: Will all my predictions be wrong also in the last round? Time will tell: Bauer - Pelletier 1-0 Nakamura - Gelfand ½-½ Volokitin - Carlsen ½-½ Jul-26-05    cu8sfan: <Montreal1666> What happens after one more win? (-: Jul-26-05    Montreal1666: <cu8sfan:> Cubs will win the next world series! Jul-26-05    Koster: Carlsen due for a win I believe. Jul-27-05    chessgames.com: NOTICE We're covering the top board this morning on our Live Broadcast Page. Come join the discussion. Game starts in 2.5 hours. Jul-27-05    lezoa: Hikaru with his refuted KID !? Jul-27-05    TruthHurts: <TruthHurts: Predictions for last round: Bauer - Pelletier 1-0 Nakamura - Gelfand 0-1(obviously) Volokitin - Carlsen 1/2 > Well I guess it's a perfect score. Jul-27-05    Knight13: Nakamura fell of the cliff, man. What happend? How did he lose like that? Jul-27-05    VishyFan: Hikaru ****** himself with 3 continous defeats in the last 3 rounds for a -1 score........, he'll be losing 9 ELO from this tournament is he due any ELO after the last rating cycle? Jul-28-05    alexapple: Volokitin and Gelfand,who has the better tiebreak? Jul-28-05    cade: Gelfand wins the tournament but loses rating points. That'll teach him to go for draws against opponents with a vastly inferior rating. Jul-28-05    howardtheduck: I'm sorry i must have misted a part of the conversation but <cu8sfan>, you are playing in wich tournament? Jul-28-05    cu8sfan: <howardtheduck> I'm playing in the main tournament (2000 Elo and less) in Biel and I have a surprising 4 out of 8. That's more than I was ever hoping for. It's a fun tournament and I learned so much there. Tomorrow is the last round and I'll try very hard to get at least 50%. So my prediction for tomorrow (it helped the last time): cu8sfan wins! Jul-28-05    tpstar: <cu8sfan> Great job! Good luck tomorrow. And be sure to upload your games into the database! ;>D Jul-28-05    cu8sfan: Thanks, <tpstar>. I played some very interesting games but they still might not qualify for the strict (!?) criterias set by cg.com. (-; Jul-28-05    Montreal1666: <cu8sfan:> you can just post one that you like best. Jul-30-05    patzer2: Nakamura may not have finished as well as he would have liked, but at least he played exciting aggressive chess and made some progress in his opening repertoire. I think Nakamura will learn from these games and prove himself a much stronger opponent in future GM tournaments. Jul-31-05    farrooj: hey <cu8sfan> what happened? did you kick ass? Jul-31-05    cu8sfan: Well, Biel is over but the last day was very forgettable. My train ride to Biel was cut short because Swiss Federal Railroad ran out of electricity and therefore I arrived late. With 40 minutes less on the clock battling a stronger opponent I had no chance. So I scored 4 out of 8 (I don't count #9) which is very satisfying. I was surprised about my success and playing there was a lot of fun. Once I've gone through the games I may be posting a nice one. Thanks for your support! I can only give this advice to all players no matter their strength: Go play at some tournament, it's fun and you learn so much! Jul-31-05    farrooj: oh..that last day is too bad.. Well, your 4/8 is really cool. I agree, tournaments are really fun, and you learn a lot by kibitzing games with strong opponents, or play against them. And you get really satisfied if you score really well May-10-06    cu8sfan: Very interesting line-up for the 2006 Biel Chess Festival: Alexander Morozevich Yannick Pelletier Andrei Volokitin Teimour Radjabov Lazaro Bruzon Magnus Carlsen Women's tournament: Pia Cramling Almira Skripchenko-Lautier Anna Muzychuk Ekaterina Polovnikova-Atalik Monika Socko and our very own Yelena Dembo. All the details can be found here: http://www.bielchessfestival.ch/ Too bad I won't be able to play. )-: May-12-06    EmperorAtahualpa: <cu8sfan> That's definitely a GREAT lineup of some dynamic players! I particularly like the men's tournament lineup! You should also try to meet up with <Yelena Dembo> and shoot some pictures. :) Jump directly to page #    (enter number from 1 to 9) < Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 9 OF 9 ·  Later Kibitzing >

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