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Feb-21-12
 | | cro777: A tie-break will be played to determine a winner. |
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Feb-21-12
| | cro777: A blitz match of 2 games (the time control 4 minutes each at the start of the game with an increment of 2 seconds per move from move 1) ended in a draw. In an Armageddon game Cramling played with white. Dzagnidze won the game and the tournament. Congratulations to both players! |
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| Feb-21-12 | | Olavi: Sutovsky's statement (see <cro777>'s post) is of course false. There is no men's grandmaster title. |
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Feb-21-12
| | cro777: Cramling - Dzagnidze
Women's ACP Cup Playoff (Armageddon)
1. Nf3 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. g3 b6 4. Bg2 Bb7 5. d4 Be7 6. O-O O-O 7. Re1 Qc8 8. Bg5 h6 9. Bxf6 Bxf6 10. e4 d6 11. e5 Be7 12. Nc3 dxe5 13. Nxe5 Bxg2 14. Kxg2 c5 15. d5 Bf6 16. f4 Rd8 17. Qf3 Bxe5 18. fxe5 Nd7 19. Rad1 Nf8 20. d6 Ng6 21. h4 Rb8 22. Re2 Qb7 23. Qxb7 Rxb7 24. h5 Nf8 25. a3 Rc8 26. Nb5 Rd7 27. Rdd2 Rcd8 28. b4 f6 29. bxc5 bxc5 30. Nc3 fxe5 31. Ne4 Rc8 32. Rb2 Nh7 33. Rb5 Nf6 34. Rxc5 Rxc5 35. Nxc5 Rxd6 36. Rxe5 Rd4 37. Nxe6 Rxc4 38. Ra5 Rc6 39. Nd4 Rc7 40. Kf3 Rd7 41. Ne6 Rd6 42. Nf4 a6 43. Rc5 Rb6 44. a4 Rb3 45. Kg2 Rb4 46. Rc8 Kf7 47. Rc7 Kg8 48. Ne6 Nxh5 49. Kf3 Rb3 50. Ke4 Nxg3 51. Ke5 Nh5 52. Rc8 Kf7 0-1 Cramling had an advantage in the endgame, however she didn't control the time and lost on time! |
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Feb-21-12
 | | waustad: Excellent performance in any case, though that was a $3000 flag drop. Ouch. |
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Feb-21-12
| | waustad: Taking a quick draw in the last round may be questioned, but the only way she could have gotten 2nd place after a draw was if Dzagnidze won her game and she lost the tie breaks. Making a rough estimate of the likelyhood, that would occur about 1/6 of the time. I think most GMs would take those odds. |
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Feb-21-12
| | cro777: Controversial last round draw
In the last round, in a decisive game Cramling - Lahno, the players copied the game Shimanov - Timofeev, a 17 move draw. In the Gruenfeld Exchange Variation with 8.Be3, they followed the game Cramling - Dronavalli (the Atatürk International Women Masters Chess Tournament, Istambul, Turkey 2008). 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. Nc3 d5 4. Nf3 Bg7 5. cxd5 Nxd5 6. e4 Nxc3 7. bxc3 c5
8. Be3 Qa5 9. Bd2 O-O 10. Be2
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Here, Dronavalli played <10...cxd4!?> (Cramling won the game in 24 moves). Lahno opted for <10...Bg4> and the players simply copied the game Shimanov - Timofeev (62nd Russian Championship Higher League, Ulan Ude, Russia 2009) which ended in a draw by repetition in 17 moves. 10... Bg4 11. O-O Rd8 12. Rb1 cxd4 13. cxd4 Qxa2 14. Ra1 Qb2 15. Rb1 Qa2 16. Ra1 Qb2 17. Rb1 Draw
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Feb-21-12
| | cro777: In another decisive game, Tatiana Kosintseva - Nana Dzagnidze, after 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 e6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 a6 5. Bd3 Bc5 6. Nb3 Be7 7. Qg4 Bf6
8. Qg3 Nc6 9. Nc3 Nge7 10. Bf4 e5 11. Bd2 d6 12. h4 Be6 13. O-O-O Rc8 14.
Kb1 h5 15. Bg5 Ng6 16. Nd5 Bxg5 17. hxg5 h4 18. Qe3 Nce7 19. c4 O-O 20. g3
b5 21. cxb5 Nxd5 22. exd5 Bxd5 23. f3 Bxb3 24. axb3 axb5 25. f4 Qa5 26. Be4
Rc7 27. Rxd6 Ra7 28. Rxg6 fxg6 29. Bd5+ Rff7 30. Qxe5 Qd8
click for larger viewKosintseva missed <31.f5> with good winning chances. Instead she played <31.Rd1?> and at the end lost the game. 31. Rd1 Kf8 32.Bf3 Rad7 33. Qc5+ Rfe7 34. Rh1 Qc7 35. Bc6 Rd6 36. Rc1 b4 37. Qb5 Qd8 38. Qxb4 Rd1 39. gxh4 Rxc1+ 40. Kxc1 Qc7 41. Qc4 Qd6 42. b4 Re1+ 43.Kc2 Qd1+ 0-1 By winning this game, Dzagnidze tied for first and later won the tournament on tie-break. |
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Feb-22-12
 | | HeMateMe: Congratulations to the ageless Pia, in tying for first in Georgia. |
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Apr-22-12
| | waustad: One day from her first annual 49th b'day! |
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Apr-23-12
| | waustad: On my 39th, 49th and 59th I made jokes about pulling a Jack Benny and having an annual x9th b'day party. The next year I was always more into the even decade, so it never happened. Lots of April 23 b'days. The next two should probably have Pia Cramling on her 50th in 2013 and Alexandra Kosteniuk on her 30th in 2014 as POTD. |
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Apr-23-12
 | | Wild Bill: This is also the traditional date to celebrate Shakespeare's birthday, although all we really know is that he was baptized on April 26, 1564. Send him a card! |
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May-31-12
| | waustad: Good start for the Women's Rapid Championship, with 3/3 including wins over Nona G and Zhao Xue. http://chess-results.com/tnr73529.a... |
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Jul-17-12
| | waustad: She had an excellent result in the Turkish league with 6.5/7.
http://chess-results.com/tnr75808.a... |
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Aug-27-12
| | waustad: It looks like the youth tournament in Gibraltar may be why there was no Cramling Bellon in the European Junior champs or Cramling playing for Sweden in the Olympiad. http://www.chess.co.uk/twic/malcolm... sounds more convenient for somebody living about 100 km away and could turn into a tradition. |
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Aug-29-12
| | waustad: Ana is the covergirl: http://www.gibraltarchesscongress.c... |
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Aug-29-12
| | HeMateMe: Cute as all heck--makes you want your daughter to play chess, instad of being a mall rat. |
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Sep-12-12
| | waustad: I wanted to comment on her game against Alexei Alexandrov in the 1996 olympiad, but it doesn't seem to be in here. Also, they transliterate his name differently on olimpbase than they do here, where he is Alexey Aleksandrov. There is a lot of wild tactics going on. I guess I'll submit it. Maybe they'll add it though sometimes they don't. |
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Oct-14-12
| | waustad: Today she won a very drawish endgame against Tsifanskaya. Moro was playing the same position and got a draw, though he was playing Nikita Vitiugov, a much tougher opponent. |
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Oct-30-12
| | waustad: She's listed as one of those seeded into the next WWCC Tourney. Wouldn't it be great if she finally won at 49. She could never get past Maya ages ago but got to the semi's last time around. Go Pia! |
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Dec-13-12
| | waustad: She'll be playing in the World Mindgames in Beijing: http://www.fide.com/component/conte... |
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Dec-15-12
| | waustad: How does one deal with time zones when going from Spain to Tashkent to Spain to Beijing? There wasn't much time in between and she's pushing 50 hard. Did mom keep strange hours for a while back home to not mess things up too much? |
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Dec-15-12
| | waustad: Wrong location. She was at the WWCC which wasn't at Tashkent. It was one time zone East of there. |
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Dec-30-12
| | waustad: She's having a decent tournament so far at Rilton Cup 2012/2013 at +2 after 4 rounds. Today she drew with the tournament's highest rated player GM Ilya Smirin playing white in a KID.
http://www.rilton.se/#category6 |
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Jan-01-13
| | waustad: After a win today against Elena Zaiatz she's up to +3. That means her game will be shown live tomorrow. She was on 8th board today but they only showed 7. |
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