Apr-18-06 Kramnik-Topalov World Championship Match (2006) 
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beachbum: A few observations:
1) FIDE president Ilyumzhinov, who destroyed the world chess championship's previous excellent qualification system (interzonal, candidate matches, final match) by turning it into a grotesque single tournament consisting of cheap 2 game knockout matches decided
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| | Apr-07-06 Topalov vs Nisipeanu, 2006
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beachbum: Topalov has a monster knight and a better placed king. Wether this is enough to win is not possible to say.
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| | Mar-25-06 A Galliamova vs Y Xu, 2006
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beachbum: <chessgames> ICC has Xu's last move as ...Re5 instead of ...Ke5, which makes more sense.
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| | Mar-24-06 Y Xu vs A Galliamova, 2006
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beachbum: I now lean toward <offramp's> assessment.
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| | Mar-23-06 A Galliamova vs Y Xu, 2006
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beachbum: I think Galliamova has muffed it and must now lose a pawn. With the heavy pieces on the board g4 was a good attacking move, with them off it was a weakening one.
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| | Mar-07-06 Radjabov vs Topalov, 2006
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beachbum: Of course, I am no one to criticize Topalov but I see ...h6 as an unnecessary weakening move.
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| | Mar-03-06 Leko vs Vallejo-Pons, 2006
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beachbum: If Vallejo's pawn was on h7 instead of h6 he could now castle short and he would be fine. With the pawn on h6 castling short is much to dangerous. So black's king position headache continues.
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| | Mar-02-06 S Zawadzki vs Sasikiran, 2006
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beachbum: A masterly performance. An outstanding and rare final move.
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| | Mar-02-06 Nijboer vs M Tazbir, 2006
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beachbum: Excellent tactical shot to end the game. I don't think black should have allowed f6 as that pawn was very troublesome to him.
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| | Mar-02-06 I Kurnosov vs O Simon, 2006
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beachbum: 8.g3 was weak as white had no safe place for his king after that.
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