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| Sep-12-09 |
| Augalv: Unlike his game against Shirov in the fourth round, Sergey played a somewhat hard-fought game against his now countryman Alexander Grischuk in the fifht round. At least after the first 27 moves, which were of theory. In the 35th move Grischuk avoided a draw by repetition and played it out by gaining a pawn which helped the black pieces become more active. Sergey managed to go on the offensive reaching a rook plus bishop vs rook endgame, which is drawn but difficult to defend. Grischuk, who succesfully played this kind of endgame two years ago, defended well. Here's the game:
A Rychagov vs Grischuk, 2007 |
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| Sep-12-09 |
| returnoftheking: <Never play the Ruy Lopez against Sergey with black ;)>
He plays it with black himself, and quite succesfully. I think it leads to positions that are somehow his forte. |
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| Sep-12-09 |
| Augalv: <He plays it with black himself, and quite succesfully.> Actually, you are right. |
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| Sep-12-09 |
| Augalv: Drawn game in the last round against Aronian today, who btw, was the deserved winner of the Snd Grand Slam Masters Final. Not too much was at stake in today's game, only Sergey's getting the second spot, which unforatunately he didn't. Aronian had already won the tournament. Don't know whether Sergey is playing anything before the World Cup.. |
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| Sep-13-09 |
| returnoftheking: Tal Memorial (if that is earlier). I think Svidler told (rumors) about the line up on ICC yesterday, and mentioned Karjakin as well. It's going to be incredibly strong. |
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| Sep-17-09 |
| Augalv: The Tal Memorial is earlier, but Karjakin is not playing. If I recall correctly, I have read somewhere that Karjakin was invited but he declined the invitation in order to be able to prepare for the world cup, but I'm not sure. |
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| Sep-18-09 |
| Augalv: (Almost complete) list World Cup participants published. http://www.chessvibes.com/reports/a... |
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| Sep-18-09 |
| Augalv: Sergey will play the World Blitz Chess Championship. List of participants:
1. Viswanathan Anand
2. Levon Aronian
3. Magnus Carlsen
4. Vladimir Kramnik
5. Peter Leko
6. Boris Gelfand
7. Vassily Ivanchuk (world blitz champion 2007)
8. Alexander Morozevich
9. Peter Svidler
10. Ruslan Ponomariov
(qualificants from Aeroflot blitz)
11. Sergey Karjakin
12. Vugar Gashimov
13. Shakhriyar Mamedyarov
14. Evgeny Bareev
15. Vladislav Tkachiev
16. Zhou Jianchao
(invited by organizers)
17. Anatoly Karpov
18. Alexander Grischuk
19. Alexandra Kosteniuk
20. Leinier Dominguez Perez - present world blitz champion http://tournaments.chessdom.com/wor... |
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| Sep-28-09 |
| returnoftheking: I didn't know he turned down the invitation, it's a pity. Thanks for the correction though. |
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| Oct-01-09 |
| Augalv: This is good news:
http://karjakin.blogspot.com/ |
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| Oct-02-09 |
| Augalv: Karjakin is playing the European Club Cup 2009, which begins tomorrow http://www.ecc2009.com/teams_open_e... |
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| Oct-03-09 |
| kurtrichards: <Augalv> Thanks for the link but which team does Karjakin belongs? :) |
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| Oct-03-09 |
| Augalv: <kurtrichards>, Karjakin is in the <ShSm-64 Moscow> team, along with Boris Gelfand, Wang Hao, Fabiano Caruana, Boris Grachev, Evgeny Najer, Boris Savchenko, Alexander Riazantsev and Ian Nepomniachtchi. http://www.chess-results.com/tnr258... |
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| Oct-03-09 |
| kurtrichards: Great company. Great team. Good luck to the team ShSm-64 Moscow. Thanks <Augalv>. I appreciate the effort you spent answering my query. |
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| Oct-03-09 |
| Augalv: My pleasure. |
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| Nov-03-09 |
| returnoftheking: Pairing for the world cup:
GM Karjakin, Sergey UKR - GM Rodriguez Vila, Andres URU |
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| Nov-03-09 |
| Augalv: And this is the official website:
http://www.ugra-chess.ru/eng/main_e... |
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| Nov-03-09 |
| returnoftheking: Long time not seen..wb;) |
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| Nov-04-09 |
| KamikazeAttack: No 18 in the world, my gawd, what happened Carjack?
I thought this dude was doing well recently? |
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| Nov-04-09 |
| znnnk: Sergey Karjakin will most likely face Artyom Timofeev in the 2nd round, David Navara in the 3rd round and Teimour Radjabov in the 4th |
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Nov-04-09
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| Rolfo: A certain rise in his program then :) |
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| Nov-04-09 |
| Augalv: <Long time not seen..wb;)> Thanks <rotk>, it's been a long time ;) |
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| Nov-04-09 |
| Augalv: <znnnk>, you failed to mention whom Sergey would most likely face in the 5th round ;) |
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| Nov-04-09 |
| returnoftheking: Don't think the statistics are promising when it comes to Radjabov, but I am sure Karjakin will make it, even with these strong opponents. |
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| Nov-05-09 |
| Augalv: <rotk>, agreed. |
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