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The 5th GRENKE Chess Classic was a 10-player round-robin held in Germany from 31 March to 9 April. The first 3 rounds were in Karlsruhe alongside the GRENKE Chess Open, then after a rest day the last 6 rounds were in the Kulturhaus LA8 in Baden-Baden. The field featured World Champion Magnus Carlsen and Top 10 players Fabiano Caruana, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, Viswanathan Anand and Levon Aronian, as well as women's no. 1 Yifan Hou. The time control was 100 minutes for 40 moves, then 50 minutes for the next 20 moves and then 15 minutes to the end of the game, with a 30-second increment from move 1. If players were tied for first place a rapid play-off would take place. (1) The tiebreaks were as follows: 1) number of wins; 2) number of black wins; 3) head-to-head. (2) Fabiano Caruana won with 6.5/9. Official site: http://www.grenkechessclassic.de/20.... ChessBase: https://en.chessbase.com/post/grenk.... Chess.com: https://www.chess.com/news/view/car.... TWIC: http://theweekinchess.com/chessnews... Elo 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0
1 Caruana 2784 * ½ 1 1 ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ 1 6½
2 Carlsen 2843 ½ * ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ 1 ½ 5½
=3 Vachier-Lagrave 2789 0 ½ * ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 1 ½ 5
=3 Vitiugov 2735 0 ½ ½ * ½ 1 ½ ½ ½ 1 5
5 Aronian 2794 ½ ½ ½ ½ * ½ 1 ½ ½ ½ 5
6 Blübaum 2631 ½ ½ ½ 0 ½ * ½ 1 ½ ½ 4½
7 Naiditsch 2701 0 0 ½ ½ 0 ½ * ½ ½ 1 3½
=8 Anand 2776 ½ ½ 0 ½ ½ 0 ½ * ½ ½ 3½
=8 Yifan Hou 2654 ½ 0 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ * ½ 3½
10 Meier 2648 0 ½ ½ 0 ½ ½ 0 ½ ½ * 3
Previous edition: GRENKE Chess Classic (2017). Next: GRENKE Chess Classic (2019). See also GRENKE Chess Open (2018).(1) Chess24: GRENKE Chess Classic https://chess24.com/en/watch/live-t... (2) Wikipedia article: Grenke Chess Classic#2018
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| Apr-15-18 | | Count Wedgemore: <Sokrates> Thanks for the link and the information regarding the Lasker-Schlechter match. Very interesting. |
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| Apr-15-18 | | Retireborn: <Geoff> Nunn and Speelman were also Planinc-enthusiasts back in the day, as I recall; the latter included one game in his 1970-1980 book. Possibly this one (my paperback fell to pieces years ago, sadly):- Minic vs A Planinc, 1975 In the early 70s when Planinc was knocking over people like Ljubo, Hort, Ribli, Andersson, Timman (and Vaganian!) he was a rising star, but (as Speelman wrote) by 1980 he had pretty much disappeared from the chess world. |
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| Apr-15-18 | | morfishine: Thanks <Retireborn> I have the Vaganian game tucked in my miniatures collection: Game Collection: Miniatures Its a beaut!
No comments yet because I'm speechless!
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| Apr-15-18 | | LameJokes55: Thanks Sally for the Vaganian Vs Planinc game. What a beauty! Reminds us of none other than Morphy. |
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| Apr-15-18 | | Howard: That Speelman, as I recall, was called Best Chess Games: 1970-80. Not exactly the most creative kind of title, but it was a well-done work! It had 47 games in it, as well as three of Fischer's...even though he LOST two of 'em ! |
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| Apr-15-18 | | Howard: Oops ! Make that "FOUR" games. I'd forgotten about Game 6 of the Spassky match. |
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| Apr-15-18 | | That Roger: <morfishine>
<Its a beaut!>
could have been avoided if white castled? |
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According to link below: Five Fischer games - 3 wins and 2 losses. Best Chess Games 1970-80
Game Collection: Best Chess Games 1970-80 I thought it was very heavy on the analysis.
The best 'Best Games' collection IMO is 'Chess Brilliancy' by Damsky (Everyman Press). It has practically every known game that has won a brilliancy prize including all the best two, sometimes three games as voted by the judges in every Informator from Vol 4 1967 when the best game was introduced to Vol. 72 1998. (219 games.) The first game to win the Informator Best Game prize was between the current American and Russian Champions and one could argue that the award was bogus. According to FIDE it never happened. Fischer vs Stein, 1967 (kibitz #281) |
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| Apr-16-18 | | Pedro Fernandez: Hey <Sally>, Chernev forgot Wilhelm Steinitz which is unacceptable as he is considered for a lot of people as the father of the positional chess. For sure Carlsen (and perhaps Caruana too) has studied a lot this great champion. Greetings! |
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| Apr-16-18 | | Pedro Fernandez: Now Carlsen and Caruana will also need expert computer scientists in chess programs. Could they obtain a Visa from DeepMind? I doubt it! |
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| Apr-16-18 | | Clemens Scheitz: Thanks <morfishine> for opening a door into the original chess talent of the mysterious Albin Planinc. I've been going through his most memorable games with great joy and great sadness.
I wasn't aware of the existence of those amazing gems, and I didn't know about his profound mental problems.
Some of you may know that Planinc's mother ended her life in the same mental institution that took care of him for 20 years... Somewhere, perhaps in Slovenia, there should be a memorial tournament with brilliancy prizes, in his honor. " Games are nature's most beautiful creations"
-Leonard Cohen, Beautiful Losers |
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| Apr-16-18 | | morfishine: <Clemens Scheitz> You are welcome sir! Its been an immense pleasure to become acquainted with GM Planinc and his incredible games. One afternoon, I spent hours perusing through his 500+ games, just selecting random games and I was just mesmerized, if not hypnotized, by his powerfully consistent and beautiful style, win, loss or draw I have hours and hours and hours to go to review all his games. Its such a treat! |
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| Apr-16-18 | | AuN1: When are we going to get a thread forum for shamkir? Doesn't it start in a couple of days? |
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| Apr-16-18 | | Everett: <morfishine: <1.c4> answered by <1...e5> is not a complex> Perhaps not, yet your need to correct just might indicate a big complex of your own ;-) Karpov was comfortable on either side of the 1.c4 e5 openings. |
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| Apr-17-18 | | Sokrates: <AuN1: When are we going to get a thread forum for shamkir? Doesn't it start in a couple of days?> The USA championships commence tomorrow 18 April. Gashimov the day after, 19 April.
Both should appear here very soon, right CG? |
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| Apr-17-18 | | morfishine: <Everett: <morfishine: <1.c4> answered by <1...e5> is not a complex> Perhaps not, yet your need to correct just might indicate a big complex of your own> I disagree. On numerous occasions at <CG> I've identified where posters have misused chess terminology. For example, I've seen numerous instances where elementary terms like deflection, overload or decoy are used improperly. All this does is cause confusion. I would like to clear up that confusion since if nothing else, chess demands and epitomizes accuracy |
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| Apr-17-18 | | morfishine: Here's another Planinc beaut: A Planinc vs H Gerenski, 1970 ***** |
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| Apr-17-18 | | Howard: Sally Simpson's right! There are FIVE Fischer games in that book---Fischer-Larsen 1971 was the one I'd overlooked. That game, by the way, has some out-of-date analysis in at least two places. But, then Speelman didn't have Stockfish back in those days. |
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| Apr-17-18 | | Once: <morfishine: I would like to clear up that confusion since if nothing else, chess demands and epitomizes accuracy> Well, yes and no. Chess itself may demand accuracy, but chess terminology is notoriously inconsistent and subjective. One person's Spanish Game is another person's Ruy Lopez. I think you will find that many of the "misuses" are different interpretations of terms that do not have a single definition. |
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| Apr-17-18 | | morfishine: <Once> Well, no disrespect, but yes and no. What I was referring to were terms for tactics (or from the original post, a simple position concerning what constitutes a complex) which are precisely defined and leave no room for interpretation (deflection/decoy/overload/exchange sac/sham sac, to name a few). But you are correct about openings. These are murky, combining terms from the White Side with opening names for the Black side. This can definitely be very confusing and leaves these titles very much open to interpretation (especially when one introduces "transposing") ***** |
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| Apr-17-18 | | Pedro Fernandez: Well <Aylerkupp>, <morfishine> and <Once>, in scientific/math/mechanics papers what we do is adding up people who are contributing in a specific matter, why don't do the same in chess? About opening and defence I think that is clear in chess. If we put say ``Moscow'' opening/defence to certain variation, what if there are a few chess players who are from Moscow and they are contributed on the same opening/defence? As far as Spanish or Ruy López opening it are synonymous and I don't see any problem at respect. |
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| Apr-18-18 | | Sokrates: <As far as Spanish or Ruy López opening it are synonymous and I don't see any problem at respect.> What do you mean by "synonymous", <Pedro>? They cover the same opening, sure, but the names are not the same, just like "Giuoco Piano" doesn't exist in, say German and my language. Further, there have always been disputes about certain, more unusual openings. What is the name of 1.b4 and 1.b3? I call the first Orangutang (because it sounds more funny to me than Sokolsky) and the second Larsen's Opening (because I like my late compatriot), but I am sure some would disagree. English has now become the common language for chess openings and literature. But when most English literature used the old descriptive notation, I for one highly preferred German literature because of its use of Algebraic notation. When they finally came to senses and used that notation, one could enjoy the wealth of English chess literature. I am sure the publishers have enjoyed that too! :-) |
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| Apr-18-18 | | morfishine: More Planinc fun: C Sumiacher vs A Planinc, 1971 ***** |
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| Apr-18-18 | | Pedro Fernandez: Hi <Sokrates>, thanks for you reply, indeed I appreciate it. Well, in that case I mean by 'Synonymous' a clear one-to-one correspondence between Spanish opening and Ruy López opening. As far as 'Giuoco Piano' there is not in Deutsch, of course not like an aperture and they use perhaps something like 'Italienische Eröffnung' or 'Italienische Schachöffnung', I must confess I never knew the exact term which is used in Germany for this opening. But for me it is clear that it is a 'ruhiges Spiel' (speaking generically, of course!) . For sure you can best clarify me at respect as your mother tongue is a North Germanic language, isn't it? Greetings friend! |
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