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| Oct-14-12 | | whiteshark: <Jamboree: Chessgames isn't posting the women's section results,> Actually, they do...
28th European Club Cup (Women) (2012) |
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| Oct-14-12 | | messachess: <FamilyTree: Its a shame that we can not enjoy live games from a very top event like a this.> Go to: http://chessbomb.com/site/
Every game is represented.--all live. |
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| Oct-14-12 | | messachess: You all see this? Radjabov vs Ivanchuk, 2012 |
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| Oct-14-12 | | messachess: <Natalia Pogonina: SOCAR's loss is a sensation, isn't it?> What is the reference here; a team not expected to lose? |
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| Oct-14-12 | | waustad: <mess>Take a look at this: http://chess-results.com/tnr82751.a...
and look at who is on the teams. I will make more sense then. |
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| Oct-14-12 | | jon01: Gelfand lost to 2500-rated Simon Williams. |
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| Oct-14-12 | | waustad: <messachess>The Ivanchuk game you mention is quite interesting. I didn't get to watch it live due to the technical problems during the first round. I bet Radjabov wasn't expecting Owen's Defense! |
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| Oct-14-12 | | waustad: Gelfand got into time trouble and couldn't quite wriggle off the hook. |
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| Oct-14-12 | | messachess: Is Kramnik not playing because Topalov is here? |
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| Oct-15-12 | | whiteshark: Today we'll see the match of the last two undefeated teams, St.Petersburg and Tomsk. |
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| Oct-15-12 | | Eyal: <Is Kramnik not playing because Topalov is here?> Kramnik hardly ever plays in the ECC anymore - last time was 2005, and before that 1999, so it probably has nothing to do with Topalov (which he could have avoided playing against anyway in this kind of event). He's just very selective about which events he plays. |
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| Oct-15-12 | | PhilFeeley: I see Mikhail Botvinnik is back from the dead. And with a 2300 rating. ;-) |
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| Oct-15-12 | | kia0708: Radjabov - Wojtaszek 1/2 - 1/2 |
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| Oct-15-12 | | claynic9: Kamsky is 5/5! having a great tourney |
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| Oct-15-12 | | kia0708: Topalov has a good game against Laznicka. |
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| Oct-15-12 | | Eyal: Spectacular finish in Svidler-Ponomariov:
click for larger viewHere Black played <32...h6>, the idea being 33.gxh6 Nxf6, but he missed <33.h3!! Rxh3> (33...Ne5 34.gxh6 is just bad) <34.Bd5!!> (now it's clear why the black rook had to be deflected to h3 - so there wouldn't be a deadly check on c1) <34...Rxe2> (34...Rf8 35.Bxf7+ Rxf7 36.Re8+ Rf8 37.Rg7+ and mate next move) <35.Bxf7+ Kf8> (35...Kh8 36.Rb8+ Kh7 37.Bg8+ Kh8 38.Be6+ Kh7 39.Bxg4) <36.Bxg6 Re8 37.Rf7+ Kg8 38.Rg7+ Kh8> (38...Kf8 39.Rg8+! Kxg8 40.f7+) <39.Rh7+> and Ponomariov resigned before getting mated by 39...Kg8 40.f7+. Svidler's team, St. Petersburg, also won the key match vs Tomsk, so with a perfect score and two more rounds to go they have good chances of winning this event a second year in a row. |
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| Oct-15-12 | | messachess: What is the time control here? (Boris Gelfand just lost to a 2496 rated GM. It makes me wonder.) |
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| Oct-16-12 | | Beholder: <Eyal: Spectacular finish in Svidler-Ponomariov> Thanks. Fantastic game by Svidler.
Check out Morozevich win over Landa for some more brilliant deflection moves. And Ivanchuk administered a master class in ♘ + ♗ mating. Great round. |
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| Oct-16-12 | | FairyPromotion: Grischuk took down Movsesian, getting the revenge of the loss at the Olympics, and more imprtantly securing his team SOCAR the full point against the leaders Saint-Petersburg. Ashdod defeated Economist (With Smirin taking down Morozevich), and Tomsk will soon score the full point against Ugra (they are +2 =2, and don't stand worse in the remaining games). In the final round it will Ashdod vs St. Petersburg & SOCAR vs Tomsk, with all of them tied at +5 -1. |
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| Oct-16-12 | | whiteshark: Movse is always good to spoil team efforts. |
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| Oct-16-12 | | BUNA: A couple of month ago Grischuk announced - tongue in cheek - he would now make people suffer who employed the Berlin wall against him. Thereafter he has won against Carlsen (rapid WCC), reached a winning position against Karjakin (Russian Ch) and won today against Movsesian. Can't wait for Kramnik's examination. :) |
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| Oct-16-12 | | Arcturar: BUNA, that's quite interesting! But keep in mind that Movsesian, Karjakin, or even Carlsen playing the Wall is not the same as Kramnik playing it. The latter just has so much more experience and expertise in the opening that I would be VERY surprised if Sascha could take it down. In classical chess, I suppose Carlsen would be very hard to best as well; I seem to recall Kramnik saying that he never plays thhe Berlin against Carlsen because it is gifting Magnus the kind of position he thrives in. But anyways, it does seem like Vlad, Grischuk, Carlsen, and Aronian are the experts on the opening, in that order, and could play it from either side very well. |
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| Oct-16-12 | | waustad: Naiditsch beats Giri and Shirov and loses to IM Dancevski. He's +3-2=1 so far so it might be interesting checking out his games. |
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| Oct-17-12 | | paavoh: @waustad: In his loss, perhaps Naiditsch thought his superior rating might compensate for the poor King safety? Clearly he was trying to force matters but it deservedly backfired. |
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 | | HeMateMe: Some of the players in this tournament were wearing orange wristbands. I saw it in a number of pictures. Does anyone know what the orange wristbands signify? |
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