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Apr-19-13
 | | waustad: It appears that the DGT board couldn't keep up during the time scramble and that som implausable moves happened. In any case it was a draw. |
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Apr-19-13
 | | waustad: By that I mean the the broadcast and score are obviously corrupt, so I won't submit it. It looked like she tried everything she could think of to try to get her opponent to make a blunder and got herself into a time spot where she played the last 40 moves on the increment. The down side of playing some of these team events is that she is +3 and still losing something like 11 elo for the season because she plays so many lower rated players. Playing lower boards on winning teams may pay better, I wouldn't know, but they make it very hard for her to get the rating up to 2500. |
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Apr-20-13
 | | waustad: She beat Maier, Josef (1880) today without much trouble. There are still games going on, but it looks like Wolfsberg will win the season unless they lose big tomorrow. That doesn't look likely with the 3 Croatian GMs on the top 3 boards and Eva Moser on board 6. They may change it up some, but all of them are in town, so they might as well play. |
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Apr-20-13
 | | waustad: The #2 team lost so Wolfsberg clinched before the last round. |
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Apr-21-13
 | | waustad: Today it is FM Humer, Wolfgang (2268), who is playing white. This makes 8 blacks in 11 rounds. Today's 6th board, Waldmann, Gerald (2166) started with the Vienna Game, which seems a rarity in present day Austrian chess. I've looked for it among the better known Austrian players and haven't seen it played at all. |
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Apr-21-13
 | | waustad: She won that one, that they are calling an Old Indian Attack. It was a very interesting game. It looked more like a KIA, but he was playing it against someone who knows it better than he does. |
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Apr-30-13
 | | waustad: Here is a classic example of a good knight versus a bad bishop: http://www.365chess.com/game.php?gi... |
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May-07-13
 | | waustad: I noticed that during blitz, many of the top players were using KIA and Pirc -> Philidor. Maybe 2700-2800 players look at IM level games where such openings are more common. Why waste a TN in the Slav or Ruy Lopez in a blitz game? Topalov didn't quite follow the same line in the Pirc -> Philidor that Moser does, but maybe there are some things brewing in the Cheparinov - Topolov world of interest there. Time will tell. |
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| May-09-13 | | Lingfield Grove: Eva heads a womens tournament in Vienna from May 18. Five Austrians and four east Europeans along with Haast from Holland.It looks competitive. For extra spice its taking place in Spielmannplatz. |
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May-09-13
 | | waustad: Here is some more information on hthat: http://www.chess-vienna.at/uploads/... |
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May-09-13
 | | waustad: I just looked at the 2013-2014 lineup for the Bundesliga Mitte and Wolfsberg is conspicuously missing: http://chess-results.com/tnr100408....
Perhaps they will be in the Bundesliga 1 next year. I don't know how that works there. |
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| May-10-13 | | Lingfield Grove: Yes you are right. Wolfsberg are listed in the Bundesliga 1 2013-14 presumably after being promoted. Some interesting chess coming up. |
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May-15-13
 | | waustad: Here is some coverage from a German site for the tournament starting this weekend: http://www.chess-international.de/?... I suspect that games will be available only after they are played. Looking at the list, Eva M. has been playing many of the foreign folks in this since she was in her early teens. I remember some of those names from Disney U12 Girls tournaments and such that can be found on Chess365. Juvenalia like that usually isn't all that interesting, but it is interesting to see when some features of style and opening repertoire develop. For example, her KIA formation games started much earlier than her 1.) g3 games, since she often got there via a closed Sicilian. |
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May-17-13
 | | waustad: Supposedly they will be broadcasting the games. Look here: http://www.chess.at/ |
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May-18-13
 | | waustad: She drew with WIM Kopinits in the first round. It was a strange game for me since it several times I stopped to look at the position and formulate a plan and saw later that Eva M was following my line. I suppose that many of these were fairly obvious based on the pawn structure (how can I trade off the bad bishop ...) and how she plays the French Tarrasch. She got 5 blacks but ends up playing white against the second highest rated player in the final round. Here are the pairings: http://www.chess-results.com/tnr980... |
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May-19-13
 | | waustad: Today she's playing some sort of Philidor reversed. I guess that she is trying to avoid prep, since the other Austrians know her KIA so well. |
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May-19-13
 | | waustad: She won today's game in 30 moves. |
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May-19-13
 | | waustad: They've posted some new ones! Thanks cg.com! |
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May-20-13
 | | waustad: Today she's playing something called the Pterodactyl Defense: Eastern. Benoni (B06). With some transpositions the've been following H Leks vs E Guo, 2009. |
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May-20-13
 | | waustad: There is also some coverage of the tournament at http://www.chess-and-strategy.com/ It is in French which is dificult for me, but there are quite a few pictures by Tatiana Tatiana https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?... |
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May-20-13
 | | waustad: She won an interesting game, where both players were playing on increment for much of the game until time control. That is an inherent problem with her approach to openings, because avoiding main lines often means that one is faced with problems to solve at the board from early on. On the other hand, having theoretical discussions that begin with a TN at move 23 requires more time in prep than somebody with a day job has available. |
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May-20-13
 | | waustad: That should be Tatiana Kostiuk below.
One thing I've noticed while playing through the mass of games on chess365 is that in team tournaments she usually seems to get mostly blacks. This goes back to the 1990s, though I haven't done a careful study to count all of the games. Of course when she's top board it will be close to even, but when she's on a lower board like Wolfsberg or Baden Baden there is leeway based on who rests. Since many of her openings as white are black openings with a move in hand it makes some sense. Perhaps being a 2450ish player who doesn't mind playing black is a niche that can help pay the bills. |
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May-21-13
 | | waustad: Katharina Newrkla beat Anne Haast today, so Anastasia Savina briefly took the lead with 3 points after her win against Veronika Exler. Eva Moser beat Nargiz Umudova during the second time scramble in an endgame arising from a French, to take the lead with 3.5/4. |
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| May-21-13 | | Lingfield Grove: Have just watched the E M win. Her endgame play is a very respectable part of her armoury. I like your comment re Eva and the black pieces. It is an enjoyable event so far. |
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| May-21-13 | | Lingfield Grove: Umudova(0 from 4)is no doubt a little tired after her surprise win at the Tschaturanga Open earlier in the month.She outdistanced a bevy of Austria's finest while being ranked 11th. |
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