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| Jan-05-11 | | Al2009: Very strange game Gashimov - Navara..., I'm watching it online. Gashimov thought for more than 20 minutes at 47th move, in a winning position. He missed an easy win with 47.R1f6! and if 47...Re1+ 48. Kh2 Bf4+ 49.Rxf4! mating. 20 minutes to find a worse move like 47.R7f6?!, which allows a longer resistance...very strange OK, now Navara resigned at 54th... |
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| Jan-05-11 | | Eyal: <Gashimov thought for more than 20 minutes at 47th move, in a winning position. He missed an easy win with 47.R1f6! and if 47...Re1+ 48. Kh2 Bf4+ 49.Rxf4! mating. 20 minutes to find a worse move like 47.R7f6?!, which allows a longer resistance...very strange> 
click for larger viewNot so strange, actually. 47.R1f6?? allows Black to escape with 47...Re1+ 48.Kh2 Qe3! (not Bf4+?), and now White has to force a perpetual with 49.Rh7+ Kxh7 50.Qg6+ etc., otherwise he would lose. |
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| Jan-05-11 | | Bons92: <<smaragdus: Another loss for Godena. Is he really the second strongest Italian?> Actually yes. He was also the first one to become GM.> The first Italian to become GM was Sergio Mariotti! |
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| Jan-05-11 | | unsound: <Eyal> At first I thought your line <54...Rc8 55.Rxb5 c3 56.Rc5> lost for white after black swaps rooks and queens his c-pawn--but now I see the point that then the black pawn on e5 means that black's bishop can't stop white from queening his c-pawn, after white gives up the rook on c1. (So, 56...Rxc5 57.bxc5 c2 58.Rc3 c1=Q 59.Rxc1 Bxc1 60.c6 and 1-0, for those scoring at home.) Pretty cool, actually, though unfortunate for poor Navara. |
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| Jan-05-11 | | Shams: On the list of Italian GMs, where would we put Turati? |
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| Jan-05-11 | | laskereshevsky: Godena is playing under his usual strenght in this tournament. He defeated dozens of GMs in his careere... But about the time use (or abuse!), Michele was almost always a zeitnot-addicted.... |
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| Jan-05-11 | | Eyal: Short had 5 Whites in this tournament - supposedly an advantage. In 4 of them (the exception being the game vs. Gashimov) he either lost or got a terrible position by move 20 (the one vs. Moro he somehow managed to save). |
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Jan-05-11
 | | moronovich: Anyone who knows what time they start tomorrow ? |
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| Jan-05-11 | | Eyal: <moronovich> According to chessvibes, at 12:00 CET - that is, 3 hours earlier. |
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| Jan-06-11 | | Matsumoto: A warm welcome back to chess to Morozevich; chess would not be the same without him! |
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Jan-06-11
| | moronovich: <Eyal> Thanks a lot ! |
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| Jan-06-11 | | vonKrolock: Last round starts three hours earlier (maybe to spare some with hotel plus transportation ?!)- and this is still the most pro event in the early Year! alas, Chess is losing the prominence ... |
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| Jan-06-11 | | Eyal: Both prominent games for the standings (Movsesian-Paco, Onischuk-Gashimov) already seem headed for a draw, after early exchanges. |
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Jan-06-11
| | moronovich: <vonKrolock> 2 hours is the normal for the last round.Also because of the prizeceremony,concluding diner and/or transportation. |
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Jan-06-11
 | | sisyphus: Gashimov and Vallejo both drew their games, so they finish with 6/9. |
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| Jan-06-11 | | Eyal: Movsesian remains the only one without a loss, having played very (too?) solidly throughout, but also without enough wins. As someone said about Grischuk's performance in the recent Russian Championship, he's the Anand of the tournament... |
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| Jan-06-11 | | Karpova: Navara - Short 1-0 |
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| Jan-06-11 | | Eyal: As in the game vs. Anand in London, Short allows Navara to mate him over the board like a gentleman. |
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| Jan-06-11 | | Skakalec: <vonKrolock> Obviously you haven't played tournament chess.
As <moronovich> pointed out it's a normal procedure, not only in chess.
Tennis tournaments finals also start earlier. |
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| Jan-06-11 | | Karpova: Ivanchuk has K+B+N vs K against Morozevich |
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| Jan-06-11 | | Karpova: For sure, Ivanchuk won the endgame.
Godena and Caruana are the only ones still playing. |
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| Jan-06-11 | | e4ia: Moro seems to have gone out with a "respect" mate....
a great but aging bull whose best chess days are apparently behind him, brought to rest by an even more senior matador.
I'm sure Chuky feels some degree of empathy for Moro. I hope we see Moro again....
but don't be surprised if we do not,
or in only selective/infrequent top level tournaments. |
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| Jan-06-11 | | mike1: Godena- Caruana a draw according to the official site but (maybe it is only me) black should win in the final position 54. Ke4(??) Re3+, 55. Kd5 Re5+ and Rxa5.... |
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| Jan-06-11 | | fisayo123: kings are usually placed at the centre of the board when the game is decided,hence 54.Ke4 |
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Jan-06-11
 | | Gypsy: The game-collection still has two dupplicate games while two other games are missing. That results in a pretty garbled up x-table. If I calculate correctly, the final standings should be
thus:
1-2 ... Hashimov, Vallejo-Pons (+3)
3-5 ... Navara, Movsesian, Ivanchuk (+1)
6-7 ... Caruana, Onischuk (=)
8 ...... Morozevich (-1)
9 ...... Short (-2)
10 .... Godena (-6) |
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