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Norway Chess 2014
Round Eight
June 12, 2014
Dirk Jan ten Geuzendam, Nigel Short commentating
We have four leaders now. Sergey Karjakin won the tournament last year. First he won the blitz tournament and then the regular tournament.
The opening in Karjakin-Kramnik is the Carlsbad Variation – named after the great tournaments of the 20s.
Nigel: What is Carlsbad called today?
DJtG: Karlovy Vary in the Czech Republic. Carlsbad 1929 by Nimzowitsch is my favorite tournament book.
Nigel: We try to mention Aron Nimzowitsch in each of our broadcasts.
Karlovy Vary is an exclusive resort today, where well-heeled hypochondriacs from all over the world come to have terrible things done to their bodies with steam and sulfur while drinking tepid mineral water.
_________
Linni Meister, a model, played in the Celebrity Tournament yesterday and comes in to talk to the guys. She paired with Veselin Topalov. Nigel says that in anticipation of her coming, several of the players were googling photos of her at breakfast yesterday. On the principle of truth in reporting, I can say that I have just looked at those images and in all the glamour photos, there is not a single chess piece.
__________
The quiz from Tuesday:
Of course all the participants in Norway Chess have the title of international Grandmaster. But which of them is also an honorary professor?
The answer is Aronian. The winner is David Toth from Budapest, Hungary.
The guys say that half the people in Hungary have the surname of Toth and the other half are Polgars!
Today’s question: At the start of every round of this tournament, Magnus Carlsen arrives with a bottle of orange juice. Recently, it has been written that it is not pure orange juice but he adds something. What is it that Magnus adds to his orange juice?
Tie-breaker question from Nigel: On the screen is a photo that Nigel took on his hike up Pulpit Rock. There is a naked man in the background. He is just coming in from a swim. Who is that naked man? – he is one of the participants. The water is very cold!
It's not a scandalous image, don't worry. The chap seems fairly tall, so I would rule out Giri and Caruana and bet on either Agdestein, Kramnik or Svidler.
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A guest is Tarjei Svensen, who is one of the most prolific chess tweeters. He is 33 years old and is involved in the news, spends his whole day in front of the computer and tweets constantly.
He hopes to provide news for the world-wide chess society. Nigel says he understands that Kirsan Ilyumzhinov follows Tarjei writings. Dirk Jan says that Tarjei’s is one of the few twitters that he reads.
Twittering is addictive. Most of what he uses appears first in the media. The tweet he is the most proud of is a quote of his about Putin that Kasparov immediately retweeted.
________
Malcolm Pein has known Nigel for 40 years, when they were schoolboys playing at a Liverpool Congress. He is the editor of CHESS, chess columnist for the Daily Telegraph and in the Chess Schools Movement. He comes on to talk about the London Chess Classic.
It will take place in December, almost certainly starting on December 6. The format will be announced on the website but most likely it will be a mixture of classic and rapid chess. There will be an odd number of participants, so that one each day will commentate on the games. He has already paid the deposit, so it certainly will take place at the Olympia.
He will go as soon as the round is over tomorrow as he has tickets for England-Sri Lanka cricket at Lords.
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Svidler did not play well against Carlsen, could find no coherent plan and was dead lost. Instead of playing the killer, Magnus found the one move that extended the game. Peter slipped out and the game was drawn as a perpetual. The score is given in the previous post in this thread.
Topalov outplayed Agdestein and won their game. This is the first that Simen has lost in the tourney.
Aronian-Caruana was going to a win for White, when one bad move led to a perpetual.
Grischuk-Giri went to a draw as well.
Karjakin, Sergey-Kramnik, Vladimir After obtaining nothing from the opening Karjakin was able to put the smallest amount of pressure on Black's position. Kramnik somehow cracked little by little. Eventually Karjakin's advantage was very significant and the endgame was hard to hold for Kramnik. White's technique was not the precise, but eventually it was good enough to win the game. (ChessBase)
Norway Chess 2014 Classic
Round Eight
June 12, 2014
Karjakin, Sergey-Kramnik,Vladimir
D35 QGD, Exchange, Positional Line (5…c6)
1. c4 e6 2. Nc3 d5 3. d4 Nf6 4. cxd5 exd5 5. Bg5 c6 6. e3 h6 7. Bh4 Be7 8. Bd3 O-O 9. Qc2 Nh5 10. Bxe7 Qxe7 11. Nf3 Nf4 12. Bf1 Nd7 13. O-O-O Ng6 14. h4 Qf6 15. Bd3 Nb6 16. h5 Ne7 17. Rh4 Bf5 18. Bxf5 Qxf5 19. Qxf5 Nxf5 20. Rf4 Nd6 21. Ne5 Rae8 22. Rh1 Re7 23. Kc2 Rfe8 24. b3 a5 25. a4 Na8 26. Nd3 Nc7 27. Rg4 Na6 28. Rf4 Ne4 29. Kb2 Kh7 30. Nxe4 dxe4 31. Ne5 Nb4 32. Rf5 c5 33. Rd1 cxd4 34. exd4 Rd8 35. Nc4 Nd3 36. Kc3 g6 37. Rxa5 Nxf2 38. Re1 gxh5 39. d5 e3 40. Kc2 Ng4 41. d6 Re6 42. Ra7 Rf6 43. Re2 b6 44. Rb7 Rdxd6 45. Nxd6 Rxd6 46. Rxf7 Kg6 47. Rf1 Kg5 48. b4 h4 49. Kc3 Nf2 50. Rxe3 Nd1 51. Rxd1 Rxd1 52. Re5 Kg4 53. Re6 Rc1 54. Kb3 Kh5 55. Rxb6 Rg1 56. a5 Rxg2 57. a6 Rg3 58. Kc4 Rg4 59. Kd3 Rg8 60. Rb5 Kg4 61. Ra5 h3 62. Ra2 Ra8 63. b5 h5 64. Ke3 Kg3 65. a7 h2 66. Rxh2 Kxh2 67. b6 Kh3 68. b7 Rxa7 69. b8=Q Rg7 70. Qe5 Rg3 71. Kf2 h4 72. Qe4 1-0
Standings
Karjakin 5.0
Carlsen 4.5
Caruana 4.5
Kramnik 4.0
Topalov 4.0
Grischuk 4.0
Agdestein 3.5
Svidler 3.5
Aronian 3.5
Giri 3.5
Final Matchups – Topalov-Aronian; Caruana-Karjakin; Kramnik-Grischuk; Giri-Svidler; Carlsen-Agdestein
Comments
- "Absolutely beyond belief to hold that game. Good God!" exclaims Peter Svidler after his draw against Magnus Carlsen Rd 8 Norway Chess
- This can actually become Carlsen's "worst" tournament performance since Bilbao 2010, even if he wins tomorrow (Tarjei Svensen)
- For the 15436th time in Norway Chess, the President of Norwegian Chess Federation has promised to eat his hat, unless Magnus wins.
- Kramnik missed his best chances to hold a draw. Now it's completely winning for Karjakin.
- Karjakin shows great endurance for the second round in a row and wins in the seventh hour of play.
- Grischuk asked about the final rook ending between Karjakin and Kramnik ""You just have to calculate, you cannot evaluate."
- Lol I love this Agdestein guy... every press conference starts with his statement: I felt so tired!
- Looks like a playoff is almost certain, between Magnus and Sergey.
- Well, let's see if Carlsen can crack Agdestein's 'French Berlin'. None of the others have done it. May be he'll side step...
And don't count Caruana out, it might be a play-off between him and Carlsen too.
- Forget this, the football world cup has started! I think Brasil were lucky not to lose 2-1. The penalty was bogus and so was the foul on Olic which negated Croatia's goal. Brazil look weak and will be torn apart by better teams if they play like this.
Norway Chess 2014
Round Eight
June 12, 2014
Dirk Jan ten Geuzendam, Nigel Short commentating
We have four leaders now. Sergey Karjakin won the tournament last year. First he won the blitz tournament and then the regular tournament.
The opening in Karjakin-Kramnik is the Carlsbad Variation – named after the great tournaments of the 20s.
Nigel: What is Carlsbad called today?
DJtG: Karlovy Vary in the Czech Republic. Carlsbad 1929 by Nimzowitsch is my favorite tournament book.
Nigel: We try to mention Aron Nimzowitsch in each of our broadcasts.
Karlovy Vary is an exclusive resort today, where well-heeled hypochondriacs from all over the world come to have terrible things done to their bodies with steam and sulfur while drinking tepid mineral water.
_________
Linni Meister, a model, played in the Celebrity Tournament yesterday and comes in to talk to the guys. She paired with Veselin Topalov. Nigel says that in anticipation of her coming, several of the players were googling photos of her at breakfast yesterday. On the principle of truth in reporting, I can say that I have just looked at those images and in all the glamour photos, there is not a single chess piece.
__________
The quiz from Tuesday:
Of course all the participants in Norway Chess have the title of international Grandmaster. But which of them is also an honorary professor?
The answer is Aronian. The winner is David Toth from Budapest, Hungary.
The guys say that half the people in Hungary have the surname of Toth and the other half are Polgars!
Today’s question: At the start of every round of this tournament, Magnus Carlsen arrives with a bottle of orange juice. Recently, it has been written that it is not pure orange juice but he adds something. What is it that Magnus adds to his orange juice?
Tie-breaker question from Nigel: On the screen is a photo that Nigel took on his hike up Pulpit Rock. There is a naked man in the background. He is just coming in from a swim. Who is that naked man? – he is one of the participants. The water is very cold!
It's not a scandalous image, don't worry. The chap seems fairly tall, so I would rule out Giri and Caruana and bet on either Agdestein, Kramnik or Svidler.
____________
A guest is Tarjei Svensen, who is one of the most prolific chess tweeters. He is 33 years old and is involved in the news, spends his whole day in front of the computer and tweets constantly.
He hopes to provide news for the world-wide chess society. Nigel says he understands that Kirsan Ilyumzhinov follows Tarjei writings. Dirk Jan says that Tarjei’s is one of the few twitters that he reads.
Twittering is addictive. Most of what he uses appears first in the media. The tweet he is the most proud of is a quote of his about Putin that Kasparov immediately retweeted.
________
Malcolm Pein has known Nigel for 40 years, when they were schoolboys playing at a Liverpool Congress. He is the editor of CHESS, chess columnist for the Daily Telegraph and in the Chess Schools Movement. He comes on to talk about the London Chess Classic.
It will take place in December, almost certainly starting on December 6. The format will be announced on the website but most likely it will be a mixture of classic and rapid chess. There will be an odd number of participants, so that one each day will commentate on the games. He has already paid the deposit, so it certainly will take place at the Olympia.
He will go as soon as the round is over tomorrow as he has tickets for England-Sri Lanka cricket at Lords.
_________
Svidler did not play well against Carlsen, could find no coherent plan and was dead lost. Instead of playing the killer, Magnus found the one move that extended the game. Peter slipped out and the game was drawn as a perpetual. The score is given in the previous post in this thread.
Topalov outplayed Agdestein and won their game. This is the first that Simen has lost in the tourney.
Aronian-Caruana was going to a win for White, when one bad move led to a perpetual.
Grischuk-Giri went to a draw as well.
Karjakin, Sergey-Kramnik, Vladimir After obtaining nothing from the opening Karjakin was able to put the smallest amount of pressure on Black's position. Kramnik somehow cracked little by little. Eventually Karjakin's advantage was very significant and the endgame was hard to hold for Kramnik. White's technique was not the precise, but eventually it was good enough to win the game. (ChessBase)
Norway Chess 2014 Classic
Round Eight
June 12, 2014
Karjakin, Sergey-Kramnik,Vladimir
D35 QGD, Exchange, Positional Line (5…c6)
1. c4 e6 2. Nc3 d5 3. d4 Nf6 4. cxd5 exd5 5. Bg5 c6 6. e3 h6 7. Bh4 Be7 8. Bd3 O-O 9. Qc2 Nh5 10. Bxe7 Qxe7 11. Nf3 Nf4 12. Bf1 Nd7 13. O-O-O Ng6 14. h4 Qf6 15. Bd3 Nb6 16. h5 Ne7 17. Rh4 Bf5 18. Bxf5 Qxf5 19. Qxf5 Nxf5 20. Rf4 Nd6 21. Ne5 Rae8 22. Rh1 Re7 23. Kc2 Rfe8 24. b3 a5 25. a4 Na8 26. Nd3 Nc7 27. Rg4 Na6 28. Rf4 Ne4 29. Kb2 Kh7 30. Nxe4 dxe4 31. Ne5 Nb4 32. Rf5 c5 33. Rd1 cxd4 34. exd4 Rd8 35. Nc4 Nd3 36. Kc3 g6 37. Rxa5 Nxf2 38. Re1 gxh5 39. d5 e3 40. Kc2 Ng4 41. d6 Re6 42. Ra7 Rf6 43. Re2 b6 44. Rb7 Rdxd6 45. Nxd6 Rxd6 46. Rxf7 Kg6 47. Rf1 Kg5 48. b4 h4 49. Kc3 Nf2 50. Rxe3 Nd1 51. Rxd1 Rxd1 52. Re5 Kg4 53. Re6 Rc1 54. Kb3 Kh5 55. Rxb6 Rg1 56. a5 Rxg2 57. a6 Rg3 58. Kc4 Rg4 59. Kd3 Rg8 60. Rb5 Kg4 61. Ra5 h3 62. Ra2 Ra8 63. b5 h5 64. Ke3 Kg3 65. a7 h2 66. Rxh2 Kxh2 67. b6 Kh3 68. b7 Rxa7 69. b8=Q Rg7 70. Qe5 Rg3 71. Kf2 h4 72. Qe4 1-0
Standings
Karjakin 5.0
Carlsen 4.5
Caruana 4.5
Kramnik 4.0
Topalov 4.0
Grischuk 4.0
Agdestein 3.5
Svidler 3.5
Aronian 3.5
Giri 3.5
Final Matchups – Topalov-Aronian; Caruana-Karjakin; Kramnik-Grischuk; Giri-Svidler; Carlsen-Agdestein
Comments
- "Absolutely beyond belief to hold that game. Good God!" exclaims Peter Svidler after his draw against Magnus Carlsen Rd 8 Norway Chess
- This can actually become Carlsen's "worst" tournament performance since Bilbao 2010, even if he wins tomorrow (Tarjei Svensen)
- For the 15436th time in Norway Chess, the President of Norwegian Chess Federation has promised to eat his hat, unless Magnus wins.
- Kramnik missed his best chances to hold a draw. Now it's completely winning for Karjakin.
- Karjakin shows great endurance for the second round in a row and wins in the seventh hour of play.
- Grischuk asked about the final rook ending between Karjakin and Kramnik ""You just have to calculate, you cannot evaluate."
- Lol I love this Agdestein guy... every press conference starts with his statement: I felt so tired!
- Looks like a playoff is almost certain, between Magnus and Sergey.
- Well, let's see if Carlsen can crack Agdestein's 'French Berlin'. None of the others have done it. May be he'll side step...
And don't count Caruana out, it might be a play-off between him and Carlsen too.
- Forget this, the football world cup has started! I think Brasil were lucky not to lose 2-1. The penalty was bogus and so was the foul on Olic which negated Croatia's goal. Brazil look weak and will be torn apart by better teams if they play like this.
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