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18 of the top 20 boards have picked up their 'easy' 0.8 FIDE point for their R1 win. Ivan Cheparinov will soon join that crowd and make it 19/20. However, Alexander Motylev (2665) is in some serious trouble on board 16 against Badrakh Galmandakh (2240). As WCM Claudia Munoz says:
WcmClaudiaMunoz: Galmandakh should not lose this game, worst worst worst case scenario a draw but like I said, worst case.
Amusingly, Badrakh got his winning position out of the ridiculous opening 1.d3 d5 2.e4 dxe4 3.dxe4 Qxd1 4.Kxd1 e5
Nakamura (tweet) – Very weird game today, but that’s what the fans want. I can’t recall ever winning a game without moving a central pawn (e7 pawn today).
- Nakamura has managed to get every chess teacher in the world rooting for his opponent after 8 moves
- Don't try at home what Nakamura is doing in: moving Queen 6 times in first 8 moves
Jonathan Tisdall (tweet) - The irony of Nakamura forcing resignation by advancing his b-pawn, his king safe as houses on the Q-side, was not lost on me.
- I hope Nakamura is interviewed, I would love to hear his reasoning on his Dutch "Queen" Variation....
Gibraltar Masters 2015
Round 1, Jan. 27, 2015
Prosviriakov, Vladimir – Wei, Yi
B31 Sicilian, Nimzowitsch-Rossolimo Attack, Modern Line
Lars Bo Hansen (tweet)- Major upset at Gibraltar. Galmandakh (2240) beats Motylev (2665), starting with 1d3 d5 2e4 dxe4 3dxe4 Qxd1+ 4Kxd1.
- Mongolia's Badrakh Galmandakh beat European Champion Motylev in the one big upset of Round 1!
- Beauty from humble Mongolian. An opening preparation plus the skills of Mir Sultan Khan!
While 1.d3 is certainly known as the Mieses Opening, I don't think Mieses ever met 1. ...d5 with e4?! so I'm not sure he'd want his name attached to today's opening (despite the result). Mieses didn't seem to play his eponymoius opening all that much and the only game I could find among his 782 games at chessgames.com in which the game started 1.d3 d5 was against Richard Teichmann (a nemesis to Mieses) and Mieses replied 2.Nd2.
Since I play the Scandinavian Defence with great regularity, I do occasionally see this position from the Black side of the board after 1.e4 d5 2.d3?!. I consider this already close to winning for Black 2 moves into the game and I'm sure Motylev must have thought the same against Galmandakh (:
Bd 37 GM Eric Hansen 2574 - IM Jovanka Houska 2388
Bd 48 IM Robert Belin 2338 - GM Kevin Spraggett 2538
Bd 58 FM Victor Plotkin 2306 - GM Avital Boruchovsky 2517
The most famous use of the Mieses Opening was in the third game in the rematch between Garry Kasparov and the Deep Blue computer in 1997. Kasparov believed that the computer would play the opening poorly if it had to rely on its own skills rather than on its opening book. The game was drawn. It had been previously used by David Levy in a prize match against Cray Blitz, where White won.
Wei Yi has an interesting opponent today in IM Alan Pichot (2480), the 2014 U16 WYCC Champion from Argentina. GM Sergio Slipak, also from Argentina, says Alan "is the biggest Argentine talent of the last 30 years." The one stat of his that jumps out at me is his extreme lack of draws. In his 21 games at chessgames.com there are only 2 draws. Moreover, that doesn't include his 11 WYCC games where he won with 9 wins, 2 losses, and zero draws. My kind of chess player (:
There are daily videos called "The Day's Play" hosted by Tania Sachdev - short videos with snippets of interviews and conversations with players, coaches etc.
Tania has such an infectious energy level and of course is knowledgeable and very lovely so she makes a perfect host for this series.
Caught a glimpse of Eric Hansen in one of the pan shots of players starting round 1 (I think it was).
I'm not the least bit surprised but the Rapport - Tari game is a highly entertaining affair. Tari finally captured a long hanging, poison Knight - that Stockfish initially thought totally winning for Tari but didn't anticipate Rapport's King move - and will likely soon choke on his horseflesh (:
How did I miss this? Michael Im jealous! Good Luck and enjoy! Wish I was there.
Maybe you'll think differently after seeing his game that he played in round 3. Actually you won't, but if you look at his game http://www.chessdom.com/gibraltar-challengers-live/ you'd quickly find out that move 31. Rd1?? cost him what would probably be a full point from an otherwise winning position. Just Bxc7 (not Kh1 one of the engine's #1 suggestions!) and white should be pretty easily winning. Up a full exchange where black's only hope is a knight that's coming to f4, however there is no way that would be enough compensation for the exchange, instead however Michael played Rd1 and after Rxc6! white had to play Rd2 because Rxc6 would be met with Rb2+! So yeah you'll still be jealous, but it would be very frustrating to be in his shoes right now!
Last edited by Caleb Petersen; Wednesday, 28th January, 2015, 04:40 PM.
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