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Visiting new Viking bakery on the Danforth east of Woodbine that has a chess set in the window. He was in the audience for Fischer Spassky 1972 and knows about historic Canadian Champ Magnus Smith who was from Iceland.
It's too bad 'Mayhem in the Morra!' author, IM Marc Esserman, doesn't have the White pieces on board 7 against GM Alexandr Fier (2601). I would have loved go see hiim take another GM scalp with his beloved Morra Gambit (:
I thought this game was very interesting, If you haven't seen it yet I'd suggest you go to the official website so that you see it without engine analysis, it's a much more interesting way to see the game, not relying on the engine to tell you who's winning and where he went wrong.
David Cummings vs Jon Ludvig Hammer 1/2-1/2!!!! very impressive, drawing a 2651 is a great accomplishment. Eric Hansen also drew, and Razvan, Qiyu, and Dale all won (Razvan beat the same player who lost to Eric in round 1)
The opponents and results of all the Canadians playing can be found here: http://www.chess-results.com/tnr1435...flag=30&wi=821
Qiyu get's to play a GM and Dale Haessel an IM where Razvan has a much easier opponent (2171). Round 4 will be quite interesting to see, however sadly only Eric Hansen's game will be transmitted.
Eric is rather the prohibitive betting favourite today at 29/50 against IM Tania Sachdev (2404) who goes off at 83/10 with 21/10 draw odds. Punters seem to much prefer 15-year-old WGM Zhansaya Abdumalik who is only the slight underdog at 7/2 (with 61/50 draw odds)* against GM Hjorvar Gretarsson (:
I find it a bit odd that there's no betting line on the board 3 & 5 games, where 2 Norwegian 16-year-old FMs have the White pieces against much higher rated opponents. There is a betting line on board 1 where the Norwegian 15-year-old IM, Aryan Tari, is at 17/2 against the elite GM, Pavel Eljanov, who's at 79/100 with 6/4 draw odds. Norway must be thrilled to have 3 of their teenage stars on the top 5 boards today.
(from chessnews.ru) - The biggest sensation so far is the result of English FM Daniel Bisby who has defeated two much higher-rated opponents, GMs Sergey Movsesian (Armenia, 2665) and Axel Rombaldoni (Italy, 2488). Both victories happened yesterday, the only day with the doubled rounds.
Daniel Bisby, who is now among the leaders with 3/3, is not some young promising player, as he will turn 37 in September. Nevertheless, both of his wins look quite logical and impressive rather than being some lucky shots. Meanwhile, it's not that often that a 2300-rated played gets a chance to face GMs like Sergey Movsesian (who had enjoyed the peak rating of 2751 in 2009). In this connection, Topalov's opinion expressed in the beginning of the Gibraltar Masters comes to mind. Why shouldn't we think in the direction of having more top players in open tournaments, instead of isolating them in the closed Grand Prix series or some Baden-Badens?
Reykjavik Open 2015
Round 2, March 11, 2015
Bisby, Daniel – Movsesian, Sergei
B40 Sicilian Defence
Back in 2003 there was a tournament called the Gausdal Troll Masters 2003 and Hans Olav Lahlum wrote pen portraits of the participants, among them Mark Bluvshtein, Magnus Carlsen and Daniel Bisby. I give Daniel’s:
Daniel BISBY – Redhill CC, England – born 22.09.78 – FIDE-ELO 2283
Starting his chess career at eight, Daniel Bisby probably was at his most promising in his early teens, when he represented England among others in the 16th Olympiad at Malta 1994 and passed 2100 in ELO. Although he failed really to catch on as a junior, he probably made his best result ever when winning the British U21 Championship, just when he was about to leave the junior ranks. Advancing from below 2200 until nearly 2300 in 1999-2000 he seemed a likely IM-candidate, but later he has established just below 2300, due to lack of activity. Not having played any international tournament at all in 2002, he is starting at Gausdal with no doubts about his joy for the game, but a little doubt about his playing strength. Stating that «to enjoy playing in an event in a nice location» is his first goal, he still admits to play for his first IM-norm too. The more aggressive among the British participants of this tournament, he also is much of an all-rounder, varying his openings and enjoying to test out various kinds of positions. There might be some miss-match between his will to attack and to play for a win, and his relatively quiet white openings, the outcome often being relatively long games. Overall scoring good as white he has a low drawing percent with both colours; low is also his score against titleholders, especially as black. He has so far been too loose and too ambitious. Whether he and/or his openings are good enough to deal with the players above 2400 this time remains to be tested; if so he might certainly be among the best norm-candidates of the field.
The 2003 biographies of Bluvshtein and Carlsen can be found at:
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