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The Sparkassen Chess Meeting will take place 27 June - 5 July in Dortmund, Germany.
It's a single round robin with eight players:
2015 Sparkassen Chess Meeting
Participants
# Name Fed Rating Born
1 Fabiano Caruana ITA 2803 1992
2 Wesley So USA 2778 1993
3 Vladimir Kramnik RUS 2777 1975
4 Ian Nepomniachtchi RUS 2728 1990
5 Arkadij Naiditsch GER 2720 1985
6 Hou Yifan CHN 2686 1994
7 Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu GER 2655 1976
8 Georg Meier GER 2654 1987
Caruana will be playing two top events back-to-back; he also plays in the Norway Chess tournament (15-26 June).
The first-round pairings have already been announced:
Nepomniachtchi-Caruana
Georg Meier-Hou Yifan
Kramnik-Naiditsch
Nisipeanu-Wesley So
It’s quite a week for Fabiano Caruana. He finished playing in Norway Chess yesterday, starts in Dortmund tomorrow and has only just officially completed his switch from the Italian to the US Chess Federation. To cap it all, he now has a manager, International Master Lawrence Trent.
No-one has worked harder than Fabiano Caruana to get to the very top of world chess, but so far he’s done it without a formal manager to handle all the logistics involved in being a professional sportsman. Lawrence Trent will now perform the same role Espen Agdestein does for Magnus Carlsen, liaising with tournaments, sponsors, the media and making sure nothing gets in the way of Fabiano’s sporting success. Lawrence is currently in Dortmund for the start of the 2015 Sparkassen Chess Meeting, and told us:
I am absolutely thrilled and humbled to be given the opportunity to work with Fabiano – a decent, hard-working guy I believe has all the attributes you need to become World Champion, and in the not so distant future. I will do everything in my power to make sure he has all the support he needs to give reaching the pinnacle of the sport his very best shot. This opportunity, as many can imagine, was just too good to turn down.
Last edited by Wayne Komer; Monday, 29th June, 2015, 10:47 AM.
The chess24 commentators are Ilja Zaragatski and Jan Gustafsson. Jan must be tired after two weeks at Stavanger. Ilja was born in Leningrad (1985) but is a German grandmaster and to me, resembles Jimmy Fallon.
As for the players, we have Caruana, now U.S.A. ex Italy, So, now U.S.A. ex Philippines, Naiditsch now Azerbaijan ex Germany and Nisipeanu, now Germany ex Romania.
Hou Yufan is described as the former World Champion. She will be playing for the championship with Maria Muzychuk later, although nobody seems to know when that match will be. Jan says, “You never get to keep your title very long in the women’s world chess business!”
Everyone knows Kramnik and Nepomniatchtchi.
An interview with Georg Meier in 2008:
WHEN DID YOU START TO PLAY CHESS?
I learned the rules from my mother when I was 3-4 years old. But only when I was 9 we discovered that there are even clubs and tournaments…Then I started to play in child-tournaments, and just before turning 13 I played for the first time in an Open. For the standards of today’s generation of young GMs I had a very slow start as you can see.
WHO WAS YOUR FIRST TRAINER?
In the beginning I almost exclusively worked with books until I had some lessons with GM Gutman in 2001.
WHO GAVE YOU MOST ON THE ROAD OF YOUR CHESS IMPROVEMENT?
This is clearly GM Vladimir Chuchelov, with whom I train since 2002. He accompanied me all the way from a 2140-player to GM-level!
I would also like to mention the books of Wassili Smyslov, which I studied a lot when I was young. They contributed much to the formation of my positional play. He is still one of my Chess-Idols.
YOU MADE A RAPID GROW IN THE LAST TWO YEARS-BECAME GM AND IMPROVED YOUR RATING VASTLY. HOW DID IT HAPPEN?
The period you mention begun, when I finished school. Naturally in the last years of my studies I had too little time for chess. But once I finished school I had a strong desire to become at least a GM. I decided to postpone studying at a University and exclusively concentrate on chess. The first year was a bit difficult, with mixed results, but then my work started paying off and I made one GM-norm after another, increasing my rating in almost every tournament.
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Jan is asked about his Swedishness. He says that his great-grandfather was Swedish so that means he is either 1/8 or 1/16th Swedish.
The guys talk about birthdays. Ilja asks what player in the top ten has a birthday today. It turns out to be Anish Giri, 21 years old today. Jan says that his birthday was a few days ago but he didn’t get many presents because hasn’t got many friends. “Then”, says Ilja, “maybe your job for the next year is to make some friends”. Jan responds that that is difficult because he spends all of his time talking about chess.
Vladimir Potkin has a birthday anniversary today too. He was born in 1982. A former European chess champion, he now he coaches Nepomniachtichi.
Jan says that Vladimir is the strongest red-haired player in the world. Ilja maintains that Hjorvar Gretarsson might give him a run for his money in the red-headed department. They then speculate on the tallest grandmasters. Jan is certainly tall, but the Dane, Peter Heine Nielsen, is taller and Sebastien Siebrecht claims to be the tallest.
All of this makes my head ache so I shall go back to the games.
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Caruana has a good game until he makes an unfortunate move (20.b3 – everyone was surprised when he didn’t play the obvious c5). Some say it is because Lawrence Trent is his new manager and he has become Trentified. Jan points out that Fabiano has a string of bad-luck games against the Najdorf and that is it. Lawrence Trent comes on to the chatboard as does Hikaru Nakamura. All of this makes no difference, of course, and Caruana goes down to So. At move 67 Stockfish said that Black can mate in 47 moves!
Hou Yifan is beaten by Kramnik and Nisipeanu beats Naiditsch.
All in all, a very entertaining round, but if you are up at your cottage this holiday weekend, you are missing it.
The commentators today are Jan Gustafsson and Niclas Huschenbeth. The latter is a German grandmaster, presently studying in Baltimore. He has his own YouTube channel and his most recent posting is a discussion of Nakamura’s marvelous King Hunt game versus Michal Krasenkow.
The guys discuss playing for Germany. Jan says he really hasn’t played for three years and hasn’t been asked to play for the national team. You really have to have a rating of at least 2600. It was something he strived for at one time and when he got it not much changed. Then around 2007 he had a string of bad results and sank to 2588 and worked very hard to get above 2600.
Niclas says that there are young kids coming up that need a chance. Three who have recently got their GM title are: Dennis Wagner, Matthias Bluebaum and Alexander Donchenko.
The guys predict the games today.
Jan: Nisipeanu draw, Kramnik win, Caruana draw and So win
Niclas: So win, Caruana win, Nisipeanu win and Kramnik draw
When there is an idle moment Jan starts talking about dinosaurs – mainly because of the new movie Jurassic World that is making money all over the place. The viewers get into it and for a while chess takes second place to dinosaurs. Jan wants to put two things on the record – his favorite dinosaur is the Iguanodon and that the Jurassic movies have been very unfair to the velociraptors. They are not as fast and as fierce as in the movies. They are incredibly slow and are the size of turkeys. Then, supposedly to prove his point, he puts a picture of a velociraptor on the screen with feathers and a blood-curdling look that makes the viewers pull back suddenly from their computer screens, spilling their drinks.
(tweet) - Topalovsaurus and Anandsaurus ROFL
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There is one chess player the spelling of whose name gives me fits. One viewer explains the meaning of his name:
Jan & Niclas, do you guys know that Nepomniatchichi means, "guy who doesn't/can't remember" in Russian? I've always found that last name funny for a GM
Another gives this pronunciation of the name:
Ne (pause) pom (pause) ni (pause) schi
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Jan says that Kramnik let his advantage slip, a sign he is not playing so well in this tournament.
He gets a dig in at his friend Lawrence Trent who is now Fabiano’s manager: Caruana is playing in the style of Lawrence Trent – play some random opening, get a losing position and play for tricks in mutual time trouble!
There are lots of ideas from the viewers for replacing Trent as a regular at chess24.com. Among the replacements Nigel Short and Yu Yangyi!
Jan says that he will be replaced by a player of similar strength and better dress sense!
Now the viewers are discussing the Greek financial crisis, so it is time to leave them.
In time trouble, Meier loses most of his advantage.
Robin van Kampen and Anish Giri tweet:
RvK: Meier – Caruana is the type of chess I like to watch!
Anish Giri (a dig at Fabiano) – Dropping below me on the live-rating list was hard on the young American. No wonder he’s in despair.
A glance at the list has Giri at fifth with 2790.6 and Caruana at sixth with 2790.5
Grandmasters Niclas Huschenbeth and Jan Gustafsson are in the commentator chairs at chess24.com again.
Jan raises health and nutrition as the topic of the day when they are not talking about chess. In fact, they do spend a lot of time analyzing the four games but in a six-hour broadcast, there is a lot of time to fill.
Mental acuity and the memorization of variations come up. Most players are pretty good at remembering their pre-game work when at the board. Jan quotes Grischuk as saying, “If you haven’t looked at a variation in the last two weeks, it’s as if you had never looked at it at all”.
It is 25C in Hamburg and Sunday 36C is predicted. Hamburg is usually fairly cool and air conditioning is rarely needed. This brings up temperature scale conversion and cm to feet and then Niclas says that he is 6’3” tall and Jan that he is 6’4”.
Niclas is a German national, in the third year of a four-year course at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. He has been to Philadelphia for tournaments and New York City is four hours away by Greyhound bus. He finds that Washington, D.C. is far more interesting than NYC. He would like to see Florida and also the West Coast, Los Angeles and San Diego.
One is reminded of Hans Jung’s posting of “My Texas Adventures” in ChessTalk, November 2012, where he describes his travels in the States in a Greyhound bus.
Back to health and nutrition; Niclas says that after he gets up he does stretching exercises and 35 pushups. You should exercise first and then take breakfast as a reward. Jan says that he could do 20 pushups on a good day. He prefers swimming to running. Anand does his yoga and all the top grandmasters have their regimen. Exercise also has emotional and mental benefits and allays stress. Carlsen does everything – basketball, football etc. If you are going to play 5- and 6-hour games, you have to stay in shape.
The guys wish Canadians a Happy Canada Day although neither has been here. Jan says that he was scared off by the South Park movie and by Celine Dion but he understands it is safe to come here now.
They are asked about Yoko or dog chess and show the photo of a board with dogs as the pieces, which is on mashable.com. They cannot figure out how you distinguish a rook, say, from the other dogs.
Eating sushi is said to be healthy although the guys have a suspicion that people like to talk about it because it has an air of sophistication. Jan says that he can abide salmon sashimi but not tuna. He says that he has been tweeted by Nakamura and Giri for not being a sushi fan.
One viewer tweets: Raw fish from the polluted oceans... what could be wrong with that?
Jan would like to come to the States. He asks if he could come to UMBC on a scholarship or maybe he would coach a chess team or a basketball one. He says that his introductory speech (influenced by all the sports movies he has ever seen) would be as follows:
You guys can call me Coach or Mr. Gustafsson. I’m tough, but fair. Follow the rules and we won’t have any problems.
Jan says that if Lawrence Trent can become Caruana’s manager, he can become a coach.
“U.S. colleges, give me a call!”
Lawrence Trent is kidded by everyone on his new position. Even Caruana said this yesterday about his dubious opening:
I know what everyone's thinking, but that opening didn't come from Lawrence Trent. Anyway, glad to be back on 50%.
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The game Meier-Kramnik goes on and on, now in the sixth hour. Jan has cancelled a reservation to see Jurassic World this evening because the chess show must go on.
The games:
Dortmund 2015
Round 4, July 1, 2015
Nepomniachtchi, Ian – Nisipeanu, Liviu-Dieter
B12 Caro-Kann, Advance Variation
The commentators today are Jan Gustafsson and Maximilian Meinhardt, an IM. I am impressed with the cultural level of Jan’s German colleagues. Maximilian was quoting poetry all over the place – but I am getting ahead of myself. The topic today was about chess in the arts but seemed more or less confined to books and movies.
Referring to the latter, Jan says: “It is usually done badly. It annoys me to see chess in a movie. They get the pieces wrong, the h1-square is always dark, king and queen are the wrong way around. They are using the chess scene to establish that they are brainiacs or intellectuals and then the board is set up the wrong way! It doesn’t convince me at all.”
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Kramnik has won ten Dortmunds and he is playing Caruana, last year’s winner. Naiditsch has four decisive games. All the chess world is talking about Wei Yi’s immortal king walk game today. (I have given it in another thread – Games From Recent Events) on ChessTalk.
MM – What’s your worst defeat?
Jan – I was crushed at Dortmund in 2012
MM – But 2008 was great, you had +1, only losing to Peter Leko.
Jan – I scored 4/7, a great result, but, in hindsight, that lost game to Leko prevented me from winning a supertournament; you only get such a chance one time in your life.
[Dortmund 2008 – Final Standing – Leko 4.5 with Ivanchuk, Nepomniachtchi, Mamedyarov and Gustafsson all at 4]
Peter Leko was so impressed with my play that I worked with him in 2009 and learned a lot of things.
MM – If you were recognized in a hotel or in the street and someone greeted you, would you greet them back or ignore it?
Jan – Greet them. Sure, that’s what you do but it doesn’t happen as often as you might think with us world famous chess celebrities.
MM – It might have happened if you had won Dortmund 2008!
Jan – That was my one chance for fame.
The guys discuss Kramnik-Caruana, where there is a white knight on h4.
MM – “A knight on the rim is dim”. In German, the expression is “Springer am Rand bringt Kummer und Schand”. I wonder what the expression is in Spanish?
Jan – I don’t think that Spanish players are aware of the concept!
(In fact, the question came up in a chess.com forum and a reader gave this: “Un caballo en la banda es un penco”. Un penco is a nag. Another gave the French: “Cavalier au bord, cavalier mort”.)
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A viewer sends in a photo of a movie poster for Queen to Play, a very enjoyable 2009 French film about a woman who becomes obsessed with chess. It stars Kevin Kline and Sandrine Bonnaire.
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Maximilian is a student of English and Latin and now is going for his Ph.D. in American Studies. I had a friend at U of T taking Honours English Language and Literature and learning great long passages of verse were essential to doing well in the course. There was one half-term course with 13 Shakespearean plays!
Someone actually asks Maximilian for his favorite Shakespearean sonnet and he gives two:
Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate (Sonnet 18)
Th’ expense of spirit in a waste of shame (Sonnet 129)
He notes that Vladimir Kramnik recently turned 40 and finds this apt quote:
When forty winters shall besiege thy brow/ And dig deep trenches in thy beauty’s field (Sonnet 2)
One really wants to look at a Kramnik photo to see if his wrinkles are like deep trenches! In any case, Maximilian is going to study for ten months in Davis in California from September. He has already spent 10 months in Mississippi.
Jan has been to Philadelphia and has played at Opens in New York. Maximilian asks if he had to bring his own pieces and board to the Opens and Jan said he purchased a set for the occasions.
Maximilian says that he played two blitz games with Asa Hoffmann and lost both and $10. Asa told him that he had played blitz against Bobby Fischer. Supposedly playing Fischer at blitz means that you can beat anyone else in blitz.
They talk about the chess scene from To Russia with Love and an Austin Powers one.
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There is not much going on. A silly little joke appears on the chat board. This is for your kids:
Que: What do you call a fish with no eyes?
Ans: Fsh
With Wei Yi’s great win today, there is some talk about the game of the century on the chat board.
- Carlsen-Ernst 2004?
- Kasparov-Topalov 1999!
- The more material Wei sacrificed, the stronger he got
- It’s a bit early to talk about Game of the Century, is it not?
- There are 3 to 4 games of the century each year
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Caruana wins against Kramnik, So wins against Nepomniachtchi and my screen goes black. The transmission has failed.
(Mark Crowther) - Fabiano Caruana defeated Vladimir Kramnik in an interesting struggle in the fifth round of the Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting. Kramnik's 13.Bxe4 was probably based on a miscalculation with his follow up 15.Qc2 being met by the strong 15...Bf5! Caruana was better from then on and got a mating attack on the run up to the first time control.
Wesley So won a fluctuating struggle in a Benoni structure against Ian Nepomniachtchi, 31...b6 would most likely have kept the balance for black but 31...c4?! followed by 34...Rxa4? lost the game for the Russian.
Dortmund 2015
Round 5, July 3, 2015
Nisipeanu, Liviu-Dieter – Meier, Georg
E42 Nimzo-Indian, Rubinstein
Jan Gustafsson and Maximilian Meinhardt are the commentators. The unfortunate topic of the day seems to be zombies – mainly zombie movies. They mention Independence Day (in the States) and aliens as well.
The weather is very hot in Hamburg and there is little or no air-conditioning, so the guys have to change their shirts each hour.
Coming to the studio, Jan was unaware of the heat because he was playing a game called Plants versus Zombies on his smartphone.
I think there is something called Zombie Chess and, I believe, there is a variation of the Vienna Game called the Frankenstein-Dracula. This stuff is more in tune with Halloween than Independence Day.
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(Peter Doggers) GM Vladimir Kramnik reached a winning ending against GM Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu but then let his opponent escape. The other Russian, GM Ian Nepomniachtchi, also played a nice ending and he did manage to beat GM Arkadij Naiditsch.
Kramnik has won the tournament in Dortmund ten times — that we know. Caruana might be on his way to challenge this number: if he holds the draw as black against Nisipeanu tomorrow, he'll win his third title, after sharing first with Karjakin in 2012 and winning outright in 2014.
In what was his fourth straight win, Fabiano Caruana today outplayed Hou Yifan from a Sämisch Nimzo-Indian.
On Sunday the tournament starts two hours earlier than the other rounds: at 7 am Montreal/Toronto time. Nisipeanu, still the only undefeated player in the field, needs to beat Caruana to win the tournament.
Fabiano Caruana, after drawing his first game in this tournament and losing to Wesley So in the second, has had five wins and just won the tournament. He beat Liviu-Dieter Nispeanu in a brilliant game in the final round.
..... I believe, there is a variation of the Vienna Game called the Frankenstein-Dracula. This stuff is more in tune with Halloween than Independence Day.
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I think it goes: 1. e4 e5 2. Nc3 Nf6 3. Bc4 Nxe4 4. Qh5 and then with Ng5 (instead of Nd6) you have the Werewolf. I know but this stuff is fun to play.
One I've been having fun with onlne is the Smith Morra Gambit against the Sicilian defence. Used to play it as a junior but it wasn't called that.
Ilja Zaragatski and Maximilian Meinhardt are in the commentators chairs. Jan Gustafsson is off giving a simul. Their American English is good but they are inclined to puns. After talking about Hou and So, they cannot use the words “who” and “so” without some joke. Toss in the word “maybe” and you are in a morass of English-speak.
The funniest occurrence is a discussion of slugfest. This is a fight with heavy punching or slugs but the guys are not familiar with this and say, “slugs are snails, so a snailfest”.
I suppose, at a snailfest, one would either be eating them or watching teams of them on a field of play. Who would go to a snailfest? Very few - “Come on Maude, put the kids in the car; we are going to drive to the Snailfest for the weekend!”
Later: There actually is a video of the annual Barcelona Snail Fest on YouTube!
Ilja and Max make many references to the Flight of the Chonchords. I have no idea what this is. Wiki says:
Flight of the Conchords is an American/New Zealand television comedy series that was first shown on HBO on June 17, 2007. The show follows the adventures of Flight of the Conchords, a two-man band from New Zealand, as its members seek fame and success in New York City.
Ilja is so young that he knows little of Smyslov’s games or style. In fact, we hear little of chess before Kasparov with these commentators – no Fischer, no Tal, no Botvinnik. Is the generation gap that great? Is time going that fast?
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The prizes at Dortmund are not disclosed. In fact, each player gets a so-called “starting fee” for appearing. One viewer believes that Caruana and Kramnik are getting starting fees of 20,000 euro each. By my calculation that is CAN$ 28,000.
There is a bit of talk about computer evaluations. The quote most often these days is Aronian’s, “0.00 means the computer doesn't know what's going on”.
Nisipeanu-Caruana seemed to finish hours ago. The score has already been posted in this thread. The other games have been playing for six hours now. The guys say that the cleaning staff seem to be coming in and they can hear the vacuum cleaner going.
Hou-Nepomniachtchi is drawn in 62 moves. So is winning against Kramnik and so is Meier against Naiditsch.
One viewer posts this on the chat board, “Amazing that the best Russian player (Kramnik) may be losing to 2 different Americans in one tournament”.
Other comments:
- Counting Naka, there are now 3 Americans that can regularly beat Kramnik
- I am away for 3 minutes and what has happened with Meier? Why does he insist on throwing away his winning chances?
- In an interview, one of the 2800s said that Wesley So is a GM who developed from playing computer chess engines only! No wonder he played most computer recommended moves!
- Winning from Kramnik in the Berlin! Great show So
- Ilja and Max get funnier the more tired they get
- thanks for the excellent and entertaining commentating, Ilya and Max.
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A viewer, Boris Smolik, sends in a picture of Hou Yifan modeling for the Chinese edition of Vogue – no glasses and holding a white queen – sort of doing a Magnus Carlsen..
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And that is it. The games are all over and the tournament is over.
Dortmund 2015
Round 7, July 5, 2015
So, Wesley – Kramnik, Vladimir
C67 Ruy Lopez, Berlin Defence, Open Variation
Fabiano likens his game to the famed Ortueta-Sanz, Madrid 1933:
That was my Ortueta-Sanz. Thrilled to be the winner of Dortmund for the 3rd time!
(Sergey Karyakin tweet) – Congratulations to Fabiano with winning Dortmund! Seems that the key moment was his hard victory against Meier; then he was unstoppable.
Last edited by Wayne Komer; Sunday, 5th July, 2015, 07:53 PM.
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