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and there you can see facsimiles of the reporting of Bronstein’s chess dream.
That section ends with this statement:
Wanted: more details about the game. It has become well known and was given (Bronstein v Bronstein, Moscow 1961) on page 142 of Wonders and Curiosities of Chess by Irving Chernev (New York, 1974).
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Always trying to get myself in trouble, I did a search for Bronstein vs Bronstein, 1961 at chessgames.com but came up empty!
Alexander Morozevich (38 years old) has not been very prominent in chess in the last year. He has mainly been playing in rapid tournaments.
In the international arena, he played Bator Sambuev in the World Cup 2013 at Tromso and winning that contest, he played Rafael Leitao and then Nikita Vitiugov, finally falling to Evgeny Tomashevsky.
His rating at classical chess has gone from a high of 2788 in 2008 gradually falling to 2697 this month.
He had to withdraw from the Biel Tournament in 2012 due to illness. In September of that year, he gave an interview where his health was questioned:
This week the chess media, and particularly the foreign media, has written about the triumphant return of Morozevich. After you dropped out of the tournament in Biel and missed the Olympiad everyone’s been worried about your health… Is it possible to say everything’s now fine again?
If you spend a long time reading different stories in the media you might get the strange idea that Morozevich “goes off” somewhere and then “returns”. Some kind of “puppet”. But actually it’s all much simpler. I dropped out of Biel for health reasons. On returning to Moscow I underwent a two-week rehabilitation programme in a clinic and I got back to feeling relatively normal. I was very unhappy with the fact that I dropped out of the tournament, but sometimes even such measures are acceptable. As for the team, I talked it over with the team coach Yury Dokhoian and we decided that it wasn’t worth taking the risk, as we didn’t know how it would go and how much time the recovery process would take, while there was no question of getting into optimum form. We’ve got a lot of worthy replacements, so I hope the guys will play at their best and win gold medals.
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All that is history now. Alexander is presently playing in the Barcelona Masters, a five rounder, with daily games 4 November until 8 November.
The participants:
1 IM Asis Gargatagli Hipolito ESP
2 GM Narciso Dublan Marc ESP
3 GM Axel Bachmann PAR
4 GM Csaba Balogh HUN
5 GM Grigoryan Karen H. ARM
6 GM Alexander Morozevich RUS
The first round was played today and alas, even though Moro won, it was not a good game. For example, witness the bishop fork on the two rooks possible after 19…Rxa4.
Magistral Ciutat de Barcelona 2015
Round 1, Nov. 4, 2015
Asis Gargatagli, Hipolito – Morozevich, Alexander
B90 Sicilian, Najdorf, Byrne Attack
Karyakin evidently won a bet on that Moro game despite the lost position (both over the board and on the clock!).
Sergey Karyakin @SergeyKaryakin 17h17 hours ago
I had a bet with my friend that Morozevich will not lose after he played 21...Ba2. Of course it was completely lost, but I won a bet😂!
Grandmaster Timur Gareyev stormed through the 9th Festival Internacional de Xadrez da Figueira da Foz to take a clear first place with 8,5/9 points and the top prize of 1200 EUR.
A point and a half behind the winner was GM Krzysztof Jakubowski from Poland.
Hours after winning the tournament, Gareyev, 27 years old, was beaten by a group of men. He left his hotel early in the morning to take a walk in the area where there are several bars. In an unprovoked attack he was punched and kicked and suffered injuries to his face but was discharged from the hospital and will shortly going back to the U.S.
He is a native of Uzbekistan but currently represents the United States.
The 9th Festival Internacional de Xadrez da Figueira da Foz was organized by Assembleia Figueirense from 21-28th November in Figueira da Foz, Portugal.
35 players from 11 countries, including 7 Grandmasters and 5 International Masters, took part in the competition.
Final standings:
1. GM GAREYEV Timur USA 2584 – 8.5
2. GM JAKUBOWSKI Krzysztof POL 2564 – 7
3. GM PETKOV Vladimir BUL 2475 – 6.5
4. IM DÂMASO Rui POR 2438 – 6
5. GM PAUNOVIĆ Dragan SRB 2435 – 5.5
6. IM DIAS Paulo POR 2367 – 5.5
7. GM STOPA Jacek POL 2475 – 5.5
8. IM KUKOV Velislav BUL 2360 – 5.5
9. IM PIASETSKI Leon CAN 2291 – 5.5
10. GUERREIRO Nuno POR 2084 – 5.5
11. GM SPRAGGETT Kevin CAN 2529 – 5
12. IM VASSALLO BARROCHE Mauricio ESP 2398 – 5
13. SOUSA Andre Ventura POR 2251 – 5
14. GM ROMANISHIN Oleg UKR 2474 – 5
15. PINHO Paulo POR 2208 – 5
etc
International Tournament of Figueira da Foz 2015
Round 8, Nov. 27, 2015
Spraggett, Kevin – Gareyev, Timur
C78 Ruy Lopez, Moeller Defence
(Wikipedia) - According to the legend the place’s name is due to a fig tree, which stood at the quay of Salmanha, where the fishermen used to tie up their boats. The historian Nelson Borges said, however, that Figueira comes from the word "fagaria", which means "opening, huge mouth". Foz comes from the Latin word "fouces" = "mouth of a river", and Mondego comes from the pre-romanic expressions "mond" = "mouth" and "aec"= "river". That means, Figueira da Foz would be "the river’s mouth opening".
ChessBase reports on Wei Yi's brilliancy yesterday to win the 1st China Kings Match, but manages to get his age wrong. Wei Yi is 16, not 17, with a birth date of June 2, 1999. Or on the Marcus Aurelius concept that each day represents a life, Wei Yi is 6,027 today (:
The strongest invitational tournament ever to be held in Israel, the ACP Masters, was hosted by the city of Ashdod, in collaboration with the Association of Chess Professionals (ACP) on December 7-10 during the Chanukah holiday.
There were twelve players – Ivanchuk, Nepomniachtchi, Guseinov, Rapport, Gelfand, Bacrot, Jakovenko, Eljanov, Adhiban, Sutovsky, Smirin and Sevian.
The tournament consisted of 3 stages of rapid games, with the 12 players divided into two preliminary groups. The first two players in each group qualified to the semi-finals. The total prize fund was US $ 41,000.
The city Ashdod is the sixth largest city in Israel, its largest port on the Mediterranean coast and an important regional industrial centre.
Two semi-final matches of the ACP Masters were held on Wednesday in the Israeli city of Ashdod. The winner of the preliminary group B, Ukrainian Vassily Ivanchuk met the runner-up in the preliminary group A, Russian Ian Nepomnianchtchi.
In the first game the Russian, as black, sacrificed a knight for attacking chances but eventually had to settle for a draw by perpetual check.
In the second game Nepomniachtchi missed a nice forced win in the middle game and then was tempted again to a knight sacrifice for what looked like a strong attack. Nevertheless his attack came pretty soon to a dead end and he lost the game and the match 0.5: 1.5
The other match, between the winner of the preliminary group A, Israeli Boris Gelfand and the runner-up in group B, Frenchman Etienne Bacrot was way more dramatic.
In the first game Gelfand overlooked simple tactics, which cost him a whole Rook and consequently the game. In the second game Gelfand won a pawn in the early middle game and patiently converted it to a winning ending and equalized to 1:1. The tie break was consisted of two blitz games with time control of 3 minutes and 2 seconds increment added to each move.
In the first game Bacrot won on time in an equal queen ending but was trapped in a mate net in the second one. The decisive game was a tragic Armageddon where Gelfand lost on time with an advantage of a Rook and a Knight. All games may be found here:
The final was played between Ivanchuk and Bacrot on Thursday, December 10th and consisted of 4 games of 15 minutes per player plus an increment of 10 second added to each move.
Press Release
Vassily Ivanchuk from Ukraine is the winner of the ACP Masters rapid super tournament that ended on Thursday in the Israeli city of Ashdod.
The Ukraine No. 1 beat Frenchman Etienne Bacrot in the final match 2.5: 0.5 to take home the title and the 10.000 $ first prize. The match, initially set for 4 games, ended already after game 3 following a vigorous start 2:0 and a comfortable draw. The first game saw a quiet line in the Spanish where after multiple piece exchanges Bacrot, as black, found himself with 2 pawns down in a hopeless rook ending.
The second game saw a sharp line in the Grűnfeld Defence with roughly equal chances when Bacrot, as white, sent his queen to a dubious pawn hunt on the queenside which allowed Ivanchuk the time for a strong counter attack in the centre. In an attempt to stop Black’s strong initiative white managed to exchange q however the resulting ending was still better for Ivanchuk owing to an unpleasant pin along the “d”file. The Ukrainian converted his edge to lead 2:0 and needed just a draw out of the remaining two games. As a matter of fact he obtained a winning position also in the third game but settled for a draw to secure his convincing overall victory.
ACP Masters 2015 Ashdod
Playoff Game 1, Dec. 10, 2015
Ivanchuk, Vassily – Bacrot, Etienne
C65 Ruy Lopez, Berlin Defence
While Chucky is still "The Ukraine No. 1" in fans' hearts, he's clearly no longer the Ukraine No. 1 in rating. Eljanov has usurped that honour with his 2763 rating. Korobov would be next at 2713 (2715.8 live), with Chucky and Ponomariov right behind, each at 2710.
Garry Kasparov - Messy play at the top in the Qatar Open, but don't miss a nice game by Morozevich today in the "Nutcracker" event!
The Nutcracker generation chess tournament takes place on December 19-26 in Moscow in the Vladimir Dvorkovich Chess Saloon. This year it will include two Scheveningen matches – Kings vs Princes, and Girls vs Boys.
The event is organized by Russian Chess Federation, Fund of Chess Art Support, and businessman Oleg Skvortsov, who also runs traditional Zurich Chess Challenge tournament.
Lineups
Team Kings: World Vice-Champion Boris Gelfand (Israel), World Vice-Champion Peter Leko (Hungary), European Champion Evgeny Najer (Russia), two-time Russian Champion Alexander Morozevich (Russia).
Team Princes: Russian higher league winner Vladislav Artemiev, Russian Cup winner Ivan Bukavshin, World U20 Champion Mikhail Antipov, and Russian Junior Champion Grigory Oparin.
Formula
The format is a double round Scheveningen, the first half being played with a classical time control, and the second one – with a rapid time control.
Classical part: 120 minutes for 40 moves + 60 minutes for the next 20 moves + 15 minutes with 30 bonus second per move for the rest of the game. Draw offers before the move 40 are restricted. Victory gives 2 points, draw gives 1 point.
Rapid part: 15 minutes with 10 second increment. Victory gives 1 point, draw gives 0.5 point.
Nutcracker Rapid
Round 8, Dec. 24, 2015
Morozevich, Alexander – Bukavshin, Ivan
B48 Sicilian, Taimanov Variation
Garry Kasparov - Messy play at the top in the Qatar Open, but don't miss a nice game by Morozevich today in the "Nutcracker" event!
The Nutcracker generation chess tournament takes place on December 19-26 in Moscow in the Vladimir Dvorkovich Chess Saloon. This year it will include two Scheveningen matches – Kings vs Princes, and Girls vs Boys.
The event is organized by Russian Chess Federation, Fund of Chess Art Support, and businessman Oleg Skvortsov, who also runs traditional Zurich Chess Challenge tournament.
Lineups
Team Kings: World Vice-Champion Boris Gelfand (Israel), World Vice-Champion Peter Leko (Hungary), European Champion Evgeny Najer (Russia), two-time Russian Champion Alexander Morozevich (Russia).
Team Princes: Russian higher league winner Vladislav Artemiev, Russian Cup winner Ivan Bukavshin, World U20 Champion Mikhail Antipov, and Russian Junior Champion Grigory Oparin.
Formula
The format is a double round Scheveningen, the first half being played with a classical time control, and the second one – with a rapid time control.
Classical part: 120 minutes for 40 moves + 60 minutes for the next 20 moves + 15 minutes with 30 bonus second per move for the rest of the game. Draw offers before the move 40 are restricted. Victory gives 2 points, draw gives 1 point.
Rapid part: 15 minutes with 10 second increment. Victory gives 1 point, draw gives 0.5 point.
Nutcracker Rapid
Round 8, Dec. 24, 2015
Morozevich, Alexander – Bukavshin, Ivan
B48 Sicilian, Taimanov Variation
Jon Ludvig Hammer becomes Norway's 2nd elite GM with a live rating of 2700.1 after his miniature today in R3 of the 45th Rilton Cup. Hammer's a perfect 3/3 and here's his 22 move demolition of the Swedish GM, Eric Blomqvist.
Tore Rilton was born on July 18, 1904 in Gothenburg and passed away on September 7, 1983. One summer day in 1971 money was sent to the organizers of a local chess tournament, the Stockholm Open. “Make a strong tournament,” was the short directive that was attached. It was from Dr. Tore Rilton, a man whom few knew any more about than his appearance. When the organizers tried to thank their benefactor by letters, the letters were returned, and when they called, they were met by a dry secretarial voice explaining that the doctor did not receive any calls. The only thing the organizers could do to mark the donation was to change the name of the tournament to the Rilton Cup. Twelve years later when Tore Rilton died, he had willed them a considerable sum of money to a newly formed foundation, which was to ensure the financing of the Rilton Cup Tournament in perpetuity.
The 45th Rilton Cup features nearly 300 players from 35 countries. The event's namesake, Dr. Tore Rilton, who died in 1983, wanted the tournament to be an opportunity for young Swedish talents to challenge strong masters from abroad, and this year's edition includes 75 players with FIDE titles.
Norwegian Jon Ludvig Hammer won a spectacular game vs Erik Blomqvist, Sweden, in round 3. Hammer's victory took him over 2700 in live rating for the first time and he received cheers after the press conference in the TV-studio. Well deserved! Jon Ludvig Hammer has 3 of 3 points in the Rilton Cup.
Rilton Cup 2015 Stockholm
Round 3, Dec. 29, 2015
Hammer, Jon Ludvig – Blomqvist, Erik
D20 QGA
Hammer improved his 2700 status with a 4th consecutive win. Two other GMs also have a perfect 4/4, Maxim Rodshtein, also within striking distance of 2700 at 2694, and the great veteran and former 2700 player himself, Michal Krasenkow. Today is a rest day and Hammer plays Rodshtein in R5 tomorrow. The games are apparently drawing record TV audiences (:
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