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Aryan Tari is playing in the Rilton Cup (see previous posting). He is the 16-year-old grandmaster from Norway, who is widely seen as successor to Magnus Carlsen.
These two tweets online:
- Although my tournament has not gone well so far, I won in a beautiful way today. Can you spot the mate for White?
- GM Aryan Tari (NOR) finished a game in a nice fashion against Eric Thörn, who had just promoted to a second queen. Bit of a rating gap in this game (2556 vs 2140), but I thought it was a sweet ending.
Rilton Cup 2015 Stockholm
Round 4, Dec. 30, 2015
Tari, Aryan – Thorn, Eric
E63 King’s Indian, Fianchetto, Panno System
The majority of the games have appeared in Chess Talk the last year but for completeness they are all given below. What is your favorite? What is your justification?
Hammer is putting the finishing touches to another beautiful game at the Rilton Cup today. The hitherto perfect Krasenkow, 5/5, certainly appears he's about to lose to the nearly perfect Hammer, 4.5/5. They'be both rattled off 40 "blue" moves yet Hammer, with Black, is seemingly winning in all lines. (:
Hammer is putting the finishing touches to another beautiful game at the Rilton Cup today. The hitherto perfect Krasenkow, 5/5, certainly appears he's about to lose to the nearly perfect Hammer, 4.5/5. They'be both rattled off 40 "blue" moves yet Hammer, with Black, is seemingly winning in all lines. (:
With this win, Hammer overtakes Wei Yi for #38 in live rankings and clearly has Vietnam's best, Le Quang Liem, and a trio of impressive Ukrainians, Ivanchuk, Korobov, and Ponomariov, well within reach.
The New Zealand Open is on and Nigel Short is playing in it - as are Gawain Jones, Alexandr Fier, Qun Ma and Wenjun Ju (66 players). I see a Louie Wei and a Hikaru Oka on the list but I don't think these are pseudonyms of the much more famous players with similar names!
After four rounds Wenjun Ju leads with 4 points, followed by Ma, Fier, Cornette, Steadman and Jones with 3.5. Nigel has 3 with eight others.
This is a three-day open rapid tournament, 15 minutes for the entire game with 10-second increment starting from the first move.
It is taking place in Tallinn, the capital of Estonia.
A report after the first day from chessdom.com:
The first day of the 25th Keres Memorial – ACP Open has concluded. In addition to the main rapid tournament, there were various other organized events that celebrated the anniversary of Paul Keres’ birth – a new coin and a new stamp, several presentations and speeches in memory of the great chess mind, set to live classical music.
In the first of the main event, 4 rounds have been played. There are 5 players with perfect scores so far – GM Kiril Georgiev (Bulgaria), Daniel Friedman (Germany), Victor Mikhalevski (Israel) GM Jan-Krzysztof Duda (Poland), and Aleksey Goganov (Russia). Overall, the first place is shared between 5 people from 5 different nations.
First seed GM Svidler from Russia is currently in 22nd place with 3 points. The first day of the Keres Memorial has shown us some spectacular games. A highlight was FM Krupenski, in his game against Boris Gelfand, demonstrated admirable play, with a great queen sacrifice.
Finally, the new chess coin, dedicated to Paul Keres, has been unveiled. The coin, as well as the tournament this year, are dedicated to the 100th anniversary of Paul Keres’ birth. His likeness is now available on legal tender 2 Euro coins. Additionally, a stamp has been presented as well. It is a 65 cent nominal stamp that will be printed in 60 000 copies.
This year's Moscow Open was surprisingly won by the young grandmaster Urii Eliseev, whose loss in Round Seven was spectacular. The 2013 Russian U16 Champion, now a 19-year-old grandmaster rated 2582, played in the A Tournament and won it! He finished in shared first place with an even more surprising name: FM Dmitry Gordievsky. Eliseev had the better tiebreak of the two, who finished on 7.5 points.
Trailing by half a point was a group of seven players, which included well-known grandmasters such as Anton Korobov, Ernesto Inarkiev, Vladislav Artemiev and Artyom Timofeev. It was Timofeev who was responsible for Eliseev's only loss, in Round Seven. That was arguably the game of the tournament, with four queens on the board for several moves.
Held at the Russian State Social University from January 28-February 8.
The worldchess.com site has this game from Gibraltar. Comment is by Parimarjan Negi.
The rating of Lazaro Bruzon Batista, one of Cuba’s best players, oscillates a great deal, but he always sticks to original and exciting ideas, avoiding the well trodden paths of opening theory. It often leads to intensely fought games.
The following, played during the recent Gibraltar Chess Festival, is a good example. Bruzon enters an obscure variation of the Reti, trying to set off fireworks. His opponent, Alexander Donchenko, one of the new generation of grandmasters from Germany, does not shy away from the fight but takes up the challenge — playing principled and provocative moves. The result is a fierce battle.
Gibraltar Masters 2016
Round 6, Jan. 31, 2016
Bruzon Batista, Luzon – Donchenko, Alexander
A13 English (incl. Catalan, QGD, etc.)
Notes: Parimarjan Negi is an Indian grandmaster who is the second-youngest ever to earn the title (at 13 years 4 months and 22 days). Ranked No. 82 in the world, he is currently a sophomore at Stanford University.
GM Alexander Donchenko is а 18-year-old chess prodigy with Elo rating 2567. The young German Grandmaster has already taken a 2700′s scalp when he defeated Arkadij Naiditsch in May, 2015.
Solingen tied the heavily favoured Baden-Baden team today in Germany. Baden-Baden features an all elite team with Naiditsch playing their 8 board. The final game to finish was the 6.5 hour marathon between the world's #1 Junior, Richard Rapport, and Levon Aronian, where Rapport's win secured the 4-4 final score.
This game is not recent. In fact, it is 26 years old. But sometimes it is interesting to view an older game with a history.
I was reading an interview in Kingpin Magazine, No. 28, Spring 1998. Yasser Seirawan was asked:
What was your most embarrassing moment at the chessboard?
Only one that I can think of: it was in Moscow at the 1990 GMA qualifier I was playing Josef Dorfman a very tense and crucial game. Josef had just grabbed his queen, ground it into the c4-square and very slowly withdrew his queen back to her original square – without releasing her. Once the queen had settled back on the original square, Josef released his queen. He eventually played a different queen move. I protested to the arbiter. The arbiter who spoke only Russian spoke to Dorfman and allowed the ‘new’ move. I protested again to the chief arbiter Geurt Geissen. Geurt listened very carefully to what I had to say and then said Dorfman’s new move stood. I protested that I wanted to see the rule book regarding touch move rules and Geurt found one. There I read nothing that could prohibit Dorfman from his original move.
I put down the rule book, turned to Geurt and said, ‘I’m sorry. You are right, I am wrong. ’ Geurt found my discomfiture amusing and asked where I got such an idea. I again apologized and explained that in USCF tournaments it wouldn’t be allowed to, say, play Qd1-h5 and then switch the queen to the a4-square and snap the clock. Geurt was in heaven and exclaimed, ‘Well! We certainly are not in the USCF, we are in FIDE now! ’ This really rankled me and I blurted, ‘No sh#4! I thought this was a GMA tournament. ’ It was the one time I lost my temper during a game and I’ve apologized to Geurt many times since.
Moscow GMA Qualifier, 1990
Round 10, May 1990
Dorfman, Josef – Seirawan, Yasser
B15 Caro-Kann, Forgacs Variation
4.6 When, as a legal move or part of a legal move, a piece has been released on a square, it cannot be moved to another square on this move. The move is then considered to have been made.
The queen having been touched has to move somewhere. Leaving it on its original square would mean losing a move, in effect, so I guess the arbiter is correct. Any comments?
ground it into the c4-square and very slowly withdrew his queen back to her original square – without releasing her.
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4.6 When, as a legal move or part of a legal move, a piece has been released on a square, it cannot be moved to another square on this move. The move is then considered to have been made.
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Any comments?
Arbiters were right. If similar moves would be done more often in the game, the arbiter might warn the player for distraction. Though it's a quite standard practice in blitz.
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