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The Adams vs Laznicka match has certainly been entertaining. Laznicka won the opening game but Adams won the second game to force tie-breaks. Today Adams wins the first Rapid game but Laznicka answers with a win of his own (:
Yuri Vovk (Ukrainian: (born 11 November 1988) is a Ukrainian chess player. He was trained by Vladimir Grabinsky, coach of the Ukrainian youth team. He became a Grandmaster in 2008, at age 20.
His major success has been the victory In February 2009 of the colossal 610-player Cappelle-la-Grande Open in France, above 106 Grandmasters and 76 International Masters, with 7.5 points out of 9.
Here he beats Wei Yi in the first of two 10+10 games with both players eschewing the draw and moving with only a second or two to go in the endgame.
Round Two, Game 5
Blitz
Sept. 16, 2015
Wei Yi – Vovk, Yuri
C11 French, Steinitz, Boleslavsky Variation
Yuri Vovk (Ukrainian: (born 11 November 1988) is a Ukrainian chess player. He was trained by Vladimir Grabinsky, coach of the Ukrainian youth team. He became a Grandmaster in 2008, at age 20.
His major success has been the victory In February 2009 of the colossal 610-player Cappelle-la-Grande Open in France, above 106 Grandmasters and 76 International Masters, with 7.5 points out of 9.
Here he beats Wei Yi in the first of two 10+10 games with both players eschewing the draw and moving with only a second or two to go in the endgame.
Round Two, Game 5
Sept. 16, 2015
Wei Yi – Vovk, Yuri
C11 French, Steinitz, Boleslavsky Variation
Laznicka went to the same Scandinavian well in the Blitz game and had another Black win if he could only find b4 (several opportunities) but didn't and Adams and Laznicka played their first draw after 6 straight decisive games.
The round is now finished. The last game was Armageddon with Mickey Adams versus Viktor Laznicka. I counted eleven people crowding around the chess table, three of them were camera men.
I find a couple of the betting lines of interest. Kramnik is the 17/10 favourite against Andreikin, who's at a surprising 34/5 despite owning a plus 3, minus 1, equal 5 record against Vlad. And Wesley So is the 167/100 favourite against Le Quang Liem, who's at 6 to 1 despite never having lost to Wesley with a win and 5 draws.
All of the games were over in five hours. They can be summarized in one sentence. Caruana beat Kovalyov, Grischuk missed winning chances against Eljanov in time trouble and lost, Karjakin and Mamedyarov won, Topalov left the board with a disappointing draw.
One doesn’t normally like jokes about people’s names but Ian Rogers had this this morning:
(Ian Rogers) - So's pairing looks like a lyric from The Sound of Music. Rapid and blitz chess are among the young Vietnamese star's favourite things, so So will want to finish the match in the classical games.
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The games:
World Cup Baku 2015
Round 3, Game 1, Sept. 17, 2015
Classical
Caruana, Fabiano – Kovalyov, Anton
B90 Sicilian, Najdorf
I made a few mistakes trying to place names with nationalities in yesterday’s posting in this thread.
The corrections:
1 x Hungarian – Leko
3 x Ukrainian – Eljanov, Ivanchuk, Areshchenko
3 x Azerbaijani – Radjabov, Mamedyarov, Guseinov
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Online Comments
- Topa knows he blew it...he left upset.
- Grischuk is in terrible shape in this tournament, imho. He doesn't deserve going to final, frankly
- Grischuk waits for an Eljanov’s heart attack
- Naka or Caruana have to go to the final, doesnt matter if they win or not
i cant believe people dont understand this
- Kovalyov's problems started when he took back the knight on c5 with the d-pawn instead of the b-pawn on move 23 and Caruana expertly has used his advantage to put more and more pressure
- Giri vs Leko. is there anything more drawish?
- Karjakin wins. Brilliant flawless game.
- Jakovenko's dream outcome would actually be Nakamura and Caruana meeting in the semifinals. It would guarantee Jakovenko the Candidates
Given the "Giri vs Leko. is there anything more drawish?" comment supra, and the supporting empirical evidence, 6 draws in 6 classical encounters, perhaps tomorrow's 1/2 draw odds offers a good ROI (:
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