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European Club Cup 2016, Novi Sad
November 9, 2016
Peter Doggers at chess.com:
Many chess stars gathered Sunday in the Serbian city of Novi Sad for the 32nd European Chess Club Cup and the 21st European Chess Club Cup for Women.
Novi Sad certainly is a chess-minded city. In 1990, while still part of Yugoslavia, it hosted the 29th chess olympiad. Gold was won by the Soviet Union, despite the absence of both Garry Kasparov and Anatoly Karpov—They were playing their fifth and last world championship match.
The team consisted of Vassily Ivanchuk, Boris Gelfand, Alexander Beliavsky, Leonid Yudasin and Evgeny Bareev. 26 years later, the top two boards of the Soviet Olympic team are back in Novi Sad. Ivanchuk is playing for seventh-seeded Ashdod from Ukraine, whereas Gelfand plays for the strong Italian club OR Padova, who are seeded third.
The top favorite in Novi Sad is Siberia, the reigning champions. They play with e. g. Vladimir Kramnik, Anish Giri, Alexander Grischuk, Evgeny Tomashevsky, and Li Chao. Second-seeded Alkaloid have six 2700+ players, one more than Siberia. Their top guns are Ding Liren, Dmitry Andreikin, Pavel Eljanov, Dmitry Jakovenko and Yu Yangyi.
Many more famous grandmasters are playing (although not all of them played in the first round), such as Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, Levon Aronian (both Padova), Peter Svidler, Leinier Dominguez (both Mednyi Vsadnik), Pentala Harikrishna, (Ave Novy Bor), and Shakhriyar Mamedyarov (VSK Sveti Nikolaj Srpski).
https://www.chess.com/news/view/euro...ith-stars-7719
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The tournament is already on and finishes Saturday (November 6 – 12). The 4th round was completed today.
It is impossible to cover more than a small part. We may confine ourselves to the games of our favorites – Vassily Ivanchuk, Alexander Morozevich and Anish Giri, if they do well!
All the results can be seen at:
http://euroclubcup2016.com/participants/
and
http://euroclubcup2016.com
Right now, however, they are talking about Richard Rapport’s 3rd round game as having the move of the year.
https://www.chess.com/news
European Club Cup 2016
Novi Sad, Serbia
Round 3, 8 Nov. 2016
Aronian, Levon – Rapport, Richard
D07 QGD, Chigorin Defence
1.d4 d5 2.c4 Nc6 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.cxd5 Nxd5 5.Nf3 e5 6.dxe5 Bb4 7.Bd2 Nxc3 8.bxc3 Ba5 9.e3 O-O 10.Qa4 Bb6 11.Qf4 Qe7 12.h4 f6 13.exf6 Rxf6 14.Qc4+ Kh8 15.Bd3 Bf5 16.Bxf5 Rxf5 17.Ng5 Ne5 18.Qe4 Qd7 19.O-O Re8 20.Qc2 h6 21.Ne4 Rh5 22.Ng3 Rxh4 23.Rad1 Rf8 24.Bc1 Qg4 25.Rd5 Qg5 26.Qe2 c6 27.Rd4 Rh1+ 28.Kxh1 Bxd4 29.f3 Bb6 30.Ne4 Qh5+ 31.Kg1 Bc7 32.Kf2 Qh2 33.Ke1 Rd8 34.Bd2 Nd3+ 35.Kd1 Qe5 36.g4 Qb5 37.Qg2 Nb2+ 38.Kc2 Nc4 39.Bc1 Rd5 40.g5 Na5 41.Bd2 Qd3+ 0-1
Position after 27..Rh1+
Michael Ciamarra
Rapport's 27...Rh1+!! may be one of the most original, astonishing and magical moves of 2016! One for the anthologies!
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Can your chess engine find Rapport’s 27th? Mine couldn’t.
November 9, 2016
Peter Doggers at chess.com:
Many chess stars gathered Sunday in the Serbian city of Novi Sad for the 32nd European Chess Club Cup and the 21st European Chess Club Cup for Women.
Novi Sad certainly is a chess-minded city. In 1990, while still part of Yugoslavia, it hosted the 29th chess olympiad. Gold was won by the Soviet Union, despite the absence of both Garry Kasparov and Anatoly Karpov—They were playing their fifth and last world championship match.
The team consisted of Vassily Ivanchuk, Boris Gelfand, Alexander Beliavsky, Leonid Yudasin and Evgeny Bareev. 26 years later, the top two boards of the Soviet Olympic team are back in Novi Sad. Ivanchuk is playing for seventh-seeded Ashdod from Ukraine, whereas Gelfand plays for the strong Italian club OR Padova, who are seeded third.
The top favorite in Novi Sad is Siberia, the reigning champions. They play with e. g. Vladimir Kramnik, Anish Giri, Alexander Grischuk, Evgeny Tomashevsky, and Li Chao. Second-seeded Alkaloid have six 2700+ players, one more than Siberia. Their top guns are Ding Liren, Dmitry Andreikin, Pavel Eljanov, Dmitry Jakovenko and Yu Yangyi.
Many more famous grandmasters are playing (although not all of them played in the first round), such as Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, Levon Aronian (both Padova), Peter Svidler, Leinier Dominguez (both Mednyi Vsadnik), Pentala Harikrishna, (Ave Novy Bor), and Shakhriyar Mamedyarov (VSK Sveti Nikolaj Srpski).
https://www.chess.com/news/view/euro...ith-stars-7719
_________
The tournament is already on and finishes Saturday (November 6 – 12). The 4th round was completed today.
It is impossible to cover more than a small part. We may confine ourselves to the games of our favorites – Vassily Ivanchuk, Alexander Morozevich and Anish Giri, if they do well!
All the results can be seen at:
http://euroclubcup2016.com/participants/
and
http://euroclubcup2016.com
Right now, however, they are talking about Richard Rapport’s 3rd round game as having the move of the year.
https://www.chess.com/news
European Club Cup 2016
Novi Sad, Serbia
Round 3, 8 Nov. 2016
Aronian, Levon – Rapport, Richard
D07 QGD, Chigorin Defence
1.d4 d5 2.c4 Nc6 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.cxd5 Nxd5 5.Nf3 e5 6.dxe5 Bb4 7.Bd2 Nxc3 8.bxc3 Ba5 9.e3 O-O 10.Qa4 Bb6 11.Qf4 Qe7 12.h4 f6 13.exf6 Rxf6 14.Qc4+ Kh8 15.Bd3 Bf5 16.Bxf5 Rxf5 17.Ng5 Ne5 18.Qe4 Qd7 19.O-O Re8 20.Qc2 h6 21.Ne4 Rh5 22.Ng3 Rxh4 23.Rad1 Rf8 24.Bc1 Qg4 25.Rd5 Qg5 26.Qe2 c6 27.Rd4 Rh1+ 28.Kxh1 Bxd4 29.f3 Bb6 30.Ne4 Qh5+ 31.Kg1 Bc7 32.Kf2 Qh2 33.Ke1 Rd8 34.Bd2 Nd3+ 35.Kd1 Qe5 36.g4 Qb5 37.Qg2 Nb2+ 38.Kc2 Nc4 39.Bc1 Rd5 40.g5 Na5 41.Bd2 Qd3+ 0-1
Position after 27..Rh1+
Michael Ciamarra
Rapport's 27...Rh1+!! may be one of the most original, astonishing and magical moves of 2016! One for the anthologies!
_________
Can your chess engine find Rapport’s 27th? Mine couldn’t.
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