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Uncle Yaz is at the dentist this morning. Bummer. But direct proof that he is working too hard and talking too much. Take it easy Uncle Yaz we need you here for the whole show.
Uncle Yaz is back in the room and is upbeat. You'd never know by his diction that he'd been at the dentist. Lots of colorful commentary and anecdotes. Theyre currently enjoying Fab Fabi - the Shak and its an attacking Sicilian which Uncle Yaz says Vishy Anand seems to find amazing moves in. They are now discussing the internal clock which every tournament chessplayer has.
Two games draw early and the commentators spend all their energy on Caruana-Mamedyarov. There are Gustafsson-Svidler, Hansen-Sierawan and Trent-Polgar.
Round 3, Mar. 12
So, Wesley - Ding Liren
C89 Ruy Lopez, Marshall Counter-Attack
During a slow period, Peter Svidler told this Taimanov-Petrosian story:
I am particularly fond of because it features the coach who influenced me most - Andrey Lukin. He was tremendously strong but never achieved the grandmaster title.
He was playing in a team tournament of sporting societies. He was playing white against Mark Taimanov and the game was adjourned with Lukin having Q against R, B and p. The position was unclear but was analyzed reasonably well by both teams on adjournment. Taimanov kept pushing in the resumed game because he generally believed every position of his was winning. He did not think much of other people's analysis in the post-game. Lukin was playing on a team in which Petrosian was Board One. At some point, Petrosian got up and stopped by and listened to the analysis. Taimanov was claiming that he was clearly better. Petrosian was stunned by this and said, "But Mark, look, this is a queen!" This ended the discussion because Taimanov was big but Petrosian was much bigger.
The set up is unlike anything I have worked before. Each game is walled off from the next so you cannot see anymore than 2 partial views at a time. I feel like a short track speed skater walking around the perimeter continuously. No effort has been made to curtail mobile phones so they are everywhere. The noise level of the crowd around the balcony above us was a bit much so we hope the security and volunteers will be more vigilant going forward. There is only one toilet on the game floor. A second one is available one floor down. Not ideal.
Despite these challenges the organizers are very happy with the visuals and compared to Moscow 2016 the noise level is much better. I only glanced at Aronian's game against Liren as I made my rounds but I thought he would be the first victor of the day. Instead it was the only draw! Shak's win with Black against Karjakin seems to confirm that his steady rise has been no fluke and he continues to play the best chess if his career.
We still have 13 lucky rounds to go. Off to work!
Hi Hal,
The Germans have a reputation of being the best organized folks on the planet...have things improved?
The Germans have a reputation of being the best organized folks on the planet...have things improved?
Larry
Agon is the organizer. Germany is the location. We (Klaus Deventer and I) met with the organizers for more than an hour after the first game. The noise levels were much better in the 2nd and 3rd rounds. Agon has a unique approach to these events. They rent an empty shell of a building and construct the interior as they wish. The layout here is very different but I guess it looks nice from above. The VIP lounge is 3 stories above the playing area and completely closed off so we don't have noise problems from them. This is another improvement over Moscow 2016 where the VIP lounge was maybe 20 meters from the stage. Between them and the rush hour Moscow traffic the noise was terrible.
All eyes were on Aronian, who lost badly in Round Three, to see how the loss would affect him. Karjakin played weakly in the opening and Aronian dominated for the rest of the game.
Grischuk-Ding was up and down and designated the game of the day by Jan and Peter.
Kramnik-Caruana looked good for Fabiano before the first time control and then Kramnik was better and the commentators started talking of him as the potential challenger to Carlsen!
Round 4, Mar. 14
Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar - So, Wesley
E37 Nimzo-Indian, Classical, Noa variation, main line
Near the end of this game, one comment in the chat room is that it is just "like a Ryu Murakami novel". Peter and Ian discuss this but to me it is still obscure. They have also discussed Heartstone and yugioh. Oh, Lord!
This game goes on and on. I think I hear Jan say that he is writing a book called, "How to win when you are a rook up"
The roller coaster game goes on. At move 57 it is a draw and then on 59 it looks like Caruana will take away the win!
Other games that come up on the chat are snooker, darts, three-cushion billiards, football, Magic and Dominion the card game
Position after Kramnik's 57.Kc2
Round 4, Mar. 14
Grischuk, Alexander - Ding Liren
D43 QGD, Semi-Slav
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