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Grenke Chess Classic 2018
April 8, 2018
Round Eight
Peter Svidler joins the guys by Skype from St. Petersburg. He has a big black pair of earphones on. He says that Caruana-Aronian will be drawn in a few moments and it is an example of humour in chess because it is a three-fold repetition by moving bishops back and forth.
He compliments Peter on his work with Vincent, talks highly of Vitiugov and discusses the exchange of queens in Bluebaum-MVL.
Vitiugov is 31, born in Leningrad and acted as a second for Peter Svidler in the Candidates Tournaments of 2013 (London) and 2014 (Khanty-Mansiysk). He is playing for the lead with Carlsen and Caruana in the last two rounds. At the moment he is 21st on the Live Rating List with 2743.
Peter will be playing in the Russian League but nothing else for a while. He leaves when the player interviews start.
Meier says that he might have been able to mate Vishy in yesterday's game. (36..f6!, which threatens 37...Rg4+). Hou Yifan also talked about her game with Caruana in Round Six. Peter thought the ending was hopelessly lost for Fabi and asks analysts to look at it and, if it is a theoretical draw, to publish it in all serious endgame journals.
Question to both: Who is the strongest chess player of all time? Peter said his favorite player was Tigran Petrosian. Probably this was due to the fact that he wrote a book of his games which was published in Hungarian. In an interview in the book Petrosian was asked what he did on Sundays and he said Sundays are for football. Peter loved chess and football and so Petrosian became his favorite player. Peter said he played through the book dozens of time. I wonder if it was Petroszjan tanit (Petrosian teaches) Budapest, 1989.
Later, he met Bobby Fischer and he lived in his house in 1998 and 1999 - for one and a half years. He understood how great he was. Peter was 19 and about to enter the top ten. He would be working at his desk and the computer with Bobby next to him. Bobby would fall asleep and then when he woke up, look at the position on the screen and told immediately the absolutely best move. That is when Peter realized how strong he was.
He was very skeptical of everyone at that time and staying at a hotel. After sometime, he would stay in the Leko house. He had been in Hungary since 1993.
Peter: "We did not work on chess together. I would show him my games and he would tell me about his games and positions and talked about pre-arranged games. He felt that a player should play perfect chess in the endgame.
He had a key to all the doors in our household and could come and go as he wished. When he left in 1999 to Japan, we did not speak again."
Jan said that Shereshevsky's Endgame Strategy (1994) book was a real eye-opener to him when he was a young man. There were things in there that he had never thought about before.
Asked about his early life in chess, Peter responded this way: "I learned the moves of chess the week before I turned 7. We were at Trogir on the Croatian coast of Yugoslavia. I spent three or four hours playing football each day in the evening. My parents didn't know how to occupy me during the day. So, my father taught me chess so I could play with others and the rest of my family could enjoy the beach.
Later on, I progressed quite quickly into chess, no coach but studying everything I could find. I would wake up early 5:30 AM or 6:00 AM on weekends. I would sit on the floor by the window in the room I shared with my brother. I had a chess set, not complete. The queen was a medicine bottle which belonged to my grandfather. In a dark room, with a bit of light from the window, I played over all the games in the books I had there.
I had coaches after that but my enthusiasm became most intense in 1989 with the fall of the Soviet Union. I had moved to Kecskemet when I was nine and a lot of chess masters from the Soviet Union were trying to move to the west but stopping first at Hungary and playing at the chess tournament there. At one time, for two and a half years, I was living in a one-room flat with players of seven different nationalities. I would play all-night blitz but my coach didn't like that because I would be exhausted in the morning. So, I learned all styles at the age of nine and ten by playing blitz with grandmasters.
________
There is a web page called Chess in Kecskemet about the monthly tournaments there now. It has this statement:
Kecskemet has more like 80 years tradition in international chess tournament organization and chess book publication. We organize international chess tournaments from 1978. We welcome chess players interested in individual and group-chess training in German or English. Peter Leko, Berkes Ferenc and Zoltan Gyimesi - members of the succesful Hungarian Olympic Team-, had their first chess-teachers among the Kecskemet's masters, and they started their chess careers at Kecskemet's tournaments
http://www.chessinkecskemet.hu/page/...%20tournaments
The games:
Round 8, Apr. 8
Naiditsch, Arkady - Anand, Vishy
C53 Giuoco Piano
1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.c3 Nf6 5.d4 exd4 6.e5 d5 7.Bb5 Ne4 8.cxd4 Bb6 9.Nc3 O-O 10.Be3 Bg4 11.h3 Bh5 12.Qc2 Bxf3 13.gxf3 Ng5 14.O-O-O Nxf3 15.Bxc6 bxc6 16.Qf5 Nh4 17.Qg4 Ng6 18.f4 Qh4 19.Rd3 Qxg4 20.hxg4 f5 21.g5 Kf7 22.Rxh7 Rh8 23.Rxh8 Rxh8 24.a3 Nf8 25.Ne2 Ke7 26.Rc3 Kd7 27.Kd2 Ne6 28.Rc1 g6 29.b4 a5 30.Kd3 axb4 31.axb4 Ba7 32.Ra1 Bb6 33.Ra6 Rb8 34.Ra2 Rh8 35.Ra1 Ke7 36.Ra2 Kd7 37.Ra1 Ke7 38.Ra2 1/2-1/2
Round 8, Apr. 8
Bluebaum, Matthias - MVL
A34 English, symmetrical, Three Knights System
1.Nf3 c5 2.c4 Nf6 3.Nc3 d5 4.cxd5 Nxd5 5.e3 Nxc3 6.dxc3 Qc7 7.e4 Nc6 8.Qd2 e6 9.Qg5 f6 10.Qh5+ Qf7 11.Qxf7+ Kxf7 12.Be3 e5 13.Bc4+ Be6 14.Bxe6+ Kxe6 15.O-O-O Be7 16.Rd5 Rhd8 17.Rhd1 b6 18.g4 Na5 19.b3 Rxd5 20.exd5+ Kf7 21.c4 Nb7 22.Nd2 Rh8 23.Rg1 Nd6 24.Kc2 Re8 25.Kd3 h5 26.g5 f5 27.f4 e4+ 28.Ke2 g6 29.Rc1 Rc8 30.a4 Nb7 31.Nf1 Bf8 32.Bd2 Bg7 33.Ne3 a6 34.Bc3 Bd4 35.Kd2 Re8 36.Rc2 Nd6 37.Ra2 Nb7 38.Rc2 Ke7 39.Ra2 Na5 40.Bxa5 bxa5 41.Rc2 Rb8 42.Rc3 h4 43.h3 Kd6 44.Kc2 Bxe3 45.Rxe3 1/2-1/2
Round 8, Apr. 8
Carlsen, Magnus - Vitiugov, Nikita
C77 Ruy Lopez, Anderssen variation
1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.d3 b5 6.Bb3 Bc5 7.c3 O-O 8.O-O Re8 9.Re1 h6 10.Nbd2 Bb6 11.Nf1 d6 12.Ng3 Be6 13.h3 Bxb3 14.axb3 d5 15.Qe2 Bc5 16.b4 Bf8 17.Nd2 a5 18.bxa5 Rxa5 19.Rxa5 Nxa5 20.exd5 Qxd5 21.Nde4 Nxe4 22.dxe4 Qc4 23.Qf3 Qe6 24.Nf5 Nc4 25.h4 Kh7 26.h5 g6 27.Ne3 Nxe3 28.hxg6+ fxg6 29.Bxe3 Bd6 30.Qe2 Qc4 31.Qxc4 bxc4 32.Ra1 Rb8 33.Bc1 Rb6 34.Ra4 Rc6 35.Be3 h5 36.Kf1 Kg7 37.Ke2 Kf6 38.Kd1 Ke6 39.Kc2 Be7 40.f3 Bh4 41.Ra5 Bg3 42.Bc5 g5 43.Bb4 g4 44.fxg4 hxg4 45.Ra8 Kf7 46.Rc8 Bf4 47.Kd1 Kg7 48.Ke2 Kf7 49.Rf8+ Kg7 50.Rd8 Kf7 51.Kf2 Kg7 52.Rd7+ Kf6 53.g3 Bc1 54.Rd1 Bg5 55.Ke2 Ke6 56.Rh1 Ra6 57.Ba3 Rb6 58.Rh7 Rb7 59.Kd1 Rb8 60.Kc2 Rd8 61.Rg7 Rd2+ 62.Kc1 Bf6 63.Kxd2 Bxg7 64.Bc5 Kd7 65.Be3 1/2-1/2
Round 8, Apr. 8
Caruana, Fabiano - Aronian, Levon
C67 Ruy Lopez, Berlin Defence, open variation
1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 Nf6 4.O-O Nxe4 5.Re1 Nd6 6.Nxe5 Be7 7.Bf1 Nxe5 8.Rxe5 O-O 9.d4 Bf6 10.Re1 Nf5 11.d5 Re8 12.Bd3 Rxe1+ 13.Qxe1 Qe7 14.Qxe7 Nxe7 15.d6 cxd6 16.Na3 d5 17.Nb5 d6 18.Nxd6 Nc6 19.Bf4 Be6 20.Nxb7 Nb4 21.Nc5 Bxb2 22.Rb1 Nxd3 23.cxd3 Bd4 24.Be3 Bxc5 25.Bxc5 d4 26.Bxa7 Bxa2 27.Rb8+ Rxb8 28.Bxb8 Bb1 29.Ba7 Ba2 30.Bb8 Bb1 31.Ba7 Ba2 32.Bb8 1/2-1/2
Round 8, Apr. 8
Meier, Georg - Hou Yifan
E05 Catalan, open, Classical line
1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 Nf6 4.g3 Be7 5.Bg2 O-O 6.O-O dxc4 7.Qc2 a6 8.a4 Bd7 9.Qxc4 Bc6 10.Bg5 Bd5 11.Qc2 Be4 12.Qd1 c5 13.dxc5 Bxc5 14.Qxd8 Rxd8 15.Nbd2 Bc6 16.Rfc1 Bb4 17.Rc4 Be7 18.Ne5 Bxg2 19.Kxg2 Nbd7 20.Nd3 Rac8 21.Rac1 Nb6 22.Rxc8 Rxc8 23.Rxc8+ Nxc8 24.e4 Nd7 25.Be3 Nd6 26.f4 f5 27.Kf3 Kf7 28.g4 g6 29.h3 Ke8 30.Bd4 Kd8 31.Bc3 Ke8 32.Bd4 Kd8 33.Bc3 Ke8 1/2-1/2
Standings after Round Eight
1 Caruana 5.5
2-3 Carlsen, Vitiugov 5
4-5 MVL, Aronian 4.5
6 Bluebaum 4
7-9 Naiditsch, Anand, Hou Yifan 3
10 Meier 2.5
Vitiugov-Caruana is on for tomorrow with Anand-Carlsen also of interest
Grenke Chess Classic 2018
April 8, 2018
Round Eight
Peter Svidler joins the guys by Skype from St. Petersburg. He has a big black pair of earphones on. He says that Caruana-Aronian will be drawn in a few moments and it is an example of humour in chess because it is a three-fold repetition by moving bishops back and forth.
He compliments Peter on his work with Vincent, talks highly of Vitiugov and discusses the exchange of queens in Bluebaum-MVL.
Vitiugov is 31, born in Leningrad and acted as a second for Peter Svidler in the Candidates Tournaments of 2013 (London) and 2014 (Khanty-Mansiysk). He is playing for the lead with Carlsen and Caruana in the last two rounds. At the moment he is 21st on the Live Rating List with 2743.
Peter will be playing in the Russian League but nothing else for a while. He leaves when the player interviews start.
Meier says that he might have been able to mate Vishy in yesterday's game. (36..f6!, which threatens 37...Rg4+). Hou Yifan also talked about her game with Caruana in Round Six. Peter thought the ending was hopelessly lost for Fabi and asks analysts to look at it and, if it is a theoretical draw, to publish it in all serious endgame journals.
Question to both: Who is the strongest chess player of all time? Peter said his favorite player was Tigran Petrosian. Probably this was due to the fact that he wrote a book of his games which was published in Hungarian. In an interview in the book Petrosian was asked what he did on Sundays and he said Sundays are for football. Peter loved chess and football and so Petrosian became his favorite player. Peter said he played through the book dozens of time. I wonder if it was Petroszjan tanit (Petrosian teaches) Budapest, 1989.
Later, he met Bobby Fischer and he lived in his house in 1998 and 1999 - for one and a half years. He understood how great he was. Peter was 19 and about to enter the top ten. He would be working at his desk and the computer with Bobby next to him. Bobby would fall asleep and then when he woke up, look at the position on the screen and told immediately the absolutely best move. That is when Peter realized how strong he was.
He was very skeptical of everyone at that time and staying at a hotel. After sometime, he would stay in the Leko house. He had been in Hungary since 1993.
Peter: "We did not work on chess together. I would show him my games and he would tell me about his games and positions and talked about pre-arranged games. He felt that a player should play perfect chess in the endgame.
He had a key to all the doors in our household and could come and go as he wished. When he left in 1999 to Japan, we did not speak again."
Jan said that Shereshevsky's Endgame Strategy (1994) book was a real eye-opener to him when he was a young man. There were things in there that he had never thought about before.
Asked about his early life in chess, Peter responded this way: "I learned the moves of chess the week before I turned 7. We were at Trogir on the Croatian coast of Yugoslavia. I spent three or four hours playing football each day in the evening. My parents didn't know how to occupy me during the day. So, my father taught me chess so I could play with others and the rest of my family could enjoy the beach.
Later on, I progressed quite quickly into chess, no coach but studying everything I could find. I would wake up early 5:30 AM or 6:00 AM on weekends. I would sit on the floor by the window in the room I shared with my brother. I had a chess set, not complete. The queen was a medicine bottle which belonged to my grandfather. In a dark room, with a bit of light from the window, I played over all the games in the books I had there.
I had coaches after that but my enthusiasm became most intense in 1989 with the fall of the Soviet Union. I had moved to Kecskemet when I was nine and a lot of chess masters from the Soviet Union were trying to move to the west but stopping first at Hungary and playing at the chess tournament there. At one time, for two and a half years, I was living in a one-room flat with players of seven different nationalities. I would play all-night blitz but my coach didn't like that because I would be exhausted in the morning. So, I learned all styles at the age of nine and ten by playing blitz with grandmasters.
________
There is a web page called Chess in Kecskemet about the monthly tournaments there now. It has this statement:
Kecskemet has more like 80 years tradition in international chess tournament organization and chess book publication. We organize international chess tournaments from 1978. We welcome chess players interested in individual and group-chess training in German or English. Peter Leko, Berkes Ferenc and Zoltan Gyimesi - members of the succesful Hungarian Olympic Team-, had their first chess-teachers among the Kecskemet's masters, and they started their chess careers at Kecskemet's tournaments
http://www.chessinkecskemet.hu/page/...%20tournaments
The games:
Round 8, Apr. 8
Naiditsch, Arkady - Anand, Vishy
C53 Giuoco Piano
1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.c3 Nf6 5.d4 exd4 6.e5 d5 7.Bb5 Ne4 8.cxd4 Bb6 9.Nc3 O-O 10.Be3 Bg4 11.h3 Bh5 12.Qc2 Bxf3 13.gxf3 Ng5 14.O-O-O Nxf3 15.Bxc6 bxc6 16.Qf5 Nh4 17.Qg4 Ng6 18.f4 Qh4 19.Rd3 Qxg4 20.hxg4 f5 21.g5 Kf7 22.Rxh7 Rh8 23.Rxh8 Rxh8 24.a3 Nf8 25.Ne2 Ke7 26.Rc3 Kd7 27.Kd2 Ne6 28.Rc1 g6 29.b4 a5 30.Kd3 axb4 31.axb4 Ba7 32.Ra1 Bb6 33.Ra6 Rb8 34.Ra2 Rh8 35.Ra1 Ke7 36.Ra2 Kd7 37.Ra1 Ke7 38.Ra2 1/2-1/2
Round 8, Apr. 8
Bluebaum, Matthias - MVL
A34 English, symmetrical, Three Knights System
1.Nf3 c5 2.c4 Nf6 3.Nc3 d5 4.cxd5 Nxd5 5.e3 Nxc3 6.dxc3 Qc7 7.e4 Nc6 8.Qd2 e6 9.Qg5 f6 10.Qh5+ Qf7 11.Qxf7+ Kxf7 12.Be3 e5 13.Bc4+ Be6 14.Bxe6+ Kxe6 15.O-O-O Be7 16.Rd5 Rhd8 17.Rhd1 b6 18.g4 Na5 19.b3 Rxd5 20.exd5+ Kf7 21.c4 Nb7 22.Nd2 Rh8 23.Rg1 Nd6 24.Kc2 Re8 25.Kd3 h5 26.g5 f5 27.f4 e4+ 28.Ke2 g6 29.Rc1 Rc8 30.a4 Nb7 31.Nf1 Bf8 32.Bd2 Bg7 33.Ne3 a6 34.Bc3 Bd4 35.Kd2 Re8 36.Rc2 Nd6 37.Ra2 Nb7 38.Rc2 Ke7 39.Ra2 Na5 40.Bxa5 bxa5 41.Rc2 Rb8 42.Rc3 h4 43.h3 Kd6 44.Kc2 Bxe3 45.Rxe3 1/2-1/2
Round 8, Apr. 8
Carlsen, Magnus - Vitiugov, Nikita
C77 Ruy Lopez, Anderssen variation
1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.d3 b5 6.Bb3 Bc5 7.c3 O-O 8.O-O Re8 9.Re1 h6 10.Nbd2 Bb6 11.Nf1 d6 12.Ng3 Be6 13.h3 Bxb3 14.axb3 d5 15.Qe2 Bc5 16.b4 Bf8 17.Nd2 a5 18.bxa5 Rxa5 19.Rxa5 Nxa5 20.exd5 Qxd5 21.Nde4 Nxe4 22.dxe4 Qc4 23.Qf3 Qe6 24.Nf5 Nc4 25.h4 Kh7 26.h5 g6 27.Ne3 Nxe3 28.hxg6+ fxg6 29.Bxe3 Bd6 30.Qe2 Qc4 31.Qxc4 bxc4 32.Ra1 Rb8 33.Bc1 Rb6 34.Ra4 Rc6 35.Be3 h5 36.Kf1 Kg7 37.Ke2 Kf6 38.Kd1 Ke6 39.Kc2 Be7 40.f3 Bh4 41.Ra5 Bg3 42.Bc5 g5 43.Bb4 g4 44.fxg4 hxg4 45.Ra8 Kf7 46.Rc8 Bf4 47.Kd1 Kg7 48.Ke2 Kf7 49.Rf8+ Kg7 50.Rd8 Kf7 51.Kf2 Kg7 52.Rd7+ Kf6 53.g3 Bc1 54.Rd1 Bg5 55.Ke2 Ke6 56.Rh1 Ra6 57.Ba3 Rb6 58.Rh7 Rb7 59.Kd1 Rb8 60.Kc2 Rd8 61.Rg7 Rd2+ 62.Kc1 Bf6 63.Kxd2 Bxg7 64.Bc5 Kd7 65.Be3 1/2-1/2
Round 8, Apr. 8
Caruana, Fabiano - Aronian, Levon
C67 Ruy Lopez, Berlin Defence, open variation
1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 Nf6 4.O-O Nxe4 5.Re1 Nd6 6.Nxe5 Be7 7.Bf1 Nxe5 8.Rxe5 O-O 9.d4 Bf6 10.Re1 Nf5 11.d5 Re8 12.Bd3 Rxe1+ 13.Qxe1 Qe7 14.Qxe7 Nxe7 15.d6 cxd6 16.Na3 d5 17.Nb5 d6 18.Nxd6 Nc6 19.Bf4 Be6 20.Nxb7 Nb4 21.Nc5 Bxb2 22.Rb1 Nxd3 23.cxd3 Bd4 24.Be3 Bxc5 25.Bxc5 d4 26.Bxa7 Bxa2 27.Rb8+ Rxb8 28.Bxb8 Bb1 29.Ba7 Ba2 30.Bb8 Bb1 31.Ba7 Ba2 32.Bb8 1/2-1/2
Round 8, Apr. 8
Meier, Georg - Hou Yifan
E05 Catalan, open, Classical line
1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 Nf6 4.g3 Be7 5.Bg2 O-O 6.O-O dxc4 7.Qc2 a6 8.a4 Bd7 9.Qxc4 Bc6 10.Bg5 Bd5 11.Qc2 Be4 12.Qd1 c5 13.dxc5 Bxc5 14.Qxd8 Rxd8 15.Nbd2 Bc6 16.Rfc1 Bb4 17.Rc4 Be7 18.Ne5 Bxg2 19.Kxg2 Nbd7 20.Nd3 Rac8 21.Rac1 Nb6 22.Rxc8 Rxc8 23.Rxc8+ Nxc8 24.e4 Nd7 25.Be3 Nd6 26.f4 f5 27.Kf3 Kf7 28.g4 g6 29.h3 Ke8 30.Bd4 Kd8 31.Bc3 Ke8 32.Bd4 Kd8 33.Bc3 Ke8 1/2-1/2
Standings after Round Eight
1 Caruana 5.5
2-3 Carlsen, Vitiugov 5
4-5 MVL, Aronian 4.5
6 Bluebaum 4
7-9 Naiditsch, Anand, Hou Yifan 3
10 Meier 2.5
Vitiugov-Caruana is on for tomorrow with Anand-Carlsen also of interest
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