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The 2019 Paris GCT Rapid & Blitz tournament is again facilitated by generous contributions from Vivendi, Canal+ and Colliers International. This year, the tournament is the third stop on the 2019 Grand Chess Tour and will see the participants competing over 9 rounds of rapid chess and 18 rounds of blitz chess for a total prize fund of $150,000.
DATES
July 27 – August 1, 2019
VENUE
Vivendi SA Head Office, 42 avenue de Friedland, 75380, Paris, France
FORMAT
10 Player Round Robin
PRIZE FUND
$150,000
Participants
Hikaru Nakamura
Maxime Vachier-Lagrave
Fabiano Caruana
Shakhriyar Mamedyarov
Ian Nepomniachtchi
Anish Giri
Vishy Anand
Alexander Grischuk
Jan-Krzysztof Duda
Daniil Dubov
Grand Chess Tour - We are happy to announce the commentary team for Paris #GrandChessTour! One and only Peter Svidler will be joining the English language commentary alongside Jennifer Shahade and Alejandro Ramirez, with Maurice Ashley reporting from the site. Action starts on July 27!
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I guess that Yasser is cutting back on his duties.
QUESTION: You have been playing chess for any years but was there a moment when you decided to become professional and also to devote yourself to training? When did you realise that this was the path that you want to continue on? What happened in your head then?
I never wanted to devote myself to chess professionally even though I loved it! It was only after hating what I was studying at University (law and business) that I decided to give classes and found that I enjoyed it very much and I was wrong about being a professional! At that time, about 2005-2006, I began to analyze compulsively with analysis modules, nights after night, researching, looking for interesting middle game and end positions, reading virtually everything that was published, and looking at it with the magnifying glass of the computers. I discovered that I loved to prepare material, examine it in depth and then explain it. I also had the immense good fortune to find my first student in a tournament that I decided to play in just a day earlier and that this was a sponge and everything else I was analyzing and preparing. Ten years later I am still training David Anton and enjoy it as much as the first day!
QUESTION: Tell us what are your two favorite books of chess?
More than books, I would point out two authors. Dvoretsky as the forerunner in the style that I consider appropriate to improve in chess, with the enormous merit of having been written in a time before computers, and Aagaard for his two series of books Excelling at Chess and, above all, GrandMaster Preparation.
which show the players with the Arch of Triumph in the background
The games are being played at Vivendi headquarters, 42 avenue de Friedland, which is just a stone’s throw from the Arc. It will be here, later this afternoon, that the Tour de France will terminate
Round 4
Round 4, July 28
Grischuk, Alexander – Anand, Vishy
E00 Catalan Opening
Grand Chess Tour – Our commentator on the scene in Paris, Maurice Ashley, was quite confused by b5. Peter says that Daniil is quite willing to give away material for initiative but will he get enough?
Svidler: Dubov-Grischuk seems like something out of My System. I stand almost alone as someone who doesn’t hate the book. I know that it isn’t the outstanding treatise on chess that will stand the test of time until 2035 but it seems like almost everyone else hates the book.
Jennifer: Yasser will be back in the commentator’s chair for the Sinquefield Cup. (August 15 – 29)
Round 5, July 28
Dubov, Daniil – Grischuk, Alexander
A06 Reti Opening
Svidler: Hikaru has a decent score against Vishy. This is something I cannot relate to – I famously have not won a classical game against Vishy and I am extremely bitter about this.
Round 5, July 28
Anand, Vishy – Nakamura, Hikaru
C65 Ruy Lopez, Berlin Defence
Svidler: Nakamura-Dubov. The opening is a Tarrasch. Daniil has been defending this sideline against high level opposition in his last three tournaments. He says, “I understand that people are preparing against me but I feel obliged to do this.”
He is a student of chess history. He tells the story of the Steinitz-Chigorin match, where they were discussing a subline of the Evans Gambit. Steinitz would play it, say he had the better game and then lose. In a later tournament Chigorin played the Evans against him, Steinitz hesitated and Chigorin said, ”The public expects you to defend your convictions here.”
The public expects me to defend this horrible Tarrasch.
If you are reading this many months after it was written, you might not remember who won the Tour de France. Egan Bernal was crowned as the first Colombian to win the Tour de France and the youngest in more than a century after safely negotiating the 21st and final stage into Paris Sunday.
Round 7
Round 7, July 29
MVL – Nakamura, Hikaru
C67 Ruy Lopez, Berlin Defence, open variation
Mamedyarov vs Caruana is a Benoni. Alejandro says that Caruana does play the Benoni some times. Because of its bad reputation his fans say that they wish it was any other opening than that.
Peter is confused at the opening and then is informed that Shakh once beat him in that variation of the Benoni and he remembers nothing of it.
A viewer in the Chat nails it with this comment:
Suppressed Benoni memory
Chessgames.com says that Shakh beat Peter in blitz in a Benoni at the Tal Memorial 2018 in Moscow in 30 moves.
After the win, Alexander went for the post-game interview with Maurice. He was glowing not like his usual dour self.
Grischuk: I feel that this is one of my best games ever and I have been playing more than twenty years - easily in the top five. I don’t want to spoil it now by seeing what the computer says.
At some point in the interview Sasha says, "A stick shoots once a year." Maurice doesn’t understand (nor do I). Peter tries to explain it to Jennifer but I don’t think she understands the Russian proverb either.
MVL – “The turning point was the game against Sasha. If I’d won this game, I think I’d have played more confidently and the tournament would be over by now”
Round 2, July 31
Grischuk, Alexander – MVL
E60 King’s Indian Defence
“The trust has been broken!” says a disgusted Peter Svidler after Alexander Grischuk plays 3.h4! after saying after he’d beaten MVL, that he’d now never play it again!
Round 6, July 31
Grischuk, Alexander – Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar
E60 King’s Indian Defence
MVL misses this ND6 idea, and Duda wins a piece and later the game against the tournament leader. MVL is known for his blitz prowess, but everyone has their bad days
ChessBase:With three rounds to go, Vachier-Lagrave had a half point advantage over Nepomniachtchi and was one and a half points ahead of Grischuk. All three players drew in round sixteen, albeit from very different positions — the biggest shock was seen in Nepomniachtchi versus Giri, as the Russian went all-in against Giri but was completely lost by move 22 Then, Giri kept missing chances and a draw was agreed on move 33.
In the last round Caruana ended up defeating Grischuk, allowing Anand to leapfrog both Russians and reach second place. The local had won the event, but only after going through an emotional roller-coaster!
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