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There are no live games from lower than the Elite section, and TWIC isn't preparing a PGN file for the Premier section. It isn't obvious what to do from the official site. What I did to get the games was to click on the most recent round report and scroll down the page. That gave me a crosstable (good to round 4) and PGN file (good to round 3).
I like the Benoni win. Pretty clean game as far as I can tell. He just consolidated with accurate calculation the suspicious pawn sacs without giving white much chance to hold.
Bluvshtein lost in the 5th to Vocaturo, a player who has become a bit of a bête noire (bestia nera?) to Mark after defeating him also at Tata C. Up to that point, Vocaturo was dead last, but with this game the Premier tournament became considerably tighter, with only one point separating the four players in first (including Bluvshtein) from last place. Sorry, when I tried the game download, it was "file not found".
En la agrupación Premier, tres de los cuatro llegados como líderes sostuvieron esa condición, todos con un cuarteto de unidades tras imponerse.
Destaca entre ellos el local Aramís Álvarez (2 538), verdugo del monarca de casa Yuniesky Quesada (2 626) en 61 movimientos de una apertura Española en que llevó piezas negras.
Los otros, el canadiense Mark Bluvshtein (2 589) y el peruano Emilio Córdova (2 561), cuyas víctimas fueron el mexicano Manuel León Hoyos (2 563) y el anfitrión Ermes Espinosa (2 467), respectivamente.
Bluvshtein lost in the 5th to Vocaturo, a player who has become a bit of a bête noire (bestia nera?) to Mark after defeating him also at Tata C. Up to that point, Vocaturo was dead last, but with this game the Premier tournament became considerably tighter, with only one point separating the four players in first (including Bluvshtein) from last place. Sorry, when I tried the game download, it was "file not found".
I figured out the "file not found" problem. It's just that the file's not zipped anymore... Bluvshtein-Vocaturo is included.
Los otros, el canadiense Mark Bluvshtein (2 589) y el peruano Emilio Córdova (2 561), cuyas víctimas fueron el mexicano Manuel León Hoyos (2 563) y el anfitrión Ermes Espinosa (2 467), respectivamente.
Thanks for that, Marcus. Broken game links are usually something silly, like misspelling the file name.
However, I regret to report that I just tried both the .pgn and the .zip extensions, and still get the 404 message. The story link you gave, showing Bluvshtein's 6th round victory over Hoyos, putting him to 4/6 and a 3-way tie for first, gives the 6th round results and what it claims to be the 6th round crosstable, but is only 5th round. No link on that page to any gamefile, except a generic game downloading page.
A few minutes later,
Sitio desconectado
Se están realizando tareas de mantenimiento en Sitio Oficial del Ajedrez Cubano. Volveremos muy pronto. Gracias por su paciencia.
Which you might translate: Site down for maintenance. Back soon. Tx.
Two more games. Going into the 9th and final round, Mark is tied for first with Cordova of Peru, half a point ahead of Alvarez. Mark has White in the last round, but that has not been his best colour. He had 4.5 of 5 with Black! Maybe he's been channeling Grischuk. Think dark thoughts, Mark!
The ending of the 8th round game below is piquant. A rook has 13 legal moves, just one less than the theoretical maximum, but it is trapped!
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