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Did he get divorced already? Or does he have a wife AND a girlfriend?
He gave an interview in February, and he said that he divorced (they were with different natures - he more on calm side, she on explosive). He also mentioned that now he meets with a girl named Galya (Галия), who has the first category in chess.
There was another interview where he said he had no private life: the goal is to return a chess crown to Russia, and he works on that 8 hours a day at chessboard.
My fashion sense is hardly odd since my girlfriend is Italian and I am spending a lot of time in Napoli these days. Look up the facts before making silly comments.
Does a negative energy you gain at chessforums transform into a positive at chessboard? LOL
Kasparov said he did not read newspapers during matches/tournaments.
Oh! I am so impressed ...
I was in Rome for a week - coming back a week ago ... Does it count ?
As for your "chateau" in Lugano - I visited the place before you were two years old! TAKE THAT!
Now seriously (not that the 2 statements above are not 100 % true):
did you improve your pawn endings technique lately ?
Last edited by Emil Smilovici; Monday, 13th May, 2013, 12:50 PM.
This is my last post in these forums as I no longer spend time in my beloved Vancouver.
You all need to calm down and relax instead of getting all angry. Life is too short to come on the internet and argue. Go outside and enjoy life. Ciao!
This is my last post in these forums as I no longer spend time in my beloved Vancouver.
You all need to calm down and relax instead of getting all angry. Life is too short to come on the internet and argue. Go outside and enjoy life. Ciao!
You all need to calm down and relax instead of getting all angry. Life is too short to come on the internet and argue. Go outside and enjoy life. Ciao!
Dirk Jan ten Geuzendam – Editor New In Chess Magazine
Simen Agdestein – GM and author of Wonderboy: How Magnus Carlsen Became the Youngest Chess Grandmaster in the World (2005)
The premier game today is Karjakin playing Carlsen. Carlsen is two points behind the leader and will have the opportunity to beat him this round. The opening is a Classical Spanish.
(Dirk Jan) Carlsen and Karjakin have had two dramatic games together at Wijk aan Zee. In both cases it was the game against Karjakin, which determined the direction for the rest of the tournament for Carlsen. Last year he was doing fine and then lost to Karjakin in Round 8. It convinced him that he wasn’t fit enough and that he was lacking Vitamin D. Magnus lost that game and lost the tournament. Aronian won it.
The next year he went to Jordan with his family and got more Vitamin D and then played another crucial game against Karjakin. It was an extraordinary battle that lasted 92 moves. At some point Karjakin was hanging by a thread. Carlsen won the game and went on to win the tournament.
After the game, I met Karjakin, who was completely exhausted and was sort of on autopilot. Then I saw Carlsen. It was clear that he could have gone on for hours. There was lots of Vitamin D in him. He just plays on and on and finally his opponent is exhausted and runs out of Vitamin D.
(Dirk Jan) Karjakin is the shadow hope of Russian chess. He went to play for Russia a few years ago. He has a flat in Moscow, gets financial support and works with Russian top coach and former second of Garry Kasparov, Yuri Dokhoian.
The big emphasis in Russia is on creating new talent and promoting chess in the schools and giving facilities for young talent. If you go to a big tournament, there is a good chance you will see a bunch of youngsters who have been invited from all over the country to watch the stars and maybe play in a simul against them.
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Dirk and Simen are discussing the opening of another game and so I take the opportunity to leave the computer room but I am still listening when I hear, “Another knight off”. I tried to think of an opening where two knights are taken in the early play. Of course, it turned out to be that they were saying, “Another Najdorf”.
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In an earlier round Nakamura talked about his love for the detective novels of Jo Nesbø. He is a Norwegian author known for his crime stories of Inspector Harry Hole.
There seem to be such novelists all over the place because Dirk Jan and Simen interview Hans Olav Lahlum, who writes crime novels, books about the presidents and history. One of the crime novels was recently translated into Korean. He is the arbiter of the tournament and also writes the round-by-round summaries.
From Wikipedia: Lahlum is an active chess player with a FIDE rating of 2204 as of November 2009, having been an International Arbiter since 2000. Lahlum played in the top section of the Norwegian Chess Championship in 2001, and was in the sole lead after four rounds, but a string of losses left him at +3=2-4 and 10th place in the end. Lahlum plays for the chess club in Porsgrunn, and has been captain for his club in team chess events. He is otherwise well known for organizing and arbitrating several tournaments. He was editor of the Norwegian Chess Federation's publication Norsk sjakkblad in 2006.
Lahlum is known for his unconventional style, which once included letting his beard grow only on the left side of his face. In chess tournaments, Lahlum has on occasion sported large earmuffs.
There is a video on youtube in which he is called to comment from a political debate in another television studio. He says he lost his ear microphone and went down on the floor to pick it up but it looked like he fell off the stool. It is a video, which you can watch again and again:
Hans talks about his interviews with the young Magnus Carlsen, his biography of late Labour Party secretary Haakon Lie, being a chess organizer and arbiter, why he wore half a beard and his history book on U.S. Presidents. He says about the latter that he felt he would need to buy 100 books about them but ended up buying 500 books in order to write his book.
It is a very interesting and intense interview.
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Svidler-Anand has just been drawn and they come in for the press conference. Talking about the Najdorf opening, Peter says that, “it turned out to be a damp squid”, thinks it over for a second and then says, “it turned out to be a damp squib”.
He and his second had a completely different view of the position arising out of the opening, a more ambitious one, but it collapsed at a quarter to 3; they stopped equalizing completely as white. That was fifteen minutes before the game was to begin!
When that happened he had to play another line.
Vishy has prepared something all night and at 2 in the afternoon it all falls apart and you have to go to something else. You are at panic stations. You go to Plan B but you don’t have time to check everything. This happens more and more these days.
Peter says that I woke with this feeling this morning about something we prepared in London with my team. I got up this morning and couldn’t remember what to do after a certain move. I opened the file and found that we never even considered it. And we had spent hours on that position!
At the press conference with Aronian and Radjabov, the guys ask them about their preparation before the game.
(Aronian) I try to have a 20-minute nap before the game. I set the alarm, put some music on and try to sleep. I try to forget all that preparation.
Radjabov might be checking variations before the game but otherwise he doesn’t nap, he just relaxes, because he doesn’t have a good alarm.
(Dirk Jan) The idea of having a power nap before a game was introduced by Rustam Kamsky.
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Yesterday’s Quiz – (Dirk) The light blue cap that Hikaru Nakamura was wearing yesterday had an N on it. We asked what it stood for. There were many creative answers. It might stand for Nakamura, or New or National, or New in Chess or New York Rangers. It stood for the legendary S.S.C. Napoli Football Club, the club where Maradona had a championship season in 1986-7.
The winner of a year’s subscription to NIC is from Norway.
Today’s question – Magnus won the C group at Wijk aan Zee. That was his debut there.
He has played ten times in a row at Wijk aan Zee. How many times did he win the main tournament and in how many of all these tournaments did he remain undefeated?
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Hikaru comes in and says that his steady girlfriend is in Napoli and he spends some time there. He likes the pace of football. He likes hockey as well.
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The two Danes win today, Carlsen and Hammer. The rest of the games were drawn. Hans Olav Lahlum is probably writing up the Round 5 report right now.
Last edited by Wayne Komer; Monday, 13th May, 2013, 06:29 PM.
Anand – Karjakin is a Berlin. Nakamura-Svidler is a Ponziani.
Dirk Jan makes says that the Berlin was mentioned in the book Common Sense in Chess by Emanuel Lasker (1910).
Ponziani came from Modena. Ponziani was friends with fellow Modenese chess players and writers Ercole del Rio and Giambattista Lolli, and collectively the trio are known as the Modenese Masters. In 1769 Ponziani published the first edition of Il giuoco incomparabile degli scacchi (The Incomparable Game of Chess).
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The first guest is the young female Chief Arbiter of the tournament – Anemone Kulczak from France. She decided in 2004 that since she didn’t want to play long games of chess that she would study to become an arbiter. She went through the levels 4 to 1 of National Arbiter and got the title of International Arbiter in 2010.
(Dirk Jan) What are the difficulties of being an arbiter?
(Anemone) The most difficult are tournaments with children because they make many mistakes – for example both players handing in score sheets with a different result. First we have to determine, who really won.
(Dirk Jan) Simen, did you ever need the help of an arbiter?
(Simen) Yes, I was playing in the Bundesliga against Alexei Shirov and I was happy with my position, I was a pawn up. Then I looked at my clock and the flag was about to fall. I had 6 seconds to make 6 moves to reach time control at move 40 but I made at least 15 and Shirov did the same. After that incredible rush, Shirov had two bishops on the same colour! What would you do?
(Anemone) I would watch the game..
(Simen) The arbiter was watching the game and it was impossible to discover anything since it went so fast.
(Anemone) We have to replace the pieces in the last position we could identify.
(Simen) You go back to that position? What do you do with the time?
(Anemone) We cannot identify who made the irregular move, so we give two minutes.
(Simen) The arbiter actually gave me one minute, so that time should not be the decisive factor in such things. It went to a draw. Have you made any crucial decisions?
(Anemone) Most of the problems are with clocks. Players push the clocks wrongly or knock it off the table. Once, there was a claim of triple repetition of a position after 189 moves. We had to play the game through and found repetitions at moves 140, 160 something…
(Dirk Jan) In the game Kasparov-Karpov a number of years ago, Kasparov was totally winning and promoted his pawn to d1, to a queen. But there was no extra queen and so Kasparov left it as a pawn. At that point Karpov’s king on e1 was in check. But Karpov just took a knight with his queen, ignoring check. And when Kasparov looks at him, he says, “It is a knight!” And so there was total confusion because obviously it wasn’t a knight. The confusion was compounded when the arbiter went looking for an extra queen and came back with one of the wrong colour. What should the arbiter have done?
(Anemone) Kasparov made a mistake and made an irregular move and pushed the clock. He should have stopped the clock, called the arbiter and said, “Where is my queen?”
(Simen) What should have been the penalty for Kasparov?
(Anemone) How serious was the tournament?
(Simen) Very serious. A classical tournament at Linares.
(Anemone) Two minutes put on Karpov’s clock.
(Simen) That wouldn’t have helped him in that position.
(Dirk Jan) The photos of this incident are in the latest issue of New In Chess. Kasparov is saying, "That is a queen?". [Dirk Jan shows a two-page spread of photos entitled The Passion].
Anemone tells of her goals, her duties at the Norway tournament, her own tournament in France and the role and number of female chess arbiters.
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Nakamura is wearing the blue Napoli cap again. That shows that he must have a negative score against his opponent, Peter Svidler. Dirk Jan says that this morning, FIDE published on their website a proposal for a dress code. It is not in force yet, so Hikaru can still wear his cap. It is speculated by Simen that perhaps FIDE thinks that people will hide a chess-playing computer under a cap.
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A second guest is a young lady from Bosnia, Sara Jacimovic. She talks about present conditions in Bosnia. She learned her chess at school and now teaches about ten students. But she says that there are not enough chess clubs and there should be more support and recognition by the politicians.
She is sixteen years old, in the second grade of secondary school and speaks English beautifully. I wonder if we will see her internationally in the next few years?
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Topalov-Wang is a draw and both are so soft-spoken that one can hardly hear them at the press conference.
In contrast Nakamura and Svidler come in with their loud, rollicking voices. It makes me laugh just thinking of them. Both had fun and enjoyed their game, which ended in a draw. They played an almost perfect game and agreed to a draw just after the 30-move limit. Both were watching the Anand-Karjakin game, while awaiting the press conference and making comments.
Thinking of the responses about pre-game preparations of yesterday, Peter is asked by Dirk Jan how he prepares for players whose openings are quite unpredictable?
(Peter) Preparing for Vassily Ivanchuk is a rest day. Hikaru comes high on that list too but not at the top. Maybe I should upgrade my preparation list.
Hikaru congratulated Gata, in a tweet, on winning the playoff in the US Championship. (Nakamura) I followed the tournament quite a bit. We are the two best players in America. Gata is not as young as I am. Perhaps someday I might consider a match between the two of us.
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Yesterday’s quiz question was about Carlsen at Wijk aan Zee. Carlsen who made his first grandmaster norm at his debut at Wijk aan Zee in 2004 and played there every year since, this year being the tenth.
How many times did he win Premier and in how many tournaments did he remain undefeated?
The answer is that he won in 2008, 2010 and 2013 - three times and shared the title with Aronian in 2008. For the rest, it wasn’t until this year that he played a tournament without a single loss - only in 2013. The winner of the quiz is from France, from Dunkirk.
The new question: At the end of last year Vishy Anand was elected Sportsman of the Year in India for his successful defence of his title against Gelfand in Moscow. Magnus Carlsen was elected Sportsman of the Year in Norway by two newspapers. In Norway 2013, they are not the only participants, who have been elected so. Which two players in this tournament in 2005 were elected Sportsman of the Year in their countries and which players, which countries and what prize did they get for that?
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The results so far – Nakamura-Svidler, Anand-Karjakin and Topalov-Hao were draws. Aronian killed Hammer in 24 moves and Carlsen ground it out against Radjabov.
Karjakin leads the tournament half a point ahead of Carlsen with Nakamura and Aronian tied for third.
A comment from ChessVibes forum:
Nice win by Magnus, he does a great job of making it hard for his opponents to find the right path. Be5 is an understandable mistake ... how could moving the bishop out of the line of fire not make sense? Oh well.
Carlsen is in serious contention now for first now. The next round will be key. Nakamura is playing pretty well and his game against Karjakin could go in any direction, while Carlsen has to be the clear favorite against Hammer. I doubt Karjakin will be sole leader going into the last rest day.
Poor Radjabov must be really starting to hate these long endgames against Magnus. This is his third loss in their last five games together in which Carlsen slowly crushed him.
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Chessbase says of the U.S. Championship: After splitting a pair of rapid games, GM Gata Kamsky won $30,000 and his fourth title in an Armageddon game against GM Alejandro Ramirez, who was seeking his first title.
Ah, the good old Armageddon game!
Last edited by Wayne Komer; Tuesday, 14th May, 2013, 10:10 PM.
Magnus is like Rafael Nadal on clay. If somebody tries to play agressive against him, Magnus will punish "the adventure". If somobody tries to "wait and see", Magnus is a better master than anybody at this type of game. Radjabov got today that type of position that has no counter chances, and his defeat was expected after say 20 moves.
It will be interesting to see how Anand will handle the "constrictor".
Again Dirk Jan ten Geuzendam and Simen Agdestein are the commentators. It is Simen’s birthday.
Play today is on Flor & Fjære, the so-called Flower Island. The garden, which actually is located on Sør Hidle island, includes flowers, shrubs and trees that are virtually impossible to grow other places in Norway. My Norwegian dictionary translates F&F as The Garden of Eden. Not having a Norwegian Bible, I cannot check this.
(Dirk Jan) We are in a wooden cabin on Flower Island among the fjords. There is so much oxygen here, it can make you tired.
The guys ignore the Houdini assessment that is on our screen by turning it off theirs. They say that you should think for yourself, try to evaluate the position yourself. It is a waste of time for the viewers to watch what the computer says. It is like oxygen – don’t get an overdose.
[As a chemist, I am dubious about the claims of Vitamin D, phosphorus and oxygen in these posts but I am more or less forced to report what the commentators say]
Nakamura is wearing his cap again so this must be a serious game against Karjakin.
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The guys are talking about the game Svidler-Topalov. Topalov has been World Champion. They were quite surprised when his manager, Silvio Danilov, said the other day that it might not be realistic to expect him to fight for the World Championship again.
He had some wonderful results. He is leading the Grand Prix cycle. He won in Zug, in Switzerland. If he wins the GP he will qualify for next year’s Candidates. He says, “That is my next aim and then I will see if I can fight for the highest title”. He is still young at 37; Vishy Anand is 43 and he is still doing fine.
(Dirk Jan) It is interesting the way Veselin developed his talent. When he was young, in Bulgaria, he was one of the first players to have a manager. Danilov took him abroad to Spain and they went to play all these open tournaments and suddenly he was winning all of them. Yet, no one knew really who he was. But he even entered the top ten of the world rankings and people didn’t really know who he was because he was collecting all his points in these open tournaments. Silvio had a simple approach: 1) Who is our idol? Answer – Bobby Fischer; 2) What are we going to do? Answer – We are going to do everything Bobby Fischer does – So we are going to work hard, sit at the board and think and think and not make any draws. And that is the way Veselin has become the player he is.
(Simen) Anand did the same thing – lots of tournaments all over the place after he became World Junior Champion in 1987.
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Siri Bryn comes in and talks about Flor and Fjore from 1965 to present. She has a beautiful cultured voice, quite unlike the iPhone’s Siri. People come to see the gardens and eat at the restaurant.
I am curious as to what the lunch buffet would be like at the restaurant today and find this on Chef André Mulde’s menu:
5-dish buffet
Hidlefjord fish soup – our signature dish
Lamb ragout with homemade spaghetti, watercress, calamata olives & pecorino
Warm lasagne salad with romaine lettuce, grilled bell peppers, squash, hot tomato sauce & parmesan
Rosemary chicken with gnocchi and a creamy white wine sauce
Catch of the day
Sounds like it is worth the boat trip from the mainland.
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In yesterday’s quiz they asked about sports persons of the year. Vishy Anand who last year was selected as Sports Person of the Year in India. The same happened to Magnus Carlsen, elected Sportsman of the Year in Norway by two newspapers for breaking Kasparov’s all-time-high rating. The question was about two other participants who got the same title in their countries in 2005. Who were they? What prize did they get?
They received a number of replies and many had the correct answer. Topalov in Bulgaria and Aronian in Armenia. Both of them received cars. Veselin got a Land Rover Freelander. He actually got two cars, that and one from the Ministry of Sport for being sportsman of the year. Veselin gave away one of his cars to a charity for needy children. With this one donation, he was third on the list for contributions in that year. Levon cannot remember his car because he probably immediately sold it.
There were years at Linares, when you could win a car. A car that Ivanchuk had won was being shipped to him by train, when it fell off. I think it was a Toyota Santana, which was actually made in Linares.
The winner of a years sub for NIC is from Germany.
New Question: Chess has often followed social and historical trends. For instance, the Romantic Movement of the 19th Century in poetry and painting and we had Romantic players. Modernism in art was reflected in chess with Reti’s and Nimzowitsch’s modernism. Social trends are often followed with players smoking big cigars early in the 20th C (Pillsbury and Lasker) when smoking was socially acceptable and the chain-smoking grandmasters of the 70s.
But smoking has lost its appeal. How many smokers do we have in Norway Chess 2013? It is a number from 0 to 10 incl.
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Svidler and Topalov come in to discuss their game. It is a Sicilian with Bb5+. The opening is similar to the Ivanchuk-Kasparov game, where the 21-year-old Ivanchuk completely annihilated Kasparov in the 1st round of Linares 1991! Ivanchuk took Kasparov’s bishops out of play, stifling Kasparov's natural tactical ability and suffocating any counter play with ease. What a lovely mate at the end!
The ending after 23 moves is just pawns and kings and is very difficult to assess. Peter feels he has missed something before they agreed to a draw.
Svidler says that he doesn’t like to change his routine and coming to Flower Island presented challenges – especially a boat ride before the game! But he won’t blame his “mistake” on the boat ride and change of schedule.
(Simen) A question. We don’t often see pawn endings at this level. Is it possible to play pawn endings on intuition or do you simply have to calculate a lot?
(Peter) Both. You have to have a good grasp of the ideas in pawn endings. In this generation, the name that comes to everyone’s mind is Shirov for pawn endings. One of the reasons is that he is capable of very long and very precise calculations. This obviously helps. You have to remember your basics. The idea of building a fortress like that was in my mind but I second-guessed what my head was telling me.
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Anand beats Radjabov. The final position is very interesting where if 35 Rxc4 then dxe1=N+.
Wang Hao-Aronian is a draw with two games still going on.
Hammer-Carlsen is even up to the 27th move and then Hammer made Nb5 and Carlsen ground out a win. Magnus says that he has been very tired for the last two games and the free day tomorrow is coming at just the right time.
Karjakin against Nakamura has an endgame of queen vs knight and rook. It is a fascinating thing to watch. You are sure that if Hikaru was playing blitz that he would kill Karjakin with the coordinated knight and rook. But the game goes on at a regular pace and finally, after another 15 moves or so, Nakamura resigns.
So, Karjakin remains one half-point ahead of Carlsen with two rounds to go. Radjabov is in poor form and has pulled out of the next round of the Grand Prix.
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My New in Chess arrived this morning and it gives me a chance to quote the Karpov-Kasparov incident I mentioned in the previous posting:
Linares, 1992, Round 10. Kasparov and Karpov are tied for first and play each other with the World Champion having black. It’s the 162nd K-K and it’s a massacre. Kasparov routs his rival in 27 moves. In the post-mortem, his hands hovering over the board, he crows ‘the whole board is black.’ The game sees a curious incident that is captured in these photos. On move 24 Kasparov queens his d-pawn but doesn’t see a second black queen next to the board. In the absence of the arbiter he puts the pawn on d1 and says, in English, ‘queen’. Karpov doesn’t see a queen, ignores the threat to his king on e1, says, in Russian, ‘kon’ (knight) and unperturbed takes a white knight on e4 with his own queen. Kasparov cannot believe his eyes! The arbiter arrives, draws his conclusions from what Kasparov says and then solves the situation by putting a white queen on d1. When the situation is finally resolved, Karpov gets two extra minutes and a couple of moves later he resigns.
Kasparov goes on to win the tournament with 10 from 13 and a half point ahead of Karpov and rising star Anand.
Last edited by Wayne Komer; Wednesday, 15th May, 2013, 07:21 PM.
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My New in Chess arrived this morning and it gives me a chance to quote the Karpov-Kasparov incident I mentioned in the previous posting:
Linares, 1992, Round 10. Kasparov and Karpov are tied for first and play each other with the World Champion having black. It’s the 162nd K-K and it’s a massacre. Kasparov routs his rival in 27 moves. In the post-mortem, his hands hovering over the board, he crows ‘the whole board is black.’ The game sees a curious incident that is captured in these photos. On move 24 Kasparov queens his d-pawn but doesn’t see a second black queen next to the board. In the absence of the arbiter he puts the pawn on d1 and says, in English, ‘queen’. Karpov doesn’t see a queen, ignores the threat to his king on e1, says, in Russian, ‘kon’ (knight) and unperturbed takes a white knight on e4 with his own queen. Kasparov cannot believe his eyes! The arbiter arrives, draws his conclusions from what Kasparov says and then solves the situation by putting a white queen on d1. When the situation is finally resolved, Karpov gets two extra minutes and a couple of moves later he resigns.
Kasparov goes on to win the tournament with 10 from 13 and a half point ahead of Karpov and rising star Anand.
It was Linares 1993.
Linares 1992: Kasparov had the white pieces and won in 41 moves.
The game might be included in the upcoming Kasparov book: Garry Kasparov on Garry Kasparov, Part II: 1985-1993
(to be released in August in EU and in September in North America).
The book will include 100 games – the PDF available at Everyman Chess does not mention specifically any of them (quote from the Foreword): The second volume of the autobiographical trilogy Garry Kasparov on Garry Kasparov contains one hundred of the most memorable games and endings played during the eight years when I was FIDE champion (1985-1993).
In the Eighth and penultimate round, Wang Hao beats Magnus Carlsen in 79 moves. Wang Hao gets a unique gift from the organizers – a pair of red trousers – traditional garb of students on this National Holiday.
Peter Svidler beats Sergey Karjakin in 57 moves and so Karjakin remains the leader by ½ point.
The last round starts at 6 a.m. Toronto/Montreal time tomorrow. The pairings are
Karjakin-Topalov, Radjabov-Svidler, Hammer-Nakamura, Wang Hao-Anand and Aronian-Carlsen.
More to follow
Last edited by Wayne Komer; Friday, 17th May, 2013, 03:49 PM.
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