10.12.2009– The rampage of the top seed Magnus Carlsen continues. The 19-year-old Norwegian scored another convincing victory, this time over Luke McShane, to take the lead. Vladimir Kramnik came back from his first-round loss (to Carlsen) with a win over Chinese GM Ni Hua. The other two games were drawn. A report on the game will follow, here for now is Magnus' blog entry and
pictures from round two.Adrian Mikhalchishin:
Winning Structures Great players always had and still have more than just broad theoretical knowledge. Every of them has some favourite methods, which simply help to score more points. The greatest even have favourite pawn structures! And they immediately exploited the knowledge of others - Alekhine invented some interesting structures, which were copied by his opponent in that game (Rubinstein), and later exploited by Botvinnik and then by Kramnik!
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Люди, нужна помощь опытных, ну, или просто шарящих людей.
Ситуация такова. Приобрел ВПС, начал переносить все сайты с многочисленных хостингов туда. Все перенес, все работает, но на одном из доменов, хоть убей не могу настроить почтовый ящик.
Перепробовал все настройки, развернул свои ДНС, но, хоть тресни, не могу сделать почту и все.
09.12.2009– Today will see the first game of the final Gelfand-Ponomariov at the World
Cup in Khanty-Mansiysk. Opportunity for us to look back on an exciting moment
from the endgame Karjakin-Mamedyarov. The latter has just played 49...Rb2?
(diagram), thus giving his young opponent the unexpected chance to decide the
game by mating threats. Which surprising move helped the 19-year-old Ukraine
to secure victory now? Use this larger
diagram to work it out for yourself. Grandmaster Karsten Müller has analysed
the endgame Karjakin-Mamedyarov
for ChessBase Magazine Online.Adrian Mikhalchishin:
Winning Structures Great players always had and still have more than just broad theoretical knowledge. Every of them has some favourite methods, which simply help to score more points. The greatest even have favourite pawn structures! And they immediately exploited the knowledge of others - Alekhine invented some interesting structures, which were copied by his opponent in that game (Rubinstein), and later exploited by Botvinnik and then by Kramnik!
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09.12.2009– The London Chess Classic is breaking new ground in a number of areas. The games
are being annotated live by two very entertaining experts, who explain everything
to the visitors at the Olympia Center, and at the same time to visitors on the
Playchess server. After round one Magnus
Carlsen provided his thoughs on the game, for the local guests and for a world-wide audience. Sam Collins:
1.e4 Repertoire Grandmaster lines explained for club players Constructing an opening repertoire is one of the chess players most difficult and time-consuming tasks. Turned off by masses of theory, many players shy away from critical lines and concentrate on trappy lines, universal systems, or variations which concede the advantage of the first move in order to get a playable position.
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09.12.2009– The London Chess Classic is breaking new ground in a number of areas. The games
are being annotated live by two very entertaining experts, who explain everything
to the visitors at the Olympia Centre, and at the same time to visitors on the
Playchess server. After round one Magnus
Carlsen provided his thoughts on the game, for the local guests and for a world-wide audience. Adrian Mikhalchishin:
Winning Structures Great players always had and still have more than just broad theoretical knowledge. Every of them has some favourite methods, which simply help to score more points. The greatest even have favourite pawn structures! And they immediately exploited the knowledge of others - Alekhine invented some interesting structures, which were copied by his opponent in that game (Rubinstein), and later exploited by Botvinnik and then by Kramnik!
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