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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09.12.2009– Since Ruslan Ponomariov has made it to the finals of the 2009 World Cup, it
seems like an auspicious moment to have a look back at prior success
of his career. At eighteen he won the FIDE knockout world championship, ahead
of Anand, Adams, Morozevich and Ivanchuk. In this week's Playchess
lecture by FM Dennis Monokroussos we see one of his great and instructive
games. Be there and watch.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– Vladimir Malakhov is the man of the hour at the World Cup in Khanty Mansiysk.
Having beaten his opponents (Smirin, Eljanov and So) in rapid chess,
he went on to defeat Peter Svidler in normal chess with the black pieces - and
once again with his beloved 4...a6 Slav (which had already downed Pavel Eljanov
and Wesley So). Incidentally, the discussed variation - 5.e3 b5 6.c5 g6 - was
extensively analysed by Dorian Rogozenco in his contribution for
CBM 119.
Rainer Knaak has annotated this game. Svidler-Malakhov on
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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08.12.2009– Ruslan Ponomariov, who in 2002 won the FIDE knockout world championship, has made it to the final of the World Cup 2009. In four rapid chess tiebreak games the Ukrainian GM lost the first but came back strongly to defeat Vladimir Malakhov, Russia, in the next three games and finish with an overall score of 4.0-2.0. Illustrated report.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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08.12.2009– He was unstoppable: Israeli GM Boris Gelfand, who needed just a draw after yesterday black-piece win, went ahead and beat the elegantly posing Ukainian GM Sergey Karjakin to go through on a 2-0 score. Meanwhile Vladimir Malakhov, Russia, and Ruslan Ponomariov played a second draw and have tiebreak games on Tuesday.
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