currently playing - [i'm catching games by relay from chessworld.net --
unknown other site access]

gelfand - ponomariov
svidler - shirov
mamedyarov - aronian
leko - grishuk
morozevich - carlsen [m]

its about 8:30 now EST/us, and all players have approx 1 hr left on their
clocks

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these were the results of round 1

Aronian - Morozevich 1-0
Ponomariov - Grischuk 1-0
Shirov - Mamedyarov 1/2
Svidler - Leko 1/2
Carlsen - Gelfand 0-1

Official site: www.russiachess.org

phil

Chess One wrote:
currently playing - [i'm catching games by relay from chessworld.net --
unknown other site access]

gelfand - ponomariov
svidler - shirov
mamedyarov - aronian
leko - grishuk
morozevich - carlsen [m]

its about 8:30 now EST/us, and all players have approx 1 hr left on their
clocks

-------
these were the results of round 1

Aronian - Morozevich 1-0
Ponomariov - Grischuk 1-0
Shirov - Mamedyarov 1/2
Svidler - Leko 1/2
Carlsen - Gelfand 0-1

Official site: www.russiachess.org

Morozevich let me down yesterday.It was an entertaining game at
least.Very strong field even without Kramnik,Topalov,Anand and Polgar
(and who can forget Kasparov).

"EJAY" wrote in message
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Chess One wrote:
currently playing - [i'm catching games by relay from chessworld.net --
unknown other site access]

gelfand - ponomariov
svidler - shirov
mamedyarov - aronian
leko - grishuk
morozevich - carlsen [m]

its about 8:30 now EST/us, and all players have approx 1 hr left on their
clocks

-------
these were the results of round 1

Aronian - Morozevich 1-0
Ponomariov - Grischuk 1-0
Shirov - Mamedyarov 1/2
Svidler - Leko 1/2
Carlsen - Gelfand 0-1

Official site: www.russiachess.org

Morozevich let me down yesterday.It was an entertaining game at
least.Very strong field even without Kramnik,Topalov,Anand and Polgar
(and who can forget Kasparov).

top 2 games were draws, bottom 3 inc moro-carlsen, still going.
mamedyarov -aronian is interesting, M has only 9 minutes against his
opponents 40. so far no black wins in this toruanament, but i've noticed
this seems to happen more in rounds 3 or 4, when players feel played-in and
take a few more chances with black pieces. phil

"Chess One" wrote in message
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top 2 games were draws, bottom 3 inc moro-carlsen, still going.
mamedyarov -aronian is interesting, M has only 9 minutes against his
opponents 40. so far no black wins in this toruanament, but i've noticed
this seems to happen more in rounds 3 or 4, when players feel played-in
and take a few more chances with black pieces. phil

[White "GM_Leko"]
[Black "GM_Grischuk"]

[ChessworldResult "Game in progress"]
[WhiteElo "2742"]
[BlackElo "2710"]
[Opening "Sicilian: Najdorf"]
[ECO "B90"]
[NIC "SI.14"]
[Time "06:29:25"]
[TimeControl "6000+30"]

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 a6 6. f3 e6 7. Be3 b5 8.
Qd2 b4 9. Na4 Nbd7 10. Bc4 Ne5 11. Bb3 Rb8 12. O-O Bd7 13. a3 a5 14. axb4
axb4 15. f4 Nc6 16. e5 dxe5 17. fxe5 Nxe5 18. Bf4 Nc6 19. Bxb8 Qxb8 20. Rad1
Be7 21. Qf4 O-O 22. Qxb8 Rxb8 23. Nf3 Na5 24. Ne5 Bb5 25. Rfe1 h5 26. Nd3
Nxb3 27. cxb3 Nd5 28. Ne5 g5 29. Nf3 Nf4 30. Nd4 Bf6 31. Nxb5 Rxb5 32. Re4
Nd5 33. Rc1 Kg7 34. Rc2 Be7

game in prog - leko is up an exchange, down a pawn, and has double pawns on
q side

and whoopee, an honest to goodness Cheyabinsk!

White "GM_Morozevich"]
[Black "GM_Carlsen"]
[Result "*"]
[ChessworldResult "Game in progress"]
[WhiteElo "2747"]
[BlackElo "2698"]
[Opening "Sicilian: Pelikan, Chelyabinsk variation"]
[ECO "B33"]
[NIC "SI.37"]
[Time "06:32:01"]
[TimeControl "6000+30"]

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 e5 6. Ndb5 d6 7. Bg5 a6 8.
Na3 b5 9. Nd5 Be7 10. Nxe7 Nxe7 11. Bd3 Nd7 12. c4 b4 13. Nc2 a5 14. Ne3 f6
15. Bh4 O-O 16. O-O Nc5 17. f3 Be6 18. Re1 Qb8 19. Bf1 Kh8 20. Re2 Rc8 21.
Rd2 Ra6 22. Rc1 Rac6 23. Bf2 Bf7 24. Nd5 Nxd5 25. cxd5 R6c7 26. Rdc2 Be8 27.
b3 Bd7 28. g4 Kg8 29. Qe2 Nb7 30. Rxc7 Rxc7 31. Rxc7 Qxc7 32. Qa6 Nc5 33.
Qa8+ Kf7 34. h4 h6 35. Bc4 Be8 36. Be3 Ke7 37. g5 hxg5 38. hxg5 Kf7 39. Kg2
Ke7 40. Kg3 Kf7

game still in prog. white, for a change, has the 2 bishops, and has
penetrated black's positon to sit on A8, but is also stuck there for a few
moves, white has spent a few moves improving his K position while black
shuttles his in a zugswang-type situation, and Moro has played the break g5
, unclear if he can muscle through on the k-side

phil

There has been an arbiter controversy, and unfortunately the game settled by
the arbiter, not the players, proved to be on a false basis.

In the game Carlsen :: Morozevich, arbiter G. Gijssen was called to
adjudicate Carlsen's claim of a 3-fold repeated position, which de did
declaring a draw - but later reversed his decision, but Moro could no longer
be found, so the organisers made the decision to call it a draw.

Don't get me started!

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Todays games form the Tal have kicked off with another very lively Taimanov
Sicilian:

[White "GM_Carlsen"]
[Black "GM_Mamedyarov"]
[WhiteElo "2698"]
[BlackElo "2728"]

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 e6 3. Nc3 a6 4. d4 cxd4 5. Nxd4 Nc6 6. Nxc6 bxc6 7. Bd3 d5
8. O-O Nf6 9. Re1 Be7 10. e5 Nd7 11. Qg4 g6 12. Na4 Qa5 13. Bh6 c5 14. b3 c4
15. Bf1 Bb7 16. Re3

And another one, a Najdorf English attack

[White "GM_Ponomariov"]
[Black "GM_Morozevich"]
[WhiteElo "2703"]
[BlackElo "2747"]
1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 a6 6. Be3 e6 7. g4 d5 8. g5
Nxe4 9. Nxe4 dxe4 10. Qg4 Nd7 11. O-O-O Qa5 12. Nb3

A gruenfeld /Stockholm

[White "GM_Aronian"]
[Black "GM_Svidler"]
[WhiteElo "2741"]
[BlackElo "2750"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. Nc3 d5 4. Bg5 Ne4 5. Bh4 Nxc3 6. bxc3 dxc4 7. e3 Be6
8. Qb1 Qd5 9. Nf3 Nd7 10. Be2 Bf5 11. Qb2 Bg7 12. O-O Nb6 13. a4 a5 14. Nd2
Bd3

And finally what we in the West call the Petrov, and Russians call the
russian Defence, here is the Jaenisch var.

[White "GM_Grischuk"]
[Black "GM_Gelfand"]
[WhiteElo "2710"]
[BlackElo "2733"]
1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nf6 3. Nxe5 d6 4. Nf3 Nxe4 5. d4 d5 6. Bd3 Nc6 7. O-O Be7 8.
c4 Nb4 9. Be2 O-O 10. Nc3 Bf5 11. a3 Nxc3 12. bxc3 Nc6 13. Re1 Re8 14. cxd5
Qxd5 15. Bf4 Rac8 16. Bd3 Qd7 17. Rb1 Bxd3 18. Qxd3 b6 19. Re3

PI

"Chess One" wrote in message
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[White "GM_Carlsen"]
[Black "GM_Mamedyarov"]
[WhiteElo "2698"]
[BlackElo "2728"]

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 e6 3. Nc3 a6 4. d4 cxd4 5. Nxd4 Nc6 6. Nxc6 bxc6 7. Bd3 d5
8. O-O Nf6 9. Re1 Be7 10. e5 Nd7 11. Qg4 g6 12. Na4 Qa5 13. Bh6 c5 14. b3
c4 15. Bf1 Bb7 16. Re3

Bc6 17. Qf4 Bxa4 18. Rf3 O-O-O 19. Qxf7 Rhe8 20. bxa4 Bc5 21. Rb1

Magnus has the two bishops, and has broken into the black position. Black
needs to find some counter-play before Magnus can find a petit-combination
to decide it.

[White "GM_Ponomariov"]
[Black "GM_Morozevich"]
[WhiteElo "2703"]
[BlackElo "2747"]
1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 a6 6. Be3 e6 7. g4 d5 8.
g5 Nxe4 9. Nxe4 dxe4 10. Qg4 Nd7 11. O-O-O Qa5 12. Nb3

Qf5 13. Qg3 Be7 14. h4 Qf3 15. Qh2 Qf5 16. Bg2 O-O 17. Qc7 Bd8

I think Pono needs to come up with something too, otherwise black looks like
he might be able to keep his extra pawn and claw his way into the game with
piece activity.

[White "GM_Aronian"]
[Black "GM_Svidler"]
[WhiteElo "2741"]
[BlackElo "2750"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. Nc3 d5 4. Bg5 Ne4 5. Bh4 Nxc3 6. bxc3 dxc4 7. e3 Be6
8. Qb1 Qd5 9. Nf3 Nd7 10. Be2 Bf5 11. Qb2 Bg7 12. O-O Nb6 13. a4 a5 14.
Nd2 Bd3

16. Rfb1 Qc6 17. Qa3 O-O

slow moves compared with the other boards,

technically, black is a pawn up [with a passed pawn on d3] but white is
still calling the shots in the middle and q-side and is more developed

[White "GM_Grischuk"]
[Black "GM_Gelfand"]
[WhiteElo "2710"]
[BlackElo "2733"]
1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nf6 3. Nxe5 d6 4. Nf3 Nxe4 5. d4 d5 6. Bd3 Nc6 7. O-O Be7
8. c4 Nb4 9. Be2 O-O 10. Nc3 Bf5 11. a3 Nxc3 12. bxc3 Nc6 13. Re1 Re8 14.
cxd5 Qxd5 15. Bf4 Rac8 16. Bd3 Qd7 17. Rb1 Bxd3 18. Qxd3 b6 19. Re3

Bxa3 20. Ng5 g6 21. Ne4 Be7 22. Rbe1 Red8 23. Qe2 Kg7 24. Qd2

Grischuk is a pawn down, but has a battery of rooks on an open central file,
and all pieces activated in the centre, while black's king sits on g7 and
not-so-many pieces handy to rebuff an attack yikes




PI

[White "GM_Carlsen"]
[Black "GM_Mamedyarov"]
[WhiteElo "2698"]
[BlackElo "2728"]

A surprise ending after all the fireworks were over, here is the whole game

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 e6 3. Nc3 a6 4. d4 cxd4 5. Nxd4 Nc6 6. Nxc6 bxc6 7. Bd3 d5
8. O-O Nf6 9. Re1 Be7 10. e5 Nd7 11. Qg4 g6 12. Na4 Qa5 13. Bh6 c5 14. b3 c4
15. Bf1 Bb7 16. Re3 Bc6 17. Qf4 Bxa4 18. Rf3 O-O-O 19. Qxf7 Rhe8 20. bxa4
Bc5 21. Rb1 Qxa4 22. Bg5 Qc6 23. Bxd8 Nxe5 24. Rb8+ Kxb8 25. Bc7+ Qxc7 26.
Qxe8+ Qc8 27. Qxc8+ Kxc8 28. Rh3 Ng4 29. Rf3 Ne5 30. Rh3 Ng4 31. Rf3 Game
drawn 1/2-1/2

[White "GM_Ponomariov"]
[Black "GM_Morozevich"]
[WhiteElo "2703"]
[BlackElo "2747"]
1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 a6 6. Be3 e6 7. g4 d5 8.
g5 Nxe4 9. Nxe4 dxe4 10. Qg4 Nd7 11. O-O-O Qa5 12. Nb3

Qf5 13. Qg3 Be7 14. h4 Qf3 15. Qh2 Qf5 16. Bg2 O-O 17. Qc7 Bd8

18. Qc4 Bb6 19. Bxe4 Bxe3+ 20. fxe3 Qe5 21. Qd4 Rb8 22. h5 b6

White has to be better in this position, but unless he makes something of it
in the half dozen moves, black is going to activate his q side, then who
knows what will happen in the opposite side king attacks?

I think Pono needs to come up with something too, otherwise black looks
like he might be able to keep his extra pawn and claw his way into the
game with piece activity.

[White "GM_Aronian"]
[Black "GM_Svidler"]
[WhiteElo "2741"]
[BlackElo "2750"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. Nc3 d5 4. Bg5 Ne4 5. Bh4 Nxc3 6. bxc3 dxc4 7. e3
Be6 8. Qb1 Qd5 9. Nf3 Nd7 10. Be2 Bf5 11. Qb2 Bg7 12. O-O Nb6 13. a4 a5
14. Nd2 Bd3

16. Rfb1 Qc6 17. Qa3 O-O

slow moves compared with the other boards,

technically, black is a pawn up [with a passed pawn on d3] but white is
still calling the shots in the middle and q-side and is more developed

18. c4 Nxc4 19. Nxc4 Qxc4 20. Bxe7 Rfe8 21. Rd1 Rac8 22. Bg5 c5 23. Qxd3
cxd4 24. exd4 Re1+ Black wins 0-1

the advanced d pawn proved enough of a provocation to distract Aronian, who
didn't see the shot 24 ... Re1 on the 24th move.

[White "GM_Grischuk"]
[Black "GM_Gelfand"]
[WhiteElo "2710"]
[BlackElo "2733"]
1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nf6 3. Nxe5 d6 4. Nf3 Nxe4 5. d4 d5 6. Bd3 Nc6 7. O-O Be7
8. c4 Nb4 9. Be2 O-O 10. Nc3 Bf5 11. a3 Nxc3 12. bxc3 Nc6 13. Re1 Re8 14.
cxd5 Qxd5 15. Bf4 Rac8 16. Bd3 Qd7 17. Rb1 Bxd3 18. Qxd3 b6 19. Re3

Bxa3 20. Ng5 g6 21. Ne4 Be7 22. Rbe1 Red8 23. Qe2 Kg7 24. Qd2

Grischuk is a pawn down, but has a battery of rooks on an open central
file, and all pieces activated in the centre, while black's king sits on
g7 and not-so-many pieces handy to rebuff an attack yikes

24. Qd2 h5 25. Rf3 f5 26. Ng5 Game drawn 1/2-1/2

Ahem, that little queen shuttle and Rf3 was an invitation, accepted in a
couple of moves.




PI

Thanks for all these updates..

How many games will they play ?

"SAT W-7" wrote in message
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Thanks for all these updates..

How many games will they play ?

the tournament runs until the 19th November, but I think that includes a
blitz-tournament with participation of Anatoly Karpov RUS, Vishvanatan Anand
IND, Rustam Kasimdzhanov UZB, Judit Polgar HUN and the participants of the
main competition. The prize fund is $100000, which happens at the end.

The tournament table [in English] is at
http://www.russiachess.org/eng/content/view/12/71/ and lists the line-up
until the 16th and round 9.

And seems to be a round robin among 10 players and tomorrow seems to be a
rest day. Today Svidler won with Black and Pono with White, to yield;-

Round3 standings:
1 Ponomariov - 2.5
2-3 Svidler, Gelfand - 2.0
4-7 Shirov, Leko, Mamedyarov, Aronian - 1.5
8-9 Grischuk, Carlsen - 1.0
10 Morozevich - 0.5

The official site is a bit wonky, althought there is brief commentator by a
[unknown] Russian source in English, today for example all is said about the
Pono-Moro game was that Moro came up with a fresh opening idea [about move
10] and with ... d5 then nothing else.

phil

[White "GM_Svidler"]
[Black "GM_Carlsen"]
[WhiteElo "2750"]
[BlackElo "2698"]
[ECO "C95"]


1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4. Ba4 Nf6 5. O-O Be7 6. Re1 b5 7. Bb3 d6 8.
c3 O-O 9. h3 Nb8 10. d4 Nbd7 11. Nbd2 Bb7 12. Bc2 Re8 13. a4 Bf8 14. Bd3 c6
15. b3 Qc7 16. Bb2 d5 17. dxe5 Nxe5 18. Nxe5 Qxe5 19. Nf3

A closed Ruy, Breyer, Borisenko var. Svidler tries to contain the young
tiger and as is his want, win positionally through the middle-game.

Qf4 20. exd5

But the tiger is already out of the cage. Much will depend in this game on
'bad bishops'.

White "GM_Morozevich"]
[Black "GM_Grischuk"]
[WhiteElo "2747"]
[BlackElo "2710"]
[ECO "B90"]

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 a6 6. f3 e6 7. Be3 b5 8.
Qd2 b4 9. Na4 Nbd7 10. c4 bxc3 11. Nxc3 Bb7 12. Be2 d5 13. exd5 Nxd5 14.
Nxd5 Bxd5 15. Rc1 Qb8 16. a3 Bd6 17. Nf5 O-O 18. Nxd6 Qxd6 19. O-O a5 20. a4
Rfd8 21. Bb5 h6

Another Najdorf, Moro needs a win! And indeed, he has positional initiative
here, Grushuk's position is a little flat.

[White "GM_Leko"]
[Black "GM_Gelfand"]
[WhiteElo "2741"]
[BlackElo "2733"]
[Opening "QGD Slav: Dutch variation"]
[ECO "D18"]
[NIC "SL.05"]
[Time "06:44:39"]
[TimeControl "6000+30"]

1. d4 d5 2. c4 c6 3. Nf3 Nf6 4. Nc3 dxc4 5. a4 Bf5 6. e3 e6 7. Bxc4 Bb4 8.
O-O Nbd7 9. Qe2 Bg4 10. h3 Bxf3 11. Qxf3 O-O 12. Rd1 Rc8 13. e4 e5 14. Be3
Qa5 15. Qf5 exd4 16. Qxa5 Bxa5 17. Bxd4 Rfe8 18. f3 a6 19. Kf2 Ne5 20. Be2
Rcd8 21. Be3 h5

A QGD Slav, Dutch with the Queens off. CanLeko activate his slight advantage
of the bishop pair?

And the best til last?

[White "GM_Mamedyarov"]
[Black "GM_Ponomariov"]
[WhiteElo "2728"]
[BlackElo "2703"]
[ECO "E15"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nf3 b6 4. g3 Bb4+ 5. Nbd2 Bb7 6. Bg2 O-O 7. O-O Be7 8.
b3 c5 9. dxc5 bxc5 10. Bb2 d6 11. Qc2 Nbd7 12. Rad1 Qc7 13. e4 Bc6 14. Rfe1
Qb7 15. h3 a5 16. a4 Rfb8 17. Nh2 Ne8 18. Ba1 Bf6 19. Bxf6 Ndxf6 20. f4 Ra6

A g3 Queen's Indian. Mamedyarov has a massive advanced pawn front against
the tournament leader, and can still pawn storm black's K side, I think Pono
will need to take active measures with a break in the centre.

Phil Innes