The next round:

Round 3 Tuesday January 13
Sokolov - Adams
Leko - Topalov
Akopian - Timman
Van Wely - Anand
Bologan - Kramnik
Svidler - Bareev
Shirov - Zhong

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Cordially, Phil Innes

Phil Innes wrote:

The next round:

Round 3 Tuesday January 13
Sokolov - Adams
Leko - Topalov
Akopian - Timman
Van Wely - Anand
Bologan - Kramnik
Svidler - Bareev
Shirov - Zhong

Watch the games live at
www.coruschess.com

or with Petersburg GM commentary at
www.ruschess.com

Cordially, Phil Innes

You know something 'O' triton one, your use of the affectation 'cordial'
wears thin. Suggest you find 'nuther. With sincere & faithful regard &
much unsyrupy, uncloying felicitations, - Mick . your grandpappy told
you not to cordial with me son, anymore, at all, - baby pink
!! bits . adamsky}[-'..

"michael adams" wrote in message
...
Phil Innes wrote:

The next round:

Round 3 Tuesday January 13
Sokolov - Adams
Leko - Topalov
Akopian - Timman
Van Wely - Anand
Bologan - Kramnik
Svidler - Bareev
Shirov - Zhong

Watch the games live at
www.coruschess.com

or with Petersburg GM commentary at
www.ruschess.com

Cordially, Phil Innes

You know something 'O' triton one, your use of the affectation 'cordial'
wears thin. Suggest you find 'nuther.

Gotcha! Thanks as usual for the deep contribution to chess, rather than
utterly trivial personality features. Do you play chess at all?

With sincere & faithful regard &
much unsyrupy, uncloying felicitations, - Mick . your grandpappy told
you not to cordial with me son, anymore, at all, - baby pink
!! bits . adamsky}[-'..

'nuther, Phil

In round 3 all games were drawn except Svidler - Bareev 1-0

The next round:

Round 4 Wednesday January 14

Adams - Zhong
Bareev - Shirov
Kramnik - Svidler
Anand - Bologan
Timman - Van Wely
Topalov - Akopian
Sokolov - Leko

Watch live at

www.coruschess.com

or with Petersburg GM commentary at
www.ruschess.com

Bulletin, by Phil Innes

Of course, Kramnik - Svidler will be the big game and Peter S has
scored the biggest ElO from a Swiss this year (2835 to win the Russian
championship) and will evidently continue to challenge the world's top
players; but the biggest fireworks may come from Bareev versus the
'romantic' Shirov who previously played a highly complex Sveshnikov line to
draw against Adams. Timman vs van Wely may be over-practiced, so perhaps one
of them will offer a surprise? Zhong has shown well to-date, and if he can
survive Adams with the white bits should feel good about his performance in
this company. Leko seems to want to find ways to win with both white and
black pieces, and Anand-Bologan might be a fascinating positional sturggle -
who has played his pawns better than the sometimes breathtaking Gospodin
Bologan during 2003?

Cordially, Phil Innes

Round 3 Tuesday January 13
Sokolov - Adams
Leko - Topalov
Akopian - Timman
Van Wely - Anand
Bologan - Kramnik
Svidler - Bareev
Shirov - Zhong

Watch the games live at
www.coruschess.com

or with Petersburg GM commentary at
www.ruschess.com

Cordially, Phil Innes

Phil Innes wrote:

snip

Gotcha! Thanks as usual for the deep contribution to chess, rather than
utterly trivial personality features. Do you play chess at all?

Phil, common courtesy would require you not to include the 'filth' rgcp
grupp in any rgcm posting, at least on planet 'michael adams' it would.
Have I ever been the major shareholder in a 'beeza' bantum 150cc
'scrambler' with a big-end that was just about to fall away, you might
conceivably behove yourself to enquire of my person? & of course the
answer is yes. I'm sorry to see you taking this tack Phil, my trivial
criticism of your use of the concept 'cordial' & it's variations
(entente?) is a personal dillopeck, a 'filla dilla' in effect. Do not
stress yourself about it Phil.

'gards Mick..


With sincere & faithful regard &
much unsyrupy, uncloying felicitations, - Mick . your grandpappy told
you not to cordial with me son, anymore, at all, - baby pink
!! bits . adamsky}[-'..

'nuther, Phil

Nulla?..

Irina Sudokova annotates todays games

Round 5 January 15
Leko - Adams
Akopian - Sokolov
Van Wely - Topalov
Bologan - Timman
Svidler - Anand
Shirov - Kramnik
Zhong - Bareev

Watch the games live at
www.coruschess.com

or with Petersburg GM commentary at
www.ruschess.com

Cordially, Phil Innes

Current Standings

Round 5 Standings:
1 Topalov 3.0
2 Anand 3.0
3 Leko 3.0
4 Kramnik 3.0
5 Adams 3.0
6 Van Wely 2.5
7 Svidler 2.5
8 Akopian 2.5
9 Bareev 2.5
10 Sokolov 2.0
11 Bologan 2.0
12 Shirov 2.0
13 Zhang Zhong 2.0
14 Timman 2.0

Tomorrow's Games:

Round 6 January 17
Adams - Bareev
Kramnik - Zhong
Anand - Shirov
Timman - Svidler
Topalov - Bologan
Sokolov - Van Wely
Leko - Akopian



Watch the games live at
www.coruschess.com

or with Petersburg GM commentary at
www.ruschess.com

Cordially, Phil Innes

"Phil Innes" wrote in message .. .
Current Standings

Round 5 Standings:
1 Topalov 3.0
2 Anand 3.0
3 Leko 3.0
4 Kramnik 3.0
5 Adams 3.0
6 Van Wely 2.5
7 Svidler 2.5
8 Akopian 2.5
9 Bareev 2.5
10 Sokolov 2.0
11 Bologan 2.0
12 Shirov 2.0
13 Zhang Zhong 2.0
14 Timman 2.0

Tomorrow's Games:

Round 6 January 17
Adams - Bareev
Kramnik - Zhong
Anand - Shirov
Timman - Svidler
Topalov - Bologan
Sokolov - Van Wely
Leko - Akopian


Hmmmm....another instructive punishment of Bareev's French Defense.
Zhang appeared to have copious opportunities to grasp the draw, but
played too passively. Kramnik can conjure wins out of the smallest of
edges.
It's clear that Bologan will not have a reprise of his Dortmund
success; Topalov play featured some witty tactics.

Weird play by Shirov against Anand. WaZ has the makings of a disaster
for him, unless he can find his Caissianic muse....

Timman looked set to upset Svidler, but then his edge seemed to
evaporate

Isidor,

I was watching too - and also reading a Russian GM's comments as it went
along. To your comments I only add that you didn't mention Adams play
against the Tarrash, and that final shot!

[In Timman - Svidler, GM Ivanov, who has very good English, coined a term
and mentioned that Timman had chosen a 'ferroconcrete' Anti-Grunfeld]

Results of today's games we

Kramnik - Zhong 1-0
Sokolov - van Wely 1/2
Topalov - Bologan 1-0
Anand - Shirov 1-0
Timman - Svidler 1/2
Leko - Akopian 1/2
Adams - Bareev 1-0


Here are standings:

Round 6 Standings:
1 Topalov 4.0
2 Anand 4.0
3 Adams 4.0
4 Kramnik 4.0
5 Leko 3.5
6 Akopian 3.0
7 Van Wely 3.0
8 Svidler 3.0
9 Sokolov 2.5
10 Timman 2.5
11 Bareev 2.5
12 Shirov 2.0
13 Bologan 2.0
14 Zhang Zhong 2.0

and here are tomorrows games:-

Round 7 January 18
Akopian - Adams
Van Wely - Leko
Bologan - Sokolov
Svidler - Topalov
Shirov - Timman
Zhong - Anand
Bareev - Kramnik

and I risk my neck with predictions:- yikes

Akopian - Adams 0-1
Van Wely - Leko 1/2
Bologan - Sokolov 1/2
Svidler - Topalov 1-0
Shirov - Timman 1-0
Zhong - Anand 0-1
Bareev - Kramnik 1/2

Cordially, Phil

Hmmmm....another instructive punishment of Bareev's French Defense.
Zhang appeared to have copious opportunities to grasp the draw, but
played too passively. Kramnik can conjure wins out of the smallest of
edges.
It's clear that Bologan will not have a reprise of his Dortmund
success; Topalov play featured some witty tactics.

Weird play by Shirov against Anand. WaZ has the makings of a disaster
for him, unless he can find his Caissianic muse....

Timman looked set to upset Svidler, but then his edge seemed to
evaporate

"Phil Innes" wrote in message ...

[...]

[In Timman - Svidler, GM Ivanov, who has very good English,
coined a term and mentioned that Timman had chosen a
'ferroconcrete' Anti-Grunfeld]


You may say that he "coined" or you may say
that he have inserted some Russian :-)

Thank you for nice reports from the tournament
(I follow it a bit on ICC, but it's a pleasure
to read you all the same),

Wlod