Peter;
The cross table for group B is missing.
Also a little typo in the text when you talk about Kamsky-Movsesian instead of Moro.
And if you manage to talk to them, I'd like to know if Romanishin is trying to get into group B next year; and why Volokitin is playing such dull games!
Good luck with the coverage!

Thx, corrected. The typo was Arne's, btw. ;-)

And... I'm afraid that those two questions aren't the ones I'd like to ask these players, risking answers like "doh!" and "what??".

Fire Arne;) ! And about my questions, you may have a point there:p . I'd like to see interviews with them though, interesting players.

@Arne: Of course I agree, and I didn't raise doubts on the quality of _Kamsky's_ play ... but I still wouldn't call it a high-quality _game_ because that would require high(er) quality from both sides.
Was Wang Yue-Ivanchuk a high-quality game? No, too many mistakes from both players .... .
Was Short-l'Ami a high-quality game? No, much too one-sided ... .
Yet both games were very entertaining.

So what would be a high-quality game?? Maybe a fighting draw, with attack and defense (and/or counterattack) being at par ... .

Yasser Seirawan is also from the US and he called Kamsky-Moro "a terrible game" (not Kamsky's fault, of course, but he could hardly avoid winning). Moro always tries to do something special and sometimes this goes awfully wrong. But never mind, in many cases it works well and it's a pleasure to watch his creative chess.

It's a very sympathetic point of view towards Moro, Michael, but perhaps we should also acknowledge that when Moro's 'something special' is punished like it was yesterday, some people opportunistically do not call it 'something special' anymore, but something 'terrible'... :-)

Next American view by Dennis Monokroussos (The Chess Mind):
"Morozevich ... allowed White to whip up a deadly attack without having to do anything too special. The result was a massacre."
[Mig Greengard still has to give his opinion ...]

@Thomas. A chess game cannot be won without help from the opponent ;-) Anyway, Susan Polgar calls Kamksy's game a 'masterpiece' and even if we allow for some USA-patriotism, I think it says something about the quality of his play.

chuky loses again due time trouble like in first round;with a little more attention his score should be 3-0,leading the tournament;anyway gogo chuky!

It looks like Ivanchuk likes adrenaline flooding in to his system and he subconsciously goes in to timetrouble by himself.
He must feel a lot of pleasure playing chess otherwise he would't play that much and time trouble gives him even more plesure :)
That explains why he wastes time at the beginning of every game.

Also he plays very good even in hude time trouble, allmost in every tournament there is a game when Ivanchuk makes 10 moves in 10 seconds... but i never remember that Ivanchuck lost ga game by time.

Thank you for the report. But where is the table of the standings from group B? I see the group C standings twice.

wow both hthe players who lost in round one both won in round two now both lost in round three lolz

Not sure if Kasmky-Morozevich was such high quality ... . Nice game by Kamsky, no doubt about it, but [if the above report is correct ,:) ] with quite some help from his opponent's dubious decisions.
As far as I can tell, Ivanchuk-Radjabov had 37 high quality moves (from both sides) followed by a horrible time-trouble blunder. Well, chess cannot be both entertaining and perfect !!??

The quality of play in this tournament seems somewhat lower than usual!

Well, Alexander, it's a bit early to judge I suppose. But anyway, we've already seen a lot of high-quality games in my opinion: today's victory by Gata Kamsky, for example.

Ivanchuk loses again due to time trouble!! What is happening to him in this tournament? It seems that he spent so much time for his moves I assume. As in this tournament he did again blundered before the first time control! Only Chucky can tell us about these unfortunate circumstances!

Parsvanth News.
Ganguly wins Parsvnath Open Chess Tourney

New Delhi (19 Jan 09 ) : National Champion Surya Shekhar Ganugly won the 7th Parsvnath International Open Chess Tournament with 8.5 points here at Modern School today. Ganguly tied for the top spot along with Russian Grandmaster Mikhail Ulibin, but better tie break score helped him to take the pole position and pocketed prize money of more than two lakh in the Rs. 11.5 lakh prize money tournament.
In the final round, Ganguly settled for a quick draw against P Karthikeyan in just 15 moves while Ulibin got better of M S Thejkumar. The two ways tie resolved by bucholz score and Ganguly edged out Ulibin with just half point. Grandmaster Petr Kostenko drew his final game against Indian Grandmaster Neeltopal Das and finished a creditable third with 8 points.
P Karthikeyan and S P Sethuraman achieved grandmaster norm during this tournament and finished fourth and fifth respectively. International Master Prathamesh Mokal also achieved Grandmaster norm while Shahikant Kutwal, Prantik Roy and Arindam Mukherjee secured their International Master norms.
Shalmali Gagare bagged the best women prize while Altykenov Yerlan of Kazakhstan finished first among the unrated players. Joshi G B and Arunima Kalra become the best Delhi Player and Best Delhi Girl respectively.
In the closing ceremony, Air Marshal JN Burma AVSM VSM, Air Officer-in-Charge Administration, Indian Air Force gave away the prizes in presence of Shri. Harish Rawat, Member of Parliament and D V Sundar, Secretary All India Chess Federation.
Final Standings :- (1) GM Surya Shekhar Ganguly (2) GM Mikhail Ulibin of Russia (3) GM Petr Kostenko of Kazakhstan (4) IM P Karthikeyan (5) IM SP Sethuraman (6) GM Yuriy Kuzubov of Ukraine (7) GM Neelotpal Das (8) IM RR Laxman (9) GM Anuar Ismagambetov of Kazakhstan (10) GM Abhijit Kunte
Important Results of Round 10 (Indians otherwise stated):
GM Surya Shekhar Ganguly (8.5) drew with IM P Karthikeyan (8) ; GM Mihail Ulibin of Russia (8.5) beat M S Thejkumar (7.5) ; GM Neelotpal Das (8) drew with GM Petr Kostenko of Kazakhstan (8) ; IM Suvrajit Saha (7) lost to GM Yuriy Kuzubov of Ukraine (8) ; GM Evgeny Gleizerov of Russia (7.5) drew with GM Praveen Thipsay (7.5) ; GM Abhijit Kunte (7.5) drew with IM Saptarshi Roy Chowdhury (7.5) ; GM Saidali Iuldachev of Uzbekistan (7) lost to IM S P Sethuraman (8) ; IM RR Laxman (8) beat IM K Rathnakaran (7) ; GM Parimarjan Negi (7.5) beat IM G B Prakash (7) ; GM Alexander Areshchenko of Ukraine (7.5) beat IM Dinesh Kumar Sharma (6) ; GM Yuri Solodvnichenko of Ukraine (7.5) beat IM Boris Arkhangels of Russia (6.5) ; IM Himanshu Sharma (6.5) lost to GM Anuar Ismagambetov of Kazakhstan (8) ; FM S Nitin (7) drew with GM Safin Shukhrat of Uzbekistan (7), IM Prathamesh Mokal (7.5) beat Dibyendu Barua (6.5) ; Swapnil S Dhopade (7) drew with M R Lalith Babu (7)

lol

This is a pretty interesting News, Mr. Dube. This guys in Wijk should not think, there Tournament is the only one in the World! ;-)

Final standing.

7th Parsvnath International Open Chess Tournament 2009
Final Ranking
Rank SNo. Name Rtg FED Club Pts BH.
1 3 GM Ganguly Surya Shekhar 2614 IND 8¬? 69
2 11 GM Ulibin Mikhail 2511 RUS 8¬? 68¬?
3 12 GM Kostenko Petr 2501 KAZ 8 70¬?
4 23 IM Karthikeyan P 2450 IND 8 70¬?
5 33 IM Sethuraman S P 2415 IND 8 69¬?
6 2 GM Kuzubov Yuriy 2626 UKR 8 66
7 15 GM Neelotpal Das 2490 IND 8 64
8 17 IM Laxman R R 2478 IND 8 63¬?
9 8 GM Ismagambetov Anuar 2523 KAZ 8 62¬?
10 7 GM Kunte Abhijit 2527 IND 7¬? 67
11 45 IM Prathamesh Sunil Mokal 2389 IND 7¬? 67
12 28 IM Sriram Jha 2442 IND DEL 7¬? 66¬?
13 52 Praveen Kumar C 2360 IND 7¬? 66
14 4 GM Negi Parimarjan 2600 IND DEL 7¬? 65¬?
15 27 IM Roy Chowdhury Saptarshi 2444 IND 7¬? 65
16 32 Thejkumar M S 2424 IND 7¬? 63¬?
17 22 GM Thipsay Praveen M 2453 IND 7¬? 63
18 6 GM Gleizerov Evgeny 2544 RUS 7¬? 63
19 5 GM Solodovnichenko Yuri 2571 UKR 7¬? 62¬?
20 85 Arindam Mukherjee 2259 IND 7¬? 62
21 1 GM Areshchenko Alexander 2673 UKR 7¬? 59¬?
22 67 Premnath R 2303 IND 7¬? 59
23 36 GM Ibrayev Nurlan 2407 KAZ 7¬? 57

Peter, are you also going to publish the pictures you made of the amateur events? I saw you taking some shots on saturday :)