Jakovenko beats Naiditsch in 2nd round Dortmund
In the second round of the Sparkassen Chess Meeting in Dortmund, Dmitry Jakovenko recovered from his loss yesterday by beating Arkadij Naiditsch in a very nice game. Leko-Carlsen and Kramnik-Bacrot both ended in a draw.
The 37th Sparkassen Chess Meeting takes place July 2-12th, 2009 in Dortmund, Germany. Carlsen (2772), Jakovenko (2760), Kramnik (2759), Leko (2756), Bacrot (2721) and Naiditsch (2697) play a double round-robin.
Round 2
Peter Leko played his second quick draw, today against Magnus Carlsen, for whom an easy Black game was very welcome of course. Perhaps the Norwegian had surprised the Hungarian in the opening because White had no opening advantage whatsoever and then started to exchange everything.
Leko continues his opening strategy from Nalchik, where he also varied with non-1.e4 openings, but at that Grand Prix tournament he won his only two White games with... yes, 1.e4 (both against the Petroff!).
Kramnik and Bacrot also drew for the second time and this game ended in a similar way: the opening play of the former World Champion had led to nothing (in fact if anyone was better in the end, it was Black) and then there was nothing else to do but exchange lots of material. A good game by Bacrot.
Therefore Jakovenko-Naiditsch was easily the game of the day and it was admiring to see how Jakovenko recovered from his first-round loss. In Karpovian fashion (when the 12th World Champion was still playing 1.e4) he slowly but surely increased his opening advantage and with a nice tactical idea in the ending, he decided the game in his favour.
Most people consider Carlsen and Kramnik the two favorites for tournament victory. Tomorrow they meet for the first time with the Norwegian behind the white pieces.
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Thorn
2 years 7 months ago
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Peter, I think you mixed up the pairings there for last round:
"Carlsen-Kramnik and Leko-Bacrot both ended in a draw."
Cheers
Thorn
Peter Doggers
2 years 7 months ago
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@Jonas Unfortunately this year we can't visit as many tournaments as last year. Usually in such cases we can use photos provided by the organizers themselves, but the Sparkassen Chess Meeting don't have a daily photo album or something like that - they don't seem interested in such things. They do have a press officer who sends daily press releases (a short Word document with a short description of the games in German only) and... who doesn't reply emails.
jussu
2 years 7 months ago
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It will be the first ever Carlsen-Kramnik in classical time control. They have played some rapid, blindfold and blitz games, but all their classical encounters have been Kramnik-Carlsen.
Clifford
2 years 7 months ago
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Kramnik and Carlsen "meet for the first time"??
Carlsen has already played Kramnik previously, and beaten him.
Peter Doggers
2 years 7 months ago
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Can't always be in top shape pfff. ;-)
Jan
2 years 7 months ago
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The picture in this article looks surprisingly like Jakovenko, but it is "Carlsen".
Silken
2 years 7 months ago
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*sigh*
for the first time in this tournament. Double-round-robin, you know?
Jonas
2 years 7 months ago
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Super tournament and no one publishes pictues :(
christos (greece)
2 years 7 months ago
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They meet for the first time in Dortmund 2009. They will meet twice in the tournament.
gg
2 years 7 months ago
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It's
"for the first time with the Norwegian behind the white pieces"
since Kramnik had white in all their previous games.
Jagdish Dube.
2 years 7 months ago
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All the 3 Matches of the 3rd Round ended in Draws.
Serdal
2 years 7 months ago
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As far as I can see, there are some pictures on chessbase.com.
Ebomuche Cardinal
2 years 7 months ago
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I miss Kasparov! He sets boards on fire!
...I miss Kasparov!
HJVFan
2 years 7 months ago
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Perhaps they don't publish photographs of the players because they're afraid people will stalk them for their short draws?
Jagdish Dube.
2 years 7 months ago
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Can Chess-vibes arrange for Videos by You Tube or blip-tv ? Still there are plenty of time.
Castro
2 years 7 months ago
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@Ebomuche Cardinal
Lucky you, you don't miss Fischer and Tahl much more! ;-)
Ebomuche Cardinal
2 years 7 months ago
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@ Castro, Fischer's another very brilliant player. But tell me what do you think of Paul Morphy? Imagine he had been around for tournaments such as these!
Castro
2 years 7 months ago
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Ebomuche,
Sure, it would be a blast to see such a genious play today, with all the knowlege meanwhile acumulated in more than 150 years! He surely would "kick ass". Maybe missing Kasparov wouldn't be so fashionable :-)
Anyway, I understood "missing" only related to those greats who were active in my own lifetime. Morphy is so present to me now as he was 30-35 years ago. (Sorry for the "selfish" view, of course!)
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