Incredible endgame by Wang Yue, this is worth studying closely. It is clear that the endgame is Yue's strongest asset...

1. Half of the "friendly" quality of ChessVibes is gone for me now, as I can't just scroll a ready-to-use viewer (and can't install the new) to follow the games and comentaries. Bad bad vibes!

2. Maybe if I read lots of news/articles from the last years, I'd know the answers, but I'll try asking again these (related) questions:
a) Can someone here explain me how is it posible a FIDE-recognition of a tournament that contradicts their own Rules of Chess?
b) Where, on those mention rules or on some addendas, is writen that the rule for draw by mutual agreament can be sweaped off by some organizers?
c) Can one do that with other rules? Which ones?
d) Do some people want to play a game other than chess? Aren't they free to do it?

Carmen Kass, chess fan! The black Queen about to make her move. :0)
http://www.ekspress.ee/ajaveeb/toivo/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/carmen_k...

In the analysis posted, 45 cxd5 is not a draw. it still loses.
45. cxd5 Nxg5 46.f4+ Ke4! (not Kf6 as posted in anlaysis). The resulting pawn end game is a win by similar zugzwang.

After Bxg5 by Ivanchuk, he is losing in all lines.

I am extremely disapointed that CV has fallen into the arms of MS. I do not use IE, rather Opera, faster and more reliable. Silverlight does not provides support for this browser. Bye, Bye. Going to chessdom.

change the browser for looking the games

PGN link links to round 1 games.

Why not the usual game viewer ???????????? WHY??????????? It worked and it was good!!! VERY good.
Why every year anything new which is WORSE than the thing before?

old game viewer please! This one doesn't work in my OS...

Great games today, this is proving to be a fine tournament, until now.

About the silverlight thing, I'll stay away from microsoft, but never from chessvibes! I'm happy with the pgn file available, or even the bare moves on text! :-)

Enjoying flipping the pieces around on the new player! (Yes, I'm easily entertained.) The one thing missing is a play button, to automatically advance the game -- A favorite feature of the old player.

I don't agree, the new viewer is awesome, keep going...

what is this girl doing there Carmen Kass tomorow i'm going to see her
joking of course thought i live in Sofia:)))

Very disappointed at CV. Can't see the games with my very current Mac and browsers. Doesn't really matter why. You should have tested the new viewer more broadly, unless you are intent on losing those pesky Mac users. I really liked the previous viewer with the side by side scrolling. Please bring it back.

It is OK. but you must do one thing when you scroll down to know the annotated statements, the board should be fixed.

i could not even install this microsoft %%%% ...
no automatic replay with the new viewer ?
how can i sit back and relax now?

@songamonga, yeb, others wanting to run Silverlight on Opera / Mac

Guys, I don't get it. I have just installed the latest version of Opera (9.64) on Mac OSX (10.5.6) and the viewer works like a charm. Please try aagain and let us know if you succeed.

Dit maal in het Nederlands.
Kun je de viewer niet zo programmeren dat het mogelijk is om de games en het commentaar tegelijk te lezen, zonder dat je telkens op en neer moet scrollen?
Bij Dominquez - Carlsen bijv. lukte dat vanaf zet 10 niet meer, daarna is het op en neer scrollen. Redelijk irritant.
Maar ik geniet van de site, dat dan weer wel.

Add my name to the "please go black to old viewer" list (or any viewer that doesn't require flash player or silverlight)

@Marten, others
Thanks for the useful feedback, which resulted in a bit more CSS knowledge on my part, to create a box for the notation on the right of the board!

Great improvement! It shows how flexible Microsoft plug-ins really are these days!

By the way, it's funny that all these Microsoft haters who are trying to create a 'knowledgeable' image (Linux and Opera are so much better, blabla), most of the time fail to provide even the most basic specs about their OS, browser and error messages. Apparently, they're not so knowledgeable after all, or - what's more likely - they simply don't WANT Microsoft software to work.

@Harish You're absolutely right. Analysis of Ivanchuk-Wang Yue corrected.

Weirdly, the viewer now works for me on your webpage, but not on your rss feed (which I view via google reader.) If I click on the Silverlight link in the reader I get directed here:

http://www.microsoft.com/silverlight/resources/install.aspx?reason=unsup...

I still think you should dump it though.

Btw, re the chess. Was Wang Yue's victory over Ivanchuk thanks to the Sofia rule? Having seen several hours of the game yesterday, I figured I would turn on my computer this morning to discover the game drawn as soon as a 3-fold had become plausible, but maybe that's just my poor judgment...

What's surpise to find ChessBase's link in http://www.mtelmasters09.com/en/links.html

Indeed. Anyone noticed that Chessbase also refuses to call the tournament M-Tel Masters? Pretty serious fight between them and the Bulgarians, or so it seems.

Presumably the link has been retained in error from previous years, and if they remembered about it would delete it.

Tom,
I think Ivanchuk was pressing for a win with his bishop pair. I think he played Bxg5 because the pawn endgame looked won, but wasn't. It even looks so completely won that it is quite surprising he missed Wang Yue's 'brilliant move'. What else could black have done at that point?
Seeing a 'simple win', he may not have looked at the line 1.gxh5 gxh5 2.Bxc6 bxc6 3.Bxg5 Nxg5 4.f4+ Kf5 5.fxg5 Kxg5 and this pawn endgame really seems won: 6.b4 d5 7.cxd5 cxd5 8.a5 c6 9.c3 h4+ 10.Kf3 Kf5 11.h3 Ke5 12.Ke3 Ke6 (12...Kd6 13.Kd4 Kd7 14.Ke5 Ke7 15.Kf5 Kd6 16.Kg4) 13.Kf4 d4 14.c4 Kd6 15.Ke4 c5 16.bxc5+ Kxc5 17.Kd3. But instead 3... Nd4 might hold for black, although it's still interesting... thanks to the Sofia rule!

I realy don't get answers. Begin feeling like Calimero :-)
1. What about people that, even with the "right" OS and "right" browsers, just can't (or anyway won't) install any more things on their computers? Hell with them? (Peter?)
2. (Pls see my previous post)

"It's an injustice, it is!"

I supose there are people using Linux, ant Silverlight doesn't run on this OS.
Javascript+DHTML is the best option, I guess.

Well, it was a nice pawn sacrifice by Wang Yue. He's an interesting player.

Ivanchuk was winning against Wang Yue!
As the Dutch trainer Hans Bouwmeester taught us 35 years ago, when a good plan doesn't seem to work, change the move order.
After 44 gxh5 gxh5 45 Bxc6 bxc6 white should first play 46 a5 and now 46... d5 47 Bxg5 Nxg5 (47... Nd4 48 Bf4+ and Bxc7 also seems winning) 48 f4+ Kf5 49 fxg5 Kxg5 (49... dxc4 50 h4) leads to the pawn endgame mentioned in my earlier comment. For clarity, one more variation: 50 cxd5 cxd5 51 b4 c6 52 c3 h4+ 53 Kf3 Kf5 54 h3 Ke5 55 Ke3 Kf5 56 Kd4 Kf4 57 Kc5 Kg3 58 Kxc6 Kxh3 59 b5 Kg3 60 bxa6 h3 61 a7 h2 62 a8Q h1Q 63 Qg8+ and Qxd5, winning.
But after 46... Nd4 white now has 47 b4 Nxc2 (or 47... Nf5+ 48 Kf2 Nxe3 49 Kxe3 d5 50 b5 cxb5 51 cxb5 d4+ 52 Kd3 Kd5 53 bxa6 Kc6 54 Kxd4) 48 b5! cxb5 (of course Nxe3 isn't possible) 49 cxb5 Nb4 50 Bd2 axb5 51 Bxb4 Kd5 52 a6 Kc6 53 h4 and wins.
So, Wang Yue had a nice trick, but I think it's better to call this (at his level) a sad blunder by Ivanchuk then a great endgame by Wang Yue – as long as no one corrects me.

Thanks Frits!

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