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The blitz tiebreak between Nakamura and Ponomariov – on video!

20 July 2009, 7.45 CET | By Peter Doggers  | Filed under: Reports | Tags: ,

Nakamura-Ponomariov blitz tiebreak on videoThis early morning we received an email from David Llada, one of the organizers of the Donostia (San Sebastián) Chess Festival who made those great pictures there and who… also tried out his video camera, as it turned out. The two blitz games between Nakamura and Ponomariov were recorded and so you can watch both tiebreak games on video (and finally see the end of game 2). Enjoy!


David wrote us that somehow, when converting the videos there appeared a black margin in the lower part of the framing that even takes part of the board. Luckily 99% of the action can be seen anyway.


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7 Responses to “The blitz tiebreak between Nakamura and Ponomariov – on video!”

  1. someone on July 20th, 2009 08:27

    would be more fun with sound

  2. Jagdish Dube. on July 20th, 2009 08:29

    Both the blitz games are very interesting.

  3. red-white-chess on July 20th, 2009 09:15

    is it the camera doesn’t have a viewfinder? the chess board is cropped as well as the spectators heads… ;P

  4. me on July 20th, 2009 10:23

    No time trouble, no knocking off the pieces, no crying afterwards,…

    How boring ;)

  5. David on July 20th, 2009 11:38

    red-white-chess, yes, the cam has viewfinder, but when I converted the video trying to keep the 16:9 ratio, the program did so by “croping” the lower and upper part of the image. Sorry! I need some more practise with these things.

    I wanted to send the raw vids to Peter, but they are more than 1Gb each…. :s

  6. Eiae on July 20th, 2009 17:41

    Look out, Nakamura is going for the top. Just hope classical chess won’t bore him to death before he becomes champ.

  7. marpada on July 20th, 2009 19:12

    Great material, thank you very much to David LLada for submitting it :)

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