An amazing round 7
26 February 2007 15:05 PM | Last modified: 10:08
After the peaceful sixth round, yesterday guerilla was back in Morelia. Especially Topalov-Morozevich was an fantastic fight, where full and half points went back and forth all the time. Eventually it was the Bulgarian, after starting with 1.e4, who won the game. Ivanchuk showed some fine technique with White against Aronian by slowly but surely grinding down the Armenian in a classical endgame with an isolated queen’s pawn for Black. Against Anand, Leko had a small plus for quite a while but as soon as he decided to go for complications, it went downhill. A nice sequence of moves brought the Indian the full point. Only Svidler-Carlsen was quiet, in which Black equalized surprisingly easy in an Accelarated Dragon.
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Standings:
1-2. Anand, Carlsen 4,5 3. Ivanchuk 4 4-5. Aronian, Svidler 3,5 6-7. Leko, Topalov 3 8. Morozevich 2
Friday, March 2nd, the 8th round will be played:
Peter Leko - Vassily Ivanchuk Viswanathan Anand - Veselin Topalov Levon Aronian - Peter Svidler Alexander Morozevich - Magnus Carlsen
Veselin was brilliant !! It´s his best game I´ve seen… Great to watch…I´m going to wacht it again
I think the comment about accelerated dragon is simply missleading. Indeed accelerated dragon is avoided, because of Marotzy, while the normal dragon is also rarely seen, because of the yougoslav attack (opposite castling).
If white plays 3.Nc3, as Svidler did, (rather than 3.d4) none of this is possible, and the arising position was never considered particularly dangerous for black…
Anand ist immer in Vorteil!
Grande cobertura e Ăłtimos vĂdeos.
Meus parabéns!
Raul from Brazil
Go On Magnus!!! Knew you could do it!!! World Champion in the making!!
Was there really no handshake between Topalov and Morozevich?
Anyone more Information?
it was morozevich&kasimdganov who claimed that topalov cheated in st. luis,after that came the elista match and all the russians sided with kramnik,any way moro is a known “nuttcase!” and kasim is too weak
What’s a “nuttcase” ?
o indio ganĂł no …com uma partida atrativa
nutcase is aperson known for the habit of doing strange things
At the first half of S Luis tournament Topalov was outplayed by everyone. At the second half he performed for a champion! Something weird, don’t you think so? maybe Dainalov’s gestures…
In St Luis Topalov outplayed all his opponents in the first half of the tournament. You mean Morelia 2006 I think…
Guys, guys, we’ve had great chess players ever since chess was invented. And at some times those players played even better than at other times. Why is it suddenly so suspicious when a great player simply plays great chess? Did anyone ever accuse Morphy of cheating, just because he was so much superior to other players? If not, why?
Message for the mentally disabled :
please abstain from such incredibly dumb and superfluous remarks.
(Bernhard Bilek, Pearse O’Brien, Kiryakleiv).
Chess is not soccer,
it is an highly spiritual and intellectual
way of life !
In 2005 at the FIDE Championships in San Luis Topalov sat in the same chair and Danailov sat close to him with a laptop computer analyzing Topalov’s game. Topalov scored 6.5/7 games in the first half and the accusations of cheating began. He then coasted with draws in the 2nd half no one being close to him there was not need to win again.
In Morelia 2006 was the first time in Mexico. Topalov and Danailov probably did not know what the conditions would be like in Mexico. No one paid attention. But now we learn that Topalov can not see Danailov easily in Morelia. in 2006 Danailov scored -2 with 1 win 3 loses and 3 draws. An incredible and unexpected collapse. Then they returned to Linares where Danailov can stand in view of Topalov. last year in 2006. Topalov immediately began to play “perfect” chess winning the first 3 games and overall won 4 and drew 3 losing none. A complete comeback.
This year in 2007 we learned for the first time that Danailov can not be seen by Topalov and again Topalov did poorly. He did one game better however. an important one game. this year he only lost 2 instead of 3. and won 1 again like last time. and the others were draws.
Interestingly last year topalov lost to the lowest rated player Vallejo Pons 2650. Topalov’s tournament performace rating in Morelia last year was a dismal 2620. this year a more respectable about 2680 but still below 2700 for the 2nd year.
Now if Topalov and Danailov can view each other in Linares and Topalov scores big again that will fuel speculation.
If Topalov and Danailov can not view each other in Linares and Topalov scores poorly that will fuel speculation.
The next 7 games are going to be very interesting.
There are many people who would like to see Topalov score big where there is not possiblity of cheating and no possibility of Topalov seeing spectators similar to Morelia.
Let us say they put Topalov on a high stage like Morelia and put him in the back of the stage away from the audience. and now lets see him perform very well and that would dampen speculation. Honesty has to be demonstrated at least once. We are all waiting. Every tournament now will be an opportunity to dampen or increase speculaton.
Omigawd
Omigawd > Don’t forget Essent! In the first half Danailov was not there and he lost all. Second half Danailov was around and he won almost all.
Why do we ask or selfs he’s cheating? As long as he isn’t busted doing it, the only thing were doing is to find a way to believe it. I believe we better can put or time in enjoying his games and enjoy chess.
Just to add a bit to Omigawds post, Topalov has one twice in Sofia, where I suppose the conditions for cheating are the best possible, since the tournament is sponsored by Topalovs own sponsor. If I remember correctly, at least one of these tournament victories was due to a miraculous comeback. However, this still does not prove anything, and I agree with Tom K that we should rather enjoy his games, and let the tournament organisers do what they can to minimise the possibilities of cheating.
Well the point is you can turn on your chess engine anytime you want to enjoy watching a computer program win a game. If I am going to sit here for 6 to 7 hours watching a game, I surely do not want to be watching a computer make the moves. Especially if it looks like a human is making the moves.
I did not know about Danailov and Essent. I was wondering why he lost in Essent. I only learned about the stage problems for them in Morelia this past week. I never knew about it last year. I always wondered why he did so poorly in Morelia also. Then during Morelia this year the problem with the stage and viewing the audience came up on a blog by someone at Susan Polgar’s site.
So I just keep hanging around and allow the information to accumulate. I have not made a full decision yet. But I am feeling like a detective hot on the trail recently.
So you have filled in the key clue on Essent now. LOL. These next 7 games in Linares are going to be very interesting. One problem is that Danailov is founder of Chess Grand Slam. He is in partership with Linares for the Chess Grand Slam. So they will have to treat Danailov carefully in Linares. Hopefully people will keep an eye on him so we can get some more good data to make a decision and put this controversey to bed.
Omigawd has raised several very interesting points and time will tell whether Topalov is a cheater or not. But please remember the blindfold match Topalov played against Polgar in Bilbao last December. Topalov won this match convincingly and there will hardly have been eye contact between T. and his manager.
Don’t forget Essent! In the first half Danailov was not there and he lost all. Second half Danailov was around and he won almost all.>
saying that he is stupid. there were only 3 rounds in the second half and he won 2 and lost against Polgar.
DO NOT SPECULATE!
Omigawd, why don’t you DISCUSS for a while the Internet cables found in Kramnik’s restroom during the ELISTA game of which there exists clear photographic evidence? Why don’t you discuss the closed airport, when the Bulgarian presidential airplane was denied permission to land in Kalmykia and pick Topalov after the game? I ALWAYS THOUGHT CHESS WAS A DECENT AND PEACEFUL SPORT, UNTIL I SAW HOW THE RUSSIANS HANDLED THE ORGANIZATION OF THE GAME. NO TOURNAMENT SHOULD EVER BE PLAYED IN RUSSIA OR IN ONE OF ITS FORMER SATELLITES.
Omigawd says he don’t want to watch to a topgrandmaster making computermoves, I think that a topgrandmaster always makes computermoves, whether with computerhelp or not. I think I have read something on chessbase.com that Kramnik also has something like 80% computermoves in his games, according to fritz. Even as Topalov.
About Essent, there are much more reasons why Topalov plays first stage bad and the second well. For example he needs to get over his bad feeling from Elista.
And why should Danailov always help Topalov with cheating, why can’t someone else do it?
We always talk about cheating when we see Danailov in the same room as Topalov. Bud as everything goes about Danailov, is he than not the bad guy, (if it is true?)
How can you be so hardly convinced, Omigawd, that he is cheating? Do you have proof, or do you think that because Topalov has good results? Because I don’t saw him/them do illegal things, so far.
I don’t want to say Topalov doesn’t cheat. I just wanna say that we instead of thinking about that, we better can ”waste” or time enjoying chess(games).
I was in Norelia last year and it was very easy for Topalov to watch Danailov, this year was still possible, as the stage is like a cinema, and I think is hard to find an easier way to have a signal than that of “resign” or “keep playing” and it didn’t happen with Carlsen. For the ones that have the stupid idea of the cheap in his brain, The game with Moro is a good refutation, as without playing the computer lines in many moves, he still defeated that envious player
Well, in the first part of MTel Sofia 2005, Topalov scored very poorly (below 50% last). In the second half he beat everyone and came first.
Do you suggest that he could not cheat in the first part, but he could in the second?? In Sofia?
It seems much more plaussible, that he just plays better by the end of tournaments (warming up, etc).
Also, in Morelia he had performance 2620 last year. But Topalov was a 2750 player back in 1995… Do you suggest that he used computer then? (a) computers were not that strong that time (b) he later droped back to 2700 for some years. Did he stoped using a computer after 1996 and till 2001?
Tom M is right, please stop it. We’ve really had enough of this subject now. Let’s wait until there’s news about FIDE’s and ACP’s plans to investigate cheating, and until that let’s enjoy the games.
James,
Open a(ny) wall and you most probably find
electric cables in it.
Who said it were “internet cables” ?
If you want to cheat, why would you want cables
if there’s something like wireless internet ?
The permission to land in Elista was delayed, not denied !
This is typical for (russian) bureaucracy,
it has nothing to do with chess.
Russia (former Soviet Union) is the epicentre
of chess.
There are hundreds of beautiful tournaments
every year, very recently Aeroflot Open.
You know what you are, James ?
A brainwashed parrot, a russophobe, a complete
moron.
Sorry but I’m closing this discussion now. I’m fed up with it, like many people.