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Live reporting: round 6

19 January 2007 14:30 PM CET | Last modified: 18:54 | By Peter Doggers  | Filed under: Reports | Tags:

Last update: 18.47 CET

Well, we’re in the mood and we start again with the live reporting of what’s already the sixth round. And we see some great play bills today. What to think of Kramnik-Anand (a Catalan - today Genna Sosonko is here too so at least he’s having a nice day) or the clash between the national Dutch champs of 2005 and 2006, Van Wely-Tiviakov. Again KingLoek plays the English Opening, just like in June this year (when he lost) and Tiviakov is the first to deviate, with his 12…Nd4 instead of 12…a5. And Magnus Carlsen plays a sharp line against Motylev’s Spanish Four Knights.

Motylev-Carlsen
Corus 2007

The piece sac 8…c6!? is known to be correct, and after 9.0-0 Ne8 a recent game went 10.Ne4 d5 11.Ng3 Qh4 (Baramidze-Babujian, Yerevan 2006). Instead, here they played 10.Ne2 when 10…Qh4 seems new. Svidler and Aronian have a Marshall Declined on the board, Radja & Pono are looking at a hybrid of Queen’s and Bogo Indian, Topalov (who will win easily today according to Mark Crowther) has a nice, active position against Navara after a Symmetrical English and against Karjakin, Shirov tries to turn the tide with a side line (12…Ne7) of the Sveshnikov.

Update 16.04 CET: two games are drawn. First Loek-Tivi: not much happened there but we cannot really blame the White player because he wasn’t feeling very well today. The leader Radja consolidated with a quick draw against Pono. Winning is something for the black pieces. Soon some footage of the post-mortem, by the way. Anand is having a hard time against Kramnik (Sosonko can be proud of the world champion) and will probably loose. Not much can be said about Motylev-Carlsen, and the ending Svidler-Aronian looks drawish, according the not strongest Ian anymore, Rogers (quiz question: who is?), and the Australian also thought that Navara manoeuvred himself nicely to an equal position. Shirov again has problems, and should at least win White’s a-pawn to draw the game.

Update 16.29 CET: here some footage of Radjabov and Ponomariov analysing:

Update 17.14 CET: It’s gonna sound boring by now, but Shirov lost again, and again something went wrong with his preparation (if there was any). Karjakin got a strong passed pawn on a5 that was already decisive. Mating with 26…Rf5 doesn’t work because of 27.g3, 28.Qe4 and 29.Qg2. Svidler-Aronian was well-predicted and I was to pessimistic about Anand’s chances, although White is still better. In a rook ending with a pawn down, Navara has good chances to draw Topalov in a similar way he drew Kramnik.

Update 18.47 CET: Perhaps the evaluation of Kramnik-Anand (1-0) was accurate after all. We just taped the press conference by Kramnik in the press room, so don’t go away, because we’ll have the world champ teaching you, after the break! Motylev-Carlsen continued quite funny, with all sorts of tactical tricks. The sort of draw that’s fun to replay. And after his weak show of yesterday, Navara was the old solid chap again whom Topalov couldn’t beat either. About the rook ending, Peter Svidler remarked: ‘F and h is a draw anyway, so this one should be too.’

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21 Responses to “Live reporting: round 6”

  1. arne on 19 January 2007 14:36 PM

    Let op de tijdsverdeling van Jakovenko tegen l’Ami. Was hij te laat of kent hij de theorie niet? Twee jaar geleden had Smeets het met zwart op het bord tegen Mamedyarov. Erwin, Jans analysemaatje, zal dus nog wel in zijn voorbereiding zitten.

  2. Merijn on 19 January 2007 14:45 PM

    Is Radjabov really going to castle queenside? Would be cool.

  3. jacob on 19 January 2007 15:00 PM

    als matig schaker viel mij bij carlsen c6 op.Daarom eens met schaakprogramma gechecked. Die spelen allemaal exf6, met voordeel voor zwart. Weet iemand wat de weerlegging dan is?

  4. Yuri on 19 January 2007 15:03 PM

    @Merijn, je wordt op je wenken bediend door Radjabov.

  5. arne on 19 January 2007 15:11 PM

    Het ziet er allemaal toch tamelijk link uit bij Radjabov. Ben benieuwd of ie het gaat trekken.

  6. arne on 19 January 2007 15:17 PM

    Haha, het enige vluchtveld voor Radjabovs paard is d8. Dus als een haas verdubbelen op de d-lijn. Curieuze stelling.

  7. Yuri on 19 January 2007 15:24 PM

    veld e7 komt ook ter beschikking?

  8. arne on 19 January 2007 15:25 PM

    Shirov lijkt wederom een kansloze nul te gaan pakken. Onbegrijpelijk.

  9. Merijn on 19 January 2007 15:58 PM

    @jacob ik neem aan dat je “met voordeel voor wit” bedoelt ipv “met voordeel voor zwart”. De computer geeft wit na 9.exf6 slechts een klein voordeeltje hoewel wit een vol stuk meer heeft. Dat geeft te denken. De zwarte compensatie bestaat daaruit dat wit zijn stukken niet uit de knoop krijgt. Zwart speelt dus 9…Te8 10.Kf1,Dxf6 en haalt daarna rustig de rest van zijn stukken erbij.

  10. jacob on 19 January 2007 16:07 PM

    Merijn, inderdaad,ik bedoelde natuurlijk wit.Zelf vind ik 2 pionnen nogal wat. Bedankt.

  11. Merijn on 19 January 2007 16:33 PM

    I think Bosboom hasn’t castled for a week by now

  12. Nas on 19 January 2007 16:38 PM

    misschien een hele domme vraag maar warom is Radja-Ponomariov een remisie? Kan iemand mij dit duidenlijk maken? Je zou haast denken dat er nog heel wat in zit!!!! tenmiste zover ik kan schaken . :p hi hi

  13. Rudy on 19 January 2007 17:08 PM

    Omdat Ponomariov speelt met zwart en Radjabov moet iets gedacht hebben in de trend van’safety first’. Het is overigens wel jammer ja.

  14. Selim on 19 January 2007 17:51 PM

    Hello everyone!
    The opening of Motylev-Carlsen is named as ‘Turkish Delight’ by Raymnond Keene if I am not mistaken. It was first played by extraordinary FM from Turkey Yakup Bayram.There are also romours that Bayram was drunk when he first found 8. … c6!!?.
    Also Qh4 was tried by me against GM Shanava in Turkish League in 2006 Ankara. The new move in Motylev - Carlsen is actually 12. …d5! which I failed to find in my game against GM Shanava. instead I went 12. … c5? and after 13.Ne1 Qe5 14.Nf3 Qh5 15.d4! white had the upper hand allthough I managed to finish the game as a draw after a though defence.

    FM Selim Citak

  15. Kivanc Haznedaroglu on 19 January 2007 18:00 PM

    Hi everyone. My name is Haznedaroglu,Kivanc IM from Turkiye. My friend was right actually that opening which was found by our friend Bayram,Yakup and he also tried this opening against Hiarcs7.32 because in that time this version was the last version. Thx to my friend for this information.

  16. Ron on 19 January 2007 18:13 PM

    Kramnik gewonnen! Wat een fantastische partij, Anand er kansloos af. Dagprijs zal wel weer naar iemand anders gaan.

  17. peter on 19 January 2007 18:55 PM

    Hi Selim & Kivanc, thanks for your comments, quite an interesting history! :)

  18. Pal on 19 January 2007 19:12 PM

    Thank you for the videos and commentary. It means very much to me (and probably alot of others), as there is not much coverage of Chess in the United States. Keep up the good work. Thank you, thank you, thank you.

  19. Bert de Bruut on 19 January 2007 19:30 PM

    I think Bosboom only castles once a year, or perhaps once a tournament, if he really has to.

  20. TrapArecev on 19 January 2007 19:32 PM

    Hi Selim, I did not know Turkish Delight contains its fair share of alcohol!

  21. Christos (Greece) on 19 January 2007 20:51 PM

    Thank you for this video. Though, it is only an appetizer, I can’t wait for the analysis of Kramnik-Anand.

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