Round 11 with comments

15 Responses to “Round 11 with comments”

1. nep on 3 March 2008 22:50 PM

   I see a brazilian and a peruvian flag in the picture background, and if I am not wrong, I read Geovani Vescovi. Is there a “B” group or something? Why nothing has been said about this? cheers

2. thorex on 4 March 2008 0:20 AM

   Radjabov - Anand is ridiculous. The agreed a draw only two moves out of opening theory…

3. Lajos Arpad on 4 March 2008 3:43 AM

   Anand didn’t want to risk his position(as tournament leader), i understand him. But Radjabov shouldn’t be satisfied with a draw with White, even against the Champion.

4. tim gluckman on 4 March 2008 4:14 AM

   Am I the only one to be disapointed by the Internet coverage offered by the organisers themselves. This is the 21st year or so of Linares, and I think they could have made more effort to have a functioning prgram. Even three hours after all the games are over it is still impossible to find the results .Or perhaps I just pressed the wrong button. So I always switch to Cjhess Vibes where i can find the scores and some helpful comments; thx very much once agin.
   The very illuminating press conferences of CORUS seem like a happy dream in retrospect.

5. vijaym on 4 March 2008 5:49 AM

   The Leko-Carlsen seemed to be drawish. Was Carlsen trying to go all out for win and stumbled?

6. Vosuram on 4 March 2008 6:16 AM

   @ tim gluckman: You are not the only one. I mentioned several times the tournament web coverege was given to someone(s) incapable of doing their job.

7. gogomil on 4 March 2008 8:59 AM

   @tim:i dont even try linares pages. LOok at http://www.crestbook.com/ with comments from GM Shipov ,who had over 2650 few years ago or chessdom.com also with live comments from GMs

8. Jarvis Johnson on 4 March 2008 9:48 AM

   peter: tim gluckman (above) was so right about the press conferences from Corus; that stuff brought the whole coverage to a new dimension. How come there are no ones this time? Still, Chessvibes is the N.o 1 place for following top chess of course

9. Ron on 4 March 2008 11:02 AM

   The move 33…d5(??) from Magnus is incomprehensible to me. Why give a pawn just like that?

10. peter on 4 March 2008 11:14 AM

    @ nep
    Yes, it’s Vescovi, and he’s playing the 2nd Ibero American Championship, held simultaneously during Morelia/Linares. We mentioned it here.

    @ thorex
    They didn’t know about that Tal-Botvinnik game, and the final position is dead equal.

    @ tim, Jarvis
    They don’t do press conferences here, which is one of many examples of this tournament being quite old-fashioned.

    @ Ron
    In this kind of endings, material is not the most important thing. With the pawn sac, Black can activate his rook.

11. Menno on 4 March 2008 14:01 PM

    @gogomil
    Mmm, looks nice, but is there a hidden button which changes the side to English?? My Russian is a bit rusty…..

12. manyoso on 4 March 2008 20:05 PM

    Well, they need to become less old-fashioned then. The press conferences at Corus were amazing! More like that please!

13. manyoso on 4 March 2008 20:23 PM

    Topalov just walked into forced mate against Carlsen.

14. Vosuram on 4 March 2008 20:46 PM

    Round 12, Ivanchuk-Rajsbov: I don’t understand 47.Be6. I have no Rybka or so, but why not 47.Re4, followed by Bg6?

15. gogomil on 4 March 2008 22:00 PM

    @Menno
    Sorry, thought i saw english version , but its not with the Shipovs comments ,still usefull stuf- http://www.chesszone.org/