R8: Anand, Aronain, Carlsen win
28 February 2008 16:23 PM | Last modified: 11:08
Round 8 has started. Without anything fancy by the way; the players arrived at the theater, walked into the playing hall, and about eight minutes later they went to their boards. A very short speech and a gong followed.
This article will be updated during the round. Of course I already made some video footage, but the first update of this article will contain some photos. And, not a trivial thing: the games can be followed live here.
Today’s results:
Ivanchuk-Carlsen 0-1
Radjabov-Leko 1/2
Aronian-Topalov 1-0
Update 19:57h
Ivanchuk has just lost on time, while he was making his 40th move in a lost position. A second drama for the Ukrainian, who had a very good and possibly winning position for a long time against Carlsen. According to the screen that’s showing the games at the stage, Ivanchuk had two seconds left, but the real clock had no mercy. “Luckily I was winning anyway,” Carlsen said afterwards. He wasn’t proud of his opening play: “No, …Bb4 wasn’t prepared, I just couldn’t remember the lines, which was disastrous of course.”
Update 21:06h
Anand started the second half very well, beating Shirov with White. At first he seemed to be winning very quickly, but Shirov was very tough today. “He was very close to the draw,” Vishy said. But he could made use of his extra time on the clock and after “some tactical tricks around Black’s king”, it was over anyway.
Radjabov and Leko drew their very interesting game. Leko had the feeling he was better after White’s piece sac, but “after the very strong intermediate move 22.Qg7! it wasn’t so clear.” With the strong move 39.a4! Radjabov offered a draw which had to be accepted by Leko, who wasn’t better anymore.
Update 22:13h
Aronian also won. He considered Topalov’s 37…f4 a blunder because before that it was more or less equal. The ending was very difficult to defend and in the end Topalov couldn’t keep it.
First I’m having some dinner, but later tonight the games with comments will follow, and of course, videos!
Hello,
I would like to express my concerns on the lack of news on the famous
Boerenkool-met-worst Tournament,
which has this year been skillfully won -for the third time in a row!- by the vegetarian chess-master Zultan from Hoorn.
Is it chess-vibes policy to refrain from honouring vegetarian fellow-chess players? Is it a conspiracy?
Best regards,
Fleur
I think chessvibes chooses to cover the more international tournaments… http://www.schakers.info does give a lot dutch news… doing double work seems a bit strange…
I have problne accessing the live games.
Or better, I cannot see the different games.
Is this normal?
Luis,
double click does the trick.
same problem as luis
Interesantes comentarios en vivo por Leontxo
Since both schakers.info and chessvibes are not reporting on the most important tournament of the year, I will do it myself….
However, since the boerenkool met worst tournaments is, in a way, a bit like famines in Afrika (pictorial reports all look the same), I like to refer to last years chessvibes report.
http://www.chessvibes.com/rapid-chess/lang_nleens-per-jaar-mag-hetlang_nllang_enonce-a-year-its-allrightlang_en/
I could enrich this comment with all sorts of details, for example that the “Wijkertorenboys” delegation did not perform up their own (and only their own) expectations, that HJV was impressing by playing for a tournament win without “spek and bonen”, that the great Geerts was shining with abundance and that the atmosphere was great as always. But I will summarise to:
The vegetarian won…. again!
Zultan
cant see the live games
can anybody help me?
Impossible to see the live games. What’s the trick?
I can’t see the live games from the official site, I am depending only on chesspro which I have to refresh for every movement
http://www.soloajedrez.com/ciudaddelinares/
where can i see round 8 anand-shirov match?i cant view the live game at the website above kykkos has mentioned..
The games are available on icc at least.
Shirov has lost to Anand.
Que jornada mas interesante, este torneo está siendo espectacular. No hay tregua.
Los que estaban segundos han pasado a cuartos y quintos de un plumazo
A mi me gusta mucho las peleas ajedrezisticas. Pero, hace tiempo las tablas eram demasiadamente vien venidas por los contendores.
Hoy, sin embargo, estoy muy contento con los desarrollos de los contendores. Ellos estan luchando hasta las derraderas consequencias. Creo que es el mejor torneo del ano!
Y viva al ajedrez!
Anand will cross 2800+ mark again! Kramnik is losing elo, so Anand might be the lone 2800+ player in the next rating list.
http://www.suneetsmausil.com