Lots of Australian chess videos
29 March 2008 10:39 AM | Last modified: 10:40
One of the strongest tournaments of Australia, the Doeberl Cup, was won by GM Varuzhan Akobian, before Zhang Zong and Surya Ganguly. These tournament organizers are also into chess 2.0 because they made lots of nice videos as well.
Introduction to the O2C 46th Doeberl Cup
Drawing colours for round 1 of the Premier
Premier Round 1 Commentary by GM Ian Rogers
Premier Round 2 Commentary by GM Ian Rogers
Premier Round 3 Commentary by GM Ian Rogers
Premier Round 4 Commentary by GM Ian Rogers
Premier Round 5 Commentary by GM Ian Rogers
Premier Round 6 Commentary by GM Ian Rogers
Premier Round 6 Commentary by GM Ian Rogers
IM Igor Bitansky, Israel
(Premier Round 8 - IM Igor Bitansky V IM Andras Toth)
Premier Round 8 Commentary by GM Ian Rogers
Premier Round 9 Commentary by GM Ian Rogers
Player Interviews
GM Varuzhan Akobian, IM David Smerdon, Amiel Rosario (aka The Closet Grandmaster)
Doeberl 2008
| Rank | Seed | Name | Rating | Score | ||
| 1 | 3 | GM | Akobian, | Varuzhan | 2599 | 7.5 |
| 2 | 1 | GM | Zhang, | Zhong | 2617 | 6.5 |
| 3 | 4 | GM | Ganguly, | Surya | 2579 | 6.5 |
| 4 | 5 | GM | Jones, | Gawain | 2562 | 6.5 |
| 5 | 6 | GM | Gagunashvili, | Merab | 2553 | 6.5 |
| 6 | 7 | GM | Antic, | Dejan | 2480 | 6.5 |
| 7 | 9 | IM | Solomon, | Stephen J | 2468 | 6.5 |
| 8 | 15 | IM | Kizov, | Atanas | 2398 | 6.5 |
| 9 | 17 | IM | Wang, | Puchen | 2383 | 6 |
| 10 | 2 | GM | Malakhatko, | Vadim | 2600 | 6 |
| 11 | 11 | WGM | Li, | Roufan | 2425 | 6 |
| 12 | 12 | IM | Bitansky, | Igor | 2424 | 6 |
| 13 | 22 | WGM | Zozulia, | Anna | 2344 | 6 |
| 14 | 20 | Ambrus, | Endre | 2378 | 6 | |
| 15 | 8 | GM | Johansen, | Darryl K | 2475 | 5.5 |
| 16 | 16 | FM | Goldenberg, | Igor | 2395 | 5.5 |
| 17 | 10 | IM | Smerdon, | David C | 2459 | 5.5 |
| 18 | 26 | Rej, | Tomek | 2283 | 5.5 | |
| 19 | 19 | FM | Bjelobrk, | Igor | 2381 | 5.5 |
| 20 | 14 | IM | Toth, | Andras | 2410 | 5.5 |
| 21 | 13 | IM | Lane, | Gary W | 2412 | 5.5 |
| 22 | 18 | IM | Mas, | Hafizulhelmi | 2382 | 5.5 |
| 23 | 34 | Ikeda, | Junta | 2201 | 5.5 | |
| 24 | 28 | IM | Berezina-Feldman, | Irina | 2246 | 5.5 |
| 25 | 50 | Hu, | Jason | 2120 | 5.5 |
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i was experimenting with some browser safari:))) and it was crashing all the time
when opening this page but mozilla is the best:))) thanks for the videos there are
so many:))) i will try to look all of them:))) but if i try to see also the games this will
take all the weekend so at least i have what to do:)))
anyway there is something strange with this page it takes too many cpu and memory
and the right mouse button is not working on the links at least for me
My congratulations to Armenian-American champion of Doeberl Cup. And i guess very nice beginning of the year for Armenians from all over the world - Levon Aronian and Sergei Movsesian winners of Corus A, B, Aronian again in Amber, Nice, and Varuzhan here in Australia.
While I appreciate the effort GM Rogers’ annotations are wasted due to the poor resolving demo board, videos unwatchable. The other videos are good though.
My goodness, if I knew GM Rogers was giving commentary I would have sponsored him a proper board….what a pitty!
Actually, I think the board is not all that bad compared to the wooden pieces they dropped all the time at Corus.
If I see room for improvement it is that next time the cameraperson can zoom in more, so we can discriminate between pawns and bishops better.
Apart from that I think IGM Rogers is handy with the pieces and gives solid and entertaining commentary.
All in all, I liked it a lot!