Siegman tournament (May 2013)

[Christopher Kreuzer]

Nigel Short is playing in the 21st Sigeman and Co chess tournament in Malmo, Sweden.

http://www.sigeman-chess.com/en

Unfortunately he has just lost in round 2 to the Hungarian wonderkid Richard Rapport, still only 17 and back in 2010 the fifth youngest chess Grandmaster in history:

http://www.sigeman-chess.com/live/

Looked like a nice king hunt, if a bit of a short one.

[Roger de Coverly]

Looked like a nice king hunt, if a bit of a short one.

A case of trying too hard to win perhaps? On the grounds of the extra queen side pawn, Black should have been better, so on the face of it White was looking to use the active pieces to draw.

[Christopher Kreuzer]

<shrug> Probably. It is quite funny reading what was said on this forum about Rapport back in 2010 when he was the only GM appearing in the U14 section at some international junior event (can't remember if it was the Europeans or the Worlds).

[Mick Norris]

Interesting opening from Nigel today c4 e5 e3 seems to have surprised his opponent, looking at the clock times

[Roger de Coverly]

Interesting opening from Nigel today c4 e5 e3 seems to have surprised his opponent, looking at the clock times

Wyvill played it in 1851, so not exactly a novelty. Nigel isn't really known as a player of the English, so his opponent may well have been trying to figure out what transpositions were intended.

[Mick Norris]

Nigel wins in 30 moves, kept his time advantage, interesting game

[Mick Norris]

Report here
http://www.chessvibes.com/21st-sigeman-co-under-way

[Mick Norris]

Another interesting win today for Nigel, leaves him 0.5 behind Sokolov and Van Wely who he is yet to play

[Mick Norris]

Never boring with Nigel, white against Van Wely and really going for it again

Move 29 and Van Wely has 77 seconds left

[Mick Norris]

http://www.chessvibes.com/short-sokolov ... tournament

Unbelievably, the report on the Sokolov - Tikkanen game quotes one of my games, they really need to be careful about quoting poor quality stuff from databases

[Andrew Bak]

You've now made it in the chess world Mick - your play wasn't even criticised!

[Mick Norris]

They might have added the rest of the moves, given it was my last longplay win

[Greg Breed]

Nigel Short is playing in the 21st Sigeman and Co chess tournament in Malmo, Sweden...
Looked like a nice king hunt, if a bit of a short one.

Haha no Pun intended i guess

[Mick Norris]

Nigel finishes joint first