Leuven Grand Chess Tour
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Leuven Grand Chess Tour
http://grandchesstour.org/watch-live
For the official site,
and
https://chess24.com/
should both offer coverage although bear in mind there were many difficulties with coverage in Paris.
It appears that Anand has replaced Fressinet, that aside the line up is the same:
Viswanathan Anand • Levon Aronian • Fabiano Caruana • Anish Giri • Vladimir Kramnik • Hikaru Nakamura • Wesley So • Veselin Topalov • Maxime Vachier-Lagrave
Wildcard: Magnus Carlsen
JUNE 17-20, 2016 • LEUVEN, BELGIUM • RAPID & BLITZ
For the official site,
and
https://chess24.com/
should both offer coverage although bear in mind there were many difficulties with coverage in Paris.
It appears that Anand has replaced Fressinet, that aside the line up is the same:
Viswanathan Anand • Levon Aronian • Fabiano Caruana • Anish Giri • Vladimir Kramnik • Hikaru Nakamura • Wesley So • Veselin Topalov • Maxime Vachier-Lagrave
Wildcard: Magnus Carlsen
JUNE 17-20, 2016 • LEUVEN, BELGIUM • RAPID & BLITZ
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Re: Leuven Grand Chess Tour
Round 1 is as follows.
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GM Kramnik, V. (0) 2812 V GM Nakamura, H. (0) 2787
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GM Caruana, F. (0) 2804 V GM Topalov, V. (0) 2761
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GM Aronian, L. (0) 2792 V GM Giri, Anish (0) 2782
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GM Vachier-Lagr. (0) 2789 V GM Anand, V. (0) 2770
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GM So, Wesley (0) 2770 V GM Carlsen, M. (0) 2855
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GM Kramnik, V. (0) 2812 V GM Nakamura, H. (0) 2787
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GM Caruana, F. (0) 2804 V GM Topalov, V. (0) 2761
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GM Aronian, L. (0) 2792 V GM Giri, Anish (0) 2782
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GM Vachier-Lagr. (0) 2789 V GM Anand, V. (0) 2770
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GM So, Wesley (0) 2770 V GM Carlsen, M. (0) 2855
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Re: Leuven Grand Chess Tour
MVL V Anand Round 1 grabbing all the attention so far...interesting game for sure.
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Re: Leuven Grand Chess Tour
Vishy has made his mark already with a brilliant quick wIn as Black over MVL.
Fressinet was only a wild card for Paris because Vishy (one of the regular Grand Tour players) was committed to playing another event that clashed.
https://chess24.com/en/watch/live-tourn ... 2016/1/1/1
Commentary by Jan Gustafsson and Anna Rudolf who are on the spot in Leuven town hall.
Fressinet was only a wild card for Paris because Vishy (one of the regular Grand Tour players) was committed to playing another event that clashed.
https://chess24.com/en/watch/live-tourn ... 2016/1/1/1
Commentary by Jan Gustafsson and Anna Rudolf who are on the spot in Leuven town hall.
Tim Harding
Historian and FIDE Arbiter
Author of 'Steinitz in London,' British Chess Literature to 1914', 'Joseph Henry Blackburne: A Chess Biography', and 'Eminent Victorian Chess Players'
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Author of 'Steinitz in London,' British Chess Literature to 1914', 'Joseph Henry Blackburne: A Chess Biography', and 'Eminent Victorian Chess Players'
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Re: Leuven Grand Chess Tour
Some great first round games. Caruana just won!
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Re: Leuven Grand Chess Tour
Kramnik and Aronian also won; Carlsen drew with So.
Tim Harding
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Author of 'Steinitz in London,' British Chess Literature to 1914', 'Joseph Henry Blackburne: A Chess Biography', and 'Eminent Victorian Chess Players'
http://www.chessmail.com
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Author of 'Steinitz in London,' British Chess Literature to 1914', 'Joseph Henry Blackburne: A Chess Biography', and 'Eminent Victorian Chess Players'
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Re: Leuven Grand Chess Tour
Giri mishandled that endgame, I thought he queened first yet he lost within moves.
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Re: Leuven Grand Chess Tour
Agreed, four decisive games and a round that had a bit of everything. A king hunt, sacrifices and two tricky rook endings.MJMcCready wrote:Some great first round games. Caruana just won!
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Re: Leuven Grand Chess Tour
He did queen first but white's king was much closer to the pawns, even having the luxury of the final position being won with a rook pawn.MJMcCready wrote:Giri mishandled that endgame, I thought he queened first yet he lost within moves.
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Re: Leuven Grand Chess Tour
Interesting that Carlsen in round 2 is using Harry Golombek's favourite system of Nh3 and f4 in the reversed Dragon English, to which his opponent MVL has replied h7-h5, which Golombek probably never faced.
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Re: Leuven Grand Chess Tour
And he hasn't handled it very well, Carlsen that is.
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Re: Leuven Grand Chess Tour
Nasty tactic appeared in Giri V Caruana.
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Leonard Barden wrote:Interesting that Carlsen in round 2 is using Harry Golombek's favourite system of Nh3 and f4 in the reversed Dragon English, to which his opponent MVL has replied h7-h5, which Golombek probably never faced.
Golombek reached the position at move 7 against Foltys in 1946, but played 8 O-O. With the subsequent development of h pawn pushes in the Dragon, the reply 8. .. h5 comes to mind. Golombek had used the Nh3, f4 idea in the 1930s. In the 1950s and 1960s he played a more conventional Nf3 against Penrose and Wade. In his beginner's book for Penguin, he mentions a Nh3 idea, his game with Foltys in fact.
The idea of Be2 and h4 against the Dragon was seen in the 1958 World Championship match.
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Re: Leuven Grand Chess Tour
It's been a while since I've been able to say that Topalov is the only winner of the round
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Re: Leuven Grand Chess Tour
It seemed to me that black went wrong several times but I stopped following around move 20 as I thought Naka would win quite easily.