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Gibraltar starts on Tuesday: maybe the last before Brexit causes complications at the border with Spain? I'm surprised to see Nakamura is not listed among the competitors; anyone know why? https://chess-results.com/tnr471965.aspx?lan=1&zeilen=99999 Mamedyarov is top seed and then MVL. There's some p...

Carlsen's unbeaten streak is in danger against Vishy...

Or not any more. Engine wanted to play it differently.

Daniel Gormally wrote: ↑

Thu Jan 16, 2020 7:52 pm

Be amazed if there's not a carlsen-firouzja world champs match at some point in the future.

That might depend on whether Magnus Carlsen can regain the title after losing it to Ding Liren this year.

I was well aware of Howell at Hastings, but was thinking of McShane and Short (who both played in the 2017 world rapid/blitz), and Jones (who played in the 2018 world rapid/blitz). No players at all in an official world championship gives a negative message. Contrast that with the large numbers of ...

Not a single UK or Irish entry in either event..... I guess Christmas at home is a bigger attraction than going to Moscow, especially for people with families/non-chess partners. The Irish Blitz Champion is 15-year-old FM Tarun Kanyamarala and the Rapid Champion is Stephen Moran who (rated about 22...

The 2019 King Salman World Rapid Championship begins at 12 noon GMT in Moscow, running for three days, with two days of the World Blitz Championships to follow. In the men's rapid there are 207 players with average rating 2536. 15 rounds, 5 each day, The top pairing is Magnus Carlsen v Azamat Utegal...

Wei Yi rejects a threefold repetition at move 31 and must have missed drawing chances late; now he is now going to lose.

...And anyway not in the same class as the Pirc/modern books (to name but 2). One really, because the Modern was written by Keene and the Pirc by George Botterill. Originally they had a contract to do one book on the two defences. When it became clear there was so much original material, Bob Wade a...

It looks as if Navara (a) was tired from his long defence in the first game; (b) careless in the opening. The position after 6...c5 is a bit unusual but had occurred in Grischuk-So at the Leuven blitz last year when White replied 7 Bg2. Wei Yi played 7 Ne5 setting a trap which he had perhaps prepare...

Ah yes, I forgot the bonuses and tiebreak. So even if MVL wins tomorrow (reaching 15) he is not completely safe.

Navara has beaten Jakovenko in their second classical game. He will play the winner of tomorrow's playoff between Wei Yi and Karjakin. The two matches in the top half of the draw also play off tomorrow. If So beats Nepo then MVL is in the Candidates whatever happens in his playoff. If Nepo wins the ...

Wang Hao v Navara and Harikrishna-Karjakin first 5/3 games drawn; second one coming up soon.

Shak is out so it's MVL or Nepo to reach the Candidates - and most likely Nepo would get the wild card anyway.
The last two matches are on to the fast stuff and maybe Armagedddon,

Nepo and MVL are through 2-0 but Jakovenko looks like taking Shak to blitz.

Paul Habershon wrote: ↑

Sat Dec 07, 2019 8:34 pm

Luke's excellent column is in the Spectator and the contents page has at last correctly attributed it to him rather than to Raymond Keene. ...

Paying for The Spectator is against my religion.