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Siegman tournament (May 2013)
Posted: Thu May 23, 2013 6:24 pm
by 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.
Re: Siegman tournament (May 2013)
Posted: Thu May 23, 2013 6:37 pm
by Roger de Coverly
Christopher Kreuzer wrote:
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.
Re: Siegman tournament (May 2013)
Posted: Thu May 23, 2013 6:45 pm
by 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).
Re: Siegman tournament (May 2013)
Posted: Fri May 24, 2013 1:20 pm
by Mick Norris
Interesting opening from Nigel today c4 e5 e3 seems to have surprised his opponent, looking at the clock times
Re: Siegman tournament (May 2013)
Posted: Fri May 24, 2013 1:30 pm
by Roger de Coverly
Mick Norris wrote: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.
Re: Siegman tournament (May 2013)
Posted: Fri May 24, 2013 4:29 pm
by Mick Norris
Nigel wins in 30 moves, kept his time advantage, interesting game
Re: Siegman tournament (May 2013)
Posted: Sat May 25, 2013 9:09 am
by Mick Norris
Re: Siegman tournament (May 2013)
Posted: Sat May 25, 2013 5:16 pm
by Mick Norris
Another interesting win today for Nigel, leaves him 0.5 behind Sokolov and Van Wely who he is yet to play
Re: Siegman tournament (May 2013)
Posted: Sun May 26, 2013 4:34 pm
by 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
Re: Siegman tournament (May 2013)
Posted: Mon May 27, 2013 9:56 am
by 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
Re: Siegman tournament (May 2013)
Posted: Mon May 27, 2013 10:04 am
by Andrew Bak
You've now made it in the chess world Mick - your play wasn't even criticised!
Re: Siegman tournament (May 2013)
Posted: Mon May 27, 2013 10:11 am
by Mick Norris
They might have added the rest of the moves, given it was my last longplay win
Re: Siegman tournament (May 2013)
Posted: Tue May 28, 2013 11:13 am
by Greg Breed
Christopher Kreuzer wrote: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
Re: Siegman tournament (May 2013)
Posted: Tue May 28, 2013 6:12 pm
by Mick Norris
Nigel finishes joint first