Australian grandmaster Ian Rogers just characterized the position as “very dangerous” for Aronian.
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Channel Firing
by Thomas Hardy (1840-1928)
(This poem might have been more appropriate yesterday, Memorial Day, if only I planned ahead better than I do.)
That night your great guns, unawares,
Shook all our coffins as we lay,
And broke the chancel window-squares,
We thought it was the Judgment-day
And sat upright. While drearisome
Arose the howl of wakened hounds:
The mouse let fall [...]
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The World Computer Championship is also taking place here at the Oval in Turin. Twenty of the world’s top programs are here. It is fascinating to watch the games. Except for the presence of the two machines on the table, it might pass for a casual game between humans. There is a board and clock [...]
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No point in my giving either the men’s standings or the women’s standings since they are now up here and here. Looks like Armenia should get the Ukraine. Russia has already played China and they probably get Georgia (I’m told that teams are ranked for pairing purposes based on their tiebreaks), but it’s conceivable that [...]
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At least Onischuk’s against Hansen doesn’t appear to be. If he converts it, the U.S. will have a 3-1 victory over Denmark. [update: he did convert it]
Armenia has put a little (very little) distance between it and Russia by beating Cuba 3-1 while Russia could only manage a 2-2 tie with the Czech Republic. More [...]
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What do I know about chess? The U.S. women have tied Russia 1.5-1.5. Tatiana Kosintseva beat Anna Zatonskih on board one while the U.S. evened it on board two where Irina Krush defeated Ekaterina Kosintseva. Board three was drawn. More results soon.
On the men’s side, Peter Svidler has lost to David Navara. That match [...]
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Kamsky has won on board one for the U.S. and Kaidanov has drawn on board four. Nakamura’s game is surely drawn. Onischuk is up a pawn in a rook-and-pawn endgame and I remember learning that all rook-and-pawn endgames are drawn (actually, the rule I learned from experience is that all rook-and-pawn endgames in which I [...]
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Anand05
Originally uploaded by allthingshuman.
It’s pretty depressing when you can’t get any work done because the wireless network is taking 5-10 minutes per page to load. But, it seems to have improved, so there may be more posts today. Meanwhile, here’s a picture of Anand.
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Hopefully, I will get lots of photos and upload them today.
I will be talking with David Levy about the World Computer Championship going on here and have something on that.
I spoke briefly with Yasser Seirawan on my way in. He is here for Chessbase and “spending every waking hour campaigning for Bessel.” He promised to [...]
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Last night I had dinner with a long-time FIDE insider and chess politico and this morning I sat down for coffee with another. Both are from Western countries and strong supporters of Bessel Kok’s candidacy.
Neither of them is very optimistic about his chances however (the odds I heard were between 1 in 3 and 1 [...]
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