Friday, January 25th, 2008
So the last couple weeks I’ve been a little bit too busy to update my Blog, and I couldn’t have picked a worse 2 weeks to be busy since there has been so much action!
Fischer died last week the day I was heading down to the Liberty Bell Open in Philadelphia (Report Coming Soon). Before […]
Posted at: 4:14 pm |
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Tags: Bobby Fischer, Corus 2008, Ivan Cheparinov, Magnus Carlsen, Nigel Short, Vishy Anand
Saturday, January 12th, 2008
We had a couple of big upsets today. Radjabov beating Anand with the white pieces was probably the biggest one of the day. It seems to me that once Radjabov was able to build this pawn chain with d6 and e5, Anand had very little chance of saving the game.
Notice the pawn can not be […]
Posted at: 6:29 pm |
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Tags: Corus 2008, Irina Krush, Levon Aronian, Teimour Radjabov, Veselin Topalov, Vishy Anand
Friday, January 11th, 2008
The Corus Chess Tournament in Wijk Ann Zee starts tomorrow and the field is extremely strong this year. There are a few players who I’d love to see in the tournament who are absent this year, but it’s tough to fit everyone into a single tournament. The players who I was hoping to see play […]
Posted at: 5:24 am |
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Tags: Chess 960, Corus 2008, Fischer Random, Fritz, Irina Krush, Mark Dvoretsky, Rybka