7/25/2011 – After his unexpected lapse against Vachier-Lagrave, Carlsen refused to take his foot off the accelerator. He beat Pelletier in their return game, and is now leading with thirteen points. Morozevich missed a golden opportunity to stay abreast after Shirov took incredible risks, was lost for a long time in a chaotic position, and finally managed to draw. Updated report with postgame analysis and videos.
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The
2011 Biel Chess Festival is taking place from July 16 to 29, in a number of
groups: the Master Tournament (eleven rounds Swiss); the Main Tournament (nine
rounds Swiss); a Rapid and a Blitz tournament; Chess960; Youth, Simultaneous,
Chess Tennis, ChessBase training seminars. Of greatest interest is of course
the Accentus Grandmaster Tournament with six very strong grandmasters playing
a double round robin: Magnus Carlsen, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, Alexei Shirov,
Fabiano Caruana, Alexander Morozevich and Yannick Pelletier.
The participants: Caruana, Pelletier, Shirov, Carlsen, Morozevich, Vachier-Lagrave
The rate of play: 2 hours for 40 moves, then one hour for 20 and 15 min for
the rest of the game, with 30 sec increment per move. The scoring system is
three points for a win, one for a draw and zero for a loss. No draw offers are
permitted before move 30.
Scoring system: a win counts as three points, a draw as one and a
loss zero.
Live GM commentary and interviews on Playchess
During the games of the Biel Chess Festival there is live commentary –
by GM Miso Cebalo in German and GMs like Danny King, Jan Gustafsson or Jan Smeets
in English. After the games are over the players come to the stage where Cebalo
analyses the moves with them (in English). These are particularly interesting
sessions, since the proponents have everything still fresh in their minds, and
are in fact exploring, in real time, what happened just minutes ago.
All this is available to a world-wide audience on Playchess
and with a normal Internet browser on our special Chesslive
broadcast page. In this report we show you the postgame interviews as video
captures. At the end of the report you will find a PGN file to download and
analyse yourself, assisted by your favourite chess engine.
Fabiano Caruana, Miso Cebalo and Maxime Vachier-Lagrave analysing together
French GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave
US-Italian GM Fabiano Caruana
Magnus Carlsen and Yannick Pelletier discussing their game on Playchess
Back to his winning ways: Magnus Carlsen
Yannick Pelletier, who at minus two is still gaining rating points
Spanish GM Alexei Shirov makes a point for Festival host Miso Cebalo
In second place and pressing: GM Alexander Morozevich
As a special treat the multimedia commentary live from Biel is also available
on our live browser coverage. This also includes the players analysing after
their games.
The games are being broadcast live on the official web site and on the
chess server Playchess.com.
If you are not a member you can download a free Playchess client there
and get immediate access. You can also use ChessBase
11 or any of our Fritz
compatible chess programs.
In this video course experts examine the games of Bent Larsen. Let them show you which openings Larsen chose, where his strength in middlegames were, how he outplayed his opponents in the endgame & you’ll get a glimpse of his tactical abilities!
From the 2026 Candidates Tournament, featuring a video review by Dorian Rogozenco, to Jan Werle’s opening video on the French Tarrasch Defence, and Oliver Reeh’s tactical column ‘Top Grandmasters at Work’. Analyses by Giri, So, Wei Yi and many others.
You will learn how Black's dynamic piece activity and structural counterplay more than compensate for White's extra tempo in the colour-reversed setups.
In this course, you’ll learn how to take the initiative against the London and prevent White from comfortably playing their usual system by playing 1.d4 Nf6 2.Bf4 Nh5.
London System Powerbase 2026 is a database and contains in all 11 285 games from Mega 2026 and the Correspondence Database 2026, of which 282 are annotated.
The London System Powerbook 2026 is based on more than 410 000 games or game fragments from different opening moves and ECO codes; what they all have in common is that White plays d4 and Bf4 but does not play c4.
In this course, Grandmaster Elisabeth Pähtz presents the London System, a structured and ambitious approach based on the immediate Bf4, leading to rich and dynamic positions.
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