7/19/2011 – The 2011 Biel Chess Festival, a double round robin with six top GMs, offers
chess fans something very special: breathless live analysis by the players immediately
after the game is over. You can watch these sessions on Playchess,
or even in your plain vanilla Internet browser. We also capture the analysis
and can present it to you here to explore. A wonderful lesson on how grandmasters think.
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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.
Round 1: Monday, July 18, 14:00h
Fabiano Caruana
½-½
Maxim Vachier
Yannick Pelletier
0-1
Magnus Carlsen
Alexei Shirov
½-½
Alex. Morozevich
During the games of the Biel Chess Festival there is, as mentioned in our round
one report, 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.
In the following we provide you with images of the analysis sessions, a video
of one of them, and most importantly the lines that were discussed, both on
JavaScript replay boards as well as in a PGN file which you can load into Fritz
and analyse yourself, assisted by your favourite chess engine.
Maxim Vachier-Lagrave analysing with GM Miso Cebalo after his game against
Fabiano Caruana
Video of the analysis session of Vachier-Lagrave and Cebalo
An animated session where Carlsen and Pelletier operate the Playchess
program themselves and analyse
in full view of thousands of visitors all over the world, who can see and
hear them going through the game
The host of the show, Croatian GM Miso Cebalo, interjects questions
World's number one and top seed in Biel: Magnus Carlsen
There is live audio and video commentary on the chess server Playchess.
The English commentary starts at 3:30 p.m., and German commentary directly from
the playing site begins at 4:00 p.m. In addition Daniel King is doing round-up
shows at 8:00 p.m. on the days he is commenting.
GM Daniel King commenting on the games in round one
The games are being broadcast live on the official web site and on the
chess server Playchess.com.
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