7/30/2011 – This wonderfully exciting tournament is over, and to wrap things up we bring
you a final report with interesting statistics (did you count: there were more
black wins than white). Also the remarkable postgame sessions on Playchess
with the players, who explained to a world-wide audience what transpired in
the games they had just finished. Great event, pity it's over.
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The
2011 Biel Chess Festival took 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 was of course the
Accentus Grandmaster Tournament with six very strong grandmasters playing a
double round robin: Magnus Carlsen, Maximee Vachier-Lagrave, Alexei Shirov,
Fabiano Caruana, Alexander Morozevich and Yannick Pelletier.
The participants: Caruana, Pelletier, Shirov, Carlsen, Morozevich, Vachier-Lagrave
The rate of play: two 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 was
three points for a win, one for a draw and zero for a loss. No draw offers were
permitted before move 30.
The winners: Alexander Morozevich, Magnus Carlsen, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave
The tournament winner was (once again) Norwegian GM Magnus Carlsen, who won
five games and lost one ("plus four"), followed by Russian GM Alexander
Morozevich with four wins and a loss (plus three), and Maxime Vachier-Lagrave,
who scored 50%, with two wins and two losses (both to Morozevich).
Final standings
Scoring system: a win counts as three points, a draw as one and a loss
zero. In the traditional scoring system, which we assume will apply when calculating
the ratings, the tournament table at halftime would look like this:
Note that the traditional method of scoring (1-½-0) produces exactly
the same rankings, just different final scores.
Statistics
Let us look once again at the draw quotients, and compare them with last year's
edition of the event:
Number of games
White wins
Draws
Black wins
2011 30
23.3%
50.0%
26.7%
2010 45
20.0%
68.9%
11.1%
It is interesting to see that more games were won with the black pieces than
with white – eight vs seven to be precise. Carlsen and Caruana won two
games each with black, Morozevich three. Caruana lost two games with white,
Pelletier three. Carlsen won three games with white, Vachier-Lagrave two.
And if you look at the lengths of the games you also see a marked difference:
in 2010 there were six games of less than 23 moves, and a total of 17 games
of less than 30 moves (16 draws and one black win). This year with a third less
games (thirty games as opposed to last year's 45) there was just one game with
less than 23 moves (Vachier-Lagrave vs Shirov in the final round), and just
four with less than 30 moves (including a win by Carlsen over Caruana in 27
moves). A real difference that needs to be studied.
Live ratings
Finally let us take a look at the current
live ratings, as calculated by a site run by IM Artiom Tsepotan together
with International Arbiter Dr. Christopher Wright. It was calculated on 29 July
2011, at 19:13 GMT, and included the Biel tournament as well as eight rounds
of the Dortmund event. The ratings of the top twenty players in the world are
as follows:
Magnus Carlsen's highest ever live rating, 2828.4 on Friday, July 22 (after
round four of Biel), has settled at 2823, making him the second highest rated
player of all time. Only Garry Kasparov surpasses Magnus' rating with his mystical
2851, achieved in the July 1999 and January 2000 FIDE ratings.
On top of the world: Norwegian GM Magnus Carlsen
Live GM commentary and interviews on Playchess
During the games of the Biel Chess Festival there was live commentary –
by GM Miso Cebalo in German and GMs like Danny King, Jan Gustafsson or Jan Smeets
in English. After the games were over the players came to the stage where Cebalo
analysed the moves with them (in English). These were particularly interesting
sessions, since the proponents had everything still fresh in their minds, and
were in fact exploring, in real time, what had happened just minutes ago. All
of this was 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 of the
final round 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.
Alexander Morozevich analysing on Playchess with Miso Cebalo
Fabiano Caruana analysing his final game in Biel 2011...
... together with Miso Cebalo and the tournament winner Magnus Carlsen
The games are being broadcast live on the official web site and on the
chess server Playchess.com.
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