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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, 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: 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.
Round 2: Tuesday, July 19, 14:00h | ||
Maxime Vachier |
0-1 |
Alex. Morozevich |
Magnus Carlsen |
1-0 |
Alexei Shirov |
Yannick Pelletier |
½-½ |
Fabiano Caruana |
If a title had to be given to the day’s round, Beauty and the Beast might be appropriate. Magnus Carlsen has been confirming not only his status as the number one, but also his return to form as he outplayed Alexei Shirov in a Meran, finishing his game long before everyone else. They played fifteen moves of known theory at which point they deviated. Shirov found himself with a king trapped in the center and serious development problems he never managed to resolve. Eventually he tried to do so energetically, but this just left him open to Carlsen’s counter-strike and soon succumbed. That would be the Beauty, as it also leaves Carlsen on 2.0/2.
The game between former French prodigy Maxime Vachier-Lagrave and returning phenom Alexander Morozevich would be the Beast. The players went for a classic Exchange Gruenfeld, but the Frenchman seemed the better prepared and his initiative soon turned into a deadly attack. This might have decisively turned to his advantage with 23.Qh6+ Kf7 24.Nf4, which he missed, albeit still retaining a good advantage. Then the tragic took place five moves later, and in what can only be ascribed to a massive hallucination, he went for a completely mistaken sacrifice that left him dead lost, yielding the win to Morozevich.
Self-distructed in round two: French GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave
Alexander Morozevich, who graciously took the presented point
Fabiano Caruana and Yannick Pelletier played a French that was soon reduced to a rather straightforward endgame with few, if any, winning chances. Caruana no doubt felt a need to play it out and try to somehow squeeze a win against the tournament’s lowest-rated player, but the Swiss had few difficulties and the balance was never broken over the 59 moves played.
Remember: a win counts as three points, a draw as one and a loss zero.
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
Monday | 18/07/2011 | Miso Cebalo | Daniel King |
Tuesday | 19/07/2011 | Miso Cebalo | Daniel King |
Wednesday | 20/07/2011 | Miso Cebalo | Jan Smeets |
Friday | 22/07/2011 | Miso Cebalo | Daniel King |
Saturday | 23/07/2011 | Miso Cebalo | Jan Gustafsson |
Monday | 25/07/2011 | Miso Cebalo | Jan Gustafsson |
Tuesday | 26/07/2011 | Miso Cebalo | Jan Gustafsson |
Wednesday | 27/07/2011 | Miso Cebalo | Daniel King |
Thursday | 28/07/2011 | Miso Cebalo | Daniel King |
Friday | 29/07/2011 | Miso Cebalo | to be announced |
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.
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LinksThe 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. |