7/20/2011 – It is sometimes referred to as a "post mortem" session: in Biel the
winning player, or the more satisfied one, sometimes both, will appear on the
stage to analyse with the resident GM. This analysis goes to the local audience,
but also via Playchess to chess fans
all over the world. You can follow these sessions live or in our special postgame
report, which includes
video captures.
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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 2: Tuesday, July 19, 14:00h
Maxime Vachier
0-1
Alex. Morozevich
Magnus Carlsen
1-0
Alexei Shirov
Yannick Pelletier
½-½
Fabiano Caruana
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.
In the following we provide you with videos of the analysis sessions as well
as the lines that were discussed, both on JavaScript replay boards. At the end
of the report you will find a PGN file to download and analyse yourself, assisted
by your favourite chess engine.
Magnus Carlsen analysing with GM Miso Cebalo immediately after his game
against Shirov
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.
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.
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