7/23/2011 – Once again we are able to present you a unique insight into the workings of
the top chess minds. After the rounds the players – at least those who
are not too upset – joined the official match commentator, GM Miso Cebalo,
for live analysis for a world-wide audience on the Playchess
server. These sessions, together with PGN files of the game analyses, are
available on our special postgame reports.
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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.
Round 4: Friday, July 22, 14:00h
Alexei Shirov
½-½
Maxime Vachier
Alex. Morozevich
½-½
Yannick Pelletier
Magnus Carlsen
1-0
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. All this
is available to a world-wide audience on Playchess
and with a normal Internet browser on our special Chesslive
broadcast page. 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 and GM Miso Cebalo, the official commentator of the event...
... analyse the game for a world-wide Playchess audience
Magnus going through his game against Fabiano Caruana
Maxime Vachier-Lagrave and Alexei Shirov discussing their game with Miso
Cebalo
Yannick Pelletier and Miso Cebalo analyse on Playchess
Magnus Carlsen – who's going to stop this man? Hint: the answer begins
with "n".
Scoring system: a win counts as three points, a draw as one and a loss
zero
Live GM commentary on Playchess
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.
Commentary schedule
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.
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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