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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
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 6: Monday, July 25, 14:00h | ||
| Maxime Vachier |
½-½ |
Fabiano Caruana |
Magnus Carlsen |
1-0 |
Yannick Pelletier |
Alex. Morozevich |
½-½ |
Alexei Shirov |
Scoring system: a win counts as three points, a draw as one and a loss zero.
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. In this report we show you the postgame interviews 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.
Fabiano Caruana, Miso Cebalo and Maxime Vachier-Lagrave analysing together
French GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave
US-Italian GM Fabiano Caruana
Magnus Carlsen and Yannick Pelletier discussing their game on Playchess
Back to his winning ways: Magnus Carlsen
Yannick Pelletier, who at minus two is still gaining rating points
Spanish GM Alexei Shirov makes a point for Festival host Miso Cebalo
In second place and pressing: GM Alexander Morozevich
| 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. |
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