7/26/2011 – Morozevich has found his stride – he beat Vachier-Lagrave in round seven to take his score to 13/7 with a 2870+ performance. At this rate, it won’t take long to see him back in the Top Ten. Carlsen one-upped Morozevich by playing a positional masterpiece against Shirov and leads with a superb 16/7. Caruana finally notched his first win, beating Pelletier in a fine game. Express report.
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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 7: Tuesday, July 26, 14:00h
Alex. Morozevich
1-0
Maxime Vachier
Alexei Shirov
0-1
Magnus Carlsen
Yannick Pelletier
0-1
Fabiano Caruana
Morozevich seems to have found his stride, and beat Vachier-Lagrave in round
seven to take his score to an impressive 5.0/7 with a 2870+ performance. He
was white in the Russian variation of the Gruenfeld, and soon emerged with an
extra pawn in the middlegame. The Frenchman chose to instead give up the exchange
hoping to gain compensation for a passed pawn but the counterplay never materialized
as the Russian held strong on to the tiller, and steered unerringly to victory.
At this rate, it won’t take long to see him back in the Top Ten.
Carlsen one-upped Morozevich by playing a positional masterpiece against Shirov
and keeping the lead with a superb 5.5/7 and 2906 performance. He played an
offbeat Berlin and gave up a pawn to install a beast of a bishop on e5 that
acted as a sniper overlooking the entire board. In contrast, Shirov’s
bishop was little more than a shy spectator confined by both Carlsen’s
pawns and his own. Little by little, the Spaniard’s attempts to fire up
counterplay were snuffed out, and Carlsen brought home the win.
The round did not see a single draw, and the game between Pelletier and Caruana
was the last to finish. Pelletier managed to stick a huge d6-pawn into Caruana’s
position, and by all appearances, this seemed more than enough to hold, or even
win. Instead the Italian gave it a very modern treatment, and instead worked
his pieces and play around it while preventing the Swiss from improving his
position. Pelletier was outplayed, and saw all his attempts at activity frustrated,
allowing Caruana to notch up his first win of the event and remove himself from
the bottom of the crosstable.
Scoring system: a win counts as three points, a draw as one and a
loss zero.
Video impressions from round five
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.
GM Jan Gustafsson doing live audio commentary on Playchess in English
Directly from the playing venue: GM Miso Cebalo with live commentary in
German
As a special treat the multimedia commentary live from Biel is also available
in 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
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In this course, you’ll learn how to take the initiative against the London and prevent White from comfortably playing their usual system by playing 1.d4 Nf6 2.Bf4 Nh5.
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In this course, Grandmaster Elisabeth Pähtz presents the London System, a structured and ambitious approach based on the immediate Bf4, leading to rich and dynamic positions.
Opening videos: Open Spanish (Sipke Ernst) and Classical Sicilian (Nico Zwirs). Endgame Special by Igor Stohl: ‘Short or long side’ – where should the defending king be placed in rook endgames? ‘Lucky bag’ with 35 master analyses.
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The Queen’s Gambit Declined Exchange Variation with 5.Bf4 has a great balance between positional play and sharp pawn pushes; and will be a surprise for your opponents while being easy to learn for you, as the key patterns are familiar.
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