7/28/2011 – Round eight of the Biel Chess Festival brought two more wins from three games
– once again underlining the fighting nature of this tournament: just
45.8% of the games were drawn, with 29.2% white and 25.0% black wins. In the
postgame analysis sessions we see what was going through the heads of the players,
with everything broadcast live on Playchess
for
chess fans all over the world.
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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 8: Wednesday, July 27, 14:00h
Maxime Vachier
1-0
Yannick Pelletier
Fabiano Caruana
0-1
Alexei Shirov
Magnus Carlsen
½-½
Alex. Morozevich
Live GM commentary and interviews on Playchess
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.
The setup in Biel: the players – above Jannick Pelletier and Maxime Vachier-Lagrave
– come to the commentary stage and discuss the game that finished minutes
before with the GM host (Miso Cebalo). The analysis is entered in Playchess,
by the players themselves, with the screen projected for the audience present
at the site. But it is also visible to Playchess Premium users in real time
all over the world. The sessions include video and a ChessBase staff member
– Pascal Simon – makes a capture for the ChessBase channel on YouTube.
That is how we bring you the live commentary of the players.
Cheerful in spite of his round eight loss: Swiss GM Yannick Pelletier
Alexander Morozevich and Magnus Carlsen take over and analyse their game
"I played Morozevich today and he surprised me in the opening with 13…
Bd7," wrote Magnus Carlsen in his
blog. "I couldn’t find anything better than the game continuation.
After the exchange of light pieces my advantage was rather symbolic. It soon
petered out to a drawn rook and four pawns endgame and status quo in the top
of the tournament table."
Magnus shows a line that is keenly followed by host GM Miso Cebalo
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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