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.

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

• Click here to download the analysis of the players in PGN

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.

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.

• You can watch the live coverage of Biel 2011 in your browser here

Remaining commentary schedule

Overview: schedule and results

Links Official tournament site All games in PGN 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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