7/29/2011 – Once again we bring you a special report with the postgame sessions conducted
with the players in Biel, which can be viewed by a world-wide audience on the
Playchess server and in regular browsers
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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: two 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 9: Thursday, July 28, 14:00h
Magnus Carlsen
½-½
Maxime Vachier
Alex. Morozevich
0-1
Fabiano Caruana
Alexei Shirov
½-½
Yannick Pelletier
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.
After each game in Biel the players – above Magnus Carlsen 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.
Some day all top-notch chess games will be broadcast this way...
Was Maxime calling the shots in game eight? That is what most reports said.
Not really, it was mainly this guy...
"I got a small but pleasant advantage from the opening," Magnus Carlsen
wrote in his blog.
"After consolidating the queenside I was ready to utilize the extra space
on the kingside. He chose an active defense with f5, g5 and g4 and managed to
find good defensive moves, also after my doubling of rooks in the h-file. Beyond
the first time control the position was equal, but eager to play for a win I
went Qc1, ceding the initiative to Black, and had to play accurately myself
afterwards. After Qd5 he offered a draw and I didn’t find a way to play
on." Watch the very illuminating analysis session below – a PGN with
all the lines is to be found at the end of this section.
A fateful game, Alexander Morozevich vs Fabiano Caruana. The 0-1 result
dashed
the hopes of the Russian GM and guaranteed Carlsen's victory in this tournament
"Fab-Fab": Fabiano Caruana shows his win on Playchess
Yannick Pelletier and Alexei Shirov clearly enjoying their postgame session
Standings
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.
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
11 or any of our Fritz
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