5/27/2009 – An eight-game rapid match between the best Czech grandmaster David Navara and the top Ukrainian Vassily Ivanchuk is taking place from May 27th to 31st 2009 at the Best Western Kampa Hotel in Prague. The first game was drawn, in the second Ivanchuk scored to take the lead. You can watch the games live on the official site, on Playchess.com or our Flash broadcast. Day one report.
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CHESS TROPHY 2009
Navara vs Ivanchuk
The eight-game match in rapid chess, with the best Czech player David Navara
playing against grandmaster Vassily Ivanchuk, who belongs to the absolute world
chess top, is taking place between 27th to 31st May 2009 at the Best Western
Kampa hotel in Prague.
Forty-year-old Vassily Ivanchuk has been among the world's top players for
the last twenty years. In the January 1st 2009 ratings he was third in the world.
The match of grandmasters Navara vs Ivanchuk is the main attraction of the
chess festival ČEZ CHESS TROPHY 2009, which is held by a civic association
Prague Chess Society. All games will be commented on for the audience by the
Czech-American grandmaster Lubomír Kaválek. All games will be shown on-line.
The match will be complemented by a chess simul and by lectures by grandmasters
Lubomír Kaválek, Vlastimil Hort and Ján Plachetka.
The chess festival ČEZ CHESS TROPHY 2009 is being held in a partnership
with the capital city Prague.
Day one: Ivanchuk leads 1.5:0.5
Vassily Ivanchuk and David Navarra before the start of the match
An aviary dance display at the opening ceremony
GM commentators Lubos Kavalek and Vlastimil Hort try their hand at it –
not enough midriff, guys!
David Navara gets white in the first game (right organiser Pavel Matocha)
37.Rc4. White could have used the bishop pin to win material:
37.Bf8+ Kxf8 (37...Kf6 38.Rc8) 38.Rc8+ Kg7 39.Rxb8 h5 40.Rb4. The bishop is
trapped and the game is over. However, Ivanchuk's move is also enough to get
the full point. 37...Bb5 38.Rb4 Rxa3 39.Rxb5 Rd3 40.Rxb8 Rd2 41.g4 Rd3
42.g5 h6 43.Bf8+ Kh7 44.Be7 1-0.
Brief impression of the start of the match – don't be afraid, the
video is just 30 seconds long
Schedule
Wednesday 27th May
4p.m. – “Richard Réti, the Best Czech Chessplayer of the 20th Century” – lecture
by GM Ján Plachetka
5 p.m. – 1st game of the match
7 p.m. – 2nd game of the match
Thursday 28th May
4 p.m. – “Chess And Chessplayers During War Times” – lecture by GM Vlastimil
Hort
5 p.m. – 3rd game of the match
7 p.m. – 4th game of the match
Friday 29th May
5 p.m. – simul by GM Lubomír Kaválek
Saturday 30th May
4 p.m. – “About the Beauty of Chess, Beautiful Games and the Price of the Beauty”
– lecture by Lubomír Kaválek.
5 p.m. – 5th game of the match
7 p.m. – 6th game of the match
Sunday 31st May
4 p.m. – Chess history quiz hold by GM Vlastimil Hort
5 p.m. – 7th game of the match
7 p.m. - 8th game of the match
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