5/13/2012 – Fabiano Caruana is number eight in the world. With two wins and a draw, and a 2940 performance, he has taken the lead in the 20-year jubilee of the Sigeman Chess Tournament. In second place is Sweden's most interviewed chess player, dredlocked Nils Grandelius, who is known for Grandelius innovative playing style. The dredlocked GM is totally fearless, as his games in Malmö show.
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The Limhamn Chess Club is staging the 20-year jubilee of the annual Sigeman
Chess Tournament. It is taking place in the classical Hipp Theater in central
Malmo, Sweden, and is an eight-player round robin. The rate of play is 40 moves/2hours
+ 20 moves/1 hour + 30 minutes for the rest of the game. The games start at
14:00h CEST, except the final round, which begins at 12:00 noon.
Round 2 – May 10th
GM Fabiano Caruana
1-0
GM Hans Tikkanen
GM Jonny Hector
1/2
GM Peter Leko
GM Nils Grandelius
1-0
GM Emanuel Berg
GM Anish Giri
1/2
GM Chao Li
In round two Nils Grandelius played a scrappy game against GM Emanuel Berg,
who is 30 points higher on the rating scale. It is interesting to replay the
moves with a chess engine running – and a lot of fun exploring the alternatives.
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1.d4Nf62.c4g63.Nf3Bg74.Nc3d65.g30-06.Bg2c67.0-0Qb68.Qc2Na69.e4Bg410.Be3Qa511.h3Bxf312.Bxf3e513.d5cxd514.cxd5Nd715.Bg4Nb616.Be2Rfc817.a3Nd7?18.Qb1Unpinning the knight, which then can leap
into action (which is what knights do).Qd819.Nb5Ndc5?!20.b4Na421.Qb3Nb622.a4f523.a5f424.Bd224.axb6fxe325.bxa725.Nxa7exf2+26.Kg2Rcb827.Nc6bxc628.dxc6+Kh829.b7is deadly.25...exf2+26.Rxf2is simply good for White.24...Nd725.Nxd6Ndc526.bxc5Nxc527.Qa3Qxd628.Bb4Bf829.Bg4fxg330.fxg3Rc731.Rac1Be732.Be6+Kh833.Rf7Rf8After all the horrendous tactical combinations Black is basically lost.34.Rxe7Qxe735.Bxc5Qg536.Qe3Qxe3+37.Bxe3Rxc1+38.Bxc1Two bishops
for a rook and calling all the shots - White is going to take home the full
point.Kg739.Bg5Rf340.Kg2Rd341.Be7A lovely/terrifying sight - depending
on which side you are on: the two bishops protect the pawn on every square to
promotion.1–0
After some inaccurate play Hans Tikkanen got mauled and then mated by the top
seed in this event.
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1.d4Nf62.c4g63.g3Bg74.Bg2d55.cxd5Nxd56.Nf3Nb67.Nc3Nc68.e30-09.0-0Re810.Re1a511.Qc2a412.Rd1Bf513.Qe2Ra514.Bd2Be615.Ne4Bc416.Qe1Rb517.Bc3Nd518.Nc5a319.Nd2axb220.Bxb2Na521.Ba3c6Not
caring about the bishop.22.Rdc1Qa823.Rxc4Nxc424.Nxc4Nb625.Nxb6Rxb626.Bb4White has come out of this with two minor pieces for a rook.e527.dxe5Bxe528.Bc3Rb529.Nd7Bxc330.Qxc3Re631.Nf6+Kf832.Nd5Qa5
Simultaneous exhibition with chess legend Ulf Andersson
As a joke on the last board GM Emanuel Berg is waiting to play his colleague
Ulf Andersson
Nils Grandelius
Sweden's most interviewed chess player has, for a long time, been Nils Grandelius,
who makes his fourth start in the Sigeman Chess Tournament. Grandelius has an
aggressive and innovative playing style and is totally fearless. He is a very
active tournament player and has spent the last few years touring Europe playing
chess. He won the grandmaster tournament in Olomouc in the Czech Republic in
both 2008 and 2009, earning his first two grandmaster norms. In 2010 he secured
the grandmaster title in a tournament in Bosnia, where he finished sixteenth
with seven points in ten rounds against very tough opposition. At the Chess
Olympics in Chanty-Mansiysk in 2010 he was Sweden's top scorer with 7½
points in ten games.
His best result in 2011 was his victory in the European Youth Chess Championship
for players up to 18 years old, which was played in Albena in Bulgaria. It was
the first time in many years that a Swedish junior achieved that kind of success
in a championship tournament. He was also part of the Swedish team in the recent
European Cup team event, which was played in Greece. Nils has gathered a lot
of experience from playing against tough opponents and with a little bit of
luck, he might very well win the tournament.
Anish Giri
Anish is part of a truly cosmopolitan family. Together with his two sisters,
his Nepalese dad and Russian mother, he has lived in St Petersburg in Russia
and Osaka in Japan, and the family now lives in Holland. An odd effect of moving
is that Anish became a grandmaster without ever having been an International
Master. He had five qualifying results when he needed only three, but by then
he had left Russia. The results were never registered, and suddenly he had become
a grandmaster instead. After moving to Holland he has also won the Dutch Championship.
Giri makes his third start in the Sigeman Chess Tournament. First time he participated,
in 2010, he won the tournament with a score of 4½/5, a result which equaled
a rating of 2900, and last year he shared first place with Hans Tikkanen and
Wesley So. In the Chess Olympics in Khanty-Mansiysk in 2010, he scored eight
points in eleven rounds at table four, playing for the strong Dutch team. His
score was the third best of all players at this board. This year also started
well with a victory in Reggio Emilia in Italy, but in the big tournament at
Wijk aan Zee he had a hard time in the very strong Group A tournament and finished
last. The means that he, despite having won the Sigeman Chess Tournament the
last two years, is looking for revenge.
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