4/28/2018 – World Champion Magnus Carlsen heads the 5th Shamkir Chess tournament in memory of Vugar Gashimov, being played in Azerbaijan from April 19th to 28th. Live games and commentary from 13:00 CEST (7:00 AM EDT)
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In this two-part course the emphasis will be on typical pawn-structures.
€54.90
Round 9
For the 5th time since 2014, a tournament is held in Shamkir, Azerbaijan in memory of Vugar Gashimov (July 24, 1986 - January 11, 2014). Gashimov belonged to the absolute elite in chess. At his best, in November 2009, he was sixth in the world rankings. He battled brain cancer throughout his adulthood, which ultimately forced his retirement from competitive chess in 2012. With his friendly character, Gashimov won many friends during his career.
Scarcely any world champion has managed to captivate chess lovers to the extent Carlsen has. The enormously talented Norwegian hasn't been systematically trained within the structures of a major chess-playing nation such as Russia, the Ukraine or China.
Commentary by GM Ljubomir Ljubojević and GM Igor Khenkin
Tournament details
The Gashimov Memorial is organized by the Azerbaijan state oil company SOCAR together with the Azerbaijani Chess Federation. The venue is the Haidar Aliev Centre in Shamkir.
On this DVD IM Trent shows the Albin Counter-Gambit (1.d4 d5 2.c4 e5). Trent found a number of extremely dangerous Theoretical Novelties which will truly put the Albin Counter-Gambit back on the map.
World Champion Magnus Carlsen leads the field, along with three players from the Berlin Candidates Tournament: Sergey Karjakin, Shakriyar Mamedyarov and Ding Liren. Radoslaw Wojtaszek was a late replacement for Vladimir Kramnik who withdrew.
Participants
Magnus Carlsen Shakhriyar Mamedyarov Radoslaw Wojtaszek Anish Giri Ding Liren Sergey Karjakin Veselin Topalov Teimour Radjabov Rauf Mamedov David Navara
Prize fund
The prize fund is 100.000 Euro, divided as follows:
1st Place
30,000
2nd Place
20,000
3rd Place
15,000
4th Place
10,000
5th Place
8,000
6th Place
6,000
7th Place
4,000
8th Place
3,000
9th Place
2,500
10th Place
1,500
Total
100,000
Schedule
Date
Time
18. April
18.30
Opening ceremony
19. April
15.00
Round 1
20. April
15.00
Round 2
21. April
15.00
Round 3
22. April
15.00
Round 4
23. April
15.00
Round 5
24. April
25. April
15.00
Round 6
26. April
15.00
Round 7
27. April
15.00
Round 8
28. April
14.00
Round 9
28 April
Closing ceremony
All local times (UTC + 4) 15.00 = 13:00 CEST / 7:00 AM EDT
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After 1.c4 e5 2.Nc3 Nf6 3.Nf3 e4 Black is giving up a pawn. By sacrificing the e-pawn, Black gains a lot of time harassing the white knight and seizes the initiative in the centre.
In this two-part course the emphasis will be on typical pawn-structures. “Open and half-open files” and “the pawn chain” will be covered extensively on this video course. New: now also available as stream!
The topic on this video course is the so-called “hedgehog system” which is characterised by at least four black pawns on the sixth rank which we call the “spikes” of the hedgehog.
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