5/11/2012 – The World Chess Championship was opened in the Tretyakov Gallery on Thursday in spectacular style and with plenty of prominence. There was the playing of anthems, speeches by dignitaries, and the drawing of colours – Anand will play white in the first game. But the highlight is the musical part of the evening, which includes a pre-teen pianist whom we shall call the Magnus Carlsen of Music.
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Opening ceremony in Moscow
Watch the HD video stream of the openings ceremony – select HD and click
on full screen for maximum enjoyment.
The highlight of the evening was the musical part, with some extraordinary
performers.
To get you in the mood start with Roman and Barbara, who play at around
20:56:20
into the video. After being enchanted by the two prepare to be stunned by...
... Roman playing solo at around 21:02:40 into the video –
dazzling the audience and
all of us. Let us be the first to say it: this lad is the Magnus Carlsen of
Music! (Got it?)
We have not been able to identify this remarkable pre-teen, who is bound to
be playing in the international concert halls very soon. Would anyone who has
the exact name and information on him please write to us so we can add it to
this report.
Then at around 21:07:00 a professional pianist, one of the most popular
classical music
performers of his generation: Denis Matsuev, who has scores of videos in Youtube
Finally, at 21:22:00, the two play together – sorry, Denis Leonidovich,
the kid won this one
And if you are still up to it, here is a video report of the opening ceremony
by GM Robert Fontaine for Europe
Echecs – it includes interviews with the likes of Anatoly Karpov and
Mikhail Gorbachev.
Scoreboard
Players
Rtng
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
Tot.
Perf.
+/–
Vishy Anand
2791
Boris Gelfand
2727
Schedule, video coverage, commentary
During the match for the World Chess Champion title, a video broadcast in Russian
and English will be available on the official game website. The chess portion
of the broadcast will be commented on by leading grandmasters and chess experts
including Nigel Short, Jan Timman, Peter Leko, Peter Svidler and Alexander Grischuk.
Studio commentary will be made by press center guests – former world champions,
World Cup holders, and winners of major international tournaments. And for the
first time during a video broadcast of a chess tournament, there will also be
a separate studio where well-known art historians will discuss the role and
place of Russian art in the context of Russian history and world artistic culture.
The Russian and foreign audiences will get acquainted with the key themes of
works of Russian visual art from icon painting through the Soviet period.
Days of play, with live commentators on Playchess.com.
Note that the games start at 15:00h local time = 13:00 CEST, 07 a.m. New York
or here
in your location.
The games are being broadcast live on the official web site and on the
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