Publisher: New In Chess, 2006
Edition: Magazine ISBN: 905691183X Pages: 98 Language: English
Dortmund: Kramnik again
The Moro Show visits Biel
David Navara: 2719
China vs ‘Rest of the World’
Parimarjan Negi: grandmaster at 13
SOS: 6.a3 against the Najdorf
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NIC'S CAFÉ
YOUR MOVE
SEVEN WINS IN DORTMUND He had come to Dortmund without any real ambitions. His main wish was to play a number of 'training' games with the classical time-control and to warm up for his match against Topalov. Vladimir Kramnik even confessed that in the last-round game against his old rival Peter Leko he had still not been thinking about winning the tournament. Yet, this is what happened when the Hungarian once again succumbed to the pressure. As a result Leko dropped to fourth place, while Kramnik caught up with Peter Svidler. Thanks to a better tie-break the classical world champion won Dortmund for the seventh time.
THE RETURN OF THE LION KING Only in the last round did he pause to take a draw, when overall victory was already his. In the previous nine rounds, Alexander Morozevich had played his patent bend-or-break chess in each an every game. For the third time, following his triumphs in 2003 and 2004, the Muscovite dare-devil won Biel one and a half points ahead of his closet pursuers. But he may not be entirely satisfied, as the two sensational defeats he suffered against runner-up Magnus Carlsen were his first ever losses in Switzerland's premier tournament.
RUBLEVSKY BOUNCES BACK IN FOROS 'Ukraine with a population of 48 million, has millions of amateurs, hundreds of rated players, dozens of IMs and GMs, and some top players that the entire world knows about. But there were no strong tournaments in Ukraine. Fortunately things change.' Olena Boytsun reports on the first Aerosvit tournament.
ON THE RISE: DAVID NAVARA The most sensational jump in the new world rankings was David Navara's rockety rise from 50th to 14th place.
KAMSKY WINS TIE-BREAK BLITZ 'Many of the basics have stayed the same... The toilet facilities are grossly inadequate, the elevators are interminable just before round times, and the arbiters protect themselves from the riff-raff behind a long, solid barricade.' Joel Benjamin, one of the nine players who finished in first place, describes the 34th World Open.
A BRAZILIAN IN CHINA In a Scheveningen match tournament in Taiyuan, an average Chinese city of about three million inhabitants, China beat a 'Rest of the World' selection 361/2-351/2. Our reporter Giovanni Vescovi wasn't too happy about his result. He definitely could have done better if there hadn't been this jinxed f5 square.
INDIA'S YOUNGEST GM At the age of 13 years, 3 months and 22 days, Parimarjan Negi became the second youngest grandmaster in history.
MAKING SHORT WORK OF THE NAJDORF Jeroen Bosch presents an SOS recipe against one of the most popular Sicilians.
BUYING BOOKS IN DRESDEN According to Hans Ree, Nazi chess ideologists were the most extreme idolaters of the chess player as a fierce warrior.
GIVE US A CLUE Playing charades with his extended family in Aberdeen, Jonathan Rowson hit on the theme for his new column.
STIRRING UP MEMORIES At the ACT, Jan Timman saw quite a few positions that reminded him of games he had seen before.
FORM, FORMAT, RESULTS Garry Kasparov looks at recent events and explains why Morozevich's uncompromising adventures in Biel pleased him more than the 'unconcealed lack of aggression' displayed by several players in Dortmund.
JUST CHECKING Does David Navara have a dream?
Did they play your opening?
In this issue games with the following openings were annotated by world class players:
Sicilian: Adams-Gelfand, by Adams Morozevich-Carlsen, by Cebalo Negi-Kulaots, by Negi Wang Hao-Vescovi, by Wang Hao Benjamin-Stripunsky, by Benjamin Benjamin-Smith, by Benjamin
Ruy Lopez: Timofeev-Zhang Zhong, by Timofeev Bologan-Harikrishna, by Bologan Volokitin-Morozevich, by Kuzmin Leko-Aronian, by Leko
Scotch: Harikrishna-Mamedyarov, by Harikrishna
King's Pawn: Rublevsky-Mamedyarov, by Mamedyarov
Queen's Gambit Declined: Radjabov-Bruzon, by Radjabov
Slav: Berkes-Zhang Pengxiang, by Zhang Pengxiang Navara-Dreev, by Navara
Queen's Gambit Accepted: Bologan-Rublevsky, by Rublevsky
Nimzo-Indian: Kramnik-Leko, by Kramnik Ehlvest-Browne, by Benjamin
Queen's Indian: L’Ami-Timman, by Timman Ivanchuk-Nisipeanu, by Ivanchuk
Grünfeld-Indian: Aronian-Svidler, by Svidler Jobava-Svidler, by Svidler
King's Indian: Carlsen-Morozevich, by Carlsen
Benoni: Wang Yue-Jobava, by Vescovi Milov-Nakamura, by Benjamin
