Arctic Chess Challenge August 9, 2007
Norwegian Kjetil A.Lie is alone in the lead with 5.5/6 after a nice combination as black against Gurevich!
What looked like a most peculiar tournament for Magnus (player two school friends in round 1 and 4, 12th seed GM de Firmian already in round 2, and his trainer Agdestein in round 5, turned bizarre in round 6 when he had to play me!
Knowing his capacity and my own complete lack too well, I decided that my only hope lay in the better preparation.
While Magnus slept over breakfast as usual, I joined my wife to climb the steep Store Blaamann (Big Blueman) at 1044 meters. We borrowed the hotel bicycles and spent 3 hours on the bikes and 4 hours walking, a great way to see the fjords and mountains on Kvaloya, west of Tromsoe.
Surprisingly it was not enough, my nice pawns on f5 and e4 became weak after f3, and Magnus easily equalised our internal score to 1-1.
(If only I had the white pieces as in our last tournament encounter 7.5 years ago at Gausdal!)
With 4.5/6 Magnus moved up to shared 6th and will play black against GM Burmakin in round 7. Needless to say he needs to start winning with black if he wants to compete for the top spot in the tournament.
Local players continue to create upsets with Bull Jaeger (2096) drawing GM Brodsky and Jon K. Royset (2223) beating GM de Firmian.
Henrik Carlsen
Tromsoe, August 9th
What looked like a most peculiar tournament for Magnus (player two school friends in round 1 and 4, 12th seed GM de Firmian already in round 2, and his trainer Agdestein in round 5, turned bizarre in round 6 when he had to play me!
Knowing his capacity and my own complete lack too well, I decided that my only hope lay in the better preparation.
While Magnus slept over breakfast as usual, I joined my wife to climb the steep Store Blaamann (Big Blueman) at 1044 meters. We borrowed the hotel bicycles and spent 3 hours on the bikes and 4 hours walking, a great way to see the fjords and mountains on Kvaloya, west of Tromsoe.
Surprisingly it was not enough, my nice pawns on f5 and e4 became weak after f3, and Magnus easily equalised our internal score to 1-1.
(If only I had the white pieces as in our last tournament encounter 7.5 years ago at Gausdal!)
With 4.5/6 Magnus moved up to shared 6th and will play black against GM Burmakin in round 7. Needless to say he needs to start winning with black if he wants to compete for the top spot in the tournament.
Local players continue to create upsets with Bull Jaeger (2096) drawing GM Brodsky and Jon K. Royset (2223) beating GM de Firmian.
Henrik Carlsen
Tromsoe, August 9th
Comments:
Posted by: Hopalong
Big Blueman (1044), slightly underrated?
Nice report.
Good luck to you!
Nice report.
Good luck to you!
Posted by: .t0mmy
Nice preaparation! :)
Anyway, you played much better than expected (or Magnus played worse ;)
Anyway, you played much better than expected (or Magnus played worse ;)
Posted by: Kampfgeist
I
wait for 2015 when you play each other again:)
wait for 2015 when you play each other again:)
Posted by: Daniel
You both played a very good game.
There was so many people watching the game live on the internet it was quite amazing!
Good luck to both of you next round!
There was so many people watching the game live on the internet it was quite amazing!
Good luck to both of you next round!
Posted by: Sam
Have you had much teasing from Magnus since you lost Henrik? ;-)
Congratulations to Magnus on a great game today! It was an interesting and exciting tactical fight, which are the kind of games where we get to see the best of Magnus!
I'm off on vacation tomorrow so won't be able to follow the the final games of the tournament, but good luck to you both and enjoy the rest of the tournament!
Sam.
Congratulations to Magnus on a great game today! It was an interesting and exciting tactical fight, which are the kind of games where we get to see the best of Magnus!
I'm off on vacation tomorrow so won't be able to follow the the final games of the tournament, but good luck to you both and enjoy the rest of the tournament!
Sam.
Posted by: Jimmy
Henrik,
I hope you saved that game winning scoresheet over Magnus
from 7.5 years ago.
With some luck it will be published as your big win over a World Champion.
Some guys have all the luck.
Although I am not so sure that white would have saved you.
I watched that move f3 and was very impressed by his feel for the position.
I guess those 650 elo points he has on you are showing some signs of usefulness.
Bye the way.
Magnus has won his game today over GM Burmakin who is rated much higher than you.
I probably will never forget your game yesterday.
I had such a good time.
I lost to a 16 year old local kid.
and I must say it was no fun.
Go Magnus.
I hope you saved that game winning scoresheet over Magnus
from 7.5 years ago.
With some luck it will be published as your big win over a World Champion.
Some guys have all the luck.
Although I am not so sure that white would have saved you.
I watched that move f3 and was very impressed by his feel for the position.
I guess those 650 elo points he has on you are showing some signs of usefulness.
Bye the way.
Magnus has won his game today over GM Burmakin who is rated much higher than you.
I probably will never forget your game yesterday.
I had such a good time.
I lost to a 16 year old local kid.
and I must say it was no fun.
Go Magnus.
Posted by: Maia
Such cute!!... amazing really, for me it's not important who win, who lose, or who played good or better, or who played bad, and whatever... just i'm happy that Magnus can enjoy the think that he love with his father, beside it's interesting... when relatives get confront... well Done!! :-)
Posted by: Icyclemort
@Jimmy
I think Henrik meant that the score is now 1-1, because in their first game white won.
He just hoped that he had white (because it meant that Henrik would have won!).
Concluding: both games were won by Magnus (sorry Henrik)
I think Henrik meant that the score is now 1-1, because in their first game white won.
He just hoped that he had white (because it meant that Henrik would have won!).
Concluding: both games were won by Magnus (sorry Henrik)
Posted by: Daniel
Yes I totally agree with Maia. It was truly fascinating to follow.
I don't know who is handling these pairings, but what do you think the odds are of you playing your daughter later in the tournament?! :) that would be so crazy!
I don't know who is handling these pairings, but what do you think the odds are of you playing your daughter later in the tournament?! :) that would be so crazy!
Posted by: ?
når er neste turnering for magnus?
Posted by: Jack Le Moine
I?m sorry I have to contact you like this but I can find no other way to contact you.
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Announcing the first ever Chess Blog Carnival to be held on September 1, 2007 at my blog.
There are now thousands of carnivals on the web.
Almost every area of interest has its own carnival.
Except for chess blogs.
Until now.
The advantages of having a chess carnival:
(1) For bloggers ? to showcase a sample of their work to the chess community; (2) For readers ? to sample content from a wide variety of chess blogs in one place.
A Chess Blog Carnival will also encourage quality work.
If a blogger knows that his piece is being showcased right alongside pieces from the other blogs, then that serves as a motivator right there.
I don?t mean to be presumptuous in doing this.
I just know that instead of complaining about nobody doing something, pointing fingers, and endless discussing, sometimes it?s best that someone just steps up and gets the ball rolling.
That?s what I?m doing.
If someone else wants to take over, then that would be fine with me.
In fact, I need all the help on this that I can get.
First, hosting.
The successful carnivals rotate blog hosts from month to month.
Second, publicity.
The successful carnivals have a number of blogs who post an announcement on the upcoming carnival on their blogs and keep doing so each month.
Third, participation.
Successful carnivals have a large sample of work from their blogging communities.
Note here, bloggers don?t do any additional work.
A carnival is not for original pieces written just for the carnival.
A carnival is for work that has already been posted onto the blog.
I?ll try to contact as many blogs this weekend as possible.
I?d like the initial roll-out of this venture to be as high quality as possible.
Once people see what a chess carnival can look like, then they can have a better idea of what this is all about.
Please help!
Here the link for further information on this:
http://blogcarnival.com/bc/cprof_2250.html
That page includes a link to submit a post from your blog for inclusion in the carnival.
Jack Le Moine
jacklemoine.blogspot.com
--------------------
Announcing the first ever Chess Blog Carnival to be held on September 1, 2007 at my blog.
There are now thousands of carnivals on the web.
Almost every area of interest has its own carnival.
Except for chess blogs.
Until now.
The advantages of having a chess carnival:
(1) For bloggers ? to showcase a sample of their work to the chess community; (2) For readers ? to sample content from a wide variety of chess blogs in one place.
A Chess Blog Carnival will also encourage quality work.
If a blogger knows that his piece is being showcased right alongside pieces from the other blogs, then that serves as a motivator right there.
I don?t mean to be presumptuous in doing this.
I just know that instead of complaining about nobody doing something, pointing fingers, and endless discussing, sometimes it?s best that someone just steps up and gets the ball rolling.
That?s what I?m doing.
If someone else wants to take over, then that would be fine with me.
In fact, I need all the help on this that I can get.
First, hosting.
The successful carnivals rotate blog hosts from month to month.
Second, publicity.
The successful carnivals have a number of blogs who post an announcement on the upcoming carnival on their blogs and keep doing so each month.
Third, participation.
Successful carnivals have a large sample of work from their blogging communities.
Note here, bloggers don?t do any additional work.
A carnival is not for original pieces written just for the carnival.
A carnival is for work that has already been posted onto the blog.
I?ll try to contact as many blogs this weekend as possible.
I?d like the initial roll-out of this venture to be as high quality as possible.
Once people see what a chess carnival can look like, then they can have a better idea of what this is all about.
Please help!
Here the link for further information on this:
http://blogcarnival.com/bc/cprof_2250.html
That page includes a link to submit a post from your blog for inclusion in the carnival.
Jack Le Moine
jacklemoine.blogspot.com
Posted by: Gegga
@Icyclemort
Huh? Henrik won the last time the played. He had white back then. Magnus was 9 years old...
Now it is 1-1...
Huh? Henrik won the last time the played. He had white back then. Magnus was 9 years old...
Now it is 1-1...
Posted by: Henrik C.
Jimmy,
you bet I saved the scoresheet!
?,
Magnus' next tournament is probably the European Club Cup in Turkey starting October 2nd. School starts today and with his extensive tournament program in the 4th quarter (and probably also in 1st Q 2008) it is probably a good idea to spend the next 7 weeks at school.
Jack,
I'll have a closer look. Thank you for the initiative.
you bet I saved the scoresheet!
?,
Magnus' next tournament is probably the European Club Cup in Turkey starting October 2nd. School starts today and with his extensive tournament program in the 4th quarter (and probably also in 1st Q 2008) it is probably a good idea to spend the next 7 weeks at school.
Jack,
I'll have a closer look. Thank you for the initiative.
Posted by: Henrik C.
Sam,
glad you liked the game against Burmakin, so did I !
Magnus has
certainly not teased me after round 6.
Frankly, it would have been more natural for me to tease him despite his win. He knows and sometimes comments diplomatically on my lack of positional understanding and hence he was pretty downbeat just to have to play me as late as round 6....
As to comparing us, I generally tell people that Magnus normally would beat me at a game with 1 minute even if I spent the whole day.
A tournament game, at least if I'm black was basically decided up front although I did my best :-)
glad you liked the game against Burmakin, so did I !
Magnus has
certainly not teased me after round 6.
Frankly, it would have been more natural for me to tease him despite his win. He knows and sometimes comments diplomatically on my lack of positional understanding and hence he was pretty downbeat just to have to play me as late as round 6....
As to comparing us, I generally tell people that Magnus normally would beat me at a game with 1 minute even if I spent the whole day.
A tournament game, at least if I'm black was basically decided up front although I did my best :-)
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