FAST Visit
Last Thursday Magnus visited his main sponsor FAST Search & Transfer for a walk-through of recent tournament games and a simultaneous display.
GM Rune Djurhuus had prepared many interesting questions regarding Magnus' perception of the critical situation in a number of the Corus games. In addition to showing lines he had calculated, Magnus also emphasised the importance of the psychological elements involved in the over-the-board decision making with good examples from a couple of the games.
About thirty FAST chess enthusiasts followed the presentation and 19 of them participated in the subsequent simultaneous display.
Just like in September, Rune was the only one scoring against Magnus. A pawn down Magnus put up a good defence and a draw has agreed around move 30.
Master level player and reknown chess blogger Hans Arild Runde presented Magnus with quite some problems. Magnus sacrificed a knight for initiative to avoid a losing position, and ended up having to play a line giving black a perpetual. Missing this Hans Arild blundered mate in two instead. Close...
Representatives from 'Sportsrevyen' had visited Magnus' chess class at the Top Athletes School (NTG) in the morning and they also filmed during the simul at FAST.
The clip is in Norwegian and the coverage of Magnus starts about 28 minutes into 'Sportsrevyen'; http://www1.nrk.no/nett-tv/sport/spill/verdi/37958
Again, many thanks to FAST for the ongoing cooperation!
It sure is great to see such a lively and unique chess society within a single company, the size and quality of the audience made the event a rewarding experience for Magnus.
Friday 8th Magnus left for Bundesliga in Solingen.
He conceded a draw as white against Jusupow (on Solingen) on Saturday and won as black against Bartel (on Wattenscheid) on Sunday to gain another two rating points.
His team Baden-Baden won both matches and has a full score and five point lead in the Bundesliga.
Sunday I met with Magnus in Solingen and some 48 hours later we arrived in Morelia after successful on-time flights Eindhoven-Madrid and Madrid-Mexico City as well as the 3,5 hours car drive Mexico City-Morelia.
Henrik Carlsen
Morelia, February 13th 2008
GM Rune Djurhuus had prepared many interesting questions regarding Magnus' perception of the critical situation in a number of the Corus games. In addition to showing lines he had calculated, Magnus also emphasised the importance of the psychological elements involved in the over-the-board decision making with good examples from a couple of the games.
About thirty FAST chess enthusiasts followed the presentation and 19 of them participated in the subsequent simultaneous display.
Just like in September, Rune was the only one scoring against Magnus. A pawn down Magnus put up a good defence and a draw has agreed around move 30.
Master level player and reknown chess blogger Hans Arild Runde presented Magnus with quite some problems. Magnus sacrificed a knight for initiative to avoid a losing position, and ended up having to play a line giving black a perpetual. Missing this Hans Arild blundered mate in two instead. Close...
Representatives from 'Sportsrevyen' had visited Magnus' chess class at the Top Athletes School (NTG) in the morning and they also filmed during the simul at FAST.
The clip is in Norwegian and the coverage of Magnus starts about 28 minutes into 'Sportsrevyen'; http://www1.nrk.no/nett-tv/sport/spill/verdi/37958
Again, many thanks to FAST for the ongoing cooperation!
It sure is great to see such a lively and unique chess society within a single company, the size and quality of the audience made the event a rewarding experience for Magnus.
Friday 8th Magnus left for Bundesliga in Solingen.
He conceded a draw as white against Jusupow (on Solingen) on Saturday and won as black against Bartel (on Wattenscheid) on Sunday to gain another two rating points.
His team Baden-Baden won both matches and has a full score and five point lead in the Bundesliga.
Sunday I met with Magnus in Solingen and some 48 hours later we arrived in Morelia after successful on-time flights Eindhoven-Madrid and Madrid-Mexico City as well as the 3,5 hours car drive Mexico City-Morelia.
Henrik Carlsen
Morelia, February 13th 2008
Comments:
Posted by: Sam
Hi Henrik. How are you? Hope you are well. Good luck to Magnus for the upcoming tournament. I look forward to watching his games and trying to learn from them! Enjoy the city!
-Sam.
-Sam.
Posted by: Rolfo
Wish all the best for Magnus!
Rolfo
Rolfo
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