Morelia 2008 Round 5.
A day off Monday, two more rounds and another free day coming up tomorrow, may seem a bit luxurious for the Morelia-Linares participants, but judging from the number of mistakes and decisive games, they need it.
Magnus faced Topalov with the black pieces and chose the Alekhine defence as a surprise. It worked and Topalov spent nearly 30 minutes on the first 10 moves.
After choosing the not very critical 7.Nxd7, white is maybe marginally better until allowing the nice shot 13...c5!
14. dxc5 Nxc3! is complicated and if any, black is better.
Topalov chose Be4 and after recapturing on d4 with the c-pawn, white is simply a pawn down and close to loosing after 20 moves!
Feeling clear-headed and fresh today, Magnus easily found good moves to improve his position and utilize the clear advantage, while Topalov did not find the best defence.
Magnus invaded the 2nd rank and forced the white king away from d3. The white rooks were passive and Magnus advanced his king and kingside pawns to finish the game just after the time control.
0-1 and back to 50% score to tie for 3rd-5th after 5 rounds.
All the players are of similar strength this year, but on a positive note Magnus has already played the 5 highest rated opponents (avg 2768).
Leko had a slightly better ending after a long prepared line in the Sicilian Najdorf against Anand, but he over pressed and made to many mistakes close to the time control.
Anand played precisely and efficiently exploited the opportunity to win his 3rd game with black!
Radjabov-Ivanchuk was an interesting game where white had a slight advantage but after many complications Ivanchuk got a perpetual with rook and knight on the first rank.
Aronian-Shirov was starting to look interesting, although probably rather equal, when a draw was agreed on move 18. That is too early guys!
Anand is in the clear lead with 3.5/5 ahead of Aronian 3/5.
The victory was celebrated at the great Conspiracion restaurant across the street in the excellent company of host Frederic Friedel and Vishy and Aruna Anand.
Tomorrow we will get the opportunity to visit the unique Tres Marias club outside Morelia for some more tennis, swimming etc.
Friday Magnus has black against Teimur Radjabov and Saturday white against Aronian before moving to Linares on Sunday.
Henrik Carlsen,
Morelia, February 20th 2008
Magnus faced Topalov with the black pieces and chose the Alekhine defence as a surprise. It worked and Topalov spent nearly 30 minutes on the first 10 moves.
After choosing the not very critical 7.Nxd7, white is maybe marginally better until allowing the nice shot 13...c5!
14. dxc5 Nxc3! is complicated and if any, black is better.
Topalov chose Be4 and after recapturing on d4 with the c-pawn, white is simply a pawn down and close to loosing after 20 moves!
Feeling clear-headed and fresh today, Magnus easily found good moves to improve his position and utilize the clear advantage, while Topalov did not find the best defence.
Magnus invaded the 2nd rank and forced the white king away from d3. The white rooks were passive and Magnus advanced his king and kingside pawns to finish the game just after the time control.
0-1 and back to 50% score to tie for 3rd-5th after 5 rounds.
All the players are of similar strength this year, but on a positive note Magnus has already played the 5 highest rated opponents (avg 2768).
Leko had a slightly better ending after a long prepared line in the Sicilian Najdorf against Anand, but he over pressed and made to many mistakes close to the time control.
Anand played precisely and efficiently exploited the opportunity to win his 3rd game with black!
Radjabov-Ivanchuk was an interesting game where white had a slight advantage but after many complications Ivanchuk got a perpetual with rook and knight on the first rank.
Aronian-Shirov was starting to look interesting, although probably rather equal, when a draw was agreed on move 18. That is too early guys!
Anand is in the clear lead with 3.5/5 ahead of Aronian 3/5.
The victory was celebrated at the great Conspiracion restaurant across the street in the excellent company of host Frederic Friedel and Vishy and Aruna Anand.
Tomorrow we will get the opportunity to visit the unique Tres Marias club outside Morelia for some more tennis, swimming etc.
Friday Magnus has black against Teimur Radjabov and Saturday white against Aronian before moving to Linares on Sunday.
Henrik Carlsen,
Morelia, February 20th 2008
Comments:
Posted by: Åsmund
Congratulations! Great game!
Posted by: sfinx
Told u so......
MC Hammer gives topalov grey hairs.
MC is Topalovs nemesis, and danilovs nightmare....
Topalov never gonna be a WC, mc gonna stop him for ever and ever......
MC Hammer gives topalov grey hairs.
MC is Topalovs nemesis, and danilovs nightmare....
Topalov never gonna be a WC, mc gonna stop him for ever and ever......
Posted by: Gegga
Henrik,
Aruna seems like such a lovely woman. And of course, Vishy seems like a great guy! Am I correct in my assumptions?
Aruna seems like such a lovely woman. And of course, Vishy seems like a great guy! Am I correct in my assumptions?
Posted by: peter
Hi Henrik,
Great blogging again. Can you confirm that Topalov played g4-g5 and resigned at the same time?
P.S. Have fun with the tennis! ;-)
Great blogging again. Can you confirm that Topalov played g4-g5 and resigned at the same time?
P.S. Have fun with the tennis! ;-)
Posted by: Lars Olausen
Hei Magnus og Henrik!
Nok et godt og interessant parti; som Magnus vant med sort! Det blir sene nattetimer så vi gleder oss til dere kommer til Spania. Lykke til Magnus i fortsettingen.
Nok et godt og interessant parti; som Magnus vant med sort! Det blir sene nattetimer så vi gleder oss til dere kommer til Spania. Lykke til Magnus i fortsettingen.
Posted by: Kampfgeist
Great game against Topalov! But the opening surprised not only Topalov, but nearly everybody (a kibitzer on chessgames after 1...Nf6 was played: "I hope it does not lose by force" LOL).
Posted by: Kramnatopakov
Great win by Magnus! Next victim: Radjabov
Posted by: Muzzy
Hehe.. Great game. Really astonishing to see Topalov getting outplayed so easily. The Alekhine defence. A pleasant suprise for the audience and an unpleasant one for Topalov. Hmm.. Will we ever see Magnus applying some of the other way out of fashion openings as well? Kings G is perhaps a bit too much to hope for. But what about the Bird or the Dutch? Or the Chigorin or Albin CG?
Anyway could you pass on a wish to Mr Friedel?: Please take some more photos of Maribel Selfa. She was a real beauty. I've been waiting to see some more photos after the rd1 report on Chessbase, but so far she can only be faintly spotted in the background of some images. Daniela de los Santos would be very nice to put in as well. You know, the aveage reader of Chessbase is male. ;)
Great tournament so far! Lots of fighting and few premature draws. Good luck for the next rounds!
Anyway could you pass on a wish to Mr Friedel?: Please take some more photos of Maribel Selfa. She was a real beauty. I've been waiting to see some more photos after the rd1 report on Chessbase, but so far she can only be faintly spotted in the background of some images. Daniela de los Santos would be very nice to put in as well. You know, the aveage reader of Chessbase is male. ;)
Great tournament so far! Lots of fighting and few premature draws. Good luck for the next rounds!
Posted by: Muzzy
Hey, I almost forgot! You post pictures as well. Wouldn't the two ladies be a great boost to the visual part of your blog? You know, I just had to ask...
Posted by: hairulov
Congratulation Magnus. I like your relax aproach of playing tennis and have fun. Your father also didn't put pressure on you as what Rustam Kamsky have done too Gata Kamsky!!!
Enjoy your tournament!
Enjoy your tournament!
Posted by: finn
hi,
Magnus is unbelievable.
What a game against a great player like Topalov!
GO NORWAY!
Magnus is unbelievable.
What a game against a great player like Topalov!
GO NORWAY!
Posted by: Sam
Congratulations on a great result, and well done for catching Topalov off-guard in the opening!!!
Posted by: Henrik C.
Thank you again for your enthusiasm and support!
Gegga,
Aruna and Vishy are an outstandingly lovely couple. It is great for chess to have such a Champion and First Lady!
Topalov did resign after playing g5.
Henrik C.
Gegga,
Aruna and Vishy are an outstandingly lovely couple. It is great for chess to have such a Champion and First Lady!
Topalov did resign after playing g5.
Henrik C.
Posted by: Ana
Magnus did a great job yesterday. It's wounderful to see moves like c5!
Once more: congratulations.
Once more: congratulations.
Posted by: Nina
Som vanlig fantastisk morro å følge med Magnus.
Selv om vi går rundt trøtte hele dagen. :-)
Gratulerer med en flott seier mot Topalov, Magnus .
Lykke til med resten av turneringen!!
Selv om vi går rundt trøtte hele dagen. :-)
Gratulerer med en flott seier mot Topalov, Magnus .
Lykke til med resten av turneringen!!
Posted by: Peter von Damst
Sensational game by Magnus and a very good blogg by Henrik!
Posted by: Lars
Nice to see Magnus netting a point so "easily". I guess he now is back on the winning track again and that we can expect at least 50% in this tournament. Or should I say these two tournaments. Yes Magnus probably needs the restdays, but we dont! Having some days off in a tournament of 14 rounds is ok, and necessarily, but the 5 day break in the middle.....come on. I know there are economical reasons for dividing this tournament, but why between two continents so they need to get rid of the jet-lag before and in the middle of the tournament? For sportive reasons this division is a catastrophe!!
But I rather watch this snail-tournament than not having one at all. But finding two organizing cities at the same continent cant be that hard?
Good luck and may the best player win.
But I rather watch this snail-tournament than not having one at all. But finding two organizing cities at the same continent cant be that hard?
Good luck and may the best player win.
Posted by: andy
Hei Henrik!
Når flyttet Magnus fra Tønsberg og Husvik ? Jeg registrerer positivt at det skrives en del om tønsberggutten Magnus i lokalavisa
Tønsbergs Blad.
Når flyttet Magnus fra Tønsberg og Husvik ? Jeg registrerer positivt at det skrives en del om tønsberggutten Magnus i lokalavisa
Tønsbergs Blad.
Posted by: Alexander
Nice game :-)
Alekhine's defence worked very well... but why topalov played 6.Bd3 instead of 6.Bc4 and 7.Nxd7 instead of 7.Nf3 ? It's a mistery why he can't see these logical moves... Psychology? :-)
Best regards and good luck!
Alex
Alekhine's defence worked very well... but why topalov played 6.Bd3 instead of 6.Bc4 and 7.Nxd7 instead of 7.Nf3 ? It's a mistery why he can't see these logical moves... Psychology? :-)
Best regards and good luck!
Alex
Posted by: Jon
Bra blogg. Har fulgt Magnus sin karriere i noen år nå, og gleder meg stort når han vinner. Lykke til med kveldens parti!
Posted by: Stan Oleynick
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Anyway the reason I'm writing you is we are organizing a grandmaster vs. the world game in the next few weeks and I just wanted to try my luck and see if you would be interested to play against the world? It would be the highest honor to have you play. The game will played over the internet on the one move per day basis so you will have 24 hours to make a move and if you have internet access there should not be any problems. All together we plan on having 3 games. If you don't have the time for 3 games we can make it either 1 or 2 games and we can also make the game faster if you will want.
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Keeping my fingers crossed,
Sincerely,
Stan Oleynick
(916) 712-9637
My name is Stan Oleynick and I'm the founder of CrowdChess (www.crowdchess.com).
CrowdChess is a new chess variation where thousands of people play together against each other, creating the ultimate "wisdom of crowds" battlefield and with that a platform that pushes the boundaries of human intelligence. We plan to organize games where country plays vs. country, university vs. university, best players play against a super computer, etc so there is hopefully a lot of potential in this idea and it will be a success.
Anyway the reason I'm writing you is we are organizing a grandmaster vs. the world game in the next few weeks and I just wanted to try my luck and see if you would be interested to play against the world? It would be the highest honor to have you play. The game will played over the internet on the one move per day basis so you will have 24 hours to make a move and if you have internet access there should not be any problems. All together we plan on having 3 games. If you don't have the time for 3 games we can make it either 1 or 2 games and we can also make the game faster if you will want.
We are a young start-up company and thus do not have a lot of finances but I can offer you $1,000 for each game.
Please let me know what you think and whether you would be interested in this idea?
I will also give you great exposure on our site and put a link to your site!!
Keeping my fingers crossed,
Sincerely,
Stan Oleynick
(916) 712-9637
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