This is an amazing tournament, with almost 200 Grandmasters competing in the men's side, as well as dozens of GM's and IM's competing on the women's side. The tournament is about 2/3 completed. Round 8 is starting in about an hour.
Here's a game won by IM Yelena Dembo about a week ago, with the Black side of a Sicilain Taimanov. After Paduraiu blunders with 21.d6??, Dembo demonstrates some fine technique to convert the game.
http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1490233
Originally posted by ChessBully911top 10 boards live
This is an amazing tournament, with almost 200 Grandmasters competing in the men's side, as well as dozens of GM's and IM's competing on the women's side. The tournament is about 2/3 completed. Round 8 is starting in about an hour.
Here's a game won by IM Yelena Dembo about a week ago, with the Black side of a Sicilain Taimanov. After Paduraiu blund ...[text shortened]... e fine technique to convert the game.
http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1490233
http://www.eicc2008.com/live/men/round8/index.htm
is it covered anywhere?
wild sacs in pavasovic vs. baklan, french defense. will it work? fritz thinks not, we'll see... looks pretty bad, but white has loads of passed pawns and a lot better development and great activity for the sacced material. can black get his superior material out before white rams those pawns through?
here's the game so far:
1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nd2 Nf6 4. e5 Nfd7 5. Bd3 c5 6. c3 Nc6 7. Ngf3 cxd4 8.
cxd4 f6 9. Ng5 fxg5 10. Qh5+ g6 11. Bxg6+ hxg6 12. Qxg6+ Ke7 13. Ne4 Ndxe5 14.
dxe5 Kd7 15. Nf6+ Kc7 16. Qxg5 *
Originally posted by wormwoodIt's covered at ICC and Playchess.com, as well as probably at least a half dozen other chess servers. It's a major international tournament, so obviously it's being covered.
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http://www.eicc2008.com/live/men/round8/index.htm
is it covered anywhere?
Originally posted by ChessBully911I didn't see anything but relays from it on ICC... I guess they were busy covering fide gp 2008...
It's covered at ICC and Playchess.com, as well as probably at least a half dozen other chess servers. It's a major international tournament, so obviously it's being covered.
Originally posted by wormwoodThanks for posting that. I thought you were pulling my leg until I looked the game up for myself, lol. I can scarcely believe that a GM actually played that horrible old line. He must have been drunk.
wild sacs in pavasovic vs. baklan, french defense. will it work? fritz thinks not, we'll see... looks pretty bad, but white has loads of passed pawns and a lot better development and great activity for the sacced material. can black get his superior material out before white rams those pawns through?
[fen]r1bqkb1r/pp1n2pp/2n1pp2/3pP1N1/3P4/3B4/PP1N1PPP/R ...[text shortened]... 5 10. Qh5+ g6 11. Bxg6+ hxg6 12. Qxg6+ Ke7 13. Ne4 Ndxe5 14.
dxe5 Kd7 15. Nf6+ Kc7 16. Qxg5 *
I've had the Black end of that position myself many times in bullet. Once in an OTB slow chess tournament against a much weaker opponent (about 1750) I achieved the identical position up to 16.Qxg5 as you posted in the diagram. But instead of playing 16...Qe7 as Baklan did, I continued 16...Be7, which I considered the most logical at the time. Black is definitely winning here, but upon further inspection, Baklan's 16...Qe7 is probably more accurate than my move, as it seems to facilitate quicker development of the Black queenside. 16...Be7 takes away a candidate square for the Black queen.