GM Alexander Grischuk was the only winner in the 2nd round of the candidates tournament Grischuk played energetic as white in Ruy Lopez against GM Wesley So and got a pleasant advantage in the middlegame. After 23.Qc1! Grischuk cruised to victory after staying clear of errors in the time scramble up to the 40th move. He now has 1 point. In the game Liren-Caruana Fabi tested the fashionable Bukavshin-variation in Catalan where black plays 7.-b6. The players discussed the critical variation with 8.Ne5 and Ding picked up the rook on a8 giving a knight and pawn in return. Fabi played actively and in the end made a pretty easy draw. Ding has 1 point and Caruana 1,5. In the russian meeting between Kramnik and Karjakin we saw 1.e4 and we got the Berlin Defence which both players know very well. Kramnik pushed for victory but did not really come Close. After 55 moves the players agreed upon a draw in a drawn opposite bishop ending. In the last game of the round Mamedyarov played white against Aronian we got a nimzo With 4.Qc2.Both players played actively and got out their pieces in fine positions. After some 20 moves the players repeated the moves. After this draw Mame has 1,5 Points and Aronian 1. Read more about the round at Chessbase. The 3rd round will be played today at 15.00. We have the games Aronian-Kramnik, Karjakin-Grischuk, So-Ding and Caruana-Mamedyarov. Follow live on Chess24 or ChessBomb. Photo:Wikipedia
GM Ivan Saric (t.v.) og motstander i dette partiet fra Xtracon Chess Open 2017, GM Baadur Jobava, hjalp til med å skape ny spenning i den tyske 1.Bundesliga, da deres klubb Hockenheim vant 5-3 mot tabellederen Solingen. Da Baden-Baden vant 5,5-2,5 mot Werder Bremen var det duket for et lederskifte i toppen. Både Baden-Baden og Solingen har 21 lagpoeng, men Baden-Baden har flere partipoeng. Hockenheim klatret med seieren over Solingen opp til 3.plass på tabellen med 18 poeng, knepent foran Werder Bremen som også har 18 poeng. De tre siste rundene spilles felles i Berlin langhelgen 29.april til 1.mai.Spill gjennom helgens partier med Stockfish-kommentarer hos ChessBomb.
Tromsø innfridde favorittstempelet på hjemmebane da den nordnorske lagfinalen ble ferdigspilt i dag. Jon Kristian Røyset (t.v.) tok en veldig viktig seier mot Kjell Ole Kristensen da Tromsø beseiret Narvik 2,5-1,5 i finalen og dermed kvalifiserte seg til elitekvaliken i starten av april.Mikael Rølvåg vant for Narvik mot Pål Røyset på 1.bord, men det hjalp lite. Endre Machlik vant på siste bord mot Magnus Aanstad mens Torben Søraas ikke greide å knekke Mads Vesby-Ellingsens caro kann.Remis i dette oppgjøret.Tromsø gikk altså til topps med 10 poeng før Narvik med 8.Tromsø 2 ble nummer 3 med 6 lagpoeng.Bodø ble nummer 4 og her spilte FM Dag Madsen solid sjakk på toppbordet med 4 poeng.Kun Jon Kr.Røyset med 5 poeng scoret bedre i turneringen.
Here are some Chess-Results on Sunday. 1.Stephan Schliebener from BSV 63 Chemie Weissensee won the tournament Pokal des Handwerks with 6 points.Günter Weidlich from Dresden Leuben and Brigitte Burchardt from Rotation Pankow take place 2 and 3 with 5,5 points.Steffen Hoffmann from Fortuna Leipzig take place 6 with 5 points. 2.SK Come On is the new team champion in Finland with 19 points.Aatos with GM Normunds Miezis takes 2nd place while Mat SK from Espoo takes bronze. Both clubs score 16 team points. Play through games in ChessBomb. 3.Skanderborg won the Danish team championships. Brønshøj came in 2nd place and Jetsmark is number 3. The last matches were played this weekend. Play through the games in ChessBomb.
The opening round of the candidates tournament was an exciting one.GM Fabiano Caruana (left) -here in action in Dortmund 2015- won a nice game as white against countryman GM Wesley So. Caruana was white in a Bb4+ variation in the Catalan defence. So never managed to stop Caruana building up initaitive in the centre and on the King side, and after 33 moves black resigned in view of an unstoppable mating attack.A perfect start for Caruana. In the game Karjakin-Mamedyarov black established a free pawn in the b-file.In the resulting Queen endgame the players made mistakes, but in the end Mamedyarov could decide the game. A great start for the Azeri player. The third player to raise his hands in the air was Kramnik. The Russian exworldchampion won a hard fought game against his countryman Grischuk. Kramnik got a pleasant advantage in the middle game. Grischuk gave an Exchange. Kramnik later gave it back, having a free a-pawn as a triumph. After 48 moves Grischuk resigned. Then Kramnik`s active pieces and a-pawn was deciding. A super start for Kramnik. The last game between Aronian and Liren ended in a draw. Aronian could have gotten a winning advantage With 19.Rb2, but instead went for repetition with 19.Rb1 and Rb5. A disappointing start for the Armenian. The 2nd round will be played Sunday 15.00. The games are Kramnik-Karjakin, Mamedyarov-Aronian, Liren-Caruana and Grischuk- So. Follow live on Chess.24 or ChessBomb.
The German grandmaster Lothar Vogt (right) has finished working. Nowadays he enjoys life, travelling to chess tournaments all over the world. In October he was in Norway, this week he is in Vietnam and plays in the very strong HD Bank Cup Masters in Hanoi. Lothar started with two draws before he beat a 2200 Philipine player.In the 4th round Monday he plays black against the strong Chinese GM Yang Wen (2608).Follow this game live from 09.30 Vietnamese time (03.30 Norwegian time).Six players lead with 3 points, among them the strong Russian GM Dmitry Gordievsky.The picture shows Lothar against Markus Schumacher in the Allianz Open in Leipzig 2013.
GM Gerald Hertneck (right) and his teammates in MSA Zugzwang 82 Plays an important match in the 1.Schachbundesliga today. They play SF Berlin and is eager to win to save the place. Hertneck plays black against the Polish GM Jacek Tomczak.Follow the matches live from 14.00.The Picture shows Hertneck against FM Hendrik Hoffmann in the Äskulap-Turnier in Görlitz 2017.
Gunnar Lund (t.v.) er en sympatisk kar, men kan være djevelsk farlig ved sjakkbrettet, noe Pål Røyset fikk erfare under åpnings- runden av den nordnorske lagfinalen i Tromsø i går kveld. Pål prøvde seg for en sjelden gangs skyld med fransk som svart. Lenge så det ut som utfallet var uvisst, men så fikk Gunnar inn noen sterke trekk som snudde partiet i hans favør. Likevel vant Tromsø 1 kampen da Mads Vestby-Ellingsen, Jon Kr.Røyset og Endre Machlik overlistet sine motstandere fra Tromsø 2.Med 3-1 er Tromsø 1 med i tetstriden og møter Alta nå i livekamp i 2.runde. Fra 1.runde tar vi med at Narvik vant 3,5-0,5 over Bodø der Mikael Rølvåg og hans mangeårige sjakkompis FM Dag Madsen spilte remis i et engelsk parti. Ingen oddsbombe at det endte remis mellom de to trønderne. I rundens siste kamp vant Alta knepent 2,5-1,5 over Kirkenes i en kamp der Gustav A.Gleine og Odd E.Mikalsen vant for Alta og der Aksel Brasøy remiserte Frank Svendsen på toppbordet. Her var det synd ikke Kirkenes hadde med mesterspilleren Tommy Indbryn. Tommy har dog vært passiv i en årrekke og lot seg ikke lokke med i år. Tromsø har en flott livesending på clono. Virkelig imponerende. Her kan du følge 2.runde live nå. Alle resultater kommer på TS.
GM Normunds Miezis (t.v.) og hans lagkamerater i Aatos slåss for en eventuell medalje i den finske toppserien som avsluttes med de tre siste rundene i helgen.SK Come On fra Helsinki leder med 13 poeng før 9.runde fredag kveld. Aatos møter bunnlaget KarjUra i fredagens kamp.
