It was an honour to have a number of Grandmaster’s join us in the commentary room and on this day we were lucky to have Shirov explain his game against Jussupow to us. A very exciting game!
Thanks to MacauleyPeterson for providing the video.
One of the most interesting days of chess was round eight, with two games taking the limelight. You can view the end of them here…
Thanks to MacauleyPeterson for providing the video.
A video of the second playoff game. Nigel Short becomes champion of Gibraltar!
Thanks to MacauleyPeterson for providing the video and also to Mickey Adams for helping me out!
The first playoff game between Yifan Hou and Nigel Short. It must be noted that I had a glass of wine by this stage… Thanks to MacauleyPeterson for providing the video.
This is a video of Yifan Hou’s memorable victory of Judit Polgar. Thanks to MacauleyPeterson for providing the video.
Gibraltar has gone and past and now it is time to reflect on the event.
One thing I should make clear is that, the Gibraltar chess congress is a great event!
All the players were lucky this year as the sun was shinning. I even managed to get a tan on my face, which is in stark contrast to England, where everything seems to be covered in snow!
In the next couple of posts, I will insert some videos that were taken from my commentary. Thanks has to be given to Macauley Peterson who arranged the professional broadcast that you will see.
The second weekend of the 4ncl has just passed and after my abysmal 0/2 showing at the first weekend (including a very quick loss against Gawain with the White pieces…) I was determined to put in a better performance.
I felt like my play of recent has been pretty good and I thought it was about time to give the Kings Gambit another showing.
My intended victim was Jonathan Parker, a strong GM who decided that his time was better spent making money in the city.
Grandmaster, Nick Pert is organising and running the 1st Wellington College rapidplay and training weekend. This will run on the weekend of Saturday and Sunday 4th and 5th of February 2012.
Both days are open to adults and juniors of all levels
The Rapidplay will take place on Saturday 4th February from 10.00 am to 6.30 pm
The Training Day on Sunday 5th February from 10 am to 5 pm. ESTIMATED PRIZE FUND: £900*
There will be a number of titled players teaching on the Sunday, Nick Pert will be one such GM and myself Simon Williams should also be in attendance. For more information read below.
On Sunday in my French league game I faced, what must be, the most critical line in the Classical Dutch.
Originally I assumed that 7…Ne4 8 Nxe4 would leave White with an advantage but the more I look into this line the less convinced I am. In actual fact, in my last three games played in this variation I have scored 3/3, against decent opposition.
In this game I was paired against French Grandmaster Jean-Luc Chabanon, who had obviously prepared for the game and currently has a rating of around 2490, so a real test for the variation. I will take a look at the game in the video below.
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