Sergey Karjakin won the Moscow Candidates Tournament today, and will face Magnus Carlsen for the World Championship, allegedly in November, allegedly in NYC.
Today Karjakin faced co-leader Fabiano Caruana. Due to the tie-break rules, Caruana needed to either draw (with the black pieces) and hope that Anand won with the black pieces against Svidler, or he needed to beat Karjakin outright. Caruana played a Sicilian and tried hard to create something, but ultimately had to resign not long after the time control was reached. Karjakin played brilliantly in time pressure to secure the win.
So congratulations to Sergey Karjakin for his excellent result, and consolations for Fabiano Caruana, who faced a daunting task today thanks to the tie-break rules.These events should really be settled with a mini-match, but FIDE either can't or won't find the sponsors to do it. C'est la vie.
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Monday, March 21, 2016
Bric-a-brac, 2016 March 21 edition
Nothing Ventured: Justin Horton, inspired by the recent Nakamura touch move controversy, discusses one of the problems with chess journalism.
The Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis looks to be starting a new feature, Today in Chess. It appears it will be a daily broadcast on YouTube. The first one is two hours of commentary on Round 8 of the Candidates tournament. I haven't watched it yet, so I can't vouch for it. But if you've got a couple of hours to kill....
Meanwhile, Chess24.com has posted an interview with Anish Giri. I haven't read it yet as I'm saving it for later. But these pieces are usually pretty good, and Giri is very entertaining.
Finally, Lars Bo Hansen tweets the following:
That said, the endgame of Anand-Aronian will probably be worth some time if you're into rook & pawn endgames. Both sides have two rooks currently, but somehow I'm reminded of Capablanca-Tartakower, New York, 1924. I'll see if it the comparison holds up, but what I'm thinking is that Anand will sacrifice pawns to aggressively post his king, as Capa did long ago. Update: Here's the Anand-Aronian game. It didn't go as I thought it might, but I particularly like Anand's last move. It's dead won after 66 Kxg7, but the text is just cleaner, and aesthetically better.
The Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis looks to be starting a new feature, Today in Chess. It appears it will be a daily broadcast on YouTube. The first one is two hours of commentary on Round 8 of the Candidates tournament. I haven't watched it yet, so I can't vouch for it. But if you've got a couple of hours to kill....
Meanwhile, Chess24.com has posted an interview with Anish Giri. I haven't read it yet as I'm saving it for later. But these pieces are usually pretty good, and Giri is very entertaining.
Finally, Lars Bo Hansen tweets the following:
When the game is finished I'll post it in a replayable window, so you'll understand what he means. Update: Here it is.Giri-Caruana at #MoscowCandidates is why I advice to study classical games if you want to improve. Modern games are often hard to learn from— Lars Bo Hansen (@GMLars) March 21, 2016
That said, the endgame of Anand-Aronian will probably be worth some time if you're into rook & pawn endgames. Both sides have two rooks currently, but somehow I'm reminded of Capablanca-Tartakower, New York, 1924. I'll see if it the comparison holds up, but what I'm thinking is that Anand will sacrifice pawns to aggressively post his king, as Capa did long ago. Update: Here's the Anand-Aronian game. It didn't go as I thought it might, but I particularly like Anand's last move. It's dead won after 66 Kxg7, but the text is just cleaner, and aesthetically better.
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