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Magnus Carlsen at Moscow Tal Chess
-DR. ABDUL RUFF
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(Former world champion Kasparov in action in game one of his match against Magnus Carlsen).
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Magnus Carlsen of Norway beat on 25th November Hikaru Nakamura of USA to take first place in the 6th Tal Memorial in Moscow. The Tal Memorial took place in Moscow 16th - 25th November 2011. The exciting field commemorating the 75th birthday of Mikhail Tal starred grandmasters Magnus Carlsen, Levon Aronian (Armenia), Vladimir Kramnik (Russia), Boris Gelfand (Israel), Peter Svidler (Russia), Vassily Ivanchuk (Ukraine) , Hikaru Nakamura (USA), Sergey Karjakin (Russia) and Ian Nepomniachtchi (Russia) and Spaniard V. Anando representing India.
Magnus Carlsen took first place in the Tal Memorial on tie-break from Levon Aronian after they tied on 5.5/9. The first tie-break was number of games with black, if it had been the standard Sonneborn-Berger Aronian would have taken it. Carlsen quickly obtained a decisive advantage with black which he realized in a lengthy technical ending. He edged out Levon Aronian who finished level with him on 5.5/9 due to the fact he had played more games with black, most other tie-breaks favored the Armenian. Aronian had to hold off sustained pressure from Ian Nepomniachtchi who finished half a point further back alongside Vassily Ivanchuk who had his own winning chances against Sergey Karjakin who also finished on 5 points. Peter Svidler contributed as much as anyone to the event and earlier missed chances to finish in the shake up for first. Svidler eventually beat Vladimir Kramnik who played enterprisingly for the win when he could have taken an early draw. Gelfand-Anand was a short draw.
They say that Carlsen before he knew the result said he didn't really care the tie for first - and presumably prize money- seemed most important.
Then as a thirteen year old prodigy, Magnus Carlsen had caused sensation on 18th March 2004 in Reykjavik when he came close to defeating the world number Garry Kasparov of Russia and drew his first game, perhaps the first of many against the world number one. Magnus Carlsen faced Garry Kasparov for the first time. The pair met in the opening round of the Reykjavik Rapid at Reykjavik City Hall. The arbiters struggled to keep an excited crowd silent as the youngster demolished Kasparov's position after about twenty minutes play. The former world champion appeared to miss a couple of tactical shots from the child half his height and a third of his age.
After a desperate struggle Kasparov managed to avoid immediate disaster and found refuge in an endgame with opposite colored bishops. Although Carlsen held an extra outside passed pawn the game was a draw. In the return Kasparov played white and normal service was resumed, Carlsen was subdued with little ado. Nigel Short and Anatoly Karpov got through to the last eight, the latter needed a play off to defeat the last remaining Icelandic representative Hannes Stefansson.
On 10th September 2009 Garry Kasparov agreed to train Magnus Carlsen. The eighteen year old, ranked fourth in the world already has victories against all the of the world’s leading players to his name. It’s been something of an open secret in the chess world that Carlson had been to study with Kasparov but now the arrangement has been formalized, extended and made public. Kasparov commented to a Norwegian newspaper: "With so many victories coming relatively easily to his immense talent and fighting spirit, the final crucial ingredient of relentless work will guarantee his place in history". He added: "In six months of working with Magnus I have seen in him many of the qualities of the great champions," Carlsen recently spent two weeks at Kasparov’s summer residence in Croatia where he planned for many of his world title contests.
Unlike cricket, where only mischief and mutually agreed matches take place for package deals, chess also cannot be free form such mutually conferred a] prior agreements to promote a particular person at a given stage and many matches are drawn to favor some people. Spaniard Anando of India origin benefited too much from this trend and India and its media are extremely proud of the fact that Indians very cunningly exploit the situations abroad to their own advantages. .
The Moscow Tal tournament has seen maximum number of "draws" and the reasons for this awkward phenomenon could be ascertained only in their gossips. But no one really bothers about this. "Oh, that happens, you know!" is the ready made answer many offer if a question is placed.
(Hopefully, the chess players would not get offended by my plain remarks and push harder in draws hereafter. My writing about NATO terrorism has been taken by USA and Pentagon and CIA and Interpol as a serious enough threat to their existence, - a pure joke, of course!
Like all other sport people moving about the world participating in tournaments and matches, making money including "extra" cash for special favors, the chess players Carlsen, Aronian, Kramnik, Anand and Nakamura also now move on to London for the Classic starting December 3rd. While Indian origin Spaniard V. Anando, earlier pampered by other players for 'special terrorism" reasons, who has been pushed way back ward in recent years, Magnus Carlsen has progressed steadily to reach the number one chess person of the world and would be the world champion sooner than later. It is just the time.
Magnus Carlsen of Norway beat on 25th November Hikaru Nakamura of USA to take first place in the 6th Tal Memorial in Moscow. The Tal Memorial took place in Moscow Wednesday 16th - Friday 25th November 2011. The exciting field commemorating the 75th birthday of Mikhail Tal starred Magnus Carlsen, Levon Aronian, Vladimir Kramnik, Vassily Ivanchuk, Sergey Karjakin, Hikaru Nakamura, Peter Svidler, Boris Gelfand Viswanathan Anand and Ian Nepomniachtchi.
Magnus Carlsen took first place in the Tal Memorial on tie-break from Levon Aronian after they tied on 5.5/9. The first tie-break was number of games with black, if it had been the standard Sonneborn-Berger Aronian would have taken it. Carlsen before he knew the result said he didn't really care, the tie for first (and presumably prize money) seemed most important.
Carlsen quickly obtained a decisive advantage with black which he realized in a lengthy technical ending. He edged out Levon Aronian who finished level with him on 5.5/9 due to the fact he had played more games with black, most other tie-breaks favored the Armenian. Aronian had to hold off sustained pressure from Ian Nepomniachtchi who finished half a point further back alongside Vassily Ivanchuk who had his own winning chances against Sergey Karjakin who also finished on 5 points. Peter Svidler contributed as much as anyone to the event and earlier missed chances to finish in the shake up for first. Svidler eventually beat Vladimir Kramnik who played enterprisingly for the win when he could have taken an early draw. Gelfand-Anand was a short draw.
Then as a thirteen year old prodigy, Magnus Carlsen had caused sensation on 18th March 2004 in Reykjavik when he came close to defeating the world number Garry Kasparov of Russia and drew his first game, perhaps the first of many against the world number one. Magnus Carlsen faced Garry Kasparov for the first time. The pair met in the opening round of the Reykjavik Rapid at Reykjavik City Hall. The arbiters struggled to keep an excited crowd silent as the youngster demolished Kasparov's position after about twenty minutes play. The former world champion appeared to miss a couple of tactical shots from the child half his height and a third of his age.
After a desperate struggle Kasparov managed to avoid immediate disaster and found refuge in an endgame with opposite colored bishops. Although Carlsen held an extra outside passed pawn the game was a draw. In the return Kasparov played white and normal service was resumed, Carlsen was subdued with little ado. Nigel Short and Anatoly Karpov got through to the last eight, the latter needed a play off to defeat the last remaining Icelandic representative Hannes Stefansson.
On 10th September 2009 Garry Kasparov agreed to train Magnus Carlsen. The eighteen year old, ranked fourth in the world already has victories against all the of the world’s leading players to his name. It’s been something of an open secret in the chess world that Carlsen had been to study with Kasparov but now the arrangement has been formalised, extended and made public. Kasparov commented to a Norwegian newspaper: "With so many victories coming relatively easily to his immense talent and fighting spirit, the final crucial ingredient of relentless work will guarantee his place in history". He added: "In six months of working with Magnus I have seen in him many of the qualities of the great champions," Carlsen recently spent two weeks at Kasparov’s summer residence in Croatia where he planned for many of his world title contests.
Unlike cricket, where only mischief and mutually agreed matches take place for package deals, chess also cannot be free form such mutually conferred a] prior agreements to promote a particular person at a given stage and many matches are drawn to favor some people. Spaniard Anando of India origin benefited form this trend. The Moscow Tal tournament has seen maximum number of "draws" and the reasons for this awkward phenomenon could be ascertained only in their gossips. But no one really bothers about this. "Oh, that happens, you know!" is the ready made answer.
(Hopefully, the chess players would not get offended by my plain remarks and push harder in draws hereafter. My writing about NATO terrorism has been taken by USA and Pentagon and CIA and Interpol as a serious enough threat to their existence, - a pure joke, of course!
Like all other sport people moving about the world participating in tournaments and matches, making money including "extra" cash for special favors, the chess players Carlsen, Aronian, Kramnik, Anand and Nakamura also now move on to London for the Classic starting December 3rd. While Indian origin Spaniard V. Anando, earlier pampered by other players for 'special terrorism" reasons, who has been pushed way back ward in recent years, Magnus Carlsen has progressed steadily to reach the number one chess person of the world and would be the world champion sooner than later. It is just the time.
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