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« Reply #795 on: January 15, 2013, 10:41:11 PM »

Have any 2 recorded professional games ever ran out exactly the same?

Another question occurs to me after this first one:

Are all professional games recorded?

I don't mean on video obviously, just the moves.

As for your second question, all the tournaments amongst the elite players are recorded and most are on the internet either livestreamed or posted within a few hours of the game.

It is all the more common for games to be recorded and available publicly.

On a personal level, I have a record of every long play (>1hr each) game I've played since I was 9½ when I played my first comp. Somewhere Smiley
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« Reply #796 on: January 16, 2013, 05:59:35 PM »

Some rather big news has broken.

The Candidates Tournament - the tournament that will decide who goes on to challenge Vishy Anand for the World Championship - will be held in March in...LONDON!

http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=8777

Here is the venue:

http://savoyplace.theiet.org/

All the big boys will be there (finally this has been sorted - it has been a long time coming with a lot of debate and dispute), including Magnus Carlsen.

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« Reply #797 on: January 17, 2013, 02:10:23 AM »

Oooh! I might go down to London for a day if it is nice and easy to get tickets.

What you say Boshi, Tal, anyone else... fancy going to watch some chess with me?
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« Reply #798 on: January 17, 2013, 02:30:47 AM »

Oooh! I might go down to London for a day if it is nice and easy to get tickets.

What you say Boshi, Tal, anyone else... fancy going to watch some chess with me?

Can always get tickets off the touts outside the ground.
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« Reply #799 on: January 17, 2013, 07:34:12 AM »

Now now, skolsuper! Play nicely Smiley

I'm interested in going. Obv you have Cheltenham week to navigate, but there's plenty of time away from that.

Best idea would be to see when the games are decided so we know who is playing whom when. We can pick our days then.
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« Reply #800 on: January 17, 2013, 08:35:02 AM »

Here's a nice piece that is less theory-heavy.

http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=8766

An Indian journalist went to the home of Vishy Anand and played two blitz games against him. The article is the first of two parts explaining his preparation and a little detail about the mind of the World Champ.

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« Reply #801 on: January 17, 2013, 07:11:11 PM »

Aronian Anand is brilliant.
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« Reply #802 on: January 17, 2013, 07:11:59 PM »

Aronian Anand is brilliant.

It really is a brilliant game.
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« Reply #803 on: January 17, 2013, 08:08:31 PM »

An update on the cheating scandal curnow reported on the other day: an interview with the man at the centre of the controversy:

http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=8781
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« Reply #804 on: January 17, 2013, 08:14:11 PM »


And a lovely report on the fifth round in Wijk aan Zee:

http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=8782

Danny King's play of the day featured Harikrishna and van Wely:





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« Reply #805 on: January 17, 2013, 08:32:45 PM »

Here is Danny King's walk-through of the Aronian-Anand game:

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« Reply #806 on: January 18, 2013, 05:38:20 PM »

http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=8783

Some pictorial impressions of Wijk aan Zee and the tournament hall. My favourites:



Next one for Tikay...





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« Reply #807 on: January 18, 2013, 05:46:38 PM »

Live games are here (with computer assistance and webcams):

http://www.tatasteelchess.com/tournament/livegames

Carlsen won against Sokolov and Anand drew with Harikrishna. Karjakin also drew, against Caruana, who is yet to set the tournament alight.

Giri is currently fighting to save the game against Hou Yifan and that should be a good watch for the purists.

Aronian has a small edge against Leko.
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« Reply #808 on: January 18, 2013, 10:55:33 PM »

Loek van Wely - Wang Hao   1-0
Hikaru Nakamura - Erwin L'Ami   ½-½
Anish Giri - Hou Yifan     0-1
Fabiano Caruana - Sergey Karjakin   ½-½
Levon Aronian - Peter Leko   1-0
Magnus Carlsen - Ivan Sokolov   1-0
Pentala Harikrishna - Vishy Anand   ½-½

Here's a review of how round six happened:

http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=8784

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« Reply #809 on: January 19, 2013, 01:55:53 AM »

Please let Anand find form and Carlsen win the candidates tourney.
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