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Chess Brochure 30/11.Aw 30/11/09 16:12 Page 1 Chess Brochure 30/11.aw 30/11/09 16:12 Page 1 www.londonchessclassic.com Chess Brochure 30/11.aw 30/11/09 16:12 Page 2 LONDON CHESS CLASSIC OLYMPIA Contents 3 Viktor Korchnoi 7 Ni Hua 12 David Howell 4 Magnus Carlsen 8 Grandmasters of tomorrow 13 Luke McShane 5 Vladimir Kramnik 10 Nigel Short 14 Andrew Flintoff 6 Hikaru Nakamura 11 Michael Adams 15 Schedule – London Chess Classic Contacts and Officials Tournament Director IM Malcolm Pein Operations Director Tao Bhokanandh Chief Arbiter Albert Vasse (International Arbiter) Deputy Arbiter David Sedgwick (International Arbiter) Public Relations Pitch Media Ltd www.pitch.co.uk Festival Organiser Adam Raoof (International Organiser) [email protected] Chief Arbiter: FIDE Open Alex McFarlane (International Arbiter) Chief Arbiter: Classic Weekender and Rapidplay Lara Barnes (International Arbiter) Press Room Chief John Saunders [email protected] Webmaster Stephen Connor [email protected] Live Game Transmission David Clayton, Andy Howie Commentary Team GM Julian Hodgson, GM Stephen Gordon, IM Lawrence Trent, GM Chris Ward, GM Daniel King Chess Trainers James Coleman, Charlie Storey, Steve James Best Game Prize Judges GM John Nunn, GM Jonathan Rowson, GM Jon Speelman Live Transmission Partners ChessBase, ICC, Telegraph.co.uk Event Consultant Andrew Finan Concept, design, artwork and brochure Create Services www.createservices.co.uk Communications and IT E-Force www.eforce.co.uk Audio Visual Blitz Communications Ltd www.blitzcomm.com Organised by the London Chess Centre 369 Euston Road, London NW1 3AR Tel: 0207 388 2404 www.chess.co.uk Supporting Page 8 Max Davidson meets some of the Grandmasters of tomorrow Images: Getty Images, Mark Huba, Philip Hollis Chess Brochure 30/11.aw 30/11/09 16:12 Page 3 Guest of Honour Welcome from the Viktor Tournament Organiser It gives me great pleasure to welcome you to Korchnoi the London Chess Classic, an event that promises to live in the memories of the UK chess and wider communities for many One of the all time years. What started as an opening gambit to greats of world stage a world class tournament in London moved into a complex middle game and after some precision in chess is the the endgame – hardly my forte over the board – we have a tournament’s tournament for UK chess lovers to savour. Guest of Honour. In 46 years of playing, coaching and analysing our great game, the pleasure in bringing the best talent in the world to lock Korchnoi still plays high level chess at the age of 78 horns with the top UK talent on home soil is unbeatable and and recently played on board one for Switzerland at thanks are due to our supporters in the business world and in the European Team Championship. the political arena without whom the London Chess Centre would have been unable to stage an event of this stature. Korchnoi fought two world title matches against The Classic and raft of other events will engage over 1000 Anatoly Karpov in 1978 and 1981 which captured the players of all ages here at Olympia while online our website imagination of the world. A man who had defected londonchessclassic.com is setting new standards in excellence from the USSR and made into a non-person took on and breadth of coverage. I am delighted to have partnered with the might of the Soviet chess machine while his son ChessBase and ICC to ensure that the live transmission will be was imprisoned by the Communist authorities. second to none. However, of equal importance is the chess charity that will Even in defeat Korchnoi has shaped the future of emerge from the event. Chess in Schools and Communities will chess. It should not be forgotten that he sportingly enable youngsters from all backgrounds to learn and develop a agreed to play Garry Kasparov in a Candidates semi passion for the game. I am delighted that CSC’s first activity is final after the Soviets had refused to allow Kasparov bringing so many schoolchildren to Olympia. to take part in the match originally scheduled to take We know the benefits of chess, how it can help nurture place at Pasadena in 1984. Although he had already youngsters’ creativity, build their confidence and enable them won by default, Korchnoi agreed to play in London to achieve so much through the joy of discovery in the greatest and Kasparov eventually won and went on to defeat of all games. Anatoly Karpov. And it is this passion for chess that CSC strives to harness and with it the next Carlsen or Nakamura who will sit at future Korchnoi’s longevity at the top level, nearly 50 years, classics next to the flag of St George. is unparalleled. Visitors to the London Chess Classic will be able to hear him comment on the games or Enjoy the tournament! take on the great man in simultaneous displays at Malcolm Pein Olympia on Sunday 13th and Monday 14th at 7pm. A delightful endgame study composed by IM Yochanan Afek for the London Chess Classic. Yochanan Afek – Original White to play and win 1.h6 Kh5 2.h7 And now the direct 2...Kh6 is easily refuted by 3.Nf8 Kg7 4.Nxf7+-; Any hope for Black? He finds a startling defence: 2...Ne7!! The idea behind this amazing resource is: 3.Kxe7? Kh6 4.Nf8 Kg7 5.Nxf7 stalemate! while 3.Nf8? Nd5! followed by 3...Nf6 or 3. Nxf7? Nxg6 4.Ke8 Nh8! 5.Kf8 Kg6 are both evident draws. How should White proceed? 3.Kd8!! Now threatening 4.Nf8! while the more natural-looking alternative would prove premature:3.Ke8? Kh6 4.Nf8 Kg7 5.Nxf7 Ng6! and this is a reciprocal zugzwang position with White to play! Any of his moves will be followed by an immediate draw. 3...Kh6 4.Nf8 Kg7 5.Nxf7 Ng6! 6.Ke8!! And here again the same reciprocal zugzwang position has been reached, however this time it is Black to play! 6...Nh8 7.Ng5! 7.Nxh8? Kxh8 is a theoretical draw. Any other move of the knight on f7 would be a waste of time and White will have to return to the same position and play Ng5 after all. Now it’s a rather easy win, for instance: 7...Kf6 8.Nfe6 Ng6 9.Nf4 Nh8 10.Kf8 Kxg5 11.Kg7+- 1–0 www.londonchessclassic.com 3 Chess Brochure 30/11.aw 30/11/09 16:12 Page 4 LONDON CHESS CLASSIC MAGNUS CARLSEN World Number 1 Norwegian Magnus Carlsen is undoubtedly the hottest property in world chess. The youngest player ever to reach the illustrious 2800 Elo rating (and one of only five players in the history of chess to do so) Carlsen has set the chess world alight with a series of tournament performances making him the world’s number one player. Marked out as a future world champion from the moment he played his first international event, Carlsen became a Grandmaster at the age of 13 years, four months, and 27 days. At the time he was the youngest ever and was dubbed the ‘Mozart of Chess’. Carlsen achieved one of the outstanding tournament results of all time at the Nanjing Pearl Tournament in China in September 2009, where he scored a superb 8/10, winning every game with the white pieces. This result drew ready comparisons with Garry Kasparov and in September Kasparov stunned the chess world by announcing he was coming out of chess retirement to train the youngster. In particular Kasparov is going to share his database of opening ideas that he never had the chance to reveal during his 20 years as world number one. Age 19 At the beginning of his career Carlsen was trained by GM Simen Agdestein at the Norwegian College for top athletes NTG. Agdestein is the only GM to represent a Peak rating 2805 country at both chess and football. Current rating 2805 Carlsen lives just outside Oslo with his mother, father and two sisters who regularly Live World Ranking 1 travel the world with him to tournaments. He is a keen football fan and follows Real Madrid. He also enjoys playing football, skiing and showed some promise at ski jumping before chess took over. Magnus Carlsen – Teimour Radjabov Pearl Spring Nanjing (5), 02.10.2009 [Malcolm Pein] 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 e6 4.0–0 Nge7 5.c3 a6 6.Ba4 b5 7.Bc2 19...Rc8 [19...Rd7 20.Ra8++-] 20.Nfxd4 Nxb2 21.Qe2 Nc4 Bb7 8.Qe2 d5 9.e5 d4 10.Be4 Qb6 [10...Nd5 Grischuk – 22.Rfc1! Radjabov is three moves behind in development, Kasparov Moscow Rapid 2002 but Garry had surely given something has to give 22...Bc5 [22...Qb8] 23.Nxb5 0–0? Magnus an idea] 11.d3 Like so may perfectly sensible moves, a [23...Bxf2+ 24.Qxf2 Qxb5 25.Qe2 (25.Qd4 0–0 26.Be7 Nc6 novelty at the top level 11...Rd8 [11...Ng6 12.h4 is rather annoying 27.Qc5 Qxc5+ 28.Bxc5 N4xe5 29.Bxf8 Rxf8 Black would have as Ngxe5 loses a piece and ...h5 would be too weakening] 12.a4! good chances to save the game) 25...0–0 26.Nd4 Qxe5 27.Rxc4 Nd5 [12...b4 is met by Nd2-c4] 13.axb5 axb5 14.cxd4 cxd4 Rxc4 28.Qxc4 Qxg5 29.Qxb4 should win] 24.Nxc5 15.Nbd2 Nf4 [15...Be7 16.Nb3 h6 17.Bd2 is only slightly better for White] 16.Qd1 Nb4?! 17.Nb3! Bxe4 [After 17...Ng6 18.Bg5 Rd7 19.Qe2 d4 will be hard to hold] 18.dxe4 Nfd3 19.Bg5 24...Nxe5 [Black loses material in all lines 24...Rxc5 25.Be7! Rxb5 26.Bxf8 Nxe5 27.Bc5 Qb8 28.Qxb5!; 24...Qxb5 25.Qxc4 Qxc4 26.Rxc4] 25.Be7 1–0 4 Chess Brochure 30/11.aw 30/11/09 16:12 Page 5 VLADIMIR KRAMNIK Former World Champion Vladimir Kramnik, the 14th world champion is a product of the Soviet Chess School having studied under the ‘Patriarch of Soviet Chess’ Mikhail Botvinnik.
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