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AVIS FOR SUPERTURNERINGEN I SJAKK ALTIBOX STAVAngerregionen 3.–15. juni NORWAY CHess MAGNUS CARLSEN NORGE MAXIME VACHIER- SHAKHRIYAR MAMEDYAROV VISWANATHAN ANAND LAGRAVE FRANKRIKE ASERBAJDSJAN INDIA DING LIREN LEVON ARONIAN FABIANO CARUANA KINA ARMENIA USA WESLEY SO YANGYI YU ALEXANDER GRISCHUK USA KINA RUSSLAND Møt spillerne i Altibox Norway Chess Side 20–22 En annerledes skole- Ekslusivt intervju med Lynkurs i sjakk med sjakkturnering SIDE 16 Siri Lill Mannes SIDE 24 Ellisiv Reppen SIDE 29 2 ALTIBOX NORWAY CHESS 3.–15. JUNI 2019 INNHOLD PLANT ET TRE GI EN BEDRE FREMTID Leder ......................................... 03 Produksjon av arganolje Program ..................................... 04 er en av svært få muligheter for betalt Et tilbakeblikk på fjorårets arbeid for fattige kvinner i sørvest turnering .................................... 06 Marokko. Argan skogen er også helt essensiell for dyre- og plantelivet i Tiden – et viktig element i sjakk 13 landet, og har så stor betydning for klima De første sjakkstjernene ........... 14 at UNESCO erklærte den et biosfærereservat i 1998. Skolesjakkturneringen .............. 16 Spill gjennom alle tider ............. 19 Nå er skogen utrydningstruet! Møt spillerne .............................. 20 Intervju med Siri Lill Mannes .... 24 Kompleksiteten i det oversiktlige................................. 27 Lynkurs i sjakk ........................... 29 Argan skogen i Marokko er avgjørende for Carlsens ofre ............................. 31 tusenvis av plante- og dyrearter og helt essensiell Argan Care ble startet av Benedicte Westre Skog i Stavanger i 2016. Vi har så langt plantet og for å redusere spredning av ørkenen i området. Dronning Shakiras hevn ............ 32 Skogen har blitt redusert kraftig de siste årene på rehabilitert trær på 200 mål sør-vest i Marokko. grunn av overforbruk, avskoging og kanskje noe Argan Care bidrar til å etablere arbeidsplasser, Løpsk løper mot spesielt for kvinner, i en region med svært få mer overraskende, geiter. Berber befolkningen, hoppende hest ........................... 33 en fattig befolkningsgruppe i Marokko, står i fare muligheter for arbeid. Lese- og skriveopplæring til kvinner er også et viktig del av vårt arbeid. for å miste sitt livsgrunnlag og verden et unikt og Sjakk-kryssord ........................... 35 viktig tre. God stemning og ny lærdom på sponsortreff .......................... 37 Team Altibox Norway Chess ...... 38 Gjør en forskjell i verden vi lever i! Alle bidrag går uavkortet til formålet Vipps! Argan Care - Vipps nr. 10604 eller kontonummer: 1503.70.44242 www.argancare.org FAKTA OM ALTIBOX NORWAY CHESS Første gang spilt i 2013 Bryne: Vinnere lynsjakk: Flest remis: Lynsjakk på UiS 7.mai. 1. Runde på Aarbakke 2013 Sergey Karjakin 2013 – Veselin Topalov 8 remis og 1 tap Quality Hotel Residence 8. mai 2014 Magnus Carlsen 2014 – Peter Svideler 8 remis og 1 tap Rennesøy: 2015 Maxime Vachier Lagrave 2017 – Wesley So 8 remis og 1 Grunnlegger: Kjell Madland Utstein Kloster 2016 Magnus Carlsen seier 2017 Magnus Carlsen Spillesteder: Strand: 2018 Wesley So Flest seiere: Flor og Fjære 2015 – Veselin Topalov med 5 seiere, Stavanger: Kun 2 spillere har vunnet både Lyn han vant de siste 5 matchene på rad Clarion Hotel Energy Sola: og hovedturnering samme år: Sergey Stavanger Konserthus Clarion Hotel Air Karjakin i 2013 og Magnus Carlsen i 2016 Antall partier med seier: UiS 2013 24 Stavanger Forum Vinnere: Kun 2 spillere har deltatt på samtlige 2014 18 Scandic Stavanger City 2013 Sergey Karjakin 6 poeng turneringer, Magnus Carlsen og Levon 2015 20 2014 Sergey Karjakin 6 poeng Aronian. 2016 15 2015 Veselin Topalov 6,5 poeng 2017 15 Sandnes: 2016 Magnus Carlsen 6 poeng Høyeste rating snitt: 2017 utgaven 2018 11 Quality Hotel Residence 2017 Levon Aronian 6 poeng av Altibox Norway Chess er tidenes (Færre partier i 2018 på grunn av at Vågen Vid. skole 2018 Fabiano Caruana 5 poeng sterkeste 10 manns turnering i verden spiller Ding Liren måtte trekkes seg fra med rating snitt på utrolige 2797,2 turneringen) ALTIBOX NORWAY CHESS 3.–15. JUNI 2019 ALTIBOX NORWAY CHESS 3.–15. JUNI 2019 3 Endelig er det juni og klart for Altibox Norway Chess, spekket med toppspillere og spennende øyeblikk. For 7. gang har regionen vår gleden og Vår internasjonale sending vil bli ledet av æren av å ta i mot verdens beste tidenes beste kvinnelige sjakkspiller: Judit sjakkspillere til en turnering i Polgar som sammen med dyktige Anna verdenstoppen. Her deltar de aller beste Rudolf skal lose det internasjonale spillerne representert fra hele verden. publikummet gjennom hele turneringen. I tillegg byr vi på 4. utgave av Startskudded for turneringen går av med næringslivskonferansen Norway Summit. lynsjakkturnering 3. juni etterfulgt av ni Her kommer det en rekke internasjonale runder langsjakk. Den første uken kan og nasjonale spennende og dyktige publikum se dette med egne øyne fra foredragsholdere, så her er det bare å Clarion Hotel Energy, de siste tre dagene melde seg på. skjer alt på Stavanger Konserthus. Årets utgave av Altibox Norway Chess På Bryne videregående skole blir det full blir en skikkelig thriller med et helt nytt rulle med skoleturnering for lag fra konsept som sjakkverden vil følge med på. barne- og ungdomsskoler 14. og 15. juni. Vi innfører betydelig kortere tenketid og Turneringen er lav-terksel, åpen for barn ingen tilleggstid når trekkene blir gjort. og unge over hele landet og vil bli sendt Klokka blir en vesentlig del av spillet fra live på TV Vest. Elevene får også besøk av første trekk! Hvis partier ender i remis Magnus Carlsen og de andre toppspillerne (uavgjort) så må spillerne ut i Armageddon der barn og voksne kan sikre seg omspill slik at det kåres en vinner for hvert autografer om de er heldige. eneste parti. Armageddon ender alltid med en vinner, her får hvit mer tenketid en sort Sammen med Sandnes og Stavanger samtidig som en uavgjort gir sort seier. Sjakklubb blir det også i år åpen turnering i pinsehelgen 7.–9. juni. Her kommer De som vinner langpartiet får 2 poeng, deltakere fra både lokale, nasjonale og vinner man etter Armageddon får man internasjonale klubber. Meld deg på! totalt 1,5 poeng, taperne av Armageddon får bare med seg totalt ½ poeng. Dette vil Vi er takknemlig for at vi nok en gang kan gjøre seier enda viktigere enn tidligere om gjennomføre dette spennende man skal henge med om turneringsseier. arrangementet, og vil takke Stavanger Vi håper også at denne formen vil gjøre kommune, Altibox, Choice Hotels, det enda mer publikumsvennlig både for Bavaria, HTH, TV 2 og alle sponsorene de som ser det fra spillesalen og de som våre som gjør det mulig å gjennomføre følger med på TV 2 sendingene. Altibox Norway Chess turneringen og alt det fører med seg. TV 2 sender hvert eneste trekk fra de nærmere to ukene Altibox Norway Chess 3.–14. juni er bare å sette av i kalenderen, foregår. De har studio på spillestedene slik for da blir det action. som den internasjonale sendingen også har. Dermed kan publikum se TV-profilene Vel møtt! i aksjon på både Clarion Hotel Energy (3.–10. juni) og i Stavanger Konserthus Takk til fotograf Anne Lise Norheim for foto av Kjell Madland. (12.–14. juni) foruten på TV. Kjell Madland Ansvarlig utgiver: Tower AS Webside: norwaychess.no Distribusjon: Layout: Rita Oosterhuis, Kai Hansen Trykkeri Redaktør: Benedicte Westre Skog Opplag: 47.000 eksemplarer Innstikk i Stavanger Aftenblad Trykkeri: Schibstedtrykk Styreleder: Kjell Madland Distributør: Schibstedtrykk 4 ALTIBOX NORWAY CHESS 3.–15. JUNI 2019 PROGRAM Altibox Norway chess 2019 Mandag 3. juni Pressekonferanse (for inviterte) Kan ses på TV 2 sports-kanalen kl. 16.30 Mottagelse (for inviterte) kl. 18.30 Lynsjakkturnering (åpen for alle) Clarion Hotel Energy Tirsdag 4. juni Runde 1 kl. 17.00 Clarion Hotel Energy Skole-lag turnering Bryne Vidergående skole. Gratis deltagelse. Onsdag 5. juni Runde 2 kl. 17.00 Clarion Hotel Energy Fredag 14. juni Runde 1 og 2 Lørdag 15. juni Runde 3 og 4 Torsdag 6. juni Runde 3 kl. 17.00 Clarion Hotel Energy Fredag 7. juni Fridag for spillerne Lørdag 8. juni Runde 4 Norway Summit konferansen kl. 17.00 Clarion Hotel Energy Onsdag 5. juni Clarion Hotel Energy Søndag 9. juni Runde 5 For informasjon se norwaysummit.no kl. 17.00 Clarion Hotel Energy Mandag 10. Runde 6 juni, kl. 17.00 Clarion Hotel Energy Tirsdag 11. Fridag for spillerne NORWAY CHESS OPEN juni, kl. 17.00 Åpen internasjonal turnering Onsdag 12. Runde 7 juni, kl. 17.00 Stavanger Konserthus Fredag–Søndag Clarion Hotel Energy 7.-10. juni Torsdag 13. Runde 8 juni, kl. 17.00 Stavanger Konserthus Fredag 14. juni Runde 9 kl. 17.00 Stavanger Konserthus Spillesteder Billetter Voksen: 200,- Barn (16 år)/Student: 100,- Familie: 400,- Turneringspass (alle dager): 1 400,- Billetter selges direkte på Clarion Hotel Energy Stavanger Konserthus arrangementssted ALTIBOX NORWAY CHESS 3.–15. JUNI 2019 Foto: Norway Chess Float like a butterfl y , sting like a bee Sjakk er et spill. Alt man trenger å gjøre er å analysere hver bevegelse, beregne de neste 15-20 trekkene til motstanderen, og man trenger en kropp som tåler timevis med mentale og fysiske påkjenninger. Sjakk er ikke et spill. Sjakk er drama, lidenskap og action. Velkommen til Altibox Norway Chess 3. – 15. juni i Stavanger Mer spenning. Mer til felles. 6 ALTIBOX NORWAY CHESS 3.–15. JUNI 2019 Drama og spenning fra start til slutt - Et tilbakeblikk på fjorårets turnering llerede morgenen før lynsjakken skulle foregå startet dramatikken. Førstegangs deltaker og på det Atidspunkt, verdens tredje beste spiller, Shakhriyar Mamedyarov, hadde fått store tannsmerter. Sjakk i verdensklasse og kraftig tannverk er ingen god kombinasjon, faren for at han dermed måtte trekke seg var overhengende. Han spilte lynsjakken og like etter ble han brakt til behandling. Det krevde mange i sving for å finne en tannlege som kunne operere en søndag. Etter at behandling var igangsatt sent søndag kveld, fikk spilleren nok en runde hos tannlege morgenen før første runde. Dette gjorde Shakhriyar Mamedyarov klar nok til å starte turneringen og arrangøren kunne trekke et lettelses sukk.
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    Arkadij Naiditsch Csaba Balogh Sebastien Maze Most exciting games of 2016 Chess Evolution Cover designer Piotr Pielach Typesetting Piotr Pielach ‹www.i-press.pl› First edition 2017 by Chess Evolution Most exciting games of 2016 Copyright © 2017 Chess Evolution All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, electrostatic, magnetic tape, photo- copying, recording or otherwise, without prior permission of the publisher. ISBN 978-83-945362-7-5 All sales or enquiries should be directed to Chess Evolution 2040 Budaors, Nyar utca 16, Magyarorszag e-mail: [email protected] website: www.chess-evolution.com Printed in Hungary TABLE OF CONTENTS Table of Contents 3 Key to symbols 5 Introduction 7 Preface 9 GAME 1 ▷ M. Carlsen (2844) ▶ F. Caruana (2787) 11 GAME 2 ▷ A. Grischuk (2754) ▶ A. Volokitin (2647) 15 GAME 3 ▷ V. Kramnik (2808) ▶ B. Adhiban (2671) 20 GAME 4 ▷ V. Kramnik (2801) ▶ A. Giri (2798) 25 GAME 5 ▷ L. Aronian (2784) ▶ M. Carlsen (2851) 31 GAME 6 ▷ L. Aronian (2795) ▶ A. Giri (2755) 34 GAME 7 ▷ H. Nakamura (2789) ▶ B. Adhiban (2671) 38 GAME 8 ▷ F. Caruana (2794) ▶ V. Anand (2762) 43 GAME 9 ▷ D. Jakovenko (2712) ▶ E. Sutovsky (2622) 48 GAME 10 ▷ M. Carlsen (2844) ▶ E. Tomashevsky (2728) 53 GAME 11 ▷ Wen Yang (2614) ▶ E. Inarkiev (2729) 57 GAME 12 ▷ V. Artemiev (2658) ▶ S. Mamedyarov (2762) 61 GAME 13 ▷ J. Granda Zuniga (2672) ▶ M. Lagarde (2572) 65 GAME 14 ▷ H. Nakamura (2787) ▶ A. Guijarro (2639) 68 GAME 15 ▷ A.
  • The Day of Miracles. Kramnik Took the Lead. Prestige Goal by Ivanchuk. This

    The Day of Miracles. Kramnik Took the Lead. Prestige Goal by Ivanchuk. This

    The day of miracles. Kramnik took the lead. Prestige goal by Ivanchuk. This are not the whole list of headlines after round 12 in Candidates Tournament in London. Long Friday was really long Friday. For the first time in the tournament absolutely all games finished after first time control and 40 moves. Today I will continue with ecologically clean annotations (Totally without computer analyzes) “online” comments by IM &FT Vladimir Poley. Text of the games you can find on organisers home page. Pairs of the day: Magnus Carlsen –Vasily Ivanchuk Levon Aroian – Vladimir Kramnik Teimour Radjabov – Alexander Grischuk Boris Gelfand-Peter Svidler Magnus avoid Rossolimo today and said straight no to Cheljabinsk (Sveshnikov) variation by 3.Nc3. Vasily after 5 minutes thought decided to transfer his Sicilian defense into Taimanov variation, old and solid version. Alternative was 3...e5, but this can lead after transformation into “The Spanish torture” where Magnus feels like fish in the water. Kramnik chosen improved Tarrash defense against Aronian. The difference from normal Tarrash- is no isolated pawn on d5. Radjabov-Grischuk- easy going with draw reputation Queens Gambit variation, probably quickpeace agreement. Both players lost chances and not enough motivated. Gelfand plays anti-Grunfeld variation. To go into the main lines against biggest Grunfeld expert Svidler was not an option. Boris will look for fishy on sides. Grischuk invites to some pawns capture for advantage in development in return and started to shake the boat. I don’t believe that Teimour will accept the gifts. Just normal Nf3 will be good neutral response. Aronian decided to get isolany himself.
  • A Feast of Chess in Time of Plague – Candidates Tournament 2020

    A Feast of Chess in Time of Plague – Candidates Tournament 2020

    A FEAST OF CHESS IN TIME OF PLAGUE CANDIDATES TOURNAMENT 2020 Part 1 — Yekaterinburg by Vladimir Tukmakov www.thinkerspublishing.com Managing Editor Romain Edouard Assistant Editor Daniël Vanheirzeele Translator Izyaslav Koza Proofreader Bob Holliman Graphic Artist Philippe Tonnard Cover design Mieke Mertens Typesetting i-Press ‹www.i-press.pl› First edition 2020 by Th inkers Publishing A Feast of Chess in Time of Plague. Candidates Tournament 2020. Part 1 — Yekaterinburg Copyright © 2020 Vladimir Tukmakov All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior written permission from the publisher. ISBN 978-94-9251-092-1 D/2020/13730/26 All sales or enquiries should be directed to Th inkers Publishing, 9850 Landegem, Belgium. e-mail: [email protected] website: www.thinkerspublishing.com TABLE OF CONTENTS KEY TO SYMBOLS 5 INTRODUCTION 7 PRELUDE 11 THE PLAY Round 1 21 Round 2 44 Round 3 61 Round 4 80 Round 5 94 Round 6 110 Round 7 127 Final — Round 8 141 UNEXPECTED CONCLUSION 143 INTERIM RESULTS 147 KEY TO SYMBOLS ! a good move ?a weak move !! an excellent move ?? a blunder !? an interesting move ?! a dubious move only move =equality unclear position with compensation for the sacrifi ced material White stands slightly better Black stands slightly better White has a serious advantage Black has a serious advantage +– White has a decisive advantage –+ Black has a decisive advantage with an attack with initiative with counterplay with the idea of better is worse is Nnovelty +check #mate INTRODUCTION In the middle of the last century tournament compilations were ex- tremely popular.