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European Team Chess Championship, Round 3 Odds
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Saturday, 09 November 2013 |
By GM Kevin Spraggett, Canada, FIDE 2544
Kevin's blog (parental advisory)
GM Alsina,D
GM Balogh,C
From the recently finished Barcelona Magistral tournament. Position after 28 moves. White has a menacing position on the Kingside and for this reason Alsina decided to offer the exchange on e6. Alsinas idea is that if now 29.BxR PxB he might soon get some threats along the long diagonal with d4 and Qc6. Atleast White would have to scale back his offensive and Black would still be kicking
HOWEVER, the tournament winner was not willing to surrender the initiative! He chose another line of attackdo you see it?
WHAT IS WHITES STRONGEST PLAY?
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Carlsen - Anand, Game 1 Drawn
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European Team Chess Championship, Round 2 Odds
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GM Svidler - GM Nakamura annotated by GM Naiditsch
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European Team Chess Championship, Round 1 Odds
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Thursday, 07 November 2013 |
By GM Daniel Gormally, England, FIDE 2504
 
Magnus vs Vishy- when you play the game of thrones, you win or you die
Near Chennai this week, India fired its rocket into space. However in the same city, it will be dealing with a mercurial object of an entirely difficult nature, which will occupy the India consciousness over the next few weeks.
Put more simply, how can their reigning champion, Viswanathan Anand, prevent the inexorable rise of the young superstar, Norwegian Magnus Carlsen, to the World chess crown? It seems like an impossible task.
The portents for Vishy are not good. Never in recent memory has a reigning chess champ gone into a title defence, starting as such an underdog. In fact I believe you have to go back to 1972, when Bobby Fischer wrested the crown from the Russian Boris Spassky, to a time when the challenger started the match as such an overwhelming favourite.
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David vs. Goliath: Special Edition
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Wednesday, 06 November 2013 |
By FM Jari Järvenpää , Finland, FIDE 2298
I have been reading your site for many weeks now and indeed there are some interesting news. I have been interested in the huge rating differences when weaker players have won. Here is something from me:
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European Team Chess Championship-2013
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Wednesday, 06 November 2013 |
Venue: Warsaw, Poland
Schedule: 7-18 November 2013
Format: 9-round Swiss
Time control: 90 min for 40 moves + 30 min for the rest of the game + 30 sec increment for every move played starting from the first move.
Official website
We will be keeping you posted on the tournament by publishing the games and results, odds for the critical matches in the Open section and women's live ratings updates.
Introducing the top-5 teams in the Open championship (37 teams total):
The 2011 surprise gold medalists (sic!), Germany, will be seeded 10th and represented by Arkadij Naiditsch (2727), Georg Meier (2623), David Baramidze (2614), Igor Khenkin (2612), Daniel Fridman (2600). Image from the offiial website.
1. Russia, average rating: 2747. Alexander Grischuk (2785), Peter Svidler (2752), Alexander Morozevich (2727), Evgeny Tomashevsky (2722), Dmitry Andreikin (2710). The Russian Chess Federation decided to mix it up a little: Vladimir Kramnik (2793), Sergey Karjakin (2762), Nikita Vitiugov (2742), Ian Nepomniatchi (2721), Dmitry Jakovenko (2721) are not playing. Will we see a totally different team at the World Team Chess Championship later this year? 
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