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Chess Olympiad: Round 2 LIVE

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Wednesday, 29 August 2012

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Live games
Video broadcast with commentary
 
21:50 All the favorites won their matches again. Thanks for following the online!

21:49
Vidmantas blundered in what seemed to be a dead drawn endgame. USA-Lithuania 3.5-0.5

21:45
Nakamura's game is still going on.

21:30 China-Italy: 3.5-0.5 (Open)

21:27
Four queens on the board in Naka's game:

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21:13 Valentina Gunina drew her game. Russia-Brazil: 3.5-0.5

21:10
FM Griffitz earned a draw vs. Mamedov. Azerbaijan-Ireland: 3.5-0.5

21:05
Chess genius Vassily Ivanchuk lost to Al-Modiakhi. Ukraine-Qatar: 3-1.

20:59
Russia punished Greece for two hasty draws with White. Grischuk won; the final score is 3-1.

20:54
Don't judge Naka's positions by his facial expression:

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20:48
China-Sweden: 4-0 (Women's section)

20:42
Natalia won: White either loses a bishop, or gets checkmated in 1:

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20:37
A short friendly post-mortem in the Pogonina game.

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20:22
Relay of the women's games has been broken for the last hour or so.

20:17
A girl named Vanessa is a princess" - rhymes GM Sergei Shipov:

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20:15
France-Peru: 3.5-0.5

20:05 The European Team Champions from Germany defeated Georgia 2.5-1.5

20:03
Lithuania vs. USA:

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20:00
Spain defeated Belarus 2.5-1.5 (Iljescas managed to beat Teterev)

19:53 Turkey - Czech Republic: 2-2

19:45
Mamedyarov and Gusseinov score for Azerbaijan in the match against Ireland.

19:40 Vanessa Feliciano Ebert is giving Valentina Gunina a hard time. Here is her FIDE profile.

19:35
Caruana is shaking his head...

19:25 Jakovenko won. Aronian's opponent had a solid position, but then blundered terribly. Can you find the winning move for White?

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19:16 Alexandra Kosteniuk capitalized on her opponent's blunders and scored for Russia!

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19:15
Ukraine knocked-out two of the opponents already (Eljanov and Moiseenko scored):

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19:10
The Russia vs. Brazil match is keeping me nervous. Where is the move relay?

19:00 Wang Hao seems to have an edge in the endgame against Caruana.

18:57
The Greek grandmaster offered a draw to Kramnik. Vladimir agreed.

18:55 Susan calls herself a strong advocate of Fischer Random, because modern chess, in her opinion, requires too much home preparation and deep computer analysis.

18:46 Susan says that women's chess has a lot of potential and predicts a bright future for it.

18:36 Susan Polgar, ex-Women's World Chess Champion and Head of the FIDE Women Commission, press conference:

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18:28
Nadezhda Kosintseva is calculating lines on Valentina Gunina's board. The Brazilian beauty has a good position.

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18:23
The main dish of the day: Wang Hao vs. Caruana:

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18:15
Alexandra Kosteniuk has a crazy position:

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18:00
Ukraine: Moiseenko will be up a pawn. Volokitin has an extra exchange, but Black has two bishops and some compensation.

17:58
Nakamura's position looks risky. Don't see any real advantage for Team USA so far.

17:45 A very interesting double-edged position:

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17:42
Looks like Kramnik is going to sacrifice a queen!

17:27 Brazil vs. Russia: hot or not?

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17:26
Jakovenko has a nice position against Kotronias. The same can be said about Nadezhda Kosintseva. All the other Russian positions are close to equality.

17:22
The broadcast is indeed much better today. Kudos to the organizers!

17:10
Kramnik is a legendary player. In case you haven't seen those posts, check out the humorous facts about him:
Post 1
Post 2

http://www.pogonina.com/images//kramnikcool.jpg


17:00
Team Russia has left the boards:

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16:55 A lovely bug. Natalia's opponent doesn't look like a girl:

http://www.pogonina.com/images//changbug.jpg

16:48
Don't forget to press the "flip" button to view the games from the perspective of your favorite players

16:39
Banikas played rather unambitiously as White and made a draw in 15 moves against Sergey Karjakin:

http://www.pogonina.com/images//bankarj.jpg

16:25
Georgia (left) used to be the dominant force in women's chess back in the USSR and later on. Until China came along...

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16:22 Vladimir Kramnik is facing his proprietary weapon - the Catalan:

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16:15 Ukraine vs. Qatar. Vassily Ivanchuk makes an appearance:

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16:00 Off we go!

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15:55
Turkish Chess Federation President Ali NIhat Yazici apologized for the problems with yesterday's move relay. Let's see if today will be a better day.

15:40 Another interesting fact: Caruana is playing for board #1 and Wang Hao - board #2 of the Russian team SHSM-64.
 

15:30 Today we will witness the first clash of the heavyweights: GM Wang Hao (2726), CHN vs. GM Caruana Fabiano (2773), Italy.
They are ranked #23 and #8 in the world. Wang is a friendly guy aged 23, who says that most of his time goes not to chess, but to his university studies. Fabiano is even younger (20). He is a very reserved and serious person, who has become a chess professional very early. He became a grandmaster when he was just 14 years 11 months old - earlier, than Bobby Fischer! The absolute record belongs to Russian Sergey Karjakin (at that time he was representing Ukraine) - 12 years and 7 months.

14:40 Video from the Opening Ceremony and Round 1:



12:45 Russia vs. Greece took place in round 2 (!) in 2010 at the World Team Chess Championship. Banikas defeated Tomashevsky and Papaioannou senstionally won against Morozevich with the Black pieces. This was the only defeat of the Russian team at that event (2.5-1.5). They became World Champions.

12:00 Btw, Vladimir Kramnik had an individual training plan for this Olympiad. In Austria he met his old-time friend Vitaly Klichko, who will soon be defending his heawyweight WBC title.
 

KramnikKlichko
 

11:30 Reviewing the board pairings. In my opinion, "unleashing" Vladimir Kramnik is a good idea. The team from Greece has four solid grandmasters.
 

Papaioannou, Ioannis (2606) - Kramnik, Vladimir (2797)

Mastrovasilis, Dimitrios (2618) - Grischuk, Alexander (2763)

Banikas, Christodoulos (2623) - Karjakin, Sergey (2785)

Kotronias, Vasilios (2589) - Jakovenko, Dmitry (2722)

Evgeny Tomashevsky took a rest day after yesterday's colossal chess fight.
 

Fantastic4
 

Russia vs. Brazil, Women's Olympiad:
 

Gunina, Valentina (2507) - Feliciano Ebert, Vanessa (2231)

Kosintseva, Nadezhda (2524) - Terao, Juliana Sayumi (2187)

Kosteniuk, Alexandra (2489) - Gazola, Vanessa Ramos (2033)

Pogonina, Natalija (2448) - Chang, Suzana Komoto (2006)


10:00 After Day I 45 (!) teams are leading with 2 team points and 4/4 individual points. In the women's section there are even more such teams - 46. The top seeds are still warming up. For example, the Chinese women will face Sweden, while the Russian girls will compete against the Brazilian team. Of course, the level of the players is very different.
 

The same can be said about the open tournament. Ukraine (#2) vs. Qatar (#66); USA (#5) vs. Lithuania (#67), Azerbaijan (#7) vs. Ireland (#69). Russia (#1) lost half a point in round 1 and will not have a relatively challenging match against a strong team from Greece (#21).
 

There are a few interesting match-ups today. Let's take a look at the first 15 pairs:
 

Open section:
 

Menr2
 

Women's section:
 

womenr2


nitrosyndrome
correctly predicted the scores in the matches of the Russian teams yesterday (3.5-0.5 and 4-0). Will you be able to pull off this feat today?
 

The games start at 4 p.m. Moscow time

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good info!
 

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