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Caruana defeats Grischuk and Svidler

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By scoring two wins in his first two games, Italian grandmaster Fabiano Caruana is calmly demonstrating he might even take the prestigious Norway Super-Tournament, which boasts in its line-up the four highest ranked players on the planet. The tournament has ten participants, all world class players including the world champion, and all fighting for supreme domination.

Caruana defeated Alexander Grischuk, ranked number three in the world, as well as Peter Svidler. He opposes world champion Magnus Carlsen in the next round, a match that the chess world is waiting to see. Carlsen drew first blood in the erratic blitz tournament, but normal conventional chess where you get time to think, and what this tournament is all about, is entirely different.

20131103chessThe tournament has just begun, two rounds from nine having been completed. It is still anyone’s tournament, with the world champion being the favourite in his home country. Russia’s Sergey Karjakin is the defending champion.

In the meantime, the Maharashtra Chess League is scheduled to begin on June 11 for the second year in succession. It will be a six team, six players a side rapid tournament, where the teams play a round-robin with each other for the first three days. The top four proceed to the semi-finals on the penultimate day, and the winners go to the finals on the last day. It is compulsory that each team field two women players.

Similar to cricket, chess players are auctioned to the highest bidders. Former world chess champion Vishy Anand was a special guest at the auction which took place on May 30.

 

Grandmasters of the future? Former world chess champion Vishy Anand is pictured with some youngsters who, perhaps, represent India’s chess future. Anand was a guest at the 2014 Maharashtra Chess League (MCL) players’ auction. The MCL represents the only professional chess league in India and is similar to the popular IPL in cricket. The initial tournament was held last year. The MCL is a unique tournament with a bidding process by private sponsors to determine the composition of each team. Some top Indian chess players were up for sale to the highest bidders.
Grandmasters of the future? Former world chess champion Vishy Anand is pictured with some youngsters who, perhaps, represent India’s chess future. Anand was a guest at the 2014 Maharashtra Chess League (MCL) players’ auction. The MCL represents the only professional chess league in India and is similar to the popular IPL in cricket. The initial tournament was held last year. The MCL is a unique tournament with a bidding process by private sponsors to determine the composition of each team. Some top Indian chess players were up for sale to the highest bidders.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fabiano Caruana, the 21-year-old American-born Italian chess grandmaster, takes a walk following his successive victories at the Norway Super-Tournament. Seven of the world’s highest ranked grandmasters, the elite masters of “tactics and strategy,” are participating in the tournament. Caruana boasts a perfect score from the two games that he played, ahead of world champion Magnus Carlsen. In 2007 Caruana became the youngest grandmaster in both America and Italy at 14 years, 11 months and 20 days and is ranked number four in the world after Carlsen, Aronian and Grischuk. Carlsen was asked to comment on Caruana’s success in the tournament. He answered: “It’s time to stop him.”
Fabiano Caruana, the 21-year-old American-born Italian chess grandmaster, takes a walk following his successive victories at the Norway Super-Tournament. Seven of the world’s highest ranked grandmasters, the elite masters of “tactics and strategy,” are participating in the tournament. Caruana boasts a perfect score from the two games that he played, ahead of world champion Magnus Carlsen. In 2007 Caruana became the youngest grandmaster in both America and Italy at 14 years, 11 months and 20 days and is ranked number four in the world after Carlsen, Aronian and Grischuk. Carlsen was asked to comment on Caruana’s success in the tournament. He answered: “It’s time to stop him.”

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Chess games

The following games were played in the Stavanger Super Tournament, Norway, which began on June 3 and ends on June 13.

Carlsen v Giri

White: Carlsen

Black: Giri

 

1.c4 c5 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.Nc3 d5 4.cxd5 Nxd5 5.e3 Nxc3 6.bxc3 Qc7 7.d4 g6 8.Bb5+ Bd7 9.a4 Bg7 10.O-O O-O 11.Ba3 b6 12.dxc5 bxc5 13.Qd5 Bxb5 14.axb5 Nd7 15.Rfd1 Rfd8 16.Ng5 e6 17.Qc6 Qxc6 18.bxc6 Ne5 19.c7 Rdc8 20.f4 h6 21.Ne4 Nc4 22.Rd7 Nb6 23.Rad1 Nxd7 24.Rxd7 Bf8 25.c4 a5 26.Nc3 a4 27.Nb5 Re8 28.e4 Rac8 29.Na7 Ra8 30.Nb5 Rac8 31.Na7 Ra8 32.Nb5 1/2-1/2.

 

Grischuk v Caruana

White: Grischuk

Black: Caruana

 

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.g3 Bg7 4.Bg2 c5 5.d5 O-O 6.Nc3 e6 7.Nf3 exd5 8.cxd5 d6 9.O-O Re8 10.a4 Ne4 11.Nxe4 Rxe4 12.Nd2 Rb4 13.Ra2 a5 14.b3 b5 15.axb5 Nd7 16.Ne4 Qe7 17.Qc2 Rxb5 18.Bg5 Nf6 19.Qd3 Rb7 20.Qe3 h6 21.Bxf6 Bxf6 22.Qf4 Be5 23.Qxh6 Rxb3 24.Nxc5 Rb5 25.Nd3 Bg7 26.Qd2 a4 27.Qc2 a3 28.Rxa3 Rxa3 29.Qxc8+ Kh7 30.Bf3 Rc3 31.Qg4 Rbb3 32.h4 f5 33.Qa4 Ra3 34.Qd1 Bh6 35.Kg2 Qf6 36.Rh1 Qd4 37.Qb1 Rab3 38.Qa2 Rxd3 39.exd3 Rb2 0-1.

 
 

Carlsen v Caruana

This game was played in the Blitz section of the Stavanger Super Tournament.

White: Magnus Carlsen

Black: Fabiano Caruana

 

1. d4 e6 2. e4 d5 3. Nd2 c5 4. Ngf3 cxd4 5. Nxd4 Nf6 6. exd5 Qxd5 7. Nb5 Na6 8.

Nc3 Qd8 9. a3 Be7 10. Qf3 O-O 11. Bxa6 1-0.

 

Solution to last week’s
chess puzzle
Qf7+ Rxf7 Rxf7+ Rg7 Rxg7+ Kh8 Bxg6

Richard Reti v Saviely Tartokower, Vienna, 1910

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