[chessmind] Dennis Monokroussos: The News du Jour: Ongoing Events, plus and Topalov-Kamsky

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Posted by Dennis Monokroussos:
The News du Jour: Ongoing Events, plus and Topalov-Kamsky
http://chessmind.powerblogs.com/posts/1212207372.shtml


   Having driven a third of the way across the country today, I'm too
   tired to blog in any substantive way. (The solutions were
   "pre-written" yesterday, with an auto-posting time for earlier today.)
   For the benefit of my loyal readers, however, I'll offer a light
   summary of the day's goings-on.
   First, Sarajevo: the Morozevich express continues to steamroller
   everything in its path. Today Predojevic was the victim, and now Moro
   has six out of seven and a slightly ridiculous 2985 TPR. The other
   games were also interesting: Sokolov seemed to have a strong attack
   and then a powerful bind against Movsesian, but it was either an
   illusion or he blundered, and Movsesian won. Similarly, Timofeev was
   the early aggressor against Dominguez, but he too lost. Dominguez's
   win keeps him within shouting distance of the lead - he has 4.5 - and
   has yet to face Morozevich the second time, so the tournament isn't
   quite over yet.
   Second, Carlsen-Leko: rest day. (That was easy.)
   Third, the Magistral Ciudad de Leon saw the first semi-final match
   between Anand and Vallejo. On paper it should have been an easy match,
   but they played on unprocessed paper (wood) instead, and Anand had to
   go to playoff games to win, 3.5-2.5. Tomorrow (Saturday) Ivanchuk and
   Shirov face off, and then the winner of that match plays Anand in the
   final.
   Fourth, Pivdenny. This eight player, semi-speed chess (G/10 + 5 second
   increments) double round robin event is five rounds in, and so far
   Drozdovskij and Ponomariov lead with 4 points; Gelfand is half a point
   behind. Legends Karpov and Korchnoi are languishing with -2 scores
   (1.5-3.5), while Chess Today star Golubev is having a tough time of it
   so far with one out of five, but he'll do so damage the next two days!
   Fifth, Topalov-Kamsky. According to the latest news (reported both on
   TWIC and in a comment to an [1]earlier post by Andrey), there will be
   an announcement tomorrow (Saturday) declaring that the match is on and
   to be held in Ukraine. We'll see.
   Tomorrow I'm driving another third of the way across the country, so
   it's time to sleep!

References

   1. http://chessmind.powerblogs.com/posts/1212075272.shtml