While looking at various games you often remember similar ideas you have seen sometimes years ago. Exactly this happened to me some days ago while going over the game Luther-Ftacnik, Germany 2007!
Which game came to my mind once I saw Rxf7 followed by Rxg7? The first game from my first book!
Today my mum discovered one more such idea:
Looks like it is not so rare after all 😀
After the 1st round we have 2 leaders – Morozevich and Karjakin.
Today’s pairings:
Kamsky-Karjakin 1/2
Wang Hao-Dominguez Perez 1/2
Kasimdzhanov-Ponomariov 1/2
Leko-Mamedyarov 1/2
Svidler-Gelfand 1/2
Morozevich-Caruana 1-0
Morozevich is the sole leader with 2 out of 2 so far.
The 2nd round games
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Today the semi-final starts! The pairings are:
Stefanova-Harika 1-0
Ushenina-Ju Wenjun – 1/2
You can watch the games live on http://chess2012.ugrasport.com/houdini.html and on Playchess.
To view the photo gallery of the event click here.
We have 3 matches today. First game:
Stefanova-Sebag 1-0
Ju-Huang 1/2
Zhao-Harika 0-1
Finished games:
Second game:
Sebag-Stefanova 0-1 After winning 2-0 against Sebag, Stefanova continues to semi-finals
Huang-Ju 1/2 Proceeding to blitz match
Harika-Zhao 1/2 Harika is in semi-finals
Finished games:
Blitz match:
The first game ended in a draw:
The 2nd game:
So, Ju Wenjun became the last semi-finalist!
Semi-Final pairs:
Stefanova-Harika
Ushenina-Ju Wenjun
You can watch the games live on http://chess2012.ugrasport.com/houdini.html and on Playchess.
Yesterday we have seen the opening ceremony and learnt the pairings of the 1st round:
Morozevich-Kamsky 1-0
Caruana-Svidler 1/2
Gelfand-Leko 1/2
Mamedyarov-Kasimdzhanov 1/2
Ponomariov-Wang Hao 1/2
Dominguez-Karjakin 0-1
Finished games:
Karjakin won a very nicely played positional game
You can see enjoy the photo gallery of the event by clicking here.
You can watch the games live on http://tashkent2012.fide.com/en/component/content/article/40-static-content/133-live-games and on Playchess!