Showing posts with label Aronian. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Aronian. Show all posts
Friday, August 19, 2011
Thursday, August 18, 2011
Wednesday, July 20, 2011
World Team Chess Championship - Round 3
By Chess Tutor William Stewart
US Team Dominates Egypt 3½ - ½
As black, Kamsky drew Adly in an opposite color bishop ending. The rest of the US team was a different story, as Onischuk's solid opening preparation and methodical pressure took out Amin in 34 moves. Gindy persistently attempted to achieve a draw against Seirawan, however Seirawan failed to oblige by maintaining and building consistent pressure. Patient maneuvering and excellent technique enabled to Seirawan to win as black in 66 moves. A determined Hess was able to dispatch IM Shoker's Double-Fianchetto opening, first sacrificing a pawn with 13. e5!? and then trading his queen for a rook and bishop with 23. Bxe4!? Hess's creativity and accurate technique enabled him to win a nice R+B vs Q endgame.
- Hess Vs Shoker: Final Position After 49. Ra8
Heavyweight Battle - Aronian (2808) Beats Karjakin (2782)
After losing a long game to a determined Kamsky yesterday, Aronian put a similarly patient grind on Karjakin in exceptional technical style. Aronian took advantage of an inaccurate move order by Karjakin to win a pawn with 17. Nxc6 - leading to a Q+R+R endgame with an extra isolated d-pawn for white. Aronian then equaled the material by sacrificing a pawn back to Karjakin, with the intention of activating white's queen and pushing the d-pawn farther up. It's possible that Karjakin was already lost, however I disliked 43. ...f6 as it led to a chronic weakening of black's king and kingside pawns. Either way, Aronian played with extreme technical precision to nurse this point home.
- Aronian Vs Karjakin - Final Position After 74. Qg6+
Svidler Saves Draw for Russians With Win Over Sargissian
Russian was on the verge of defeat against the Armenian team after Aronian's win over Karjakin, however Svidler was able to complicate matters in a fairly calm position to confuse and overcome Sargissian. Svidler opened with a Ruy Lopez and proceeded with a game of patient maneuvering to obtain the small advantage of the two bishops with 19. Nf5 and 20. Nxe7. The position appeared relatively level when Svidler began an unusual series of moves beginning with 27. Qxa4!? - allowing him to consolidate his queenside pawns and maintain pressure against black's weakness of a6. Running low on time, Sargissian miscalculated the resulting double rook endgame and allowed white to favorably simplify the positions via the tactical sequence beginning with 31. Nxa6! Svidler was able to forcefully seize the initiative and double his rooks on the 7th rank - leading to disaster for black. White's activity proved too much, and Sargissian resigned in the face of impending mate (50. ...Kg8 51. Rbg7+ Kf8 52. h6 and 53. Rh8#)
- Svidler Vs Sargissian - Final Position After 50. Rh7
Photos and Game PGNs Available at the Official Site. Original article on the World Team Chess Championship available on William's website.
World Chess Team Championship: Round 2
Artwork by Mike Magnan
Analysis By Chess Coach William Stewart
US Team Has Fighting 2-2 Draw with Armenia
Gata Kamsky pulled off an accurate 80 move grind to beat the #3 rated player in the world Levon Aronian. As white, Kamsky played the Ruy Lopez and achieved lasting pressure against the black king. Aronian sacrificed an exchange with 35. Rxf5 to complicate the position, however Kamsky pragmatically returned the exchange a few moves later with 38. Rxf3!? and 39. Rg3 - forcing a queen and pawns endgame with an extra pawn for white. After patient maneuvering to consolidate his position, Kamsky proceeded to march his king and pawns down the board to force Aronian’s resignation.
- Kamsky Grinds Aronian w/ 80. Ka5
- Azerbaijain Beats India 3-1
Radjabov played creatively to achieve a decisive attack against Ganguly, started with a creative rook lift by 22. Ra3. Radjabov maneuvered patiently to gain space and deprive the black pieces of worthwhile squares. Harikrishna played too slowly and did not try hard enough to achieve sufficient activity. As a result, Radjabov was able to initiate a series of 8 consecutive forcing moves (starting with 31. f6!) to open up black's king position and end the game with a decisive attack. This game is a great example of how to convert a space advantage into a winning attack.
- Radjabov Pummels Harikrishna with 38. Qh8+
- Opening Preparation Pays Off
Shakhriyar Mamedyarov scored a quick 27-move victory over Ganguly from the white side of a Classical Nimzo-Indian. Shak played the opening extremely aggressively, and by the quickness of his play it seems it had been analyzed thoroughly in home preparation. He sacrificed a pawn with 19. Bg5!? to redirect his minor pieces to attack black's king and gain tempi for regrouping his rooks due to the exposed position of black's queen. Ganguly missed Shak's tactical ideas and blundered an exchange in his over-eager efforts to trade queens with 23. Qe2? Mamedyarov attentively played 25. Be7! - leading to a decisive win of material (if black responds with 25. ...Rfe8 then 26. Nf6+! gxf6 27. Rg4+ Kh8 28. Bxf6#) A very clean win by Mamedyarov, undoubtedly due to thorough preparation by the Azerbaijani team.
- Mamedyarov Uncorks 25. Be7! to Beat Ganguly
- Full Game PGNs are Available at the Official Site. Original article on the World Chess Team Championship available here.
Aronian to rest in round 4
Armenia to compete without Aronian in World Team Chess Championship 4th round
July 20, 2011 - 11:17 AMT
PanARMENIAN.Net - On July 20, Armenian men’s national chess team will hold the fourth round of World Team Chess Championship in Ningbo, China rivaling Egypt team.
The Armenian team coach Arshak Petrosian gave No1 Levon Aronyan opportunity to have rest. On the first board he will be displaced by Sergey Movsesian to rival Ahmed Adli.
Vladimir Akopian will compete with Bassem Amin and Gabriel Sargisian with Samy Shoker. A 19-year old Robert Hovhannisian who is Armenia’s champion of 2011 will first time participate in the World Team Chess Championship and will play versus Mohamed Ezat.
Russia-Azerbaijan, Ukraine-Hungary, Israel-India and US-China pairs will compete in the fourth round.
After three rounds, Armenian team has 7,5 points to its total score and ranks the second. Russia is leading the Championship.
Source: http://www.panarmenian.net
Friday, July 15, 2011
Armenia ranked sixth in World Team Chess Championship
Armenia ranked sixth in World Team Chess Championship
July 15, 2011 | 15:11
YEREVAN. – Chinese Ningbo city will host opening ceremony of World Team Chess Championship 2011 on Saturday. The first round will take place on Sunday. The strongest ten teams of the world participate in the championship: Chine, as an organizer country, Russia, Ukraine and Israel, continental champions Azerbaijan, India, U.S., Egypt and Armenia that received the invitation from FIDE president.
Armenia with 2678 points rates the sixth after Russia, Azerbaijan, Ukraine, China, Hungary.
Levon Aronian, Sergey Movsesian, Vladimir Akopian, Gabriel Sargssian, and Robert, Hovhannisyan will represent Armenia.
Source: http://news.am
Tuesday, July 12, 2011
Armenia heads to Ningbo
Armenian national chess team leaves for China
The Armenian National Chess team of men (Levon Aronian, Sergey Movsisian, Vladimir Akopian, Gabriel Sargsian, Robert Hovhannisian and coach Arshak Petrosian) left for China by Yerevan-Moscow-Beijing-Ningbo to participate in the World’s 8th Team Championship, the official site of the Armenian Chess Federation reports.
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Thursday, July 7, 2011
Getting an invitation to LCC
Armenian GM invited to London tournament
July 07, 2011 | 12:52
Armenian GM Levon Aronian will join Magnus Carlsen, Vishy Anand and Vladimir Kramnik at the 3rd London Chess Classic.
The tournament scheduled for December 3-12 will bring together five of the world’s top six players.
UK will be represented by Michael Adams, David Howell and former world title challenger Nigel Short.
One of the players will sit out each day to comment the matches for spectators and online, chess-news reports.
Source: http://news.am
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