Archive for April 16th, 2009

Peter Svidler profited from an over-optimistic combination that didn’t work, unleashed by Vassily Ivanchuk. Levon Aronian nursed a small advantage into a promising knight endgame in which he won in 94 moves (”a perfect endgame, a textbook example of converting the advantage” – Shipov). It was Aronian’s second win in two rounds. All other games were drawn. Pictures and GM commentary.

Once again we are testing our Flash broadcast client with the games from round
two. You can watch all seven games, on boards which are refreshed every 30 sec.
Naturally you can follow the games and discuss them with thousands of other
spectators on our Playchess server. But
if you are stuck in an office without your Playchess software you may be glad
for our new broadcast client.

For the third time we bring you a “final report” on the Russian Team Championship and Leagues in Dagomys-Sochi, southern Russian. It features pictures taken mainly after the end of the event – prize giving and medal distribution, the closing party. There are a number of faces you probably have not seen before. Here’s a megabyte and a half of pictures by Irina Sudakova and Elena Mikheeva.