Archive for April 18th, 2009

I have tweeked the notes  to my Garden State League games & posted the full score of last week’s Agress-Bliznikas. See posts #472 & 479 for the replay & PGN links.

Just before the time control Peter Svidler sacrificed an exchange and messed up his position. He defended tenaciously, but his opponent Gata Kamsky ground him down in 74 moves. All other games were drawn, Alexander Grischuk leads the event with 3.0/4 points. Full report with pictures and commentary – and excerpts from an interesting interview with Boris Spassky.

Levon Aronian vs Alexander Grischuk; Gata Kamsky vs Vassily Ivanchuk; Boris
Gelfand vs Etienne Bacrot: Peter Leko vs Sergey Karjakin; these are four of the seven games
you may want to watch on the Playchess server, with
live discussions, or on our new broadcast client.