Archive for November 7th, 2009

Fernandez – Stoyko, GSCL 2009
Black to play.

I have annotated the game Jose Fernandez – Steve Stoyko, Garden State Chess League 2009 (you can also download the PGN) played Tuesday in the match between West Orange and the Kenilworth Karpovs. Kenilworth won 2.5-1.5 to keep their perfect record at 2-0. See Kenilworth Karpovs Squeeze Orange by Ian Mangion at the Kenilworth Kibitzer blog for details. The Karpovs’ first round match against the Kenilworth Korchnois is analyzed by John Moldovan at the Garden State Chess League Blog.

At last: after ten drawn games in the first two rounds the public suddenly had three decisive games on the third day. Vishy Anand piled the pressure on Peter Svidler in an Exchange Grünfeld until the latter cracked; Levon Aronian outplayed Peter Leko in a Semi-Slav; and Vladimir Kramnik played another splendid game, defeating Alexander Morozevich with the black pieces. Round three report.

"There can’t be many chess players who have not heard of Fritz,"
writes Sean Marsh on his chess blog. "This latest version looks like being
THE must-have chess item of 2009." He examines the new "hotness"
display and the "Mate-o-meter" and concludes that Karpov would have
done better in a certain line against the Catalan if he had used Fritz. Order
it now or read
Sean’s review.