Can anything stop this man? A fifth consecutive win, with the black pieces against Loek van Wely, put Alexei Shirov a point and a half ahead of the field. Vladimir Kramnik scored his first victory in this tournament, while World Champion Vishy Anand is stuck at 50%. In Group B 15-year-old GM Anish Giri leads, as does 15-year-old GM Ray Robson in Group C.
Big report with pictures by Fred Lucas.
Many books have been written about the American chess genius and world champion Bobby Fischer. But now there is a remarkable new one, by German GM Karsten Müller, whom you will know from his articles and multimedia lectures in ChessBase Magazine. This book contains almost 1000 Fischer games, all of them annotated by GM Müller – a monumental task. Interview with the author.
When Magnus Carlsen lost a pawn against Loek van Wely on his
10th move in well-known way, many might wondered whether he had
not fallen into a familiar opening trap. After all, on the CD-ROM “1000 Opening
Traps” the pawn loss was branded a mistake, and so far statistics clearly
seemed to confirm this. Yet reportedly the Norwegian had followed a
recommendation of Garry Kasparov, and it soon turned out that Black gets quite a
lot for the pawn.
Buy
“1000 Opening Traps” in shop anyway
Replay Van Wely – Carlsen
with annotations