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Roberto Lavieri wrote on Fri, Oct 14, 2005 02:32 PM UTC:
G.M. Vesselin Topalov is the new FIDE-Chess World Champion

Roberto Lavieri wrote on Mon, Oct 10, 2005 12:31 AM UTC:
Moro-Topa draw. Kasim won against Polgar. The rest draw.

Roberto Lavieri wrote on Sat, Oct 8, 2005 11:13 PM UTC:
Anand-Topalov draw, same result Adams-Polgar and Kasim-Svidler (interesting
game). MORO WON AGAIN, this time against LEKO. Moro has three victories in
his last three turns, and he is now third tied with Anand, and Svidler is
second. Topalov continues in route to the tittle, without great opposition
to the present. Almost impossible to stop him now.

Christine Bagley-Jones wrote on Fri, Oct 7, 2005 12:18 AM UTC:
moro wins again, 2 wins in a row, against anand and kasim, not bad going

Roberto Lavieri wrote on Thu, Oct 6, 2005 12:29 PM UTC:
Topalov 6.5/7... (!). No words.
The only game in which he made a draw, was against Anand, but Topalov
could win this game in four opportunities in the end, so his score could
be 7/7

Roberto Lavieri wrote on Tue, Oct 4, 2005 11:34 PM UTC:
Incredible: Topalov won again, with Black pieces against Polgar.
Anand-Svidler drawn. Now Topalov has 5.5/6, and he is two full points
ahead. Amazing performance, his contendors are the best players on the
world. His performance in this Tournament is equivalent to ELO > 3140!.

Roberto Lavieri wrote on Mon, Oct 3, 2005 11:39 PM UTC:
Anand-Leko was a draw, as the other two games. Now Topalov is ahead with
1.5 points of advantage, playing agressively and risky, but with high
precision. Pression has its effects, Svidler have had a theoretical even
position, but he played weakly close to move 37-38. Anand could win, but
it was not easy and Leko defended well. I think Topo is going to be the
Champion, 1.5 points is too much because he has played mostly with black
pieces and in the first stage he has played against the most hard players
on the paper.

Roberto Lavieri wrote on Mon, Oct 3, 2005 10:02 PM UTC:
Topalov won again. 4.5/5 against the world elite means a performance of
3109 ELO

Roberto Lavieri wrote on Mon, Oct 3, 2005 07:23 PM UTC:
NOW: Topalov-Svidler: After 22 moves, Topalov has two Rooks, Knight and 6
Pawns against Svidler´s Rook, Knight, pair of Bishops and four Pawns. I
think Topalov can win again, although there are many moves to play yet. If
Topa succeeds, it will be an incredible performance: 4 wins, one draw
against the world elite. It is like a >3000 ELO player

Roberto Lavieri wrote on Sat, Oct 1, 2005 11:36 PM UTC:
Svidler won his game against Moro (nice end of game), and Svidler is now
second with 3.0/4... Topalov is ahead with 3.5/4 (amazing performance!)
and Anand is third with 2.5/4...

Roberto Lavieri wrote on Sat, Oct 1, 2005 10:53 PM UTC:
You can see the end of the game Moro-Svidler for free here:
http://web.t-online.hu/passant/sakkvb/d/sakkvb.htm

Roberto Lavieri wrote on Sat, Oct 1, 2005 10:44 PM UTC:
Anand lose: This can happen when a player is playing over-confident. After
an initial good attack, Anand was apparently affected in his concentration
by a Kasim unexpected defensive move, commiting two consecutive errors and
finally a brutal blunder after which he was soon in a mate-in-two
position. Topalov qon convincingly. Moro and Svidler are in a difficult
end with A Rook and Queen per band, plus three or four Pawns.

Roberto Lavieri wrote on Sat, Oct 1, 2005 10:10 PM UTC:
Topalov won. He is going to be solitaire leader with tow-points advantage

Roberto Lavieri wrote on Sat, Oct 1, 2005 09:56 PM UTC:
Anand beated himself. After two weak moves and finally an incredible
blunder, he rapidly saw how Kasim constructed a mate-in-two position.
Topalov is suffering in a complex position in which Adams has chances and
the initiative for now. To be honest, Baku´s monster has not good
succesors. Neither Topa nor Anand or the others can be compared with
Kasparov. It is my modest opinion.

Roberto Lavieri wrote on Sat, Oct 1, 2005 09:45 PM UTC:
Leko, Peter - Polgar, Judit 1-0 25 moves Sicilian Paulsen 
Kasimdzhanov, Rustam - Anand, Viswanathan 1-0 38 moves Sicilian Najdorf
Variation...

Roberto Lavieri wrote on Sat, Oct 1, 2005 12:31 AM UTC:
Topalov won. It is very possible that predictions are correct, the next
world FIDE-Chess champion is going to be one of these: Topalov or Anand.

Roberto Lavieri wrote on Sat, Oct 1, 2005 12:05 AM UTC:
Anand vs. Adams, 1-0, Polgar beated Kasim, Svidler beated Leko (!). Moro
and Topa still playing, another marathon for the bulgarian. No pronostics
yet

Roberto Lavieri wrote on Fri, Sep 30, 2005 11:47 PM UTC:
Anand won against Adams, a game in which Anand sacrificed an incredible
amount of pieces. Amazing, to see. Moro and Topalov are on move 57 now, a
game in which I have not idea what is really happening, Moro´s style, but
the contendor is not other but Topa. All can happen in this extremely
interesting game.

Roberto Lavieri wrote on Fri, Sep 30, 2005 12:45 PM UTC:
All games drawn. According to Chessmaster, Moro could win in some moment
before the end, Adams could win in some moment before the end, Anand was
in an absolute winner position in some moments on 40´s-50´s, and Topalov
could easely win in four positions after 50´s. Lots of 'relatively
mortal' blunders in this game, also according to Chessmaster, it should
be normal if the players would be others like me, but it is incredible
being Topa and Vishy the top ranked players in the world. I am not
satisfied after spending my afternoon seeing this game. At least, I have
not had to pay for see it.

Roberto Lavieri wrote on Fri, Sep 30, 2005 01:04 AM UTC:
Anand 0.5-Topalov 0.5 , finally.

Roberto Lavieri wrote on Fri, Sep 30, 2005 01:02 AM UTC:
Move 98. It seems a draw, regardless the two Pawns and Queen vs. Queen in
favour of Topalov. This game can be a candidate for the new immortal
blunders game of highest level

Roberto Lavieri wrote on Thu, Sep 29, 2005 11:59 PM UTC:
Move 62. Bishops exchanged, Queens final. Topalov three Pawns, Anand one,
but in 7th. I don´t know what can happen now. I´m unable to make a
pronostic, perhaps Fritz of Chessmaster can guess the result.

Roberto Lavieri wrote on Thu, Sep 29, 2005 11:49 PM UTC:
Move 60, Topalov is in better position after many scaramouches, but the
game is not decided yet, difficult end

Roberto Lavieri wrote on Thu, Sep 29, 2005 10:37 PM UTC:
You can see the end of Topalov-Anand live at Chessgames, and the other
games at FICS if you are registered. Anand can win the end, but it is not
easy

Roberto Lavieri wrote on Thu, Sep 29, 2005 07:37 PM UTC:
Topalov-Anand in a titanic fight. Now they are on move 28, Anand has
quality advantage (Queen-Rook-Bishop against Queen and two bishops for
Topalov), but a Topalov advanced (6th.) and well defended Pawn means,
apparently, compensation enough, although Anand is a phenomenon defending
positions, so don´t surprise he can defend and, finally, can win the game
thanks the material slight advantage.

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