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Roberto Lavieri wrote on Tue, Sep 27, 2005 12:49 PM UTC:
The World Chess Championship in going to begin. Anand, Leko and Topalov are
the favorites, of course. Possible surprise?: What about Morozevich?.

Christine Bagley-Jones wrote on Tue, Sep 27, 2005 01:00 PM UTC:
Moro is the best!!! :))

Roberto Lavieri wrote on Tue, Sep 27, 2005 03:32 PM UTC:
Once I have seen a few games played by Morozevich, by curiosity.
Impressive, his game play is very unorthodox and creative, but usually
very risky. Once in a while his results are a little irregular or even
poor due his tendence to take high risks, other times he has
extraordinarily good performances, like a champion. If he is coming to San
Luis in great form, he is capable to win the tittle, he can beat the
players in the Tournament (he has did in the past at least once against
the majority of them), but can also lose games, it depends on the others
and on his temporary effusivity and audacity, because he is playing
against the best players, and boldness can give him good or bad results,
this is the elite, all of them are extremely strong players. Final results
can show surprises, I think we are going to see unexpected results, and
Morozevich can be a main actor in this Tournament, his style is enterely
different from the rest.

Roberto Lavieri wrote on Wed, Sep 28, 2005 11:14 PM UTC:
To this precise moment:
Anad beated Polgar, Topalov-Leko: draw, Svidler-Adams: draw,
Morozevich-Kazimdzhanov: On play

Roberto Lavieri wrote on Wed, Sep 28, 2005 11:40 PM UTC:
CORRECTION: Leko blundered in the end!. Topalov won!. Kazimdzhanov seems a
bit better than Moro, Anand beated Polgar with black, Svidler-Adams drawn

Christine Bagley-Jones wrote on Thu, Sep 29, 2005 01:53 AM UTC:
moro kasim is offically drawn now (go moro)

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.

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

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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 10:53 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 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 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 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 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.

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