by scribe | Aug 8, 2010 | current news, endings, games, openings, positions, tournaments
The penultimate round of the 2010 US Open was a very strange one for me. The last two rounds are being played on a one-a-day schedule, so I had to wait around all day (until 7:30 pm) to play my game. And then it took all of 14 minutes to play! My opponent blundered a...
by scribe | Aug 6, 2010 | games, positions, ruminations, tournaments
So I was thinking that I really didn’t want to write this blog entry. Nobody wants to read my moaning and groaning about how badly I’m playing, right? Losing is boring. People only care about the winners.But then it occurred to me that people who really...
by scribe | Aug 4, 2010 | current news, endings, games, positions, tournaments
It’s still too early to say much about how the tournament is going — one one round finished out of nine! But Cailen, Thadeus and I were all disappointed in different ways by our first games. I was paired against a class B player named Ken Ivens. Once again...
by scribe | Jul 25, 2010 | Crestbook, current news, games, tournaments, translations
As the final day of the Dortmund tournament dawned, there was still an outside chance at a three-way tie for first. Ruslan Ponomariov was leading with a score of 6-3, while Le Quang Liem was tied with Shakhriyar Mamedyarov at 5-4. Le was paired against Ponomariov,...
by scribe | Jul 23, 2010 | Crestbook, current news, games, tournaments, translations
Who would have thought, before this tournament, or any tournament, that it would be possible to describe Vladimir Kramnik and Peter Leko with such a word? But it’s true: in Dortmund 2010 they are both far out of contention. Barring an unforeseen debacle, it...
by scribe | Jul 22, 2010 | Crestbook, current news, games, tournaments, translations
Welcome back for my translation of GM Sergey Shipov’s commentary on round seven of the Dortmund tournament! Going into this round the standings at the top read Ponomariov – 4; Liem – 3½; Kramnik and Mamedyarov – 3. Shipov is commenting today...
