by scribe | Jul 29, 2010 | Crestbook, people, tournaments, translations
Please check out my translation of the third and final part of the Alexander Khalifman interview on Crestbook! If you missed the first two parts, you can also find them here and here. Khalifman was the winner of the 1999 FIDE World Championship knockout tournament in...
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...
by scribe | Jul 18, 2010 | Crestbook, current news, games, tournaments, translations
We move on now to round four of the Dortmund super-GM tournament, and once again I will translate GM Sergey Shipov’s commentaries for you. In yesterday’s blog post I forgot to give the obligatory link to Crestbook, where his original commentaries (in...
by scribe | Jul 17, 2010 | Crestbook, current news, games, tournaments, translations
As I announced in yesterday’s blog post, I will be translating grandmaster Sergey Shipov’s commentaries on the Dortmund tournament for rounds 3, 4, 7, 8, and 10. The translations of the other rounds (1, 2, 5, 6, and 9) can be found at...
