by scribe | May 17, 2012 | 2012 world championship, Crestbook, current news, games, positions, translations
Here is my translation of GM Sergey Shipov’s commentary on game 5 of the Anand-Gelfand match. For the original Russian, go to www.crestbook.com. I have added a few remarks to clarify the translation, which are identified [like this. — DM] Once again,...
by scribe | Feb 6, 2012 | endings, games, openings, people, positions
I’m going to have a couple posts this week about interesting endgame positions I’ve run into recently. One of them is from a blitz (8-minute) game I played last night against Gjon Feinstein, and the other is from a tournament game between two 1400-level...
by scribe | May 31, 2011 | current news, games, people, tournaments
The last day of the CalChess State Championship was kind of strange for me (I’ll get to that below), but it went about as expected for Sam Shankland. The tournament’s only Grandmaster surged at the finish, winning his last two games to go 5-1 and win the...
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...
