22.07.2011 – After four rounds of the International Chess Festival in Biel, the only question is who will be second. With 3.5/4 and a 3000+ performance, the first place is all but wrapped up. In a way, much like Kasparov in his heyday, Carlsen’s biggest challenge is himself, and one imagines that his next self-challenging goal would be Kasparov’s record 2851 Elo. Express report.
  The 2011 Biel Chess Festival is taking place from July 16 to 29, in a number of groups: the Master Tournament (eleven rounds Swiss); the Main Tournament (nine rounds Swiss); a Rapid and a Blitz tournament; Chess960; Youth, Simultaneous, Chess Tennis, ChessBase training seminars. Of greatest interest is of course the Accentus Grandmaster Tournament with six very strong grandmasters playing a double round robin: Magnus Carlsen, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, Alexei Shirov, Fabiano Caruana, Alexander Morozevich and Yannick Pelletier.  The participants: Caruana, Pelletier, Shirov, Carlsen, Morozevich, Vachier-Lagrave The rate of play: 2 hours for 40 moves, then one hour for 20 and 15 min for the rest of the game, with 30 sec increment per move. The scoring system is three points for a win, one for a draw and zero for a loss. No draw offers are permitted before move 30. Shirov and Vachier-Lagrave started out with a Keres Attack with an early 6.h3 before the classic g4 thrust, following theory for thirteen moves. Play was balanced, though not squeezed dry, however they preferred to not push the issue and repeated the position on move 21.  Shirov, Alexei2714–Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime2722½–½B90Biel ACCENTUS GM422.07.2011 1.e4 c5 2.f3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.xd4 f6 5.c3 a6 6.h3 e6 7.g4 d5 8.exd5 xd5 9.de2 b4 10.g2 0-0 11.0-0 xc3 12.xc3 c7 13.e4 c6 14.c3 e7 15.f4 f5 16.gxf5 xf5 17.e3 d7 18.d3 d8 19.b4 e8 20.c4 f7 21.g3 f6 22.e4 f5 23.g3 f6 24.e4 ½–½Morozevich chose an offbeat 7.g3 in reply to Pelletier’s French Rubinstein, however neither player was able to create any play away from the central d-file, which led to heavy exchanges and a draw.  Morozevich, Alexander2694–Pelletier, Yannick2590½–½C10Biel ACCENTUS GM422.07.2011 1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.c3 dxe4 4.xe4 d7 5.f3 gf6 6.xf6+ xf6 7.g3 b6 8.b5+ d7 9.a4 a6 10.e2 c6 11.0-0 d6 12.e5 xe5 13.dxe5 d5 14.xd5 xd5 15.a5 b5 16.d2 0-0-0 17.fd1 d7 18.f3 hd8 19.f2 e7 20.g5 xd1 21.xd1 xd1 22.xd1 g6 23.f4 h6 24.h4 xh4 25.gxh4 f5 26.e3 e8 27.d4 c6 28.c5 c7 29.f3 h5 30.c4 g6 31.b4 ½–½Carlsen played a great game against Caruana, and while it would be easy to just label it as a great ‘positional’ game, but it was a game that would have made Lasker or Korchnoi proud. The reason is that it was far more a psychological victory than pure chess. The Norwegian played his former mentor’s favorite Scotch, though truth be told, he had achieved little to nothing after nineteen moves other than a better pawn structure. He then opted for an inspired exchange sacrifice with 19.Nd4!?, which left the position balanced, but seriously changed the character of the battle. It was as much a positional choice as a psychological one in which his comfort zone was far greater than the Italian’s. One could argue that prior to Fabiano’s blunder 25…Re6?, no one had any big edge, but it is very likely that the circumstances played a big role in provoking the blunder in the first place.  Carlsen, Magnus2821–Caruana, Fabiano27111–0C45Biel ACCENTUS GM422.07.2011 1.e4 e5 2.f3 c6 3.d4 exd4 4.xd4 c5 5.xc6 bxc6 6.d3 h4 7.e2 e7 8.c3 0-0 9.e3 b6 10.0-0 d5 11.exd5 xd5 12.d2 d4 13.ae1 b4 14.e4 xe4 15.xe4 a6 16.e2 c5 17.a3 d5 18.b4 d6 19.d4 xf1 20.xf1 b6 21.xc6 fe8 22.a4 f8 23.a5 c4 24.c1 a6 Standings
Live GM commentary on PlaychessThere is live audio and video commentary on the chess server Playchess. The English commentary starts at 3:30 p.m., and German commentary directly from the playing site begins at 4:00 p.m. In addition Daniel King is doing round-up shows at 8:00 p.m. on the days he is commenting. GM Daniel King commenting on the games in round one Commentary schedule
Overview: schedule and results
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Monday, July 25, 2011
Biel Rd.4: Carlsen wins again, 3015 performance
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