Carles vs. Movsesian - what a game!

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soypolaco

Are you watching it live? It's really an exciting game, at least in my view. I think that Movsesian made a mistake in the opening (Bg4 isn't the best move...) and Carlens immediatly took advantage of it. I highly recommend this game. Esp. watching it live.

gabrielconroy

Thanks for the heads-up - I'm watching that and the Ivanchuk game at the moment. Carlsen has a definite advantage, and so does Ivanchuk (I think), but he's getting himself into very bad time trouble again. After 19 moves, he has 17 minutes left, while Radjabov has 54.


Everyone can see the games here:

http://www.coruschess.com/openlive.php

gabrielconroy

Ivanchuk has a very strong position against Radjabov, but now has three minutes to make 12 moves, and seems to be stalling on move 28. Not looking good, unless he's lining up a long combination...

gabrielconroy

Jeez this must be tense - the timer is showing Ivanchuk as having 0 minutes left, but he's rattling off moves pretty much instantly. Five more moves to make it to the time control...

gabrielconroy

Ah, Ivanchuk has lost. Bizarrely, he seemed to make it to the time control, then lose a queen for a rook, and was about to lose another rook and his passed pawn, then it went back to move 38 and showed 0-1 as the score. Maybe he lost on time there, and they were analysing the variation on a board directly connected to the applet.

Dutchie22

I liked the game between my fellow Dutchies, Van Wely and Smeets. Also Stellwagen pulled off a hard fought draw against Aronian. Not doing too bad :)

If anyone doesn't know yet, http://www.coruschess.com is the official site and for the live games there's http://www.coruschess.com/openlive.php


Ivanchuk by the way seemed to have the upper hand, but if you look back at the game Radjabov never got into trouble in the first place.

gabrielconroy

Well, the advantage definitely hadn't been converted yet, but I much preferred Ivanchuk's position. It looked like the c7 pawn was going to come under a lot of pressure, as well as a possible Rh3 combined with the discovered pressure from the white-squared bishop on h7.