Action movies from Mainz

Everything has been cleaned up already in the Congres Center in Mainz but not yet here at ChessVibes. There are still some videos left from the rapid tournaments. I have shot some timescrambles of well-known grandmasters, and so it looks like you're standing next to the boards of gentlemen such as Grischuk, Karjakin or Mamedyarov. Similar in all these action movies: endgame technique. The big guys usually seem to beat the slightly smaller guys with accurately played little endgames. Instructive!

This is Grischuk-Czebe, FiNex Open (04) 2007. Or: how do you win a not so easy bishop ending.

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In this game, Sargissian-Volokitin, something strange happens: at some point the clock goes on strike. Sargissian walks away while Volokitin keeps on concentrating.

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Here a nice ending by Pavel Tregubov, beating Mamedyarov on just one tempo.

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Here's Karjakin with an exchange up against Sargissian and finishing it nicely.

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