In between rounds... a nice fragment
To publish something on ChessVibes while playing a tournament might be a bit too much, but I don't care. Today I was sitting in the public libray of the Centre Pompidou, comfortably with laptop and wifi, going through this week's chess news, when I jumped into the beautiful fragment from the rapid game Gelfand-Shirov. You might have seen it already somewhere else, but in my opinion we cannot ignore it over here.The game was played in the rapid tournament in Odessa I announced earlier. It was won by Ivanchuk, truly the man in top shape at the moment. Final standings:1. Ivanchuk UKR 2729 7.0 2. Grischuk RUS 2717 6.5 3. Radjabov AZE 2747 5.5 4. Shirov ESP 2699 5.5 5. Gelfand ISR 2733 5.0 6. Drozdovskij UKR 2558 4.0 7. Bacrot FRA 2709 3.5 8. Korchnoi SUI 2623 3.0 9. Smirin ISR 2650 2.5 10. Tukmakov UKR 2551 2.5
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