Is Tiviakov's Scandinavian refuted?
With a score of 6 / 9, Hungarian GM Zoltan Almasi has won the 50e Torneo Capodanno in Reggio Emilia. Second was Vugar Gashimov of Azerbaijan, who won the brilliancy prize for his win against Tiviakov. (Good to see that some tournamenst still give brilliancy prizes.) We're going to look at this game in detail - a must for 1.e4 mainline players![TABLE=94]Here the best game of the tournament:>> replay this game in a separate window
The prize winning game
Post-game explanation by the players was common in Reggio too. Here Navara.
Marin and Godena
Korchnoi and Tiviakov analysing
The winner!
Everyone smile - the players and the organizers
What do you do as the Reggio winner? You give a thirty-board simul, as was agreed beforehand...
...but THIS we had not agreed! (After a big applause and lots of smiles, the five GMs gave their places to five amateurs.)Links:
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