{"id":33,"date":"2012-05-22T01:27:52","date_gmt":"2012-05-22T01:27:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/doubleroo.com.au\/blog\/?p=33"},"modified":"2012-07-09T10:59:50","modified_gmt":"2012-07-09T00:59:50","slug":"gelfand-breaks-through","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.doubleroo.com.au\/blog\/2012\/05\/gelfand-breaks-through\/","title":{"rendered":"Gelfand breaks through"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\nWorld Chess Championship<\/strong><\/div>\n

Finally a decisive result. The game itself was not the most exciting I’ve ever seen, in fact I fell asleep watching it live. Peter Leko’s commentary was partly responsible \ud83d\ude42 Karpov made an appearance and showed why he dominated Chess for over a decade. He was my childhood hero<\/p>\n

On the\u00a0official site<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0you can watch the games live with special guest appearances like Kasparov and Karpov. Doesn’t get much better.\u00a0Chessvibes<\/a>\u00a0is my daily first-coffee site and again they have great reports. Youtube has a good video of\u00a0game 7<\/a>\u00a0commentated by someone who sounds like Michael Caine\u00a0\u00a0(IM Andrew Martin) and for analysis and some interesting gossip go to\u00a0Susan Polgar’s website<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I predict the next few games will be a lot more exciting as Vishy now has to go all out to win a game, otherwise the title he has had since 2007 will be gone. Will the real Vishy please step forward!<\/p>\n

More Schwaiger<\/strong><\/div>\n

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Two more Schwaiger (aka Wohl) games for you. I am less impressed with this effort against Phil Brown, one of the great NSW players of the period. The opening I will explain in my next post. 29…Qh3 is a move that I would never play these days. Decentralising to be near the white King without any supporting pieces. The misplaced\u00a0aggression of youth.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n