Desde el País Vasco...

Pues no pude actualizar desde Benidorm por la agenda loca que llevábamos allí, y yo ya estoy en Elgoibar donde permaneceré hasta el próximo martes, con Nino Batsiashvili, la georgiana, quien partirá para Georgia, mientras yo tendré un día para descansar y cambiar de maleta e iniciar otro viaje, esta vez a Holanda.

No puedo subir fotos no sé por qué, no me deja, pero en cuanto pueda colgaré alguna que tengo varias y muy chulas

Un besote y hasta otro día!!

Magistral Ciudad de Barcelona - Casino de Barcelona 2012

Torneo Magistral Ciudad de Barcelona - Casino de Barcelona 2012

El martes, 23 de Octubre a las 16:00 comenzará el Magistral Casino de Barcelona 2012, que este año será organizado por la Federación Catalana de Ajedrez y cuenta con el patrocinio del Casino de Barcelona (Grupo Peralada), el Ayuntamiento de Barcelona y la Generalitat de Catalunya.

El torneo, incluido en el ACP Tour, se disputará en el Casino de Barcelona hasta el 31 de Octubre de 2012, por el sistema de liga a una vuelta. Las rondas comenzarán a las 16:30. El ritmo de juego es de 90 minutos más 30 segundos de incremento para las primeras 40 jugadas, más 30 minutos y 30 segundos de incremento para cada jugada hasta el final de la partida. No estará permitido proponer tablas antes del primer control de tiempo. El margen para llegar a la ronda será de 20 minutos. En caso contrario, el jugador perderá automáticamente la partida.

El torneo cuenta con la participación de los siguientes ajedrecistas:

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1	GM	Oms Pallisse Josep	2506	ESP
2	GM	Nielsen Peter Heine	2662	DEN
3	GM	Sokolov Ivan	2690	NED
4	IM	Fluvia Poyatos Joan	2490	ESP
5	GM	Quesada Perez Yuniesky	2604	CUB
6	IM	Alonso Rosell Alvar	2540	ESP
7	GM	Sjugirov Sanan	2624	RUS
8	GM	Aroshidze Levan	2560	GEO
9	GM	Nikolic Predrag	2638	BIH
10	GM	Muñoz Pantoja Miguel	2460	ESP

Que elevan su nivel hasta la categoría XIV.

Bases

Organizan:

Federación Catalana de Ajedrez (FCE) con el patrocinio de Casino de Barcelona,

Ayuntamiento de Barcelona

Generalitat de Catalunya

Sistema de juego:

Se disputará por el sistema de liga de todos contra todos a una vuelta.

Participantes:

10 jugadores. Categoría XIV.

Local de juego:

Gran Casino de Barcelona (Calle Marina, 19-21). Capacidad para unos 125 espectadores. Entrada libre

Días y horario de juego:

Ronda diaria del 23 al 31 de Octubre de 2012, a partir de las 16:30 horas.

Se les dará la partida por perdida a aquellos jugadores que lleguen con más de 20 minutos de retraso.

Ritmo de juego:

90 minutos + 30 segundos de incremento para las primeras 40 jugadas, más 30 minutos + 30 segundos de incremento por jugada. (90'/40 + 30) + 30'' incremento. No se permitirá efectuar proposiciones de tablas antes del primer control (jugada 40).Dirección del torneo:

El Director del torneo será el Sr. Jordi Parayre Soguero

Arbitraje:
Árbitro principal: Sr. Manel Navarro

Comité de Competición:

Sr. Jordi Parayre (Director del Torneo), Sr.Josep García Riera, Sra. Anna Matnadze(MI)

Encargada Relaciones Públicas: 

Sra. Anna Matnadze
Premios:

1er Clasificado: 1.500 euros + trofeo
2do Clasificado: 1.200 euros + trofeo
3er Clasificado: 900 euros + trofeo
4to Clasificado: 600 euros.
5to  Clasificado: 300 euros.Se aplicará la Ley del Impuesto española, según la cual la Organización retendrá un 25% de cada premio de los jugadores no residentes en España y un 15% de jugadores de Nacionalidad española y también de aquellos residentes en España.

Todos los participantes tendrán que comentar una de sus partidas disputada en este torneo, que se publicará en la próxima edición de la revista editada por la Federación Catalana de Ajedrez - “El Butlletí d’Escacs”.
Desempates:

Los premios no se repartirán entre los jugadores empatados. Los desempates se resolverán mediante:

1. Sonneborn-Berger
2. Más partidas jugadas con negras
3. Mayor número de victorias
4. Resultado individual

Varios:

La sala de juego estará equipada con pantallas grandes donde se podrá visionar las partidas.

El torneo podrá seguirse por internet mediante el portal de la Federación Catalana de Ajedrez http://www.escacs.cat/competicio/ciutat-barcelona/en-directe y via ICC.

Para más información sobre el torneo visite la página de la FCE: http://www.escacs.cat/competicio/ciutat-barcelona

Para lo no previsto en estas bases se aplicará la normativa de la FIDE.

Mi pregunta del día es:

Sabéis cuántas calorías gasta un ajedrecista profesional en una partida lenta (4 horas aprox.) en un torneo?

A No - Introduction - Necessary Interview. Full Attention Needed. (Part III)

INTERVIEW

for:

the Official Magazine of the Catalan Chess Federation "El Butlletí d'Escacs"

by:

Ana Matnadze

What does Yasser Seirawan think about World Championship cycle and matches?

I don’t like the FIDE cycle at all.  I think it is foolish, without sense, which is negative for sponsors, the public and for the players.

Let us start with the obvious, chess does not have a “Premiere League,” a “Grand Prix” or a “World Cup.”  We are without a ‘season’ which exists in most sports.  What we do have is a “World Chess Championship.”  In my view, this should be an annual event.  Full stop!  Once you think about this and reach the same conclusion questions start popping into mind, such as “how would an annual cycle work?”  As well as other questions.

So let us step back and think of how would we create an ‘annual cycle’ with the ‘tools’ that we have in hand today?

First we come to the obvious question, “What would the ‘final’ competition look like?”  Should we have a ‘traditional’ one-on-one match?  Or should the ‘final’ competition feature a tournament with a double round robin or quadruple round robin final?  If you stop and choose one or the other, there will be complaints from one set of fans who prefer one type (strongly) over the other.  Once that awareness seeps in, the answer is obvious, you have both.

Today, we have a ‘strange’ cycle to say the least.  Let us be generous, and say that today’s cycle is a “fixed” two year cycle where we have “continental championships” bringing “qualifiers” who compete in a 128 player Knockout event, the World Cup.  The top three players qualify for a Candidates Tournament, alongside three highest rated players (other than the existing World Champion), the runner-up to the previous Championship match and a nominee “wild-card” from the Candidate’s Tournament organizer.  From the Candidate’s tournament a “Challenger” emerges and then a match is played.  All of these events are staged in a two year cycle (or so).  It is what it is and these are the tools we have today.  I think the cycle is stupid.  Why?

First of all, let us think about the role of the World Champion.  Let us presume that the World Champion is the strongest, most interesting chess player in the world.  That the fans, the public, the media all love him/her and thrill to their every contest!  How exciting!  Well guess what, in this entire ‘two year’ cycle the World Champion does nothing!  He/she does not play.  Not in the National Championship, the Continentals, not in the Knockout, not in the Candidates.  The World Champion waits.  When a Challenger is ‘born’ at long last, the World Champion comes out of the cacoon to play a 12-game match.  Doesn’t that strike you as a silly system?  It certainly does me!

Imagine, if Barcelona won the Premiere League in Spain and was declared so good, they wouldn’t have to play in the League anymore.  No, the team would wait for a Challenger and Barcelona would play a ‘match’ against the Challenger.  That’s all.  The public would be confused.  It is with a similar ‘confusion’ as this example that I, a professional player, look at the world of chess.  We have a stupid system for determining the World Champion.  If it makes no sense to me, then how can I ‘sell the system’ to a sponsor?  For chess it gets even worse!

Let us look at the World Chess Championship and the elite world of chess today.  We all know and love Viswanathand Anand.  We couldn’t ask for a better chess ambassador.  Vishy is a prince and a deserved World Champion!  No questions.  But is he ‘head and shoulders’ above his colleagues and nearest rivals?  I don’t think that even Vishy would make such a claim.  Rather the contrary, that he does feel that he is an ‘elite’ player with a few, ‘very close rivals.’  Yet Vishy is separated out of this ‘elite’ group and put on a pedestal and removed from playing.

The world’s number one player, Magnus Carlsen, considers the system ‘unfair’ and withdrew from the cycle.  This is terrible for chess, for the public for sponsors.  This is important to understand: Magnus is right!  Vishy is but one player in an ‘elite circle’ of company that includes, Carlsen, Anand, Aronian, Kramnik, Topalov, it is simply wrong that by winning this or that event, the World Champion is put on a pedestal above all the rest!

Again, if I were ‘chess dictator’ I’d change the system dramatically. First, I would have an annual World Championship title event. I would keep the two year cycle as is, with the following changes, I would make the “Candidates Tournament”, a double round robin of the eight players, a World Championship tournament.  In this case, what I’d have in mind is that the World Championship plays in this event, alongside 7 other players.  Three from the Knockout (World Cup); three from the rating list; one organizer nominee.

(Eventually, I’d scrap the nominee and include the winner of the Grand Prix.)  All players would be encouraged to play in the World Cup.

Every other year there would be a 12 game World Championship match.  It would feature the world’s number one rated player and the world’s number two rated player.  Full stop.

Before we stop and complain, let us think about the above for a moment and elaborate things in greater detail.

First let us suppose the winner of the World Championship ‘tournament’ is neither the number one or number two player in the world by the rating list, that means the (tournament) World Champion would NOT play in the following World Championship Match next year.  The privileges of the World Champion don’t exist.  To win, defend, or keep the title the World Champion has to compete and perform!  If the World Champion ‘falls out of form’ and is surpassed by others, this is sport!  With an annual championship event, the player will have opportunity to ‘get back into shape’ and compete soon again.

So, every second year, there would be a 12-game match for the world championship, for say one million Euros, minimum, featuring number one and number two.  A fine pay day.  The entire public would understand: number one versus number two.  Simple.  In sport, if a player is unable to compete, due to physical injury, the player is scrapped and replaced.  Simple.  If number one or number two doesn’t want to compete, number three is invited and so on.  There must be a competition!

Some will complain that the above match is “too elite” or perhaps doesn’t feature the existing World Champion.  They are wrong.  Becoming one of the highest rated players in the world is the most democratic thing in chess!  Everyone, everyday, has opportunities to raise their rating.  Just go out and compete!  Win a high number of games – and you too may one day become the highest rated player in the world!  No one is stopping you.  Everyone has a chance to gain a high rating!

Next, I’d put in the rules, that a ‘high rated player’ could not ‘sit’ on their rating.  An ‘activity requirement’ of at least thirty games, played three months prior to the match is needed to be eligible to ‘accept’ an invitation to the match.  A player MUST be active.  Indeed, thirty games in a twelve month period can hardly be considered ‘onerous.’

Too, I’d require that any player, in either the Match or the Tournament for the World Title, is required to compete in their National Championship – only if the National Championship is a round robin – as well as for their nations Olympiad Team.  This is a quid pro quo agreement.  A player that is able to play in the Tournament and Match will be very well paid.  It is not too much of an ‘ask’ that such players support their National Championships and National Team.  This is a ‘give back’ to their own countrymen and colleagues!

So the way the World Championships would work is that one year, a double round robin of various top ranked players and qualifiers would play for the World Championship.  This would mean that every person would have two clear pathways of qualifying: Become one of the top three rated players in the world or win the Continentals and place in the top three of the World Cup and you are in.

This type of cycle is what the world of chess needs and what sponsors would support!  Knowing that there is a World Championship every year at stake is wonderful for chess.  The chess world wants to see a ‘showdown’ between the top two players; the world wants to see opportunities for their national champions to compete and to know who is the world’s best ‘tournament player’ as well as best in ‘match play.’

The system is fair to everyone.

In time, the process for the Tournament World Championship should be clarified and made more uniform, but if we go in this direction, chess will grow and more sponsors will be ‘discovered’ along the way.

 

There are emerging younger and younger chess geniuses every day. What do you think about this?

Marvelous!  The more the merrier!  And I totally agree, new talents are emerging from all over the world and they are better and stronger and younger than ever before.  Welcome! 

Which of these young players have the potential, in your opinion, to become a World Champion, if any?

Well, my goodness, all of them have the potential.  Smile.  Seriously, to mention just a few names without slighting in any way those not mentioned, Magnus Carlsen, simply will be WC one day; Sergey Karaiakin of Russia; Timor Radjabov Azberjian; Hikaru Nakamura USA; Le Quong, Vietnam; Anish Giri Holland; all of these names and many others stand out in my mind as likely WC’s.

 

About the time controls Mr. Seirawan thinks that…

I’m disgusted with the time controls!  My chief complaint is that they are not standardized.  To my mind, there are three ‘types’ of chess tournaments: Classical, Rapid and Blitz.  Honestly, I don’t care what the time controls for these three disciplines are, only that they should be the same for all tournaments! Today, a “Classical” tournament will have all kinds of different time controls.  It is terrible.  For a professional, they are constantly recalibrating themselves for all these controls which can be different from event to event in the extreme.  This too, has been a failure from the FIDE, official Federations and the Professional players.  In fact, it is just stupid.

If I were chess dictator I would say, “For the next two years we will play our three disciplines with these and only these ‘standard’ time controls.  Full stop.  At the end of two years, we will review the results.  If we discover that some ‘tweaking’ is necessary, we will change the standard and practice them for two years…”  And so forth and so on, eventually ‘settling’ on the three standards that we all like best, which works for all parties, including organizers.

I would start with a Classical time control of 90 minutes for 40 moves with a thirty second bonus for all moves made at move one.  For the second time control 30 minutes for 20 moves (with the thirty second bonus) for the third time control 15 minutes (with the thirty second bonus) for the rest of the game.  My reasoning for this time control is that a Classical game, will obviously be the longest of the three disciplines.  A player has physical needs, such as nutrition, drinks, visiting the restroom and so on.  The three distinct time controls, allow the player to ‘comfortably’ meet their physical needs.  It is simply intolerable to be sitting at the board, with a strong physical need to go to the restroom and being unable to do so because you are playing on ‘increment time’ only.

For Rapid Chess, I’d start with 20 minutes for all the moves of the whole game with a 10 second bonus for each move made.

For Blitz Chess, I’d start with three minutes for all the moves of the whole game with a 2 second bonus for each move made.

Again, at the end of a two year period, the results should be reviewed and tweaked if necessary.  If not tweaking is deemed necessary, the standards are kept for the next two years.

The whole point is that such a banal thing as time controls should be standardized around the world. 

Yasser Chatting with GM Spraggett 

What would be your advice to young people who are just starting to play chess and take it seriously?

Have fun.  Enjoy what you are doing.  Take your work seriously.  If you get too stressed, take a break.  If you apply yourself, you will get mentally tougher, much more disciplined, feel a greater sense of personal empowerment and learn to succeed in anything you want to do.  Believe in yourself. 

You have played so many interesting and legenday opponents that others only dream to meet. Which player impressed you the most both chesswise and in personality matters?

My goodness!  So many to mention.  Bent Larsen was my personal hero and I’m much indebted to Victor Kortchnoi just to mention two.  There at the board manners of Alexander Beliavsky, Jan Timman and Judith Polgar are simply exemplary.  In terms of writers, Mikhail Tal, John Nunn and Jeremy Silman are all superb.  There are so many others as well.  Chess is full of fascinating personalities and interesting people! 

Do you coach people? If so, who are your pupils if it is not a secret?

In general no.  I’ve trained with Victor Kortchnoi and Jan Timman.  I’ve done some work with Daniel Stellwagen and recently Ivo Timmermans.  Much of this work is on a friendly, although serious basis.  Perhaps in the future, I’ll ‘become’ a chess coach, but for now, it hasn’t happened.

 

What are your plans for the future, besides passing the 2700 hurdle?

I’d like to help the USA team at next year’s Olympiad.

A thousand thanks, Mr. Seirawan, for the indescriptibly interesting interview. I could not miss your numerous fans´chance to ask you a few questions as well. Got many, chose three. So, here they go…

The Bonus Questions from a fan:

GM Marc Narciso: “Mr. Seirawan, are the supposed hypnotic forces of Mihail Tal over his opponents a mere legend or did you also feel them?”

They are both!  More legend and yes I did feel them as well.  When I played against Karpov and Kasparov both, you could feel their ‘energy and determination’ to defeat you.  At times they would look in my direction, not necessarily to ‘disturb’ but at such moments, you understood they wanted to win! 

“What is your opinion about Viktor Korchnoi and chess longevity in general; how is it possible to play so well at 80? What would be your explanation of the phenomenon?”

Sadly, I have no answers.  Victor is just fantastic.  As by the way was Smyslov.  They just knew where the pieces had to go and put them there!  Perhaps Victor doesn’t have the same energy at the board as he did decades ago but anyone who plays against him today knows that he is burning with desire to win the game! 

“Taken the Golden opportunity that you are so familiar with these two great men, could you please make a comparison between Fischer and Kasparov, their weak and strong sides, the key of their successfully dominating in their times, respectively?”

Sad to say Bobby gave up the game when I started to play, so my ‘comparison’ of Fischer versus say Karpov or Kasparov wouldn’t be helpful.  I can say that Bobby had an extraordinary capacity for hard work and probably spent more time ‘honing’ his game than anyone previously had.  He was truly profesional in his choice of openings and so on.  People like to say “Bobby was the best chess player ever!”   Such words make them feel good or even knolwedgable.   I might ask them really?   In which time frame was Bobby the best player ever?  Think about it for a moment.

Before Bobby entered the cycle that culminated in his historic 1972 World Championship match victory, by his own agreement, in 1970, he allowed Bent Larsen to play board one ahead of him in the match versus the Soviets.  To repeat, in 1970, the great Bobby Fischer, himself, thought it correct that Larsen play ahead of him.

Before Bobby defeated Boris Spassky in their match, Bobby had never beaten Boris and in fact, had a bad score against his rival.  If we are generous, we could say that Bobby was the best player in 1971 and 1972 and then he quit.  Hmm.  That doesn’t sound like solid grounds to me to make the claim that he was the best ever.

Were Bobby impressed, truly amazing, was his incredible Candidate Match results as well as the final margin of victory in the 1972 match.  Bobby was always good against ‘the lower half of the field’ in round robin events.  He wasn’t always ‘dominating’ against the top half of the field at all.

Anatoly Karpov was a remarkable world champion.  It always seemed to me that victory came ‘to easy’ for Anatoly.  From 1975 – 1985, essentially Karpov won everything.  For Anatoly ‘gold’ was important and he accepted it with minimal effort.  He wasn’t trying for “Fischeresque” results, he was happy to simply win first prize.  And win he did!  People really don’t understand how good Anatoly truly was.  Just consider that while I believe that Garry Kasparov was the greatest player ever, in 1984 Anatoly was giving him a drubbing of 5-0 before the match was aborted.  Imagine, leading the greatest player ever 5-0 after thirty games.  Furthermore, imagine it was only a chess genius like Garry Kasparov that prevented Karpov from dominating for another decade!

My goodness!  Thanks and thanks again, Mr. Seirawan…

You´re welcome.

Ronda 3 + muchas fotos

CRÓNICA RONDA 3

Público nunca falta en el Magistral Casino Barcelona, y siempre hay alguna visita especial. Hoy, por ejemplo, ha pasado todo el día con nosotros Miguel Illescas, acompañado por su familia; y hasta ha participado en los análisis post – mortem que está abierto a todo el público que desee seguir en vivo y de forma presencial unos comentarios que realmente son un espectáculo y valen la pena. Así que, los que podéis pero aún no os habéis animado a venir, os invito a que lo hagáis, no os lo perdáis!

Y ese post – mortem tan animado, era de la partida Seirawan – Peralta, una partida realmente muy interesante. Peralta ha quedado peor ya en la apertura, y Yasser está en forma, y la verdad es que pocas veces se puede ver tanta facilidad en ganar una partida ganada. Aprovechando cada debilidad y exprimiéndolas al máximo, no ha dado ninguna casi ninguna opción de contrajuego, y es que, viendo esto, hasta parece fácil jugar al ajedrez!..

El resto de las partidas han acabado en tablas. Smirin – Oms a mí personalmente me ha parecido muy, muy interesante, sólo tenéis que ver qué bien que ha jugado Oms – dejando su rey en casa toda la partida, comiéndose todos los peones que se podía – y el blanco con columnas, y pareja de alfiles… pero quién dijo miedo?! Una partida muy instructiva para quienes tienen miedo a que les ataquen. Muchas veces los ataques y las amenazas son un simple espejismo.

Salgado tenía mucha ventaja contra Spraggett, además le había sorprendido en la apertura, lo que le había obligado a consumir mucho tiempo a Kevin y ya nos imaginábamos que vendrían apuros brutales, pero a Iván le ha faltado precisión de nuevo, y le ha puesto fáciles las cosas para igualar. En un momento no ha aprovechado una buena oportunidad de ganar un peón, pensando que la única línea que había era entrando en una continuación con alfiles de distinto color; en realidad había otra – con alfiles del mismo color, y es donde más opciones hubiera tenido para rematar.

De La Riva y Narciso han intentado crear esa partida espectacular que pronosticaba ayer, pero se ha igualado demasiado pronto para eso; y la segunda parte de la partida ha transcurrido en total tranquilidad, puesto que ninguno pensaba equivocarse. Para los que no se les dan muy bien los finales: es una buena lección de cómo mantener el equilibrio en un final sin empeorar el panorama lo más mínimo.

Hasta mañana!

Seirawan

Smirin - Oms

Smirin

Miguel Illescas de visita

Analizando la partida de Seirawan y...

... Peralta

Fernando Peralta

Oms, Josep Oms :)

Ronda 1

                                 Iván Salgado derrotó a Smirin

Buenas!!


Ya estamos aquí de nuevo, con el Magistral Casino 2011!! Así que estáis todos invitados cada día a partir de las 16.30 horas ;) La dirección del Casino es: C/ Marina, 19 - 21 (Port Olímpic) - Barcelona - España.

Hoy miércoles, un año más, ha comenzado el Magistral Casino de Barcelona 2011, que este año está siendo organizado por la Federación Catalana de Ajedrez y cuenta con el patrocinio del Casino de Barcelona (Grupo Peralada), el Ayuntamiento de Barcelona y la Generalitat de Catalunya.

La primera ronda ha iniciado con una sorpresa no muy agradable; pues el GM venezolano Eduardo Iturrizaga, vigente campeón del Circuit Catalán, no ha podido realizar su viaje desde Venezuela, debido a un accidente de coche que ha sufrido la pasada madrugada precisamente camino al aeropuerto. Según informaba a la organización del torneo, a él no le ha pasado nada grave pero el coche sí se ha quedado mal, por lo cual le ha sido imposible llegar al torneo.

Tras consultar y discutir la situación con los participantes y árbitros, la organización ha decidido dejar la plantilla del torneo con 9 jugadores, por lo que cada día tendrá que descansar uno de ellos. Hoy le ha tocado a Seirawan, quien ha aprovechado el magnífico día que hacía hoy en Barcelona, para hacer más turismo y dar un paseo por la playa.

En cuanto a las partidas, tampoco ha faltado de nada. Hemos visto tanto juego estratégico, como táctico, tanto variantes largas impecables, como errores bastante fáciles y ocasiones desaprovechadas. Por ejemplo, en la partida de Spraggett y Alsina, el canadiense ha aprovechado muy bien las imprecisiones de Dani en la apertura, ha instalado su caballo en g5 y parecía que la cosa no debía de ser demasiado complicada, pero es justo cuando ha empezado a dar vueltas innecesarias y hasta se ha llegado a pensar que Dani podría salvar la partida. Finalmente, Spraggett ha encontrado la línea ganadora y se ha anotado la primera victoria.

Salgado, quien causó furor el año pasado, este año viene igual o más animado todavía, porque si entonces empezó perdiendo, y luego no había quién lo parara, esta vez no le ha perdonado al mismísimo Smirin, representante de la poderosa ex - USSR. La lucha iba muy equilibrada hasta bastante tarde, pero Iván se ha equivocado gravemente en la jugada 47… Ad6, y Smirin tenía la oportunidad del día (exf7+), pero la ha dejado escapar. A partir de ahí Iván ha tenido momentos donde ganaba más fácilmente, pero ha preferido líneas más sólidas para asegurar el punto. Y un punto muy importante, sí señor.

En las otras dos partidas, han hecho tablas por triple repetición. De La Riva – Peralta ha sido una Caro – Kann sin demasiadas complicaciones, que ha conducido a una posición sin debilidades casi, ni material con el que atacar. Ha sido una partida muy equilibrada.

Y en el duelo de Oms – Narciso, similar, un juego sin errores que ha terminado de forma pacífica, una Nimzoindia bien jugada por ambos bandos.

Mañana más.

Encantada en Palma

Heeeeeello from Mallorca!!

Estoy aquí en esta maravillosa isla, jugando el Open. De momento me va bastante bien, he ganado dos, he hecho dos tablas y he perdido una. La página oficial es esta: http://chesspalma.com/

Las rondas ahora son a las 20. 30 (la primera era a las 16.30, la segunda a las 9.30 y la tercera de nuevo a las 16.30), así que tenemos mucho tiempo, que no sabemos como matar. Por supuesto que damos mil vueltas por los alrededores de la zona, visitamos bares etcétera, pero aún así hay muuuuuuuucho tiempo :D

Ah, y yo visito el gym cada día, creo q ya todos sabeis q me gusta mucho el deporte!

La playa está muy bien, y hay un montón de alemanes hier. En resumen, está cojonudo el sitio. Me encanta. Ahora mismo estoy en la terraza de un bar de alemanes que está al lado de la playa, que lo unico "malo" q tiene son esas canciones -baladas de los 80, q no creo q me lleguen a gustar nunca... :-)

Bueno, me voy q tenemos q dar un paseito por la playa. Besos!!!!

Ana

Sopiko in action ;)

Si Mariam ya estaba super cómoda en tres sillas, mirad a Sopiko! Hábrase visto alguna vez cosa más escandalosa?????? O_o

La nueva ley de la FIDE dice que debemos saludar de esta manera al rival :)

Y esta es la nueva manera de recoger un premio :-)

Jejejjejje, PCUAAAAAAAAAAAA mi niña!!!!!!!