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The
2011 Biel Chess Festival is taking place from July 16 to 29, in a number of
groups: the Master Tournament (eleven rounds Swiss); the Main Tournament (nine
rounds Swiss); a Rapid and a Blitz tournament; Chess960; Youth, Simultaneous,
Chess Tennis, ChessBase training seminars. Of greatest interest is of course
the Accentus Grandmaster Tournament with six very strong grandmasters playing
a double round robin: Magnus Carlsen, Maximee Vachier-Lagrave, Alexei Shirov,
Fabiano Caruana, Alexander Morozevich and Yannick Pelletier.
The participants: Caruana, Pelletier, Shirov, Carlsen, Morozevich, Vachier-Lagrave
The rate of play: 2 hours for 40 moves, then one hour for 20 and 15 min for the rest of the game, with 30 sec increment per move. The scoring system is three points for a win, one for a draw and zero for a loss. No draw offers are permitted before move 30.
| Round 10: Friday, July 29, 11:00h | ||
| Maxime Vachier |
½-½ |
Alexei Shirov |
Yannick Pelletier |
0-1 |
Alex. Morozevich |
Fabiano Caruana |
½-½ |
Magnus Carlsen |
Alexei Shirov and Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, who were equal on points (11/9) and tiebreak (103), sharing 3-4 after nine rounds, were satisfied to follow a 2009 game between Topalov and Ivanchuk for eleven moves. The Open Catalan looks interesting, but neither side got an advantage and the game was drawn after a three-fold repetition on move 21.
After his unexpecetd loss the previous day to Caruana, and with his second place in no danger, one might have reasonably expetced Alexander Morozevich to choose a peaceful result. However one gets the impression it was Yannick Pelletier who was not content with this. Their game was a strange Semi-Slav of sorts, and at the crucial moment the Swiss player choose a very ambitious 0-0-0 which seemed hard to recommend, no matter how you looked at it. Morozevich was up to the challenge and showed why he was clear second, far ahead of the rest, locking up his tournament with yet another magnificent result for 2011.
Fabiano Caruana vs Magnus Carlsen, the battle of the youngest, both former child prodigies. Fabiano was keen to get a win from this game, to join Vachier and Shirov (who had drawn their game) in the 12-point bracket, and maybe regain some of the rating points he is dropping. He never had a chance. Carlsen surprised him from the get-go with a Philidor Defense, taking him out of any preparation he might have had. Magnus quickly took control of the game, leaving nary a chance for Fabiano. Caruana did not get into any genuine trouble, but Magnus was the one calling the shots, and a draw was all the Italian could hope for.
Scoring system: a win counts as three points, a draw as one and a loss zero
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LinksThe games are being broadcast live on the official web site and on the chess server Playchess.com. If you are not a member you can download a free Playchess client there and get immediate access. You can also use ChessBase 11 or any of our Fritz compatible chess programs. |
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