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EDITORIAL
Simple and clear rules, please!
It is the Champions League final – FC Barce-
lona are playing against Bayern München – it
is the 70th minute. The score is 1:0 for the
Spanish team. Bayern are attacking furiously.
Robben is just about to go to the left to shoot
at goal... the referee’s whistle. It’s all over! Over?
The Bavarian players besiege the referee, there
are still 20 minutes of play left, they say, stun-
ned. No, says the referee, did you not read the
announcement on the UEFA page, where the
rules for the Champions League final are listed?
Playing time was set at 70 minutes for this
particular game. Something like this would be
unthinkable in football, or in any other sport.
But apparently not in chess.
World Champion Magnus Carlsen has just lost
his first game in Stavanger to Veselin Topalov
though he was in a winning position, because
he did not know the – unusual – time control
rules. Something similar happened recently in
India. At the Commonwealth championships
first Tania Sachdev, then Humpy Koneru lost
their games due to not knowing the rules which
were in force there. Chess wants to be a sport,
but it does not have clear rules. Knights may
move the same way everywhere but every orga-
niser does what he wants as far as tournament
conditions are concerned.
Typical time controls are as follows: 40 moves
in 120 minutes, 20 moves in 60 minutes and
then 15 minutes for the rest of the game plus 30
seconds increment per move from move 61 on
(e.g. Zurich Chess Challenge), or else 40 moves
in 120 minutes, 60 minutes for the rest of the
moves, 30 seconds increment per move from
move 41 (Stavanger). In the German Bundes-
liga it is 40 moves in 100 minutes, 50 minutes
for the rest of the game, 30 seconds increment
per move from move 1 (Bundesliga 1 & 2, cup,
German Championship). In Austria we have 40
moves in 90 minutes, 30 minutes for the rest of
the game, 30 seconds increment per move from
move 1. If you want to play tournament chess
nowadays, you need to spend a term studying
time control science!
Different time controls, however, are not the
only playground which is open to tournament
organisers. If there is a tie at the top of the
table, the question often crops up: who is the
winner, then? Is it the player with the most
victories, with the most wins as Black, the
winner of their direct encounter, the player
who has the highest Buchholz score, according
to improved Buchholz, or Sonneborn-Berger
or perhaps there will be a play-off with a)
rapid chess games (one, two or four?) b) blitz
game(s)? Sometimes the organisers themselves
do not know and just make it up after the final
round – to the indignation of the surprised
players.
But even that is not the end of the line. There
are even different ways of scoring the games
themselves. Instead of the classical way, some-
times the three point rule is used, which means:
three points for a win, one for a draw, no points
for a loss. In the Belgian league even this has a
variation: three points for a win, two (yes two!)
points for a draw, one point for a loss, no points
for a no-show. Team matches then sometimes
end with a score of 21:11. In the French league
it is more minimalist: there draws do not count.
Despite there being 8 boards, 3:1 is an absolu-
tely typical result.
So the best thing to do before your career as a
tournament chess player is to add to your study
of the science of time controls other subjects
such as “tiebreak research” and “result theory”.
Or, dear FIDE, you could simply unify the rules
for tournaments?
Your André Schulz
ChessBase Magazine #167 | 3
ChESSbASE MAgAzInE
COnTEnTS Of ThE DVD
TOP TOURnAMEnTS
GP Khanty-Mansiysk:
The fourth and last stage
of the FIDE Grand Prix ended with victory shared
between Fabiano Caruana, Hikaru Nakamura
and Dmitry Jakovenko. This was also the order
in the overall classification. Victor on tiebreak in
Khanty-Mansiysk was Jakovenko. The Russian has
analysed for us his game against Anish Giri. Mi-
hail Marin has prepared a detailed survey of the
openings used in the games. Further annotations
have been provided by Ftacnik, Gormally, Illing-
worth, Krasenkow, Marin, Mikhalchishin, Mokal,
Pavlovic, Roiz, Stohl, Sumets, Szabo and Wagner.
In addition you can also find on the DVD seven
daily summaries by Daniel King.
Norway Chess:
This year’s Norway Chess was
even stronger, since it was played in the frame-
work of the Grand Chess Tour. Magnus Carlsen
had a disastrous start (half a point from four
rounds), and the world champion finished in 8
th
place – and that in his home tournament! Ves-
elin Topalov took his chance and pushed Vishy
Anand and Hikaru Nakamura into second place.
The American has commented for us on his game
with Levon Aronian. On the DVD you will also
find games annotated by Illingworth, Krasenkow,
Mokal, Pavlovic, Postny, Roiz, Sagar Shah, Stohl,
Szabo and Wagner. In addition you can also find
on the DVD all nine daily summaries by Daniel
King.
Other tournaments:
In the
Capablanca Memori-
al Tournament
it was Yu Yangyi who set the pace.
Not only was the young Chinese player confirmed
as the winner a round before the finish, but he
also shone with his original tactical ideas. The 21
year old has annotated for us his brilliancy against
Dominguez Perez. Second placed Pavel Eljanov
has provided notes to his theoretically important
game against Dmitry Andreikin. In
Dortmund
Fabiano Caruana repeated his success of last year.
Other players have annotated their games from
various events: e.g. Adhiban, Edouard, Grover,
Gupta, Havasi, CD Meyer, Postny, Sagar Shah and
Wagner.
OPEnIngS
(see also booklet from p. 8)
Igor Stohl:
Mikenas/Flohr Variation
Robert Ris:
English 5.e4 Bxc3 6.bxc3
Marin:
1.d4 e6 2.c4 Bb4+ 3.Nd2 b6
Schipkov:
1.d4 d6 2.Nf3 Bg4 3.c4 Bxf3 4.exf3
Illingworth:
Sicilian 2.b3
Max Illingworth pro-
poses 2.b3 as a rapid
chess repertoire, but
Tamaz gelashvili (pho-
to) proves that it can
be more
Berg:
Sicilian 2.c3 d5 3.exd5 Nf6
Krasenkow:
Sicilian Rossolimo 3...e6
Gormally:
Sicilian Paulsen 6.f4
Postny:
Sicilian Najdorf 6.h3
In Evgeny Postny’s
article on the najdorf
with 6.h3 top games
like Caruana-Vachier
Lagrave, Tata 2015,
play a major role
Havasi:
French 3.Nd2 h6
Souleidis:
Philidor Defence 5...exd4
Kuzmin:
Queen’s Gambit Ragozin 5.Qb3
Alexey Kuzmin pays
tribute to 5.Qb3 as a
surprise weapon against
the Ragozin. Erwin
l‘Ami (photo) is one of
the occasional users
Schandorff:
Semi-Slav Meran
Szabo:
King’s Indian Fianchetto
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AUgUST/SEPTEMbER
bOOKLET
DVD COLUMnS
Williams: Move by Move
This time Simon Williams has put on the training
plan the recent game Giri-Topalov (Norway Chess
2015). It is in interactive video format , giving you
the chance to find the correct moves.
Rogozenco: The classic
In his Classic Video the German federal trainer
Dorian Rogozenco shows us the brilliancy prize
game Alekhine-Rubinstein, Karlsbad 1923. A
strong strategic performance by Alekhine, which
ends in a beautiful tactical finale.
Reeh: Tactics – “Pieces on the edge and retreats”
Oliver Reeh’s article contains 29 games studded
with numerous training questions and an intro-
ductory text with links to all the games. In ad-
dition our tactics expert has recorded two of his
favourites in a video in interactive format.
Müller: Endspiele – “Recent pawn endings”
Karsten Müller’s column contains two introduc-
tory texts, 19 annotated endgames, numerous
training questions and five classic video clips. In
addition the endgames expert from Hamburg has
recorded two endgames in interactive format.
Pawn endings often appear simple because there
are after all only a few possible moves. When they
are looked at more closely, however, there are
from time to time astonishing depths.
Knaak: The Opening Trap
Rainer Knaak’s Opening Trap (including its Fritz-
trainer video) contains five recent traps.
Openings videos
(see also p. 25)
Tiviakov: Scandinavian 3...Qd6
Amruta Mokal: Sicilian Paulsen
Ris: Slav 4.Qb3 dxc4 5.Qxc4 Bg4
Editorial
Contents
Top Tournaments
GP Khanty-Mansiysk, Norway Chess
3
4-5
6-7
Caruana, nakamura and Jakovenko shared victory in the
last grand Prix tournament
Openings
Presentation of the DVD articles
Impressum
Tactics
Nine combinations to solve
Kasimdzhanov:
Trends in Modern Openings 2015
8-21
11
22
23
Service
New products
with videos of the DVDs by
Collins, Martin, Pert, Kasimdzhanov, Davies, King.
Correspondence chess:
10 000 new games
Complet booklet
in PDF format
Overview
of previous openings articles
Overview
of previous video openings articles
Rustam Kasimdzhanov
is one of the greatest
openings experts, and
moreover he knows how
to make extensive know-
ledge understandable
Endgames
Nine endgame exercises to solve
Openings videos presented
24
25
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TOP TOURnAMEnTS
STAVAngER: TOPALOV On TOP
Things just will not work out for the world
champion in his home country. Looking back
over it, we can almost say that after the very
first round one could read the runes for the
“Norway Chess 2015”: in a clearly winning po-
sition against Topalov, but uncertain about the
time control Carlsen let his clock run down and
had to swallow perhaps the most bitter defeat
of his career. And it was a long time before the
world champion recovered from this shock.
On 0.5 out of 4 Carlsen was at first lying at the
bottom of the field. After wins against Grischuk
and Aronian the final round offered him the
chance to at least reach 50% in the game against
his second Hammer. But Carlsen took too great
a risk and ended the tournament with only 3.5
out of 9.
But what happened in the first round became
symbolic for Topalov’s tournament. After the
present from Carlsen the ex-world champion
also benefitted from a hair-raising mistake in
his game against Hammer: the Norwegian gave
away the point after making the simple liqui-
dation to a technically drawn endgame. And
Dramatic start and high point: Carlsen realises
that he has overstepped the time limit
against Aronian the Bulgarian too was lucky
when his opponent steered his own king into a
mating net in time trouble.
Nevertheless things got close for Topalov again:
after a loss to Giri in round 8 his lead over
Anand was reduced to half a point. And in the
final round he was up against his WCh oppo-
nent of 2010. But the tension did not last for
long. Both players followed the game Ivanchuk-
Carlsen (Wijk 2015), which ended in a draw by
repetition after 18 moves.
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