Official website: http://www.mtelmasters09.com/
Photos provided by Dimitar Naydenov
Press Center of International Super Chess Tournament M-Tel Masters
Round 1 results:
Carlsen 1-0 Topalov
Ivanchuk 0-1 Shirov
Wang Yue 1/2 Dominguez
Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
Magnus Carlsen defeats Veselin Topalov in round one!
Michigan Chess Dad
Maybe topy can borrow Aronians caucasian white felt coat, might help out his chess since he cant use a computer for games anymore. hehe
Press conference Carlsen-Topalov is already over and there is still no notation of the game available.
That’s really poor.
Somehow typical for our technical-focussed society. When the technology fails we’re helpless.
Had sb made notes of the game and typed it in manually we had the notation since long.
Also the DGT-board-mistakes could be avoided when placing the king in the middle of the board at the end of the game often makes it’s way into the game notation…
chucky lost?
He needs some help!
Wang – Dominguez 1/2.
Interesting post from chessgames.com about technical problem:
“theodor: hi to all. I was there at the beginning, took some photos (I’ll sand them to CG) and went home to play ”guess the move”, but after I realized there wasnt any live transmision, I came back to the very live game. the reason of the blackout is rather a curiosity: the mayor of Sofia – Borissov, was asked to make the first move (d2-d4), but he moved twice(g3 and Bg2) saying that in his childhood, they used to play at the biginning two moves(a bad reading of the possibility of moving the pawn two squares ahead). after that irrelevant joke, the chess program blocked! in a while I will post the final positions I photografied from the demonstration bords – the moves werent available. in Sofia the night has follen, and the mayor Borissov is leading a popular TV show; he’ll be most probably ouer next prime minister; I hardly believe he’ll not repeat this error!”
You can download 1st round games from official site:
http://www.mtelmasters09.com/en/results.html
Wouldn’t it be nice to see Shirov in top shape this time?
The start was a first step to that.
okay
Magnus is going to wear the Poptart suit!
Yes!