This is “the” game after the no handshake incident yesterday.
GM Short (2636) – GM Cheparinov (2713) [B92]
21.01.2008
1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 a6 6.Be2 e5 7.Nb3 Be7 8.0–0 0–0 9.Be3 Be6 10.Nd5 Nbd7 11.Qd3 Bxd5 12.exd5 Rc8 13.c4 a5 14.Kh1 Re8 15.Rad1 Bf8 16.Nd2 g6 17.b3 Bg7 18.a3 h5 19.f3 b6 20.b4 axb4 21.axb4 e4 22.fxe4 Ne5 23.Qb3 Neg4 24.Bg5 Qd7 25.Qb1 Ra8 26.h3 Nh7 27.Bf4 Ne5 28.c5 bxc5 29.bxc5 Reb8 30.Qc2 dxc5 31.Qxc5 Rc8 32.Qe3 Nf8 33.Qg3 Qe8 34.Bb5 Qe7 35.Nf3 Nxf3 36.Qxf3 Rc3 37.Rd3 Raa3 38.e5 Rxd3 39.Bxd3 Nd7 40.e6 fxe6 41.Qe2 Nf8 42.Bc4 Rc3 43.dxe6 Rxc4 44.Qxc4 Qxe6 45.Qxe6+ Nxe6 46.Be3 Nd4 47.Kg1 Nf5 48.Bc5 Be5 49.Re1 Bc3 50.Re4 Kf7 51.Kf2 Bf6 52.Ra4 Ke6 53.Ke2 Kf7 54.Bf2 Ke6 55.Kd3 Kf7 56.Ra7+ Ke6 57.Ra6+ Kf7 58.Ke4 Bb2 59.Rc6 Bg7 60.Be1 Bf6 61.Bc3 Bh4 62.Be5 Bg5 63.Ra6 Bh4 64.Bf4 Bf6 65.g4 hxg4 66.hxg4 Ng7 67.Be5 Be7 68.Kd5 Ne8 69.Ra7 Nf6+ 70.Bxf6 Kxf6 71.g5+ Kf7 72.Rxe7+ White wins 1–0
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Who wins and who loses is not important. The important part is to
have something resembling a civilized attitude at the board…
D.
The Bolton Wanderer strikes again!
Wonder if they shook hands after Cheparinov resigned.
Yes, according to GM Short. 🙂
http://www.coruschess.com/article.php?s=n159
Did they hug and kiss, too? With Appeal Committee members, I mean? Does Kramnik go to the toilet often? Does Topalov use Zappa in Corus? Chepa is out of Corus forever, rumors say.
Cheparinov is a dumb arse! He gets invited to Corus, lets his resume about working with Topalov get into his head and begins to behave like a contender for the world championship.
Poor Chepa! He stuck out his head for Topalov, forgetting Topalov’s career is not his.
Even if Nigel had lost, it is important to require each player to behave correctly to her/his opponent.
As Steve Lopez once noted, the opponent has agreed to devote x amount of his lifetime to playing a game of chess with you. Regardless of your opinion of her/him, that deserves courtesy, at the very least.
It seems lost on some people that after the arbiter explain the Cheparinov that he’s expected to shake hands, he said he was willing to, and then it was Short who refused to shake and play.
So they actually both refused in turn to shake hands.
But Short was the only one who at any time refused to sit down at the board and play the game.
RubyPanther, that is indeed true, but I think the point is that the “damage” was done with the first (two) refusals by Cheparinov to shake hands. Short argues that the psychological effect of such a act is very unsettling to him, whereas when Short refuses in kind, the effect will be far less, since it was provoked by the first refusal.
Not shaking hands has been used to good effect in this manner before. Karpov famously refused to shake Korchnoi’s hand in their 8th game in their 1978 WC match, and after 7 draws, Korchnoi succumb to the insult, and played recklessly to lose.
I am sure that it was not Cheparinov’s intention to put of Short in this manner, I think it was an expression of a genuine grievance against Short for his past comments, but then again, the effect was clear from Short’s comments afterwards. And well done to him for keeping it together to win the game.