Chess Today Celebrates
Monday, September 17, 2007; Page C10
Washington Post
“Chess is an art and should be played in a creative way,” opined Czech President Vaclav Klaus during his visit to the Czech Coal Carlsbad tournament, played under his auspices. The president presented Viktor Korchnoi, 76, with the Chess Legend Award and stayed on for four hours to follow the first-round games. The eight-grandmaster tournament was a centennial celebration of the great 1907 event in the popular Czech spa. It was also 100 years ago that the idea of creating a tournament world championship, similar to the current FIDE world championship underway in Mexico City, was considered.
The Carlsbad tournament finished Saturday as follows: Ruslan Ponomariov (Ukraine) and Sergei Movsesian (Slovakia), 4 1/2 points in seven games; Vladimir Akopian (Armenia) and the Czech David Navara, 4 points; Alexei Shirov (Spain), 3 1/2 points; Jan Timman (the Netherlands) and the Czech Viktor Laznicka, 3 points; Viktor Korchnoi (Switzerland), 1 1/2 points.
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Hi Ms. Susan,
Just want to ask what happens if moro captured nxc3 in his game with kramnik? bxc3 then Bxc3, then what? Ra1 and d4 are threatened. Please enlighten me as I follow kramnik’s opening repertoire and I have 2 major tournaments coming up.
Thanks for your time and God bless to you and your family!
Forget a reply. She is busier than the President of The United States.