http://chessmind.powerblogs.com/ en-us 2008-10-22T04:10+00:00 http://chessmind.powerblogs.com/posts/1206659980.shtml There weren't too many short draws, but there were no changes in the overall standings. (There were, however, important changes in the specifically rapid and blindfold standings.) The Kramnik-Karjakin, Anand-van Wely,... Dennis Monokroussos 2008-03-27T23:03+00:00 http://chessmind.powerblogs.com/posts/1206601835.shtml As promised. Also, for your convenience, here's the automatically updated video bar:... Dennis Monokroussos 2008-03-27T07:03+00:00 http://chessmind.powerblogs.com/posts/1206588478.shtml All the leaders drew their matches, and that means that Levon Aronian has won the event. After he drew both games with Vladimir Kramnik and the Peter Leko-Magnus Carlsen contest was... Dennis Monokroussos 2008-03-27T03:03+00:00 http://chessmind.powerblogs.com/posts/1206514057.shtml This will be a "just the facts" post; annotated games will appear later. The most important bit of info is that Aronian extended his lead in the combined standings by giving... Dennis Monokroussos 2008-03-26T06:03+00:00 http://chessmind.powerblogs.com/posts/1206427508.shtml As promised, or at least threatened, here are a couple of games from Sunday's rounds at the Amber Rapid & Blindfold tournament in Nice, France. Both are blindfold games,... Dennis Monokroussos 2008-03-25T06:03+00:00 http://chessmind.powerblogs.com/posts/1206330039.shtml Despite the presence of a substantial chase pack, the tournament had looked like a two-man race between Levon Aronian and Viswanathan Anand for the past several rounds. This is no longer... Dennis Monokroussos 2008-03-24T03:03+00:00 http://chessmind.powerblogs.com/posts/1206240558.shtml Having mentioned both a completed and an upcoming (ok, freshly started) event, let's return to an actually ongoing contest, the annual rapid & blindfold super-tournament in Nice. Yesterday's round saw a... Dennis Monokroussos 2008-03-23T02:03+00:00 http://chessmind.powerblogs.com/posts/1206144684.shtml There were interesting, hard-fought and dramatic games in today's action at the Amber Rapid & Blindfold tournament in Nice, France, but in the end only two of the twelve games were... Dennis Monokroussos 2008-03-22T00:03+00:00 http://chessmind.powerblogs.com/posts/1206052196.shtml The old Topalov is back! By this I don't mean the 2004-2006 edition that won almost everything in sight, but the Topalov of the previous decade: a strong, aggressive player with... Dennis Monokroussos 2008-03-20T22:03+00:00 http://chessmind.powerblogs.com/posts/1205908883.shtml I responded to this in the comments section of this post, but it seems interesting enough to merit its own discussion. So here is Bernard Kobes' comment:... Dennis Monokroussos 2008-03-19T06:03+00:00 http://chessmind.powerblogs.com/posts/1205906931.shtml As fantastic as Ivanchuk's 14.Qxe6!! really is, it's possibly not quite as original an idea as one might think, for three reasons.... Dennis Monokroussos 2008-03-19T06:03+00:00 http://chessmind.powerblogs.com/posts/1205904554.shtml Happy Birthday, Vassily Ivanchuk! Today (Tuesday) is his birthday, and he celebrated by giving himself and the chess world a present. Himself, by moving into a tie for the lead with... Dennis Monokroussos 2008-03-19T05:03+00:00 http://chessmind.powerblogs.com/posts/1205814570.shtml The pattern of mostly drawn blindfold games and mostly decisive efforts in the rapid continued, but that doesn't entirely reflect the nature of the action. As a matter of fact, the... Dennis Monokroussos 2008-03-18T04:03+00:00 http://chessmind.powerblogs.com/posts/1205730763.shtml Blindfold Results:... Dennis Monokroussos 2008-03-17T05:03+00:00 http://chessmind.powerblogs.com/posts/1205639039.shtml The tournament exceeded expectations on its opening day: there were plenty of exciting games, and the ultimate highlight was the showdown of the world champions.... Dennis Monokroussos 2008-03-16T04:03+00:00