The Chess Mind

By Dennis Monokroussos.
This is a blog for chess fans by a chess fan, one who loves the beauty of the game and wants to share it with those who are like-minded.
Yet the chess mind is not only a chess mind, and other topics, such as philosophy, may appear from time to time. All material copyrighted.
Linares resumes tomorrow: Updated
Or rather, starts tomorrow; it's Morelia/Linares that's resuming. When we left off, at the end of the Morelia leg of the event, the standings were as follows:

1. Anand 4.5
2-3. Shirov, Topalov 4
4-5. Aronian, Carlsen 3.5
6-7. Radjabov, Ivanchuk 3
8. Leko 2.5

Of course, with several days off and a change of scenery, anything can happen in the second half. Here are the pairings:

Anand - Shirov
Ivanchuk - Carlsen
Radjabov - Leko
Aronian - Topalov

The games start tomorrow, and it's possible that I'll be commenting live on playchess.com (the "Fritz"/ChessBase server). (I'll confirm/disconfirm later tonight.) Please support your blogger and tune in! The games start at 9:30 a.m. ET/3:30 p.m. Central European Time.

Updates: I corrected the show time - the right numbers are given now, and I can confirm that I will be doing live commentary on playchess.com for tomorrow's round. Hope to see everyone then!
Posted by Dennis Monokroussos on Wednesday February 27, 2008 at 4:34pm