Korchnoi Wins Botvinnik Memorial Senior Event
(That's a senior event memorializing Mikhail Botvinnik, not an event for Mikhail Botvinnik, Senior.) Viktor the terrible - Viktor Korchnoi - is at it again. True, it was "only" a senior event, but still: he's the second oldest player there and he keeps winning. His score of 7/9 (TPR: 2637) put him a full point ahead of Evgeni Vasiukov (perhaps best known as the victim of Tal's hippopotamus-in-the-marsh piece sac, but a great player in his own right; have a look at what he did as an "old" man against van Wely in 2002 for a glimpse of what he was capable of in his heyday) and two points ahead of the still-active Lajos Portisch.
The star event memorializing Botvinnik will take place in a couple of weeks. There will be a rapid event starting September 1 with a few good players you've probably heard of: Viswanathan Anand, Magnus Carlsen, Levon Aronian and Vladimir Kramnik. They will subsequently play in team matches with some strong female players - less interesting, but it's always nice to the big guns in action. (More on this here.)
Reader Comments (1)
the most interesting part of the rapid event is that the clocks will be stopped during the games for the players to expound their opinions of whats going on.