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    Wednesday
    Jan052011

    The Carlsen-Nakamura Match: Results!

    The night the World Blitz Championship finished, late last year, Magnus Carlsen and Hikaru Nakamura played a private 40-game blitz match. That's well known, but for whatever reason they kept the result secret. The secret is out: in the latest edition of New In Chess Magazine, Dirk Jan ten Geuzendam spills the beans. The winner was...

    Carlsen, by a fairly hefty 24.5-15.5 score.

    Wednesday
    Dec082010

    The Carlsen-Nakamura Blitz Match: Another Tease

    The results haven't been released yet (though from the description the most natural guess is that Carlsen came out ahead), but a bit more information about the 40-game blitz match between Magnus Carlsen and Hikaru Nakamura, played in Moscow after the World Blitz Championship, can be found here. A video is included there, from the end of game 38, given below:

    Saturday
    Nov272010

    Nakamura Wins BNBank Blitz

    The BNBank Blitz: This one day event in Oslo, Norway, was a repeat triumph for Hikaru Nakamura. Last year he defeated Magnus Carlsen in the final by a 2.5-1.5 score; this year, neither M.C. nor (Jon Ludvig) Hammer played (can't touch this [tournament]), so it looked as if Nakamura would have a comparatively easy time of things. Sure enough, he blew through the prelims 10-0 and drubbed Leif Johannessen 3-0 in the semis, but he had a very tough time against Simen Agdestein in the finals. Agdestein won game 1, Nakamura games 2 and 3, and then Agdestein won the final game to send it to Armaggedon. Here Nakamura pulled it out and won, and in the 3rd-4th match Kateryna Lahno "won" her match against Johannessen by drawing her Armaggedon game with Black. (Games are on TWIC and ChessBomb.)

     

    Wednesday
    Nov242010

    Nakamura On His Recent Tournaments

    You can find his extended blog post covering the Olympics, Cap D'Agde, and the classical and blitz portions of the Tal Memorial, here. Unfortunately for curious chess fans, as of this writing at least, he still hasn't spilled the beans about how he did in his informal 40-game blitz match against Carlsen after the blitz championship.

    Friday
    Sep102010

    Carlsen Beats the World

    The G-STAR RAW World Chess Challenge has finished, and Magnus Carlsen easily dispatched the world team led by Hikaru Nakamura, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave and Judit Polgar. The World played a King's Indian, and against the Fianchetto Variation they quickly got confused. On move 7 Polgar recommended 7...e5, which won out over the more topical 7...a6 chosen by Nakamura and Vachier-Lagrave, and it was clear that they really weren't familiar and comfortable with the line. Definitely a case of too many cooks spoiling the broth. White was much already much better in the opening, and already lost by move 17. Carlsen rolled, and the only drama was when the World team would resign.

    I'll post the game, with some notes, later today.

    Sunday
    Mar212010

    Nakamura Wins Dos Hermanas Blitz

    And approximately $2700* (2000 Euros) for his efforts, too - not bad for an online blitz tournament! Full results here, and notice that this gives you the chance to see who has what account: they name names!

    * (Thanks to CheVelle for a correction.)

    Sunday
    Feb072010

    The Role of Computers in Planning Chess Strategy

    That's the title of an article by Debra Littlejohn Shinder, a computer professional who happens to be the mother of Hikaru Nakamura's second, Kris Littlejohn. It's an interesting read (one factoid that caught my eye was Nakamura memorizing 500-1000 moves of opening prep before each game, which is a lot, although I suspect he already knew at least a fair amount of it), but I do have two quibbles/additions/clarifications.

    First, the author mentions that ChessBase 10 runs 349 euros/almost $500 and that ChessBase Lite is free. Both statements are true, but the best deal by far is to download ChessBase 2009 and buy the activation key. Then, for well under $100, you have ChessBase 10, albeit without a database. As there are ways to buy databases for far, far, far less than $400, you still come out way ahead.

    Second, she writes that once Nakamura knows the "colors" in the tournament, his second gets busy doing specific prep for the opponents, looking for novelties, etc. I suspect this is a slight misunderstanding on her part, as this information is only known the day before play starts, when the players draw for lots to receive their pairing numbers. Considering how far in advance she reports on their accumulating data on forthcoming opponents, I doubt they'd wait until the night before the first game to start looking for novelties.

    Quibbles aside, it's a good read, and you'll get to see what hardware they use in their prep, too.

    HT: Nate Criss

     

    Saturday
    Jan092010

    World Team Championship, Round 5: Russia, U.S.A. Lead

    Here were the day's results at the World Team Championship:

    India 2 - Armenia 2

    Russia 3½ - Turkey ½

    Egypt 1 - Azerbaijan 3

    Israel 1½ - United States 2½

    Brazil 1 - Greece 3


    Taking the matches in order: The India-Armenia draw was a bit of a shocker. Akopian won with a nice finish against Harikrishna, but India equalized when Sasikiran beat Aronian in a rook vs. rook and pawn ending that should have been drawn. It wasn't trivial, but it wasn't out of Aronian's pay grade, either, and he had loads of time to work it out.

    Russia's win was no surprise, and neither was Azerbaijan's. However, the latter's one blemish occurred when Gashimov lost his third straight game. (This is putting a real crimp in his plans for world domination, but he still has 721 days to go.)

    The United States win was an upset, but well-earned. Robson worked to hold the draw on round 4, while Onischuk won on board 2 (the only one where the US had a [very slight] rating edge) and Hess lost on board 3 (to Sutovsky). The deciding game was also the first to finish, Nakamura's brilliant (or at least flashy) win against Gelfand on the Black side of a Classical King's Indian. This win probably didn't take as much mental labor as his spectacular win over Beliavsky in the same variation last September, but was if anything even showier.

    Finally, Greece got back on the right foot, crushing Brazil despite being outrated by an average of 25 points per board.  Especially impressive - but strange - was Fier-Banikas. Fier managed to come up with two novelties in the second game, both of which came from the same position! The first was neutral and the second was bad, which just goes to show that newer doesn't mean better. The game featured some very nice geometry, and is worth seeing.

    (And because it's worth seeing, I've included it with my notes, along with the two Armenia-India games mentioned above and Gelfand-Nakamura. Click here.)

    Here are the overall standings:

    1. Russia 8 (based on two points for a team win, one for a draw, zero for a loss), 13 (total individual points, which is the first tiebreaker)

    2. USA 8, 12½

    3. Armenia 7, 12

    4. India 7, 11

    5. Azerbaijan 6, 11½

    6. Israel 6, 11

    7. Greece 4, 10

    8. Brazil 2, 8

    9. Egypt 2, 7

    10. Turkey 0, 4

    Saturday
    Nov282009

    Nakamura Wins BNbank Blitz

    It was an organizer's dream - except for the finish. The BNbank blitz tournament in Oslo, Norway, was set up for a final match between national hero Magnus Carlsen, the world's top-rated player and newly crowned world blitz champion, and Hikaru Nakamura, who has long been the world's best blitz player on the internet.

    The first part of the event consisted of multiple round-robins, and both Carlsen and Nakamura won their sections. Carlsen gave up one draw, to Cmilyte, while Nakamura scored a clean 6-0. Then it was on to the quarterfinals, best-of-four matches that mirrored the round-robins: both won; Carlsen giving up one draw in defeating Jon Ludwig Hammer 2.5-.0.5 and Nakamura blanking Kjetil Lie 3-0. In the semis, they were equally unmerciful: Carlsen 3-0'd Emanuel Berg and Nakamura did the same to Peter Heine Nielsen.

    On to the final. In the first game, Nakamura's 12-0 run came to an end, as Carlsen beat him with the black pieces. In game 2, Carlsen was winning, and it looked like Nakamura was in for a thumping. It didn't happen. Nakamura not only managed to hold on, but when Carlsen lost a seemingly unloseable position (a pawn up in a knight ending!) the match was tied. (The culprit was 62.Kf6??, losing when 62.f4 would have won.) After this, Carlsen might have lost a little confidence, and Nakamura won games 3 and 4 as well, winning the match 3-1 and scoring a hefty 15-1 overall. Carlsen finished second, of course, and Nielsen defeated Berg 2.5-1.5 in their final match to take third.

    To see all of Nakamura's and Carlsen's games from the event (preliminaries and head-to-head), as long as the Nielsen-Berg games, go here (and close the pop-up). Next step, select BNb blitz 2009, and then expand each of the alphanumeric round links in turn (from the bottom up, if you want to go in chronological order) and then on the games within the links.

    Thursday
    Nov262009

    Carlsen, Nakamura This Saturday in Oslo

    There's a strong invitational blitz (3' + 2") tournament this Saturday in Oslo, Norway, starring Magnus Carlsen and Hikaru Nakamura. It should be a lot of fun, but I am slightly worried that if Nakamura is going to go from America to Norway to America to London (for the real tournament there starting December 7) he may not be 100% when it really matters. That's for him to worry about; for us, we get an extra little show.

    More details here.