https://fide.com/news/464
https://fide.com/calendar/50617
Composers will be surely pleased to know that the used time controls for composing are "Standard". Due to technical limitations, composers will need to self-regulate this to make sure they don't use "Blitz" or "Correspondence" time controls for composing. Or the dreaded "My wife wants me to stop composing but I only need five more minutes" time controls.
Friday, March 27, 2020
Thursday, March 26, 2020
FIDE stops Candidates 2020 (uncommented statement by President Dvorkovich)
Today, the government of the Russian Federation announced that
starting March 27, 2020, Russia interrupts air traffic with other
countries without indicating any time frames.
FIDE can not continue the tournament without guarantees for the players' and officials' safe and timely return home. In this situation and on the basis of clause 1.5. Rules of Candidates Tournament, the FIDE President decided to stop the tournament. It will be continued later, with the exact dates to be announced as soon, as the global situation related to the COVID-19 pandemic will allow. As it was stipulated by the special rules agreed with the players before the start of the event, the results of the 7 rounds played remain valid, and the tournament will be resumed in the same composition starting with the games of the 8th round. FIDE is grateful to the players, officials, volunteers and the entire team of organizers, including the Chess Federation of Russia and the main partner of the tournament - SIMA-Land.
Sincerely,
Arkady Dvorkovich,
FIDE President
(source: ChessBase)
FIDE can not continue the tournament without guarantees for the players' and officials' safe and timely return home. In this situation and on the basis of clause 1.5. Rules of Candidates Tournament, the FIDE President decided to stop the tournament. It will be continued later, with the exact dates to be announced as soon, as the global situation related to the COVID-19 pandemic will allow. As it was stipulated by the special rules agreed with the players before the start of the event, the results of the 7 rounds played remain valid, and the tournament will be resumed in the same composition starting with the games of the 8th round. FIDE is grateful to the players, officials, volunteers and the entire team of organizers, including the Chess Federation of Russia and the main partner of the tournament - SIMA-Land.
Sincerely,
Arkady Dvorkovich,
FIDE President
(source: ChessBase)
Friday, March 20, 2020
Paul Tröger loses, Vincent Keymer wins
Chess, like many things in life, is enhanced by pattern recognition, if those patterns are applied correctly. While recently browsing through chess magazines, I recognized that I had seen a discovered attack that happened there in a book by Paul Tröger.
Tröger - Rosen
Bad Pyrmont 1976, German championship
White to move
Paul Tröger started with 2 out of 2 points, and the third game saw him in a drawn endgame where we "tune in" with the diagram. Having given the check on b6 twice already, all he had to do was write down the move Rb6+, stop the clock and call the arbiter to claim a draw. Instead he played 1.Rb8?? and had to resign after 1.-R:c4! 2.K:c4 d5+ and eventually lost. Rosen added insult to injury, telling Tröger that he only didn't offer draw because he was sure Tröger would eventually play Rb8. (Source: Paul Tröger: "Von Böcken und dicken Hunden". Bamberger Schachverlag 1984)
Grandelius - Keymer
Wijk aan Zee 2020
White to move
The young German talent Vincent Keymer had a great performance at his debut in Wijk, sharing the 6th place in the "Challengers" with Sarin and winning 19 Elo with a performance of over 2600. Nils Grandelius helped out by playing 44.Ra8? c5! 45.Ra6+ Kf5 46.Ra5? instead of still drawing by 46.Rf6+ Kg5 47.Be5. After 46.-f3+ 47.Kf2 Rh2+ 48.Kg1 f2+ White resigned.
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