Sasikiran now leads after winning over the leader Mamedyarov. Here is Sasikiran's win over Adams in rd 6. Someone made a sarcastic comment about him early on in this forum.
[Event "MTel"]
[Site "Sofia BUL"]
[Date "2007.05.16"]
[Round "6"]
[White "Sasikiran,K"]
[Black "Adams,Mi"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteElo "2690"]
[BlackElo "2734"]
[EventDate "2007.05.10"]
[ECO "E15"]
1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nf3 b6 4. g3 Ba6 5. b3 Bb4+ 6. Bd2 Be7 7. Bg2 c6 8.
Bc3 d5 9. Ne5 Nfd7 10. Nxd7 Nxd7 11. Nd2 O-O 12. O-O Rc8 13. e4 b5 14. Re1
dxe4 15. Nxe4 bxc4 16. Qe2 Rb8 17. Bf1 Nf6 18. Nc5 Nd5 19. Nxa6 Nxc3 20.
Qxc4 Nb5 21. Nxb8 Qxb8 22. a4 Nd6 23. Qxc6 Nf5 24. Rad1 Bf6 25. Qe4 Qxb3
26. d5 Nd6 27. Qe3 Qxe3 28. Rxe3 e5 29. Rc3 Bd8 30. Rc6 Nf5 31. d6 Bb6 32.
d7 Rd8 33. Rc8 Kf8 34. Rd5 1-0
I think you're referring to my "I hope he grows a set of balls" comment. However in that game (his first against Adams) it's true that he played like a scared little worm and went for a draw from the off.
Since then Sasikiran has played well and not many people would have predicted that he'd be leading at this stage. He was a little lucky in his last game, but he held on well in tremendous time pressure and took full advantage when Mamedyarov blundered.
I don't know if Sasikiran will win this tournament, but he's shown that he can hold his own with the 2700+ crowd and no doubt he'll get plenty more invitations to the high profile tournaments on the back of his performance here.
The Topov vs Mamedyarov game currently being played is a classic! I haven't done any work for the last hour because I get drag myself away from it.
http://www.chesspro.ru/chessonline/onlines/index_378.html
I can't believe Topov played 33.Qb8, it just looks like a blunder. I guess he calculated that he was losing the bishop and knight vs rook ending and so went for this, and that he thinks Mamedyarov will have to go for a perpetual check, but it just looks winning for Black to me.
Originally posted by Fat Ladyyou speak russian?
The Topov vs Mamedyarov game currently being played is a classic! I haven't done any work for the last hour because I get drag myself away from it.
http://www.chesspro.ru/chessonline/onlines/index_378.html
I can't believe Topov played 33.Qb8, it just looks like a blunder. I guess he calculated that he was losing the bishop and knight vs rook ending and ...[text shortened]... s Mamedyarov will have to go for a perpetual check, but it just looks winning for Black to me.
know anywhere english-friendly?
This is the game from the robot at playchess.com where you can watch other games.
Sasikiran,Krishnan (2690) - Kamsky,Gata (2705) [D15]
3rd M-Tel Masters Sofia (8), 18.05.2007
[Robot 3]
1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.Nf3 Nf6 4.Nc3 a6 5.e3 b5 6.c5 g6 7.Bd3 Bg7 8.h3 Bf5 9.Bxf5 gxf5 10.Qc2 Qc8 11.Ne5 Ne4 12.Nd3 Nd7 13.Ne2 Bf6 14.Bd2 Rg8 15.g3 e6 16.0-0-0 h5 17.Rdg1 Qc7 18.Nef4 Nxd2 19.Qxd2 h4 20.g4 e5 21.Ne2 e4 22.Ndf4 fxg4 23.hxg4 Bg5 24.Nh3 f6 25.Nef4 Nf8 26.f3 exf3 27.Rf1 0-0-0 28.Rxf3 Re8 29.a4 Bh6 30.Nf2 Nh7 31.Ng2 Re6 32.Rxh4 Bg5 33.Rhh3 Rge8 34.Kb1 Nf8 35.Nf4 Bxf4 36.Rxf4 Nh7 37.axb5 axb5 38.Rf5 Ng5 39.Rh1 Rxe3 40.Rxf6 Nf3 41.Rxf3 Rxf3 42.Nd3 Ref8 43.Qe2 Qf7 44.Rh6 Rf1+ 45.Kc2 Rf6 46.Rxf6 Qxf6 47.g5 Qg6 48.Kc3 Qe4 49.Qxe4 dxe4 50.Ne5 Kc7 51.Kd2 Rf2+ 52.Ke3 Rxb2 53.Kxe4 Rg2 54.d5 cxd5+ 55.Kxd5 Rxg5 56.Kd4 Rh5 57.Nd3 Rh4+ 58.Kc3 Kc6 59.Kb3 Kd5 60.Kc2 Kc4 0-1
I read somewhere that Kamsky lost his laptop or it stopped working, meaning he has no access to his home preparation. He can borrow my RHP analysis board if its any good. 🙂
Originally posted by ShinidokiI can pronounce most Cyrillic letters and that's often enough to be able to read Russian! It's surprising how many Russian words are English words written in Cyrillic.
you speak russian?
know anywhere english-friendly?
To get a proper Russian to English translation I have a window to Alta Vista's translation service open: http://babel.altavista.com/tr
It's not perfect but it gives me a rough idea of what the comment means.
For English commentary, albeit from amateurs, I keep a window to http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chess.pl?tid=61797 open as well.
Originally posted by z00tI`m watching that game in playchess now. Topalov have small plus, but Sasikiran can defend without a problems.
There are quite a few people watching the games being relayed live on Playchess.com
[fen]4n3/1b2qpk1/1p1p1npp/pP1p4/P2P3P/3BPP2/4N1P1/2Q2NK1 b - - 0 28[/fen]
Topalov-Sasikiran with 20 minutes left on the clock for Sasikiran and only 28 moves made.