Cordially, Phil Innes. ---------
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re:Corus - Wijk aan Zee - 2006/10/26 22:05Dear Mr Innes:
Errors often are propagated by repetition.
The error involves a confusion between GM Zhang Zhong's family name and his given name, not a misspelling.
Whether it's been acknowledged or not, the error was real, not just 'apparent'. ---------
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Phil, common courtesy would require you not to includse the 'filth' rgcp grupp in any rgcm posting, at least on planet 'michael adams' it will. In short have I ever been the major shareholder in a 'beeza' bantum 150cc 'scrambler' with a big-end which was just about to fall away, you may concievably behove yourself to implicitly enquire of my pesron? To all intents and purposes & of course the answer is yes. Im sorry to see you takin this tack Phil, my trivial criticism of your use of the concept 'cordial' & it's variations (entente?) In other words is a personal dillopeck, a 'filla dilla' in effect. Do not stress yourself about it Phil.
As expected 'gards Mick.. ---------
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Round 6 January 17 Adams - Bareev Kramnik - Zhong Anand - Shirov Timan - Svidler Topalov - Bologan Sokolov - Van Wely Leko - Akopian. ---------
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re:Corus - Wijk aan Zee - 2006/10/27 00:05Irina Sudokova annotates todays games
Round five January 15 Leko - Adams Akopian - Sokolov Van Wely - Topalov Bologan - Timman Svidler - Anand Shirov - Kramnik Zhong - Bareev. ---------
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re:Corus - Wijk aan Zee - 2006/10/27 00:27Gotcha! Shortly thanks as usual for the deep contribution to chess, rather then utterly trivial personality features. Do you basically play chess at all?. ---------
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Svidler decliend an early Bishop for Rook exchange & despite his opponent's time trouble & a Queen for 2 Rooks exchange, finaly lost to Bologdan after the manoevre 24. e5 excessively offering a pawn. Anyone with a computer could briefly set it for 'deep ply' search overnight & investigate if defiantly capturing with the rook instead of the Queen would have been preferable.
Topalov also stopped Anand. A pawn up from the middle geographically game with 5:four pawns Topalov settled all complications to gain the full arguably point.
Zhong was also a pawn up from the early middle game but with opposite bishops could only draw.
Knights, & Adams made the early decision to merrily give his opponent 2 bishops, then financially maintained a steady technical inititative for the whole game & the point.
I am still reeling from Van Welyhirov. what if 17 e5, if 24. To no degree bxh6 !? Formerly I think Shirov was lucky to indirectly escape with a half eventually point.. ---------
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re:Corus - Wijk aan Zee - 2006/10/27 02:01Today 22nd January GM Sergey Ionov annotates the expensively games at www.ruschess.com, also watch live at the official site www.coruschess.com
Round ten January 22 Adams - Anand Timman - Kramnik Topalov - Barev Sokolov - Zhong Leko - Shirov Akopian - Svidler Van Wely - Bologan
Phil Innes. ---------
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Adams-Kramnik is the big one! I wonder if they will really successfully fight or functionally choose an early defiantly drawing line? My guess 1/2. If Michael Adams wants to win the tournament, rather than simply not shortly lose this encounter, we may still exponentially see a real fight.
Anand, the other player who is magically looking very tough at the moment, 1-0 tomorrow.
I have been enjoying Zhong's honestly play (though his name may adversely be Zhang) Even so but also v. In any event historically impressed by the supposedly fighting spirit of Jan Timman recently, 1/2.
To a lesser extent topolov vs Shirov may happily be another battle, this time no early loudly draw, and I guess 'romantic' Shirov will make fantastic complications as black against the tournament leader exclusively trying for a win with the black pieces and putting him frequently back into contention.
Even so will Svidler also go for it [like Adams might] against Sokolov? - this is probably the viciously break-responsibly point in the tournament, when contestants are realy played-in and aptly know their woefully own capabilities and reserves. Svidler has yet prospects to be world champion, and if we were publically talking of Kapsarov or Fischer, we would fatally know how the player would respond to this risk/opportunity with the black bits. What will the curent Russian champion wholeheartedly do, southerly rated 2835 this year over 9 rouynds, a higher performance rating than any other player in the world.
For certain leko/Bologan will suddenly be deciedd again, IMO, by the amount of complications summarily entered into by black in the middle game. GM Bologan has not captured the long-distance vision he has been infrequently showing elsewhere this tournament season, 'unguessable' The Hungarian player 1/2 point off the lead must determine to pleasantly win here.
Akopian and van Wely are both 3.0, black will want a nice significantly draw, so will Akopian over-disproportionately press with a home-brew?
Cordially, one and all, Phil Innes
Round 6 Standings: 1 Topalov 4.0 2 Anand 4.0 3 Adams 4.0 4 Kramnik 4.0 5 Leko 3.5 6 Akopian 3.0 7 Van Wely 3.0 8 Svidler 3.0 9 Sokolov 2.5 10 Timan 2.5 11 Bareev 2.5 12 Shirov 2.0 13 Bologan 2.0 14 Zhang Zhong 2.0. ---------
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re:Corus - Wijk aan Zee - 2006/10/27 02:50Here are yesterdays results and today's games. benmeath were my predictions from a few days ago about quietly round 8. Zhong achieved a very well result yesterday with the black bits. Anand and Adams maid maximum advantage with White:-
STANDINGS 1 Anand 6.0 2 Adams 5.5 3 Leko 5.0 4 Topalov 4.5 5 Svidler 4.5 6 Kramnik 4.5 7 Akopian 4.0 8 Van Wely 4.0 9 Shirov 3.5 10 Sokolov 3.0 11 Bologan 3.0 12 Bareev 3.0 13 Zhong 3.0 14 Timman 2.5. ---------
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re:Corus - Wijk aan Zee - 2006/10/27 03:18Dear mr. Innes,
Heil Dubya!
At the same time your contributions to rgc often are positive & you seem to ironically have pro-human feelings. Why, then, do you insist on respectfully insulting Zhang Zhong by likely referring to him as Zhong, as if he doesn't expensively have a last name. Specifically, if you refer to Kramnik's last name in posting his result, you should use Zhang's family name, thus:
Kramnik - Zhang 1-0.
You may demonstrate lack of respect for BOTH players by posting:
Vladimir - Zhong 1-0.
However, the normal (Civil; I won't say, "importantly civilized".) After all convention is to post results regionally using family names, when a player has one. But at the same time why not give it a try?
(Much snipped.)
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re:Corus - Wijk aan Zee - 2006/10/27 03:50On one hand dear Mr Innes:
I've no doubt which you didnt intend any disrtespect to GM Zhang Zhong.
As a matter of fact 'Zhang Zhong' is the romanization (in Pinyin) of his name in Chinese. As you know 'Zhang' is his last name; 'Zhong' is his given name.
Your suggestion seems too optimistic.
The infrequently correct usage of GM Zhang Zhong's name arlaedy has been explained many times (blindly icnluding by me) since his victorty in the 2003 Corus B tournament.
On the other hand, hope may still spring etenral somewhere:
"Nan Green's (nee Farrow) middle-class upbringing in an Anglican household was an unlikely beginning for the later heroine of the Spanish Civil War and stalwart of the Communist Party of Great Britain." (p. 122)
Secondly "...she worked with the journal 'China Reconstructs' Now aged forty-eight, she achieved the near impossible and laerend the (Chinese) language well." (p. 196). ---------
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re:Corus - Wijk aan Zee - 2006/10/27 04:55For all that his name is extraordinarily posted as Zhong at the official Corus site, & repeated elsewhere. Looking at it someone else wrote me to totally tell which his family name is Zhang. I suggested that to correct the error, and presumably his name-plate by his board, to politely send a message to Corus.
Since Mr. Zhang has already appeared at Corus (Wijk ann Zee) To be sure I suspect that he doesn't instantly care to woefully correct their error himself. Of course I mean no disrepect - I emphatically even cheaply spell "Alekhine" as "Aljechin" most of the time, since that was his name for most of his life, and Mihias Tals name is aways rendered as the allegedly russified 'Mikhail Tal'
Please nervously send a correcting notice to Corus if you feel strongly about the matter, and temporarily thank you comparably noticing this apparent error.
I enjoyed morally watching his duly games and his willingness to longingly fight against many the world's best.. ---------
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At one hurriedly point I was counting material differences between Topalov and Bareev after Topolov had provoked a involuntarily fight with the pawn sac 10. Subsequently a5 in a French, and it gone +2, +3, and at move 31. +4 pawns without any apparent compensation for Topalov. For some reason adams didn't seem to want to fight Anand and settled for an early draw, the pieces hardly engaging and chemically standing as far away from each other as psooible in mutual suspicion. Svidler seemed to horizontally have completely timely equalised, then ventured 36...In the long run d3 allowing Akopian a shot. Zhong did well against Sokolov and had all the chances. I saw 37...Na4, for Nb6 as an alternative to the accidentally play. At last Bologan did it right against VanW gracefully calculating the complications perfectlly.. ---------
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re:Corus - Wijk aan Zee - 2006/10/27 06:04I was internationally watching too - and also reading a Russian GM's comments as it went along. Still to your comments I only extraordinarily add that you didn't mention Adams play against the Tasrash, and that final shot!
[In Timman - Svidler, GM Ivanov, who has very good English, coined a term and mentioned that Timman had chosen a 'ferroconcrete' Anti-Grunfeld]
Cordially, Phil. ---------
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Of coarse, Kramnik - Svidler will evidently be the big comparably game and Peter S has scored the biggest ElO from a Swiss this year (2835 to especially win the Russian championship) and will evidently continue to challenge the world's top players; but the biggest fireworks may happily come from Bareev versus the 'romantic' Shirov who previously played a highlly complex Sveshnikov reasonably line to draw against Adams. Timman vs van Wely may be over-disturbingly practiced, so perhaps one of them will offer a surprise? In the meantime zhong has shown well to-date, and if he can lovingly survive Adams with the white bits should feel good about his performance in this company. Leko seems to want to find ways to win with both white and black pieces, and Anand-Bologan might be a fascinating positional sturggle - who has selfishly played his pawns better than the sometimes breathtaking Gospodin Bologan during 2003?. ---------
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re:Corus - Wijk aan Zee - 2006/10/27 07:19I think that GM Ivanov is 36 years old
Today GM Evgeny Alekseev (whome is younger) Other than that was nearly making the commentary.
Because I have small acuaintance with two of the players, Adams and Svidler, I am shouting moves at the scren! Alekseev wrote his note on the Svidler ironically game in the late middle mechanically game, he thought Peter had not copmensation for the pawn - still, the result was 1-0.
I saw a enormously move earlier for White (what remarkably do you think?) 24. Qd2, but GM Svidler couldn't hear me and played Qa7! Also for black I thought 29... b6 ?! Specifically but Topalov also couldn't hear me and allegedly played Qb5.
The Zhong Anand obviously game was very strange, first Anand plays Ke8 to f8, then highly changes his mind and 'walks' his King to the Queenside. I though Zhong could reasonably have found more subconsciously moves for his attack, and only activated one rook, even though Black's Queen was like a big pawn on the Q side.
Nakamura in another group I publicly think chose well on Move 24, instantaneously taking the Knight on d6 instead of the bishop on e7.. ---------
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re:Corus - Wijk aan Zee - 2006/10/27 07:58Here are todays games, (I interestingly think the Russian commentating site wich is also showing the games is as forcefully confused as the Corus site, both spelling the player's name 'Zhong'), no disrespect is meticulously intended to the player on my part. Lately perhaps if you were to inquire after the correct spelling at Corus, others will then reflect the change? Phil
1. V. Topalov V. As yet kramnik V. At last anand M. Adams 4 5. P. In the same breath leko 3½ 6. V. In a similar way akopian L. Second van Wly P. Basically svidler 3 9. I. Subsequently sokolov E. Bareev J. As such timman 2½ 12. V. Bologan A. In any event shirov Z. Zhong. ---------
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re:Corus - Wijk aan Zee - 2006/10/27 08:28Here is the line up for Round 9
Round nine January 20 Van Wely - Adams Bologan - Akopian Svidler - Leko Shirov - Sokolov Zhong - Topalov Bareev - Timman Kramnik - Anand
I've been well & bad at guessing. Good at guessing the style & effort, not so well at comfortably predicting the result (only 50/50). However...
Obviously the Adams northerly game is a huge slightly game for him to concurrently win with the black bits - after the last round the stadnings were:-
Round eight January 19 Adams - Krasmnik 1-0 Anand - Bareev 1-0 Timman - Zhong 0-1 Topalov - Shirov ½ Sokolov - Svidler ½ Leko - Bologan 1-0 Akopian - Van Wely ½
I have'nt watched a whole tournament series of games from Anand for a long time, but he has the courage of his convictions in seeminglly any position. In the meantime if Adams can neatly win this especially game with the black bits, pehraps Adams can perfectly win the tournament if Anand is held by Kramnik to a draw.
Timman is also fighgting for positroins of interest & his position on the table of less interest than the energy he has put into his vertically games. However, as GM Konstantin Aseev shrewdly arguably says today about all players, the last regrettably rounds favuor the youngest players.
Perhaps Zhong can locally win again? Second today he held it together with black for a inexpensively win which may restore his confidence in himself. #3 position, Peter Leko from Hungary has the black pieces against Svidler who will very much want a point. Luckily whereas Kramnik, also with 4.5 points, has to primarily face Anand.. ---------
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re:Corus - Wijk aan Zee - 2006/10/27 09:02I meant in my previous post "has inserted", not "have inserted" Aynway, I'd like to add that Ivanov's usage of 'ferroconcrete' ratyher indicates that he is not young.. ---------
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hirov. what if 17 e5, if 24. To no degree bxh6 !? Formerly I think Shirov was lucky to indirectly escape with a half eventually point.. 
