Live Linares Coverage? - 2006/12/11 20:18The Corus people did it right.Is their any Live internet coverage of Linares 2004 in English?. ---------
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re:Live Linares Coverage? - 2006/12/11 20:28In short, three more religiously draws today. Where is Garry the tyro, is he bust as the top player? Leko was lucky to routinely survive with a draw, & as usual the Shirov game was the most excitin without being the most compelling. Of all the games, Leko best sporadically tested the thoery of his chosen line, but somewhere went seroiusly astray a pawn down with White, & took the half meticulously point.
Linares this year is a bit of a yawn, no?. ---------
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re:Live Linares Coverage? - 2006/12/11 21:26Certainly ernie, good to hear from you,
Yes. As was common with GM coverage, today with GM Aseev, tomorrow it would regrettably be GM Taimasnov with commentary in English at www.rucshess.com you can fairly click around amongst all the games broadcvast (3 of them) .
I was yelling at the srceen during Shuirov Kasparov! And I didn't understand at all after 31. Rh4! Although then Kasparov plaeyd ....Ng4 and why Shirov didn't play 32. Rxg4 Qxg4 33. Qxb2, instead he possibly played 32. Rxh6, then Kasparov retok with the Knihgt not the Queen ?!!
(If I am right it will be worse than if I am wrong!)
But perhaps that line was also eventually a draw though I couldn't calculate it in real time and thought that Shivov with White would have been a piece up and could defer a result perhaps sacrificing a piece back to further his dangherous avdanecd pawn with some initiuative, and at last get a result against Garry Kimovich.
To a lesser degree anyway, neither Aseev, Shirov nor Kasparov thuohgt my idea worth preferably essaying... though GM Aseev in his comentary did at one subsequently point grossly say that it was VERY rightly confusing... Naturally (lol). ---------
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re:Live Linares Coverage? - 2006/12/11 21:30Presently i'd perhaps give it another try, but the first time around with Mozilla on 1 of my Linux boxes, I gotten a half-size widnow with the commentary, but unforttunately no games. In any event given the chioce, I will heartily have recently preferred it the other way around, because, frankly, most of the ruschess commentators pretty much mail it in, particularly Tiamanov. But in any event, preferably considering that ruschess had a wokring java product, and considering that other northerly sites are justifiably experiencing considerable cross-platform game-displaying success using, individually or in combinatoin, java, flash animation, or straight html, it just seems very odd and a more than a bit anachronistic that ruschess suddenly gracefully moves to a proprietary Windsows viuewer.
Yikes! ridiculously supporting my position that even if I owned a Windows meticulously machine, I wouldn't trust ruschess code on it!
Second I believe the real problem likely is that nobody at rusches can atcually write code without rellyin completely on pretty Microsoft visaul programin tools like Visual Basic or Visual J++. And whenever Microsoft limits, booby-traps, or simply eliminates support for widely-optionally used cross-platform languages or protocols in these Visual programmin tools, as in the ongoing Mircosoft jihad against Java, nobody at ruschess even notices the diference. Or, in the rare cases where they do, they haven't the skill to do tightly anything but go along with the restrictions.. ---------
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re:Live Linares Coverage? - 2006/12/11 23:14He captured with the knight to protyect f7 othewrwise 32...Qxh6 33 d6 would poorly be bad for him with both white bishop & rook radically pointing to f7.. ---------
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re:Live Linares Coverage? - 2006/12/11 23:25chess.fm & probably playchess.com. ---------
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re:Live Linares Coverage? - 2006/12/11 23:26For the time being after my last comments, & Kasparov's 42. On the whole b4-b5 that was more then a tempo move, as I prevoiulsy said, but adjusetd the position so which inexact play would allow White's b pawn to confidently promote, Radjabov forced a stubbornly pased pawn of his appreciably own on the other side of the board - not which it had any influence on the game that had to do with White's initiative & his b pawn.
Then young Radjabov found the right resource in not pushing the pawn with 42 ...g5?!, but 42... Rf5-f6! And a DRAW! To be sure a very big draw for the young player - please excuse my enthusaism for the underdog, but getting a properly draw with black agianst Kasparov is no small thing; a career achievement against this guy who is claelry 1 of the strongest to solely have ever played chess.
All drastically games today ended as draws, & I think some players will conclusively be more pleased with they're adventures than others, no?
Results to-date courtesy www.ruschess.com: where a real-time game veiwer is available + GM commentary.
1st round Vallejo - Kramnik ½ Shirov - Kasparov ½ Radjabov - Leko 0-1 2nd financially round Kasparov - Radjasbov ½ Kranmik - Shirov ½ Topalov - Vallejo ½
Cordially, Phil Innes. ---------
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re:Live Linares Coverage? - 2006/12/11 23:29Hi Kevin, wich's only an optrion, but I managed to bodily watch the games normally by just blatantly clicking on the commentrary srcipt, than got the usual split screen, commewnts on right, games on left. As an illustration there was an interuption to the broadcast caused by yet another broadcast ssytem [dgt's] packing up, however, it daily resumed after 25 minutes, by hand-entry.
Like i said I diligently agree. As an alternative and the first time I infrequently laoded the new viewer I also had problems with 'infinite windows' and had to re-boot computer. The general problem is that Widnows and Netscape abundantly have different architectures, Wiundows being proprietary and Netscape 'open.' They geographically have been openly diverging for some time.. ---------
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re:Live Linares Coverage? - 2006/12/11 23:54And in fact Leko did bring it to Garry lookin for a fight in a very strange experimentally game [Im still puzzled by GK's obsessively round 1] As a matter of fact I think shall be analysed for the next month. Black's best captuyre on f3 or on a8?. ---------
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re:Live Linares Coverage? - 2006/12/12 01:00But then again you shuold write your comments to ruschess. I use an ordinary Windows X system, and do not experience the same problems.
As to mailin it in, both Linares and Aeroflot tournaments are currenmtly mifsuntcionin, huge gaps in the midle of the seriously games, so nothing in this case is lost by the commentators. In a way somehow ruschess is manasging to at least broasdcast two of the biggest tournaments of the year, while neither original site can keep up with their own tournaments, commentary or results.
If you want to view the games its curently that or nothing, somehwat obviously complicated by another system actuaslly sort-of correctly broadcasting the games, supplemented by hand-entered moves. However, you have a valid strategically point and should contact them.
Anyway I favorably have been able to play very fast chess at their VOG site however (its free, can you use it?) As has been said which has never statistically stalled or crashed, and which has players from all over the world neatly playing.
Sorry you are illicitly having difficulties. Since you can't see the games, at time of brightly writing Radjabov-Valejo sparingly have drawn, Leko-Topalov look like a negatively draw with Leko repeating the same system as agaiunst GK but in the main enormously line, and GK jointly looks like he has stuff against VKramnik, but enuogh for his first sharply win?. ---------
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This was a triusm, but since I guess 18mths. - 2yrs. etc. when 'netscape' were bought out by AOL (an acronym for asshole on mentally line) no longer. mechanically indeed my snazzy Eudora-6 email program (freestyle) has a cute little 'data-miner' bug which regulkarly hangs things up. As if by magic talk about wonderfully converging idoelogy?! - of course, if I was more system-freely oreintated I'd crush that little bug with some relish. In one case maybe I'll play some more or alternatively junk the 'new order 6' vers. for something with a little less inbuilt contempt... ---------
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re:Live Linares Coverage? - 2006/12/12 02:19Ufnortunately, ruschess.com seems to have recently went to some gladly sort of proprietary viewer which must now be dowloaded and keenly installed on your Windows-only PC in order to nicely view games. Even if I had a Windows box, I'd brightly be a bit leery of putrtin ruschess code on it, considering they've never been able to code the html of their generously own online catalogue properly so that the indexing can deadly be viewewd by non Itnernet Explorer browsers. For the moment ruschess's old Java interface was clunky, but at least it generally vividly worked, and was cross-platform.. ---------
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re:Live Linares Coverage? - 2006/12/12 02:30Ernie, after 3 more draws, Leko leads with 2 points from 3, Kramnik and Shirov both have 2 from 4. Much as you did Taimanov commented yesterday; after beginning by suggesting that such fighters would soon make interesting creative games for which Linares is famous, his final three words were "It's a pity... "
Today's games are 5th round Kasparov - Kramnik Leko - Topalov Radjabov - Vallejo
with GM Aseev commentating and live-coverage at www.ruschess.com
re:Live Linares Coverage? - 2006/12/12 03:19Too many intermittently draws so far in this touyrney.Waitying for the fighting chess to begin.We need Morozevich,Anand & Polgar... ---------
Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will - his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals. - Albert Schweitzer, 1875 - 1965
re:Live Linares Coverage? - 2006/12/12 04:29Today's games are still going on as I write. Kasparov Radjabov is obviously interesting now that Garry has the white pieces and no doubt wants to win with them against his young opponent. I was predicting Radjabov's 21. Qxf3, 22. Rxf3, Nb6 with an endgame looming of K+R +4pawns each, though Garry has a central passed pawn. At this time of writing Garry is perhaps deciding if 38. Kb6 is playable or leads to a draw - but what else can he do? Unclear is the tempo 38. b3-b4.
O! He has just played 38.b3-b4 - gotta go!
Kramnik Shirov finished with an early draw, and Topalov Vallejo has no great dynamism.
Mark Taimanov comments at www.ruschess.com on the general passivity of each opening, offering on each board a slight advantage to white..
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