Tired?
A running report by Jonathan Tisdall - for the
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Round Four, Day One
The question begs to be asked - Is the strain
starting to show? A lot of relatively quick results
today, and the vast majority of them peaceful.
Anand continues to take no chances with black, and
was quite content to let miracle man Macieja
split the point. Shirov looked rather nervous with
White and Gelfand is not a favorite opponent either,
and peace was negotiated here as well.
Gulko - solid against Bareev - and Adams-Svidler
has playoff written all over it.
Sluggers
A lot of people don't really notice Alexei Dreev.
The guy is not glamorous, he really is very
strong indeed, and a bit of an iron man when it
comes to chess stamina. He will usually be found
laboring in intricate endings after trading endless
wins and losses in quadruple overtime, but he seems
to have an unquenchable appetite for the game.
How else to explain how a man that really
should be getting tired can crush someone like Topalov?
Like a bug? And Topalov has shown truly fine form
so far.
There was fantastic entertainment in the
game Morozevich-Tkachiev where Black sacrificed
a piece very early in a Center Counter/Scandinavian
(don't see that often) and kept Morozevich's king
uncomfortably pinned in the center throughout.
A draw by mutual terror resulted after Tkachiev
wasn't getting any closer to Moro's king, and Moro's
king wasn't getting any nearer comfort
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