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Daily Chess Lesson: Pearl Springs and Next Week

Hello again!
The Pearl Springs Tournament continues, and is up to round 8 as of today. Since this could go on for a long time, I don’t think we are going to cover the entire tournament here. If, however, you found the previous two posts about the tournament to be interesting, you can find the main [...]

Chess Games 4, 5, and 6: Pearl Springs Tournament Round 2

The second round of the tournament took place last Friday, on the 12th.  The same six players were at it again, only with different opponents. Here are the matchups:

Topalov vs. Bu Xiangzhi
Aronian vs. Ivanchuk
Svidler vs. Movsesian

And here are the three games, just like yesterday:

[Event "Pearl Spring"]
[Site "Nanjing CHN"]
[Date "2008.12.12"]
[Round "2"]
[White "Svidler, P."]
[Black "Movsesian, S."]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO [...]

Chess Game 1, 2, and 3: Pearl Springs Tournament Nanjing

Now let’s look at some real games. The following three games took place last week on December 11th in Nanjing, China. The Pearl Spring Chess Tournament is currently underway in Nanjing from December 10th to 22nd (2008). Among the players are Veselin Topalov, Vassily Ivanchuk, Levon Aronian, Sergei Movsesian, Peter Svidler, and Bu Xianghzi.
Since [...]

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