Kamsky won the second game of the match yesterday. That second game was a very interesting and closely-contested encounter that featured attacks and counter-attacks by both sides and will likely attract much high level commentary. Several sources have already provided extensive annotations to the game, and I will try to add others as they appear:
- Sergey Shipov live at the Tournament website
- Dorian Rogozenko at ChessBase
- Dennis Monokroussos at The Chess Mind
- Peter Doggers at Chess Vibes
- Malcolm Pein in the Telegraph
- Jennifer Shahade at USCF.org
Updated at 11:00 Sunday-- thanks for the corrections and additional links.
5 comments:
Small correction, winner of this match will play Veselin Topalov in some sort of semifinal, to finally challenge winner of Kramnik-Anand in 2009.
Chessdom has live text commentary on the games. It started with Kamsky-Adly in round one etc. For people who speak Russian, chesspro.ru will be the top choice.
Thanks for the correction and the link, Goran! I have always found it difficult sorting out FIDE's world championship plans....
:-)
The official tournament site also posts extensive commentary (by Shipov):
http://www.ugra-chess.ru/eng/main_e.htm
Thanks for the notes: I have updated my post to include them, along with the result of today's game, just announced.
... and Gata drew comfortably today to win the match! A great performance by the comeback kid. I hope we see a lot more of him in the coming decade.
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