Publisher: New In Chess, 2004
Edition: Magazine Pages: 96 Language: English
A superior Vishy Anand 4.0 swept the field in Wijk aan Zee.
Thirteen-year-old crowd-puller Magnus Carlsen made his first GM norm.
Brazil’s Giovanni Vescovi returned to Bermuda to achieve one of his finest results to date.
Nigel Short proved that he’s back among the best in Mumbai and Gibraltar.
SOS: Grünfeld 4.h4: Still following a central strategy.
CONTENT
SUPERIOR ANAND FOUR-TIME WINNER It may sound like a facile conclusion after all the fighting’s been done, but everyone who visited the 2004 Corus festival must have felt that it was Vishy Anand’s tournament from the word go. There may have been some scary moments for the Indian star and there was even a rare loss that ended an undefeated streak of 70(!) games in Wijk aan Zee, but all along he was the touchstone for the others. An on-the-spot report with loads of great analysis.
ONE YEAR TO PREPARE One of the most attractive tournaments in the world is a ‘side-event’. Lazaro Bruzon from Cuba won the Corus Grandmaster B group and automatically qualified for next year’s main section.
MAGNIFICENT MAGNUS In the shadow of the stars, arguably the greatest crowd-puller in De Moriaan was 13-year-old Magnus Carlsen. In his own words the Norwegian boy wonder describes the sweeping victory in the Grandmaster C group that brought him his first GM norm.
NIGEL SHORT, COMMONWEALTH CHAMPION! If you ever doubted how to address Nigel Short, you no longer have to worry. Henceforth the Englishman will be delighted if you call him Commonwealth Champion.
SADLER ON BOOKS
SHAKEN, NOT STIRRED Last year’s hurricane shook the physical foundation of the Bermuda Chess Festival, but failed to break the spirit of the organizers. A fine tradition continued and Brazil’s Giovanni Vescovi scored a well-deserved victory.
SHORT ALSO ROCKS GIBRALTAR Fresh from his win in Mumbai, Nigel Short provided further evidence that he’s back among the best with an unbeaten 8/10 in Gibraltar. Jonathan Rowson is your guide to this small corner of the British Empire and the best games of Short’s road to victory.
PATENTING THE KING’S INDIAN Have you ever wondered how many chess-related patents there are? Frank Petersen, an expert on patents and a great chess fan, will give you an idea.
S.O.S.: A FLANK ATTACK AGAINST THE GRÜNFELD
CRAWLING TO THE CHESS KING Where he is we do not know exactly, but his story keeps being told. Hans Ree read two recently published books on Bobby Fischer.
THE STRONGER THE PLAYER... Jan Timman looks at the praise and criticism of Garry Kasparov’s My Great Predecessors.
JUST CHECKING Guess who is Giovanni Vescovi’s favourite player of all time?
Did they play your opening?
In this issue games with the following openings were annotated by world class players:
Sicilian Stellwagen-Tiviakov, by Stellwagen Shabalov-Gelfand, by Shabalov Carlsen-Popov, by Carlsen Svidler-Topalov, by Svidler Akopian-Kramnik, by Akopian Macieja-Movsesian, by Movsesian Adams-Kramnik, by Adams Short-Inarkiev, by Rowson Short-Pogorelov, by Rowson Carlsen-Werle, by Carlsen
French Anand-Bareev, by Anand Short-Harikrishna, by Short
Caro-Kann Ganguly-Speelman, by Ganguly Carlsen-Ernst, by Carlsen
Petroff Anand-Shirov, by Anand
Ruy Lopez Short-Harikrishna, by Rowson Shirov-Sokolov, by Shirov Short-Ganguly, by Rowson Smirnov-Thipsay, by Short
Italian Game Tiviakov-Fressinet, by Fressinet
Slav Vescovi-Gelfand, by Vescovi Gelfand-Shabalov, by Gelfand Granda Zuniga-Dominguez, by Dominguez
