Author: Mike Byrne
Date: 18:28:47 07/05/04
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On July 05, 2004 at 18:49:40, Anthony Cozzie wrote: >On July 05, 2004 at 16:25:38, mike tubbs wrote: > >>On July 05, 2004 at 10:34:36, Mike Byrne wrote: >> >>>[Event "FIDE Championship"] >>>[Site "Tripoli, Libya"] >>>[Date "2004.07.05"] >>>[Round "?"] >>>[White "Kasimdzhanov(UZB)"] >>>[Black "Topalov(BUL)"] >>>[Result "*"] >>>[ICCResult "Game in progress"] >>>[WhiteElo "2652"] >>>[BlackElo "2737"] >>>[Opening "Sicilian defense"] >>>[ECO "B40"] >>>[NIC "SI.43"] >>>[Time "09:42:14"] >>>[TimeControl "1500+10"] >>> >>>1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 e6 3. b3 b6 4. d4 cxd4 5. Nxd4 Bb7 6. Bd3 Bc5 7. Be3 Qf6 8. >>>c3 Nc6 9. Bc2 Nxd4 10. cxd4 Bb4+ 11. Kf1 Rc8 12. a3 Be7 13. h4 e5 14. dxe5 >>>Qxe5 15. Bd4 Qc7 16. Nc3 Nf6 17. Rh3 O-O 18. e5 Nd5 19. Qg4 g6 20. h5 f5 21. >>>Bxf5 Nf4 22. Rg3 >>> >>>[d]2r2rk1/pbqpb2p/1p4p1/4PB1P/3B1nQ1/PPN3R1/5PP1/R4K2 b - - 0 22 >>> >>>whith this win (likely) Kasimdzhanov moves to the finals - note the bizarre >>>opening - 20....f5 set up the nice tacital shot 21.Bxf5! >> >> >> >>Some unknown scrub comes out of the blue and beats my hero. > >That is what happens when you have a knockout with a few games at short >timecontrol and blitz tiebreaks. > >anthony I watch the game live -- even though it was officially action chess - so much time was spending in the opening - the middle game was played essentially like speed chess - 10 seconds or so per move. Once they get down to quarerfinals, forget the speed chess, let's play chess at normal time controls for all the games. Just my $.02
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