After the Anand – Gelfand match ended in a 6:6 tie the World Championship will now be decided in today’s tie-breaks. Shipov will attempt to cover the four rapid games live at Crestbook in his usual text format, and you can follow a real-time translation into English here at Chess in Translation.
Anand couldn't win the final game to avoid tie-breaks | photo: Anastasia Karlovich
The tie-break format is:
- A four-game rapid match, with a time control of 25 minutes + 10 seconds increment per player.
- If that doesn’t produce a winner then up to five two-game blitz matches will be played, with a time control of 5 minutes + 3 seconds per player.
- If five matches are played without a winner then the players will play a single Armageddon game, where White has 5 minutes to Black’s 4 but a draw will count as a win for the player with Black.
The links to Sergey Shipov’s live commentary – in English translation – can be found at the following page:
great effort man! especially like the way you’ve prepared links to the 4 rapid games (was wondering how you’d do this). again, great effort! thanks (been a long time since i said that)!
Thanks! I wrote the post above with you in mind :) Yep, I tried to prepare everything in advance so I just had to edit separate PGN files – I could have used a single viewer but it would have been messy and it’d probably have ended with me deleting the file or some other disaster…
not doing the tal memorial?
hope u’re gonna put up some interviews, or atleast the post game analysis extracts (saw moroz munching away in Russian with a pretty (hot?) lady near him… missed an interpreter)
All these guys do speak english, why the hell do they have to munch Russian?
Hi, I went on holiday for a week, and now… see WhyChess again! I’d really recommend this Tal Memorial report by Evgeny Atarov with comments from Vlad Tkachiev (I don’t agree with everything, but it’s a very good read): http://www.whychess.org/en/node/1983
Talking about Morozevich and pretty ladies – the mention of his girlfriend here came as news to me… http://mateinmoscow.wordpress.com/2012/05/26/26-may-behind-the-scenes-part-2-vips-and-grandmasters/
I saw this link at a chessvibes report
http://video.russiachess.org/view/highlight/1055
And I keep changing the number at the end of this url to have a look at various videos. is there a link on the site that has a list of all such highlights?
Thanks!
I think this is what you want:
http://video.russiachess.org/
yep, didn’t think of that!! thanks!
this is soooo heart-wrenching. Have to read ‘i play against pieces’ one more time.
great work on the olympiad; loved the pre-rest-day photo report. pono found the chair too soft to sit on!! typical chess player…
Glad you like it! The photo reports are tough-going to translate as they’re packed with idioms and obscure references (well, obscure to me and non-Russians everywhere!), but hopefully the photos tell the story…
p.s. someday I must try and actually publish something at Chess in Translation!
Yes, please do resume posting here at Chess in Translation! Best chess reading on the net.
Hey Colin, will you return to post in WhyChess? or will you go back to this website?!
Hi,
I’ve started working for another company/site now but there might be quite a long wait until anything’s publicly visible. It’s possible I’ll occasionally publish things here.
Colin
Is your new website related to chess ?
We seriously do miss your posts.
Yep, it’s very much chess-related and I hope I can publish some of the sort of stuff I was doing here and at WhyChess.
Thats great !
Is the website active ?
No, it won’t be active for a while, unfortunately, but I’ll let you know when it is!