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European Individual Championship 2011

Judit Polgar: "I love chess"

Judit Polgar: “I love chess”

By mishanp on April 12, 2011

While Vladimir Potkin’s transformation from coach into major tournament winner was impressive, perhaps the most popular story of the recent European Championship was Judit Polgar’s spectacular return to form. After the event she gave an interview to Evgeny Surov of Chess-News.

Posted in Russian | Tagged European Individual Championship 2011, Karpov, Kasparov, Polgar, Potkin, Surov | 7 Responses

Vladimir Potkin, European Champion | photo: aixlesbains2011.fr

Vladimir Potkin on chess coaching and cheating

By mishanp on April 8, 2011

In an interview given after becoming European Individual Champion, Vladimir Potkin talks about how he won, what it means for his “day job” of coaching Ian Nepomniachtchi, and gives his view on the cheating scandal that was the talk of the town in Aix-les-Bains.

Posted in Russian | Tagged Aronian, cheating, Efimenko, European Individual Championship 2011, Feller, Jobava, Levitov, Nepomniachtchi, Olympiad, Parligras, Polgar, Potkin, Shipov, Timofeev, Vasiliev | Leave a response

Shipov's final letter from Aix-les-Bains

Shipov’s final letter from Aix-les-Bains

By mishanp on April 3, 2011

For his last report from the European Individual Chess Championship, Sergey Shipov focussed on the role of coaches, which was particularly apt given that a coach, Russian GM Vladimir Potkin, won the title! Shipov also summed up his impressions of the event as a whole.

Posted in Russian | Tagged Chuchelov, Crestbook, European Individual Championship 2011, Kovalev, Nepomniachtchi, Potkin, Shipov, Sulypa, Zontakh | 1 Response

Danailov's dances

Danailov’s dances

By mishanp on March 31, 2011

In Sergey Shipov’s latest report from the European Championship in Aix-les-Bains he returned to the issue of cheating in chess, after discussing it with the President of the ECU, Silvio Danailov. Their conversation seems to shed new light on the open letter that was published yesterday.

Posted in Russian | Tagged cheating, Crestbook, Danailov, European Individual Championship 2011, Feller, Khalifman, Shipov, Wirig | 6 Responses

Jolanta Zawadzka, playing in Aix-les-Bains, won this year's Polish Championship | photo: www.mp2011.pl

On women

By mishanp on March 30, 2011

When the European Women’s Championship was postponed, many women decided to take part in the men’s event as well. Sergey Shipov reports on how that changes the chess (and social!) dynamics, and analyses a stunning win by the strongest female player in history, Judit Polgar.

Posted in Russian | Tagged Crestbook, European Individual Championship 2011, Pantsulaia, Polgar, Shipov, Sokolov, Zawadzka | Leave a response

Alexander Khalifman in Aix-les-Bains

What the press don’t write about

By mishanp on March 29, 2011

If you heard that Sergey Shipov’s sixth letter from Aix-les-Bains was about an ex-World Champion and bathroom visits… you’d come to completely the wrong conclusion! Shipov talks about the European Championship venue, and the down-to-earth reality of grandmaster life.

Posted in Russian | Tagged Beliavsky, Crestbook, European Individual Championship 2011, Gallagher, Kasparov, Khalifman, Shipov, time control | Leave a response

The Massacre of the Innocents - Nicolas Poussin

The massacre of the innocents

By mishanp on March 29, 2011

We all know that computers have transformed chess, but in his Round 5 letter from the European Individual Championship in Aix-les-Bains, Sergey Shipov gave a particularly graphic account of how computer analysis can render strong grandmasters utterly helpless against apparently weaker opponents.

Posted in Russian | Tagged computers, Crestbook, European Individual Championship 2011, Fedorchuk, Feller, Kasparov, Kramnik, Martinovic, Shipov, Svidler | 2 Responses

Feller at the Olympiad | photo: ugra-chess.com

How can you play against Feller?

By mishanp on March 28, 2011

For his third letter from the European Individual Chess Championship, Sergey Shipov addressed the issue of 20-year-old GM Sebastien Feller, who’s taking part despite having been found guilty of cheating at the Olympiad in Khanty Mansiysk by the French Chess Federation.

Posted in Russian | Tagged Bacrot, Crestbook, European Individual Championship 2011, Feller, Hauchard, Marzolo, Olympiad, Romanishin, Shipov | 3 Responses

First impressions from Aix-les-Bains

First impressions from Aix-les-Bains

By mishanp on March 27, 2011

In his first two reports from the European Individual Championship in Aix-les-Bains, Sergey Shipov described arriving in the small French town, and also addressed the failure of the favourites to dominate their much lower-rated opponents in the first round.

Posted in Russian | Tagged Crestbook, European Individual Championship 2011, Jakovenko, Shipov, Sjugirov, Svidler | 3 Responses

The future belongs to 1. g3!

The future belongs to 1. g3!

By mishanp on March 26, 2011

Sergey Shipov was inspired to make that declaration after watching Peter Svidler play the move in the fourth round of the European Individual Chess Championship in Aix-les-Bains, France. Shipov, coaching at the event, is posting regular reports at Crestbook.

Posted in Russian | Tagged Crestbook, European Individual Championship 2011, Karpov, Kobzon, Kramnik, Mastrovasilis, Sadler, Shipov, Svidler | 10 Responses

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