Morelia-Linares 2007 - Round 8

Morelia-Linares 2007 March, 2-10 [Transfer to Linares]   The Morelia - Linares tournament takes place 16th Feb - 11th March 2007. The Morelia half takes place 17th-25th February and Linares 2nd-10th March. The GMs participants are: Topalov, Anand, Leko, Svidler, Aronian, Ivanchuk, Morozevich and Carlsen.

Round-8: Linares ‘live’ (or not) - 4 draws
by Peter Doggers and Macauley Peterson at Chessvibes.com

The eighth round has been going on now for a while. Like the Mexicans two weeks ago, the Spaniards in Linares are having trouble as well broadcasting the moves live to the world. With the help of ICC and ChessPro I can present you at least some moves. (Refresh this page to stay up-to-date). One game is actually already finished: Aronian-Svidler. Guess 3 times which result.

Update: Unfortunately Anand-Topalov has ended in a draw rather quick too. Perhaps there are still signs of a jetlag in their bodies.

Update 2: The other two games have ended peacefully as well. They lasted a bit longer but nothing special happened there either. Morozevich-Carlsen was the most interesting game. No, round 6 was definitely the least so far.

Hopefully tomorrow the live games will be OK on the official site. I won’t be able to provide the service like I did today, since I have to play a game myself, for the Dutch league!

By the way, I can announce some nice stuff. Macauley Peterson, who’s working for ICC in Linares, took the Chessvibes camera with him and will try to provide daily videos. And tomorrow another team member will be present in Groningen (also with a camera!), where the top match in the Dutch league Share Dimension-HSG will be played. No one less than world champion Kramnik will make his debut for the Groningen team! So, some great stuff in the near future overe here.

Replay R-7 GM Christiansen [4:37 h]

FREE! GM Susan Polgar [2:09 h]

Chess.FM coverage
ICC will have daily live commentary of the second major of 2007, hosted by Mig Greengard, who will be joined by former World Chess Champion, GM Susan Polgar, with IM Jennifer Shahade, GM Jon Speelman, GM Larry Christiansen, GM Joel Benjamin, and GM Gregory Kaidanov.

R	Replay (english)	L	Live (english)	L	Live (español)	L	Live (français)

Sat, Mar 3 - R9 LISTEN HOST GUEST L 09:30 EST Mig Greengard GM Varuzhan Akobian L 09:30 EST Stéphane Laborde L 09:30 EST IM Alejo de Dovitiis R 17:00 EST Mig Greengard GM Varuzhan Akobian Sun, Mar 4 - R10 LISTEN HOST GUEST L 09:30 EST Mig Greengard GM Joel Benjamin L 09:30 EST Stéphane Laborde L 09:30 EST IM Alejo de Dovitiis WIM Alejandra Guerrero R 17:00 EST Mig Greengard GM Joel Benjamin "tell webcast english" - "tell webcast espanol" - "tell webcast francais"

• You have more information in the ICC LIVE COVERAGE page.
• Download the PGN games from TWIC.
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• Daily updates in the ICC Morelia-Linares section.
• Read the rules and prizes of the New in Chess Trivia Contest.
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• Morelia videos at Chessvibes.com.
  

The New in Chess Trivia Contest! Chess.FM ICC and New in Chess present The New in Chess Trivia Contest! Tune-in to Mig on ICC Chess.FM for our round-by-round coverage of Morelia-Linares 2007, and each round you could win a 1-year subscription to the world's best chess magazine. For more information and rules, visit our help page.

Round-1: Milo, Russianbear and then Grotesque was the winners for the month and the NIC subscription.
Round-2: tux68, andre, and LemonExtract was the winners for the month and the NIC subscription.
Round-3: TheMuffi, and nathanschulz was the winners for the month and the NIC subscription.
Round-4: camembert, and tux68 was the winners for the month and the ICC t-shirt.
Round-5: izit , Mindride, and slimslov was the winners for the month, the ICC t-shirt and the NIC subscription.
Round-6: StigK was the winners for the the NIC subscription.
Round-7: Russianbear was the winner for the ICC t-shirt and the NIC subscription.
Round-8: RueeLopaith, zenpawn, andAkselborg was the winners for the month, the ICC t-shirt and the NIC subscription.

Videos from Morelia at Chessvibes Chessvibes.com The Chessvibes team presents some fragments of the second round. Vassily Ivanchuk and Peter Leko seem to be the biggest wanderers. Especially Leko is quite interested in other positions. Also, the post-mortem games Anand-Svidler and Leko-Morozevich.

I WANT MY MTV..... March, 8 on MTV [8 pm pacific time]  ICC'S GM Varuzhan Akobian (SCORPION83) will feature shortly on MTV's  True Life series. The episode is entitled "I'm a Genius". Its going to be about his life and his chess accomplishments and they  even accompanied Varuzhan to his recent tournament in Mexico, where  he played at the Morelia open.  This is a high-profile show with  about 30 million viewers. It will be aired on MTV on March 8, at 8 pm pacific time, and will be reaired many times.

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Replays - Morelia Linares 2007 Chess.FM Round-3 with Mig & GM Speelman [2:00 h] Free!! Round-6 with Mig & GM S. Polgar [2:09 h] Round-7 with Mig & GM Christiansen [4:37 h] More Chess.FM contents

	Replays in Spanish - Morelia Linares 2007 Chess.FM in Spanish Summary of R-7 with GM Illescas [52:32 min] Summary of R-6 with IM Dovitiis [41:26 min] Free!! Summary of R-4 with GM Illescas [35:32 min] More Chess.FM contents in Spanish