by Aviv Friedman

Between the dates of February 22 and March 10, the city of Linares in Andalusia, Spain will host the 19th edition of its festival. As always, there would be a crown group, the Super torneo in which this year’s participants are: World’s number 1 ranked Garry Kasparov, Current FIDE world champion, Ruslan Ponomariov, His vice champion Vassili Ivanchuk, Former FIDE world champion and world’s number 3 Viswanathan Anand, British super GM Michael Adams, former world junior champion and former FIDE vice champion GM Alexey Shirov and Spanish local hero GM Francisco Vallejo. As you will read in the review to round 1, this year the event is especially ‘hot’ and as always daily reports and photos along with game synopsis would appear here. In addition to the main event, traditionally, Linares carries a special tournament of invited blind players - much in the spirit of Spain where there is special attention to people with disabilities. In about a week’s time, there will also be a strong open tournament to compliment the festival.

News and pictures by FM Aviv Friedman (sveshi)

Round 1 | Round 2 | Round 3 | Round 4 | Round 5 | Round 6 | Round 7

Round 8 | Round 9 | Round 10 | Round 11 | Round 12 | Round 13 | Round 14

Photographs

Ponomariov at the Press Conference,
Bologan translating

Cross Table: all play all twice

Click the result (1: win, 0: loss =: draw) to replay the game

The standings are ranked by wins minus losses. The score is followed by the number of games played.

	Name	Country	Rating	Total	1	2	3	4	5	6	7
1	Kasparov	RUS	2838	8.0 / 12	X	=1	1=	==	==	=1	=1
2	Ponomariov	UKR	2727	6.5 / 12	=0	X	01	==	1=	=1	==
3	Adams	ENG	2742	6.0 / 12	0=	10	X	1=	0=	==	=1
	Anand	IND	2757	6.0 / 12	==	==	0=	X	==	==	=1
	Ivanchuk	UKR	2717	6.0 / 12	==	0=	1=	==	X	=1	=0
6	Vallejo	ESP	2629	5.0 / 12	=0	=0	==	==	=0	X	=1
7	Shirov	ESP	2715	4.5 / 12	=0	==	=0	=0	=1	=0	X