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| Chess by Malcolm Pein of the Daily Telegraph   Malcolm Pein writes for the Daily Telegraph (telegraph.co.uk)
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British Round 8 Tuesday 29th July 2003 The Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting, one of highlights of the Classical Chess calendar starts today in the Dortmund Theatre and runs until 10th August. The six player all play all provides a rare opportunity to see three of the world's top four players in action including the world champion Vladimir Kramnik who was less than impressive at his last outing at Linares although he was dogged by ill health throughout. Kramnik's battles against Hungarian Peter Leko will be of particular interest because the pair are supposed to be playing for the world championship title but after the demise of the former rights holders Einstein Group PLC there is no sign of that match taking place. However if it is to be organised there should be an announcement during Dortmund. World number three Vishy Anand needs a good performance after his failure at Linares in February when Peter Leko was the surprise winner. Unfortunately Garry Kasparov is not playing. The field is completed by: The winner of the Aeroflot Open the Moldovan GM Viktor Bologan, Germany's youngest GM Arkadi Naiditsch aged seventeen from Dortmund and the teenage prodigy Teimour Radjabov aged fifteen from Azerbaijan. The time control will be 40 moves for 2 hours , 20 moves for 1 hour , then 15 min+30 sec. per move for the rest. The Indian GMs Abhijit Kunte and Pentyla Harikrishan took the lead of the Smith & Williamson British Chess Championship in the eighth round. Kunte defeated overnight leader GM Ziaur Rahman of Bangladesh and Harikrishna defeated his compatriot WGM Subbaraman Vijayalaskshmi who must be well set to score a IM result. The leaders have 6.5/8 the only British player in touch is GM Peter Wells on 6/8. Smith & Williamson British Chess Championship round eight results Rahman 0-1 Kunte Harikrishna 1-0 Vijayalaskshmi Wells draw Motwani Turner draw Gallagher Summerscale 0-1 Sattar Bakre 1-0 Arakhamia-Grant Hunt 1-0 Kotronias Ganguly 1-0 Gwaze Singh 0-1 Gormally Round 8 Leaders: 1-2 Harikrishna, Kunte (India) 6.5/8; 3-5 Wells (England), Bakre (India), Rahman (Bangladesh) 6; 6-14 Gallagher (Switzerland), Ganguly., Vijayalaskshmi (India), Gormally, Turner (England), Kotronias (Cyprus), Motwani, Rowson (Scotland), Sattar (Bangladesh) 5.5; Singh,G (2293) - Gormally,D (2478) [B54] ch-GBR Edinburgh SCO (8), 22.07.2003 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.f3 Nc6 6.c4 Qb6 7.Nc2 e6 8.Nc3 a6 9.Rb1? Be7 10.Be2 0-0 11.Ne3 Rd8 12.0-0 d5 13.cxd5 exd5 14.exd5 Bc5 15.Qd2 Bf5 16.Ra1 Re8 17.Ncd1 Bb4 18.Nc3 Rxe3  [ 18...Rxe3 19.Qxe3 Bc5] 0-1 Russian Grandmaster Alexander Morozevich retained the lead at Biel with a quiet draw playing black against last year's winner Ilya Smirin Scores: 1 Morozevich (Switzerland) 6/8; 2-3 Smirin (Israel), Bacrot (France) 5.5; 4-5 Pelletier (Switzerland), Lutz (Germany) 2.5; 6 Korchnoi (Switzerland) 2; |
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