13.08.2005 - 546 players started in the Ordix Open today. Many, many top grandmasters are among them like Shirov, Radjabov, Bacrot and Aronian, to name just a few. Surprisingly, Alexander Grischuk started as well. Anand´s challenger apparently wants to win his third Ordix Open title in a row, but does he have enough energy to play a tough tournament like the Ordix, which he dominated in 2003 and 2004, and two more games against Anand in the evening? In the evening matches, the Tiger from Madras tried to decide the Grenke Leasing match today but Grischuk easily won the sixth game. The Chess960 match between Svidler and Almasi will be decided on the last day, but it will be very difficult for the challenger to win the match, because Svidler won the sixth game. He only needs half a point tomorrow.
Ordix
Open- Magnificent Seven leaders of the
pack Seven
players still have a perfect score after the first five rounds of the
Ordix
Open. You could compare them with the characters from the movie
“The Magnificent
Seven”: a legendary western from 1960, directed by John
Sturges, with fine
actors like Yul Brynner, Steve McQueen and Charles Bronson.'Magnificent Seven' is an
analogy for living
the brave life. One of the brave chess players in Mainz is Alexander
Grischuk,
who is not only playing a tough match against Vishy Anand, but he
decided to
play the Ordix Open to “win a few games”. He had a
horrible start against
14-year old Reinhold Müller. He played 127 moves in his first
game and was
lucky that the young German, ELO rating 2134,lost a completely drawn rook ending with a few seconds
left on the
clock. But Grischuk seems to have found his confidence after that game,
because
he won all the other games in the Ordix Open today and is leading the
pack with
a 100% score. There are six more magnificent players with the same
score:
Teimur Radjabov, Alexander Morozevich, Igor Glek, Arkadi Naiditsch,
Rainer
Buhmann and the winner of the FiNet Open, Levon Aronian,who plays great chess in
Mainz. Never before
a player managed to win the Chess960 Open and the Ordix Open. Will the
22- year
old Armenian be the first player to do so? Or will Grischuk score a
hattrick?
We will find out tomorrow, when six more rounds will be played. Round
number 6
will start at 10.00 and the top boards will be broadcast live on this
site. The
technicians had significant trouble getting the games live on the Net.
A nasty
computer virus caused many problems and headaches.
14-year old Reinhold
Müller against Alexander Grischuk
Alexandra Kosteniuk Alexandra
Kosteniuk is playing a very good Chess Classic tournament this year.
She showed
not only some good games in the FiNet Open, which she enjoys very much
according to her website (“I love Chess960!”) but
she plays very well in the
Ordix Open too. She will particularly be pleased with her great victroy
overIvan Sokolov.
She played against the
Dutchman in the FiNet Chess960 Open and lost that game. In the last
round of
the day she drew against Zvaginsev and now has 4,5 points.
Alexandra´s next
tournament will be the Russian Championship (men) in Kazan, early
September.
Editor Dirk Poldauf
“I won my
first game against Yusupov!”, Dirk Poldauf, editor of the
German magazine
“Schach”, smiled. “However, I did not
play Artur, but his wife Nadia.” The
Yusupov children, Alexander, rating 1943 and Ekatarina, rated 1992,
also play
in the Ordix Open. Yesterday, the Yusupov kids won the special youth
prices in
the FiNet Open. The two youngstars play for chessclub SK Krumbach.
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