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Alain Fayard from Paris just carefully writing down his fifth move,
unfortunately the KWA fans hadn’t brought him much luck in this
game. |
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this time we didn’t succeed in taking photos of the superstars,
here some impressions of the C group ... |
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...
where the young star with the unpronounceable name Nepomniachtchi
let himself catch still in the last round by the Polish ex-champion
Krasenkow. |
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young Russian was defeated without great ado by a pretty young lady
named Kosintseva, maybe he had looked too much to the B group out
of the corner of his eye and then had seen his opponent double ... |
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You
will find further photo reports on the
Corus tournament at ChessBase
and at Gerhard Hund's Website. |
In
the analysis room (tent) was intense activity too – and with
Hans Ree and Robert Hübner two "old stars" of the Hoogoven
tournaments had been mustered: after all Hübner still participated
last in 1996, Ree even in 1986.
The commentators were greeted and introduced by Dolf Vos, the leader
of the organization committee. |
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Our
strongest master after Emanuel Lasker was very convincing by his excellent
knowledge of Dutch, but also by the precise analysis of the quickly ruined
game van Wely – Svidler – it’s hardly believable how the
"hero of Friday" was "killed" on Saturday.
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