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COMMENTANDO: i nomi dei vincitori!

The winner is...

Siamo finalmente giunti all'atto finale della terza edizione di Commentando! Ci scusiamo per il ritardo della pubblicazione di questo articolo, ma ci sono state l'imprevista rottura del computer di un giurato e la partenza dello scrivente per le vacanze : - )

Dobbiamo anzitutto ringraziare la Prisma Scacchi, che per il terzo anno ha offerto ricchi premi, e la SuperGiuria (MI Bellia, MF Corvi e Ferretti, M Marzano).

Quest'anno il numero dei partecipanti è stato notevole e, nonostante la selezione effettuata dalla Redazione, ben 23 partite sono entrate in Finale. Potete quindi immaginare quanto sia stato difficile stabilire una graduatoria tra molte partite meritevoli di considerazione!

Per avere un'idea dell'impegno profuso dai giurati guardate lo spettacolare lavoro svolto da Carlo Marzano. Ovviamente abbiamo tolto i nomi, perchè ciò che conta è la Classifica Finale e non quella dei singoli, ma credo che assegnare 5 voti a ben 23 partite richieda una valanga di tempo e di concentrazione!

   

a

b

b

a

a-b

       
   

Gradevolezza e originalità

Didattica e interesse

Correttezza e valore analisi

Forma e ortografia

Equilibrio tra analisi e testo

Coeff. bravura

Totale

Class.

Punti

   

(1-10)

(1-10)

(1-10)

70% (1-7)

(1-7)

50% (1-5)

(1-5)
       

 

 

8,2

8

8

4,0

3,5

 

31,7

1

30

 

 

8

7,5

7,5

4,9

3,5

 

31,4

2

25

 

 

8,5

6,5

7

4,6

3,5

 

30,1

3

22

 

 

6

7,5

8

4,9

3

 

29,4

4

20

 

 

8

7,5

6

4,2

2,8

 

28,5

5

19

 

 

6,8

7,5

6,5

4,2

2,8

 

27,8

6

18

 

 

7

7

6,5

3,5

3,5

 

27,5

7

17

 

 

6,5

7

6,5

3,9

3,5

 

27,4

8

16

 

 

6

5,5

7

4,9

3.5

 

26,9

9

15

 

 

6

7

6

4,2

3,5

 

26,7

10

14

 

 

7

7

5

4,2

3

 

26,2

11

13

 

 

6

6

6

4,2

3,5

 

25,7

12

12

 

 

6

5,5

6

4,2

3,5

 

25,2

13

11

 

 

6,5

5,5

5

4,2

3,5

 

24,7

14

10

 

 

6

5,5

6

4,2

2,8

+

24,5

16

9

 

 

6,5

6

5

4,2

2,8

-

24,5

16

8

 

 

6

5

5

4,2

3

 

23,2

17

7

 

 

6

5

4,5

4,2

3

+

22,7

18

6

 

 

6,8

4,5

4

4,9

2,5

-

22,7

19

5

 

 

5,5

5

5

4,2

2,8

 

22,5

20

4

 

 

5,5

4,5

4

4,2

3

 

21,2

21

3

 

 

5,5

4

4

4,2

2,5

 

20,2

22

2

 

 

3

5

4

4,2

2,5

 

18,7

23

1

N.B.: il "coefficiente bravura" è utilizzato per gli ex aequo, ma è stato considerato anche nell’attribuzione dei punteggi di tipo -b-.

 

 

 

Passiamo alla Classifica finale. Ricordiamo che ognuno dei giurati doveva assegnare 30 alla partita preferita, 25 alla seconda, 22 alla terza, poi 20, 19, 18... fino a 1. Bene, cominciamo il conto alla rovescia!

 

23^ classificata: Vallifuoco - Cipollaro, che ha totalizzato 12 punti

22^ classificata: Fornaciari - Lotti, 14 punti

20^-21^ classificate: Camboni - Marano e Distratis - Sgargi, 17 punti

18^-19^ classificate: Slavin - Messina e Macchia - Hypertroll, 27 punti

17^ classificata: Baffoblanco - Tommy41, 30 punti

16^ classificata: Pala - U.S.1, 36 punti

15^ classificata: Fagnani - Caprino, 42 punti

14^ classificata: Mrdja - Gromovs, 43 punti

Attenzione: primo momento importante!

13^ classificata: Conti - Laghetti, 47 punti

PIETRO CONTI  vince il 2° premio riservato alle Categorie Nazionali: un Orologio digitale offerto dalla Prisma Scacchi!

12^ classificata: Ranfagni - Brugo, 51 punti

10^-11^ classificata: Mmbotvinnik - Ecijaajedrez, 54 punti

10^-11^ classificata: Gagliardi - Cardili, 54 punti!

CLAUDIO GAGLIARDI vince il 1° premio riservato alle Categorie Nazionali: un buono di 100 euro per l'acquisto di libri presso la Prisma Scacchi!

9^ classificata: Cappai - Panella, 59 punti

8^ classificata: Sedina - Barletta, 67 punti

6^-7^ classificate: Tirrito - Bentivegna e Rizza - Livecchi, 71 punti

5^ classificata: Lalic - Sabia, 75 punti

 

Siamo giunti in zona podio! Come? La quarta classificata? Non c'è! C'è un pari merito in terza posizione!

3^-4^ classificata: Valentini - Lucchi, 78 punti!

3^-4^ classificata: Gallucci - Radice, 78 punti!

 

Ed ora il gran finale! Incredibile ma vero, quest'anno abbiamo un clamoroso pari merito in prima posizione!!

1^-2^ classificata: Brunello - Amato, 90 punti!

1^-2^ classificata: Andreoni - Lapenna, 90 punti!

Quindi SABINO BRUNELLO e GIUSEPPE ANDREONI VINCONO A PARI MERITO IL CONCORSO COMMENTANDO 2009 e si dividono il 1° ed il 2° premio del Concorso: ad entrambi vanno UN BUONO ACQUISTO DI 125 EURO PER L'ACQUISTO DI LIBRI, offerti dalla PRISMA SCACCHI, e 50 EURO, offerti dalla Redazione di Scacchierando!

Complimenti ai vincitori e appuntamento alla prossima edizione!

 
http://www.scacchierando.net/dblog/articolo.asp?articolo=1513
2009-07-27T07:00:00+01:00
 
 
 
Garcia, Nanola show way in NCR chessfest

Garcia, Nanola show way in NCR chessfest
Sunday, 21 June 2009 22:45

Ateneo’s Jan Garcia racked up five wins in a row in impressive fashions while Christian Nanola upset eighth seed Dave Dulay in the fifth round to gain a share of the lead in their respective divisions in the Shell National Youth Active Chess Championships-National Capital Region leg at the SM Mall of Asia over the weekend.

The third-seeded Garcia downed Riza Bonifacio, Irene Samonte, Jessica Visca, Lemuel Bermas and Ferdinand Reyes Jr. to force a three-way tie for first in the 20-and-under division with No. 6 Richelieu Salcedo of Philippine Maritime Institute and Far Eastern University’s (FEU) Lennon Salgados heading into the last two rounds of the Swiss system tournament.

Salcedo beat Jerome Flores, Marie Galang, Narquingden Reyes, James Dacanay and Adam Rico, while Salgados won over Jeffrey Macabitas, Ronald Barcelon, Ephraim Maliam, Gerald Ferriol and Jayson Mercado to stay in the hunt for top honors in the event, sponsored by Pilipinas Shell under its Shell Active Chess program.

Top seed Kevin Mirano, also of FEU, was held to a draw in third round by Narquingden Reyes and stood in joint fourth with Antonio Chavez Jr., Charlene Suede and Reyes, while 20 others posted four points and remained in the race for the top three places and berths in the national finals.

The 30th-ranked Nanola’s stirring win over Dulay hiked the Laguna College of Business and Arts student’s total to five points for a share of the lead with second seed Jeremiah Alfonso, fourth ranked Vince Medina, No. 5 Paulo Bersamina, No. 9 Paul Evangelista and 10th seed Giovanni Mejia in the kiddies side of the event, the nation’s longest-running, grassroots-based chess tournament.

Earlier, Jeng Pascual, finance manager of Shell Phils. Exploration, BV, and Rolando Brillantes of the Department of Education, made the ceremonial moves to usher in the two-day tournament serving as the kickoff leg of a seven-stage nationwide circuit.

McDominique Lagula, the top seed in the 14-and-under division, was upset by Patrick de Leon in the second round but won four straight to gain a share of 13th place.

Six players, including Kevin Sicat, Leeland Kwok, Kenneth Baltazar, Paulo Cristobal, Raffy Lobitana and Aristotle Cunanan, tote 4.5 points for a share of seventh with the battle for top honors and spots in the grand finals set in October at SM Megamall.

The top three players in both divisions will advance to the national finals of the event, endorsed by the National Chess Federation of the Philippines, backed by Shell Fuels, Shellane, Shell Helix, and McDonald’s, in partnership with SM Supermalls and Paseo Reale Cagayan.

Source: http://businessmirror.com.ph/
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http://businessmirror.com.ph/home/sports/12053-garcia-nanola-show-way-in-ncr-chessfest.html
2009-06-22T05:52:00.000-05:00
 
 
 
Commentando: prima partita finalista

Inizia oggi, con la pubblicazione della prima partita finalista, la fase finale del Concorso Commentando.

Vi dico subito che quest'anno è stato molto difficile selezionare le partite finaliste, visto l'alto numero e?la qualità dei lavori presentati.?Per?questo motivo abbiamo dovuto escludere parecchie partite che avrebbero meritato maggiore attenzione, pur avendo aumentato il numero delle finaliste a ben 23.
Per la stessa ragione abbiamo deciso, altresì, di ammettere in finale non più di una partita per partecipante.

Ora passiamo alla gara!

Anche quest'anno iniziamo?in puro stile?Wimbledon, il famoso torneo di tennis nel quale l'onore di disputare il primo incontro sul campo centrale viene riservato al vincitore dell'anno precedente.

Quindi, per chi non lo ricordasse,?annunciamo, signore e signori, la discesa in campo del vincitore della 2^ edizione del Concorso Commentando: il MF Francesco Bentivegna!

La partita presentata è la Tirrito - Bentivegna, che potete gustare con il visore di Scacchierando, QUI.

Buona lettura!

 
http://www.scacchierando.net/dblog/articolo.asp?articolo=1464
2009-06-17T07:00:00+01:00
 
 
 
Amrican Idol finalist performed at US Championship

'AMERICAN IDOL' FINALIST ALOHA MISCHEAUX PERFORMS AT OPENING OF U.S. CHESS CHAMPIONSHIP IN ST. LOUIS
Newswire Services
May 09, 2009

ST. LOUIS - Aloha Mischeaux, a finalist in the fourth season of the popular American Idol TV show, kicked off the 2009 U.S. Chess Championship in rousing fashion with a stirring rendition of the national anthem at the opening ceremonies for the tournament at the Saint Louis University Museum of Art on Thursday, May 7.

Mischeaux's performance officially began the opening ceremony, "drawing of the colors" and reception for the national 2009 tournament, which is being hosted by the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis in Mischeaux' home town of Saint Louis. The Chess Club, which opened in July 2008 in the city's historic Central West End, is a showpiece, $1 million facility that features numerous TV monitors placed throughout its three stories for closed-circuit coverage of the event.

The U.S. Chess Championship will be held May 8 through 17. Tournament times are 2 p.m. to 8 p.m. each day from Friday, May 8 through Thursday, May 14 at the Chess Club, 4657 Maryland Avenue; 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, May 16; and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday, May 17. Friday, May 15 is an open day.

Mischeaux began performing at age 3 with her church choir as well as local talent shows. She later studied singing, dancing and theater in the University City school district, participating in her school choir and winning several choral competitions, and further honed her talent at the American Musical and Dramatic Academy in New York City.

"Aloha's magnificent performance is a glorious way to get this exciting tournament started," said Rex Sinquefield, a retired investment fund manager who is the founder and a member of the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis. "We are delighted to have this prestigious and intensely competitive tournament in our beautiful new facility."

The 2009 U.S. Chess Championship is offering $200,000 in prize money, including $64,000 to any of the 24 entrants who can 'run the table,' winning all of his or her matches, something only the late Bobby Fischer has accomplished in U.S. Chess Championship competition.

In conjunction with the U.S. Chess Championship, an exhibit titled Marcel Duchamp: Chess Master, is being displayed at the Saint Louis University Museum of Art, 3663 Lindell Blvd., from May 6 through August 16, 2009. Duchamp was a 20th century French surrealist painter who abandoned his artistic career to pursue chess full time.

Tickets for the 2009 U.S. Chess Championship are $12 for adults and $5 for students for full-time students. Admission will cover the entire tournament. Tickets are free for club members. For more information about the 2009 U.S. Chess Championship, please visit www.saintlouischessclub.org or call 314-361-2437.

Source: http://www.losangeleschronicle.com
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http://www.losangeleschronicle.com/articles/view/101890
2009-05-09T11:09:00.001-05:00
 
 
 
Garry Kasparov Kicks Off SuperNationals

By Jennifer Shahade   
April 3, 2009
garryarmsleadGarry is as excited as the 5000+ participants to kick off the SuperNationals

Garry Kasparov kicked off the SuperNationals with a stirring opening ceremony speech and by making the first move on the first board of the High School Championship. Kasparov was greeted at the Opening Ceremony at the Grand Ole Opry House with a standing ovation, to which he replied, "This makes the trip to Nashville worthwhile already." Kasparov started out with a joke about how when he was young, he hated opening ceremonies because he was anxious to get on with the chess. Then he talked about the 34th anniversary of Fischer forfeiting his match to Karpov. Although that was a sad day for American chess, Kasparov predicted than in the thousands deep crowd at the Opening Ceremony, there was another potential world championship contender, another Robert or according to Kasparov's assesment of crowd demographics"a Roberto", or even a "Roberta."

Executive director Bill Hall, University of Texas at Dallas VP Curt Eley, Harold Winston of the U.S. Trust Scholastic Director Jerry Nash and astronaut Greg Chamitoff of the Earth vs. Space match also spoke at the opening ceremony, while Pat Knight was recognized for her great work on organizing the SuperNationals.

The count of participants is not yet final due to weather delays, but Bill Hall predicts the tournament will go over the 5000 mark but may not beat the 5230 record of 2005.

Check out photos from the opening festivities and the simuls. Bookmark the Official Website and the standings and pairings pages for the SuperNationals.
 
http://www.fide.com/component/content/article/15-chess-news/3924-garry-kasparov-kicks-off-supernationals
Wed, 08 Apr 2009 00:13:59 +0000
 
 
 
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Sun, 22 Feb 2009 01:37:00 GMT
 
 
 
EJH Weighs In On The Ivanchuk Contraversy
EJH from the Streatham & Brixton Chess Club Blog has put his two cents worth out in the media weighing in on the Ivanchuk contraversy surrounding drug testing in chess. I agree with many of his subtle points involving drug testing in general but I have to disagree with his primary point.

That point is essentially that the rules of a sporting events should be blindly accepted and followed. To quote:
However, I'm also a strong supporter of the principle that sporting events should take place according to the rules and that no competitor is above them. None. Not Garry Kasparov, not Bobby Fischer, not Rio Ferdinand. None. They are obliged to play according to the rules under which they have agreed to play. They may disagree with them and say so. They may even on occasion choose to defy them openly, on a point of principle, and take the consequences. But they are not above them. They may not ignore them. They may not say, either overtly or in effect, "these rules do not apply to me, because of who I am".


First of all, it is not the accepted rules of the game that drug testing be done afterwards. Everyone with a brain and a reasonable intelligence knows that no drug will help you play chess and those who have used are more than likely hurting their chances of winning. (EJH even goes so far as to say this in his article).

Secondly, the greatest periods in history are those times when brave men saw the stupidity of the rules and had the chutzpa to say that the rule was ridiculous and either ignore the ruler or fight to change said rule. If history teaches us anything it is that prosperity follows such times. I personally see a better time in the future for chess as more stupid FIDE rules are passed at least every four months and professional players see the potential for abuse and rage against it (as Magnus Carlsen has done threatening to drop from the grand prix cycle).

The question to me becomes ... do you like FIDE more or Ivanchuk? Without hesitation I choose the player above the organization. Ivanchuk has been described as being very selfish and moody but it's nothing compared to the greed and moodiness of FIDE. If a self-centered individual is the instrument for the destruction of FIDE I'm totally for that.

It may sound very cold hearted to some degree and I'm sure there are those who will think of me as the chess version of a warmonger but I love the players! When is the last time you saw the FIDE president sit at a chessboard and actually play chess rather than babble on about pointless expectations placed on players (such as his stirring words during the Nalchik Women's Championship when several of the best players refused to attend).

If only the PCA had found more support from FIDE member countries.

 
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Chessvine/~3/480700754/220-EJH-Weighs-In-On-The-Ivanchuk-Contraversy.html
 
 
 
Rook Dreams

Image credit: Jason Schneider
by Edward Tenner

This past fall, the world championship match in Bonn, Germany, wasn’t the only thing stirring up chess enthusiasts. ChessBase 10, a beefier new version of the massive database program that is the tournament player’s gold standard, had arrived.

In 1997, when IBM’s Deep Blue multiprocessor computer defeated the world champion, Garry Kasparov, rapid gains in electronic chess seemed likely to diminish the game’s challenge and glamour. Instead, the Web has built participation at the base and refined concepts at the summit. A new cohort of competitors is playing stronger chess than ever—but its emergence is changing the game in unexpected ways.

ChessBase, introduced for Atari in 1987, is now a compendium of 3.75 million games reaching back more than five centuries. Compiling statistics, including the results from games just downloaded from the Web, it also shows percentages of games won after various alternative moves. The heritage of chess thus becomes a vast, branching cave to be explored game by game.

Jon Edwards, a chess teacher and the 1997 U.S. correspondence champion, says that players still grow through hours of replaying great games; ChessBase just makes that process more efficient. Young Bobby Fischer huddled in the New York Public Library stacks with Russian magazines, constantly resetting pieces. Today’s contenders can play through new games online and onscreen, adding their own games to the ChessBase record and learning more rapidly from their mistakes.

Knowing thine adversary has never been easier. Even the victorious defending champion Viswanathan Anand has said he can’t afford to have a favorite opening. Under pressure because of efficient scrutiny through databases and analysis engines like Fritz (another popular high-level software program that works out new moves), top players must prepare more variations than ever.

Read the full article here.



 
http://kaguvkov.blogspot.com/2008/12/rook-dreams.html
Sat, 06 Dec 2008 12:50:00 +0000
 
 
 
Making chess more efficient

Image credit: Jason Schneider
by Edward Tenner

This past fall, the world championship match in Bonn, Germany, wasn’t the only thing stirring up chess enthusiasts. ChessBase 10, a beefier new version of the massive database program that is the tournament player’s gold standard, had arrived.

In 1997, when IBM’s Deep Blue multiprocessor computer defeated the world champion, Garry Kasparov, rapid gains in electronic chess seemed likely to diminish the game’s challenge and glamour. Instead, the Web has built participation at the base and refined concepts at the summit. A new cohort of competitors is playing stronger chess than ever—but its emergence is changing the game in unexpected ways.

ChessBase, introduced for Atari in 1987, is now a compendium of 3.75 million games reaching back more than five centuries. Compiling statistics, including the results from games just downloaded from the Web, it also shows percentages of games won after various alternative moves. The heritage of chess thus becomes a vast, branching cave to be explored game by game.

Jon Edwards, a chess teacher and the 1997 U.S. correspondence champion, says that players still grow through hours of replaying great games; ChessBase just makes that process more efficient. Young Bobby Fischer huddled in the New York Public Library stacks with Russian magazines, constantly resetting pieces. Today’s contenders can play through new games online and onscreen, adding their own games to the ChessBase record and learning more rapidly from their mistakes.

Knowing thine adversary has never been easier. Even the victorious defending champion Viswanathan Anand has said he can’t afford to have a favorite opening. Under pressure because of efficient scrutiny through databases and analysis engines like Fritz (another popular high-level software program that works out new moves), top players must prepare more variations than ever.

Here is the full article.
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Tue, 02 Dec 2008 20:52:00 +0000
 
 
 
Chessvine Added to YourChess
Thanks to the effort of my fellow webmaster Valerio Tirri Chessvine.com is now a featured news source on yourchess.net.

He's using a javascript method to parse my feedburner feed so the update is virtually instant as I post new content.

I like the idea of trying to 'aggregate' all these blog feeds and media sources all in one place. I'm fully supporting this project even if at some point Valerio decides to go fully Italian rather than primarily English (and therefore drops chessvine as Google's Italian translation tool is no doubt difficult to read ... I'm too colloquial).

Anyway, you should head on over there and check out Valerio's site. What are you still doing hanging around here? Get going! ;-)
 
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