Thursday 21 August 2008
Morozevich - New No. 1?
While a lot of recent focus has been on Magnus Carlsen and his attempt to become the number 1 player on the ratings list, Alexander Morozevich has been on a bit of a tear. Currently playing in the Tal Memorial (no link as the English website is out of date), Morozevich leads with 2.5/3 after beating a struggling Vladimir Kramnik in the over night round. For local players this game has some interest as the variation used by Morozevich had previously been used by Ian Rout to defeat Ken Telfer in an ACT Championship some years ago, a game that was included in Peter Wells' book on the Slav.
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There are reports in English here
http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=4851
and in French here http://www.europe-echecs.com/
Actually it was in "Queen's Gambit for the Attacking Player" (Burgess and Pedersen"). I don't think Wells mentioned it.
Another of my games, against the late great Terrey Shaw, was cited in a magazine article (I think it was in Harding's "Chess Mail"). Terrey had never seen 7.g4 before.
The best reply is probably 7...dxc4, partly because a later g5 can then be answered by ...Nd5 and partly because Kasparov played it. Presumably Kramnik was hiding his preparation with the Anand match coming up.
I'd post a correction on the front page but the additional html tags (and the link to the game viewer) seems to have scuppered my ability to edit the post!
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