2009 Linares SuperGM (Linares, Spain)
Viswanathan Anand preparing to take on Teimour Radjabov
in round #1 in Linares. Photo by Nadja Woisin.
The 26th Linares tournament is taking place in Linares, Spain. This tournament is one of the premier tournaments in professional chess and attracts the world’s top players. In past years, they have split the tournament between two venues, but this year the entire tournament will be played in Spain. There is a rumour that 2010 will host one half of the tournament in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Dr. Sulaiman Abul Kareem Mohammad Al-Fahim, a billionaire philanthropist from the Emirates was attending the event and perhaps is negotiating these arrangements.
| Player |
Nation
|
Flag
|
ELO
|
ranking
|
| Viswanathan Anand |
India
|
 |
2791
|
2
|
| Vassily Ivanchuk |
Ukraine
|
 |
2779
|
3
|
| Magnus Carlsen |
Norway
|
 |
2776
|
4
|
| Teimour Radjabov |
Azerbaijan
|
 |
2761
|
6
|
| Levon Aronian |
Armenia
|
 |
2750
|
11
|
| Wang Yue |
China
|
 |
2739
|
13
|
| Alexander Grischuk |
Russia
|
 |
2733
|
14
|
| Leinier Dominguez |
Cuba
|
 |
2717
|
23
|
Official Site: https://www.ajedrez.ciudaddelinares.es/index.htm (Spanish)
All you Dragon lovers might want to study Leinier vs Teimour game. Round 5, Linares.
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yes, I saw Anand great escape; Although, against Carlsen he was unable to escape and went down in flames. Anand is having a difficult tournament. It happens to everyone. Concerning the Dragon: I was a Dragon lover in my scholastic years. Its a strong opening and White can be punish early on if he enters into the main lines and don’t know theory. Even today, with the hole on d5 (there are many variations where White’s knight jump to this square) White is unable to find a way punish Black for this hole in his position. Dominguez was indeed lucky to survive. The Dragon lives on.
This story sound very true. I always like Ivanchuk attitude toward chess and competition in general. I have seen a number of interviews of him and he seems like a very likable person. Not to mention super strong. Ivanchuk for world champion.
Chessbase did a brief history of Linares and mentioned the great general Hannibal: “The city of Linares, where the Super-GM tournament is being held, is located in the Andalusian province of Jaén, Spain, and has a long history, dating back into antiquity. It was at Linares that Carthaginian general Hannibal married the local Iberian princess Himilce on the eve of the Second Punic War.”
Someone has to make way for Vlady,Topa,Shirov and Leko definitely next year .