I wanted to sent you all a heads-up Survey Savvy that recently completed a $ 20 paid survey for some people. To check your survey email account and see if you got this one. (I do not know, but congratulations to those who do not!) If you are not yet for Survey Savvy addition of yet, sign up ASAP and then check your e-mail in the next few days for this opportunity. If you are already a member of the SurveySavvy, search for "# A1724 participate in a new survey $ 20. You can register here for Survey Savvy (it's free to register and you are paid to take part in polls) Thanks to Carrie, I have paid on-line surveys and getting since 2000. See my list of 15 + recommended legitimate survey SitesAnnual Survey 200931st December 2009, 21.05 Clock | By Peter Doggers | Filed under: Reviews | Tags: 2009 was a tough year for the chess world. Sponsors left, funds were reduced price and counted in a (very important) event, the list of participants, only four players. But it was also an interesting year, with successes for the Rising Stars and experienced grandmasters. Let's take a look back at the Chess years that behind us, in our traditional annual Erhebung.Wie we are at 31 Last December, the year before and the year before, here is our annual survey of the year 2009.Einer the first strong round-robin final in the new year is always Reggio Emilia. In 2009, the Chinese start Ni Hua rose early title convincingly in the small Italian town. He finished 1.5 points ahead at the number 2 Zoltan Almasi! Collected in a very strong period, Ni Hua enough rating points to pass the 2,700 barrier, which he was invited to the London Chess Classic at the end of Jahres.Eine Another early champion Peter Svidler, who won the Aker Chess Challenge in Gjovik, Norway. In the past, he defeated Magnus Carlsen, who by that time had no idea that reach 2009 to lower down in history as the year that he would would rise to the absolute top. Vassily Ivanchuk is known for its many ups and downs known, but he began his chess well 3.5-2.5 years with a quick victory against Peter Leko. Our next two points in January, both provoked many comments. In the column "The new fathers in chess?" We compared notes by Henrik Carlsen (for his son Magnus) and Vladimir Kramnik for the World Cup cycle, and their ideas for a future set-up. It was interesting to see that Kramnik seemed diametrically opposed to Carlsen's opinion. The next day we reported on a 14-year-old chess player from Australia, had been caught by a scam to bring PlayStation Portable, but instead of just the messages that we asked our readers the question of whether fraud is always Nachrichtenwert.Das in 2009 made it clear once again that successful chess players are getting younger. Corus was just before the great news that a 9-year-old player had beaten India in a GM. We will probably learn more Hetul Shah soon. But of course, the Corus chess tournament itself confirms this trend, much better: the title of our last report said the "youth triumphed at Corus 2009 ', enough. It was a great success for Sergey Karjakin, Fabiano Caruana and Wesley was so gewesen.Auch for Chess Vibes Team 2009 quite an interesting year. We have tried a few new things, and the first was launched shortly before Corus to life. We're still very proud of our first product, Chess Vibes openings to achieve it is the 52nd This week's edition! I am not a target person here, but when I try to forget that I am the publisher and pretend that I'm just a chess player, I must say IM Merijn van Delft and Robert Ris, have to pursue a fantastic job, doing the opening developments, every week, without a single week off. Great stuff guys! February was the month of Linares (as always) and the month Kamsky-Topalov. To start with the latter: it was a controversial match for several reasons. The story of how the game finally, there is a story unto itself, and how it was organized in Sofia, was another matter. For the journalists, was the capital of Bulgaria is a disappointing event was gone (they were also made by the players, under quarantine, with the background to local television) and for different audiences online. They became victims of what seems like a war between the Bulgarians and Chessbase, which is threatened with prosecution if they continue to broadcast the game for Play Chess. This situation would be repeated during the MTel Masters May. Our column on copyright and moves 127 Comments provoked. We'd almost forgotten about us, that Topalov won the game after passing game from both players. The Bulgarian order for the World Championship qualifying match next year against the incumbent champion, Viswanathan Anand.Linares looked a bit surprising, but no less deserving champion Alexander Grischuk. The Russian grandmaster won the tiebreak after shared first with Vassily Ivanchuk and Sergey Karjakin after he was the second qualifying round of the Bilbao Grand Slam Final in September. However, it was probably the biggest news in February Shakhriyar Mamedyarov Igor Kurnosov accused of fraud, shortly after their game in the 6th Round of the Aeroflot Open. If we do not yet know Mamedyarov Kurnosov excused himself, despite the fact that almost everyone in the chess world agrees on the simple rule that, despite feeling pretty sure you should never express such accusations (without proof, and moves the comparison Rybka with decisions can never be as evidence). Every year in March, the crème de la crème of the chess elite gathers for 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. quick games blindfolded the Amber tournament. This year the tournament for the second time in Nice was held, and again Macauley Peterson and I have daily videos. Levon Aronian successfully defended his title. Vladimir Kramnik won the blindfold section on tie-break, finishing the first jointly with 7 / 11 along with Carlsen and Aronian. The fast section also in a band at an end, between Anand, Kamsky (!) Aronian.Im And in 2009, I attended fewer tournaments and I have created videos less than a year earlier. However, an as I was quite drawn close to home, in early April: the Chess Cafe on Amsterdam Laurierboom. If you missed it, you can still be seen here. In the same month a sad incident involved one of our editors, IM Robert Ris. He was one of the victims of tournament organizer Gabor Pali, both the hotel and the participants in a closed round-robin financially harmed. Barcza The memorial was after a round when it became clear that Pali has never paid anyone and no plans to storniert.Später began in April, the 4th FIDE Grand Prix in Nalchik, the capital of Kabardino-Balkaria, and I was there to make videos. It was a nice event, but also hard and long. After 13 laps Levon Aronian won his second tournament in two months. He had to go along with Peter Leko leading with a round in which they are paired against each other. The Armenian beat the Hungarian beautiful. One of the participants was Sergey Karjakin and during the tournament, he announced that he and his family would move to Russia and Russian citizens. "I need to with a good trainer" train was his explanation, and in fact, his coach in Nalchik was the former second from Garry Kasparov: Yuri Dokhoian.April-May was also the time of the long debate on the K-factor. Held in the President's Cup, a quick meeting in Baku, Azerbaijan was crushed led by "Team FIDE World" by Anand and Kramnik. Pavel Eljanov had a very good year, and among his successes, his victory at the Bosna tournament was. We had an exclusive interview with the Ukrainian. In a crucial final round encounter Magnus Carlsen and Alexei Shirov defeated to win this year's MTel Masters. Even with him we had an exclusive interview, this time on video. Together with the victory Gelfand have in the ACP World Rapid Cup, it was a good month for the older Generation.Vassily Ivanchuk, who was badly scored in Nalchik and Sofia, using a medicine that works only for him to play more chess! He beat David Navara 5.5-2.5 in a fast paced game in Prague (and a month later, he would) win in Bazna. In a similar (Rapid) format, defeated Viswanathan Anand and Peter Leko 5-3 in a further rapid event I attended in Leon, Spain was Magnus Carlsen, who eventually took a first Preis.Um the growing number of strong grandmasters in China was another name has this year. 16-year-old Ding Liren won the Chinese championship after a surreal end to an event for the "zero-tolerance rule involved in context. Russian rising star Alexander Motylev initially Poikovsky ended at the tournament. In a year with mixed results, had Ivan Cheparinov a great success: his first place at the tournament in the Ruy Lopez-Zafra, Spanien.An the day that Michael Jackson died, the fast-paced game in Paris between Armenia and France ended with a 19.5 - 12.5. On 1 July 2009, the new FIDE chess rules) have been imported (and to our surprise, this little attention in other media. In a very Drawful Dortmund Vladimir Kramnik got his 9th (!) Titel.Nach winning the U.S. Championship earlier this year, collected more weights Hikaru Nakamura in San Sebastian. The American grandmaster won the tournament with his specialty: blitz. He beat Ruslan Ponomariov 2-0 in the tie-break (here) on video. According to an earlier, partially successful attempt with a game Silverlight viewer, we performed the play speed chess viewer in Javascript and we are still very happy with him. It is Javacript and it works like a charm in almost all browsers, including the special version of Safari running on iPhones. (And that was how the volunteer guard at the London Chess Classic was after the game: On the phone, reached on the live page of Chess Vibes!) A great result for the new generation of Maxime Vachier-Lagrave who won Biel at the end of July. His game against Morozevich was one of the jewels of 2009. Nakamura continued his fanastic year so far by winning the part of the Chess960 Rapid World Championship in Mainz. Success and failure closely linked in Mainz: on the second day of the unofficial Rapid World Championship, eleven times winner Viswanathan Anand did not qualify for the final. An era came to an end. This is won by Levon Aronian, Mamedyarov took the Ordix Open Titel.Eine far more important result for Aronian, however, was his second place at the Grand Prix in Jermuk (where Ivanchuk the winner). Be secured with this result, Armenia's number one overall win in the FIDE Grand Prix Series with a tournament played yet. Also in August, ten world-famous chess player in Zurich, where Kramnik won the rapid tournament collected. Meanwhile, traditionally the month ended with the "Rising Stars vs. Experience tournament in Amsterdam. Again, Macauley and I have daily videos at the event, where experience gained Jan Smeets and qualified for Amber 2010.September started with chess reach mainstream media, but as so often it was not a story that has improved the reputation of the royal game . On the Kolkata Open in India, top French GM Vladislav Tkachiev was drunk at the venue and repeatedly fell asleep during a game. Finally he had to be removed. Later Tkachiev apologize würde.Dann, 7 Start of September, a long period in which Magnus Carlsen would make the headlines. On this day, his collaboration with Garry Kasparov was released. "The goal is to make the Norwegians to make the currently rank as the fourth best chess player in the world, the world's best during the coming year. (…) "Was written in the Norwegian daily Verdens Gang. Who would have thought that only four months later, this objective would be achieved? Read no doubt that "the world's best" should of "World Champion" by now! In any case, we had an exclusive interview with Carlsen on the matter and later we published on this site Kasparov of Geschichte.Levon Aronian scored another success in Bilbao, where he won the second Grand Slam final. Winning four games in a row, he finally finished five points ahead of Grischuk (half) under the classic system. For our Dutch roots, it was not too difficult to have the ball on the "Tiviakov history ': the already severely weakened Dutch Championship lost its top players after the third round. Tivi had a draw for his final round game on Sunday and had agreed to the organizers announced that he was not at the closing ceremony and possible tie-break. This was not accepted, after which Tiviakov be decided promptly fired. Chess Vibes spoke to all Beteiligten.Ebenfalls in September, I had the opportunity to get a player before the camera (and) a few questions that I had never seen before playing. Nobody less than Garry Kasparov himself was playing chess! His opponent was playing his old nemesis Anatoly Karpov, and both rapid and blitz games in Valencia, Spain. Unfortunately, Karpov was not ready for the challenge, Kasparov won easily (9-3). Sometimes it was Carlsen, Carlsen, Carlsen again. For a while it was the only name that will be heard in the chess world, but it was absolutely deserved. By winning the Pearl Spring Grand Slam tournament with a disastrous 8 of 10 and an incredible performance rating 3002, allowed only four half points with the black pieces in ten games against the world's best, Magnus fetched € 80,000 and a total of 28, 8 Rating points. In 2800 he broke the magical Barriere.Es Chuck was also a time full of strong chess tournaments that lasted until the rest of the year. It was the European Club Cup, the European Team Championship, Hoogeveen (with videos!), The rapid game Anand-Karpov, the World Youth (another victory for Vachier-Lagrave). The next major event was the biggest event of the year 2009: the Tal Memorial. For a tournament with Anand, Carlsen and Aronian, Kramnik, Leko, Gelfand, Ivanchuk, Morozevich, Svidler and Ponomariov could not resist the temptation, we - we just had to bring the live broadcast. It was quite successful, and we repeat the service during the semi-finals and finals of the World Cup and the London Chess Classic. Unfortunately we did not have enough participants welcome to pursue it as a paid service in 2010, but we will do our best to find other ways of funding. Because there are just not too much to have fun. Before I forget, Vladimir Kramnik won the super tournament in Moscow, and Magnus Carlsen, the (global) blitz title. (Not long after, Carlsen unofficial "Lost", that the ownership of BNBank Hikaru Nakamura at the event.) For the chess fan who still had an appetite for some great chess left, it was the World Cup, which lasted no less than 23 days . Only a few of you hear something new, when I mention the semi-finalists: Karjakin, Malakhov, Gelfand and Ponomariov. The latter two were playing the final and 41-year-old top seed Boris Gelfand, finally took home the first prize of U.S. $ 120,000. In London, Magnus Carlsen finished a fantastic second half of 2009 when he won the Chess Classic with three wins and four draws, in a wonderfully organized event at which it is to work a pleasure and a few videos war.Am end of the month and year, Korchnoi and Spassky played a match in Elista, which ended in 4-4 and the Russian Alexander Grischuk won Superfinale.Bevor I conclude this survey, I should mention that stimulate lots of thought columns of Arne, his reviews, the "beauty in chess "series by Michael, the weekly endgame studies, written by John and the reports by Merijn and Robert. Enough material for a second look, the day a free New Year's maybe!? Here we come to an end this annual survey and the Chess in 2009. Chess Vibes The team thanks you for your support and your comments, and we wish everyone a healthy 2009, with happy chess and good mood!
