Caruana Adjustment

     I think that each of us admired the great performance of Fabiano Caruana during the recent "Sinquefield Cup". We can guess, was that divine inspiration or just the result of a great amount of work (I think it was both of them)... Anyways, it has certainly inspired me!
     The "Maria Albulet Memorial" has ended today, with me scoring 8p/9 and taking clear first place with a 2561 Performance and +17 Elo points!

Rk.	SNo			Name	FED	Rtg	Pts.
1	3		IM	Bulmaga Irina	ROU	2365	8.0
2	6		WGM	Sandu Mihaela	ROU	2259	5.5
3	1		WIM	Olsarova Tereza	CZE	2296	5.5
4	8		WGM	Cosma Elena-Luminita	ROU	2333	5.0
5	2		WFM	Imnadze Nato	GEO	2082	5.0
6	10		WIM	Olsarova Karolina	CZE	2224	4.5
7	4			Gelip Ioana	ROU	2102	3.5
8	5		WIM	Ciobanu Camelia-Adriana	ROU	2153	3.5
9	7		WGM	Ionescu Irina	ROU	2227	2.5
10	9		WGM	Makropoulou Marina	GRE	2211	2.0

     Here you can find the detailed information about the tournament: http://chess-results.com/tnr143698.aspx?lan=1&art=1&turdet=YES&flag=30&wi=984
  
      It's been a fantastic tournament for me, one in which I am not ashamed to show any game! I am very thankful to those who have advised me to play here and to those who made this nice event possible!
     Here's a photo report:

WNM Gelip Ioana

WGM Ionescu Irina

WGM Cosma Luminita

Imnadze Nato

WIM Olsarova Karolina

WGM Sandu Mihaela

WIM Olsarova Tereza

WGM Makropoulou Marina

WIM Ciobanu Camelia

 

 

Happy Irina :)

 xoxo from Braila! :)
    

Naiditsch-Adams

Arkadij Naiditsch

     Yet another interesting tournament is taking place in Baden-Baden these days, the "Grenke Chess Classic", with Anand Viswanathan, Caruana Fabiano, Michael Adams, Daniel Fridman, Arkadij Naiditsch and Georg Meier. It is a double round-robin, with 2 rounds played so far.
     The most interesting game of the yesterday's round was the one between Arkadij Naiditsch and Michael Adams. It had started as a classical strategic battle with the isolated "d" pawn for black and converted into a fine tactical game then. You can see it here:

     It was a very interesting 7 hours battle and I hope we'll see more games like this one!
     You can find more information on the official site of the tournament: http://www.grenkechessclassic.de/

Anand-Caruana

     Here's an interesting game from the yesterday's 3rd round in Wijk aan Zee. I hope you'll enjoy the analysis I've done :)

Anand-Caruana