León Chess 2011

31/05/2011 by Nikita

Please click HERE for the official website.

Vishy Anand, current World Champion and seven times winner of the Magistral, comes back to Leon to face the strongest Spanish player, Alexei Shirov, on the 24th edition. This tournament is already a classic, one of the most prestigious in the chess calendar.

Anand and Shirov will play in Leon with a large audio-visual setting that will allow the public to “see the chess stars thinking”, thanks to big screens and live audio comments (by GM Illescas, eight times Spanish champion) and IM Michael Rahal.

The rules, written by the prestigious arbiter Joaquin Espejo, indicate that Anand and Shirov will play six games (Friday to Sunday, two per day) with 45 minutes per side plus Thirty seconds increment after each move in the magnificent León Auditorium. If needed, there will eventually be a tie-break of several five minute games.

SCHEDULE
Thursday, June 2nd
PLAYERS ARRIVAL – 20.00 Drawing of lots, CONDE LUNA HOTEL.
Friday, June 3rd
GAMES 1 AND 2 (16.30), LEON AUDITORIUM.
Saturday, June 4th
GAMES 3 AND 4 (16.30), LEON AUDITORIUM.
Sunday, June 5th
GAMES 5 and 6 (16.30) and, eventually, tie-breaks, LEON AUDITORIUM.
Monday, June 6th – Prize giving 14:30
Simuls (17.30), LEON UNIVERSITY.

Game 1 Anand vs Shirov:1/2

Game 2- Anand vs Shirov : 1-0
Click HERE to play through their games.

Game 3 – Anand vs Shirov 1-0

Game 4 Anand vs Shirov – 1/2

Game 5- Anand vs Shirov

Game 5 – Anand vs Shirov 1/2

I love this next picture which I put together in Fireworks – it is a combination of about 10 different images.

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4 Responses

on 02/06/2011 at 06:50 Joshua Zamora

Hey Nikita! That is really an amazing picture you created. I have heard great things about frieworks vs photoshop. Anyhow great picture

The schedules look really intense.

Joshua
Chess Enthusiast
on 02/06/2011 at 10:04 Nikita

hi Joshua, Welcome to my blog and thank you for your kind message. I have photoshop too, but there is a slight ‘problem’ with it, can’t use it with Windows7/MS2007 and even gave problems with Vista. I tried to find a ‘fix’, but there is no ‘fix’ available for Photoshop Elements. So, sadly can’t use it, but must say that Fireworks works great for me.
on 10/06/2011 at 16:54 Dan

Any updates? Who won the tournament?
on 10/06/2011 at 19:43 Nikita

uhm… 1/2+1+1+ 1/2+1/2=? [Anand]
1/2+0+0+1/2+1/2=? [Shirov] 🙂