Super_Tournaments_2003.pdf

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Editoral Panel: Oleg Biriukov, IM Sergei Klimov

Technical Editor: IM Semko Semkov

ranslation by GM Evgeny Ermenkov and Semko Semkov.

Special thanks to our ranslation Assistant Jean Bigras (Canada) for his

help.

International Masters Maxim Notkin and Nikolai Vlassov write for

Chess Today - the only daily chess newspaper. It is published by GM

Alexander Baburin and delivered via e-mail. For more details please

visit www.chesstoday.net. Their annotations in the book are based on

notes published in Chess Today with the explicit consent of Baburin.

Cover design by Rustam Taichinov

Printed in Bulgaria by "Chess Stars" Ltd. - Sofia

ISBN 954 8782 36 7

IM Sergei Soloviov

Super Tournaments

2003

With annotations by Grandmasters

Jexander �IF�

Valeri BEIM

Jexei BEZGODOV

Sergei IVANOV

Mikhail GOLUBEV

Sergei SHIPOV

Denis YEV SEEV

and

IM Maxim NOTKIN

Nikolai VLASSOV

CONTENTS

Preface ........................................................... 5

CORDS (Wijk aan Zee) ............................................ 12

Vishy Anand: "I continue to play as well as I can."

LINARE S ....................................................... 241

Peter Leko: "I will have to follow the steps of the champion"

"SPARASSE CHESS-MEETING" (Dortmund) .... . ....... . ......... 354

Bologan Wins on His First Attempt!

"ESSENT CROWN" (Hoogeveen) ................................... .422

Index of Openings ............................................... .452

Index of Opponents ................................................453