Nanjing Pearl Spring and Woman Grand Prix 2009

Nanjing Pearl Grand Slam has started yesterday. The super strong tournament, perhaps strongest in Asia ever, is a 6 players round robin. Round one show two split point games from Topalov – Jakovenko and Wang Yue – Radjabov, but highlight was on Carlsen – Leko game. The still teenage GM not wasting time to use one of his mentor, Gary Kasparov, opening weapon, the Scotch and receive full point out of Leko. Official site is here along with Live transmission, of course in Asia comfortable time zone (yes!).

Women Grand Prix participants with FIDE President (photo from Chessbase)

Together with the super tournament is the Women Grand Prix consist of 10 ladies. For more photos on this ladies tournament as usual we can relied on Chessbase report. GM Nana Dzagnidze , who was playing in China since Yinzhao Cup and ZheJiang LiShui Open, won the first round against Ju Wenjun, same goes to Shen Yang and Mongolian's Batkhuyag Munguntuul. Apart from these participants strong player not playing is like Hou Yifan, Koneru Humpy and Antoaneta Stefanova. Last women grand prix was won by Konery Humpy.

Turnamen super Grand Slam kembali digelar di Nanjing China. Partai ronde 1 berakhir dengan dua remis antara si nomor 1 Topalov lawan Jakovenko dan si Wang Yue lawan Radjabov. Tapi yang seru adalah si anak remaja Magnus Carlsen yang menang lawan Peter Leko, menggunakan permainan Skotlandia. Ini adalah hasil dari pembelajaran Carlsen kepada Gary Kasparov seperti yang diungkapkan mereka ke masyarakat luar sebulanan lalu. Kedua partai bisa disimak di Chessdom, berikut terjemahan otomatis dari Google :

Siaran langsung kira-kira dimulai jam 3 sore di website resmi. Chessdom juga menampilkan analisis langsung tiap ronde.
Topalov – Jakovenko , ½ - ½
Carlsen – Leko, 1-0

Sementara itu berlangsung juga Grand Prix Catur Wanita dengan 10 peserta, putri tentunya. GM Nana Dzagnidze, Shen Yang dan Batkhuyag Munguntuul menang di ronde pertama. Sementara itu pecatur kuat yang tidak ikutan kali ini adalah Hou Yifan, Koneru Humpy dan Antoaneta Stefanova.

Nanjing Pearl Spring Chess Round 1:

Carlsen, Magnus-Leko, Peter 1-0 44 C45 Scotch Game
Topalov, Veselin-Jakovenko, Dmitry ½-½ 43 E06 Catalan
Wang Yue-Radjabov, Teimour ½-½ 38 E92 King's Indian Classical

Nanjing FIDE Women Grand Prix Round 1:

Dzagnidze, Nana-Ju Wenjun 1-0 88 E74 King's Indian
Munguntuul, Batkhuyag-Yildiz, Betul Cemre 1-0 36 D20 QGA
Shen Yang-Sebag, Marie 1-0 38 D43 Anti-Meran Gambit
Fierro Baquero, Martha L-Zhu Chen ½-½ 105 C90 Ruy Lopez
Mkrtchian, Lilit-Kovanova, Baira ½-½ 39 E32 Nimzo Indian 4.Qc2
Xu Yuhua-Zhao Xue ½-½ 48 B83 Sicilian Scheveningen