Claus Jensen Chess Blog

After the rest day yesterday, play was resumed today.
Game 3 was a very correct game from both sides which logically lead to a draw.
The most exciting about todays game was probably that they didn’t shake hands (they simply forgot to, at least that was the statement on the press conference) and that there were no draw offers in the end, the game was played out to a repetiotion and then both players left the board, again without handshakes or anything.
Ridiculous and childish!

The game analysis of the game is available in my youtube video:

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Anand strikes back!
After his loss in the opening game I think many of us were excited to see the reaction from the world champion. And he delivered as a true professional: Steering the game into a postion which he knew would be uncomfortable for Topalov. Topalov lost patience and Anand scored a well deserved equalizer.
1-1 after 2 games.
Watch my game analysis of the game in the youtube video below.

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After a 1 day postponement of the match due to closing of airports all over Europe, the match was finally underway today.
Topalov won game 1, you can see how in this video made only an hour after the game was finished.

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Bernand Klein has challenged me to a game and we have agreed to play via e-mail and with NO outside assistance whatsoever. You can follow the game in this post.

Claus Jensen - Bernand Klein (delayed one half move) 
White to move

1.e4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.exd5 cxd5 4.c4 Nf6 5.Nc3 Nc6 6.Bg5 e6 7.Nf3 Be7 8.Rc1 0-0 9.Bd3 dxc4 10.Bxc4 a6 11.a3 b5 12.Ba2 Bb7 13.0-0 b4 14.axb4 Nxb4 15.Bb1 Nfd5 16.Bxe7 Qxe7 17.Re1 Rac8 18.Ne5 Nf4 19.Ne4 f5 20.Rxc8 Rxc8 21.Qd2 Nh3+ 22.gxh3+ fxe4 23.Bxe4 Bxe4 24.Rxe4 Rc2 25.Qd1 Rxb2 26.h4 h6 27.Rf4 Nd5 28.Ng6 Qb7

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Planning before attacking! - This is the title I’ve chosen for my latest video.
The video analyzes a game I played against David Trott on chess.com. He’s rated 1700 there and in the game I try to pinpoint where he goes wrong as a chess player.
If deduced, he has the answer to many questions, but he more often than not fails to ask the questions to himself!
If you’re a 1300-1600 ELO player I believeyou could learn something from this video.

You can also watch the video and the comments on it on chessvideos.tv

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Another win rolled in for me today.
Now I’m +3 =6 -0 for the tournament. Still placed 2nd but more and more dreaming of winning the event!
See crosstable.

[Event "DM 2009 (Danish Championship)"]
[Site "ICCF"]
[Date "2009.11.1"]
[Round "-"]
[White "Jensen, Claus"]
[Black "Varberg, Kenneth"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteElo "2126"]
[BlackElo "2208"]

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 a6
6.h3 e6 7.g4 Be7 8.Bg2 Nfd7 9.Be3 Nc6 10.O-O O-O
11.a4 Nde5 12.Qe2 Bd7 13.f4 Nxd4 14.Bxd4 Nc6 15.Be3 Rc8
16.Qf2 Bh4 17.Qd2 Na5 18.b3 Qc7 19.Na2 Rfd8 20.Rac1 h6
21.Nb4 Nc6 22.c4 Be8 23.Nxc6 bxc6 24.b4 Qb8 25.f5 e5
26.Bxh6 d5 27.exd5 cxd5 28.Bxd5 gxh6 29.Qxh6 Rxd5 30.Qxh4 Qa7+
31.c5 f6 32.Qxf6 Rc6 33.Qg5+ Qg7 34.Qxg7+ Kxg7 35.Rcd1 Rxd1
36.Rxd1 a5 37.b5 Rxc5 38.Rd8 Bxb5 39.axb5 Rxb5 40.g5 e4
41.f6+ Kf7 42.h4 e3 43.Kf1 a4 44.Ra8 Rb4 45.h5 Rb5
46.Ra7+ Kf8 47.h6 Rxg5 48.h7 1-0

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This is my most recent game in which I very luckily won because my opponent blundered a piece in an equal endgame. He immediately resigned. I now have +2 =6 -0 and is in 2nd place for the tournament.

[Event "DM 2009 (Danish Championship)"]
[Site "ICCF"]
[Date "2009.11.1"]
[Round "-"]
[White "Pontoppidan, Erik"]
[Black "Jensen, Claus"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteElo "2077"]
[BlackElo "2126"]

1.d4 g6 2.c4 Bg7 3.e4 d6 4.Nf3 e5 5.Nc3 exd4
6.Nxd4 Ne7 7.Be3 O-O 8.Be2 Nbc6 9.O-O f5 10.Nxc6 Nxc6
11.Qd2 fxe4 12.Nxe4 Bf5 13.Nc3 Qd7 14.Bh6 Bxh6 15.Qxh6 Nd4
16.Qd2 Nxe2+ 17.Nxe2 a6 18.Rfe1 b5 19.Nf4 Rae8 20.cxb5 axb5
21.Qd5+ Kh8 22.Qd4+ Qg7 23.Qd2 c6 24.Qxd6 Qxb2 25.Nd3 Bxd3
0-1

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This is my most recent game analysis video.

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Both of my Anand-Topalov game analysis videos got a mention on the front page of chessvideos.tv. Normally they call it Best of the Week, but in these easter times they’ve chosen to call it Egg of the week #13.

You can watch the videos and read the commnets on chessvideos.tv clicking these links:
Anand-Topalov, 1993 - Part One
Anand-Topalov, 1993 - Part Two
Topalov-Anand, 2005

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The chess event of the year is getting closer and closer!
In two weeks time the Anand-Topalov WCC match starts in Sofia, Bulgaria.
The official website for the match has been up for quite some time already.

As a little warm up for the match I have done a couple of videos today, covering two of the earlier games between Anand and Topalov. 

The first game is Anand-Topalov, Las Palmas 1993 - Part One - Part Two
The second game is Topalov-Anand, MTel Masters 2005

Please watch these great games of the past and let’s all hope that they produce similar quality in their games in the upcoming world championship match!

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