Melody Amber 2009 Results Round 2

Going into round 3 of the Amber tournament, GM Kramnik is leading the blindfold section with 2 wins out of 2 games, but it's the combined score that counts. With GM's Aronian and Morozevich winning both of their rapid games and 1 blindfold game, they are in lead of the tournament with 3 total points, with GM's Anand and Kramnik hot on their tails with 2.5 points. I missed the games due to an interface problem where I couldn't see the moves made. But it seems to be working again, I don't know what the bug is, but it affects both ChessPartner 5.4 & 6. But at times, I restart the program, and it works fine again. Strange.



score after Round 2

Blindfold

1. Kramnik 2
2. Anand 1½
Carlsen 1½
Topalov 1½
5. Aronian 1
Leko 1
Morozevich 1
8. Ivanchuk ½
Kamsky ½
Karjakin ½
Radjabov ½
Wang Yue ½

Rapid

1. Aronian 2
Morozevich 2
3. Karjakin 1½
4. Anand 1
Kamsky 1
Leko 1
Radjabov 1
8. Carlsen ½
Ivanchuk ½
Kramnik ½
Topalov ½
Wang Yue ½

Combined

1. Aronian 3
Morozevich 3
3. Anand 2½
Kramnik 2½
5. Carlsen 2
Karjakin 2
Leko 2
Topalov 2
9. Kamsky 1½
Radjabov 1½
11. Ivanchuk 1
Wang Yue 1

Melody Amber 2009 Results Round 1

Here are the results of Round 1 that took place yesterday, actually it's kind of 2 games per round, one blindfold and one rapid, then the scores are combined. It's always been a very interesting tournament to me, trying to keep up with all the action is pretty tough! I've been drinking my coffee and cola to try and keep up!

"source Amber2009 website"

score after Round 1

Blindfold

1. Anand 1
Aronian 1
Carlsen 1
Kramnik 1
5. Karjakin ½
Radjabov ½
Topalov ½
Wang Yue ½
9. Ivanchuk 0
Kamsky 0
Leko 0
Morozevich 0

Rapid

1. Aronian 1
Kamsky 1
Leko 1
Morozevich 1
5. Karjakin ½
Radjabov ½
Topalov ½
Wang Yue ½
9. Anand 0
Carlsen 0
Ivanchuk 0
Kramnik 0

Combined

1. Aronian 2
2. Anand 1
Carlsen 1
Kamsky 1
Karjakin 1
Kramnik 1
Leko 1
Morozevich 1
Radjabov 1
Topalov 1
Wang Yue 1
12. Ivanchuk 0

Round 2 is ongoing now, will try to keep updated.

Melody Amber 2009 Preview

The 2009 Melody Amber Rapid and Blindfold tournament is starting on March 14, 2009. I have seen it just referred to as the Amber Tournament, but I've always seen it as Melody Amber, a memorial tournament in Monaco, the mix of Rapid and Blindfold chess is very interesting and something to look forward to watching each year as it always has top rated players.

Here are the 12 Participants:

World Champion Viswanathan Anand (India) 2791
Levon Aronian (Armenia) 2750
Magnus Carlsen (Norway) 2776
Vasily Ivanchuk (Ukraine) 2779
Gata Kamsky (United States) 2725
Sergey Karjakin (Ukraine) 2706
Vladimir Kramnik (Russia) 2759
Peter Leko (Hungary) 2751
Alexander Morozevich (Russia) 2771
Teimour Radjabov (Azerbaijan) 2760
Veselin Topalov (Bulgaria) 2796
Wang Yue (China) 2739

Every day four sessions will be played, two blindfold sessions and two rapid sessions. The first session starts at 14.30 hrs. The fourth session finishes around 20.00 hrs. (Note: the final round on March 26 starts at 12.30 hrs. March 18 and 23 are rest days.)