Fianchetto

Not that you’d know from reading the SPORTS sections of the UK newspapers, but both Short and Adams have been doing rather well in the strongest Chess tournament for a while, with both Kramnik, J Polgar and Anand taking part. Short got off to a good start but is now just level with others such as er.. World Champ Vladimir Kramnik, while UK no 1, Michael Adams is joint 3rd, narrowly off the lead and with les blancs in the next game. He accidentally walked into a drawn game after reaching a winning position in an endgame of a Petroff.

Round 9 is over now with a fair few still to go. The Bulgar Vesselin Topalov is first on 6 points (remember his classic encounter with Kasparov’s rooks a few years ago?).

Oh, but let’s just bang on about looser Henman shall we…

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