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This VISA London 2012 Party is the moment that London officially begins the countdown to London 2012, with a fantastic concert for 40,000 lucky revellers – with Will Young, James Morrison, Scouting for Girls, The Feeling and McFly amongst the stellar acts to perform.

This fantastic occasion marks the closing of the Beijing Olympics, as well as celebrating the outstanding achievements of this year's team GB medalists - and now you can be a part of the action too.

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Both players finished on 8/11.  Stuart had already beaten Keith early in the tournament and faced a tougher field, so the victory was well deserved.  He will be a popular champion with fellow players and fans alike.     

Nigel Davies, Stephen Gordon, Bogdan Lalic and Simon Williams shared third place with 7.5 points each. 

Here is the crucial playoff game.  The Caro-Kann is a notoriously tough nut to crack, but Stuart made light work of it in this game. 

Exchanging the c-pawn for the d-pawn gives Black a tiny structural edge - an extra centre pawn.  But it costs time, and 7.Be2!? is an interesting idea, anticipating the queen's switch to the kingside and fluid development.

Stuart Conquest - Keith Arkell
(Liverpool, 2008)

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North-South were playing the popular opener of 2H to show a weak hand in hearts and a six-card suit, typically 5-9 points.

2NT is a relay asking partner to describe his hand in greater detail. There are several ways and conventions, which are played in this position.

The two most popular are “August” and feature showing. In feature showing you rebid your suit if you are minimum, but if you have extra values such as an Ace or a King you bid the suit showing that feature.

Our pair today were playing August. Here the choices of response were as follows: - 3C show a poor suit and a weak hand.

3D show a weak suit and maximum points.

3H show a good suit and minimum points.

3S show a good suit and maximum points.

3NT shows AKQxxx.

When South showed a good suit North had no problem in raising to 4H.

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Like watching the champion fighter, I know what the result will be, but I still want to see the gory details. 

Against the toughest opposition in the world, only Anand makes the game look effortless.  Of course, rapid chess suits Vishy's style like a glove, combining as he does immense tactical skill with powerful pragmatism and intuition, speed of play and dangerous openings. 

At the Grenkeleasing Rapid World Championship held in Germany this month, Anand took the title for the ninth time in succession. 

Magnus Carlsen was the challenger in the final, ahead of Alexander Morozevich and Judit Polgar, but the young Norwegian never had a chance. 

In an earlier game, Morozevich was gunned down just a few moves out of theory with some beautiful tactics.

Vishy Anand - Alexander Morozevich
(Mainz, 2008)

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.0–0 Be7 6.Re1 b5 7.Bb3 ...

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It takes similar lines to the Ryder Cup of Golf and has twelve Europeans battling against twelve from the USA.

The Norwegians Boye Brogeland and Espen Lindqvist, members of the current European winning team, will represent Europe.

The other pairs are: - fellow Norwegians, Tor Helness and Jan Peter Svendsen, Father and Son Michel and Thomas Bessis of France, “Pepsi” Jarek Pszcola and Michal Kweicien (Poland) and Tom Hanlon and Hugh McGann (Ireland).

The sixth pair will be a new partnership of Sabine Auken (Germany and the young Dutch star, Marion Michielsen. Paul is the Captain.

Let us examine today’s hand. Many players would consider that the South hand has not got the values for an opening bid.

However the ability to introduce the heart suit into the auction favours an opening of 1H. After all if the opponents buy the contract the heart opener gives a good indication to partner when he selects his opening lead.

North responded 1S and South showed his second suit, ...

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The prodigious world number 6 Magnus Carlsen had been leading until he overpressed against Evgeny Alekseev in the seventh round, allowing Dominguez to sneak into the lead after notching up consecutive wins in rounds 6,7 and 8. 

But the Cuban could manage only one draw in the final two rounds to tie for first place with Alekseev.  He then lost the rapid and blitz playoff to the Russian. 

Currently world no. 25 Dominguez has a well rounded style, and in this game we see him ekeing out a narrow victory.  The end to this game really emphasizes the value of basic endgame proficiency, not to mention dogged persistence.  Rook and knight against rook should be drawn, but there are some winning chances and Dominguez had been shuffling around for thirty moves to reach the diagram position. 

Now he saw an idea enabling him to close in. 

Alexander Onischuk - Lenier Dominguez Perez (Biel, 2008)
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