Hansen annotates: Eljanov - Hansen, 2015.

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Submitted by John Upper on Mon, 09/28/2015 - 18:10

The 2015 FIDE World Chess Cup continues until October 5, in Baku, Azerbaijan. 

Currently, seven-time Russian Champion GM Peter Svidler has qualified for the final. He will meet the winner of the play-off match between Russian GM Sergei Karjakin and Ukranian GM Pavel Eljanov. That match can be seen live, online, Tuesday September 29 at 6am EST (links below).

Eljanov has been the star of the event so far. Winning his first five matches with a combined score of 10/12 (+8 =4 -0), the #26 seed eliminated:

#103 Rinat Jumabayev 2606
#90  Alexander Ipatov 2621
#7   Alexander Grischuk 2771
#5   Dmitry Jakovenko 2748 
#2   Hikaru Nakamura 2814

You can watch the playoffs, and the four game final match, on the World Cup website. Live games, with video and viewer's choice of GM commentary in English, Azeri, Spanish, or Russian, start at 3pm Baku time, 6am EST:

http://www.bakuworldcup2015.com/content/5

In March, before he'd become such a world-beater, Eljanov played in the Reykjavik Open. In the final round he met and beat the run-away winner Erwin L'Ami. But inround 9 he had to play Canada's Eric Hansen, who had tied for second in the 2014 Reykjavik Open. Here is their game, with notes by GM Eric Hansen.

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This game, and three others annotated by Eric, will appear in the next issue of Chess Canada, the CFC's online newsletter. 

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