In a very sharp and double-edged battle, he managed to completely outplay another former World Blitz Champion and obtain a winning position with the help of the pseudo-bishop-sacrifice. In the first game of the day, our board 4 Polina Shuvalova played very solidly with the White pieces and gave Grischuk very little chance to play for anything.īardiya Daneshvar, who has been enjoying a tremendous season so far, continued with a very good performance in the first round and demonstrated further that life won’t be easy for the opponent’s elite players. Round 1 Shuvalova – GrischukĪlready the first round demonstrated that it is not so easy to score points in this competition, even if you are a 2700+ player and a former World Blitz Champion. Let’s review the action that unfolded on the evening of 2nd March 2023. However, if everything ended up as it looked like on paper, we wouldn’t even have to play events of any sort – especially not ones played with rapid control when expected results don’t mean anything once you sit at the board and start playing. Our opponents fielded the very same lineup as in the previous weeks, consisting of two 2700+ grandmasters and two lower-rated, but young and ambitious players:Įven though the (adjusted) rating averages were almost identical (2545 vs 2544), perhaps our opponents could have been considered as slight pre-match favourites, since having two players of MVL and Grischuk’s caliber definitely looks quite threatening on paper. This resulted in one of the closest, tightest, and most entertaining/nerve-wracking (Pro Chess League) matches yours truly has ever witnessed.įull report and highlights follow! Team LineupsĪfter signing the Serbian nr.1 player GM Aleksandar Inđić and including him in our lineup for the season, we immediately included him in the lineup and fielded a very respectable team with a very similar rating average compared to the previous week:
With both teams having an even score (1-1), both teams were hoping to make a significant leap toward the play-off stage (for which three victories are required) and brought their A-game to the table. After defeating the Berlin Bears, in the third week of Pro Chess League Croatia Bulldogs faced another difficult challenge – a match against the french-based team Blitz, featuring two 2700+ players and managed by the popular streamer Kevin Bordi a.k.a.
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