From: Eric Cheymol <shogi <at> FREE <dot> FR>
Date: 20 may 2002
Subject: Habu's magical tour in Paris (round 8)

Today again, all games have been hard fought : no draw, only decisive
results.

When I arrived at the tournament hall, Yoshiharu Habu had a very
promising game. His pieces were controlling good squares, I thought he
had good chances to convert this game to a win. But unfortunately, I
coudn't attend the games until the end and I heard later by phone that
Yoshiharu lost.

This was a bit difficult to believe as Yoshiharu was playing against a
low rated player and that he was undefeated with the white pieces.
Yoshiharu Habu had a very busy week with always interesting hard fought
games.

With this loss, all hopes for a IM norm are gone away, and Yoshiharu is
equal fourth in the tournament with 4 points out of 8 now.

Tomorrow he will play with the back pieces against the strong GM Inkiov
who needs a win to hope for a win in the tournament. So this game will
be played until the end too.

All today games in java or in pgn here :
http://www.nao-cc.com/naocc/naofide/part.htm

Joel Lautier has translated in english the very insteresting interview
of Mark Taimanov. I post it in a different mail. This interview shows
haw the strong 76 years old GM Mark Taimanov conducted his chess life
and his musical life.

This tournament is really a good opportunity for the Japanese to be
interested in chess. A chat channel is used to allow every internet
spectator to make commentaries about the game. Eloi Relange (a strong
french GM chess player) who analyses the games in live, told me that at
some point 50 percent of the commentaries were written in japanese !! So
many Japanese are interested in Habu's magical tour in Paris. And the
games finish around 2h00-4h00 AM Tokyo time !

Due to a misfunction with my ISP, I was not able to update my web site
today. Everything is in order now, so I will put photographs of rounds 7
and 8 of the tournament this evening (Paris time).

Eric Cheymol

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