Semi-final:
| First game: | (blitz) | Fabiano Caruana | - | Maxime Vachier-Lagrave | 1 – 0 | |
| Second game: | (blitz) | Maxime Vachier-Lagrave | - | Fabiano Caruana | 1 – 0 | |
| Third game: | (Armageddon) | Maxime Vachier-Lagrave | - | Fabiano Caruana | 0 – 1 |
Final
| First game: | (rapid) | Fabiano Caruana | - | Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son | ½ – ½ |
| Second game: | (rapid) | Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son | - | Fabiano Caruana | 0 -1 |
Steinberg has published an interview with Steve Tushar and Ron Eng, sound designers on “Coraline”. They talk about their work in the film and also the use of Nuendo for their sound work.
Hello Steve, hello Ron! You’ve recently worked together on the film Coraline, which was directed by Henry Selick. What was special about the collaboration with him?
Ron: The best thing about working with Henry was his creativity and dedication to detail. He has very acute hearing and knowledge of sound design.
Steve: Plus, Henry really stepped it up a few notches with this film compared to “Nightmare before Christmas”. It looks so good that I don’t think the average person would even realize that it’s stop motion animation. Sometimes even I forgot that fact while looking at the scenes. I would only be reminded when I saw an unfinished scene to work on.
What were your roles in the production process? How did you use Nuendo in that project?
Ron: My role as sound designer was to create sounds for things that you wouldn’t normally find in a sound effects library, for instance, making a sound for a haunting mirror squeak, weird crickets or a world crumbling around us. Steve Tushar’s role was to concentrate on all of the real world sound effects such as impacts, cars, doors, hits, bangs, squeaks, etc., and organize them for the final mix.
Coraline is a 3D film using the elaborate stop motion technique. The film is often described as a “visual masterpiece”. What was (technically) the biggest challenge during the post-production work on Coraline?
Ron: The biggest challenge was to cut sound while only having a storyboard and unfinished pictures. Some of the more complex scenes we didn’t even see till late in the final mix process.
Steve: I agree with Ron here 110%. That is always the biggest challenge for animation jobs. Especially when they drop in a rough sketch that is only one frame per three or four seconds and they expect you to come up with the sound for it and you end up scratching your head for an hour.
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Arkadij Naiditsch – Zahar Efimenko chess match
Mukachevo, Ukraine, 12-18.08.2010
Arkadij Naiditsch and Zahar Efimenko will play a chess match 12-18.08.2010 in Mukachevo, Ukraine. The match will consist of six classical games. This is the same format that was used for the previous match of Efimenko against Short.
The opening will take place on the 11th of August in the Transcarpathian Regional State Russian Drama Theatre. The match will be accompanied by Open, Rapid, Blitz, children’s Open, a session of simultaneous games tournaments. One of the main events will be the Transkarpathian Cup 2010 (10-18 August 2010), more details at the official site.
Arkadij Naiditsch
Arkadij Naiditsch (born 25 October 1985 in Latvia) was awarded his GM title in April 2001. In 2002, he drew an eight-game match with former Candidates’ finalist Jan Timman in Dortmund.Naiditsch was clear winner of the Dortmund Sparkassen 2005 Tournament, ahead of higher-rated and well-known players such as Loek Van Wely, Veselin Topalov, Peter Svidler, Vladimir Kramnik, Michael Adams, and Peter Leko. In 2007, he also won the German national championship based in Ghert. The same year he became champion with Beograd Beopublikum in Serbia. In 2009 he won Montreal International Chess Tournament. In 2010 he finished among the first positions of the Corus B chess tournament.
Zahar Efimenko
Zahar Efimenko, born July 3, 1985, is grandmaster since 2002. In 1999 Efimenko won in the U-14 World Youth Chess Championship in Oropesa del Mar, Spain. In the same year he was a member of the Ukrainian national youth team, which won the U-16 Chess Olympiad in Artek, Ukraine. Efimenko has won several chess tournaments since then, among them the 2001 Stork Young Masters in Hengelo, Netherlands. He became champion of Ukraine in 2006. In 2007, he tied for 1st-6th with Vitali Golod, Mateusz Bartel, Yuri Yakovich, Michael Roiz and Mikhail Kobalia in the 16th Monarch Assurance Isle of Man International tournament. In May 2010, he tied for 1st-2nd with Victor Bologan in the 40th Bosna International tournament in Sarajevo.
Official site: http://www.chess32×64.org/
Nana Dzagnidze is leading FIDE Women Grand Prix series
Wednesday, 28 July 2010
30th of July 12 top-grandmasters will start the struggle in the Fifth FIDE Women Grand Prix series tournament in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. The average rating of the competition is 2487 points.
All participants are very strong. The top-rated player of the tournament is the second-rated player in the World – Humpy Koneru from India. Among the participants – four former Women World Champions: Maia Chiburdanidze, Zhu Chen, Antoaneta Stefanova and Xu Yuhua.
Summarizing the results of the four previous stages, the leader of Women Grand Prix series is Nana Dzagnidze from Georgia. She scored 390 points and she has one more stage to play – in Santiago, Chile.
The second place is occupied by Chinese Hou Yifan (320 points), the third – by Russian Tatiana Kosintseva (290 points). They both have their last chance to gain the Grand Prix series victory in Ulaanbaatar.
The winner of the Grand Prix series will play in 2011 in the Candidate event of the World Championship Cycle.
The cumulative score is based on best three results for each player.
http://ulaanbaatar2010.fide.com
Round 5 results:
| Bo. | Name | Result | Name | ||
| 1 | GM | Wojtaszek Radoslaw | 1 – 0 | GM | Morozevich Alexander |
| 2 | GM | Granda Zuniga Julio E | 1 – 0 | IM | Reinaldo Castineira Roi |
| 3 | GM | Fressinet Laurent | 1 – 0 | GM | Iturrizaga Eduardo |
| 4 | GM | Lopez Martinez Josep Manuel | ½ – ½ | GM | Fedorchuk Sergey |
| 5 | GM | Zvjaginsev Vadim | ½ – ½ | GM | Kurnosov Igor |
Standings after 5 rounds:
| Rk. | Name | Rtg | FED | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | Pts. | TB1 | TB2 | |
| 1 | GM | Wojtaszek Radoslaw | 2663 | POL | * | ½ | 1 | ½ | 1 | ½ | 3,5 | 0,0 | 8,00 | ||||
| 2 | GM | Fressinet Laurent | 2697 | FRA | * | ½ | ½ | 1 | ½ | 1 | 3,5 | 0,0 | 7,00 | ||||
| 3 | GM | Zvjaginsev Vadim | 2656 | RUS | ½ | * | ½ | ½ | ½ | 1 | 3,0 | 0,0 | 6,75 | ||||
| 4 | GM | Fedorchuk Sergey |
2665 | UKR | ½ | ½ | * | ½ | 1 | ½ | 3,0 | 0,0 | 6,50 | ||||
| 5 | GM | Granda Zuniga Julio |
2639 | PER | ½ | ½ | * | ½ | ½ | 1 | 3,0 | 0,0 | 6,00 | ||||
| 6 | GM | Morozevich Alexander | 2715 | RUS | 0 | ½ | * | ½ | 1 | 1 | 3,0 | 0,0 | 4,50 | ||||
| 7 | GM | Iturrizaga Eduardo | 2614 | VEN | ½ | 0 | ½ | ½ | * | ½ | 2,0 | 0,0 | 5,25 | ||||
| GM | Kurnosov Igor | 2662 | RUS | 0 | ½ | ½ | ½ | * | ½ | 2,0 | 0,0 | 5,25 | |||||
| 9 | IM | Reinaldo Castineira Roi | 2511 | ESP | ½ | 0 | 0 | 0 | ½ | * | 1,0 | 0,0 | 2,75 | ||||
| 10 | GM | Lopez Martinez Josep Manuel | 2543 | ESP | 0 | 0 | ½ | 0 | ½ | * | 1,0 | 0,0 | 2,50 |
Official website: http://ajedrezsanjuan.blogspot.es/
Results page: http://chess-results.com/tnr34216.aspx
RECENT SCORES: Received Oscar nom (shared with Mark Stoeckinger) for sound editing on “Star Trek.” Earlier multiple Golden Reel Award noms for two “Mission: Impossible” films, “The Day After Tomorrow,” “The Italian Job” and “The Last Samurai.”
COMING UP: Sound design for “Alan Wake,” the well-reviewed psychological action thriller released by Microsoft Games. “Sound for games typically takes a slightly different approach from movies,” he notes. “There are no production sounds to reference, so you have to create everything. It was a big challenge to create a world of twisted reality.”
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Get With It
White to move. What’s the best continuation for White?
Source: ChessToday.net
RECENT SCORES: Kirk won Emmys in 2007 and 2009 for “Entourage,” sandwiching a nom he received for the series in 2008. He got his start working with artists such as T Bone Burnett, the Blasters, Warren Zevon and Jackson Browne, and has mixed four platinum-selling records. His TV credits include “Rescue Me,” “Gilmore Girls,” “Beverly Hills, 90210,” “Supernatural,” and “Thief.”
COMING UP: Currently mixing “Big Love” and “Entourage” for HBO. “The guys in ‘Entourage’ are in so many situations,” notes Kirk. “They’re in clubs and at premieres. There are explosions and squealing tires. Our task is to create all that and help tell the story. It’s challenging, but rewarding.”
