When I turned on the radio this morning,the first song I heard was “Dancing Queen” by Abba. Normally, this is nothing special but in Mainz it is one of the songs that is played between the rounds. The music starts when a new round is to begin. Today we started with the press conference, Johannes Fischer wrote an article about it. Some of the nicest quotes on the press conference : Etienne Bacrot: ”I hope Vishy has not practiced Chess960 in secret”. Harry Schaack asked Ivanchuk who could stop him after his excellent results in the last months. He said: ”Anybody can stop me,there are too many strong GM´s and IM´s here inMainz!
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