Now officially I have an excuse to play so poorly! :)

Yes. The national chess federation forwards the costs of the title application to the applicant, which are apparently € 50 for CM, € 70 for FM, € 165 for IM and € 330 for GM. Amazingly even IMs and GMs have to pay for their titles, and not so little either.

Note: € 1.00 is approximately $1.50, so the costs in US dollars are roughly $75 for CM, $100 for FM, $250 for IM and $500 for GM.

Correct me if I get you wrong... but you have to pay money to FIDE just to put the CM before your nickname?

lubo is right, it was a 5-minute game at the ICC.

And the CM-title is just a ridiculous idea from FIDE to make more money. I don't even want that title.

In the pgn file (there's a link in the right bottom corner) we can see :

[Event "ICC"]
[Site "Internet Chess Club"]
[Date "2009.10.23"]
[White "Me"]
[Black "IM QvC"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteElo "2388"]
[BlackElo "2263"]
[ECO "B01"]
[Opening "Scandinavian (center counter) defense"]
[TimeControl "300+0"]

This means that the game was 300 seconds each without added time. 300 seconds == 5 mins... it's a classic blitz game.

And yes, Phobetor... please put some CM before your nick

What were the time controls?

And very nice game :), its nice to see that a strong player can beat IM's, regardless of being titleless (Btw shouldnt you have CM or something?)

I keep teaching such tactics to my students in my Chess Academy. Anyway, keep going, many will benefit.

NOICE!

good... i enjoyed it..

Thanks all :) and I love those double bishop mates too, but unfortunately most opponents don't allow it :(

@lubo: My anti-Scandinavian repertoire is mostly based on my own experience with playing the Scandinavian as black. I hated playing the Scandinavian as white, so decided to play it as black. Then after a while I experienced how some variations are very critical and very hard to meet for black. In the end I stopped playing the Scandinavian, but now I do know those good anti-Scandinavian variations :)

Like in this game, I like delaying Nf3 most against Qa5-variations. Just d4, Nc3, Bc4, Bd2, Qe2 and d5 if possible. Else just castle long and harass that bishop on f5 which often has a hard time finding a safe spot.

Well Tiviakov and Ivanchuk play chess at level.... uh... a bit higher than mine :)... I'm more concern with the side lines that are left off-scenes. After seeing your games in scamdinavian ... I'm doing a bit better. I should defenitely prepare better for it. Do you have any good source?

nice mate...

Enjoyed it! Double bishop mates have gotta be among the most entertaining ways to win a game.

congratulations for the very beutiful check mate !!! wow

beautiful game.  I still dont have much respect for the scandinavian as black though.  Surely the sicilian, french or ...e5 is superior.

nice

nice game! he shouldnt have played scandinavian against the scandinavian 'smasher'! :P

I guess I'll just continue naturally ;)

Actually, I faced 3... Qd6 against an IM 5 months ago, and after making natural opening moves I saw I had a crappy position after the opening :( then I was almost lost, but fortunately there were alot of only-moves available and eventually I actually got a near-winning position. Then I messed up, almost lost again but in the end could just keep the draw :)

Tiviakov is actually playing the 3... Qd6 against Ivanchuk right now in the Univé Crown Group in Hoogeveen, the Netherlands. You can follow it at http://www.univechess.nl/2009/indexlive.html to see how Ivanchuk deals with Qd6 ;)

Hehehe... you love Scandinavian.. very nice mate :)

What do you play on 1.e4 d5 2.cd5 Qd5 3.Nc3 Qd8 or Qd6?