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145 | October 12 n 2011

what’s hot and what’s not?

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Carlsen wins 4th

Masters Final

By IM Merijn van Delft & IM Robert Ris

Carlsen won the Masters in Bilbao after beating Ivanchuk

in the blitz tiebreak. Kasparov beat Short 4.5-3.5 in a blitz

match and Sadler won in Oslo with 8/9. We also take a look

at the Governor's Cup and the Karpov Tournament.

Frequency

Score

what ' s hot?

Alekseev managed to beat Ponomariov in the Berlin Endgame, but the

other four top encounters with this opening were drawn. Remarkably

World Champion Anand and Karjakin (twice) were not able to create

any problems with White. Onischuk scored three solid draws with Black

against world class opposition, consistently playing the Marshall Attack.

Below we take a look at Kasparov's handling of 1.e4 e5 and the wild

Sicilian game Ivanchuk-Nakamura. Morozevich-Vitiugov (Steinitz) and

Leko-Shirov (Winawer) were relevant French encounters.

Aronian-Carlsen was another ambitious setup with h4 against the

QGD, but Black managed to create active counterplay in time. Aronian

also initially solved his problems on the black side of the QGD, but

subsequently got outplayed in the endgame by Nakamura. Sadler

makes stubborn Chebanenko and Stonewall positions look so easy,

beating one grandmaster colleague after another.

Source: Megabase + TWIC, 2500+ only

Our Game of the Week , Moiseenko-Morozevich, saw 7...£a5 in the

diagram position. Vallejo Pons-Ivanchuk was an interesting Anti-

Grünfeld that was fine for Black until he pushed too far and lost.

Carlsen-Ivanchuk was the crucial last round encounter, a Nimzo-Indian

with 4.¤f3. Below we examine Aronian-Anand, a crushing white win in

the Vienna Variation.

The sharp Caro-Kann Advance Variation with 5...c5 and 6...£b6 now finally seems to have met its match. Rising star Laznicka gave

it another try with Black, but Karjakin knew very well how to deal with the line and scored a crushing win. Two rounds later Laznicka

had less problems dealing with Rublevsky's 4.¤d2, adopting the typical approach of giving up the

bishop pair but equalizing by installing a strong bishop on e4.

what’s not?

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145 | October 12 n 2011

Morozevich's dancing queen

In a Sämisch line that’s been posing Black some problems lately Morozevich started making

a lot of £ moves, which may have provoked his opponent into playing the doubled-edged

h4–h5, losing control over the position.

game of the week

Moiseenko - Morozevich

Moiseenko,A (2726)-Morozevich,A (2737)

Governor ' s Cup (Saratov), 10.10.2011

D37 King ' s Indian, Sämisch

Nothing can be gained from 14.g4 £h4+

(14...¤xg4!? may give Black sufficient play for

the sacrificed piece.) 15.¥f2 £g5 16.¥e3 with a

repetition of moves.

14...¤d7

Aiming to simplify with 14...¥h3?! is premature,

in view of 15.g4 when Black is forced to sacrifice

a piece under unfavorable circumstances.

15.¤d5 e6 16.¤f4

Engines seem to prefer 16.¤c7 ¦b8 17.¦d1

though after 17...a6! it ' s not clear if and how the

¤ will ever be able to return.

16...£e5

16...£g5? is simply met by 17.¤xe6!.

17.¤d3

It ' s very probable that it had been Morozevich ' s

intention to meet 17.0–0–0 with 17...a5! seizing

the initiative on the queenside.

17...£f6

A horrible mistake would be 17...£h5? which

can be met by 18.h4! when the £ is suddenly

in trouble, due to the threat of 19.g4, while

18...¤de5 19.¤f4! doesn ' t help either.

18.h4

Safer is 18.0–0 when there ' s still a lot to play for.

18...£e7 19.h5 a5 20.hxg6 fxg6 21.a4

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White has ignored the basic rule of bringing the

¢ to safety. Therefore Black opens the centre.

21...d5! 22.cxd5 exd5 23.exd5 ¤b4 24.¦h4?!

Better would have been 24.¤xb4 £xb4+

25.¤d2 ¤f6 (25...£xb2 26.¦b1 £c3 27.0–0 and

White ' s pieces are getting coordinated.) 26.£c4

(26.0–0 ¤xd5 clearly favors Black.) 26...£xc4

27.¤xc4 ¤xd5 and despite £s having been

exchanged Black retains some initiative as his

pieces are more actively placed.

24...¤c2+!

Eliminating the main defender of the black

squares.

25.£xc2 £xe3+ 26.£e2

26.¢f1 is strongly met by 26...¦xf3+! 27.¥xf3

£xf3+ 28.¤f2 b6!.

26...£g5!

Obviously Black prefers to keep £s on the

board, as the white ¢ is stuck in the centre.

In case of 26...£xe2+?! 27.¢xe2 ¤f6 Black is

only slightly better.

27.¢f1?

The decisive mistake. White should have played

27.¢f2 though after 27...£xd5 (not 27...¤f6?

28.f4! and White has everything protected.)

28.£c2 ¤b6 Black is clearly on top.

27...¤f6!

Directing the pieces towards the kingside is

more appealing than regaining a pawn with

27...£xd5.

28.¤bc5 £xg3 29.£f2 £d6 30.¦d1 ¤g4

31.£e2 £g3 32.¦xg4 ¥xg4 33.¤e4

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White is totally lost, but Morozevich finishes the

game in great style.

33...¦xf3+! 34.¥xf3

34.£xf3 ¥xf3 35.¤xg3 ¥xd1-+.

34...¥h3+ 35.¥g2

35.£g2 £xf3+! and Black wins.

35...¦f8+ 36.¢g1 ¥d4+ 37.¢h1 ¥xg2+

38.£xg2 £h4+ 39.£h2 £xe4+ 40.£g2 ¦f3!

and White resigned, in view of the threat

41...¦h3#. 0–1

1.d4 ¤f6 2.c4 g6 3.¤c3 ¥g7 4.e4 d6 5.f3

The Sämisch Variation is currently one of the

most popular ways of tackling the King ' s Indian.

5...0–0 6.¥e3 c5 7.¤ge2

The other main option is to steer the game into

a queenless middlegame with 7.dxc5 see CVO

77 and 103.

7...£a5

The main move is 7...¤c6 - see CVO 144.

8.¤c1

After this game people may return to the more

natural 8.£d2.

8...cxd4 9.¤b3 £e5

A very provocative idea of Morozevich ' s.

Moiseenko already had experience with

two other continuations. 9...£d8 10.¤xd4

¤c6 11.¥e2 ¤xd4 12.¥xd4 ¥e6 13.0–0 ¤d7

14.¥xg7 ¢xg7 15.¢h1 £b6 16.b3 a5 17.f4 f6

18.¥g4 ¥xg4 19.£xg4 £d8 20.¦ae1 and due

to the weakened light squares White could

easily increase the pressure on the kingside in

Moiseenko-Nesteretz, Alushta 2011.; 9...£c7

10.¤xd4 ¤c6 11.¥e2 (11.¤b3?! a5! 12.a4 ¤d7

13.¦c1 b6 14.¤b5 £b7 15.¤3d4 ¤c5 with

mutual chances in Moiseenko-Saric,I Aix-les-

Bains 2011.) 11...a6 12.¦c1 ¤xd4 13.¥xd4 ¥e6

14.b3 ¤d7 15.¥xg7 ¢xg7 16.0–0 £a5 17.f4 and

White developes a similar initiative to that in

Moiseenko-Nesteretz. Black quickly collapses:

17...f5?! (17...¦ad8 is more stubborn.) 18.exf5

£xf5 19.£d2 ¦ac8 20.¢h1 ¤f6? 21.¥d3 £g4

22.¦ce1 ¤h5 23.¥e2 1–0 Dreev-Hughes,

Richardson 2010.

10.¥xd4 £f4

A novelty. An earlier game went 10...£g5

11.£c1 (After 11.h4 £g3+ 12.¥f2 £e5 13.£d2

it ' s also not clear how White can exploit the

misplacement of Black ' s £.) 11...£xc1+

12.¦xc1 ¤c6 13.¥e3 b6 14.¥e2 ¤d7 with

equality in Graf-Zude, Bastia rapid 2005.

11.g3 £g5 12.£e2 ¤c6 13.¥e3 £h5 14.¥g2

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145 | October 12 n 2011

this week’s harvest

Two Knights, 8.¥d3

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1.e4 e5 2.¤f3 ¤c6 3.¥c4 ¤f6 4.¤g5 d5 5.exd5 ¤a5 6.¥b5+ c6 7.dxc6 bxc6 8.¥d3 ¤d5

9.¤f3 ¥d6 10.0–0 ¤f4 11.¦e1 ¤xd3 12.cxd3 0–0 13.¤c3 ¦e8 14.h3 c5 15.b3 ¥a6 16.¥a3 ¥xd3

The return of Kasparov as a player becomes ever more unlikely, but as a trainer and ambassador of chess he

remains active. In his blitz match against Short he unsurprisingly refrained from his beloved Najdorf, as that

requires the highest levels of preparation and energy - to play at Kasparov's standard, that is. While in his first

black game he sprung a surprise with a Modern Defence, in the other three games he played the healthy and

straightforward 1.e4 e5. Against the Evans Gambit Kasparov played 8...d3, a move he marked as dubious in his

analysis of Andersson's evergreen in the first part of My Great Predecessors . Short seemed to have good play,

but went down anyway. Then the King's Gambit with 3.¥c4 was tested, and this time it was Kasparov's turn to

spoil a decent position and lose. The match concluded with a Two Knights' Defence and as you can see from

the diagram position Kasparov quickly got a nice position. This time he went on to win the game and the match.

Sicilian, Kan

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1.e4 c5 2.¤f3 e6 3.d4 cxd4 4.¤xd4 a6 5.¤c3 £c7 6.¥d3 ¤f6 7.f4 ¥b4 8.¤b3 ¥xc3+ 9.bxc3 d6

10.¥a3 0–0 11.£d2 ¦d8 12.0–0 ¤c6 13.¦f3 b5 14.¦g3 ¢h8 15.¦f1 ¥b7 16.f5 ¦g8 17.£g5 e5 18.£h4

Ivanchuk-Nakamura was one of the most tense Sicilian games seen in recent times, especially since both

players got into time trouble relatively early. With 7...¥b4!? the American took the risky and uncommon decision

to exchange his dark-squared ¥. The circumspect 8.¤b3!? is new and typical of Ivanchuk's independent view

of chess. Black wisely refrained from taking the gambit pawn and after a series of normal moves the diagram

position was reached. Here Black has to restore the harmony in his position with 18...¤b8! followed by ¤bd7

with reasonable defensive/counterattacking chances. In the game after 18...¤e7? 19.¦h3 d5 White could

have played 20.¦ff3! with the thematic threat of taking on h7 and only then pushing the g-pawn up the board.

When Ivanchuk did so a few moves later he got the upper hand anyway, but only when Nakamura missed the

counterattacking 30...¦xd3! 31.cxd3 £xc3 was the game decided in White's favour. All in all it has to be said that

it takes strong nerves to part with the dark-squared ¥ at such an early stage in the Sicilian.

Caro-Kann, Advance

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1.e4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.e5 ¥f5 4.¤f3 e6 5.¥e2 c5 6.¥e3 £b6 7.¤c3 ¤c6 8.0–0 £xb2 9.£e1 c4 10.¦b1 £xc2

11.¦xb7 ¥b4 12.¦xb4 ¤xb4 13.¥d1 £d3 14.¥a4+ ¢f8 15.£a1 ¥g4 16.£b2 ¦b8 17.¦b1 ¥xf3 18.¥c2

In the Poikovsky tournament two experts in the Short Variation of the Caro-Kann faced each other. Karjakin's

novelty 13.¥d1!? is an improvement upon a game of one of his seconds. In Motylev-Alsina, White went for

13.£a1 though after 13...¤xa2! it was clear that Black was doing fine and hence drew comfortably. After 13.¥d1

Black has to follow a more or less forced sequence leading to the diagram position. Apparently Laznicka wasn't

aware of the novelty and soon the Czech GM ended up in serious trouble. Instead of 18...¥e2, better is 18...£xc2

19.¥xd3 ¥xd3 20.a3 ¥xb1 21.axb4 ¥g6, when the engines assess the position as 0.00. However, Black's

kingside isn't fully developed yet and he'll find it hard to complete that task because of the pinned ¤. In case he

succeeds in playing ...f6, ¢f7, h6, ¦h7 Black will solve all his problems, though the line 22.f4 f5 23.¦b2 ¤xe3

24.¦b7 ¢f8 25.fxe3 g6 26.¦b8 ¢g7 27.¦e8! ¢f7 28. ¦a8 underlines the problems facing Black in the ending.

Vienna

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1.d4 ¤f6 2.c4 e6 3.¤f3 d5 4.¤c3 dxc4 5.e4 ¥b4 6.¥xc4 ¤xe4 7.0–0

¤f6 8.£a4+ ¤c6 9.¥g5 ¥e7 10.¥xf6 ¥xf6 11.d5 exd5 12.¦fe1+ ¥e6

The World Champion losing within 25 moves isn't a daily event and therefore special attention has to be paid to

the gambit line 6.¥xc4 against the Vienna. After 6...¤xe4 7.0–0 Black usually takes once on c3 and retreats the

¥ to e7. Anand opted for the rare 7...¤f6 (which had been employed by Aronian on the Internet), but soon had

to deal with several practical problems. Aronian's 9.¥g5! is a strong improvement upon 9.¤e5 ¦b8! which didn't

impress in Halkias-Fressinet. After 9...¥e7 10.¥xf6 ¥xf6, White has to show that he has sufficient compensation

and therefore must open the position with 11.d5 exd5 12.¦fe1 ¥e6 and now instead of the game continuation

13.¥xd5, it seems stronger to play the surprising 13.¥a6! after which I (RR) fail to find full equality for Black.

After the text move, Black evacuates his ¢ to the kingside solving all his opening problems. White retained some

compensation for the pawn, but if Anand had played either 16...¦d8 or 17...¦ad8 it's quite unlikely the game

would have ended in a miniature.

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145 | October 12 n 2011

it’s your move

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last week’s solutions

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Petrosian-Shirov, European Club Cup (Rogaska Slatina), 2011

Black has a wide range of options, but Shirov's 11...¤h7! seems to be a good preparatory move. 11...¥g4

and 11...¤h5 have been played before in grandmaster praxis. 12.¤bd2 h5 13.h4 Maybe White should have

preferred 13.h3 h4 14.¥h2 g4 15.hxg4 ¥xg4 even though Black also has good play in that case. 13...g4 14.¤h2

¥f6 15.f4?! A bit of a panic reaction. 15...¥xh4?! 15...exf4 16.¥xf4 ¥xh4 looks like a clear advantage for Black.

16.¥xh4 £xh4 17.¥xc6 bxc6 18.fxe5 dxe5 19.¤c4 f5?! 19...¤g5! would have been a strong way of preventing

20.¤xe5 since that runs into 20...£g3!. 20.¤xe5 fxe4 21.£b3+?! 21.¦xe4!. 21...¢g7 22.¦f1 ¤f6 23.dxe4?

23.£b4. 23...£g5! Suddenly trapping the ¤ in the middle of the board. 24.¤c4 £c5+ 25.¢h1 ¤xe4 wins. 0–1

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Eljanov-Kryvoruchko, European Club Cup (Rogaska Slatina), 2011

Black's last move is a theoretical inaccuracy. Back in 2007 Krasenkow mentioned the refutation and instead

recommended 10...¥xc3. Eljanov produces a model game: 11.¤xd5! ¤xd5 12.a3 cxd4 13.axb4 £b6 13...¤xb4?

is strongly met by the intermediate move 14.£xc8! winning a piece. 14.¤xd4 h6 15.¥h4 ¤xb4 16.£c3 Although

the position is still balanced from a material point of view, White is clearly better thanks to his pair of ¥s and the

asymmetrical pawn structure. 16...¤e5 16...¤d5 17.£a5!±. 17.¤b5 ¤d5 18.£a5 £g6 19.¥g3 ¤c6 20.£d2 ¦d8

21.¤d6 ¤db4 22.e4 ¥e6 23.£c3 ¦d7 24.¦ad1 ¦ad8 25.f4 f5 26.e5 ¥d5 27.¦d2 £e6 28.¥f2 ¢h8 29.¥c5 ¤a6

30.b4 ¦c7 31.¦xd5 ¤cxb4 32.¤f7+ 1–0

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