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| FIDE World Championship 2005, San Luis, Argentina. Malcolm Pein of the Daily Telegraph on Round 8 Round 8 (October 6, 2005)
Topalov, Veselin - Leko, Peter 1/2 24 E15 Queens Indian
Anand, Viswanathan - Polgar, Judit 1-0 62 B48 Sicilian Paulsen
Kasimdzhanov, Rustam - Morozevich, Alexander 0-1 53 B83 Sicilian Scheveningen
Adams, Michael - Svidler, Peter 1/2 40 B80 Sicilian Scheveningen
WCh-FIDE San Luis ARG (ARG), 28 ix-16 x 2005 cat. XX (2739)
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1 Topalov, Veselin g BUL 2788 ** 1. =. 1= 1. 1. 1. 1. 7.0 3071
2 Svidler, Peter g RUS 2738 0. ** =. 1. 1. =. == 1. 5.0 2831
3 Anand, Viswanathan g IND 2788 =. =. ** =. 0. 0. 1. 11 4.5 2774
4 Leko, Peter g HUN 2763 0= 0. =. ** =. =. 1. 1. 4.0 2741
5 Morozevich, Alexander g RUS 2707 0. 0. 1. =. ** =1 =. =. 4.0 2733
6 Kasimdzhanov, Rustam g UZB 2670 0. =. 1. =. =0 ** =. 0. 3.0 2656
7 Adams, Michael g ENG 2719 0. == 0. 0. =. =. ** =. 2.5 2599
8 Polgar, Judit g HUN 2735 0. 0. 00 0. =. 1. =. ** 2.0 2552
----------------------------------------------------------------------  Veselin Topalov finally held. Leko equalised fairly comfortably and the game was drawn in 24 moves. Peter Svidler also drew so Topalov's lead remains at two points. Photo © http://www.wccsanluis.net Chess from Malcolm Pein Chess for Saturday October 8th 2005 Veselin Topalov's run of victories came to an end but he retained a two point lead over the field after eight rounds of the Fide World Championships being held at San Luis in Argentina. The Bulgarian is on course to take home the Fide title and the $300,000 first prize and only needs to avoid defeat to complete one of the greatest tournament performances of all time. His current tournament rating performance or TPR is over 3100. Topalov was held to a draw with white by Peter Leko who equalised easily in a topical line of the Queen's Indian which Topalov plays with both colours. Peter Svidler missed a chance to close the gap in the time scramble against Michael Adams in a sharp Sicilian Defence where the players castled on opposite wings. With Adams poised to strike on the kingside the GM from St Petersburg came up with a remarkable defensive idea, I must confess it was about the last move I would have considered and it worked but Adams missed a very strong continuation at one point, see below. Round eight of fourteen. Adams draw Svidler, Sicilian Scheveningen, 40 moves; Anand 1-0 Polgar, Sicilian Taimanov 6.Be3, Kasimdzhanov 0-1 Morozevich , Sicilian Scheveningen, 62; Topalov draw Leko, Queen's Indian 4.g3 Ba6 main line, 24. Scores: 1 Topalov (Bulgaria) 7/8; 2 Svidler (Russia) 5; 3 Anand (India) 4.5; 4-5 Morozevich (Russia), Leko (Hungary) 4; 6 Kasimdzhanov (Uzbekistan) 3; 7 Adams (England) 2.5; 8 Polgar (Hungary) 2. This is a well known line and Svidler's 16. ...Ne5 is a new move and a sensible one, the Black king needs defenders. If 16...Bxg5 17.Bxg5 Qxg5 18.h6! and b4, d6 and g7 are attacked. 22â?¦h6!? Was a remarkable idea Black constructs a defence based on his dark square control before pawn g5-g6 breaks up the kingside. Not 20.Qxc5 dxc5 21.Rd7 Bxe4 or 23.g6 f5 24.Ng3 Kh8 25.Qd3 Rac8 26.Rhf1 Bh4! Adams might have won with 28.Ng3 a4 (28...Bf6 29.Nxe4 Qxe4 30.exf7; 28...fxe6 29.Nxe4 Qxe4 30.Bg2) 29.Qxb4 and 36. ...Rh2 would have given Svidler winning chances. M Adams - P Svidler FIDE WCh. San Luis (8) 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 e6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nc6 5.Nc3 d6 6.Be3 Nf6 7.Qd2 Be7 8.f3 0-0 9.0-0-0 a6 10.g4 Nxd4 11.Qxd4 Nd7 12.h4 b5 13.g5 Qa5 14.Kb1 b4 15.Ne2 Bb7 16.h5 Ne5 17.f4 Ng4 18.Bh3 Nxe3 19.Qxe3 Qc5 20.Qd3 Qb5 21.Qe3 Qc5 22.Qf3 h6!? 23.gxh6 gxh6 24.f5 Qe5 25.Rhg1+ Kh7 26.fxe6 Bxe4 27.Qb3 a5 28.Bg2 Bxg2 29.Rxg2 fxe6 30.Qd3+ Qf5 31.Nd4 Qxd3 32.cxd3 Rg8 33.Rxg8 Rxg8 34.Nxe6 Rg2 35.Rf1 Kg8 36.a4 b3 37.Nd4 Bf6 38.Nxb3 Rxb2+ 39.Kc1 Rxb3 40.Rxf6 Rxd3 draw Svidler  Adams Final position after 40...Rxd3 |
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