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| The Week in Chess. FIDE World Championship 2005, San Luis, Argentina. Round 14 Round 14 (October 14, 2005)
Topalov, Veselin - Polgar, Judit 1/2 18 E15 Queens Indian
Svidler, Peter - Anand, Viswanathan 1/2 19 C42 Petroff's Defence
Morozevich, Alexander - Adams, Michael 1/2 54 C77 Ruy Lopez Anderssen
Leko, Peter - Kasimdzhanov, Rustam 1-0 48 B42 Sicilian Paulsen
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= 10.0 2889
2 Anand, Viswanathan g IND 2788 == ** == 0= =1 01 1= 11 8.5 2811
3 Svidler, Peter g RUS 2738 0= == ** 11 1= == == 1= 8.5 2818
4 Morozevich, Alexander g RUS 2707 0= 1= 00 ** =1 =1 == == 7.0 2743
5 Leko, Peter g HUN 2763 0= =0 0= =0 ** =1 1= 1= 6.5 2706
6 Kasimdzhanov, Rustam g UZB 2670 0= 10 == =0 =0 ** == 01 5.5 2668
7 Adams, Michael g ENG 2719 0= 0= == == 0= == ** == 5.5 2661
8 Polgar, Judit g HUN 2735 0= 00 0= == 0= 10 == ** 4.5 2606
-----------------------------------------------------------------------  The Champion, Topalov after finishing the event. Compare and contrast with yesterday's photo at the start of round 13. Photo © http://www.wccsanluis.net Round 14 14th October 2005 With the job done in round 13 Veselin Topalov was highly unlikely to be motivated in his final round game against Judit Polgar who also had her reasons to finish early, this event must have been a severe disappointment to her. They duly punched out some theory and agreed a draw without having to find moves of their own. One more win would have put Topalov up with Kasparov's rating, as it is he will be 2801 according to many calculations so long as he doesn't play before the new year but in comparison with being champion this was a tiny goal better reserved for Wijk aan Zee and Linares. Topalov has been the player of the year. He started with 3rd at Wijk aan Zee followed by 2nd on tie-break to Kasparov at Linares (a conventional tie-break might have had him in first place but then perhaps Kasparov would not have lost the final round game). In both these events he produced some tremendous chess but both times lost odd games (two at Wijk and one at Linares) where he played comparitively poorly, something he managed to cut out here. Topalov then finished 1st in the MTEL Masters and 2nd at Dortmund. Topalov has a fine second in 19 year old Ivan Cheperinov who clearly has had an input into Topalov's opening ideas. With Kasparov, Anand and Kramnik leading the way, modern preparation of openings with databases and computers has reached a high level, one that many others of lesser ability have been able to emulate. The idea that you prepare an opening with the best moves and at worst you get a draw has dominated recent years and has inevitably led to an increase of drawn, contentless games, with the same openings being studied to death. Topalov has prepared openings where complexity and mutual play (which he has analysed) dominate. He doesn't try to play unsoundly but is prepared to take inferior positions with possibilities. Hence more wins and more complexity. Perhaps he looked at Morozevich's hot streaks and asked himself how come Morozevich can demolish players outside the top ten supposed better players can't. This is the way forward, along with I think, players having a greater variety of opening systems at their disposal. The days of just playing 1.e4 with the Petroff around I think are numbered for players with serious pretentions of success. Speaking of the Petroff. The game Peter Svidler against Viswanthan Anand saw the two players tied in second meet. Svidler had won less games and so needed to win to take 2nd place as the tie-break system was against him. However it was, and probably still is, not clear how much of an advantage it was to finish 2nd. As it was Anand found another important drawing novelty in the Petroff and Svidler had to take the draw. The planned idea for the next cycle was that the top four players would have a place in a round of candidates matches. Finishing second would probably have conferred some advantage to Anand but now this seems less likely. In an interview Topalov's manager Silvio Danailov talked to Alexander Roshal, editor of the Russian magazine "64"http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=2684. He suggested this idea will be abandoned and they will have world cup and final chance qualifiers producing four players added to which would be the four players from here and we'll have this style of San Luis tournament in two years time. Whilst I think the format could be tinkered with in the long term slightly (too many qualifiers from this event, probably too many in the final and a quadrouple round event would be my long term changes) I think this is an affordable and credible system that should be adopted. The system as proposed now with a series of candidates matches where the sponsorship is found by the players is, in my opinion in the current financial climate, unworkable, and will lead to chaos and delay. In addition Danailov raises the possiblity of a unification match against Vladimir Kramnik clearing up all claims for the world championship title in November 2006. Topalov (and by extension FIDE) are in a strong position to make this happen. Topalov won a credible event, and will be world number one on the retirement of Kasparov. In addition the players at San Luis have all signed agreements which means they are not available to play Kramnik in any match he may want to host. Added to which Kramnik, Topalov and FIDE should all make good money. If this match happens then we will finally be able to move on from the split of the last decade. I think there may be a knock on to the tournament in two years time, with Kramnik inevitably being offered a place they'll have to probably expand the event to a ten player double round robin all-play-all. This event shows that serious events produce serious play and a guaranteed cycle is bound to be for the good of the game. The mercurial Alexander Morozevich finished on 50% but only after escaping the clutches of Michael Adams who was still looking for a victory in the event. Adams took the initiative with black and even won a piece but the resulting ending was not easy to win and in the end the game was drawn giving Morozevich the final qualification place. The only decisive game of the round was Peter Leko's win against Rustam Kasimdzhanov in a Sicilian Kan. Leko got the initiative all over the board and used it to attack black's king. Kasimdzhanov is a resourceful player and probably kept going longer than most would manage but in the end he was a piece for pawn down and resistance was futile. FIDE have to be congratulated on the success of this event. I never thought they could get this off the ground. They got the players (I didn't think they would), they got the venue and prize-money and in reward for a classical event they got good chess, an enjoyable event and a credible world champion. More please. Brief Comments by Mark Crowther Svidler,P (2738) - Anand,V (2788) [C42] WCh-FIDE San Luis ARG (14), 14.10.2005 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.Nxe5 d6 4.Nf3 Nxe4 5.Nc3 Nxc3 6.dxc3 Be7 7.Be3 Nc6 8.Qd2 0-0 9.0-0-0 Ne5 10.Kb1 [10.Ng5; 10.Bd4; 10.Be2] 10...Re8N  A new move and an important one in a position that has been played quite a bit this year. Black seems to equalise easily. [10...Be6 11.Nd4; 10...a6 11.h4 (11.Be2; 11.Ne1) ; 10...Bf6 1/2-1/2 Naiditsch,A-Bacrot,E/Dortmund GER 2005/The Week in Chess 558 (22)] 11.Nd4 a6 12.f4 Ng4 13.Bd3 d5 14.Rhe1 Bh4 15.g3 Nxe3 16.Rxe3 Rxe3 17.Qxe3 Bf6 18.Nf3 Qe7 19.Qxe7 White's given trying to win a go. As it turns out it looks like shared second (third on tie-break) won't cost him a thing in the next cycle. 1/2-1/2 Leko,P (2763) - Kasimdzhanov,R (2670) [B42] WCh-FIDE San Luis ARG (14), 14.10.2005 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 e6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 a6 5.Bd3 Bc5 6.Nb3 Ba7 7.Qe2 Nc6 8.Be3 d6 9.f4 Qc7 [9...Nge7; 9...Nf6] 10.0-0 Nf6 11.Bxa7 Rxa7 12.Nc3 [12.Kh1 0-0 13.a3 b5 14.N1d2 e5 15.f5 d5 16.Rae1 d4 17.g4 h6 18.h4 Nh7 19.Nf3 Qe7 20.Rg1 g5 21.Rg2 Bd7 22.Rh2 f6 23.hxg5 hxg5 24.Kg2 Rf7 25.Reh1 Rg7 26.Kg1 Be8 27.Rh6 Nb8 28.Nbd2 Nd7 29.a4 Nc5 30.axb5 Nxd3 31.b6 Rb7 32.Qxd3 Qc5 33.Qc4+ Qxc4 34.Nxc4 Bb5 35.Nfd2 Rgd7 36.Kf2 Rb8 37.b3 Rc8 38.Rg6+ Rg7 39.b7 Rb8 40.Rxg7+ Kxg7 41.Na5 Nf8 42.Rc1 Ra8 1-0 Short,N-Fominyh,A/Mumbai IND 2004/The Week in Chess 480] 12...b5 13.a4 b4 14.Nd1 a5 15.Ne3 0-0 16.Kh1 Bb7 17.Ng4 Nxg4 18.Qxg4 Raa8 19.Rae1 Qe7 20.Re3 g6 21.Qg3 Rfe8 22.Bb5 Rac8 23.c3 Red8 24.f5 White now has a dangerous initiative on the kingside. 24...bxc3 25.bxc3 Ra8 26.f6 Qf8 27.Qf4 h6 28.Rh3 g5 29.Qe3 Ne5 30.Rh5 Ng6 31.Qh3 Bxe4 32.Nd2 Bc2 [32...Bf5 33.g4] 33.Rxh6 Rac8 34.Rh5 Rc5 35.Rc1 g4 36.Qxg4  36...Bf5?! Conceding ground in a difficult position. [36...Rxc3] 37.Qg3 d5 38.Nb3 Rcc8 39.Nd4 Be4 40.Nc6 Rxc6 Its got to go but black's saving chances are minimal now. 41.Bxc6 Qd6 42.Qg5 Qf4 Black cannot permit Qh6 43.Qxf4 Nxf4 44.Rg5+ Kh7 45.Bb5 Kh6 46.h4 Nxg2 47.Rxg2 Rg8 48.Rcc2 At the end of the day white will be a piece for pawn up. 1-0 Morozevich,A (2707) - Adams,Mi (2719) [C77] WCh-FIDE San Luis ARG (14), 14.10.2005 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.d3 d6 6.c3 g6 7.0-0 Bg7 8.Re1 0-0 9.Bg5 b5 [9...h6 10.Bh4 Bd7 (10...g5 11.Bg3 Bg4 (11...Nh5 12.Nxe5 Nxe5 13.Bxe5 dxe5 14.Qxh5 Qxd3 15.Na3 Qd2 16.Nc4 Qf4 17.Bd1 Be6 18.g3 Qf6 19.Ne3 Rad8 20.Bb3 Rd2 21.Re2 Rfd8 22.Nd5 R2xd5 23.exd5 Bxd5 24.Rd2 1-0 Kovalev,A-Bartel,M/Litomysl CZE 2004/The Week in Chess 530) 12.h3 Bh5 13.Nbd2 Nd7 14.Qb1 Nc5 15.Bd1 Bg6 16.b4 Ne6 17.Bb3 Kh7 18.Nf1 Bh5 19.N3h2 Nf4 20.Ne3 a5 21.b5 Ne7 22.a4 Qd7 23.Ra2 Bg6 24.h4 f5 25.hxg5 hxg5 26.Nf3 Bh6 27.exf5 Nxf5 28.Bxf4 gxf4 29.Nxf5 Rxf5 30.Bd5 Rh5 31.Nd2 Bf7 32.d4+ Kh8 33.Bxf7 Qxf7 34.dxe5 Rg8 35.Nf1 Qe6 36.f3 Qh3 37.Re4 d5 38.Ree2 Bf8 39.Kf2 Qh4+ 40.g3 fxg3+ 41.Ke3 Bh6+ 42.Kd3 Qc4+ 0-1 Matulovic,M-Karaklajic,N/Skopje 1956/EXT 2001) 11.Nbd2 Qe8 12.Nf1 Nd4 (12...Nh5 13.Ne3 (13.Bb3 Kh8 14.Ne3 f5 15.exf5 gxf5 16.Nd5 Rc8 17.d4 e4 18.Nd2 Qg6 19.f3 Be6 20.g3 Bxd5 21.Bxd5 Bf6 22.Bxf6+ Rxf6 23.Nf1 Ne7 24.Bxb7 Rg8 25.d5 exf3 26.Qxf3 f4 27.g4 Qxg4+ 28.Qxg4 Rxg4+ 29.Kf2 Ng6 30.Re8+ Kg7 31.Bc8 Rg5 32.Be6 Ne5 33.Rd1 Kh7 34.Re7+ Kh8 35.Re8+ Kh7 36.Re7+ Kh8 1/2-1/2 Efimenko,Z-Mikhalevski,V/Montreal CAN 2005/The Week in Chess 561) 13...Nf4 14.Bg3 b5 (14...Ne6 15.Nd5 Kh8 16.Qd2 f5 17.exf5 gxf5 18.d4 e4 19.Nh4 Qh5 20.Bd1 Qf7 21.Bf4 Kh7 22.g3 Rac8 23.Be3 Ne7 24.Nf4 Nxf4 25.Bxf4 Be6 26.f3 d5 27.Be2 Ng6 28.Nxg6 Qxg6 29.Qd1 Bf7 30.Qb3 Qc6 31.a4 Bh5 32.a5 Rce8 33.fxe4 Bxe2 34.Rxe2 fxe4 35.Rf1 Rf7 36.Ref2 Ref8 1/2-1/2 Klenburg,M-Kritz,L/Port Erin IOM 2005/The Week in Chess 568) 15.Bb3 Ne7 16.d4 g5 17.Nf5 Nxf5 18.exf5 Bxf5 19.Bxf4 gxf4 20.dxe5 dxe5 21.Nxe5 Kh7 22.Nxf7 Qc6 23.Bd5 Qf6 24.Bxa8 Rxa8 25.Ne5 Rg8 26.Qh5 1-0 Smyslov,V-Ingbrandt,J/Stockholm 1996/CBM 57 ext) 13.Bxd7 Nxf3+ 14.Qxf3 Nxd7 15.Ne3 c6 16.Rad1 Qe6 17.g4 Bf6 18.Bxf6 Qxf6 19.Qg3 Nc5 20.Ng2 Ne6 21.Rf1 Nf4 22.Nxf4 exf4 23.Qf3 Kg7 24.Kg2 h5 25.h3 Qg5 26.Rh1 f5 27.exf5 gxf5 28.Rdg1 fxg4 29.hxg4 h4 30.Kh3 Rae8 31.Re1 Kg6 32.Re2 Rxe2 33.Qxe2 Qe5 34.Re1 Re8 35.Qe4+ Qxe4 36.Rxe4 Rxe4 37.dxe4 Kg5 38.f3 a5 39.c4 b5 40.cxb5 cxb5 1/2-1/2 Ilyin Zhenevsky,A-Alekhine,A/Moscow 1920/URS-ch] 10.Bc2 Bb7 11.Nbd2 Nb8 12.a4 Nbd7 13.b4 c5 14.Nb3 Qc7 15.Na5 Bc8 16.axb5 axb5 17.Bb3 Nb6 A highly intersting position has arisen. Black certainly isn't worse. 18.h3 c4 19.dxc4 bxc4 20.Bc2 Be6 The danger for white is that his knight will be out of the game perminantly. 21.Nd2 Nfd7 22.Nb1 Bf6 23.Be3 d5 24.Na3 Trying to mount a rescue mission. 24...Rac8 25.Qf3 Bg7 26.Rad1 f5 Black has a full blown initiative.all over the board. 27.Nb5 Qb8 28.exf5 Bxf5 29.Bxf5 Rxf5 30.Qe2 d4! 31.cxd4 Nd5 Winning a piece. 32.Nxc4 Qxb5 33.Nd6 Qxe2 34.Rxe2 Nc3 35.Nxc8 Rf8 36.dxe5 Nxd1 37.Ne7+ Kf7 38.Nc6 Nxe5 39.Nxe5+ Bxe5 40.Bc5 Re8 41.Kf1 Nb2 42.f4 Bc3 43.Rxe8 Kxe8 44.Ke2  White has two pawns as compensation for the piece and black's pieces are unco-ordinated. An important point is that the h1 square is the wrong colour for his bishop. 44...Kd7 45.Ke3 Na4 46.Ke4 Nxc5+ 47.bxc5 Kc6 48.h4 Kxc5 49.f5 The liquidation that brings about the drawn ending. 49...Kd6 50.fxg6 hxg6 51.h5 gxh5 52.g4 hxg4 53.Kf4 g3 54.Kxg3 1/2-1/2 Topalov,V (2788) - Polgar,Ju (2735) [E15] WCh-FIDE San Luis ARG (14), 14.10.2005 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 b6 4.g3 Ba6 5.b3 Bb4+ 6.Bd2 Be7 7.Bg2 c6 8.Bc3 d5 9.Nbd2 Nbd7 10.0-0 0-0 11.Re1 Bb7 12.e4 dxe4 13.Ne5 c5 [13...Qc7 14.Nxd7 Qxd7 15.Nxe4 Rad8 16.Qc2 Qc7 17.Rad1 Rd7 18.Ng5 h6 19.Nf3 c5 20.Ne5 Rdd8 21.Qb2 Bxg2 22.Kxg2 Qb7+ 23.f3 cxd4 24.Bxd4 Rfe8 25.Rd3 Rd6 26.Red1 Red8 27.Be3 Ng4 28.Bf4 Nxe5 29.Rxd6 Qxf3+ 30.Kg1 Rxd6 31.Rxd6 Bxd6 32.Bxe5 Bc5+ 33.Bd4 Qd1+ 0-1 Van Esch,S-Rind,B/Dieren 1991/EXT 97] 14.Nxe4 Nxe4 15.Bxe4 Bxe4 16.Rxe4 Nxe5 [16...Bf6 17.Ng4 Qe7 18.Ne3 Rfd8 19.Qc2 cxd4 20.Bxd4 Bxd4 21.Rxd4 Ne5 22.Rxd8+ Rxd8 23.Qe4 Qc7 24.Rd1 Rxd1+ 25.Nxd1 Nc6 26.Nc3 h6 27.Ne2 Qd7 28.Nf4 Qd6 29.h4 e5 30.Nd5 h5 31.Qf5 g6 32.Nf6+ Kh8 33.Qg5 Qd1+ 34.Kg2 Kg7 35.Nd5 Qd4 36.Qf6+ Kg8 37.Qxc6 Qe4+ 38.Kh2 Qe2 39.Qf6 1-0 Hawelko,M-Dejkalo,S/Lubniewice 1981/MCD] 17.dxe5 Qxd1+ 18.Rxd1 Rfd8  Both players came with the intention of drawing, Polgar because she couldn't undo the damage and Topalov because his job was done. They're still following a known game. [18...Rfd8 19.Ree1 Rxd1 20.Rxd1 Rd8 21.Rxd8+ Bxd8 22.b4 cxb4 23.Bxb4 Bc7 24.f4 f6 25.exf6 gxf6 26.Kf2 f5 27.Ke3 e5 28.fxe5 Bxe5 29.Kf3 Kf7 30.Bd2 Ke6 31.Bf4 Bxf4 32.Kxf4 Kf6 33.h3 h6 34.g4 fxg4 35.Kxg4 Kg6 36.a3 a6 37.a4 a5 38.h4 h5+ 39.Kf4 Kf6 40.Ke4 Ke6 41.Kf4 Kf6 1/2-1/2 Ivkov,B-Bellin,R/Wijk aan Zee NED 2000] 1/2-1/2 |
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