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Corus, Wijk aan Zee 2007. Round 5 18th January 2007. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Corus A Wijk aan Zee NED (NED), 13-28 i 2007 cat. XIX (2718)
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1. Radjabov, Teimour g AZE 2729 * . . . . = . 1 . . 1 1 . 1 4.5 3058
2. Anand, Viswanathan g IND 2779 . * . = . . = . 1 1 . . = . 3.5 2855
3. Topalov, Veselin g BUL 2783 . . * . . = . . . = 1 = . 1 3.5 2827
4. Aronian, Levon g ARM 2744 . = . * . . 1 = . = . . = . 3.0 2783
5. Kramnik, Vladimir g RUS 2766 . . . . * = = = . . . = . 1 3.0 2772
6. Karjakin, Sergey g UKR 2678 = . = . = * . . . = = . . . 2.5 2721
7. Ponomariov, Ruslan g UKR 2723 . = . 0 = . * . = . . . 1 . 2.5 2741
8. Navara, David g CZE 2719 0 . . = = . . * = . . . 1 . 2.5 2731
9. Svidler, Peter g RUS 2728 . 0 . . . . = = * . . 1 . = 2.5 2720
10. Motylev, Alexander g RUS 2647 . 0 = = . = . . . * = . . . 2.0 2661
11. Van Wely, Loek g NED 2683 0 . 0 . . = . . . = * . . 1 2.0 2638
12. Tiviakov, Sergei g NED 2667 0 . = . = . . . 0 . . * = . 1.5 2590
13. Carlsen, Magnus g NOR 2690 . = . = . . 0 0 . . . = * . 1.5 2577
14. Shirov, Alexei g ESP 2715 0 . 0 . 0 . . . = . 0 . . * 0.5 2371
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Round 5 (January 18, 2007)
Anand, Viswanathan - Svidler, Peter 1-0 21 C88 Ruy Lopez Closed
Aronian, Levon - Carlsen, Magnus 1/2 20 E15 Queens Indian
Karjakin, Sergey - Motylev, Alexander 1/2 21 B12 Caro Kann Advanced
Ponomariov, Ruslan - Kramnik, Vladimir 1/2 19 D46 Semi-Slav Defence
Navara, David - Radjabov, Teimour 0-1 34 E61 King's Indian Defence
Tiviakov, Sergei - Topalov, Veselin 1/2 51 C65 Ruy Lopez Berlin
Shirov, Alexei - Van Wely, Loek 0-1 40 B90 Sicilian Najdorf Variation Mark Crowther comments:  David Navara emerged out of the opening a pawn up against Teimour Radjabov after the latter turned down a chance to win the exchange in return for a strong attack for Navara. Navara then had an extremely favourable position and turned down several better continuations to allow equalisation and then made more to go to a loss. Radjabov leads the event by a point.  Viswanathan Anand took advantage of a serious miscalculation to win in only 21 moves. Photo © Mark Crowther Viswanathan Anand took advantage of a serious error in calculation by Peter Svidler to join Veselin Topalov in second place a point behind the leader. Anand,V - Svidler,P [C88] 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.0-0 Be7 6.Re1 b5 7.Bb3 0-0 8.h3 Bb7 9.d3 Re8 10.a4 h6 11.c3 b4 [11...Bc5 12.Nbd2 Bb6 13.Ba2 Rf8 14.Nf1 d6 15.Ng3 Ne7 16.Nh4 Kh7 17.Qf3 bxa4 18.Bb1 Bc6 19.Bc2 a5 20.Rd1 Qe8 21.Nhf5 Nfg8 22.d4 Nxf5 23.Qxf5+ g6 24.Qg4 Bd7 25.Qf3 Bc6 26.h4 f5 27.h5 fxe4 28.Qg4 d5 29.Be3 g5 30.c4 exd4 31.Rxd4 Nf6 32.Qe2 Bxd4 33.Bxd4 Rb8 34.Re1 Rb4 35.Bxf6 Rxf6 36.cxd5 Bxd5 37.Bxe4+ Bxe4 38.Nxe4 1/2-1/2 Topalov,V-Anand,V/Monte Carlo MNC 2006/The Week in Chess 595] 12.Nbd2 d5 13.a5 dxe4 14.dxe4 Bc5 15.Qe2 Qe7 16.Nh4 Nd7 17.Nf5 Qf6 18.Qg4 Ne7?
A complete miscalculation, Svidler missed that his b7 bishop is en prise at the end of this line. 19.Nxh6+ Qxh6 20.Qxd7 Red8 21.Qxc7 1-0  Tiviakov played conservatively against Topalov with white and drew. Photo © Mark Crowther Sergey Tiviakov looked for immediate simplification with white against Veselin Topalov. In spite of the Bulgarian's best efforts over 51 moves there was nothing that was going to change the result, a draw.  Karjakin - Motylev was a short draw. Photo © Mark Crowther Sergey Karjakin's attempted improvement didn't give him anything against Alexander Motylev and the game was soon drawn.  Alexei Shirov. Photo © Mark Crowther Alexei Shirov had already started to play an inferior line before the game left theory, whether he discovered his continuation was simply bad or not is open to question. In the end his attempts to complicate didn't work and he went down quickly. Shirov,A - Van Wely,L 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 a6 6.Be3 e5 7.Nb3 Be6 8.f3 Be7 9.Qd2 0-0 10.0-0-0 Nbd7 11.g4 b5 12.g5 b4 13.Ne2 Ne8 14.f4 a5 15.f5 a4 16.Nbd4 exd4 17.Nxd4 b3 18.Kb1 bxc2+ 19.Nxc2 Bb3 20.axb3 axb3 21.Na3 Ne5 A long think. 22.h4 Ra4 23.Qg2 Qa8 24.f6 Bd8 25.Bd4 Nc7 26.fxg7 Kxg7 27.h5N [27.Bc4 Ne6 28.Bd5 Qc8 29.Rc1 Qa6 30.Bxe5+ dxe5 31.Qg3 Nf4 32.Qxb3 Be7 33.Rc6 Qa7 34.Rc7 Qxc7 35.Qxa4 Rc8 36.Nb5 Qb6 37.Rd1 Rc5 38.Bc4 Qc6 39.Bf1 Ne6 40.Nc3 Rxc3 41.Bb5 Qc5 42.bxc3 Qxc3 43.Qc4 Qg3 44.Bd7 Nd4 45.Rf1 f6 46.gxf6+ Bxf6 47.Be8 Qb3+ 48.Qxb3 Nxb3 49.Kc2 Nd4+ 50.Kd3 Bxh4 51.Rf7+ Kg8 52.Kc4 Ne6 53.Rf5 Ng7 54.Bf7+ Kf8 55.Rf1 Ke7 56.Bg8 Bf6 57.Bxh7 Ne6 58.Bf5 Nf4 59.Kc5 Ne2 60.Ra1 Nd4 61.Ra7+ Kf8 62.Kd5 Kg8 63.Rb7 Kh8 64.Bg6 Kg8 65.Kd6 Bg7 66.Rb8+ Bf8+ 67.Kd5 Kg7 68.Bh5 Ba3 69.Ra8 1-0 Rohit,G-Karavade,E/Atul IND 2006/The Week in Chess 634; 27.Bc4] 27...Ne6 28.g6?
Shirov believes there are acceptable alternatives in this position which he had investigated but he played this move rather quickly having forgotten his preparation and it is the decisive mistake. 28...Rxd4 29.Rxd4 Nxd4 30.h6+ Kf6 31.g7 Rg8! [31...Re8 32.Bc4 may provide counterplay.] 32.Qf2+ [32.Bc4 Bb6 33.Bd5 Qa6] 32...Ndf3 33.Bg2 Qxe4+ 34.Ka1 Ke6! Simpler than [34...Kg6] 35.Rf1 Shirov gets his piece back but the ending is easy for van Wely. 35...Bg5 36.Bxf3 Qxf3 37.Qxf3 Nxf3 38.Rxf3 Bxh6 39.Rxb3 Rxg7 40.Rh3 Bf4 0-1 The full press conference where he explained the game appeared at Peter Doggers: http://www.chessvibes.com/ - http://www.chessvibes.com/?p=498 Ponomariov drew quickly with Kramnik. Photo © Mark Crowther Vladimir Kramnik's innovations against Ruslan Ponomariov equalised and both seemed happy with the draw a few moves later.  Aronian against Carlsen. Round 5. Photo © Mark Crowther. Magnus Carlsen was at least equal straight out of the opening against Levon Aronian and the games was quickly steered to a draw. |
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