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GAMES

Akopian,V (2700) - Kramnik,V (2770) [B90]
Corus Chess Tournament 2004 Wijk aan Zee, NED (1), 10.01.2004

1.e4 c5
2.Nf3 d6
3.d4 cxd4
4.Nxd4 Nf6
5.Nc3 a6
6.Be3 Ng4
7.Bg5 h6
8.Bh4 g5
9.Bg3 Bg7
10.h3 Ne5
11.f3 Nbc6
12.Bf2 Be6
13.Qd2 Nxd4
14.Bxd4 Qa5
15.a3 0-0
16.h4 Ng6
17.hxg5 hxg5
18.b4 Qc7
19.Ne2 f6
20.Bb2 Bf7
21.Nd4 d5
22.exd5 Qe5+
23.Be2 Qxd5
24.0-0-0 Rfc8
25.Bd3 Ne5
26.Be4 Qa2
27.Nf5 Nc4
28.Qc3 Rc7
29.Rh7 Qxb2+
30.Qxb2 Nxb2
31.Rxg7+ Kf8
32.Rh1 1-0
 

Zhang Zhong (2644) - Svidler,P (2747) [B31]
Corus Chess Tournament 2004 Wijk aan Zee, NED (2), 11.01.2004

1.e4 c5
2.Nf3 Nc6
3.Bb5 g6
4.Bxc6 dxc6
5.d3 Bg7
6.h3 e5
7.0-0 Ne7
8.a3 a5
9.Be3 b6
10.Qd2 0-0
11.Nc3 a4
12.Nh2 Be6
13.Bh6 c4
14.Bxg7 Kxg7
15.f4 exf4
16.Qxf4 cxd3
17.Rad1 Qd4+
18.Kh1 f5
19.Rxd3 Qc5
20.Re1 Ra7
21.exf5 Bxf5
22.Rf3 Ng8
23.Nxa4 Qxc2
24.Nxb6 Qxb2
25.Nc4 Qf6
26.Ng4 Bxg4
27.Qxg4 Qd8
28.Rxf8 Kxf8
29.Rd1 Qf6
30.Nd6 Ne7
31.Qb4 Ra8
32.Qb7 Rd8
33.Qb1 Kg7
34.Ne4 Rxd1+
35.Qxd1 Qe5
36.Qd3 Nd5
37.Kg1 h5
38.h4 Nf4
39.Qd7+ Kh6
40.Qxc6 Nd5
41.Qc2 Qd4+
42.Kh2 Ne3
43.Qc3 Nf1+
44.Kh1 Ng3+
45.Qxg3 Qxe4
46.Kh2 Kh7
47.Qf2 Qe5+
48.Qg3 Qe4
49.Qc7+ Kh6
50.Qc1+ Kh7
51.g3 Qe2+
52.Kg1 Qf3
53.Qc7+ Kg8
54.Qd6 Kh7
55.Qc7+ Kg8
56.Qd8+ Kh7
57.Qd6 Kg7
58.Qd4+ ½-½
 

Bareev,E (2714) - Shirov,A (2736) [E05]
Corus Chess Tournament 2004 Wijk aan Zee, NED (4), 14.01.2004

1.c4 e6
2.d4 d5
3.Nf3 Nf6
4.g3 Be7
5.Bg2 0-0
6.0-0 dxc4
7.Qc2 a6
8.Qxc4 b5
9.Qc2 Bb7
10.Bf4 Nc6
11.Rd1 Nb4
12.Qc1 Nbd5
13.Nbd2 Nxf4
14.gxf4 c5
15.dxc5 Qc7
16.c6 Qxc6
17.Qxc6 Bxc6
18.Ne5 Bd5
19.a4 Rac8
20.axb5 axb5
21.Rdc1 h6
22.Ndf3 Bd6
23.Nd4 b4
24.Nd3 Bc4
25.Ne5 Bd5
26.Nb5 Bxe5
27.fxe5 Ng4
28.e4 Rxc1+
29.Rxc1 Ba2
30.f4 f6
31.Bf3  Ne3
32.Kf2 Nc4
33.Be2 Nd2
34.Ke3 Nb3
35.Rc7 fxe5
36.fxe5 Na1
37.Nd4 Ra8
38.Bg4 Ra6
39.Be2 Ra5
40.Bc4 Bxc4
41.Rxc4 b3
42.Rc8+ Kf7
43.Rc7+ Kg6
44.Kf4 Ra6
45.Re7 Kh5
46.Nxe6 g5+
47.Kf5 Nc2
48.Ng7+ Kh4
49.e6 Ne3+
50.Kg6 Kh3
51.Kxh6 g4
52.Kg5 Kxh2
53.Nf5 Nc4
54.Re8 1-0
 

Akopian,V (2693) - Sokolov,I (2706) [C95]
Corus Chess Tournament 2004 Wijk aan Zee, NED (5), 15.01.2004

1.e4 e5
2.Nf3 Nc6
3.Bb5 a6
4.Ba4 Nf6
5.0-0 Be7
6.Re1 b5
7.Bb3 d6
8.c3 0-0
9.h3 Nb8
10.d4 Nbd7
11.Nbd2 Bb7
12.Bc2 c5
13.b3 cxd4
14.cxd4 exd4
15.Nxd4 Re8
16.a4 bxa4
17.bxa4 Rc8
18.Nf5 Qc7
19.Bb3 Bf8
20.Bb2 d5
21.Rc1 Qf4
22.Rxc8 Bxc8
23.g3 Qg5
24.h4 Qg6
25.h5 Nxh5
26.Nh4 Qg5
27.Ndf3 Qe7
28.exd5 Qd8
29.Rxe8 Qxe8
30.Ng5 Nxg3
31.d6 Qe2
32.Bxf7+ Kh8
33.Qb1 Ne4
34.Qxe4 Qd1+
35.Kh2 Bxd6+
36.f4 Qd2+
37.Kg3 1-0
 

Adams,M (2720) - Bareev,E (2714) [C07]
Corus Chess Tournament 2004 Wijk aan Zee, NED (6), 17.01.2004

1.e4 e6
2.d4 d5
3.Nd2 c5
4.Ngf3 cxd4
5.exd5 Qxd5
6.Bc4 Qd6
7.0-0 Nf6
8.Nb3 Nc6
9.Nbxd4 Nxd4
10.Nxd4 a6
11.Bb3 Qc7
12.Qf3 Bd6
13.Kh1 Bd7
14.Bg5 Be5
15.Rad1 h6
16.Bh4 0-0
17.Rfe1 Rfd8
18.c3 Rac8
19.h3 Bxd4
20.Rxd4 Bc6
21.Qe3 Rxd4
22.Qxd4 Qd8
23.Bxf6 Qxf6
24.Qxf6 gxf6
25.Rxe6 1-0

 

 

 

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Volume 3  Issue 3                                                         January 18th, 2004

In This Issue

Lessons Learned
with GM Alexei Bezgodov

The Mad Aussie's
Chess Trivia

Chess Endings Made Simple

New At Chessville

The Hippopotamus Part 3
with IM Andrew Martin

Pablo's Chess News

Position of the Week

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Position of the Week








White to move and win - Find the Solution
 

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(1/18)  Lessons Learned Annotated master games, with a twist.  The master who lost the game, is writing the annotations!  You'll learn what went wrong, and why.  You'll see up close and personally the process of analyzing your own losses.  And you'll see for yourself the Lessons Learned by the master from his or her loss.  In this debut column,  GM Alexei Bezgodov takes a look at his game with GM Evgeny Najer in the 56th Russian Championship, 2003.

This column is sponsored by Chess eXpress Ratings; learn more about CXR in this Review, by someone who actually uses their service.

(1/18)  The Hippopotamus Rises From the Swamp - Part 3:  IM Andrew Martin's famous Bits and Pieces column for January spotlights a little-known move-order which sidesteps a lot of the main lines and enables Black to deal with early aggression on his own terms.  Today IM Martin looks at the line beginning 1.e4 b6 2.d4 Bb7 3.Bd3 g6 4.Nf3 Bg7 5.0-0 e6

(1/18)  Problem of the Week: Tactical training with our weekly puzzle.

(1/18)  Chessprint for 2004.01.18  "for the sheer joy of chess"

(1/17)  Free Download: A pgn database containing 1430 Latvian Gambit games ranging from 1620 to 2002.  Use these games as a study aid to supplement The Latvian Gambit Revisited, by Prof. Nagesh Havanur.  See the Latvian in the hands of Greco, Saint Amant, Blackburne, Tarrasch, Spielmann, Tartakower, and Nimzowitsch, as well as more contemporary masters, including Hector, Sokolov, Karklins, and Aagaard.  Or maybe you want to know how to win when you face it as White, then you can see how it was dealt with by the likes of Bisguier, Yudasin, Ivanov, and McShane.  You'll even find Viktor Pupils' famous win with the Latvian against a young Bobby Fischer in the 1955 US Championship.  Find this 278-kb zipped pgn file on our Game Collections by Opening page.


(1/15)  ReviewChess Endings Made Simple by Ian Snape, reviewed by Carl Tillotson.

"This book is designed for those players who wish to improve their endgame play, and are not afraid to put in some work.  The author, Ian Snape, is a relative newcomer to the realm of chess publishing,  but he does a decent job of covering essential knowledge about chess endings considering the rather limited page count..."
 

(1/14)  The Latvian Gambit Revisited - Part 2: Compiled and with original contributions by Professor Nagesh Havanur.  "The Latvian Gambit is one of the most exciting and fascinating openings for the Black player..."

In Part 1 we looked at the following variations:
     1.            Greco Variation  3.Nxe5 Qe7
     2.            Fraser  Variation  3.Nxe5 Nc6!?
     3.            Main Line  3. Nxe5 Qf6 4.d4 d6 5.Nc4 fxe4
     4.            Leonhardt Variation  3.Ne5 Qf6 4.Nc4

Now in Part 2 we will look at:
     5.            3.exf5 Variation
     6.            3.d4 Variation
     7.            Svedenborg Variation  3.Bc4 fxe4 4.Nxe5 d5
     8.            Mlotkowski Variation  3.Nc3

Also read John Elburg's analysis on the Latvian Gambit.  This article first appeared in the 5/2003 issue of Chess Mail Magazine, and is reprinted here by permission of the Publisher, author and Senior International Master of Correspondence Chess Tim Harding, also well known for his Chess Cafe column, The Kibitzer.
 

Lessons Learned

Most aspiring players hear two pieces of advice over and over again: study master games, and analyze your own games, particularly your losses.  In Lessons Learned we have combined these two pieces of advice, bringing you annotated master games, with a twist.  The master who lost the game, is writing the annotations!

You'll learn what went wrong, and why.  You'll see up close and personally the process of analyzing your own losses.  And you'll learn the lesson learned by the master from his or her loss.  These games are annotated for the improving intermediate player, approximately ELO 1700-2100.

Our first Lesson is from GM Alexei Bezgodov of St. Petersburg, Russia.  Currently rated 2550 by FIDE, the 33-year old GM Bezgodov vaulted into prominence near the end of 1993, sharing 1st-2nd place in the Championship of Russia, and became an IM 6 months later.  In 1999, at age 30, he placed 2nd in a strong Championship of Russia, defeating such players as Alexander Lastin and Alexander Grischuk in the knockout format, finally losing the finals match to Konstantin Sakaev, earning the GM title in the process.  Also in 1999 he began writing for the famous Russian-language chess magazine '64', and has since written for periodical and internet-editions including, in 2000, an issue of "Monthly News" for Kasparov's now-defunct site.  His chess writing has received much acclaim for its high  quality.

This month's Lesson begins...

(1) Najer,E - Bezgodov,A [D24]
56th Russian Championship (3.13), 05.09.2003

My loss to an excellent GM from Moscow, Evgeny Najer, one can say consists of two parts.  First I prepared badly for the game using an incomplete database and already from the opening got a very difficult (maybe even lost) endgame.  However, later I managed to entangle the game by a surprise king activation.  But when the rescue seemed just round the corner I committed an error which made my opponent's task so much easier.

1.d4 d5 2.c4 dxc4

I should say before this Championship of Russia I almost never played the Accepted Queen's Gambit.  It was a 'surprise' for my opponents who prepared for other openings.  Due to my unexpected opening repertoire I managed to win in the first round against Vladimir Epishin (ELO 2643), who - playing White - used a very dubious novelty.

This game with Najer was played in the third round and the player could now expect this opening from me.  Maybe I should have been more sly and 'changed the record'?  Now I can think so but then I believed (as it turned out without good reason) in the quality of my home preparation.

3.Nf3 Nf6 4.Nc3!








The simplest and perhaps the best move!  White develops the pieces in the quickest way in the best classical traditions, without haste to get back the pawn.

Read all of the month's Lesson Learned!

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Chess Endings Made Simple
by Ian Snape, reviewed by Carl Tillotson

This book is designed for those players who wish to improve their endgame play, and are not afraid to put in some work.  The author, Ian Snape, is a relative newcomer to the realm of chess publishing,  but he does a decent job of covering essential knowledge about chess endings considering the rather limited page count.

The book is designed around the presentation of patterns, concepts and plans rather than relying on memorizing or calculating long-winded endings.  The book also aims to focus on those areas where the scope for improvement is likely to be the greatest.

The book itself is split into two distinct parts.  Part One concentrates on the 'theory' whilst Part Two contains 100 exercises to solve.  The actual exercises are taken from real games, no compositions here.  For once this is a good thing, as many books on endgames contain many examples of contrived positions to demonstrate the concepts...

Read the full review of Chess Endings Made Simple.
 

Bits and Pieces

with
International
Master
Andrew Martin

THE HIPPOPOTAMUS RISES
FROM THE SWAMP - Part 3

Gufeld,E (2475) - Gaprindashvili,N (2365) [B00]
Kuala Lumpur Kuala Lumpur (8), 1994

In our final game we are again treated to the unique style of Nona Gaprindashvili.  She outwits Gufeld completely in a blocked position.

1.e4 b6 2.d4 Bb7 3.Bd3 g6 4.Nf3 Bg7 5.0-0 e6 6.c4








Gufeld told me once at Hastings ( 'ASTING ) that he never enjoyed playing against women, 'MOI FREEEENNNNDDD OI CANNOT TAKE THAYME SERIOUUUUSLYYY' - I LOVE WOMAN TOOOO MUCH......."  That's roughly what he said anyway.

6...Ne7 7.Nc3 0-0 8.Re1 d6 9.Be3 Nd7

And now he will have to fight himself again because big Nona is clearly up for it.  Returning to the chess I don't think that the upcoming blocked centre worries Black at all.  In fact Gaprindashvil is delighted that the pace of the game slows down giving her ample time to get organized.

Read part three of IM Martin's look at The Hippopotamus.  See also...

The Hippopotamus Rises From the Swamp - Part 1
1.e4 b6 2.d4 Bb7 3.Bd3 g6 4.f4 f5
The Hippopotamus Rises From the Swamp - Part 2
1.e4 b6 2.d4 Bb7 3.Bd3 g6 4.Nf3 Bg7 5.0-0 d6
 

The Mad Aussie's Chess Trivia
From Graham Clayton

The Three Swedish Musketeers:  The 3 Swedish masters of the 20th century - Erik Lundin, Gideon Stahlberg and Gosta Stoltz - were nicknamed the "Three Musketeers" by Swedish chess fans.

The Swede and the Dutchman:  The Swedish GM Ulf Andersson and the Dutch GM Gennadi Sosonko played each other 32 times in international chess tournaments.  The results of their games were +0, -0, =32.  Every one of their games was drawn. Thanks to Jan Lindstrom of Sweden for this piece of trivia!

Submit your trivia to the Mad Aussie!
 

Pablo's Chess News

Pablo's Chess News  Chessville coverage of:

  • Corus Chess Tournament 2004 (January 10-25 / NETHERLANDS)  Round 6: Anand, Adams, Topalov & Kramnik won and lead the tournament.  Games available.

  • Bermuda Chess Tournament (January 15 - 25, BERMUDA)
    Round 2: Gelfand - Shabalov: 1-0 / Macieja - Iordachescu: 0-1 / Vescovi - Movsesian: draw

  • FIDE rating list (1st January 2004)
    Top 10: Kasparov, Kramnik, Anand, Svidler, Shirov, Topalov, Morozevich, Polgar, Ponomariov & Leko

  • More!

other online chess news resources
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Mig's Daily Dirt - Commentary on Current Chess Events
The Chess Oracle Monthly International Chess News
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     Saved by the flu – literally
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     Corus Round 6: White is Okay
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     Fourways International brings elite to Bermuda
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     ChessBase Cafe with Mig Greengard: Comparing some new ChessBase CDs and DVDs (DVDs!?)
     Sick leave in Tashkent

Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel: Chess the Right Move for Kids

Chess City
    
www.chesscity.com/openings.htmAlekhine Gambit against Alekhine Defense; Caro-Kann Advance Variation 3…c5; Unorthodox Formations; Guatemala Defense; Amar Opening and Paris Gambit; Updated material on O'Kelly Defense to the BDG
     www.chesscity.com/features.htm Grandmaster Gufeld on how to choose openings

ic CheshireOnline: Nothing chequered about Wirral chessplayers' will to win

The Telegraph Chess Club
     Malcolm Pein: Adams Held In Room 101
     David Norwood: New Column, Last Week's Title

Independent Online: CHESS wizard Ricky has all the right moves

About.com Chess - The Year 2003 in Review

Pixar: A short, award winning film:  Gerri's Game

World Chess Rating
     ChessWatch returns - Gene Venable's fascinating column finds a new home!
     Max Notkin: Chess Fun of the Week
     2003 Chess Year in Review
     Game of the Week, January 14, 2004

ABC News Online (Au): Computer chess helps ADF develop war games

Chandler Cornered - Geoff Chandler - Meet the Masters

rediff.com: Interview with Viswanathan Anand

Mechanics' Institute Chess Room
     Newsletter by IM John Donaldson: #174, 01/14/2004.  1) University of Texas at Dallas wins Pan Am Championship; 2) Winter Tuesday Night Marathon; 3) US Champion Alex Shabalov interviewed in Pittsburgh Gazette; 4) Games of IM William Martz; 5) Here and There

Salt Lake Tribune: Checkmate with Shelby Lyman

The Chess Drum
     Matrix Reloaded?  Parham Attack II
     Chess Wunderkind Ricky has Right Moves

Boston.com: Learning how to think, piece by piece

Chathurangam: Chess In India
     Anand beats Shirov, shares lead @ Corus Wijk Aan Zee
     Smirnov & Short tie on top  @ C'wealth, Mumbai
     Raju emerges South Zone Revenues Champion

Scotsman.com: Review - Bobby Fischer Goes to War

Seagaard Chess Reviews
     The Four Knights
     BOOK OF THE YEAR 2003

Moscow Times: Lemon Chess Pie

World Chess Network - Larry Evans On Chess: Premature Burial

Guardian Unlimited: To Kill A King

RusBase Part Three - New Material from 1965, 1966

GM Square
     Chess Endgame Training by Bernd Rossen. Reviewed by Don Aldrich
     The Joy of Chess Collecting, by Andy Ansel

Annotated Games

The Telegraph Chess Club
     Nigel Short: Short-Prasad, Commonwealth Ch. Mumbai, India 2004

David Sands (Washington Times)
     Anand-Akopian, and Van der Wiel Nakamura, Corus 2004

Russian Chess - Corus 2004
     GM Konstantin Aseev annotates the games of the 1st round
     GM Mark Taimanov annotates the games of the 2nd round
     GM Konstantin Aseev annotates the games of the 3rd round
     GM Konstantin Sakaev annotates the games of the 4th round
     WIM Irina Sudakova annotates the games of the 5th round
     GM Sergey Ivanov annotates the games of the 6th round

The Week In Chess (TWIC)
     John Henderson Reports on Corus: Adams-Bareev, Kramnik-Zhang Zhong

Robert Byrne (NY Times): Nielsen-Kotronias, Hastings 2003

Lubomir Kavalek (Washington Post): Akopian-Kramnik, Corus 2004

Jack Peters (LA Times): Akopian-Kramnik, Corus 2004

Jonathan Berry (Globe and Mail): Livshits - Roussel-Roozmon, Chess and Math Association's Futurity V 2003

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The London Times - Winning Move & Column, Both Daily

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Position of the Week: Solution








Geller-Karpov

44th USSR Ch.
Moscow (3)
29.11.1976

1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.e5 Qd7 5.Nf3 b6 6.Bd2 Ba6 7.Bxa6 Nxa6 8.0-0 Nb8 9.Ne2 Be7 10.Rc1 b5 11.Nf4 h5 12.b3 Ba3 13.Rb1 a5 14.c4 c6 15.c5 Bb4 16.Bc1 a4 17.Nd3 Ba5 18.bxa4 bxa4 19.Qxa4 Qa7 20.Bg5 Bc7 21.Rxb8+ Qxb8 22.Qxc6+ Kf8 23.Nf4 Ra7 24.Nh4 Qe8 [Diagram]  25.Qxe6 fxe6 26.Nhg6+ Qxg6 27.Nxg6+ Ke8 28.Nxh8 Ra4 29.Rd1 Ne7 30.Bxe7 Kxe7 31.Ng6+ Kf7 32.Nf4 Bxe5 33.dxe5 Rxf4 34.Rc1 Ke8 35.c6 Kd8 36.c7+ Kc8 37.g3 Ra4 38.Rc6 Rxa2 39.Rxe6 g5 40.Rd6 Rd2 41.e6 Kxc7 42.e7 1-0

 

 

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Links to other interesting sites, from our links collection, this week from our Humor page.
 

Chandler Cornered

Witty, but often instructive series of columns and random thoughts by confessed chess oddball, Geoff Chandler
 

Chess Humour

Series of humorous chess articles & stories, including Ron Cantor's Thompson series.
 

Chess Levity & Frivolity

Several humorous chess articles and stories
 

The Chess Show

Locally produced, cable access TV show, viewable in the Portland, Oregon metropolitan area. Viewers can call in and make moves. There are challenging quizes, music videos, fabulous prizes, and a sexy hostess! all for the sole purpose of permanently imprinting the concept that "chess can be fun" into the subconsious of thousands of TV channel surfers
 

ChickenFactor

Humorous equation to calculate how strongly the players in a drawn game tried to fight or avoid a fight
 

Diaz Cartoons

Many chess related cartoons
 

Measure Your Chess Aggressiveness

Humorous test to measure your aggressiveness as a chessplayer
 

Mr. T vs
Deep Blue

Humorous story of Mr. T battling Deep Blue
 

The New CC Annotation Symbols

Amusing yet deceptively accurate annotation symbols for CC

 

 

 

GAMES

Kramnik,V (2777) - Van Wely,L (2617) [B77]
Corus Chess Tournament 2004 Wijk aan Zee, NED (2), 11.01.2004

1.e4 c5
2.Nf3 Nc6
3.Nc3 g6
4.d4 cxd4
5.Nxd4 Bg7
6.Be3 Nf6
7.Bc4 0-0
8.Bb3 d6
9.f3 Bd7
10.Qd2 Nxd4
11.Bxd4 b5
12.a4 a6
13.0-0 Bc6
14.axb5 axb5
15.Na2 Bb7
16.Nb4 Nd7
17.Bxg7 Kxg7
18.Rae1 Qb6+
19.Kh1 Nf6
20.Bd5 Rac8
21.Re3 Rc5
22.Ra3 Rd8
23.Rfa1 Rd7
24.Bxb7 Qxb7
25.c3 Rc4
26.Qe3 Qc8
27.Ra5 Rb7
28.Ra8 Qd7
29.Qd3 Qc7
30.g3 h5
31.Kg2 Qc5
32.Qd2 h4
33.g4 Nxe4
34.fxe4 Rxe4
35.Nd5 Rxg4+
36.Kh3 Re4
37.Rh8 f6
38.Rxh4 Rxh4+
39.Kxh4 e6
40.Nb4 Rb8
41.Kg3 d5
42.Kg2 Rh8
43.Nd3 Qb6
44.Nf4 g5
45.Qd4 1-0
 

Svidler,P (2747) - Bareev,E (2714) [C10]
Corus Chess Tournament 2004 Wijk aan Zee, NED (3), 13.01.2004

1.e4 e6
2.d4 d5
3.Nc3 dxe4
4.Nxe4 Nd7
5.Nf3 Ngf6
6.Bd3 c5
7.0-0 Nxe4
8.Bxe4 Nf6
9.Bg5 cxd4
10.Nxd4 h6
11.Bxf6 Qxf6
12.Qd3 a6
13.Rad1 Be7
14.Nc6 e5
15.Nxe7 Qxe7
16.f4 exf4
17.Bxb7 1-0
 

Kramnik,V (2777) - Svidler,P (2747) [B97]
Corus Chess Tournament 2004 Wijk aan Zee, NED (4), 14.01.2004

1.e4 c5
2.Nf3 d6
3.d4 cxd4
4.Nxd4 Nf6
5.Nc3 a6
6.Bg5 e6
7.f4 Qb6
8.Qd2 Nc6
9.0-0-0 Qxd4
10.Qxd4 Nxd4
11.Rxd4 Be7
12.Na4 Bd7
13.Nb6 Rd8
14.Nxd7 Rxd7
15.Be2 h6
16.Bh4 Nh5
17.Bxh5 Bxh4
18.Rhd1 Bf2
19.R4d3 Ke7
20.Kb1 Rc8
21.Bg4 Rc4
22.Bf3 g6
23.b3 Rcc7
24.Be2 Rd8
25.g4 Bc5
26.Rh3 Rh8
27.Kb2 Rcc8
28.a3 Rcd8
29.b4 Bf2
30.a4  d5
31.Rf3 Bb6
32.exd5 Rxd5
33.Rxd5 exd5
34.Rd3 Bc7
35.Bf3 Bxf4
36.h3 b6
37.Kb3 Kf6
38.Bxd5 Re8
39.c3 a5
40.bxa5 bxa5
41.Rf3 g5
42.Kc4 Re3
43.Rxe3 Bxe3
44.Kb5 Ke5
45.Bxf7 Kd6
46.c4 Bf2
47.Be8 Ke7
48.Bc6 Kd6
49.Bb7 1-0
 

Kramnik,V (2777) - Zhang Zhong (2644) [A17]
Corus Chess Tournament 2004 Wijk aan Zee, NED (6), 17.01.2004

1.Nf3 Nf6
2.c4 e6
3.Nc3 Bb4
4.Qc2 0-0
5.a3 Bxc3
6.Qxc3 b6
7.e3 Bb7
8.Be2 d6
9.0-0 Nbd7
10.b4 c5
11.Bb2 Re8
12.d4 Ne4
13.Qb3 Rb8
14.Rad1 Qc7
15.Nd2 Nef6
16.Rc1 a5
17.Rfd1 e5
18.Bf1 axb4
19.axb4 h6
20.Ba1 Rec8
21.Bb2 Re8
22.dxc5 dxc5
23.Nb1 cxb4
24.Qxb4 Nc5
25.Nc3 Rbd8
26.Rb1 Bc6
27.Ba1 Rxd1
28.Rxd1 Rd8
29.Nb5 Bxb5
30.Bxe5 Qxe5
31.Rxd8+ Be8
32.Qxb6 Qe7
33.Rc8 Nfd7
34.Qc7 Kf8
35.g3 Ne6
36.Qc6 g6
37.Bh3 f5
38.Bg2 Kg7
39.Bd5 Nec5
40.Qa8 Bf7
41.Qa1+ Qf6
42.Qa7 Qa6
43.Qxa6 Nxa6
44.f3 Nac5
45.Kf2 Kf6
46.Rc6+ Be6
47.Ke2 Ke5
48.f4+ Kf6
49.Kd2 Ke7
50.Bf3 Nb3+
51.Kc3 Na5
52.Ra6 Nxc4
53.Rxe6+ Kxe6
54.Kxc4 g5
55.Bd5+ Kf6
56.Bc6 Nf8
57.Kd5 Ng6
58.Kd6 Ne7
59.Bb7 Ng6
60.Bf3 Nf8
61.Bd5 Ng6
62.Bc6 Nf8
63.Bd7 Ng6
64.h3 h5
65.fxg5+ Kxg5
66.h4+ Kg4
67.e4 Kxg3
68.exf5 Nh8
69.Ke7 Kxh4
70.Kf6 Kg4
71.Kg7 Kg5
72.f6 h4
73.Bc8  Kh5
74.Bf5 Kg5
75.Be6 Ng6
76.f7 Nf4
77.Bc8 Nh5+
78.Kh7 1-0

 

 

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