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| The 22nd Linares tournament takes place 22nd February - 10th March 2005. Round 1 Wednesday February 23rd 2005. Rest days March 1st and 7th 2005. The event is again a 7 player double round robin category 20 event (ave 2743). XXII SuperGM Linares ESP (ESP), 23 ii-17 iii 2005 cat. XX (2743)
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1 Kasparov, Garry g RUS 2804 ** =. =. == 1. =1 11 6.5 / 9 2889
2 Anand, Viswanathan g IND 2786 =. ** 1= == =. =. =. 4.5 / 8 2783
3 Topalov, Veselin g BUL 2757 =. 0= ** =. 1= =. 1. 4.5 / 8 2789
4 Leko, Peter g HUN 2749 == == =. ** == =. =. 4.5 / 9 2753
5 Adams, Michael g ENG 2741 0. =. 0= == ** == 1. 4.0 / 9 2695
6 Kasimdzhanov, Rustam g UZB 2678 =0 =. =. =. == ** =0 3.5 / 9 2670
7 Vallejo Pons, Francisco g ESP 2686 00 =. 0. =. 0. =1 ** 2.5 / 8 2608
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Round 10 (March 5, 2005)
Kasparov, Garry - Vallejo Pons, Francisco 1-0 54 D12 Slav Defence
Anand, Viswanathan- Leko, Peter 1/2 24 B33 Sicilian Sveshnikov
Adams, Michael - Kasimdzhanov, Rustam 1/2 62 C88 Ruy Lopez CloseRound 10 5th March 2005 Michiel Abeln reports.  Round 10 Garry Kasparov at the start of his game against Vallejo. Photo © Michiel Abeln Kasparov wins again! Today he beat Vallejo Pons in a very technical game. Vallejo made several inaccurate moves and reached a worse position in terrible time trouble. Kasparov simply collected a pawn and won the resulting queen ending in an easy way. Long before Kasparov won, Anand and Leko had made a draw. Just as in Wijk aan Zee, Anand took on Leko’s Sveshnikov, but this time he deviated at an early stage with 11.Qd3. This move was played long time ago by Kupreichik, a game Leko remembered at the board. Leko exchanged to an ending where white had a pair of bishops, but a terribly placed knight. In fact if Anand had have been allowed to play Bb3 and Nc4 at some stage he would have gained the advantage, but in the game he never got the chance and the players agreed to a quick draw. The last game to finish today was between Adams and Kasimdzhanov. Adams had no special preparation for this game, just followed something Kasimdzhanov had played before, and started to play normal, strong moves. Adams achieved a clear plus, but Kasimdzhanov showed once again why he has the reputation of being a great defender. He liquidated into an endgame a pawn down that he knew he could hold and after 62 moves Adams had agreed to the draw.  Round 10 Garry Kasparov against Vallejo Pons. Photo © Michiel Abeln Kasparov,Garry (2804) - Vallejo Pons,Francisco (2686) [D12] XXII Torneo Internacional de Linares (10), 05.03.2005 1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.Nf3 Nf6 4.e3 Bf5 5.Nc3 e6 6.Nh4 Bg6 7.Nxg6 hxg6 8.Bd2 Nbd7 9.Rc1 a6 [9...Bd6 10.g3 Qe7 11.c5 Bc7 12.f4 Ba5 13.Nb1 Bxd2+ 14.Nxd2 Ne4 15.Nxe4 dxe4 16.h4 f5 17.Kf2 Nf6 18.Be2 Kf7 19.a3 a5 20.Qd2 Rhb8 21.Rc2 b5 1/2-1/2 Bareev,E-Dreev,A/Moscow RUS 2004/The Week in Chess 524] 10.Bd3 dxc4 11.Bxc4 b5 [11...c5 12.0-0 b5 13.Be2 Bd6 14.h3 0-0 15.Bf3 with the idea of Ne4] 12.Be2 c5 13.Bf3 Rb8 14.Ne2 Bd6 15.g3 0-0 16.0-0 e5? [It was better to play 16...Qb6 Vallejo was afraid of Qe1, but Kasparov intended to play 17.dxc5] 17.dxc5 Nxc5 18.Bb4  18...Qb6 An immediate Ne4 would have been a better version of the game for black 19.Nc3 Nb7 According to Kasparov black's only move 20.Bxd6 Nxd6 21.Nd5 Nxd5 22.Bxd5 Rbc8 23.Qg4 Here Qd3 was probably better but in that case black will also continue with Nf5 23...Nf5 24.Qe4 Qf6 25.Rfd1 Nd6 26.Qb4 Rfd8 27.a4 [Kasparov really wanted to play 27.b3 here but then black has 27...Rxc1 28.Rxc1 e4!] 27...bxa4 28.Qxa4 White is better, not winning yet, but it's always unpleasant for black 28...Rxc1 29.Rxc1 Nb5  30.Rd1 [Kasparov spent a long time trying to make 30.Rc6 work, but in the end decided it was better to keep the pressure. 30...Qf5 31.Rxa6 (31.Qc4 Nd6; 31.Qe4 Qxe4 32.Bxe4 Rd6=; 31.Be4 Qg4 32.Rxa6 Rd2) 31...Rxd5 32.e4 Qf3 33.exd5 Nd4 34.Qe8+ Kh7 35.Ra3 Qd1+ 36.Kg2 Nc2=] 30...Nc7 31.Bc4 Rd6 32.Rxd6 [On 32.Qb3 black has 32...Ne8 (32...Rb6 33.Bxf7+ Kf8 34.Qc2+-) ] 32...Qxd6 33.Qb3 Ne6 34.h4! Killing black's counterplay 34...e4 [34...a5 is the move Vallejo should have played, but he was down to his last seconds.] 35.Bd5 [35.Qb7 Qd1+ 36.Bf1 Qb1 is not clear] 35...g5 36.h5 g4 37.Bxe4 Ng5 38.Qd5 Nxe4 39.Qxe4 [39.Qa8+ was also not too bad] 39...Qd1+ 40.Kg2 Kf8 Time trouble is over and white has an easily winning queen ending 41.Qa8+ Ke7 42.Qb7+ Ke8 43.Qxa6 Qd5+ 44.Kg1 Qxh5 45.Qc6+ Kd8 [45...Ke7 46.Qe4+ and the black queen cannot move anymore] 46.e4 Ke7 47.Qc7+ Ke6 48.Qc8+ Ke7 49.Qb7+ Ke8 50.b4 Qg5 51.Qc6+ Ke7 52.b5 Qd2 53.Qc5+ Qd6 54.Qg5+ 1-0  Round 10 Michael Adams against Rustam Kasimdzhanov. Photo © Michiel Abeln Adams,Michael (2741) - Kasimdzhanov,Rustam (2678) [C88] XXII Torneo Internacional de Linares (10), 05.03.2005 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 d6 10.a3 Na5 11.Ba2 c5 12.Nbd2 Nc6 13.Nf1 Bc8 14.c3 Be6 15.Bxe6 fxe6 16.b4 A new try by Adams, Kasimdzhanov has some experience with this line: [16.Ng3 Qe8 17.a4 (17.Be3 Nh5 18.Nxh5 Qxh5 19.Ng5 1/2-1/2 Svidler,P-Anand,V/Dortmund 2004/CBM 102) 17...Qd7 18.d4 exd4 19.cxd4 cxd4 20.Nxd4 Nxd4 21.Qxd4 bxa4 22.Rxa4 Rfb8 23.Qc4 d5 24.exd5 exd5 25.Qa2 Bb4 26.Rd1 Qe6 27.Bg5 Kh8 28.Bxf6 Qxf6 29.Rxd5 a5 30.Qb1 Re8 31.Rd1 Rad8 32.Rf1 Qf7 33.b3 Rd5 34.Ra2 Red8 35.Rc2 Qg6 36.Re2 Rd3 37.Qc2 h6 38.Rb1 Qf7 39.Ne4 Qd5 40.f3 Qf7 41.Kh1 1/2-1/2 Shirov,A-Kasimdzhanov,R/Sarajevo 2003/CBM 096] 16...Nh5 17.N1h2 Nf4 18.Bxf4 Ljubojevic suggested here Kh1, Ng1 and g3 to kick the knight back. 18...Rxf4 19.Qb3 In this phase Adams simply outplays Kasimdzhanov 19...Qd7 20.a4 bxa4 21.Rxa4 cxb4 22.cxb4 Rb8 23.Rea1 Rb7 24.Rxa6 Nxb4 25.Ra8+ Rf8 26.Rxf8+ Bxf8 27.Rb1 Rb8 28.Qc4  White has a very nice position, but Kasimdzhanov is a very stubborn defender as he has proved before in this tournament. 28...d5 29.Qc3 Rc8 30.Qb3 Adams felt that he had lost the thread here and decided just to continue solidly 30...Rc2 31.Ng4 Qa7 32.exd5 exd5 33.Ne3 [33.Nfxe5 Qd4 (33...Bc5 34.d4!) ] 33...Re2 34.d4 exd4 [34...e4 35.Nxd5 Qf7 36.Nxb4 exf3 37.Qxf3 Qxf3 38.gxf3] 35.Nxd5 Nxd5 36.Qxd5+ Qf7 37.Qxd4 White has more chances keeping the queens on the board, but objectivly speaking white can not win this position. 37...h6 38.Rb8 Re8 39.Ne5 Qe6 40.Rxe8 Qxe8 41.Qd5+ Kh7 42.g3 g6 43.Kg2 Bg7 44.Nd3 h5 45.Nf4 Bf6 46.Ne6 Qe7 47.h4 Qe8 48.Kh2 Qe7 49.Kh3 Kg8 50.f4 Qf7 51.f5 Be7 52.Nf4 gxf5 53.Qd1 Kh7 54.Nxh5 Bf8 55.Nf4 Bh6 56.Nd5 Qe6 57.Qd3 Kg7 58.Kg2 Qe5 59.Kf3 Qe6 60.Kg2 Qe5 61.Qc4 Bd2 62.Qd3 1/2-1/2  Round 10 Viswanathan Anand. Photo © Michiel Abeln Anand, Viswanathan (2786) - Leko, Peter (2749) [B33] XXII Torneo Internacional de Linares (10), 05.03.2005 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 e5 6.Ndb5 d6 7.Bg5 a6 8.Na3 b5 9.Nd5 Be7 10.Nxe7 Nxe7 11.Qd3 A move that is hardly ever played because according to theory black can equalise easily. 11...d5 12.exd5 [12.Bxf6 gxf6 13.0-0-0 d4 14.c3 Qc7 15.Nc2 dxc3 16.Qxc3 Qxc3 17.bxc3 f5 18.Bd3 fxe4 19.Bxe4 Ra7 20.Nb4 Be6 21.Kb2 0-0 22.Rhe1 Rc8 23.Rd6 a5 24.Nd5 Kf8 25.Nb6 Rc5 26.Red1 Kg7 27.R1d3 Rac7 28.Nd7 Rc4 29.Rg3+ Ng6 30.Bxg6 hxg6 31.Nxe5 Re4 32.Re3 Ra4 33.a3 b4 34.axb4 axb4 35.c4 Rca7 36.Kb3 Ra2 37.Rf3 Re2 38.Nd3 Re4 39.Rc6 Ra1 40.Kxb4 Rg1 41.Rf4 Re2 42.g3 Bf5 43.Rd6 Rb1+ 44.Kc5 Ra2 45.Rfd4 Ra5+ 46.Kc6 Rb8 47.Rd8 Be4+ 48.R8d5 Rc8+ 49.Kb6 Bxd5 50.cxd5 Raa8 51.d6 Rab8+ 52.Ka7 Ra8+ 53.Kb6 Rab8+ 54.Ka7 Ra8+ 55.Kb7 Rab8+ 56.Ka6 Rc6+ 57.Ka5 Rd8 58.d7 Rc7 59.Ne5 Rc5+ 60.Kb6 Rxe5 61.Kc7 Rxd7+ 62.Kxd7 Re2 1/2-1/2 Kupreichik,V-Gorelov,S/Minsk 1985/MCD] 12...Bf5 13.Qb3 Qxd5 14.Qxd5 Nexd5  15.c4 [After 15.0-0-0 Nb4 is annoying] 15...bxc4 [Leko felt that 15...Ne4 was too much: 16.Bc1 bxc4 17.Bxc4 Nb4 18.Ke2] 16.Bxc4 This came as a slight surprise for Leko, but the alternative does not promise much either [16.Nxc4 0-0 17.f3 (17.Be2 Ne4) ] 16...0-0 17.0-0 Nb4 18.Rfe1 Rfe8 19.Rad1 Ne4 20.Be3 Rac8 21.f3 Nf6  22.Re2 [22.b3 Nxa2 23.Bd2 Rb8; 22.Rd2 Nc2 23.Nxc2 Rxc4 24.Na3; If Anand had a chance in this game then this was probably the point: 22.Rd6 Be6 (22...Nc2 23.Nxc2 Rxc4 24.Na3 Ra4 25.Bc5) 23.Bxa6 (23.Bxe6 Rxe6 24.Rxe6 fxe6) 23...Nxa6 24.Rxa6 Bxa2 (24...Ra8 25.Rxa8 Rxa8 26.Bc5 Nd7 27.Bd6) 25.b4 and some chances] 22...Be6 [22...Nc2 23.Bxa6] 23.b3 e4 24.Rdd2 [There is not much excitement left here: 24.Rdd2 exf3 25.gxf3 Nfd5 26.Bd4 Nf4 27.Re4=] 1/2-1/2 |
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