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Corus, Wijk aan Zee 2007. Round 2 14th January 2007. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Corus A Wijk aan Zee NED (NED), 13-28 i 2007 cat. XIX (2718)
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1. Aronian, Levon g ARM 2744 * = . . . . . . . 1 . . . . 1.5 2914
2. Navara, David g CZE 2719 = * . . . . . . . . . 1 . . 1.5 2910
3. Kramnik, Vladimir g RUS 2766 . . * . . . . = . . 1 . . . 1.5 2889
4. Anand, Viswanathan g IND 2779 . . . * . . . . 1 = . . . . 1.5 2878
5. Svidler, Peter g RUS 2728 . . . . * . . . . . = . 1 . 1.5 2884
6. Radjabov, Teimour g AZE 2729 . . . . . * . = . . . . . 1 1.5 2873
7. Topalov, Veselin g BUL 2783 . . . . . . * . = . . . . 1 1.5 2858
8. Karjakin, Sergey g UKR 2678 . . = . . = . * . . . . . . 1.0 2747
9. Motylev, Alexander g RUS 2647 . . . 0 . . = . * . . . . . 0.5 2588
10. Ponomariov, Ruslan g UKR 2723 0 . . = . . . . . * . . . . 0.5 2568
11. Shirov, Alexei g ESP 2715 . . 0 . = . . . . . * . . . 0.5 2554
12. Carlsen, Magnus g NOR 2690 . 0 . . . . . . . . . * = . 0.5 2500
13. Tiviakov, Sergei g NED 2667 . . . . 0 . . . . . . = * . 0.5 2516
14. Van Wely, Loek g NED 2683 . . . . . 0 0 . . . . . . * 0.0
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Round 2 (January 14, 2007)
Aronian, Levon - Ponomariov, Ruslan 1-0 39 E32 Nimzo Indian 4.Qc2
Kramnik, Vladimir - Shirov, Alexei 1-0 34 A16 English Opening
Svidler, Peter - Tiviakov, Sergei 1-0 65 B01 Centre Counter
Radjabov, Teimour - Karjakin, Sergey 1/2 78 E15 Queens Indian
Topalov, Veselin - Van Wely, Loek 1-0 35 B90 Sicilian Najdorf Variation
Motylev, Alexander - Anand, Viswanathan 0-1 31 B97 Sicilian Najdorf
Carlsen, Magnus - Navara, David 0-1 50 D87 Gruenfeld Botvinnik Mark Crowther comments: If round one of the tournament was a bit of a disappointment, round two was a huge contrast with six of the seven games finishing decisively and the final one was a good save by Sergey Karjakin against Teimour Radjabov. That said the round saw some big errors also.  Motylev - Anand. Round 2. Photo © Michiel Abeln Alexander Motylev took up the gauntlet with white against Viswanathan Anand playing a sharp attacking variation of the Najdorf Poisoned Pawn where the result looked in question for a long time. Anand never quite looked like losing but a draw seemed on the cards before Motylev played for too much and blundered his position away. Here are some brief notes by Michiel Abeln based on the post-mortem. Motylev,A (2647) - Anand,V (2779) [B97] 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 a6 6.Bg5 e6 7.f4 Qb6 8.Qd2 Qxb2 9.Rb1 Qa3 10.e5 h6 [10...dxe5] 11.Bh4 dxe5 12.fxe5 Nfd7 13.Ne4 Qxa2 14.Rd1 Qd5 15.Qe3 Qxe5 16.Be2 [16.Bg3 Qa5+ 17.c3 Qb6 18.Be2 Be7 19.0-0 0-0 20.Rb1 Qd8 21.Rxf7 Rxf7 22.Nxe6 Qa5 23.Nc7 Ne5 24.Nxa8 Nbc6 25.Nb6 Bg4 26.h3 Qa2 27.Re1 Bxe2 28.Rxe2 Qb1+ 29.Kh2 Qd3 30.Nc8 Qxe3 31.Rxe3 Bf6 32.Ncd6 Rd7 33.Nxf6+ gxf6 34.Ne4 Kg7 1/2-1/2 Docx,S-Roeder,M/Belgium BEL 2006/The Week in Chess 629] 16...Bc5 17.Bg3 Bxd4 18.Rxd4 Qa5+ 19.Rd2 This move was not fully checked by Vishy, he thought three pawns would be sufficient. 19...0-0 20.Bd6 Rd8 [20...Re8 21.0-0 Qb6 22.Nf6+ gxf6 23.Rd4 e5 (23...Nc6 24.Rg4+ Kh7 25.Qxb6 Nxb6 and Vishy was afraid that Motylev had checked this at home and found some forced mate) 24.Rff4 exf4 25.Qxe8+ Kg7-+; 20...Nc6 21.0-0] 21.Qg3 Qf5 22.Be5 Qg6 23.Qh4 Nc6 [23...Rf8 24.Bd6] 24.0-0 [24.Bh5 Qf5 25.Bxg7 Nc5 26.Rxd8+ Nxd8 27.Nd6 Nd3+ (27...Qg5 28.Qxg5 hxg5 29.Bf6 Bd7 30.Bg4 Bc6 31.h4 Nd7 32.hxg5 Nxf6 33.gxf6) 28.cxd3 Qa5+ 29.Ke2 Kxg7 30.Rf1 Qe5+ 31.Ne4 Bd7] 24...f5 [24...Ndxe5 25.Rxd8+ Nxd8 26.Bh5 Bd7 27.Bxg6 Nxg6=] 25.Bh5 [25.Bc7 Rf8 26.Bh5 (26.Nd6) 26...Qh7 27.Nd6] 25...Qh7 26.Bb2 [26.Qg3 fxe4 27.Bg6 Ncxe5 28.Bxh7+ Kxh7; 26.Rd3? Rf8! (26...fxe4 27.Bf7+ Kh8 28.Bxg7+ Qxg7 29.Rg3 Nde5 30.Rxg7 Kxg7 31.Qf6+ Kh7 32.Bg6+ Kg8 33.Bxe4+-) 27.Bxg7 Kxg7 28.Rg3+ Kh8 29.Bg6 Qg7 30.Bxf5 exf5] 26...fxe4 27.Rf7 Rf8 [27...e5 28.Bxe5 Rf8 29.Rxg7+ Qxg7 30.Bxg7 Kxg7 31.Qg4+ Probably will finish in a draw.; 27...e3 28.Rxg7+ Qxg7 29.Bxg7 exd2 30.Bxh6 Is good for white.]
28.Qf2? The terrible move is easily refuted. Motylev must have overlooked something very simple. [28.Rxg7+ Qxg7 29.Bxg7 Kxg7 30.Qg4+ Kh8 31.Qg6 Rf6 (31...Nde5 32.Qxh6+ Kg8) 32.Qe8+ Rf8 (32...Nf8 33.Rf2) 33.Qg6=] 28...Rxf7 29.Qxf7+ Kh8 30.Rf2 e5 31.Qd5 Nf6 0-1  Topalov - van Wely. Round 2. Photo © Michiel Abeln Veselin Topalov had white against Loek van Wely's Najdorf and his attack looked quicker all the way through which indeed proved to be the case. (The full press conference where he explained the game appeared at: http://www.chessvibes.com/ part one below, there were three parts in total see http://www.chessvibes.com/?p=490&lp_lang_view=en)  Shirov in thought. Round 2. Photo © Michiel Abeln  Shirov played 34...Rb7 and then resigns. Vladimir Kramnik had to face what appears to be a new idea (8. ..b5) against his English however this was the product of nearly an hour's?! thought at move 7 by Shirov. Kramnik had a big positional edge which probably led to Shirov playing 34...Rb7?? which saw him resigning without waiting for 35.Rxe6 Kxe6 36. Nc5+ netting a piece for nothing.  Carlsen - Navara. Round 2. Photo © Michiel Abeln  Carlsen - Navara was a normal game punctuated by this moment. Black has just played 31...g5?? what did white (and indeed black) miss? Magnus Carlsen and David Navara was a very interesting struggle where white's central pawns tried to compensate for the lack of an exchange. Thats until you play through the game with Fritz and find 31.... g5 just loses to 32.c6!!. The reason both players missed it was Carlsen played 31.a4 with the idea of pushing through to a6 but coincidently protecting his Queen. Navara played g5 with the idea of opening up the white king but coincidently unprotecting his own Queen. The winning idea had nothing to do with the thought processes of either player and so Carlsen played 32.a5 and missed his chance, if there were a little bell that rung when the position had a combination in it he'd have found it instantly. 35.c6? was the error that cost Carlsen the game. If Sergey Tiviakov were to appear on Mastermind his specialist subject would be the Scandinavian Defence. He's had a huge amount of success with this opening and it survived a big test at this event last year. To be fair it wasn't entirely responsible for his loss to Peter Svidler either. Svidler had a big edge after the opening, let it go and then gradually ground down his opponent again.  Aronian - Ponomariov. Round 2. Photo © Michiel Abeln Levon Aronian arrived at Wijk aan Zee as the rising star and world number 3 last year. He's number 7 this time after a slightly weaker last 6 months but the 25 year old is still clearly going to be around for a long time. Aronian faced the rather dubious 11…d5?! in a Classical Nimzo Indian by Ruslan Ponomariov which gave him a nice position, but things weren't settled until the poor 29...Nb4? was played. Ten moves later Ponomariov's had to resign.  Radjabov - Karjakin. Round 2. Photo © Michiel Abeln Teimour Radjabov and Sergey Karjakin played an interesting Queen's Indian until somewhere around moves 20-30 Radjabov emerged with a big advantage. Karjakin bailed out to Rook+Bishop and two pawns for black against Radjabov's Queen and three pawns. I would have thought this to be winning but Radjabov couldn't break through even when he was queen for rook up later on. |
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