Round 14 - Morelia Linares 2008 - Vishy Anand é o Campeão!

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Anand gana Linares 2008
El vigente Campeón del Mundo Vishy Anand ha ganado el XXV Torneo Internacional de Ajedrez "Ciudad de Linares - Morelia". Anand salió desde el principio a neutralizar a Topalov, siendo las tablas un resultado mas que conveniente para asegurar el primer puesto ¡Enhorabuena, Anand! Carlsen siguió los caminos de Topalov en su partida contra Radjabov, pero no logró quebrar la defensa del jugador azerí. Shirov dio los primeros pasos agresivos, pero al final Ivanchuk logró igualar y las tablas no tardaron en acordarse. La partida Leko vs. Aronian fue muy lineal, con muchas simplificaciones, y se llegó a un final de 4 torres con el resultado de tablas.

XXV Torneo Internacional de Ajedrez "Ciudad de Linares - Morelia"

del 14 de febrero al 8 de marzo de 2008 en Morelia (México) y Linares (España)

La primera parte del torneo, con las siete rondas iniciales, se disputó entre el 14 y el 23 de febrero en Morelia (Michoacán, México) La manga de Linares, donde tendrán lugar las rondas restantes, se celebró en la ciudad jienense del 29 de febrero al 7 de marzo. Tras ellas se clausurará el torneo el día 8.

Ronda 14

Ronda 14: Viernes, 7 de marzo
Vishy Anand	½-½	Veselin Topalov
Peter Leko	½-½	Levon Aronian
Magnus Carlsen	½-½	Teimour Radjabov
Alexei Shirov	½-½	Vassily Ivanchuk
Partidas - Reportaje

Ultima jornada del torneo de Linares, se esperaba una aguda lucha en las principales partidas, pero lo cierto es que la tranquilidad y el control fueron los protagonistas, Anand salió desde el principio a neutralizar a un Topalov que seguro tenía otras expectativas sobre la partida pero se vio envuelto en una posición que no le ofrecía mas posibilidades que luchar por la igualdad, para Anand las tablas es un resultado mas que conveniente que le asegura el primer puesto, felicidades Anand!

Carlsen siguió los caminos de Topalov en su partida contra Radjabov pero no logro quebrar la defensa del jugador azerí quien entregó un peón para llegar a un final de torres de tablas aún con el mínimo déficit material.

El resto fue bastante tranquilo, Shirov eligió una línea muy conservadora contra la Francesa de Ivanchuk y la partida estuvo igualada en la apertura pero Shirov dio los primeros pasos agresivos con la jugada 20.g4 pero al final Ivanchuk logró disminuir la leve iniciativa del rival y las tablas no tardaron en acordarse.

Por último, la partida de Leko y Aronian, una partida muy lineal con muchas simplificaciones donde se llegó a un final de 4 torres en donde ninguno de los dos tenía razones para jugar a ganar.

La entrada al Teatro Cervantes en Linares, hoy por la tarde

El escenario durante la última ronda

Han llegado también los organizadores del torneo Final Masters del Grand Slam de Bilbao,
aquí Andoni Madariaga y Josu Fernández en el patio de butacas

Juan Carlos Fernández, también del torneo de Bilbao

Anand,V (2799) - Topalov,V (2780) [B92]

Linares, 07.03.2008

1.e4 c5 2.Cf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Cxd4 Cf6 5.Cc3 a6 6.Ae2 e5 7.Cb3 Ae7 8.Ag5 Ae6 9.Axf6 Axf6 10.Dd3 La misma variante con la que Radjabov venció a Shirov, no es una variante peligrosa en sí misma pero sí se puede decir que limita bastane los chances de victoria del negro. 10...Cc6 11.0–0–0 Db6 12.Dxd6 Ae7 13.Cd5 Axd5 14.Dxd5 0–0 15.Dd2 Dxf2 16.Ac4 Dh4 17.De2 Tac8 18.a3 Af6 19.Rb1 Cd4 20.Cxd4 exd4 21.g3 Dg5 22.Thf1 De3 23.Tf3 ½–½

Anand acudiendo al tablero y Topalov le está estrechando la mano

El obligatorio diálogo en silencio con el "equipo" de piezas antes de comenzar

Veselin Topalov también está dando últimos avisos a las suyas

Juan Carlos Fernández realiza el saque de honor de hoy en la partida Anand vs. Topalov

"Veselin, te deseo mucha suerte"

"¡Y mucha suerte para ti también, Vishy!"

Comienza la última partida

Veselin Topalov concentrado

Javier Ochoa de Echagüen (Presidente de la FEDA y de la FIBDA),
Juan Fernández (el Alcalde de Linares) y Juan Carlos Fernández (Organizador de Bilbao) que no es ningún pariente ni primo

Leko,P (2753) - Aronian,L (2739) [C88]

Linares Linares, 07.03.2008

1.e4 e5 2.Cf3 Cc6 3.Ab5 a6 4.Aa4 Cf6 5.0–0 Ae7 6.Te1 b5 7.Ab3 0–0 8.d3 Leko evita el Ataque Marshall 8...d6 9.c3 Ca5 10.Ac2 c5 11.Cbd2 Cc6 12.Cf1 Te8 13.h3 h6 14.Cg3 Ae6 15.d4 cxd4 16.cxd4 exd4 17.Cxd4 Cxd4 18.Dxd4 Tc8 19.Ab3 Axb3 20.axb3 d5 21.e5 Ac5 22.Df4 Ce4 23.Cxe4 dxe4 24.Txa6 Dd3 Todo esto ya había sido jugado antes por Fressinet frente a Naidtisch y Leko no traía ninguna preparación especial, se siguen produciendo cambiosinevitables que llevan a la igualdad. 25.Dxe4 Axf2+ 26.Rxf2 Tc2+ 27.Rg1 Dxe4 28.Txe4 Txc1+ 29.Rh2 Td1 30.Ta7 Rf8 31.Tf4 Te7 32.Ta8+ Te8 33.Ta7 Te7 34.Ta8+ ½–½

Peter Leko

Levon Aronian

Alegre y con sangre fría: Iturrizaga en plan paparazzi
durante su propia partida por el título por el título Iberoamericano...

M. Carlsen (NOR) - T. Radjabov (AZE) [C63]

Linares Linares, ESP (14), 07.03.2008

Carlsen repitió con blancas la variante con la que Topalov hizo sufrir mucho a Radjabov unas rondas antes. Radjabov este vez decidió no tocar el flanco de dama, con c6, tal y como hizo contra Topalov, aguantando la posición y en el momento oportuno jugó un g5, seguido de la actividad de su dama. Carlsen no encontró manera de romper la fortaleza de Radjabov, a pesar de tener un peón de más, llegando a un final de torres tablífero que el azerí tuve que defender durante largo tiempo.

1.e2-e4 e7-e5 2.Cg1–f3 Cb8-c6 3.Af1–b5 f7-f5 4.d2-d3 f5xe4 5.d3xe4 Cg8-f6 6.0–0 Af8-c5 7.Dd1–d3 d7-d6 8.Dd3-c4 Dd8-e7 9.Cb1–c3 Ac8-d7 10.Cc3-d5 Cf6xd5 11.e4xd5 Cc6-d4 12.Cf3xd4 Ac5xd4 13.Ab5xd7+ De7xd7 14.a2-a4 a7-a6 15.Ac1–e3 Ad4xe3 16.f2xe3 0–0–0 17.Tf1–f2 Td8-f8 18.Ta1–f1 Dd7-e7 19.Dc4-e4 g7-g6 20.Tf2-f3 Rc8-b8 21.b2-b3 Tf8xf3 22.De4xf3 De7-g5 23.h2-h3 Th8-c8 24.Rg1–h2 Dg5-h4 25.c2-c4 a6-a5 26.e3-e4 Dh4-h6 27.Df3-f2 b7-b6 28.g2-g3 Rb8-b7 29.Rh2-g2 Tc8-a8 30.h3-h4 g6-g5 31.Df2-e3 Ta8-g8 32.Tf1–f5 Dh6-h5 33.h4xg5 Dh5-d1 34.Tf5-f7 Dd1–h5 35.De3-f3 Dh5xg5 36.Tf7xh7 Dg5-f4 37.Th7-h5 Tg8-g7 38.Df3-d3 Df4-c1 39.Dd3-f3 Dc1–f4 40.Df3xf4 e5xf4 41.Th5-h3 f4xg3 42.Th3xg3 Tg7-h7 43.Rg2-f3 Th7-f7+ 44.Rf3-e3 Tf7-f1 45.Re3-d4 Tf1–d1+ 46.Tg3-d3 Td1–e1 47.Td3-e3 Te1–d1+ 48.Rd4-c3 Td1–c1+ 49.Rc3-d2 Tc1–b1 50.e4-e5 d6xe5 51.Rd2-c2 Tb1–h1 52.Te3xe5 Th1–h3 53.Te5-e2 Rb7-c8 54.Te2-d2 Rc8-d7 55.Td2-d3 Th3-h2+ 56.Rc2-c3 Th2-h1 57.Td3-g3 Th1–d1 58.Tg3-g7+ Rd7-d6 59.Tg7-g6+ Rd6-d7 60.Tg6-c6 Td1–c1+ 61.Rc3-b2 Tc1–d1 62.Rb2-c2 Td1–d4 63.b3-b4 a5xb4 64.Rc2-b3 Td4-d1 65.Rb3xb4 Td1–b1+ 66.Rb4-c3 Tb1–a1 67.Rc3-b3 Ta1–b1+ 68.Rb3-a2 Tb1–b4 69.Ra2-a3 Tb4-b1 ½–½

Comienza también la partida Magnus Carlsen vs. Teimour Radjabov

Magnus

Teimour

El mejor jugador juvenil: Magnus Carlsen

A. Shirov (ESP) - V. Ivanchuk (UKR) [C01]

Linares Linares, ESP (14), 07.03.2008

Shirov eligió una variante secundaria, y con poco veneno, contra la francesa McChuteon planteada por Ivanchuk. La apertura y el medio juego fueron muy tranquilos, con estructuras casi simétricas, donde los cambios de piezas iban aclarando la partida. Shirov fue cogiendo espacio en ambos flancos y colocando bien sus caballos, intentando buscar algo de ventaja, pero Ivanchuk se defendió con tranquilidad, cambiando las piezas en su momento oportuno y encontrando las casillas adecuadas para sostener la posición.

1.e2-e4 e7-e6 2.d2-d4 d7-d5 3.Cb1–c3 Cg8-f6 4.Ac1–g5 Af8-b4 5.e4xd5 e6xd5 6.Af1–d3 0–0 7.Cg1–e2 c7-c6 8.0–0 Tf8-e8 9.Ce2-g3 h7-h6 10.Ag5-d2 Cb8-d7 11.Cc3-e2 Ab4xd2 12.Dd1xd2 Cd7-f8 13.Ce2-f4 Dd8-d6 14.f2-f3 Ac8-d7 15.Ad3-f5 Te8-e7 16.Af5xd7 Dd6xd7 17.Cf4-d3 Cf8-g6 18.Cd3-c5 Dd7-c7 19.Cg3-f5 Te7-e8 20.g2-g4 b7-b6 21.Cc5-d3 Te8-e6 22.Ta1–e1 Ta8-e8 23.b2-b4 Cf6-h7 24.h2-h4 Ch7-f8 25.h4-h5 Cg6-e7 26.Cd3-f4 Te6-f6 27.Cf5xe7+ Te8xe7 28.Te1xe7 Dc7xe7 29.Cf4-d3 Tf6-e6 30.Tf1–e1 Te6xe1+ ½–½

Dumdi-dumdi-dum... Ivanchuk llega "al trabajo"

Alexei Shirov parece disfrutar menos, pero quizá solo es la concentración

Ahora vamos a jugar, ¡que bien!

Alexei Shirov

Los jugadores del supertorneo y del Iberoamericano en el escenario del Teatro Cervantes

En la sala de prensa: Jesús Boyero (MARCA) y GM José Luis Fernández, Director Técnico del Iberoamericano

Vishy Anand, Campeón del torneo Morelia - "Ciudad de Linares 2008"

La rueda de prensa con el Campeón

Vídeo de la rueda de prensa por GM José Luis Fernández...

Paco Albalate, el Director Técnico del "Ciudad de Linares"

Vishy Anand y Juan Fernández, el Alcalde de Linares

Los organizadores del torneo Final Masters del Grand Slam de Bilbao: (de izda. a dcha.)
Juan Carlos Fernández, GM José Luis Fernández, Josu Fernández y Andoni Madariaga

Campeón del Mundo y de Morelia - Linares 2008: Vishy Anand

Juan Carlos Fernández invita a Vishy Anand al Final Master del Grand Slam en Bilbao

Juan Carlos Fernández, Vishy Anand y el Alcalde de Linares, Juan Fernández

¡Felicidades, Vishy!

Después de la rueda de prensa, Anand acudió a la cabina de comentarista de Leontxo García quien le hizo una entrevista para los oyentes de la sala y en el servidor de ChessBase, Playchess.com.

Anand y Leontxo

Más invitados en la retransmisión de Leontxo García...

Andoni Madariaga, Organizador del torneo Final Masters del Grand Slam en Bilbao

... y yo, Nadja Woisin

Fotos y texto: Nadja Woisin

ABERTO DA FESTA DA UVA - 08 E 09 DE MARÇO - Rafael Leitão com 8 em 9 possíveis foi o Campeão!

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Primeiros resultados Festa da Uva

Com 224 participantes Rafael Leitão foi o grande vencedor do X Torneio Aberto de Xadrez Festa da Uva.
Abaixo os primeiros classificados:
1 - Rafael Leitão - 8
2 - Mequinho - 7,5
3 - Andrez - 7,5
4 - Matsuura - 7,5
5 - Disconzi - 7,5
6 - Dragan Stamenkovic - 7,5
7 - Fier - 7
8 - Fabiano Prates - 7
9 - Daniel Izquierdo - 7
10- Allan Gattass - 7
11- Carlos Born - 7
12- Felipe Menna BArreto - 7
Grupo com 6,5 pontos
Marco Cordeiro, Jorge Bittercourt, Luiz Ney Menna Barreto, Luismar Britto, Vitório Chemin, Charles Gauche, Francisco Dejeanne, Flávio Olivência, Ciro Pimenta, Ivan Boere de Souza, Darlan Veit, Alfeu Varela Bueno, Ulisses Moura.

Aberto do Brasil - etapa de São Sebastião do Paraíso - Molina, Ladeira e Xico Xadrez terminam em primeiro, com 5,5

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09/03/2008 - Terminou a etapa inaugural do Circuito dos Torneios Abertos do Brasil, um dos destaques do fim de semana enxadrístico, no Salão Nobre do Ouro Verde Tênis Clube em São Sebastião do Paraíso. Seis jogadores estavam com 4,5 pontos em 5 rodadas: MFs Roberto Molina, João Bosco Ladeira e Bolívar Gonzales, Xico Xadrez, Tiago Navarro e Sérgio Silva. Jogaram Navarro 0 x 1 Molina, Ladeira 1 x 0 Silva e Gonzales 0 x 1 Xico Xadrez.

Quatorze jogadores compartilhavam a sétima colocação, a meio ponto. As partidas deste grupo foram: Júlio Lapertosa 0 x 1 MF Álvaro Aranha Filho, Gabriel Ricardo Name 1 x 0 Fábio Trombini, Acyr Calçado 1 x 0 Tiago Oliveira, Sérgio Eduardo Oliveira 0 x 1 Evandro Barbosa, Marcel Heimar Utiyama 1 x 0 Eugênio Albaneze da Silva, Márcio Brandão 1 x 0 Marcos Vinicius Torsani e Jair Vicente Domingues 0 x 1 Luiz Guilherme Abdalla.

Cerimônia de encerramento teve início 18h45.

O Ouro Verde Tênis Clube recebeu excelente público no domingo que foi ensolarado até o meio da tarde, tanto nas piscinas, quadras esportivas e restaurantes como na platéia deste Aberto do Brasil. Equipe da TV Cultura local captou imagens e entrevistou jogadores, organização e árbitragem.

Mais informações:

Resultados e Fotos

Round 13 - Morelia Linares 2008

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Linares R13: Radjabov and Topalov win, Anand leads

07.03.2008 – Nothing changed at the top and at the bottom of the table – the gap was simply enlarged. After equaling with black Alexei Shirov suffered a painful blunder loss against Teimour Radjabov, while Peter Leko was outplayed by Veselin Topalov in a 48-move struggle. Anand remains in the lead, followed by Magnus Carlsen. Full report with pictures of the players in action.

Morelia-Linares 2008

The Morelia-Linares tournament is taking place from February 15th to 23rd February in Morelia, Mexico, and from 28th February to 7th March in Linares, Spain. The second half of the event runs from February 28th to March 7th, 2008. It is taking place in the Theatro Cervantes in the Centro Histórica de la Cuidad Linares. The rounds start at 16:00 local time (= CET, 20:30h Chennai, 18:00 Moscow, 15:00 GMT/London, 10 a.m. New York). You can find the starting time at your home location here.

Round thirteen report

Round 13: Thursday, March 6th
Vassily Ivanchuk	½-½	Vishy Anand
Teimour Radjabov	1-0	Alexei Shirov
Levon Aronian	½-½	Magnus Carlsen
Veselin Topalov	1-0	Peter Leko
Games – Report

The leaderboard stayed steady, but that’s not to say there wasn’t any action today.

Round thirteen, with the main tournament in the first row, the secondary GM event in the second

Let’s start with the leaders: Anand played the Najdorf against Ivanchuk and was possibly surprised by his opponent’s choice of 6.Bc4. Anand returned the favor with 6…Nc6, transposing to the Sozin Variation, and Ivanchuk didn’t seem to have anything special prepared against this. Anand equalized without much difficulty, and the game was drawn in just 23 moves.

Ivanchuk vs Anand, and in the background GM Julio Granda Zuniga (2588) playing Eduardo Iturrizaga (2470) in the final phase of the Iberoamericano tournament, which is being held parallel to the main event.

Ivanchuk,V (2751) - Anand,V (2799) [B86]
XXV SuperGM Morelia/Linares MEX/ESP (13), 06.03.2008
1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 a6 6.Bc4 e6 7.0-0 Be7 8.Bb3 Nc6 9.f4 Qc7 10.Kh1 0-0 11.f5 Nxd4 12.Qxd4 b5 13.fxe6 Bxe6 14.Bf4 Qc5 15.Qd3 b4 16.Ne2 d5 17.e5 Ne4 18.Be3 Qc7 19.Nf4 Qxe5 20.Bxd5 Bxd5 21.Nxd5 Rad8 22.Rad1 Bd6 23.Bf4 ½-½.

This gave Carlsen the chance to catch Anand with a win over Aronian, but that was never in the offing. White offered an interesting pawn sac in an old-fashioned line of the Queen’s Indian, but Carlsen’s 9…Bxd5 turned it into an exchange sacrifice for Black. The play from there through move 19 was more or less forced, and the question revolved around Black’s knight on c2. It’s stuck there, but it’s also restraining White’s rook on a2 – is the knight a strength or a weakness. The answer seems to be both, and in roughly equal measure.

Aronian,L (2739) - Carlsen,M (2733) [E17]
XXV SuperGM Morelia/Linares MEX/ESP (13), 06.03.2008
1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 b6 4.g3 Bb7 5.Bg2 Be7 6.Nc3 0-0 7.Qc2 c5 8.d5 exd5 9.cxd5 Bxd5 10.Nxd5 Nxd5 11.Nh4 Nb4 12.Qd2 N8c6 13.Nf5 Nd4 14.Nxd4 cxd4 15.Bxa8 Qxa8 16.0-0 Qe4 17.a3 Nc2 18.Ra2 Rc8 19.b3 Rc3 20.Bb2 Rc6 21.Rd1 Bf6 22.Qd3 d5 23.Qf3 h6 24.h4 g5 25.hxg5 hxg5 26.b4 Kg7 27.Qd3 b5 28.Bc1 ½-½.

When the players agreed to a draw White still hadn’t figured out what to do about the knight, but it hadn’t escaped, either. Play could have continued 28…Rc3 (this is forced, as White threatens 29.Bd2 followed by 30.Rc1, sending the steed to the glue factory) 29.Qxe4 (29.Qxb5?! d3!) dxe4 30.Bd2 Rc4 31.Rc1 d3 32.exd3 exd3 33.Rd1 (33.a4 Nd4) a6 (33…Re4? 34.Bc3!) 34.a4 Re4 35.axb5 axb5 36.Ra5 Re2 37.Kh1 Rxf2 38.Rxb5 Re2 39.Bxg5 Bxg5 40.Rg5+ Kf6 with equality, as Black’s d-pawn will let him regain the exchange.

It was a tough day for our cellar-dwellers, Shirov and Leko, who both lost, falling to minus 3.

Alexei Shirov (left) vs Teimour Radjabov

Radjabov,T (2735) - Shirov,A (2755) [B92]
XXV SuperGM Morelia/Linares MEX/ESP (13), 06.03.2008
1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 a6 6.Be2 e5 7.Nb3 Be7 8.Bg5 Be6 9.Bxf6 Bxf6 10.Qd3 Nc6 11.0-0-0 Nd4 12.Nxd4 exd4 13.Nd5 Bxd5 14.exd5 0-0 15.Qf3 Re8 16.Bd3 Re5 17.Kb1 Qa5 18.g4 Qxd5 19.Qxd5 Rxd5 20.f4

Shirov has completely equalized with black, and if he played 20…g5 (for example), the players could have agreed to a draw at any moment. 20...Bh4?? This leaves the black rook trapped after 21.b4, and the resulting exchange-up ending is easy for White to win. 21...Rc8 22.a4 Rc3 23.Kb2 f5 24.gxf5 Rxd3 25.cxd3 Rxf5 26.Rc1 Rxf4 27.Rhf1 Rxf1 28.Rxf1 Bd8 29.a5 1-0.

Topalov-Leko was a much harder fight, and Leko was outplayed a little at a time.

Veselin Topalov vs Peter Leko in round thirteen

Topalov,V (2780) - Leko,P (2753) [C88]
XXV SuperGM Morelia/Linares MEX/ESP (13), 06.03.2008
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 d5 10.exd5 Nxd5 11.c3 Qd7 12.Nxe5 Nxe5 13.Rxe5 Rad8 14.Qg4 f5 15.Qg3 Bf6 16.Re1 Kh8 17.Nd2 b4 18.Nf3 bxc3 19.d4 f4 20.Qg4 Qxg4 21.hxg4

21...g5. One improvement is 21…c5, when 22.bxc3 Nxc3 23.bxc5 Rfe8 24.Bb2 Ne2+ 25.Kf1 Bxb2 26.Rab1 Bxf3 27.gxf3 Bd4 28.Rxe2 Rxe2 29.Kxe2 Bxc5 leads to a drawn Sveshnikov Sicilian-like ending. In the game, White’s pieces are too active, especially once Topalov’s rooks make it to the 7th. 22.Ne5 Kg7 23.bxc3 Nxc3 24.Bb2 Nd5 25.Rac1 Rfe8 26.Ba3 Re6 27.Rc2 Be7 28.Bxd5 Bxd5 29.Rxc7 Re8 30.Rd7 Bxa2

31.Rc1! Much better than 31.Ra1, winning the a-pawn but leaving a very difficult technical task after 31…Bb3 32.Bxe7 R8xe7 33.Rxe7+ Rxe7 34.Rxa6 Bg8. 31...Kg8 32.Rcc7 Bf6 33.Nc6 Re1+ 34.Kh2 Be6 35.Rd6 Bg7 36.Ne7+ Kh8 37.Nf5 Bf8 38.Rxa6 Bxf5 39.Bxf8 Rxf8 40.gxf5 Kg8 41.f6 Re4 42.Rg7+ Kh8 43.Re7 Rxe7 44.fxe7 Re8 45.Ra7 Kg7 46.d5 Kf7 47.d6 Rb8 48.Rc7 1-0. Maybe with perfect play Leko could have held the ending, but as a practical matter it was nearly impossible.

Summary by Dennis Monokroussos of Chess Mind

Current standings

X World University Chess Championship 2008

Tatiane Coelho e o MI Krikor Mekhitarian disputam o Mundial Universitário que acontece na Sibéria (Que Fria!!!). O AI Renato Genovesi é o técnico.

Acompanhem pelo ClubedeXadrez, WUCC e pelo blog do MI Krikor Mekhitarian.

Jogos Online em : http://www.russiachess.org/online/

Round 12 - Morelia Linares 2008

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Linares R12: Carlsen mates Topalov, closes gap to Anand
04.03.2008 – The 17-year-old wonderboy from Norway has done it again. Magnus Carlsen got himself into a somewhat precarious situation, two pawns down, against the former FIDE world champion Veselin Topalov, but fought back to euqalise. Just when everyone was expecting a draw disaster struck and Topalov blundered. Full report with games, commentary and video.

Morelia-Linares 2008

The Morelia-Linares tournament is taking place from February 15th to 23rd February in Morelia, Mexico, and from 28th February to 7th March in Linares, Spain. The second half of the event runs from February 28th to March 7th, 2008. It is taking place in the Theatro Cervantes in the Centro Histórica de la Cuidad Linares. The rounds start at 16:00 local time (= CET, 20:30h Chennai, 18:00 Moscow, 15:00 GMT/London, 10 a.m. New York). You can find the starting time at your home location here.

Round twelve report

Round 12: Tuesday, March 4th
Vishy Anand	½-½	Peter Leko
Magnus Carlsen	1-0	Veselin Topalov
Alexei Shirov	½-½	Levon Aronian
Vassily Ivanchuk	½-½	Teimour Radjabov
Games – Report

The start of round twelve in Linares

World champion Viswanathan Anand continues to lead, but Magnus Carlsen has closed back to within half a point of first as we head for the last two rounds after tomorrow’s rest day.

Anand drew comfortably with Peter Leko, enjoying a slight, safe edge throughout on the white side of an Anti-Marshall. After his 20.Qxg5N hxg5 21.c4!, it looked like that advantage might become serious, thanks to Black’s weak pawns on g5 and c5, but Leko’s ingenious defense enabled him to hold the position. He had no choice but to give up a pawn, but he did so in a way that allowed his pieces to coordinate while Anand’s lost their harmony; the result was a draw.

Anand,V (2799) - Leko,P (2753) [C88]
XXV SuperGM Morelia/Linares MEX/ESP (12), 04.03.2008
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.Nc3 h6 11.a3 Bc5 12.Nd5 Nd4 13.Nxd4 Bxd4 14.c3 Bc5 15.Nxf6+ Qxf6 16.Be3 d6 17.Bxc5 dxc5 18.Re3 Re7 19.Qh5 Qg5 20.Qxg5 hxg5 21.c4

21...c6 22.Rg3 Rd8 23.Rc1 b4 24.axb4 cxb4 25.c5 a5 26.Ra1 Ba6 27.Rxa5 Bxd3 28.Rxg5 Kh7 29.Rg4 Be2 30.Rg3 Rd2 31.Ba4 Rc7 32.Rb3 Rd1+ 33.Kh2 Rd4 34.Re3 Rd2 35.b3 Ra2 36.Ra8 Bb5 37.Rb8 ½-½.

Levon Aronian, Armenia's top GM

If Aronian had won his game, he would have pulled within half a point of the leader, but he was rather fortunate to draw. Shirov found a tremendous improvement over his game with Leko from two rounds ago – not a new move (Aronian was the first to deviate from the earlier game, with 27…Rc8 instead of Leko’s 27…Bc4) but a new plan. Instead of meeting …Bc4 with b3, he put the pawn on a3, played 30.g4 to cement his knight on e4, and then prepared and executed the h4-h5-h6 advance. The result was that Black now had to worry about passed (or potentially passed) pawns on both sides of the board, and Shirov gradually achieved a winning position.

Shirov,A (2755) - Aronian,L (2739) [C89]
XXV SuperGM Morelia/Linares MEX/ESP (12), 04.03.2008
1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.0-0 Be7 6.Re1 b5 7.Bb3 0-0 8.c3 d5 9.exd5 Nxd5 10.Nxe5 Nxe5 11.Rxe5 c6 12.d3 Bd6 13.Re1 Bf5 14.Qf3 Qh4 15.g3 Qh3 16.Bxd5 cxd5 17.Qxd5 Rad8 18.Qg2 Qxg2+ 19.Kxg2 Bxd3 20.Be3 Rfe8 21.Nd2 b4 22.Bb6 Rxe1 23.Rxe1 Rb8 24.Ba5 bxc3 25.Bxc3 f6 26.Ne4 Bf8 27.f3 Rc8 28.Rd1 Bc4

29.a3 Bb5 30.g4 Bc6 31.Rd3 Re8 32.Rd4 Rb8 33.h4 Be7 34.h5 Rd8 35.Rc4 Bb5 36.Rc7 Rd7 37.Rxd7 Bxd7 38.h6 gxh6 39.Bxf6 Bf8 40.Bd4 Kf7 41.Kf2 Be7 42.Ke3 Bg5+ 43.f4 Bd8 44.Nd6+ Ke6 45.Nb7 Be7 46.f5+ Kf7 47.Kf4

I thought during the live commentary on Playchess that Black could force a draw with 47…Bc6, taking for granted that 48.Nc5 Bxc5+ (or 48…Bd6+ 49.Ke3 Bxc5) would lead to a draw. Not so: as GM Mikhail Golubev pointed out, White puts his bishop on h4, the pawn on f6, and then brings the king to the queenside, winning. 47...Bg5+ 48.Ke5 Ba4 49.Nd6+ Ke7 50.Ne4 Bd1 51.Bc5+ Kf7 52.b4 Bc1 53.Nd6+ Kg7 54.f6+ Kg6 55.f7 Bb2+ 56.Ke6 Bxg4+ 57.Ke7 Bf6+ 58.Ke8 Bf3

59.f8N+! Not 59.f8Q?? Bc6 mate! By now Shirov was winning, but Aronian’s tenacious defense and White inaccuracies on moves 61, 67 and 73 led to a draw. 59...Kh5 60.Kf7 Bb2 61.Nxh7 Bxa3 62.Nf6+ Kh4 63.Ke6 h5 64.Ke5 Be2 65.Nde4 Bc1 66.Nd5 Kg4 67.Ne3+ Kf3 68.Ng5+ Kg3 69.Ke4 Bb5 70.Bd6+ Kf2 71.Nh3+ Ke2 72.Nf4+ Kd2 73.Nxh5 Bd3+ 74.Kd5 Kc3 75.Nd1+ Kb3 76.Nf6 Bd2 77.Ne4 ½-½.

Alexei Shirov

Ivanchuk-Radjabov was a typical Sveshnikov Sicilian draw, where the opposite-colored bishops were more significant than Ivanchuk’s extra pawn.

Vassily Ivanchuk in round twelve

His opponent from Baku: Teimour Radjabov

Magnus Carlsen vs Veselin Topalov

The game of the day way 17-year-old Magnus Carlsen vs former FIDE world champion Veselin Topalov, both sharing 6.0/11 and a point behind the leader Vishy Anand. In the first half Magnus had defeated Topalov with the black pieces (in an Alekhine Defence), and the Bulgarian GM was itching for revenge.

Itching for revenge: Veselin Topalov

Carlsen achieved nothing from the opening, a reverse Sicilian, and his attacking plan with 19.Bg5, 20.Be3 and 21.f4 left him insufficient compensation for the sacrificed pawn.

Luck with an aggressive, enterprising playing style: Magnus Carlsen

Carlsen,M (2733) - Topalov,V (2780) [A28]
XXV SuperGM Morelia/Linares MEX/ESP (12), 04.03.2008
1.c4 e5 2.Nc3 Nf6 3.Nf3 Nc6 4.d3 d5 5.cxd5 Nxd5 6.e4 Nb6 7.Be2 Be7 8.0-0 0-0 9.a4 Be6 10.Be3 Nd7 11.d4 exd4 12.Nxd4 Nxd4 13.Qxd4 c6 14.a5 Nc5 15.Qe5 Nb3 16.Ra4 Bd6 17.Qh5 g6 18.Qh6 Be5 19.Bg5 Qc7 20.Be3 Nxa5 21.f4 Bg7 22.Qh4 Bb3

23.Rd4!? This second sacrifice probably could have been accepted, but Topalov’s safe 23...Rad8 sufficed for an advantage as well. 24.e5 Rxd4 25.Bxd4 c5 26.Be3 f6 27.Nb5 Qd8 28.f5. 28.e6 would have been interesting (28…Qe7 29.f5 gxf5 30.Rf3 is one possible continuation), but Carlsen’s move leads to complex play as well, again sacrificing material for activity and headhunting prospects. 28...fxe5 29.Bg5 Qb6

White is two pawns down and struggling to show what he has for them. Magnus Carlsen goes on the attack: 30.f6 c4+ 31.Kh1 Qxb5 32.fxg7 Rxf1+ 33.Bxf1

Topalov could have avoided perpetual check with 33…Qd7, though after 34.Bh6 Nc6 35.Bxc4+ Bxc4 36.Qxc4+ Qf7 37.Qc1 Black will have a hard time creating real winning possibilities. His move 33…Kxg7?! was safer – or should have been. 34.Bd8 Nc6?? Incredible: this allows a forced mate. 34…Qd5 more or less forces White to take a perpetual check: 35.Bxa5 Qxa5 36.Qe7+ etc. 35.Qf6+ Kg8 36.Qe6+ Kf8 37.Bg5 threatening 38.Bh6#, so 37...Kg7 38.Qf6+ Kg8 39.Bh6 followed by 40.Qg7 mate. 1-0.

Summary by Dennis Monokroussos of Chess Mind, pictures by Nadja Woisin