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Tata Steel Tournament 2012 / Round 8

Published January 22, 2012 | By DoughBoy

 by National Life Master Loal Davis

 
There was an astounding draw in the 8th round between Fabiano Caruana and Vassily Ivanchuk.  Click on the Diagram to step through this (wild) annotated game.

r4rk1/pbqR1pp1/1p2pn1p/4N3/2B5/7P/PPP1QPP1/3R2K1 b KQkq – 0 18[Event "74th Tata Steel Chess Tournament"] [Site "Wijk aan Zee/The Netherlands"] [Date "2012.01.22"] [Round "8"] [White "Caruana, Fabiano"] [Black "Ivanchuk, Vassily"] [Result "1/2-1/2"] [ECO "C10"] [WhiteElo "2736"] [BlackElo "2766"] [PlyCount "47"] [EventDate "2012.??.??"]1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Bg5 dxe4 5. Nxe4 Nbd7 6. Nf3 h6 7. Nxf6+ Nxf6 8. Bh4 c5 9. Bc4 cxd4 10. O-O { A typical delayed recapture of the ‘d5′ Pawn; White hopes to take it with a Rook.} Be7 11. Qe2 Nd7 12. Bxe7 Qxe7 13. Rad1 O-O 14. Rxd4 { White has got to be better here but a win is something else/more.} Nf6 15. Rfd1 b6 16. Ne5 Qc7 17. h3 (17. Bb5 { looks better and appears to maintain a grip on the position. It is very hard for Black to get his pieces out of the box.} ) Bb7 18. Rd7 { A daring stab that comes within a gnat’s wisker of winning.} Qc8 (Nxd7 19. Rxd7 Qc8 20. Bxe6 fxe6 21. Qg4 { forces Black to part with his Queen.} ) 19. Nxf7 { Another rapier thrust. If there is a win in the sequel here I don’t see it – but I would love for there to be a forced win.} Nxd7 (Rxf7 20. Qxe6 { is lights out.} ) 20. Nxh6+ { Very pretty – but a win?} ( { I believe} 20. Qxe6 { still leaves White with some compensating pressure – attacking the Knight on ‘d7′ and multiple exposed attacks against the black King.} ) Kh7 (gxh6 21. Qxe6+ Kg7 22. Rxd7+ Qxd7 23. Qxd7+ Kf6 24. Qe6+ (24. Qxb7 { is also good.} ) Kg7 25. Qe7+ Kg6 (Kh8 26. Bd3 ) 26. Bd3+ Rf5 27. g4 { and there are multiple ways for Black to slip into the abyss.} ) 21. Qh5 Nf6 { Moving the ‘g’ Pawn allows Bd3. Here they agreed to a draw. White has a perpetual check with} 22. Bd3+ Kh8 23. Nf7+ Kg8 24. Nh6+ { etc. A beautiful style game. A win would have been nice – alas – it was not in the cards.} 1/2-1/2350nod4d7

Giri attempted a rash counter attack at move 17 against Gashimov; Qe3 was rational.  Another mistake on move 31 let Black crash through (See Comments).  I’ve seen much better from Giri; perhaps tired and/or the strain of a long tough tournament.

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2 Responses to Tata Steel Tournament 2012 / Round 8

  • DoughBoy says:
    January 22, 2012 at 12:42 pm

    [Event "74th Tata Steel Chess Tournament"]
    [Site "Wijk aan Zee/The Netherlands"]
    [Date "2012.01.22"]
    [Round "8"]
    [White "Giri, Anish"]
    [Black "Gashimov, Vugar"]
    [Result "0-1"]
    [ECO "B94"]
    [WhiteElo "2714"]
    [BlackElo "2761"]
    [PlyCount "76"]
    [EventDate "2012.??.??"]

    1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 a6 6. Bg5 Nbd7 7. Bc4 Qa5 8. Qd2 e6 9. O-O-O b5 10. Bd5 b4 11. Bxa8 bxc3 12. bxc3 Qxa2 13. Qe2 Be7 14. Kd2 Nxe4+ 15. Qxe4 Bxg5+ 16. f4 d5 17. Ra1 Qxa1 18. Rxa1 dxe4 19. fxg5 h6 20. g6 f5 21. Nxe6 Ke7 22. Nf4 Rd8 23. Bd5 Nb6 24. c4 Nxc4+ 25. Kc3 Ne3 26. Bf7 Rd6 27. Ra5 Bd7 28. Re5+ Kf6 29. Rc5 Kg5 30. g3 Nf1 31. h4+ Kg4 32. Rd5 Rxd5 33. Nxd5 Kxg3 34. Nf6 e3 35. Bc4 Bb5 36. Nh5+ Kf2 37. Nxg7 Bxc4 38. Kxc4 e2 0-1

  • Bart7 says:
    January 22, 2012 at 7:55 pm

    ….went through the game
    ..Great Post !
    thnx :grin:

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