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Tata Steel Tournament 2012 / Round 5

 
Tata Steel Tournament 2012 / Round 5
Vassily Ivanchuk won on the black side of a Pirc Defense.  Gashimov flexed his central Pawns and got ground up in a very well played game by Ivanchuk.

Vugar Gashimov

Tata Steel Tournament 2012 / Round 5

Vassily Ivanchuk Tata Steel Tournament 2012 / Round 5

Tata Steel Tournament 2012 / Round 5 Boris Gelfand won his first game today against Sergey Karjakin and Nakamura took out David Navara.

2 Responses to Tata Steel Tournament 2012 / Round 5

  • DoughBoy says:

    [Event "74th Tata Steel Chess Tournament"]
    [Site "Wijk aan Zee/The Netherlands"]
    [Date "2012.01.19"]
    [Round "5"]
    [White "Karjakin, Sergey"]
    [Black "Gelfand, Boris"]
    [Result "0-1"]
    [ECO "B90"]
    [WhiteElo "2769"]
    [BlackElo "2739"]
    [PlyCount "88"]
    [EventDate "2012.??.??"]

    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 Rc8 14. O-O-O Nxd4 15. Bxd4 Qa5 16. Qf2 Rc6 17. g3 O-O 18. f4 Nd7 19. h4 g4 20. Nd5 Bxd5 21. exd5 Rc5 22. Bxg7 Kxg7 23. Kb1 Rxd5 24. Rxd5 Qxd5 25. Bg2 Qc5 26. Qe2 Nf6 27. Qxe7 b5 28. Qb7 Re8 29. Rc1 Qf2 30. Bd5 Nxd5 31. Qxd5 Re1 32. Qxd6 Qxg3 33. Qd4+ Kg8 34. b3 Rxc1+ 35. Kxc1 Qxh4 36. Kd2 g3 37. Ke3 Qg4 38. Qd8+ Kg7 39. Qd4+ Kg8 40. Qd8+ Kh7 41. Qd3+ Qg6 42. Kf3 g2 43. Qxg6+ Kxg6 44. Kxg2 b4 0-1

  • DoughBoy says:

    [Event "74th Tata Steel Chess Tournament"]
    [Site "Wijk aan Zee/The Netherlands"]
    [Date "2012.01.19"]
    [Round "5"]
    [White "Nakamura, Hikaru"]
    [Black "Navara, David"]
    [Result "1-0"]
    [ECO "A22"]
    [WhiteElo "2759"]
    [BlackElo "2712"]
    [PlyCount "67"]
    [EventDate "2012.??.??"]

    1. c4 e5 2. Nc3 Nf6 3. g3 d5 4. cxd5 Nxd5 5. Bg2 Nb6 6. e3 c5 7. Nge2 Nc6 8. O-O Be7 9. f4 exf4 10. Nxf4 O-O 11. b3 Bf5 12. Bb2 Qd7 13. Ne4 Rad8 14. Rf2 Nb4 15. Qf1 Bxe4 16. Bxe4 N6d5 17. Nh5 g6 18. a3 Na6 19. Bxd5 Qxd5 20. Bf6 Qd6 21. Bxe7 Qxe7 22. Nf6+ Kg7 23. Qc4 Qe5 24. Raf1 h5 25. Nxh5+ Qxh5 26. Rxf7+ Rxf7 27. Rxf7+ Kh6 28. Qf4+ g5 29. Qf6+ Qg6 30. Qf1 Qh5 31. Rxb7 c4 32. Qf6+ Qg6 33. Qxd8 Qb1+ 34. Kf2 1-0

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