Sunday, September 16, 2007

[Chess_General_Discussion] World Chess Championship round 2

As expected, things heated up somewhat for this round.

Kramnik played the open Catalan against Morozevich and offered a pawn
with the novelty 8.0-0 (normal is 8.Bd2). Kramnik then sacrifices a
knight with 13.exd5 and acquired a passed pawn on the c-file with a
very strong light-squared bishop defending it, and a complicated
position was the result. Morozevich missed the defensive plan of
16...Rb7 which prevents the advance of White's dangerous c-pawn. After
16...d3, Kramnik played the intermediary 17.c7! exposing an attack on
the rook at a8 and attacking the knight on b8. Exchanging off the
queens gives White an easy won ending an exchange up. Morozevich tried
to mess things up with 17...Qd4, but after 18.Qa4 Black may not
capture the rook on a1, because after 19.Qxb4, bearing down on the f8
rook, Black cannot deal with all of the threats. For example, if
19...Nd7, 20.Bxa8 Rxa8 21.Qe4! attacking both Rook on a8 and Bishop on
e6. The passed c-pawn is still a menacing threat as well. 18...Nd7,
19.Be3 Qd6 20.Bxa8 Rxa8 21.Bf4 Qf8 22.b6 and now it's just a matter of
technique with White's connected passed pawns. If 22...Nxb6 23.Qc6
wins a piece.

I put the games up for web viewing here:
http://members.shaw.ca/winnipeg_chess/wcc_2007.htm

For those of you with a .pgn game viewer who just want the .pgn files.
http://www.members.shaw.ca/winnipeg_chess/wcc_2007.pgn

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[Chess_General_Discussion] World Chess Championship round 1 [All Games Drawn]

I put the games up for web viewing here:
http://members.shaw.ca/winnipeg_chess/wcc_2007.htm

Bookmark that url because I'll be adding the games as they are played
during the course of the tournament. If that link isn't working for
you, it's because you don't have java installed on your computer.

For those of you with a .pgn game viewer who just want the .pgn files.
They are available for download here:
http://www.members.shaw.ca/winnipeg_chess/wcc_2007.pgn

I will be adding analysis and commentary to selected games.

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[Chess_General_Discussion] World Chess Championship round 1 [All Games Drawn]

Anand - Gelfand was a Petroff that ended in a short draw. Looks like
Vishy wasn't in the mood to fight today. Hopefully that will change as
the tournament progresses.

Kramnik - Svidler looked like it was going to promise some fireworks,
as the Botvinnik variation of the semi-slav was defined (5.Bg5), but
instead of going in for complications by playing 6.Bh4, Kramnik chose
the safer, but less ambitious exchange line 6.Bxf6. This game was
short and sweet as well and a draw was agreed upon after move 23.

Morozevich - Aronian was a Queen's Indian defense (nobody seems to be
allowing the Nimzo Indian these days). Morozevich went into the
endgame a pawn up, but Aronian characteristically defended well and
this game ended in a draw also after 25 moves.

Grischuk - Leko was a Ruy Lopez in which Peter seemed interested in
playing a Marshall Attack after 7...0-0. But Grischuk avoided this
invitation it with the safe 8.h3 and yet ANOTHER short draw was the
result.

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