GM Morozevich (2771) – GM Smeets (2601) [D11]
Corus A (7), 24.01.2009
1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.Nf3 Nf6 4.e3 Bg4 5.Qb3 Qb6 6.Nc3 e6 7.Nh4 Bh5 8.h3 g5 9.Nf3 h6 10.g4 Bg6 11.h4 Qxb3 12.axb3 Rg8 13.hxg5 hxg5 14.c5 Nxg4 15.b4 f6 16.b5 cxb5 17.Rg1 Nh6 18.Nxb5 Kd7 19.Rxa7 Rxa7 20.Nxa7 Nc6 21.Nxc6 bxc6 22.b4 Be7 23.Kd2 Be4 24.Ne1 g4 25.Kc3 f5 26.Nd3 Bh4 27.f4 gxf3 28.Rh1 Bg5 29.Ne5+ Kc7 30.Rh3 Ra8 31.Nxf3 Bxf3 32.Rxf3 Ra2 33.Rh3 Ng4 34.b5 cxb5 35.Bxb5 Rh2 36.Rxh2 Nxh2 37.Kd3 Ng4 38.Bd2 Bh4 39.Ba5+ Kc8 40.Be8 Nf6 41.Bf7 Kd7 42.c6+ Kxc6 43.Bxe6 Ne4 44.Bxf5 Nd6 45.Bg4 Nc4 46.Bc3 Nd6 47.Bf3 Bf2 48.Bd2 Nc4 49.Bxd5+ White wins 1–0
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Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
Boy, this really does not help Moron’s reputation of bottom feeding – beating up on the low-rated players, while getting creamed by high-rated ones.
Morozevich and Ivanchuk both need to do a ‘Topalov’, i.e. mow everyone down in the 2nd half of a tournament.
What a blunder of Smeets with his very last move. It looked very much draw to me.