Svidler just defeated Morozevich in an exciting game. It was the only decisive game today.
GM Svidler (2750) – GM Morozevich (2747) [C92]
Tal Memorial Moscow, Russia, 11.15.2006
1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.0-0 Be7 6.Re1 b5 7.Bb3 d6 8.c3 0-0 9.h3 Re8 10.Ng5 Rf8 11.Nf3 Bb7 12.d4 Re8 13.Nbd2 Bf8 14.d5 Nb8 15.Nf1 Nbd7 16.N3h2 Nc5 17.Bc2 c6 18.b4 Ncd7 19.dxc6 Bxc6 20.Bg5 Qc8 21.Ng3 h6 22.Bxf6 Nxf6 23.Bb3 a5 24.bxa5 Bd7 25.Qf3 Be6 26.Nf5 Kh7 27.Ng4 Nxg4 28.hxg4 Rxa5 29.Rad1 Ra6 30.Rd3 g6 31.Ne3 Kg7 32.Rb1 Be7 33.Qe2 Ra5 34.Rd2 Bg5 35.Rxd6 Bxb3 36.axb3 Qxc3 37.Nd5 Qc8 38.Rb6 Ra7 39.Rxb5 Qa6 40.Nb4 Qe6 41.Nd3 Qa6 42.Rd5 Rc7 43.b4 Qc4 44.Qe1 Qc2 45.Nc5 Rc6 46.Qd1 Qa2 47.Qb3 Qe2 48.Qd3 Qa2 49.b5 Rf6 50.Rf1 Ra8 51.Qb3 Qe2 52.Qd1 Qb2 53.Nd3 Qc3 54.Nxe5 Rxf2 55.Rxf2 Ra1 56.Rxf7+ Kg8 57.Rf1 Rxd1 58.Rfxd1 Qg3 59.Nf3 Be3+ 60.Kh1 Qxg4 61.Rd8+ Kg7 62.R1d7+ Kf6 63.Rf8+ Ke6 64.Rd5 Ke7 65.Rf7+ Ke8 66.Rh7 Qf4 67.Re5+ Kd8 68.Re6 Qg4 69.Rh8+ Kc7 70.b6+ Bxb6 71.Rc6+ Kb7 72.Rh7+ Ka8 73.Rxh6 Be3 74.Rh8+ Kb7 75.Rh7+ Kb8 76.Rf6 Bc5 77.Rff7 Qc8 78.Ne5 Bd6 79.Nc6+ Qxc6 80.Rh8+ White wins 1-0
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A fun game, but, overall, this tournament has been a big disappointment from a competitive standpoint.
The organizers mustn’t allow the draw offers…
Banning short draws is impractical; there are variations known forced-draws that pacifist GMs could resort to.
There are two better ways I can think of: 1) Don’t invite drawmaster GMs to tournaments. They’ll either have to change their style or not get any work. 2) Implement BAP scoring:
* Black win = 3 points
* White win = 2 points
* Black draw = 1 point
* White draw = 0 point
* Any loss = 0 points
That will cure “Drawitis” real fast. 🙂
I think we can now safely conclude that young Carlsen won’t ever be World Champion. His opening repertoire is one-dimensional and he loses in positional chess to these top grandmasters. He hasn’t won one single game and could have lost 2-3 more games. Leko missed Rxf3, off-form Morozevich didn’t take his chances and so on. Magnus will be a good player, but no World Champion potential.
I think we can now safely conclude that young Carlsen won’t ever be World Champion
That’s ridiculous. He’s 15! You can’t conclude anything yet.
Well, I predict that Carlsen won’t be world champion until he’s at least 20.
“That’s ridiculous. He’s 15! You can’t conclude anything yet.”
Uhm.. Magnus lacks positional understanding, therefore he can’t compete with these guys. Karjakin, who is Magnus’s age was already competing with these guys in Dortmund two years ago! Radjabov at Magnus’s age beat Kasparov with black and held him to draw with white. He also beat Anand with black!
Carlsen can out-calculate the lesser GMs, but against the top he comes short. Kramnik-Carlsen 12 game match would end +7 =5, 9.5-2.5 to Kramnik.
You need that something to be a special player, and unfortunately young Magnus lacks it.
Would love to see a western World Champion more than anything, but you need to be realistic and objective about this. Dreams are nice, but Soviet school still rules world chess.
Svidler just wake up after being label having a “lazy” tournament by Garry!
New point system:
* win = 1 points
* draw = 1/3 points
* loss = 0 points
or
New point system:
* win = 1 point
* draw = 1/4 point
* loss = 0 point
Magnus at 15?
Be serious you guys, Steinitz didn’t become world champion until he was 50 !
Unfortunately for you humans, you all develop at different rates, physically as well as mentally.
Fortunately for us Soviet state-of-the-art androids, we all roll off the assembly line at the same level of development, eliminating any uncertainty.
I am the Mir1000 model, complete with fully developed opening book, photographic memory (200 Gigabyte hard-wired), instant recall, and merely require period cleaning and recharging. I do not make mistakes, yet to the untrained eye I seem perfectly human.
Uhm.. Magnus lacks positional understanding, therefore he can’t compete with these guys.
Well, for a start he is competing. It’s his first tournament at this level, and he’s the lowest rated player there. So he’s not doing that bad.
More importantly, there is still plenty of time for him to develop.
He might become world champion. He might not. But you can’t draw conclusions yet. I’m sure plenty of previous world champions didn’t look the finished article at this age.