Anand’s draw with Black is logical. He does not need to take risk because he has decent lead. 1/2 point will bring him closer to the title.
Svidler, P (2735) – Anand, V (2792) [C88]
1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.0-0 Be7 6.Re1 b5 7.Bb3 0-0 8.h3 Bb7 9.d3 Re8 10.a4 h6 11.axb5 axb5 12.Rxa8 Bxa8 13.c3 Bf8 14.d4 d6 15.d5 Na5 16.Ba2 c6 17.Na3 Qc7 18.Qe2 cxd5 19.Nxb5 Qd7 20.exd5 Bxd5 21.Bxd5 Nxd5 22.Rd1 Nf6 1/2-1/2
Kramnik played a brilliant game to defeat Leko. He even sacrificed an exchange. Leko overlooked 28.Qf7 and game over.
Kramnik, V (2769) – Leko, P (2751) [E06]
1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.g3 d5 4.Bg2 Be7 5.Nf3 0-0 6.0-0 dxc4 7.Qc2 a6 8.Qxc4 b5 9.Qc2 Bb7 10.Bd2 Be4 11.Qc1 Qc8 12.Bg5 Nbd7 13.Qf4 Bb7 14.Rc1 Bd6 15.Qh4 h6 16.Bxf6 Nxf6 17.Nbd2 Re8 18.e4 Nd7 19.Nb3 a5 20.Nc5 Be7 21.Qf4 e5 22.Nxe5 Nxe5 23.dxe5 Bg5 24.Qf3 Bxc1 25.Rxc1 Rxe5 26.Qc3 f6 27.Qb3+ Kh8 28.Qf7 Bc6 29.Nd3 Re6 30.Nf4 Rd6 31.Ng6+ Kh7 32.e5 fxe5 33.Bxc6 Rf6 34.Qd5 Qf5 35.Bxa8 Qxf2+ 36.Kh1 Qxb2 37.Qc5 Kxg6 38.Be4+ Kh5 39.Rb1 1-0
Morozevich and Grischuk engaged in a very intensive game but at the end, Morozevich just played a little more precised.
Morozevich, A (2758) – Grischuk, A (2726) [A28]
1.c4 Nf6 2.Nc3 e5 3.Nf3 Nc6 4.d3 d5 5.cxd5 Nxd5 6.e4 Nf6 7.Be2 Bg4 8.0-0 Bxf3 9.Bxf3 Nd4 10.g3 Bc5 11.Bg2 0-0 12.Na4 Bb6 13.Be3 Qd6 14.f4 Nd7 15.Kh1 Rad8 16.Rc1 Nc6 17.Nxb6 axb6 18.Rc3 Nc5 19.a3 Nxd3 20.Qc2 Nc5 21.Bxc5 bxc5 22.Rxc5 Rfe8 23.Rd5 Qe7 24.Qb3 exf4 25.Qxb7 Rxd5 26.exd5 Nd4 27.Rxf4 Qc5 28.Rf1 g6 29.Qa6 Re2 30.d6 cxd6 31.b4 Qc2 32.Qxd6 Nf5 33.Qd8+ Kg7 34.Qd5 Qb2 35.g4 Rd2 36.Qf3 Nd6 37.h3 f5 38.Qg3 Qc2 39.gxf5 Nxf5 40.Rxf5 Rxg2 41.Qe5+ Kh6 42.Qe3+ 1-0
Gelfand seems to have Aronian’s number. Levon played a wild game with g4 and h4 in front of his King. The critical moment came on move 20…Nb6. That was the only move to give Black a better game and he found it.
Aronian, L (2750) – Gelfand, B (2733) [D43]
1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.Nf3 Nf6 4.Nc3 e6 5.Bg5 h6 6.Bxf6 Qxf6 7.e3 Nd7 8.Bd3 dxc4 9.Bxc4 g6 10.0-0 Bg7 11.Rc1 0-0 12.Ne4 Qe7 13.Bb3 Rd8 14.Qc2 e5 15.Rfe1 Kh8 16.g4 Rf8 17.g5 f5 18.gxf6 Bxf6 19.Kg2 Bg7 20.h4 Nb6 21.dxe5 Bg4 22.Ned2 Nd7 23.e6 Ne5 24.Nh2 Qxh4 25.f4 Bf5 26.Ne4 Qh3+ 27.Kg1 Nf3+ 28.Nxf3 Qxf3 29.Ng5 hxg5 30.Qh2+ Qh5 31.Qxh5+ gxh5 32.e7 Rfe8 33.Rc5 Bg4 34.Rxg5 Rxe7 35.Kg2 Bf6 36.Rg6 Rf8 37.e4 Bf5 38.Rh6+ Kg7 39.Rxh5 Bxe4+ 40.Kh2 Bd5 0-1
would like to see these games annotated by some grand master! I’m sure all the blog readers would agree.
All games are being annoted by GM Mihail Marin on http://www.chessbase.com/ about a day after being played.
Try Shipov/Rybka at chessok.com
If you read Russian (I don’t), crestbook and chesspro are supposed to be even better.
Kramnik boring, Aronian unbeatable with white, bla, bl, b
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who else better thant Susan herself? . . . but I guess she’s too busy with all the coverage.
Thanks for the hard work
chessdom.com
has some annotation, too…
or, perhaps, the uscf page or twic page?