Final position
Ivanchuk has been on a roll lately. Today, he lost because he pushed too hard.
GM Ivanchuk (2787) – GM Radjabov (2746) [E62]
09.10.2007
1.c4 g6 2.g3 Bg7 3.Bg2 Nf6 4.Nc3 0–0 5.d4 d6 6.Nf3 c6 7.0–0 Qb6 8.Re1 Bg4 9.h3 Bxf3 10.Bxf3 Nfd7 11.e3 Na6 12.Rb1 e5 13.d5 c5 14.e4 Qd8 15.h4 Nc7 16.Kg2 f5 17.Bg5 Bf6 18.Bd2 Qe7 19.Qe2 f4 20.Rh1 Rf7 21.Rh3 Raf8 22.Rbh1 a6 23.b3 Kh8 24.a3 g5 25.h5 h6 26.Bg4 Bg7 27.Bf5 b5 28.g4 b4 29.Na4 a5 30.Ra1 Rb8 31.Rhh1 Rff8 32.Ra2 Rb7 33.Rha1 Rfb8 34.axb4 axb4 35.Nb2 Nb6 36.Nd3 Nc8 37.Ra5 Qe8 38.Nxe5 dxe5 39.Rxc5 Bf8 40.Rca5 Ne7 41.f3 Qf7 42.R1a4 Nxf5 43.exf5 Kg8 44.Qxe5 Re8 45.Qd4 Qe7 46.Qf2 Qe2 47.Ra1 Qd3 48.Re1 Qxb3 49.Rxe8 Nxe8 50.Ra8 Re7 Black wins 0–1
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Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
I read an interesting article about ivanchuk. it talked about anand saying ivanchuk is the strangest guy on the chess circuit and that the players say hes from planet chucky. it goes on to say he spends alot of his time at the board staring into space and not even looking at the board. apparently during one much in the 80’s hed make a move then run down the hall do some sprints then come back to make another move. lmao.
Susan, when you make a remark like “Ivanchuk defeats self”, don’t you think you should say why for the sake of those who don’t have a clue about what you mean?
I agree that he was over-confidant. He can’t expect to roll over someone of Radjabov’s strength the way he has with other players.
I got no idea, why 38…dxe5 is better than Bxe5, which I would have played without hesitation. Can anyone help me out here?
Marco, 38…Bxe5 looks good to me too.
It is possible that the game moves were not relayed correctly. There were problems with that for a number of games during the event. For example, the moves being relayed for a game of Magnus Carlsen from the official site to ICC were so obviously ridiculous that ICC aborted the relay. There may have been problems with some of the DGT boards.
On move 24 instead of a3 why not g4 instead?
Anonymous Oct. 10, 9:16 AM here again. It turns out there WAS a relay error. The correct move sequence was 38 Nxc5 (not Nxe5) dxc5 39 Rxc5, which is clearly more reasonable. According to notes I saw, White was doing well after that until Qxe5?, which gave away the game at once.