Position after 22…Rg5
GM Kramnik (2788) – GM Shirov (2741) [D47]
18.08.2008 – Tal Memorial – Round 1
1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 c6 4.e3 Nf6 5.Nf3 Nbd7 6.Bd3 dxc4 7.Bxc4 b5 8.Bd3 Bb7 9.a3 b4 10.Ne4 Nxe4 11.Bxe4 bxa3 12.0–0 Bd6 13.Nd2 Qc7 14.Nc4 Bxh2+ 15.Kh1 Nb6 16.Nxb6 axb6 17.g3 Bxg3 18.fxg3 Qxg3 19.Qh5 Ra5 20.Qxf7+ Kd8 21.Bg2 Rg5 22.Qf3 White is better in this position.
Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
It always puzzles me to see how these seemingly quiet e3-approaches develop into such kind of positions. Amazing.
That must be some serious personal restriction. Even a caveman won’t be puzzled by the meanings of traffic lights more than once or twice.
Is the game still ongoing?
Shirov lost to Kramnik again – as I predicted. No surprise there. Pathetic sac.
Pathetic anonymous confirmation of an anonymous prediction.
Yeah, such remarks are just plain ridiculous. Had Shirov succeeded everybody would have praised him for his ingenuity and boldness, he just missed something in his calculations. Maybe he got inspired by Topalov’s Nxf7 against Kramnik, which in later top level encounters failed to succeed.