18TH AMBER BLINDFOLD AND RAPID TOURNAMENT Monday 16 March Round III 14.30 Blind Radjabov-Morozevich ½ – ½ Karjakin-Kramnik ½ – ½ Wang Yue-Topalov 0 – 1 16.00 Blind Anand-Carlsen 0 – 1 Aronian-Kamsky 1 – 0 Leko-Ivanchuk 1 –...
Morozevich 1-0 Ivanchuk
GM Morozevich (2771) – GM Ivanchuk (2779) [D10]Corus A (13), 01.02.2009 1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.e3 a6 5.Nf3 b5 6.b3 Bg4 7.Bd2 e6 8.h3 Bxf3 9.Qxf3 Ba3 10.Bd3 0–0 11.0–0 Nbd7 12.Rad1 Rc8 13.Qe2 Re8 14.c5 Bb4...
Morozevich finally scores
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...
Movsesian wins, Morozevich loses again
GM Movsesian (2751) – GM Morozevich (2771) [B19]Corus A (6), 23.01.2009 1.e4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 dxe4 4.Nxe4 Bf5 5.Ng3 Bg6 6.h4 h6 7.Nf3 Nd7 8.h5 Bh7 9.Bd3 Bxd3 10.Qxd3 e6 11.Bd2 Ngf6 12.0–0–0 Be7 13.Rhe1 0–0 14.Qe2 a5...
Dominguez scores 1st win at Corus
GM Dominguez (2717) – GM Morozevich (2771) [B90]Corus A (5), 22.01.2009 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 a6 6.Be3 e5 7.Nb3 Be6 8.Qd2 Nbd7 9.f3 b5 10.0–0–0 Rc8 11.g4 Nb6 12.g5 b4 13.Na4 Nxe4 14.fxe4 Nxa4...
Kamsky’s masterpiece at Corus
GM Kamsky (2725) – GM Morozevich (2771) [C78]Corus A (3), 19.01.2009 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.0–0 b5 6.Bb3 Bc5 7.c3 d6 8.a4 Rb8 9.axb5 axb5 10.d3 0–0 11.h3 Ne7 12.Na3 Ng6 13.Nc2 h6 14.Re1 Bb6...
Morozevich 1-0 van Wely
GM Morozevich (2771) – GM van Wely (2625) [D97]Corus A (2), 18.01.2009 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 d5 4.Nf3 Bg7 5.Qb3 dxc4 6.Qxc4 0–0 7.e4 a6 8.Qb3 c5 9.dxc5 Qc7 10.Qb6 Qxb6 11.cxb6 Nbd7 12.Be2 Nxb6 13.Be3 Nbd7 14.Nd4...
Explosive victory by Karjakin over Morozevich
GM Karjakin (2706) – GM Morozevich (2771) [B48]Corus – Group A, 17.01.2009 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 e6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nc6 5.Nc3 Qc7 6.Be3 a6 7.Qd2 Nf6 8.0–0–0 Be7 9.f3 0–0 10.g4 b5 11.g5 Ne8 12.h4 Ne5 13.Kb1 Bb7 14.h5...
Never seen a united team
Morozevich Interview Below is a (translated by Chess Today) quote from the interview of Alexander Morozevich for Radio Mayak: “I have been playing for about 10 years on the [Russian] national team, and have never seen a united team....
The Houdini Escape
This was the actual position in the Morozevich – Maslak game in the final round of the 2008 Russian Championship. White just played 48.Re1. Black had a knockout punch move here. Can you find it? Black missed it and...