White is Kramnik. Black is Anand. It is Black to move. At first look, it seems that Anand is in trouble. Can Anand save this game?
Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
Susan Polgar
March 16, 2008
Chess Improvement, Chess Puzzles, General News, Major Tournaments
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1- … Rh1+
2- BXh1 Qh2+
3- Kf1 QXh1+
4- Ke2 Qe4+
5- Kd2 Qd4+
6- Ke2 Qe4+
and draw.
If Ke1 or Kd1, Rh1+ will return the King to where he is stuck.
BIG BIG VICTORY for ANAND
Qf3!!!
Kramnik resigned as mate is unavoidable even if he sacs his queen and rooks.
Anand is awesome!!!
Fantastic, fantastic!
Yup, Black in big trouble, you’re right as always. Ooops, I just noticed the solutions upstairs. Why does White have doubled rooks behind his doubled pawns, shouldn’t rooks be on open files?? This chess is confusing, give us something lighter.
A fantastic win by Anand. It is hard to believe that you have to through your queen to the lion and that was well planned and done with coolness!
curiously reminiscent of Kramnik’s recent loss to Carlsen
Qf3 is a nice move; I found the draw with Rh1+ always immediately and didn’t search on…. damn. 😉
I was very surprised then to read here about Qf3 winning…
Wow.
Regards
Jochen
Save the game??? Anand never goes for a win….at best he would go for the draw. No wonder he is know as Mr Draw.
Finally we see that that anonymus wants to fool us with his poor comments about “mr.draw”.
I am happy, and I look forward to both – Bonn and Dresden for i am german and will join the Championship and the Olympiad visiting there!
okay
stupid comment from “anonymous” defaming anand…well let me tell u that he is THE AMICABLE GENIUS…as far as mr.draw u don’t need to look beyond kramnik,leko for perfect fits..WOW what a game..no one can come close to competing anand in rapids…HAIL KING ANAND!!
wonderful game..truly Anand is a genius world champion!! I agree that kramnik is “mr.draw”
Kinda reminds me of Marshall’s Qg3(!!), the queen right into the fire.
Qg3, and the toilet loses!
Pass it on!
How about calling Krmanik ‘Toilet king’?
Anand, Kramnik, an Topalov all play towards draws. Their games are just plain boring.
Anand? Kramnik? Topalov? All weaklings, hat can be defeated by a computer engine. Go Fritz!!! Humans should stop playing lousy chess altogether.
1…Qf4!
2.cxb7+ Kf5
3.Qb6+ Kf6
Fritz says mate in 19 for black! I have no idea how people can see this? Maybe Susan can give us some insight on how a grand masters mind works? This is crazy.
1. Qb6 Qf3
2. cxb7+ Kf5
3. Qe6+ Kxe6
4. Re1+ Kf5
5. Re5+ Kxe5
6. b8=Q+ Rxb8
7. Rc1 Rbh8
8. Re1+ Kf4
9. Re4+ dxe4
10.Bxf3 exf3
11.a5 Rh1#0-1
My Fritz found it in 11 moves. I have to agree with you. I don’t know how a grand master can see this. Some sort of bizarre mind bending exercise. There must be some university in the world that has done extensive tests on a grand masters brain. Does anyone know?
Fritz is stupid. Rybka, Toga and Fruit offers Qf3 after a second of thinking. The first offered move is Rh1+, but a second after that the main line changed to Qf3.
After 1… Qf3 2. cxb7+ Kf5 the position is totally lost for white.
Good job, Anand!
Nothing new here ,this has been played before in Brinckmann-Alekhine Triberg 1921 , Szabo-Bakonyi Budapest 1951 and in a few other games.