So, the high stress of the round two tie breaks is now behind us, and twelve of the top sixteen players have made it to the remaining sixteen pairings that make up round three. In a matter of a week the playing hall has been reduced from 64 tables to just sixteen – and looks a lot emptier than it did a couple of days ago.
We had 22 of
the 32 round one matches going through to tie breaks. Luckily nobody had to
face the gauntlet of the Armageddon game. However, of those 22 matches, 14 were
decided in the first phase of two rapid games consisting of 25’ + 10”. A
further 6 matches were concluded in the second phase of two rapid games
consisting of 10’ + 10”. That left two matches to be concluded in the third
phase of the tiebreak system that consisted of two blitz games of 5’ + 3”.
With round
two now completed, in addition to the two players from the top 16 seeds that
faltered in the classical games (see yesterday’s blog), Wei and Mamedyarov
stumbled in the tie breaks and are packing their bags. Before we analyse some
of the more interesting games from the tie breaks, let’s look at how each of
the top 16 seeded players scored in round one:
Magnus
Carlsen (1) beat Aleksey Dreev 2-0
Wesley So
(2) beat Matthias Bluebaum 4-2
Fabiano
Caruana (3) beat Luka Lenic 4-2
Vladimir
Kramnik (4) beat Anton Demchenko 1.5-0.5
Levon Aronian
(5)beat Yifan Hou 4-2
Shakhriyar
Mamedyarov (6) lost to Yuriy Kuzubov 1-3
Hikaru
Nakamura (7) beat Lazaro Bruzon Batista 2.5-1.5
Maxime
Vachier-Lagrave (8) beat Boris Grachev 1.5-0.5
Alexander Grischuk
(9) beat Jorje Cori 2.5-1.5
Viswanathan
Anand (10) lost to Anton Kovalyov 0.5-1.5
Liren Ding
(11) beat Martyn Kravtsiv2.5-1.5
Sergey
Karjakin (12) lost to Daniil Dubov 0.5-1.5
Anish Giri
(13) beat Alexander Motylev 4-2
Yi Wei (14)
lost to Richard Rapport 1.5-2.5
Ian Nepomniachtchi
(15) beat B. Adhiban 2.5-1.5
Svidler,
Peter (16) beat Viktor Erdos 2.5-1.5
Kuzubov,Yuriy (2688) - Mamedyarov,Shakhriyar (2797)
FIDE World Cup 2017
Tbilisi (2.4), 08.09.2017
1.e4 d6
2.d4 Nf6 3.Nc3 g6 4.f4 Bg7 5.Nf3 0–0 6.Bd3 Nc6 7.e5 Nh5 B09: Pirc Defence: Austrian Attack [7...dxe5 8.fxe5
Nd5 9.Nxd5 Qxd5 10.c3 Bg4 11.Qe2 Rad8 12.Be4 Qd7 13.Be3 f6 14.0–0–0 fxe5
15.Qc4+ Kh8 16.dxe5 Nxe5 17.Nxe5 Qxd1+ 18.Rxd1 Rxd1+ 1–0 (50) Karjakin,S
(2785)-Van Wely,L (2695) Wijk aan Zee 2017]
8.Be3 f6N
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[8...Bh6 9.Qd2 Bg4 10.0–0 Ng7 11.Ne2 e6 12.c3 f6 13.exd6 Qxd6 14.Ng3 Ne7 15.Ne4
Qc6 16.Nxf6+ Rxf6 17.Ne5 Nd5 18.Nxc6 bxc6 19.h3 Bf5 20.Be2 Be4 21.g4 Rf7 22.c4
1–0 (22) Ramnath,B (2405) -Karthikeyan,M (2497) Chennai 2015]
9.exf6 Nxf6 White
has an edge.
10.Qd2 Ng4 11.Bg1 Kh8 12.h3 Nf6 13.0–0–0 Nb4 14.g4 [14.Bc4²]
14...c6 15.Be2 Qa5 16.Bc4 b5 17.Bb3 Qc7 18.Ng5 d5 [18...Nbd5²]
19.Ne2
[19.a3±]
19...a5² 20.c3 a4 21.cxb4
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Hoping for Bc2. 21...axb3 22.a3! Ne4
23.Nxe4 dxe4 24.Bh2 Qb6 25.f5 [25.Qe3²]
25...gxf5³ 26.Be5 [26.gxf5³
Bxf5 27.Qg5]
26...Bxe5µ 27.dxe5 c5 [27...fxg4 28.hxg4 Qf2 29.Qg5= (29.Qh6
Qf7³) ]
28.Kb1 fxg4
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[28...e3!µ 29.Qc3 cxb4 30.Qxb4 Qe6]
29.hxg4
[29.e6!³]
29...Qg6! [Much less strong is 29...Bxg4 30.Qg5³]
30.Nf4
Qxg4 31.Rhg1
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[31.Qh2? Bf5µ] 31...e3 [31...Bf5!µ
White must now prevent ...e3+. 32.Ka1 (32.Rxg4? e3+ 33.Qd3 Rad8–+) 32...Qf3]
32.Qxe3= Qf5+ 33.Ka1! Be6! 34.Ng6+! [34.Nxe6 Qc2–+]
34...hxg6 35.Qh6+
Kg8 36.Rxg6+ Kf7 ( -> ...Rxa3+!)
37.Rg5
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White wants to mate with Qh5+. 37...Rxa3+!
38.bxa3 b2+! 39.Kxb2 Qf2+ 40.Kc1 Qe3+ 41.Rd2 Qxa3+ 42.Kd1 Qa1+ 43.Kc2 Qa2+
44.Kc1! Qa3+ 45.Kb1 Qxb4+ 46.Kc1 Qc3+ 47.Kb1 Qb4+ 48.Kc1 Qc4+ 49.Kb1 Qe4+
50.Kb2 Qh5+ would kill now.
50...Qb4+ 51.Kc1 Qc3+ 52.Kb1 Qb3+ 53.Kc1
Qc4+ 54.Kb1 Qe4+ 55.Kb2 White threatens Qh5+ and mate.
55...Qb4+ 56.Kc1
Qa3+ 57.Kb1 Qb3+ 58.Kc1 Qc3+ 59.Kb1 Qb3+ 60.Kc1 Qc4+ 61.Kb1 Qf1+? [61...Qb3+=
62.Kc1]
62.Kb2 Bf5
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63.e6+! Precision: White = 58%,
Black = 59%. 1–0
Aronian,Levon (2802) - Hou,Yifan (2670)
FIDE World Cup 2017
Tbilisi (2.6), 08.09.2017
1.d4 Nf6
2.Nf3 e6 3.c4 c5 4.e3 b6 5.Nc3 d6 6.Bd3 g6 E14:
Queen's Indian: Classical Variation (4 e3) [6...Be7 7.0–0 0–0 8.Re1 Nbd7 9.d5
e5 10.e4 Re8 11.g3 Nf8 12.Nh4 Bh3 13.Nf5 Qd7 14.Bc2 1–0 (30) Malaniuk,V
(2462)-Pechac,J (2530) Ceske Budejovice 2015]
7.d5 exd5N
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[Find
the theoretical novelty and annotate with similar games: 7...Bg7 8.h3 0–0 9.0–0
a6 10.e4 Nbd7 11.a3 Rb8 12.Bg5 h6 13.Be3 exd5 14.cxd5 1–0 (43) Ivanov,J
(2420)-Le Roux,J (2275) Guingamp 2001] 8.cxd5 Bg7 White is slightly
better.
9.e4 a6 10.a4 Bg4 11.h3 Bxf3! 12.Qxf3 0–0 13.0–0 Ne8 14.Bf4ƒ White
is pushing.
14...Qe7 15.Qg3 h6 16.Rae1 Nd7 17.Bc1 g5 [¹17...Qe5]
18.Nd1±
Ne5 19.Ne3 Ng6 20.Nf5 Qe5 21.Qxe5 Nxe5 22.Be2 Ng6 23.g3 Kh7 24.Kg2 Bf6 25.h4
gxh4 26.Bxh6 Ng7 27.Bxg7 Bxg7 28.b3
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[White
should try 28.Nxd6+- Threatens to win with Rh1. 28...hxg3 29.f4 (29.fxg3
Kg8+-) ]
28...hxg3 29.Kxg3 Bc3 30.Rd1 Rfe8 31.Bd3! b5 32.axb5 axb5 33.f4
c4 [33...Red8± 34.Bxb5 Kg8]
34.bxc4 bxc4
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35.Bxc4?
[35.Nxd6+-
cxd3 36.Nxe8 Rxe8 37.Rxd3]
35...Rxe4= 36.Nxd6 Re3+ [36...Rxf4!= keeps
the balance. 37.Rxf4 Be5 38.Nxf7 (38.Rh1+ Kg7=) 38...Bxf4+ 39.Kg4 Ra4]
37.Rf3
Be1+? [37...Rxf3+± 38.Kxf3 Ra4]
38.Kg4+- Rxf3 39.Kxf3 Ra3+ 40.Bd3!
Kg7
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41.Nc4! [But not 41.Rxe1?! Rxd3+
42.Ke4 Rd2±]
41...Rb3 42.d6 [Don't play 42.Rxe1?! Rxd3+ 43.Ke4 Rc3+-]
42...Bh4
43.Kg4 Bd8 44.Bxg6 Kxg6? Endgame KRB-KRN [44...fxg6 45.Ne5 Ra3]
45.Ne5+
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White is clearly winning. 45...Kg7 46.Nc6
Bf6 47.d7 Rb6 48.d8Q Bxd8 49.Nxd8 [And not 49.Rxd8 Rxc6 50.Rb8 Rg6+ 51.Kf5
Rf6+ 52.Ke5 Re6+ 53.Kf5 Rf6+ 54.Kg4 Rg6+ 55.Kf3 Re6=]
49...Kf8 50.Rc1 Rb8
51.Nc6 Rc8 52.Rc4 Precision: White = 66%, Black = 49%. 1–0
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