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I found Anand's treatment of the ending against Karjakin very instructive. At dinner Anand said he was looking for a 3 fold claim on his scoresheet, but had forgotten all about the 50 move rule, which was only 11 moves away when he pushed his h pawn in another drawing motif.
At the Presidential Board meeting today it was announced that the bidding deadline for the match has been extended to April 30. No bids have been received yet.
1 Anand Viswanathan 2770 IND 8½ 3 57,25
2 Karjakin Sergey 2766 RUS 7½ 3 51,75
3 Kramnik Vladimir 2787 RUS 7 3 49,25
4 Mamedyarov Shakh 2757 AZE 7 3 48,00
5 Andreikin Dmitry 2709 RUS 7 2 48,50
6 Aronian Levon 2830 ARM 6½ 3 45,00
7 Svidler Peter 2758 RUS 6½ 3 46,00
8 Topalov Veselin 2785 BUL 6 2 42,25
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Mamedyarov, who has been involved in some of the sharpest games of the previous rounds, decided to go in for the positional Qc2 line in the Nimzo-Indian. As he admitted at the post-game press conference, he was already feeling tired. Kramnik happily entered his pet line 7 ..dxc4. Instead of the common retreat 11. Qc2, white accepted trading the queens on move 11. The players commented afterwards that this exchange meant that the game was to be drawn.
Kramnik said that throughout the tourney he played unevenly and was unable to avoid fatigue-related blunders.
Mamedyarov said he does not say he is lucky or unlucky but he was able to pull himself together after the third round was pleased with his game.
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Having already qualified for the World Championship Match, Anand felt no pressure before his game with Svidler, but he still “didn’t want to finish a good tournament with a defeat”.
Anand allowed the Ruy Lopez Marshall Gambit, stating that he wanted to test the new ideas by Fabiano Caruana. Svidler in his turn followed the plan of Rustam Kasimdzhanov – 14…Qf6.
Many pieces were exchanged and white was hoping to further trade the rooks and play a B vs N endgame with pawns on both sides of the board. However, before he could do that, black succeeded in clearing all pawns from the queenside. Draw agreed on move 34.
Anand said at the press conference there were three games from this tournament that he will remember especially – the one with Andreikin with the possible rook sac, his first win over Aronian and the zugzwang game with Topalov.
The rook sac would have come about with this line: 41. Rc4 bxc4 42. Qxa3 Nc5 43. Rd5 Nd3 44. Qe7 Qb6 "and now I saw that every move attacking his queen allows Nb4 , Nxd5 and takes e7. And of course as soon as I go home, the computer instantly shows Rb5. It's a pity to miss it by one move."
Andreikin’s treatment of the Berlin Ruy Lopez was rather original as he quickly expanded with the pawns on kingside and in the center. It was a strategy with considerable risk and Topalov rushed to open up the play to exploit black’s weaknesses.
White managed to snatch a pawn but his own structure was slightly compromised. He proceeded to force the exchange of the rooks hoping that he could get something in the endgame with minor pieces. Topalov pressed for a long time but couldn’t do harm to Andreikin’s fortress.
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Aronian rarely plays 1.e4 but did here against Karjakin. Aronian got into time trouble and started to blunder things but ended up with a weak king. After the time control, Karjakin found the right plan and eventually, after seven hours, finished him off.
During the struggle there was a poem given the chat room on ChessBomb: Aronian's passion is rugged and raw / He is not satisfied with a draw! / Taking leave of his senses / He storms those defences / And attacks Karja's fist with his jaw.
From ChessVibes: “It was a very good second half for Karjakin, who went from minus two to plus one. “I'm happy. I showed good chess, I like it,” was his simple summary. Aronian, who even went to a minus score in the final round, said: “I didn't really play well. I can't really explain why I was making some of the decisions during the games. I hope I have been giving away all my losses and I won't lose more this year.”
The actual prize fund doesn't seem to be mentioned on the tournament website. The official regulations say: “The total minimum prize fund of the Candidates Tournament amounts to 420,000 euros. The amount is net and cleared of any local taxes. The money prizes shall be allocated as follows (minimum in euros): 1. € 95,000, 2. € 88,000, 3. € 75,000, 4. € 55,000, 5. € 40,000, 6. € 28,000, 7. € 22,000, 8. € 17,000.”
Since all prize money would be divided equally where players had the same score, if these are the actual prizes, the distribution would be:
The difference between a win and a loss for Aronian and Karjakin in the last round was € 63,000 - a pretty expensive game!”
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- Aronian lost 4 times ! incredible
- Topalov has had bad tournament. He was playing without his trainer who was not let into Russia. He overpushed many times here but of course he is WC caliber.
- Nigel Short had said that Anand should retire. And, where was that PERSON with GREAT INTELLECTUAL ABILITY at the time? Ans.: He was getting mauled even by non-GM players at The 19th International Open Grandmasters Chess Tournament 2014 in Kolkata where despite being the top seed, he finished a distant 12th, one full point behind the joint winners.
- It's just his opinion. Take it easy. Drink some tea.
- But Anand was amazingly solid : there was only one game out of 14 where he had a worse position. It was in the Karjakin game round 13, and he drew without difficulty
- No, Anand himself knew that he did not draw "without difficultly" against Karjakin. Karjakin missed important opportunities in that endgame, and it was not at all easy to defend!
And there was one other game where Anand was in big danger: it was the first round win against Aronian, when Aronian could launch a crushing attack, beginning with 13... Nf6. Obviously Aronian went for this sharp line without knowing or recognizing this key move. Black would have a sharp attack after that, which would have been hard to survive with white. Anand was just lucky that neither of the two players was aware of that.
- I wonder how superstitious Carlsen is. He refused to sign the Tal book last year, because Tal became world champion at the same age but lost it the next year to never regain it again. Now Carlsen has to play to previous champion again after just a year, just like Tal.
Last edited by Wayne Komer; Sunday, 30th March, 2014, 05:18 PM.
Karjakin finished with a nice result in the event. Watching some of the last round at one point I got the feeling Aronian was waiting for him to die. (A term we used to use at the club.) Speak of dragging out a game. Of course the previous round Karjakin's game against Anand also went a lot of moves with Karjakin pushing for a win.
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