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The draw between Hou and So was their 4th consecutive long draw (the shortest being 47 moves!) in 4 career encounters. Neither Giri nor So have beaten Hou in 10 chances now.
Despite being in a 4-way tie for 3rd-6th, Carlsen remains the prohibitive betting favourite to win Tata Steeel. Radoslav Wojtaszek obviously has found some betting supporters since he's at lower odds than the tournament leader, Vassily Ivanchuk (:
MVL would seem to 'own' both the Chinese GMs in the Masters section of Tata Steel. He's plus 4, minus zero, with 1 draw against Yifan Hou and after today's win against Ding Liren, MVL stands plus 5, minus 1, equal 2 against China's highest rated GM. MVL is a perfect 3/3 against Ding's Caro-Kann albeit Ding certainly missed some winning chances today in one of the most exciting Caro-Kanns I've had the pleasure of witnessing. After 17 moves, which Ding played in negative time, Ding had an hour advantage on the clock but had to go into a deep think after MVL's 'red' move, 18.Nf6. Perhaps MVL was well served by not playing a stronger move since Ding soon squandered all his time advantage. I'd even likely forego the wont ?/?! after said move since it clearly took Ding out of prep (:
(Jan Gustafsson (tweet)) - 12...f5 turned Fab-MC from a quiet game into a barfight. 13.bxc5 f4 14.Bd2 bxc5 15.Na4 and Black better be quick!
(Tarjei Svensen (tweet)) Carlsen winning after Caruana's 31. Kf1?? Seirawan: "We are struggling to find a way to see a way for white to struggle on."
(Tarjei Svensen (tweet)) - Carlsen finds the winning move 31...Rf4! Wow, what a turnaround this was.
Alexander Delchev on chessbomb: Unexpected turn of events, When Caruana started his queen side actions, he didn't consider such heavy kingside counterattack in the style of great attacking players Alekhine, Tal and Kasparov. With this game Carlsen proved to be an extraordinary attacking player. Caruana puts maximum resistance, until making A mistake on 29th move, after which he collapsed quickly.
And Magnus goes off to see a football match Ajax vs FC Groningen.
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'I had an advantage but I don't know if it was enough for the win', Ivanchuk shrugged his shoulders after the scoresheets had been signed. '27... b5 was dubious, and maybe I had to play 28. d5 at once'.
This is correct. After 27... b5?!, 28. d5! is strong. Black has to play 28... Nb6! (after 28... exd5 29. Rxd5 b4 White has at least 30. Ra5 winning a pawn) 29. d6 Nc4 30. Rf2! (trying to stop f7-f6), and, having to struggle against the powerful d6-pawn, Black cannot feel safe, although White's win is still far from being secured.
Instead, White played 28. Bc6? b4 29. d5 Nb8! 30. Bb7 exd5 31. Rxd5 Rxd5 32. Bxd5 Nd7 33. Kf3 g5 34. fxg5 Nxe5+, and the Croatian player saved the ending without big difficulties. 1/2-1/2 (chess-news.ru)
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Ding Liren goes down and this comment on chess24.com “Anyone capable of explaining that game wins the internet!”
- Lo! They’ve taken more than 50 minutes each to play 14 moves
- Yi Wei will win this though
- Wei has a year to become the youngest to 2700
- How old is he?
- I believe he will be 16 in June
- Sam is 13, I believe
- He just turned 14
- Wei is an amazing player
- Artemiev on the last ratings list was rated 2668 at the age of 16
- Artemiev is impressive, but not quite as much so as Wei Yi
- a clean victory which settled the question as to who is the boss here.
Last edited by Wayne Komer; Saturday, 17th January, 2015, 01:31 AM.
Reason: miscopied score of jobava-so
Should form always trump history is a classic gambler's question. Radoslaw Wojtaszek is perhaps having the tournament of his life, having beaten the two highest rated players on the planet, Carlsen and Caruana, and drawn his 4 other games. Baadur Jobava is clearly having his nightmarish tournament from hell, a single draw in 6 games against 5 losses. Thus it is perhaps not that big of a surprise that Rad is the prohibitive favourite tomorrow at 59/50, against Baadur's 7/1 odds (with 27/25 draw odds).
If they were both having similar tournaments, then it would be time to increase the mortgage (I'm speaking figuratively since I don't have a mortgage) and go big on Baadur. Rad has only beaten Baadur once in nine opportunities so those 59/50 odds look rather absurd - which means that both the draw and wins odds on Jobava should normally be highly profitable (at least from a mathematical expectation perspective). And playing Black is hardly an issue since Baadur has scored 3.5/4 with Black their last 4 Black encounters, winning 2 KIDs and a Budapest Gambit (at Tata Steel 2014), and drawing a Benoni. History would seem to be screaming out for a Baadur bet but form says that might just be a bad bet tomorrow.
There are blunders and then there are those egregious 1,000 Pawn BLUNDERS! Ivan Saric's 31.Rd2?????????????, played with 40 minutes on his clock and time thus not an issue, certainly has to be one of the worst GM's moves played when time was not a primary contributing factor. The evaluation went from 0.00 to -1,000 with a simple forced mate. I'm dumbfounded that an elite GM like Saric could not see the immediate danger to his King ):
Should form always trump history is a classic gambler's question. Radoslaw Wojtaszek is perhaps having the tournament of his life, having beaten the two highest rated players on the planet, Carlsen and Caruana, and drawn his 4 other games. Baadur Jobava is clearly having his nightmarish tournament from hell, a single draw in 6 games against 5 losses. Thus it is perhaps not that big of a surprise that Rad is the prohibitive favourite tomorrow at 59/50, against Baadur's 7/1 odds (with 27/25 draw odds).
If they were both having similar tournaments, then it would be time to increase the mortgage (I'm speaking figuratively since I don't have a mortgage) and go big on Baadur. Rad has only beaten Baadur once in nine opportunities so those 59/50 odds look rather absurd - which means that both the draw and wins odds on Jobava should normally be highly profitable (at least from a mathematical expectation perspective). And playing Black is hardly an issue since Baadur has scored 3.5/4 with Black their last 4 Black encounters, winning 2 KIDs and a Budapest Gambit (at Tata Steel 2014), and drawing a Benoni. History would seem to be screaming out for a Baadur bet but form says that might just be a bad bet tomorrow.
There are blunders and then there are those egregious 1,000 Pawn BLUNDERS! Ivan Saric's 31.Rd2?????????????, played with 40 minutes on his clock and time thus not an issue, certainly has to be one of the worst GM's moves played when time was not a primary contributing factor. The evaluation went from 0.00 to -1,000 with a simple forced mate. I'm dumbfounded that an elite GM like Saric could not see the immediate danger to his King ):
I think we've seen worse. Like Kramnik missing a mate in one.
The thing in Saric's position is that the only saving move was 31.Qc1 and that puts the queen on a square where it can be forked by the pawn. Even if everything is defended, it's counter-intuitive to play such a move.
And Carlsen is back on top! His capacity to come back after a few bad games is incredible. Of the top GMs he seems to be the one less bothered by a loss.
A tempestuous day. First of all, Jobava stopped what some were calling a Reverse Caruana – losing a string of games in a row. Wojtaszek has beaten Carlsen and Caruana and falls to Jobava. The clock times at the end - 4m 43sec for Rad and 1hr16m40sec for Baa, show who fell into whose opening preparation.
Carlsen’s fourth win in a row, against Hou Yifan. Hou had a draw with 51….Qxe4 but instead played Nxe4. Magnus hot happy with his play today but will take the point.
Tata Steel Masters
Round 7, Jan. 17, 2015
Carlsen, Magnus – Hou Yifan
B32 Sicilian, Labourdonnais-Loewenthal Var.
A difficult endgame with Q and 2 pawns for white and Q and pawn for Black. White should have played 90. Qd6+ but instead played Qd4 allowing Black to check and finally a draw was agreed on move 102.
This allows Ivanchuk to share the lead with the surging Carlsen:
Michael Riemens - Breathtaking game by Jobava: e5, b5, d5 Nfg4, Nxh2, a barrage of combinations. One of the best games of the last decade!
Times Chess - Magnus outmanoeuvres Hou Yifan to share lead at Tata Steel - somehow this game reminds me of Lasker v Salwe 1909!
Carlsen - "If she had taken with the queen instead of the knight on e4, I'm not sure if I would've won."
Anish Giri – With all the Dutch losing today, I am actually glad I held this endgame
Kaja Marie Snare – Win for Magnus but not in a good mood after what he says was bad playing. Nice to get a win on a bad day though
Jonathan Tisdall – Four in a row for the champ, and precious little chance of a draw in the next round
Nigel Short - I would have bet heavily that Ivanchuk would draw this endgame
Chess Vibes - Ouch. All Dutch participants in the Challengers are losing, and now Van Wely blunders too
Kaja Marie Snare – Interviewed Jobava. Cool guy! “I hate draws. Will go all in for a win against Magnus tomorrow"
Lars Bo Hansen - Huge blunder by Saric in equal position allows checkmate and catapults Vachier-Lagrave to +2
Dirk Jan ten Geuzendam - Carlsen's and Hou's worlds are very different. She finished her exams a day before Tata Steel
Last edited by Wayne Komer; Saturday, 17th January, 2015, 06:54 PM.
Reason: additional material
I find it a bit incongruous that Caruana is a 99/100 favourite with Black tomorrow against Van Wely. Fabiano has never beaten Van Wely with Black, losing twice and drawing twice.
I find it a bit incongruous that Caruana is a 99/100 favourite with Black tomorrow against Van Wely. Fabiano has never beaten Van Wely with Black, losing twice and drawing twice.
Webster U boys Wesley So and Ding Liren who some people here consider as "lame substitutes" in the absence of Russian GM's in this tourney are on the rampage chasing Carlsen with 5 games to go.
So playing black in a Ruy Lopez game slays Ivan(chuk) the Conqueror in 27 moves.. Even if he doesn't win could this tourney he could end up in top 5.
Webster U boys Wesley So and Ding Liren who some people here consider as "lame substitutes" in the absence of Russian GM's in this tourney are on the rampage chasing Carlsen with 5 games to go.
So playing black in a Ruy Lopez game slays Ivan(chuk) the Conqueror in 27 moves.. Even if he doesn't win could this tourney he could end up in top 5.
I'm pretty sure Ding Liren does not attend Webster. Nor does Wesley any longer (:
And while Wesley is now #6 in the world with his win against Chucky (plus 2 and equal 4 in 6 encounters), it's highly improbable he can hit #5 at Tata Steel.
Wesley plays the equally hot (all plus 3) MVL and Ding Liren the next 2 rounds and he's never beaten either of those 2 opponents in 9 opportunities. Wesley has lost once to each, with 3 draws against MVL and 4 against DL.
Carlsen gets MVL and DL in Rounds 11 & 12 so we could be in for a very exciting finish.
Last edited by Jack Maguire; Sunday, 18th January, 2015, 07:02 PM.
I admire Yifan's ability to play with the big boys (especially after learning she finished her exams one day before Tata). She was close to a draw with Magnus yesterday and missed endgame wins against Levon Aronian today en route to a draw.
@ Jack McGuire ..you're right... didn't realize that Anand at #5 is at 2797 ! ..
if Wesley gets another 5 points in the remaining 5 games it could be a significant move towards his goal of being at 2800 this year. Right now his TPR at this tourney is at 2900 second to Carlsen's 2940 and he's still in it to win it :)
Last edited by Nathan Zeap; Sunday, 18th January, 2015, 03:08 PM.
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