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Anish Giri Wins Shenzhen Masters 2019
April 27, 2019
The 2019 Shenzhen Masters is a 6-player double round-robin featuring Ding Liren, Yu Yangyi, Dmitry Jakovenko, Richard Rapport, Pentala Harikrishna and Anish Giri.
Colin McGourty at chess24.com
https://chess24.com/en/read/news/gir...enzhen-masters
“Giri wins “soft” Shenzhen Masters
Anish Giri beat Dmitry Jakovenko in the final round to win the 2019 Shenzhen Masters, a result that some claim is his first ever supertournament victory. World Champion Magnus Carlsen, who had called the 2754 average rating event “a bit of a soft supertournament”, offered his “quite insincere congratulations”. Harikrishna, in many ways the hero of the event after featuring in 8 of the 11 decisive games, lost to Ding Liren in the final round, but still finished 2nd ahead of the Chinese no. 1.”
Giri beat Harikrishna in Round Two and then Pentala went on a streak winning his next four games, against Rapport, Ding Liren, Yu Yangyi and Dmitry Jakovenko.
His game against Ding Liren is given in Games from Recent Events #179 at:
https://forum.chesstalk.com/forum/ch...-events/page12
Colin McGourty again:
“In Round 8 Harikrishna was himself ground down in a tricky ending by Rapport, so that the players were tied – and Magnus admitted he was “extremely worried” about Giri’s chances of winning the event.
Hari played in 8 of the 11 decisive games of the tournament, however, and hit back to defeat Yu Yangyi again and take a half-point lead over Giri into the final round. The problem for the Indian star was that he was facing Ding Liren with the black pieces, and it seems the Chinese no. 1 had revenge on his mind. An extraordinary game followed, where Hari’s king fled from danger all the way to g1:
Position after Black’s 57….Kg1
Computers give this weird and wonderful position as level, but after 58.Kc4 Rd7 59.Rh5 Hari missed the chance to draw with 59…Nxe3+! and eventually went on to lose as Ding created unstoppable passed b and d-pawns. It had almost been Hari’s first supertournament victory.”
Giri against Jakovenko in the final round played 1.c4
“Then he gained a grip in the opening, won a pawn on move 35, and nursed that edge for another 62 moves until Jakovenko finally resigned. After a winless -3 in Shamkir, Giri had scored an unbeaten +3 in Shenzhen!”
Three games from Shenzhen:
Round 2, Apr. 18
Giri, Anish – Harikrishna, Pentala
C53 Giuoco Piano
1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.c3 Nf6 5.d3 O-O 6.O-O d5 7.exd5 Nxd5 8.Re1 Bg4 9.Nbd2 Nb6 10.h3 Bh5 11.Bb3 Qxd3 12.Nxe5 Bxd1 13.Nxd3 Bxb3 14.axb3 Be7 15.b4 a6 16.Ne4 Nd7 17.Bf4 Rac8 18.Rad1 Rfd8 19.g4 Bf8 20.Kg2 Re8 21.Bg3 f6 22.f4 Re7 23.f5 Rce8 24.Nf4 Nd8 25.Rxd7 Rxd7 26.Nxf6+ gxf6 27.Rxe8 Kf7 28.Re3 Rd2+ 29.Re2 Rd1 30.Ne6 Nxe6 31.fxe6+ Ke8 32.Bxc7 Rd3 33.Bf4 Rd5 34.Kf3 Ke7 35.Re4 Bg7 36.Be3 f5 37.Bg5+ Bf6 38.Bxf6+ Kxf6 39.g5+ Kxg5 40.Re3 1-0
Round 10, Apr. 27
Ding, Liren – Harikrishna, Pentala
A29 English, Bremen
1.c4 Nf6 2.Nc3 e5 3.Nf3 Nc6 4.g3 d5 5.cxd5 Nxd5 6.Bg2 Nb6 7.O-O Be7 8.d3 O-O 9.Be3 Re8 10.Rc1 Bf8 11.Bg5 f6 12.Be3 Be6 13.Nd2 Qd7 14.Nb3 Bh3 15.Bxh3 Qxh3 16.Bc5 Bd6 17.e3 Rad8 18.Qf3 Nd7 19.Bxd6 cxd6 20.Nd5 Nb6 21.Nd2 Nxd5 22.Qxd5+ Qe6 23.Qxe6+ Rxe6 24.a3 Ree8 25.Rc2 d5 26.Nb3 Rd6 27.Rfc1 Kf7 28.Nc5 Nd8 29.b4 Re7 30.Kf1 Ne6 31.a4 Ng5 32.b5 e4 33.d4 Nf3 34.h3 f5 35.Nb3 b6 36.Nd2 Ng5 37.h4 Ne6 38.Nb1 h6 39.Nc3 g5 40.hxg5 hxg5 41.Na2 f4 42.Nb4 Kf6 43.Rc8 Kf5 44.Rh8 Rf7 45.Ke2 f3+ 46.Kd2 Nf8 47.Rc8 Ng6 48.Rh6 Ne7 49.Rxd6 Nxc8 50.Rxd5+ Kg4 51.Nc6 Kh3 52.Ne5 Rf6 53.Rd8 Nd6 54.Kc3 Nf5 55.Rh8+ Kg2 56.Ng4 Rf7 57.Rh2+ Kg1 58.Kc4 Rd7 59.Rh5 Rd6 60.d5 Rg6 61.Rh7 Rd6 62.a5 bxa5 63.Rxa7 Nh6 64.Kc5 Rd8 65.Nxh6 Kxf2 66.Nf5 Kg2 67.Rxa5 f2 68.Ra2 Kf3 69.Rxf2+ Kxf2 70.b6 Rb8 71.d6 Kf3 72.d7 Rf8 1-0
Round 10, Apr. 27
Giri, Anish – Jakovenko, Dmitry
A15 English, Neo-Catalan
1.c4 Nf6 2.g3 e6 3.Bg2 d5 4.Nf3 Be7 5.d4 O-O 6.Nc3 dxc4 7.Ne5 c5 8.dxc5 Qxd1+ 9.Nxd1 Bxc5 10.O-O Nc6 11.Bxc6 bxc6 12.Be3 Bb6 13.Bxb6 axb6 14.Nc3 Bd7 15.Rfd1 Rfd8 16.Nxc4 b5 17.Ne5 Be8 18.Rxd8 Rxd8 19.Nd3 Kf8 20.a4 bxa4 21.Rxa4 Nd7 22.Ra7 Rc8 23.Ne4 c5 24.Nd6 Rb8 25.Rc7 Ke7 26.Nb7 Kf6 27.b3 g5 28.f3 h6 29.Kf2 Ra8 30.Nd6 Ke7 31.Rc8 Rxc8 32.Nxc8+ Kd8 33.Nd6 Ke7 34.Nb7 Nb6 35.Nbxc5 f6 36.f4 gxf4 37.gxf4 f5 38.Ke3 Bh5 39.Nb4 Kd6 40.Nb7+ Kc7 41.Nc5 Kd6 42.Ncd3 Nd7 43.h3 Nf6 44.Ne5 Ne4 45.Na2 Kd5 46.Nc4 Kc5 47.Nb2 Kd6 48.Nc4+ Kc5 49.Nb2 Kd6 50.Nd3 Kd5 51.Ne5 Kc5 52.Nc1 Nc3 53.Ned3+ Kd5 54.Nf2 Kc5 55.Kd2 Nd5 56.e3 Nf6 57.Ncd3+ Kd5 58.Ne5 Kc5 59.Nfd3+ Kd5 60.Nb4+ Kc5 61.Na2 Ne4+ 62.Kc2 Nd6 63.Nc3 Be8 64.Nd3+ Kb6 65.Kd2 Bc6 66.h4 Bg2 67.Ke2 Bb7 68.Na4+ Kb5 69.Nc3+ Kb6 70.Kd2 Bg2 71.Na4+ Kc6 72.Ne5+ Kb5 73.Kc2 Ne8 74.Nc3+ Kc5 75.Nd3+ Kd6 76.b4 Nf6 77.Ne5 Bf1 78.Kd2 h5 79.Nd3 Bg2 80.b5 Ng4 81.Na4 Nf6 82.Kc3 Ne4+ 83.Kd4 Nd2 84.Ne5 Nb3+ 85.Kc3 Nc1 86.Kb4 Kc7 87.b6+ Kb7 88.Kb5 Bf1+ 89.Kc5 Ne2 90.Kd6 Ng3 91.Nd7 Bg2 92.Nac5+ Kc8 93.Kxe6 Nf1 94.e4 Bxe4 95.Nxe4 fxe4 96.Nc5 Nd2 97.Kd5 1-0
Comments on Giri’s victory:
Peter Heine Nielsen (tweet) Is Shenzhen Masters a “super tournament”? Asking for a friend.
The claim of Shenzhen being a “soft” supertournament could of course be countered by pointing out that the average rating in Shenzhen was 2778, 54 points higher than the 2724 of the GRENKE Chess Classic:
Vidit Gujrathi – Congrats to Anish Giri! After this historic day, the Chess World will never be the same. Also, now you can finally tweet in peace
MVL – Congratulations to Anish Giri for not only winning in Shenzhen but most importantly, for defying the universe!
Final Standings
1 Giri 6.5
2 Harikrishna 6
3 Ding 5.5
4 Rapport 5
5-6 Jakovenko, Yu 3.5
It should be noted that in 2012 Anish Giri won Reggio Emilio over these players: Ivanchuk, Vitiugov, Caruana, Morozevich and Nakamura!
http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chess.pl?tid=76311
April 27, 2019
The 2019 Shenzhen Masters is a 6-player double round-robin featuring Ding Liren, Yu Yangyi, Dmitry Jakovenko, Richard Rapport, Pentala Harikrishna and Anish Giri.
Colin McGourty at chess24.com
https://chess24.com/en/read/news/gir...enzhen-masters
“Giri wins “soft” Shenzhen Masters
Anish Giri beat Dmitry Jakovenko in the final round to win the 2019 Shenzhen Masters, a result that some claim is his first ever supertournament victory. World Champion Magnus Carlsen, who had called the 2754 average rating event “a bit of a soft supertournament”, offered his “quite insincere congratulations”. Harikrishna, in many ways the hero of the event after featuring in 8 of the 11 decisive games, lost to Ding Liren in the final round, but still finished 2nd ahead of the Chinese no. 1.”
Giri beat Harikrishna in Round Two and then Pentala went on a streak winning his next four games, against Rapport, Ding Liren, Yu Yangyi and Dmitry Jakovenko.
His game against Ding Liren is given in Games from Recent Events #179 at:
https://forum.chesstalk.com/forum/ch...-events/page12
Colin McGourty again:
“In Round 8 Harikrishna was himself ground down in a tricky ending by Rapport, so that the players were tied – and Magnus admitted he was “extremely worried” about Giri’s chances of winning the event.
Hari played in 8 of the 11 decisive games of the tournament, however, and hit back to defeat Yu Yangyi again and take a half-point lead over Giri into the final round. The problem for the Indian star was that he was facing Ding Liren with the black pieces, and it seems the Chinese no. 1 had revenge on his mind. An extraordinary game followed, where Hari’s king fled from danger all the way to g1:
Position after Black’s 57….Kg1
Computers give this weird and wonderful position as level, but after 58.Kc4 Rd7 59.Rh5 Hari missed the chance to draw with 59…Nxe3+! and eventually went on to lose as Ding created unstoppable passed b and d-pawns. It had almost been Hari’s first supertournament victory.”
Giri against Jakovenko in the final round played 1.c4
“Then he gained a grip in the opening, won a pawn on move 35, and nursed that edge for another 62 moves until Jakovenko finally resigned. After a winless -3 in Shamkir, Giri had scored an unbeaten +3 in Shenzhen!”
Three games from Shenzhen:
Round 2, Apr. 18
Giri, Anish – Harikrishna, Pentala
C53 Giuoco Piano
1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.c3 Nf6 5.d3 O-O 6.O-O d5 7.exd5 Nxd5 8.Re1 Bg4 9.Nbd2 Nb6 10.h3 Bh5 11.Bb3 Qxd3 12.Nxe5 Bxd1 13.Nxd3 Bxb3 14.axb3 Be7 15.b4 a6 16.Ne4 Nd7 17.Bf4 Rac8 18.Rad1 Rfd8 19.g4 Bf8 20.Kg2 Re8 21.Bg3 f6 22.f4 Re7 23.f5 Rce8 24.Nf4 Nd8 25.Rxd7 Rxd7 26.Nxf6+ gxf6 27.Rxe8 Kf7 28.Re3 Rd2+ 29.Re2 Rd1 30.Ne6 Nxe6 31.fxe6+ Ke8 32.Bxc7 Rd3 33.Bf4 Rd5 34.Kf3 Ke7 35.Re4 Bg7 36.Be3 f5 37.Bg5+ Bf6 38.Bxf6+ Kxf6 39.g5+ Kxg5 40.Re3 1-0
Round 10, Apr. 27
Ding, Liren – Harikrishna, Pentala
A29 English, Bremen
1.c4 Nf6 2.Nc3 e5 3.Nf3 Nc6 4.g3 d5 5.cxd5 Nxd5 6.Bg2 Nb6 7.O-O Be7 8.d3 O-O 9.Be3 Re8 10.Rc1 Bf8 11.Bg5 f6 12.Be3 Be6 13.Nd2 Qd7 14.Nb3 Bh3 15.Bxh3 Qxh3 16.Bc5 Bd6 17.e3 Rad8 18.Qf3 Nd7 19.Bxd6 cxd6 20.Nd5 Nb6 21.Nd2 Nxd5 22.Qxd5+ Qe6 23.Qxe6+ Rxe6 24.a3 Ree8 25.Rc2 d5 26.Nb3 Rd6 27.Rfc1 Kf7 28.Nc5 Nd8 29.b4 Re7 30.Kf1 Ne6 31.a4 Ng5 32.b5 e4 33.d4 Nf3 34.h3 f5 35.Nb3 b6 36.Nd2 Ng5 37.h4 Ne6 38.Nb1 h6 39.Nc3 g5 40.hxg5 hxg5 41.Na2 f4 42.Nb4 Kf6 43.Rc8 Kf5 44.Rh8 Rf7 45.Ke2 f3+ 46.Kd2 Nf8 47.Rc8 Ng6 48.Rh6 Ne7 49.Rxd6 Nxc8 50.Rxd5+ Kg4 51.Nc6 Kh3 52.Ne5 Rf6 53.Rd8 Nd6 54.Kc3 Nf5 55.Rh8+ Kg2 56.Ng4 Rf7 57.Rh2+ Kg1 58.Kc4 Rd7 59.Rh5 Rd6 60.d5 Rg6 61.Rh7 Rd6 62.a5 bxa5 63.Rxa7 Nh6 64.Kc5 Rd8 65.Nxh6 Kxf2 66.Nf5 Kg2 67.Rxa5 f2 68.Ra2 Kf3 69.Rxf2+ Kxf2 70.b6 Rb8 71.d6 Kf3 72.d7 Rf8 1-0
Round 10, Apr. 27
Giri, Anish – Jakovenko, Dmitry
A15 English, Neo-Catalan
1.c4 Nf6 2.g3 e6 3.Bg2 d5 4.Nf3 Be7 5.d4 O-O 6.Nc3 dxc4 7.Ne5 c5 8.dxc5 Qxd1+ 9.Nxd1 Bxc5 10.O-O Nc6 11.Bxc6 bxc6 12.Be3 Bb6 13.Bxb6 axb6 14.Nc3 Bd7 15.Rfd1 Rfd8 16.Nxc4 b5 17.Ne5 Be8 18.Rxd8 Rxd8 19.Nd3 Kf8 20.a4 bxa4 21.Rxa4 Nd7 22.Ra7 Rc8 23.Ne4 c5 24.Nd6 Rb8 25.Rc7 Ke7 26.Nb7 Kf6 27.b3 g5 28.f3 h6 29.Kf2 Ra8 30.Nd6 Ke7 31.Rc8 Rxc8 32.Nxc8+ Kd8 33.Nd6 Ke7 34.Nb7 Nb6 35.Nbxc5 f6 36.f4 gxf4 37.gxf4 f5 38.Ke3 Bh5 39.Nb4 Kd6 40.Nb7+ Kc7 41.Nc5 Kd6 42.Ncd3 Nd7 43.h3 Nf6 44.Ne5 Ne4 45.Na2 Kd5 46.Nc4 Kc5 47.Nb2 Kd6 48.Nc4+ Kc5 49.Nb2 Kd6 50.Nd3 Kd5 51.Ne5 Kc5 52.Nc1 Nc3 53.Ned3+ Kd5 54.Nf2 Kc5 55.Kd2 Nd5 56.e3 Nf6 57.Ncd3+ Kd5 58.Ne5 Kc5 59.Nfd3+ Kd5 60.Nb4+ Kc5 61.Na2 Ne4+ 62.Kc2 Nd6 63.Nc3 Be8 64.Nd3+ Kb6 65.Kd2 Bc6 66.h4 Bg2 67.Ke2 Bb7 68.Na4+ Kb5 69.Nc3+ Kb6 70.Kd2 Bg2 71.Na4+ Kc6 72.Ne5+ Kb5 73.Kc2 Ne8 74.Nc3+ Kc5 75.Nd3+ Kd6 76.b4 Nf6 77.Ne5 Bf1 78.Kd2 h5 79.Nd3 Bg2 80.b5 Ng4 81.Na4 Nf6 82.Kc3 Ne4+ 83.Kd4 Nd2 84.Ne5 Nb3+ 85.Kc3 Nc1 86.Kb4 Kc7 87.b6+ Kb7 88.Kb5 Bf1+ 89.Kc5 Ne2 90.Kd6 Ng3 91.Nd7 Bg2 92.Nac5+ Kc8 93.Kxe6 Nf1 94.e4 Bxe4 95.Nxe4 fxe4 96.Nc5 Nd2 97.Kd5 1-0
Comments on Giri’s victory:
Peter Heine Nielsen (tweet) Is Shenzhen Masters a “super tournament”? Asking for a friend.
The claim of Shenzhen being a “soft” supertournament could of course be countered by pointing out that the average rating in Shenzhen was 2778, 54 points higher than the 2724 of the GRENKE Chess Classic:
Vidit Gujrathi – Congrats to Anish Giri! After this historic day, the Chess World will never be the same. Also, now you can finally tweet in peace
MVL – Congratulations to Anish Giri for not only winning in Shenzhen but most importantly, for defying the universe!
Final Standings
1 Giri 6.5
2 Harikrishna 6
3 Ding 5.5
4 Rapport 5
5-6 Jakovenko, Yu 3.5
It should be noted that in 2012 Anish Giri won Reggio Emilio over these players: Ivanchuk, Vitiugov, Caruana, Morozevich and Nakamura!
http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chess.pl?tid=76311