Isle of Man Grand Swiss 2019

[Wayne Komer]

Isle of Man Grand Swiss 2019

October 17, 2019

Round Eight Pairings

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Bd		Name	Rtg	Pts.		Pts.		Name	Rtg
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1		Caruana Fabiano	2812	5½		5½		Aronian Levon	2758
2		Wang Hao	2726	5		5		Carlsen Magnus	2876
3		Anton Guijarro David	2674	5		5		Grischuk Alexander	2759
4		Maghsoodloo Parham	2664	5		5		Vitiugov Nikita	2732
5		So Wesley	2767	4½		5		Alekseenko Kirill	2674
6		Anand Viswanathan	2765	4½		4½		Fedoseev Vladimir	2664
7		Shirov Alexei	2664	4½		4½		Yu Yangyi	2763
8		Karjakin Sergey	2760	4½		4½		Dreev Aleksey	2662
9		Wojtaszek Radoslaw	2748	4½		4½		Kovalev Vladislav	2661
10		Nakamura Hikaru	2745	4½		4½		Melkumyan Hrant	2650
11		Gelfand Boris	2686	4½		4½		Zhang Zhong	2636
12		Hovhannisyan Robert	2639	4½		4½		McShane Luke J	2682
13		Adhiban B.	2639	4½		4½		Robson Ray	2670
14		Tari Aryan	2630	4½		4½		Kryvoruchko Yuriy	2669
15		Svidler Peter	2729	4		4½		Jumabayev Rinat	2630
16		Lenderman Aleksandr	2648	4		4		Artemiev Vladislav	2746
17		Mamedov Rauf	2645	4		4		Vidit Santosh Gujrathi	2718
18		Matlakov Maxim	2716	4		4		Najer Evgeniy	2635
19		Sarana Alexey	2655	4		4		Le Quang Liem	2708
20		Xiong Jeffery	2708	4		4		Papaioannou Ioannis	2645
21		Howell David W L	2694	4		4		Bluebaum Matthias	2643
22		Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son	2638	4		4		Grandelius Nils	2691
23		Sargissian Gabriel	2690	4		4		Lupulescu Constantin	2643
24		Ragger Markus	2684	4		4		Sadhwani Raunak	2479
25		Sethuraman S.P.	2624	4		4		Korobov Anton	2679
26		Narayanan.S.L	2611	4		4		Cheparinov Ivan	2670
27		Leko Peter	2670	4		4		Akopian Vladimir	2638
28		Saric Ivan	2667	4		4		Rakhmanov Aleksandr	2621
29		Eljanov Pavel	2663	4		4		Abasov Nijat	2632
30		Sjugirov Sanan	2662	4		4		Abdusattorov Nodirbek	2608
31		Puranik Abhimanyu	2571	4		4		Kasimdzhanov Rustam	2657
32		Volokitin Andrei	2627	3½		3½		Harikrishna Pentala	2748
33		Bu Xiangzhi	2721	3½		3½		Alekseev Evgeny	2629
34		Deac Bogdan-Daniel	2613	3½		3½		Shankland Sam	2705
35		Amin Bassem	2699	3½		3½		Vocaturo Daniele	2620
36		L'ami Erwin	2619	3½		3½		Vallejo Pons Francisco	2694
37		Inarkiev Ernesto	2693	3½		3½		Akobian Varuzhan	2625
38		Yilmaz Mustafa	2595	3½		3½		Kamsky Gata	2685
39		Paravyan David	2602	3½		3½		Ponomariov Ruslan	2675
40		Van Foreest Jorden	2621	3½		3½		Sasikiran Krishnan	2675
41		Bacrot Etienne	2671	3½		3½		Esipenko Andrey	2624
42		Safarli Eltaj	2593	3½		3½		Berkes Ferenc	2667
43		Ganguly Surya Shekhar	2658	3½		3½		Nihal Sarin	2610
44		Hess Robert	2581	3½		3½		Nabaty Tamir	2658
45		Oparin Grigoriy	2654	3½		3½		Jobava Baadur	2617
46		Gonzalez Vidal Yuri	2552	3½		3½		Sevian Samuel	2654
47		Motylev Alexander	2651	3½		3½		Saduakassova Dinara	2481
48		Baron Tal	2531	3½		3½		Riazantsev Alexander	2645
49		Chigaev Maksim	2644	3½		3½		Lu Shanglei	2602
50		Gukesh D	2520	3½		3½		Zvjaginsev Vadim	2644
51		Kuzubov Yuriy	2636	3½		3½		Erdos Viktor	2604
52		Harika Dronavalli	2495	3½		3½		Moiseenko Alexander	2635
53		Mareco Sandro	2634	3½		3½		Keymer Vincent	2506
54		Bjerre Jonas Buhl	2506	3½		3		Demchenko Anton	2655
55		Jones Gawain C B	2688	3		3		Clarke Brandon G I	2445
56		Kashlinskaya Alina	2481	3		3		Huschenbeth Niclas	2624
57		Erenberg Ariel	2463	3		3		Vovk Andriy	2618
58		Durarbayli Vasif	2617	3		3		Danielian Elina	2385
59		Lei Tingjie	2469	3		3		Hansen Eric	2611
60		Soumya Swaminathan	2365	3		3		Efimenko Zahar	2604
61		Munguntuul Batkhuyag	2421	3		3		Christiansen Johan-Sebastian	2558
62		Gavrilescu David	2451	2½		2½		Dubov Daniil	2699
63		Ushenina Anna	2431	2½		2½		Rodshtein Maxim	2684
64		Movsesian Sergei	2654	2½		2½		Boruchovsky Avital	2533
65		Houska Jovanka	2430	2½		2½		Piorun Kacper	2643
66		Rakotomaharo Fy Antenaina	2428	2½		2½		Adly Ahmed	2636
67		Zatonskih Anna	2422	2½		2½		Bachmann Axel	2629
68		Iturrizaga Bonelli Eduardo	2629	2½		2½		Henderson De La Fuente Lance	2494
69		Solomon Kenny	2382	2½		2½		Parligras Mircea-Emilian	2629
70		Stefanova Antoaneta	2479	2½		2½		Arkell Keith C	2447
71		Jansa Vlastimil	2452	2		2		Prithu Gupta	2493
72		Movsziszian Karen	2475	2		2		Sebag Marie	2445
73		Batsiashvili Nino	2422	2		2		Atalik Ekaterina	2464
74		Kolbus Dietmar	2300	2		2		Cramling Pia	2462
75		Wu Li	2332	1½		1½		Bulmaga Irina	2442
76		Allen Keith	2161	1½		1		Dahl Baard	2067
77		Nebolsina Vera	2252	½	1			bye
78		Paehtz Elisabeth	2489	1½	0			not paired
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[Serge Archambault]

#copygate is real !!! During round 8 at the IoM, chief arbiter, well known IA Alex Holowczak, decided to split 2 boards apart on move 19. In fact, board 7 (Shirov-Yu) and board 8 (Karjakin-Dreev) played exactly the same moves. After the split, moves were different.

[Aris Marghetis]

#copygate is real !!! During round 8 at the IoM, chief arbiter, well known IA Alex Holowczak, decided to split 2 boards apart on move 19. In fact, board 7 (Shirov-Yu) and board 8 (Karjakin-Dreev) played exactly the same moves. After the split, moves were different.

That is a GREAT story, I had never thought of that possibility. Thanks for sharing it!

[Serge Archambault]

That is a GREAT story, I had never thought of that possibility. Thanks for sharing it!

The funny add on twist to this story is that it's the second time it happens to Shirov (Anand confirmed in a Bundesliga he was involved). BTW, it seems, at this point, there was no suspicion of foul play or anything. The CA decided to move Shirov and Yu to the second playing hall for the players own concentration on their game. Karjakin won quickly but Shirov only got a draw out of it.

[Wayne Komer]

Isle of Man Grand Swiss 2019

October 18, 2019

Round Eight

Early Games

The results of yesterday’s poll:

If you could bring back to life one of the great chess players from the past and let them play in this tournament while in their prime and backed with current opening theory, whom would have the best chance to win here?

1540 votes

6% Emanuel Lasker
60% Bobby Fischer
26% Mikhail Tal
8$ Other

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The two games

Alexei Shirov – Yu Yangyi

Sergey Karjakin – Aleksey Dreev

Started with the same 18 moves.

As the games kept on remaining the same, Shirov vs Yu has been moved to the other playing hall. The chief arbiter said that it would be an offence to copy moves from another board.

From FIDE rules (11.3.1): During play the players are forbidden to make use of any notes, sources of information or advice, or analyse on another chessboard.

The most infamous case of playing moves from another board happened at the Gothenburg Interzonal (Sweden) in 1955:

In one of the later rounds, Keres was White against Najdorf, Spassky was White against Pilnik, and Geller was White against Panno. The Argentinian players were delighted since they were sure that at least one of the Soviet players would walk into their analysis. As it turned out, ALL three Soviet players entered the opening trap!

So what occurred? The position after 9...g5 appeared on all three boards at the same time, and as all three players reached the position after 10…Nfd7, Spassky and Keres pondered whether or not to sacrifice on move 11, while Geller did it quite quickly.

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 a6 6. Bg5 e6 7. f4 Be7 8. Qf3 h6 9. Bh4 g5

And from that moment on, Spassky and Keres simply watched Geller’s board and copied everything he did! The Russians won the three games.
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Round 8, Oct. 18
Caruana, Fabiano – Aronian, Levon
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.b3 O-O 9.Bb2 Re8 10.Rc1 Bf8 11.Ne4 f6 12.d4 f5 13.Nc5 e4 14.Ne5 Nxe5 15.dxe5 Qxd1 16.Rfxd1 c6 17.g4 g6 18.gxf5 gxf5 19.f3 Bh6 20.Rc2 e3 21.e6 Bxe6 22.Nxb7 Nd5 23.Rxc6 Rac8 24.Rdc1 Rxc6 25.Rxc6 Nf4 26.Bf1 Bf8 27.Nc5 Bd5 28.Rc7 Bxc5 29.Rxc5 Bxf3 30.exf3 e2 31.Bc3 Re3 32.Ba5 exf1=Q+ 33.Kxf1 Rxf3+ 34.Kg1 h5 35.h4 Rh3 36.Rxf5 Rxh4 37.Kf2 Ne6 38.Bc3 1/2-1/2

Round 8, Oct. 18
Wang, Hao – Carlsen, Magnus
D38 QGD, Ragozin variation

1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 Nf6 4.Nc3 Bb4 5.Qb3 a5 6.Bg5 c5 7.dxc5 Na6 8.a3 Nxc5 9.Qc2 Bxc3+ 10.Qxc3 Nce4 11.Bxf6 Qxf6 12.Qxf6 Nxf6 13.cxd5 Nxd5 14.e4 Nf6 15.Bd3 Bd7 16.Ne5 Ke7 17.Rc1 Rhc8 18.Kd2 Be8 19.f4 Nd7 20.Nxd7 Bxd7 21.Rxc8 Rxc8 22.Rc1 Rxc1 23.Kxc1 e5 24.fxe5 Ke6 25.Kd2 Kxe5 26.Ke3 Bc6 27.g3 f6 28.Bc2 b6 29.Bd3 h6 30.Bc2 Bb7 31.Bd3 1/2-1/2

Round 8, Oct. 18
Anton, David – Grischuk, Alexander
A20 English, Kingside Fianchetto

1.c4 e5 2.g3 Nf6 3.Bg2 Bc5 4.Nc3 c6 5.Nf3 e4 6.Nh4 d5 7.cxd5 cxd5 8.d3 Ng4 9.O-O g5 10.d4 Be7 11.h3 Nxf2 12.Rxf2 gxh4 13.Qb3 hxg3 14.Rf4 Nc6 15.Qxd5 f5 16.Bxe4 fxe4 17.Qh5+ Kd7 18.Be3 Qg8 19.d5 Nd8 20.Nxe4 Qg6 21.Qe5 Nf7 22.Rxf7 Qxf7 23.Rc1 Rf8 24.Bg5 1-0

Round 8, Oct. 18
Anand, VIshy – Fedoseev, Vladimir
B32 Sicilian Defence

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Qb6 5.Nb3 e6 6.Nc3 Qc7 7.f4 d6 8.Be3 Nf6 9.Bd3 Be7 10.Qf3 Nb4 11.O-O Bd7 12.a3 Nxd3 13.cxd3 Qc6 14.Rac1 Qa6 15.g4 Bc6 16.g5 Nd7 17.d4 Bb5 18.Rf2 O-O 19.f5 Bd8 20.Nd2 Bd3 21.fxe6 fxe6 22.Qg4 Rxf2 23.Kxf2 Nf8 24.d5 e5 25.h4 g6 26.h5 gxh5 27.Qxh5 Bb6 28.Qh3 Re8 29.Nd1 Be2 30.Ke1 Bd4 31.Nf2 Re7 32.Bxd4 exd4 33.Rc8 Rf7 34.e5 dxe5 35.Nfe4 h5 36.gxh6 Rf4 37.Qe6+ 1-0

Round 8, Oct. 18
Nakamura, Hikaru – Melkumyan, Hrant
C88 Ruy Lopez, Closed, anti-Marshall

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.O-O Be7 6.Re1 b5 7.Bb3 O-O 8.a4 b4 9.a5 d6 10.c3 Rb8 11.d3 bxc3 12.bxc3 Be6 13.Bxe6 fxe6 14.Nbd2 Rb5 15.d4 exd4 16.cxd4 Nxa5 17.Qc2 Qd7 18.Ra4 Rfb8 19.Ba3 Ne8 20.Qa2 Nb3 21.Rxa6 Nxd2 22.Nxd2 R5b6 23.Ra7 R6b7 24.Rxb7 Rxb7 25.e5 Ra7 26.Qb3 dxe5 27.Bxe7 Qxe7 28.dxe5 Ra5 29.Nf3 Rd5 30.Ra1 Qd7 31.h4 h6 32.Ra8 Qc6 33.Rb8 Qc1+ 34.Kh2 Qf4+ 35.g3 Qf7 36.Kg2 Qd7 37.h5 Qc6 38.Kh2 Qd7 39.Qb4 Kf7 40.Qf4+ Kg8 41.Nh4 g5 42.hxg6 Kg7 43.Rd8 1-0

Round 8, Oct. 18
Gelfand, Boris – Zhang, Zhong
D30 Queen’s Gambit declined

1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 dxc4 4.Qa4+ Nc6 5.Qxc4 Nf6 6.Bg5 h6 7.Bxf6 Qxf6 8.Nc3 Bd6 9.e3 a6 10.Be2 O-O 11.O-O Bd7 12.Rfd1 Qe7 13.Ne4 Rfc8 14.Rac1 e5 15.d5 Nd8 16.Qc2 f5 17.Nc5 e4 18.Nd4 Qe5 19.g3 Be8 20.Nde6 Rab8 21.Qc3 Nf7 22.Bh5 Qxc3 23.Rxc3 Be5 24.Rc2 b6 25.Nxa6 Ra8 26.Nb4 Bd6 27.Nc6 Rxa2 28.Bg6 Bxc6 29.dxc6 Ra5 30.Nd4 Rd5 31.Rcc1 Rxd4 32.Rxd4 1-0

Round 8, Oct. 18
Lei, Tingjie – Hansen, Eric
E32 Nimzo-Indian, Classical variation

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.Qc2 d6 5.e4 c5 6.Nf3 cxd4 7.Nxd4 O-O 8.Bd2 Nc6 9.Nxc6 bxc6 10.O-O-O d5 11.exd5 cxd5 12.cxd5 exd5 13.Bd3 Bd7 14.Kb1 Rc8 15.Qb3 Rb8 16.Bg5 d4 17.Bxf6 gxf6 18.Bxh7+ Kxh7 19.Qc2+ Kg7 20.Qd3 Bxc3 21.Qg3+ Kh6 22.Qh4+ Kg6 23.Qg3+ Kh5 0-1

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The twins:

Round 8, Oct. 18
Karjakin, Sergey – Dreev, Aleksey
B40 Sicilian, Anderssen variation

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 e6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 Nc6 6.Nxc6 bxc6 7.e5 Nd5 8.Ne4 Qc7 9.f4 Qb6 10.c4 Bb4+ 11.Ke2 f5 12.exf6 Nxf6 13.Be3 Qd8 14.Nd6+ Bxd6 15.Qxd6 Bb7 16.g4 c5 17.Rg1 Ne4 18.Qe5 Qh4 19.Bg2 Qxg4+ 20.Kd3 Nf2+ 21.Bxf2 Bxg2 22.Bxc5 Rc8 23.Rae1 Kf7 24.Re2 Qf3+ 25.Be3 d6 26.Qd4 e5 27.Qxa7+ Ke6 28.Rgxg2 Rxc4 29.Kxc4 Rc8+ 30.Kb4 Qe4+ 31.Bd4 1-0

Round 8, Oct. 18
Shirov, Alexei – Yu, Yangyi
B40 Sicilian, Anderssen variation

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 e6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nc6 5.Nc3 Nf6 6.Nxc6 bxc6 7.e5 Nd5 8.Ne4 Qc7 9.f4 Qb6 10.c4 Bb4+ 11.Ke2 f5 12.exf6 Nxf6 13.Be3 Qd8 14.Nd6+ Bxd6 15.Qxd6 Bb7 16.g4 c5 17.Rg1 Ne4 18.Qe5 Qh4 19.Bg2 Qxg4+ 20.Bf3 Nc3+ 21.Kd3 Qxf3 22.Kxc3 Rg8 23.Rg3 Qc6 24.Bxc5 O-O-O 25.Bd6 Ba6 26.b3 Kb7 27.Rd1 Rc8 28.Rxg7 Rxg7 29.Qxg7 Bxc4 30.Kb2 Be2 31.Re1 Qxd6 32.Rxe2 Qd1 33.Qg2+ Rc6 34.a4 Qd4+ 35.Ka2 Qxf4 36.Qg7 Rd6 37.Qxh7 Rd1 38.Qh5 Qd4 39.Rb2 e5 40.h4 Rd2 41.Rxd2 Qxd2+ 42.Ka3 Qc1+ 43.Ka2 Qc2+ 44.Ka3 Qc1+ 1/2-1/2

Position after 19…Qxg4+



Karjakin gave an interview and then went back to his room and tweeted this:

Funny accident today when we had the same position like Shirov against Yu. I actually confused the moves with g4,forgetting my own game against...Yu! So in the end Shirov followed me, I followed Shirov, Dreev followed Yu, and Yu believed in my preparation! That is how it works!

Well, that confuses me!

I believe the arbiter did the right thing by separating the players with the same game. Any ChessTalkers with opposing views?

[Hans Jung]

Anton lovely inspired attack against Grischuk.

[Hans Jung]

Anand's 34.e5! opens the e4 square for the knight to head toward the king and one variation ending in h6-h7 checkmate!

[Hans Jung]

Hess - Nabaty classic attack of the white queenside kings position but d4! makes you really look.

[Hans Jung]

Hikaru works his rook, queen, and knight to the right squares to create a magical zugzwang. Lovely!

[Hans Jung]

Boris Gelfand's knights and control of the white squares = strategic grandmasterpiece

[Hans Jung]

Sam Sevian"s white square magic (look at the position at move 34!)

[Hans Jung]

In Tal - Riazantsev the ticklers 34.a3 and b4 put the black pieces in retreat and make the white knight a hero.

[Hans Jung]

Check out Svidler's attacking style. Devastating finish.

[Hans Jung]

Gukesh - brilliant piece and pawn play

[Hans Jung]

Matlakov as well.