Tuesday, January 17, 2006

Anand takes the lead

Vassily Ivanchuk had nice opening advantage with White against Vishy Anand, but he started to lose strings after grabbing pawn instead of increasing the pressure. Anand used his chance to start strong attack on 22.Rfe1? seeing Ivanchuk resigning only 6 moves later.


Vassily Ivanchuk


Round 3 results:
Topalov - Bacrot 1-0
Ivanchuk - Anand 0-1
Gelfand - Adams 1-0
Mamedyarov - Sokolov draw
Karjakin - Kamsky 1-0
Aronian - Leko draw
Tiviakov - Van Wely draw


Vassily Ivanchuk 2729 - Vishy Anand 2792
1. Nf3 Nf6 2. c4 c5 3. Nc3 Nc6 4. e3 e5 5. Be2 d5 6. d4 exd4 7. exd4 Be6 8. Be3 dxc4 9. Qa4 cxd4 10. Nxd4 Bd7 11. Qxc4 Rc8 12. O-O Bd6 13. Nxc6 (13. Ncb5 Be7 14. Nxc6 Rxc6 15. Qd3 O-O 16. Nxa7 +/-) 13... Rxc6 14. Qh4 O-O 15. Bxa7?! (15. Bf3! Rc8 16. Rfd1 Qc7 17. Rac1 Qb8 18. Bd4! +/-) 15... b6 16. Rad1 Bc5 17. b4 Be7 18. Qd4 Rd6 19. Qc4 Be6 20. Qa6 Nd5 21. Nxd5 Bxd5 22. Rfe1? (22. Rxd5 Rxd5 23. Bxb6=) 22... Rg6! -/+ 23. g3 Bxb4 24. Bc4 Bxe1 25. Bxd5 Qe7 (25... Bxf2+! 26. Kxf2 Rd6 27. Qb5 Qe7 -+) 26. a4? (26. Bxb6 Bxf2+ 27. Kxf2 Qf6+ -/+) 26... Rf6 -+ 27. f4 Qe3+ 28. Kh1 Bxg3 0-1


1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I'm still smiling about your Carla Huppeldepup.... So funny to see such a dutch expression on an english site... ("huppeldepup" is used in dutch as a standard frase to say that you either don't know the real name or don't really care -It's not so polite -so I take it someone told you that silly name).