Karjakin wins on tiebreak in Poikovsky
He needed a little help from his opponent in the last round, but after winning the ACP World Rapid Cup Sergey Karjakin also managed to finish first in Poikovsky. Finishing with three out of three, Viktor Bologan also scored 7/11, but the Moldav GM had a slightly worse tiebreak.
The 11th edition of the tournament named after 12th World Champion Anatoly Karpov took place June 2-13 in Poikovsky, Russia. For the first time the tournament had not 10, but 12 players. See our first report for more info.
Rounds 9-11
In round 9 Vitiugov managed to surprise Rublevsky in the opening - in a well-known QGA position.
White went 6.d5!? and after 6...b5 7.Bb3 exd5 (7...c4 8.dxe6! Qxd1+ 9.Bxd1) 8.Bxd5 Ra7 9.e4 Nf6 10.Nc3 Nxd5 11.Nxd5 Nc6 12.O-O Be6 13.a4 Black fell into a trap with the careless 13...Be7?
Can you see how? See the game viewer below.
Karjakin couldn't beat Onischuk, who defended a rook ending superbly. After reaching the following position, the American easily found a few only moves.
72...Kf4! 73.Ra4+ Kf3 74.Ra3+ Kf4 75.Kc6 g5 76.Kd5 g4 77.Ra4+ Kf3 78.Ke5 g3 79.Ra3+ Kg4 80.Kf6 and Karjakin offered a draw. Without Black's f-pawn the ending is lost, but with it it's a draw, the reason being that it protects the black king from a check on f8!
Fireworks in the following game.
White couldn't resist the temptation and went 22.Rxf7!? Qxf7 23.Bxg6 and here Black should have given back a piece with 23...Qf6!! 24.Be4+ Qg5 25.Bxc7 Qxg3 26.Bxg3. Instead, after 23...Qf2+ 24.Qxf2 Rxf2 25.Kxf2 Rf8+ with 26.Kg1 White could have kept an advantage.
But Sutovsky missed another trick by playing 26.Kg3? - can you see what was wrong with that move?
Karjakin had been under pressure in a Winawer French, but again luck was not on Sutovsky's side.
By now the ending should end in a draw, but with 47...Rh3? Black didn't give his rook enough checking distance. 47...Kd6 48.Kf5 Rf1+ is equal. 48.g5! Kd6 49.Kf5 and White won.
After two strong wins Bologan got yet another full point in a bishop ending against last year's winner Motylev, who this time finished at the bottom of the standings.
Black erred with 61...f4? (61...g5! is a draw) 62.Bc3+ Kg5 63.Bxg7 Kxh5 64.Bd4 Kh4 65.Bc5 Bb8 66.Kd4 Kg5 67.d6 a5 68.Kd5 a4 69. Bb6 1-0
Games rounds 9-11
Game viewer by ChessTempo
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Rob Brown
1 year 7 months ago
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There was a disappointingly high number of GM draws.
baby_face18
1 year 7 months ago
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jakovenko lost he lead the tournament from the begginning but failed.........bologan is surprising
adam
1 year 7 months ago
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sigeman & co (finished), capablanca, ruy lopez --will we see some coverage? would be great, though i know it's summer ;)
Peter Doggers
1 year 7 months ago
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Of course. But I don't know why you're mentioning Sigeman & Co.
adam
1 year 7 months ago
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i must have missed that one... thx for the info anyways
VladimirOo
1 year 7 months ago
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A nice option to think about: putting links of the others coverages of the event at the bottom of the page. That would be great (and easier than using the search engine)
Thanks!
Timothée Tournier
1 year 7 months ago
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a fully deserved result by bologan ! congratulations !
ebutaljib
1 year 7 months ago
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And how do we know that SB was used for tie-breaking purposes? Official site is silent about this and very uninformative (like most russian tournament websites)
Thomas
1 year 7 months ago
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I don't know if chesspro.ru qualifies as official coverage (it is linked at the, indeed uninformative tournament homepage) - they just write "Karjakin and Bologan shared first place", no tiebreaks mentioned.
Bologan's tournament was at least "interesting": in rounds 3 and 5 he had two short draws with white (16 and 13 moves), interrupted by a loss against Jakovenko. Then his game against Onischuk was postponed - still no official reason given, but he may have been sick. Once he was better(?), he won three consecutive games and suddenly shared first place .... . At least in the last round he showed a lot of fighting spirit or tenacity, to me (and engines) the bishop endgame against Motylev seemed completely equal for a long time.
Valerie
1 year 7 months ago
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sigeman & co (finished), capablanca, ruy lopez --will we see some coverage? would be great, though i know it's summer ;)
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