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R7: Aronian increases lead
22 March 2008 23:04 PM | Last modified: 23:05
The top match Aronian-Topalov was won by the Armenian, who thus increased his lead to a full point again at the Amber tournament. Kramnik was held 1-1 by (former?) second Van Wely and Carlsen did the same against Anand.
In their blindfold game, Topalov gave away a nice advantage against Aronian, and in the rapid it was Levon who dictated play. Strong was 13.Nf5! (with the idea 13…axb5 14.Bb4! Rg8 15.Rc1) and Topalov was already in big trouble around move 20.
If Kramnik hasn’t decided yet if he should ask Van Wely as his second again during the match in October, then at least the Dutchman has made another good impression on the Russian today. Loek drew his Black game (blindfold) quite easily with a King’s Indian and went for Kramnik’s throat from the very start in the rapid. That one also ended in a draw.
Carlsen’s goal was to do something about his bad score against Anand and he can be satisfied about his 1-1 today. Okay, with the Alekhine Magnus had a hard time against a strong playing Vishy, but in the rapid he had a great comeback. With all sort of tactical tricks he defeated the Indian.
Morozevich-Ivanchuk was one of those games with lots of mistakes. Black was fine before he went 21…Qe7?, White was winning until he didn’t play 30.c7! (even stronger than 30.Rxg2 Qxb6 31.Ng4 which was winning as well according to Ljubojevic and Nunn) and what Black played on move 46, well… But hey, who on earth puts a rook on c4, and leaves it there for fifteen moves? You can’t remember this, can you? In the rapid Ivanchuk didn’t come very close to a revenge.
Leko and Gelfand are two friendly guys who don’t like to take risks so much, and therefore such a minimatch ends in 1-1 like it did. In the minimatch Karjakin-Mamedyarov it was striking how easily Shakh held the draw with the rare 9…Kf8 in his Pirc.
So Aronian is a point clear from Anand in the combined standings; Morozevich of course leads the blindfold section.
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Carlsen win against Anand it’s the first time i think, know he can be the number one!!!! Aronian anand tomorrow and i think two draws wait and see but anand respect a lot of aronian i think too mutch!!
topalov for the win
Go Aronian Go! U r the CHAMP!
Brilliant Peter — as usual, your writing and videos both give great insight into the players’ personalities, relationships, moods and emotions. Well done.
increible mamedyarov 5/7 en las partidas a la ciega.
que pena que luego sea el último en las rápidas, es raro tanta descompensación en la puntuación.
The Pirc line Karjakin played against Mamedyarov isn’t supposed to be good for more than a draw - I think black can even take fxe6.
Chessvibes.com is super!
The Kings-Indian is back in bussiness!
Yeah, great videos, as always. Fun how the Dutch call Anand “Fishy”
van Wely has some very strong ideas in the opening. Kramnik should be impressed.