[Event "Chess24 Banter Blitz Cup"]
[Site "chess24.com INT"]
[Date "2019.12.15"]
[Round "2.4"]
[White "Cuenca Jimenez, J."]
[Black "Carlsen, M."]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "B01"]
[WhiteElo "2523"]
[BlackElo "2876"]
[PlyCount "58"]
[EventDate "2019.09.25"]
[EventType "k.o. (blitz)"]
[EventRounds "7"]
[SourceTitle "The Week in Chess 1310"]
[Source "Mark Crowther"]
[SourceDate "2019.12.16"]
[SourceVersion "1"]
[SourceVersionDate "2019.12.16"]
[SourceQuality "2"]

1. e4 d5 2. exd5 Qxd5 3. Nc3 Qd6 4. d4 Nf6 5. Nf3 c6 6. Ne5 Nbd7 7. f4 g6 8. g4
e6 9. Bg2 Bg7 10. O-O Qe7 11. a4 O-O 12. b3 Qb4 13. Qd3 Nxe5 14. fxe5 Nxg4 15.
Ba3 Qb6 16. Bc5 Nxe5 17. Qe3 Ng4 18. Qd2 Qc7 19. Bf3 Bh6 20. Qe2 Ne3 21. Bxf8
Kxf8 22. Rf2 Nf5 23. Be4 Be3 24. Bxf5 Bxf2+ 25. Qxf2 exf5 26. d5 Qe5 27. Qf3
cxd5 28. Rd1 Be6 29. Ne2 Qe4 0-1

[Event "Wch Blitz 9th"]
[Site "Berlin"]
[Date "2015.10.13"]
[Round "10"]
[White "Socko, Bartosz"]
[Black "Carlsen, Magnus"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "C54"]
[WhiteElo "2599"]
[BlackElo "2850"]
[PlyCount "54"]
[EventDate "2015.10.13"]
[EventType "swiss (blitz)"]
[EventRounds "21"]
[EventCountry "GER"]
[SourceTitle "CBM 168 Extra"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceDate "2015.10.29"]
[SourceVersion "1"]
[SourceVersionDate "2015.10.29"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Bc5 4. c3 Nf6 5. d4 exd4 6. e5 d5 7. Be2 Ne4 8. cxd4
Bb6 9. Nc3 O-O 10. Be3 Ne7 11. O-O c6 12. Rc1 Bf5 13. Qb3 Bg4 14. h3 Bh5 15.
Rfe1 Nf5 16. Na4 Bxf3 17. Bxf3 Ng5 18. Bg4 Nxd4 19. Bxd4 Bxd4 20. Qxb7 Ne4 21.
Re2 h5 22. Bxh5 Qh4 23. Bxf7+ Rxf7 24. Qxa8+ Kh7 25. Rcc2 Rxf2 26. Rxf2 Bxf2+
27. Kf1 Qf4 0-1

[Event "Clutch Champions Showdown"]
[Site "lichess.org INT"]
[Date "2020.05.26"]
[Round "1.3"]
[White "Dominguez Perez, L."]
[Black "Caruana, F."]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "C78"]
[WhiteElo "2758"]
[BlackElo "2835"]
[PlyCount "118"]
[EventDate "2020.05.26"]
[EventType "k.o. (rapid)"]
[EventRounds "2"]
[SourceTitle "The Week in Chess 1334"]
[Source "Mark Crowther"]
[SourceDate "2020.06.01"]
[SourceVersion "1"]
[SourceVersionDate "2020.06.01"]
[SourceQuality "2"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4. Ba4 Nf6 5. O-O Bc5 6. c3 b5 7. Bc2 d5 8. a4
dxe4 9. axb5 Bg4 10. bxc6 exf3 11. gxf3 Bh3 12. Re1 O-O 13. Ra5 Qd6 14. b4
Bxf2+ 15. Kxf2 e4 16. Kg1 Rae8 17. Re3 Nh5 18. Rg5 Qh6 19. Rg3 Nxg3 20. hxg3
exf3 21. Qxf3 Re6 22. Qf4 g5 23. Qd4 Rd6 24. Qe5 Re6 25. Qd4 Rd6 26. Qe4 Rf6
27. Bd3 Bf5 28. Qd5 Bxd3 29. Qxd3 Qh3 30. Qe2 Rxc6 31. Qg2 Qxg2+ 32. Kxg2 f6
33. d4 Kf7 34. Nd2 Re6 35. Nb3 Rxe3 36. Bxe3 h5 37. d5 Rb8 38. Nc5 Ra8 39. Nb7
Ke7 40. c4 Kd7 41. Nc5+ Kd6 42. Nb7+ Kd7 43. Na5 Re8 44. Kf3 h4 45. gxh4 gxh4
46. Bf4 Re1 47. Nb3 Kc8 48. Nc5 Rf1+ 49. Ke3 h3 50. Ne4 Rb1 51. b5 a5 52. d6 f5
53. Nf2 a4 54. c5 a3 55. c6 cxd6 56. Bxd6 a2 57. b6 a1=Q 58. b7+ Rxb7 59. cxb7+
Kxb7 0-1

[Event "Clutch Chess Showdown Int"]
[Site "lichess.org INT"]
[Date "2020.06.07"]
[Round "1.3"]
[White "Dominguez Perez, L."]
[Black "Caruana, F."]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "C67"]
[WhiteElo "2758"]
[BlackElo "2835"]
[PlyCount "90"]
[EventDate "2020.06.06"]
[EventType "k.o. (rapid)"]
[EventRounds "3"]
[SourceTitle "The Week in Chess 1335"]
[Source "Mark Crowther"]
[SourceDate "2020.06.08"]
[SourceVersion "1"]
[SourceVersionDate "2020.06.08"]
[SourceQuality "2"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 Nf6 4. O-O Nxe4 5. Re1 Nd6 6. Nxe5 Be7 7. Bd3 Nxe5
8. Rxe5 O-O 9. Nc3 g6 10. Nd5 Bh4 11. b3 c6 12. Ba3 cxd5 13. Bxd6 Bxf2+ 14. Kh1
Bd4 15. Rxd5 Bxa1 16. Bxf8 Bf6 17. Bd6 b6 18. Qg4 Qe8 19. Bg3 Bb7 20. Rf5 Qe6
21. Rf4 Be5 22. Qxe6 fxe6 23. Rg4 Bxg3 24. Rxg3 Kf7 25. Kg1 e5 26. Rh3 h5 27.
Rg3 Rg8 28. h4 Kf6 29. Kf2 Bd5 30. c3 Be6 31. Be2 a5 32. Ke3 Rc8 33. Rf3+ Bf5
34. Rf1 d5 35. g3 Ke6 36. Ba6 Rc7 37. Bb5 Rg7 38. Be2 Rd7 39. d4 Rc7 40. c4 Kd6
41. Rd1 Re7 42. dxe5+ Rxe5+ 43. Kf2 Rxe2+ 44. Kxe2 Bg4+ 45. Kd2 Bxd1 0-1

[Event "Astana"]
[Site "Astana"]
[Date "2001.05.20"]
[Round "1"]
[White "Shirov, Alexei"]
[Black "Kasparov, Garry"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "B84"]
[WhiteElo "2722"]
[BlackElo "2827"]
[Annotator "Ftacnik,L"]
[PlyCount "74"]
[EventDate "2001.05.20"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventRounds "10"]
[EventCountry "KAZ"]
[EventCategory "20"]
[SourceTitle "CBM 084"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceDate "2001.09.13"]
[SourceVersion "1"]
[SourceVersionDate "2001.09.13"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 a6 6. Be3 e6 7. Be2 Qc7 8. O-O
b5 9. a4 b4 10. Na2 Nxe4 11. c3 (11. Nxb4 Nd7 12. f4 d5 13. c3 Bb7 14. Bd3 Be7
15. Qe2 Ndc5 16. Bc2 O-O 17. Nd3 Rfe8 18. Kh1 Bf8 19. Rae1 {1-0 Votava,
J-Dydyshko,V/Schoeneck/1996/ (37)}) 11... b3 (11... bxc3 $6 12. Rc1 $40) 12.
Qxb3 (12. Nb4 Nd7 (12... d5 13. f3 Nf6 14. f4 Bd6 15. Nd3 O-O 16. Qxb3 Nbd7 17.
Rac1 Nc5 18. Nxc5 Bxc5 19. Qd1 Bb7 20. b4 Ba7 21. Bd3 {1-0 Lanka,Z-Stohl,I/
Koszalin/1999/ (38)}) 13. f4 Ndf6 14. a5 Bb7 15. c4 Be7 16. f5 d5 17. Qxb3 Nc5
18. Qa2 e5 19. Nb3 d4 20. Nxc5 Bxc5 21. Qa4+ {1-0 Antoniewski,R-David,P/CZE/
2000/ (52)}) 12... Be7 13. Bf3 Bb7 (13... d5 $6 14. c4 $14) 14. Qc2 Nf6 (14...
d5 15. Rac1 Bd6 16. h3 O-O 17. c4 Rc8 18. Rfd1 $11) 15. Bxb7 Qxb7 16. b4 O-O
17. b5 $6 {Shirov is not suspecting, that the miserable location of the knight
a2 will cost him dearly.} (17. c4 Rc8 18. Rfc1 Nbd7 19. Qe2 $11) 17... Ng4 18.
Bf4 (18. Qe2 Nxe3 19. fxe3 d5 20. c4 dxc4 21. Qxc4 Qe4 $15) (18. Bd2 Ne5 $15)
18... e5 19. Qe2 exd4 (19... Nxh2 20. Bxh2 exd4 21. Rfe1 $14) 20. Qxg4 axb5 21.
axb5 (21. cxd4 Rxa4 $17) 21... Qxb5 22. cxd4 (22. Rfe1 Qb2 23. Qd1 Rxa2 24.
Rxa2 Qxa2 25. Rxe7 dxc3 $17) 22... Qc4 $1 {Despite the simple character of the
position black is much better, since he fully dominates knight a2.} 23. Rae1 (
23. Rfc1 Qxd4 24. Re1 Nc6 $17) 23... Nc6 (23... Rxa2 24. Rxe7 Qxd4 25. Qg3 Nc6
$17) 24. Nc1 (24. Rc1 Qxd4 25. Rfd1 Qf6 26. Nc3 Ne5 $15) 24... Qxd4 25. Ne2 (
25. Qf3 Rfc8 26. Rd1 Qb4 $17) 25... Qa4 26. Qg3 (26. Qf3 Ne5 27. Qg3 Ra5 28.
Nc3 Qd7 $17) 26... Rfd8 27. Nc3 Qb3 28. Re3 (28. Rb1 Qc4 29. Rfc1 d5 $17) 28...
d5 $1 {Another excellent move, modest d pawn turns into a dangerous marching
machine.} 29. Bh6 (29. Ne2 Qb4 $17) 29... Bf8 30. Ne4 Qb2 31. Nc5 (31. Bg5 dxe4
32. Bxd8 Rxd8 33. Rxe4 f5 $19) 31... Bxc5 32. Rc3 Bxf2+ (32... Bd4 33. Rxc6 Re8
34. Be3 Ra1 $19) 33. Rxf2 Ra1+ 34. Rf1 Qb6+ 35. Re3 (35. Be3 Rxf1+ 36. Kxf1
Qb1+ 37. Rc1 Qd3+ $19) 35... Rxf1+ 36. Kxf1 Qd4 37. Qc7 (37. Bg5 Ra8 $19) 37...
Qc4+ (37... Qc4+ 38. Kf2 gxh6 $19) 0-1

[Event "Internet blitz 5'"]
[Site "ICC INT"]
[Date "1998.05.29"]
[Round "?"]
[White "KOCHO"]
[Black "Kasparov, Garry"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "A30"]
[BlackElo "2825"]
[PlyCount "56"]
[EventDate "1998.05.24"]
[EventType "match (blitz)"]
[EventRounds "1"]
[EventCountry "USA"]
[SourceTitle "EXT 2003"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceDate "2002.11.25"]
[SourceVersion "1"]
[SourceVersionDate "2002.11.25"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. Nf3 e6 3. c4 b6 4. g3 Bb7 5. Bg2 c5 6. O-O cxd4 7. Qxd4 Nc6 8. Qf4
Qb8 9. Nc3 Bd6 10. Qe3 O-O 11. b3 h6 12. Bb2 Bc5 13. Qd2 Rd8 14. Rfd1 d5 15.
cxd5 exd5 16. e3 d4 17. exd4 Nxd4 18. Nxd4 Bxg2 19. Kxg2 Qb7+ 20. Kg1 Rxd4 21.
Qe2 Re8 22. Qc2 Ng4 23. Rxd4 Bxd4 24. Rf1 Bxf2+ 25. Rxf2 Re1+ 26. Rf1 Rxf1+ 27.
Kxf1 Ne3+ 28. Ke2 Nxc2 0-1

[Event "Istanbul ol (Men) 40th"]
[Site "Istanbul"]
[Date "2012.09.07"]
[Round "10.1"]
[White "Giri, Anish"]
[Black "Aronian, Levon"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "E07"]
[WhiteElo "2711"]
[BlackElo "2816"]
[PlyCount "95"]
[EventDate "2012.08.28"]
[EventType "team-swiss"]
[EventRounds "11"]
[EventCountry "TUR"]
[SourceTitle "CBM 151"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceDate "2012.11.13"]
[SourceVersion "1"]
[SourceVersionDate "2012.11.13"]
[SourceQuality "1"]
[WhiteTeam "Netherlands"]
[BlackTeam "Armenia"]
[WhiteTeamCountry "NED"]
[BlackTeamCountry "ARM"]

1. d4 d5 2. c4 c6 3. Nf3 Nf6 4. Qb3 e6 5. g3 Be7 6. Bg2 O-O 7. O-O Nbd7 8. Bf4
a5 9. Rc1 h6 10. a4 Ne4 11. Nfd2 Nd6 12. Bxd6 Bxd6 13. e4 dxe4 14. Nxe4 Bb4 15.
c5 Nf6 16. Qc4 Nxe4 17. Bxe4 Kh8 18. Bg2 e5 19. d5 f5 20. dxc6 e4 21. cxb7 Bxb7
22. c6 Ba6 23. Qb3 Rc8 24. Nc3 Rxc6 25. Nd5 Bc5 26. Bf1 f4 27. Nxf4 Bxf2+ 28.
Kh1 Rb6 29. Qc2 e3 30. Bg2 Qe8 31. Qc5 Rff6 32. Rc2 g5 33. Nd5 e2 34. Qxa5
e1=Q+ 35. Rxe1 Qxe1+ 36. Qxe1 Bxe1 37. Nxb6 Rxb6 38. Rc6 Rxc6 39. Bxc6 Kg7 40.
Kg2 Kf6 41. Bf3 Ke5 42. h4 Bc8 43. hxg5 hxg5 44. Kf1 Bxg3 45. b4 Kd4 46. a5 Kc4
47. a6 Bb8 48. Bb7 0-1

[Event "Wch Blitz 8th"]
[Site "Dubai"]
[Date "2014.06.20"]
[Round "15"]
[White "Le, Quang Liem"]
[Black "Aronian, Levon"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "D00"]
[WhiteElo "2712"]
[BlackElo "2815"]
[PlyCount "68"]
[EventDate "2014.06.19"]
[EventType "swiss (blitz)"]
[EventRounds "21"]
[EventCountry "UAE"]
[SourceTitle "CBM 160 Extra"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceDate "2014.07.01"]
[SourceVersion "1"]
[SourceVersionDate "2014.07.01"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. Bg5 g6 3. Bxf6 exf6 4. e3 d5 5. g3 Bd6 6. Bg2 c6 7. Nd2 Be6 8. Ne2
h5 9. h4 Nd7 10. Rc1 Nb6 11. b3 Qe7 12. O-O g5 13. c4 Ba3 14. cxd5 Nxd5 15. Rb1
gxh4 16. e4 Nb6 17. d5 Bg4 18. Nc4 Nxc4 19. bxc4 hxg3 20. e5 gxf2+ 21. Rxf2 Bc5
22. dxc6 Rd8 23. Qe1 Qxe5 24. cxb7 O-O 25. Nc3 Bxf2+ 26. Kxf2 Qc5+ 27. Kg3 Rfe8
28. Ne4 Qe5+ 29. Kf2 f5 30. Rb5 Qf4+ 31. Kg1 fxe4 32. c5 Rd1 33. Qxd1 Bxd1 34.
c6 e3 0-1

[Event "Bazna Kings 4th"]
[Site "Medias"]
[Date "2010.06.20"]
[Round "6"]
[White "Ponomariov, Ruslan"]
[Black "Carlsen, Magnus"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "E81"]
[WhiteElo "2733"]
[BlackElo "2813"]
[Annotator "Rogozenco,D"]
[PlyCount "100"]
[EventDate "2010.06.14"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventRounds "10"]
[EventCountry "ROU"]
[EventCategory "20"]
[SourceTitle "CBM 137"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceDate "2010.07.15"]
[SourceVersion "1"]
[SourceVersionDate "2010.07.15"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. Nc3 Bg7 4. e4 d6 5. f3 {Ruslan had no reasons to avoid
the Samisch Variation.} O-O 6. Nge2 Nbd7 ({In the third round against
Ponomariov Radjabov played} 6... e5 {but failed to equalize.}) 7. Be3 c5 8. d5
Ne5 9. Ng3 h5 10. Be2 h4 11. Nf1 e6 12. Nd2 exd5 13. cxd5 Bd7 14. O-O b5 {
Otherwise it is not easy for Black to get counterplay. However, after this
pawn sac Black does not get sufficient compensation.} 15. Nxb5 Bxb5 16. Bxb5
Rb8 17. a4 Nh5 ({After} 17... a6 18. Bxa6 Rxb2 19. Rb1 {White exchanges
Black's most active piece and remains with a a healthy extra pawn.}) 18. f4 $1
Nd7 19. Qg4 a6 {The first critical moment of the game.} 20. Bxa6 ({The
simplest practical solution was} 20. Bxd7 Nf6 21. Qxh4 Qxd7 22. f5 Rxb2 23. Bg5
{with large advantage for White.}) ({Also good is} 20. Bc6) 20... Rxb2 21. Rab1
Rxd2 $1 {Magnus felt that this exchange sac is Black's only chance to
complicate matters.} 22. Bxd2 Bd4+ {The second critical position.} 23. Rf2 $2 {
This is actually just a blunder.} ({After} 23. Kh1 {Black has many tricks, but
White is able to defend and keep the advantage. Few variations are:} Ndf6 24.
Qf3 {It is also possible to take the pawn.} (24. Qxh4 Nxe4 25. Be1 $1 {and
White is better. If} Kg7 {then} 26. g4) 24... Ng3+ ({doesn't work:} 24... Nxe4
25. Qxe4 Ng3+ 26. hxg3 hxg3 27. f5 $18) 25. hxg3 hxg3 26. Be1 Nxe4 27. Bxg3
Nxg3+ 28. Qxg3 Kg7 29. Rf2 $1 {and although Black still keeps the initiative,
it is hardly sufficient to compensate for the missing material.}) 23... Bxf2+
24. Kxf2 Ndf6 25. Qf3 Qe8 $1 {As Ponomariov admitted after the game, he missed
this double attack. Black wins back the pawn and remains with a better
position.} 26. e5 Qxa4 27. exf6 Qxa6 28. Bc3 Qc8 ({Black had a tactical
solution to win White's weak pawns:} 28... Qc4 29. f5 Nxf6 $1 30. Kg1 (30. Bxf6
{runs into} Qc2+) 30... Ne4 {and White is in troubles.}) 29. Kg1 ({The last
chance for White was} 29. f5 $1 Qxf5 30. Qxf5 gxf5 31. Rb6 Rd8 32. Kf3 Rd7 33.
Rb8+ Kh7 34. g4 hxg3 35. hxg3 {and the activity of white pieces would have
secured good chances to escape with a draw.}) 29... Qf5 30. Rf1 Re8 31. Ba1 Ra8
32. Qe3 Kh7 33. Bb2 Rb8 34. Bc1 Rb1 {After Black activated the rook he is
winning.} 35. Qe8 Qxd5 36. f5 gxf5 37. Qe3 Qd4 38. Qxd4 cxd4 39. Bg5 Rxf1+ 40.
Kxf1 h3 $1 41. gxh3 (41. g3 Kg6 {changes nothing, of course.}) 41... Kg6 42.
Bh4 Nf4 43. Bg3 Kg5 44. Bf2 Ne6 45. Ke2 f4 46. Kf3 d3 47. h4+ Kf5 48. Bb6 Nc5
49. h5 d2 50. Ke2 Ne4 0-1

[Event "Zuerich Chess Challenge Extra Rapid"]
[Site "Zuerich"]
[Date "2014.02.01"]
[Round "3"]
[White "Gelfand, Boris"]
[Black "Aronian, Levon"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "E01"]
[WhiteElo "2777"]
[BlackElo "2812"]
[PlyCount "62"]
[EventDate "2014.01.30"]
[EventType "game (rapid)"]
[EventRounds "5"]
[EventCountry "SUI"]
[SourceTitle "CBM 158 Extra"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceDate "2014.02.28"]
[SourceVersion "1"]
[SourceVersionDate "2014.02.28"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. Nf3 d5 3. c4 e6 4. g3 c5 5. Bg2 cxd4 6. O-O Bc5 7. Nxd4 dxc4 8.
Qa4+ Qd7 9. Nb5 O-O 10. Qxc4 Qe7 11. b4 Bb6 12. a4 Bd7 13. a5 Bxf2+ 14. Kxf2
Rc8 15. Qd3 Nd5 16. Kg1 Qxb4 17. Nd4 Nc6 18. Nxc6 Bxc6 19. Qd2 Qc5+ 20. Kh1 Nf6
21. Bb2 Ng4 22. Qd4 Bxg2+ 23. Kxg2 Ne3+ 24. Kf2 Qxd4 25. Bxd4 Nxf1 26. Kxf1
Rc1+ 27. Kf2 Rac8 28. Bxa7 e5 29. Be3 Rd1 30. g4 f6 31. h3 Kf7 0-1

[Event "Zuerich Chess Challenge Blitz"]
[Site "Zuerich"]
[Date "2014.01.29"]
[Round "4"]
[White "Gelfand, Boris"]
[Black "Aronian, Levon"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "E02"]
[WhiteElo "2777"]
[BlackElo "2812"]
[PlyCount "99"]
[EventDate "2014.01.29"]
[EventType "tourn (blitz)"]
[EventRounds "5"]
[EventCountry "SUI"]
[EventCategory "22"]
[SourceTitle "CBM 158 Extra"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceDate "2014.02.28"]
[SourceVersion "1"]
[SourceVersionDate "2014.02.28"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. Nf3 d5 3. c4 e6 4. g3 c5 5. Bg2 cxd4 6. O-O Bc5 7. Nxd4 dxc4 8.
Qa4+ Nbd7 9. Qxc4 O-O 10. Nc3 a6 11. Nb3 Ba7 12. Rd1 h6 13. Bd2 Rb8 14. Rac1 b5
15. Qb4 Bb6 16. Bf4 a5 17. Qd6 Qe8 18. Nxb5 e5 19. Bd2 Bxf2+ 20. Kxf2 Rxb5 21.
Nxa5 e4 22. Kg1 Ne5 23. Bb4 Ng6 24. a4 Rh5 25. Nc6 Bb7 26. Ne7+ Nxe7 27. Qxe7
Qxe7 28. Bxe7 Rb8 29. Bxf6 gxf6 30. b4 Re5 31. Rc7 Bd5 32. b5 Bb3 33. Rd4 f5
34. Rb4 Be6 35. b6 Ra5 36. e3 Kg7 37. Bf1 Kf6 38. Ra7 Rc5 39. a5 Rc1 40. b7 f4
41. Rxe4 fxe3 42. Rxe3 Bh3 43. Rf3+ Kg7 44. a6 Rd8 45. Rxf7+ Kg6 46. b8=Q Rxb8
47. Rf2 Rb6 48. Ra8 Kg7 49. Ra7+ Kg6 50. Ra8 0-1

[Event "Leuven m blitz"]
[Site "Leuven"]
[Date "2011.10.09"]
[Round "4"]
[White "Short, Nigel D"]
[Black "Kasparov, Garry"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "C52"]
[WhiteElo "2698"]
[BlackElo "2812"]
[PlyCount "118"]
[EventDate "2011.10.09"]
[EventType "match (blitz)"]
[EventRounds "8"]
[EventCountry "BEL"]
[SourceTitle "CBM 144 Extra"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceDate "2011.10.28"]
[SourceVersion "1"]
[SourceVersionDate "2011.10.28"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Bc5 4. b4 Bxb4 5. c3 Ba5 6. d4 exd4 7. Qb3 Qf6 8.
O-O d3 9. e5 Qg6 10. Ba3 Nge7 11. Rd1 O-O 12. Bxd3 Qh6 13. Nbd2 d5 14. exd6
cxd6 15. Ne4 d5 16. Bc1 Qg6 17. Ng3 Qf6 18. Nh5 Qxc3 19. Qb1 Qb4 20. Bxh7+ Kh8
21. Bb2 f6 22. h3 Be6 23. Nd4 Bf7 24. Ng3 Bb6 25. a3 Qd6 26. Ngf5 Nxf5 27. Bxf5
Rae8 28. Bg4 Qf4 29. Nf3 f5 30. Qxf5 Qxf5 31. Bxf5 Re2 32. Bd4 Nxd4 33. Nxd4
Rb2 34. Bg4 Bg6 35. Bf3 Be4 36. a4 Bxf3 37. Nxf3 Bxf2+ 38. Kh1 Rf5 39. Rd3 Rb4
40. a5 g6 41. g4 Rff4 42. Rf1 Rb2 43. Ne5 Kg7 44. Rxd5 Bg3 45. Rxf4 Bxf4 46.
Rd7+ Kf6 47. Nd3 Rd2 48. Rd5 Be3 49. h4 b5 50. axb6 Bxb6 51. g5+ Ke7 52. Nf4
Rxd5 53. Nxd5+ Ke6 54. Nc3 Bd4 55. Ne2 Be5 56. Kg2 a5 57. Kf3 Kf5 58. Ke3 a4
59. Nc1 Bf4+ 0-1

[Event "Grenke Chess Classic 3rd"]
[Site "Baden-Baden"]
[Date "2015.02.04"]
[Round "3"]
[White "Aronian, Levon"]
[Black "Caruana, Fabiano"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "E39"]
[WhiteElo "2777"]
[BlackElo "2811"]
[Annotator "Krasenkow,M"]
[PlyCount "80"]
[EventDate "2015.02.02"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventRounds "7"]
[EventCountry "GER"]
[EventCategory "20"]
[SourceTitle "CBM 165"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceDate "2015.03.11"]
[SourceVersion "1"]
[SourceVersionDate "2015.03.11"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. Qc2 O-O 5. Bg5 c5 6. dxc5 Qa5 7. Bd2 (7. Bxf6
{is possible, too, but White looksfor a more complicated position.}) 7... Qxc5
(7... Na6 8. a3 Nxc5 9. e4 $5 $36 (9. Rc1 Bxc3 10. Bxc3 Qa4 11. Qxa4 Nxa4 12.
Bxf6 gxf6 13. b3 Nc5 14. b4 Na4 15. Nf3 b6 16. Nd2 Ba6 $11 {1/2 (46) Krush,I 
(2380)-Dragomarezkij,E (2468) Moscow 2002})) 8. e3 (8. a3 Bxc3 9. Qxc3 d5 10.
cxd5 Qxc3 11. Bxc3 Nxd5 12. Bd2 Nc6 13. e4 Nb6 14. Be3 e5 15. Bxb6 axb6 16. Bc4
Nd4 $132 {0-1 (45) Balla,T (2377)-Prodileanu,A (2204) Sarata Monteoru 2012}) (
8. e4 Nc6 9. a3 Bxc3 10. Bxc3 e5 11. Nf3 d6 12. h3 a5 13. Bd3 a4 14. O-O Be6
15. Bd2 Rfc8 16. Be3 Qa5 17. Qe2 h6 18. Rad1 Nd7 $132 {0-1 (43) Borulya,L 
(2105)-Serper,G (2420) Pula 1990}) 8... Qc7 (8... b6 9. a3 Bxc3 10. Bxc3 Qe7
11. Bd3 $36) (8... d5 $6 {(not a good time to open up the position!)} 9. a3
Bxc3 10. Bxc3 a5 11. Bd4 Qc7 12. Bxf6 gxf6 13. Rc1 dxc4 14. Bxc4 Bd7 15. Nf3
Rc8 16. O-O $14 {1/2 (16) Jaracz,P (2548)-Jedynak,R (2475) Czechia 2013}) (8...
Nc6 9. a3 Bxc3 10. Bxc3 e5 (10... Qe7 11. Bd3 e5 12. Ne2 Re8 13. Ng3 $14 (13.
O-O $4 e4 14. Bxf6 gxf6 {0-1 (14) Ivanov,J (2300)-Dautov,R (2535) Sverdlovsk
1989})) (10... a5 11. Nf3 (11. b3 $6 e5 12. Nf3 Re8 13. Be2 d5 14. O-O d4 15.
exd4 exd4 16. Bb2 Bg4 $132 {0-1 (29) Wagner,A (2241)-Kishnev,S (2488) Germany
2004}) 11... e5 12. Bd3 $14) 11. Nf3 $5 (11. b4 Qe7 12. b5 Nb8 13. Nf3 d6 14.
Be2 Nbd7 15. O-O b6 16. Nd2 Bb7 17. a4 d5 18. Qb2 d4 19. Bb4 Nc5 $132 {1/2 (53)
Krivko,Y-Khasin,A (2530) Omsk 1996})) ({Black's queen can therefore retreat to
give to his bishop a route back to e7.} 8... Qc6 {is not the best square:} 9.
Nf3 a6 10. Bd3 (10. a3 Be7 11. Bd3 d6 12. O-O Nbd7 13. b4 Qc7 14. h3 Rd8 15.
Rac1 Nf8 16. Nd4 Bd7 17. Qb3 Rdc8 18. f4 $14 {1-0 (61) Marovic,D (2485)-Tatai,
S (2465) Beersheba 1976}) 10... Qc7 11. g4 $5 Nxg4 12. Bxh7+ Kh8 13. Bd3 Nc6
14. Rg1 Nce5 15. Nxe5 Nxe5 16. Be2 f5 17. Nb1 Bxd2+ 18. Nxd2 $36 {1-0 (71)
Mascarinas,R (2465)-Smagin,S (2540) Zenica 1989}) (8... Qb6 $142 $5 9. a3 (9.
Nf3 $5) 9... Be7 10. Nf3 a6 11. Be2 Qc7 12. Rc1 b6 13. O-O Bb7 14. Rfd1 d6 15.
e4 Nbd7 16. h3 Nc5 17. Bd3 Rac8 18. b3 Qb8 19. Nd4 Rfe8 $13 {1/2 (56) Tozer,R 
(2235)-Smagin,S (2535) London 1989}) (8... Qh5 $5 9. a3 Be7 10. Nge2 b6 11. Nf4
Qe5 12. Be2 Bb7 13. O-O Nc6 14. Rac1 Rac8 15. b4 d5 16. cxd5 exd5 $132 {
0-1 (60) Hartston,W (2465)-Ornstein,A (2450) Skara 1980}) 9. Nf3 (9. Nb5 $5
Bxd2+ 10. Qxd2 Qb6 11. Nd6 {needs checking. Black can try to oust White's
knight by means of ...Nf6-e8 later on.}) 9... Be7 10. Bd3 Nc6 ({A more classic
hedgehog setup was seen in the following game:} 10... Na6 11. a3 Nc5 12. Be2 d6
13. O-O b6 14. b4 Ncd7 15. Rac1 Bb7 16. e4 Rac8 17. Rfd1 Rfd8 18. Bf4 Qb8 19.
h3 h6 20. Qb1 Ne8 $13 {1/2 (39) Zysk,R (2395)-Ribli,Z (2620) Germany 1988}) ({
but} 10... a6 11. O-O d6 {was a more direct way to get a hedgehog.}) 11. a3 b6
(11... a6 $5 {not allowing the following manoeuvre, which is, however, quite
harmless.}) 12. Nb5 Qb8 13. Bc3 h6 (13... a6 14. Bxf6 Bxf6 15. Bxh7+ Kh8 16.
Nc3 g6 17. Bxg6 fxg6 18. Qxg6 {looks risky for Black but objectively White
hardly has anything better than a perpetual check.}) 14. Rd1 a6 15. Nbd4 (15.
Bxf6 Bxf6 16. Nd6 Be7 17. Nxc8 Qxc8 18. O-O Qc7 {is hardly promising for White.
}) 15... Nxd4 16. Bxd4 d6 $5 ({Equally good was} 16... Bb7 {(here or on the
next move). ...b6-b5 would be possible in any case.}) 17. O-O Bd7 18. e4 e5 19.
Bc3 Rc8 (19... b5 20. c5 $5 {although after} Rc8 21. cxd6 Bxd6 {Black is OK,
too.}) 20. Qe2 Be6 21. Nh4 $5 g6 22. g3 {A passive continuation after the
sharp previous move.} (22. f4 $5 {was more logical:} Bg4 (22... exf4 $2 23. Nf5
$1) 23. Nf3 exf4 24. h3 Bh5 (24... Bxf3 $2 25. Qxf3 g5 26. g3) 25. e5 dxe5 26.
Bxe5 Qb7 27. Bxf4 Re8 28. Qc2 g5 $13) 22... Qc7 {The c4 pawn is now doomed.}
23. Ng2 (23. b3 b5) (23. Bd2 $5 Bxc4 24. Bxh6 Bxd3 25. Rxd3 Qc2 26. Qf3 $1 d5
27. Nf5 gxf5 28. Qxf5 Nxe4 29. Qg4+ (29. Rf3 $143 Nd6 30. Qxe5 Qg6 31. Qxe7 Nf5
) 29... Ng5 30. Rfd1 $13 {(Chesspro.ru)}) 23... Bxc4 24. Ne3 Bxd3 25. Rxd3 Nxe4
26. Bxe5 dxe5 27. Nd5 Qd6 (27... Nxg3 28. fxg3 Qb7 {looks too risky.}) 28. Qxe4
Bf8 29. Rfd1 $44 {White has powerful pieces but Black has no real weaknesses
so this compensation can only be enough for equality.} b5 30. Qf3 (30. Nf4 Qf6
31. Nd5 $11 Qe6 32. Re1 (32. Nc7 $2 Qc4 $1)) 30... Kg7 31. Nc3 $6 {White takes
the wrong way by preparing a rook invasion, which doesn't bring him any
benefit. He had a good opportunity to regain the pawn:} (31. Nc7 $1 Qxc7 32.
Rd7 Qc4 33. R1d5 Be7 $8 34. Rxe7 Rf8 35. Rdxe5 $11) 31... Qe6 32. Rd7 Bc5 33.
Qe4 Ra7 {Black has improved the position of his pieces, and White's
compensation has vanished.} 34. Rd8 $2 {Blundering another pawn. Positional
mistakes often lead to tactical oversights when you try to prove the
unprovable: the correctness of your wrong plan.} Rxd8 35. Rxd8 Bxf2+ $1 36. Kg2
(36. Kxf2 Qb6+) 36... Bb6 37. Rd2 Rc7 38. Qa8 Bd4 39. Ne2 Rd7 40. b4 h5 0-1

[Event "Corsica Masters KO 20th"]
[Site "Bastia"]
[Date "2016.10.28"]
[Round "2.2"]
[White "Onischuk, Vladimir"]
[Black "Vachier Lagrave, Maxime"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "B92"]
[WhiteElo "2602"]
[BlackElo "2811"]
[PlyCount "68"]
[EventDate "2016.10.27"]
[EventType "k.o. (rapid)"]
[EventRounds "4"]
[EventCountry "FRA"]
[SourceTitle "EXT 2018"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceDate "2017.10.13"]
[SourceVersion "1"]
[SourceVersionDate "2017.10.13"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 a6 6. Be2 e5 7. Nb3 Be7 8. Bg5
Be6 9. Bxf6 Bxf6 10. Qd3 Be7 11. Nd5 Nd7 12. Rd1 Bxd5 13. Qxd5 Qc7 14. c3 Nf6
15. Qd3 O-O 16. Nd2 Rfd8 17. Bf3 b5 18. O-O g6 19. Ra1 Nd7 20. Rfd1 Nb6 21. g3
d5 22. exd5 f5 23. h4 e4 24. Nxe4 fxe4 25. Bxe4 Nc4 26. Bxg6 Bc5 27. d6 Rxd6
28. Qf3 Rf8 29. Bf5 Kh8 30. b4 Rdf6 31. Rd5 Ne5 32. Qe2 Bxf2+ 33. Qxf2 Rxf5 34.
Qc5 Qg7 0-1

[Event "Tata Steel-A 74th"]
[Site "Wijk aan Zee"]
[Date "2012.01.14"]
[Round "1"]
[White "Karjakin, Sergey"]
[Black "Aronian, Levon"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "C84"]
[WhiteElo "2769"]
[BlackElo "2805"]
[Annotator "Let's Check"]
[PlyCount "84"]
[EventDate "2012.01.14"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventRounds "13"]
[EventCountry "NED"]
[EventCategory "21"]
[SourceTitle "CBM 147"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceDate "2012.03.16"]
[SourceVersion "1"]
[SourceVersionDate "2012.03.16"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4. Ba4 Nf6 5. O-O Be7 6. d3 b5 7. Bb3 O-O 8. a4
b4 9. Nbd2 Bc5 10. h3 d6 11. c3 Rb8 12. Re1 Re8 13. a5 Ba7 14. Nf1 Ne7 15. Ng3
Ng6 16. d4 h6 17. Bc2 c5 18. dxe5 dxe5 19. Bd3 Be6 20. Bxa6 c4 21. Ra4 Qc7 22.
cxb4 Bxf2+ 23. Kxf2 Qa7+ 24. Be3 Qxa6 25. Kg1 Red8 26. Qc1 Rd3 27. Rd1 Rb3 28.
Qd2 Kh7 29. Kh2 Rb7 30. Qf2 Bd7 31. Ra2 R7xb4 32. Nh5 $2 (32. Bxh6 Kxh6 33.
Nf5+ $11) 32... Bc8 $2 (32... Nxe4 33. Ng5+ Nxg5 $19) 33. Nxf6+ Qxf6 34. Kg1
Bb7 35. Nd2 Qxf2+ 36. Bxf2 Rd3 37. a6 Bxe4 $6 (37... Bxa6 $1 38. Be1 Nf4 $19)
38. Re1 $15 Ba8 39. Ne4 Nf4 40. a7 f6 41. h4 c3 42. Nc5 c2 0-1

[Event "Linares 22nd"]
[Site "Linares"]
[Date "2005.03.04"]
[Round "9"]
[White "Kasimdzhanov, Rustam"]
[Black "Kasparov, Garry"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "D48"]
[WhiteElo "2678"]
[BlackElo "2804"]
[Annotator "Lutz,C"]
[PlyCount "72"]
[EventDate "2005.02.23"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventRounds "14"]
[EventCountry "ESP"]
[EventCategory "20"]
[SourceTitle "CBM 106"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceDate "2005.06.06"]
[SourceVersion "1"]
[SourceVersionDate "2005.06.06"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

1. d4 d5 2. c4 c6 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. e3 e6 5. Nf3 Nbd7 6. Bd3 dxc4 7. Bxc4 b5 8. Bd3
Bb7 9. O-O a6 10. e4 c5 11. d5 Qc7 12. dxe6 fxe6 13. Bc2 c4 14. Nd4 Nc5 15. Be3
e5 (15... Rd8) (15... O-O-O) 16. Nf3 {Wegen dieses Zuges war die Variante mit
15...e5 (und das gesamte Abspiel mit 13...c4) aus schwarzer Sicht unpopulär
geworden. Aber Kasparov hat einen Trumpf im Ärmel.} Be7 $1 (16... Rd8 17. Qe2
Be7 18. a4 $1 Ncxe4 $5 19. Nxe4 Bxe4 (19... Nxe4 {(Petursson) Lutz} 20. axb5
axb5 21. Ra7 $36) 20. Bxe4 Nxe4 21. axb5 axb5 22. Ra7 $40 {1-0 Alterman,
B-Gabriel,C/Bad Homburg 1997/CBM 60/[Petursson] (42)}) (16... Ncxe4 17. Nxe4
Nxe4 18. Re1 Bd6 19. Bxe4 Bxe4 20. Ng5 Bd3 21. Qf3 $36 {1/2-1/2 Gelfand,
B-Bareev,E/Novgorod 1997/CBM 60/[Lutz] (100)}) (16... Bxe4 $2 17. Nxe4 Ncxe4
18. Bxe4 $18) (16... Nfxe4 17. Nxe4 Nxe4 {- 16...Ncxe4}) (16... Bd6 17. Nd5 $5)
17. Ng5 {Damit verhindert Weiß die kurze schwarze Rochade, denn dann gewinnt
Bxc5 nebst Ne6 die Qualität... oder etwa nicht !?} (17. Qe2 O-O 18. Ng5 Rae8
19. b4 cxb3 20. axb3 h6 21. b4 Ncd7 22. Bb3+ Kh8 23. Rac1 hxg5 24. Nxb5 Qb8 25.
Nc7 Bxe4 26. Nxe8 Qxe8 27. f3 Bd5 $17 {0-1 Shariyazdanov,A-Adianto,U/Biel 2003/
CBM 95 ext (56)}) (17. Nd5 $5) 17... O-O $1 $146 {Das ist die Idee, Schwarz
ignoriert einfach die weiße Drohung. Wie Kasparov in NIC Magazin 3/2005
schreibt, entstand diese Neuerung während seiner Vorbereitung auf das Match
gegen DEEP JUNIOR im Jahre 2003. Kasparov analysierte diese Variante an seinem
PC, und JUNIOR wollte 17...0-0 spielen. Nach eingehender Untersuchung kam
Kasparov zu dem Schluss, dass Schwarz dann in der Tat Kompensation für die
Qualität bekommen würde. Nach anderen schwarzen Zügen erhält Weiß die
Initative:} (17... Qc6 18. Nd5 h6 19. Bxc5 (19. Nf3 $5) 19... Bxc5 20. Ne6 Kf7
21. Nxc5 Qxc5 22. Nxf6 gxf6 23. Qd7+ Qe7 24. Qf5 (24. Rad1 $5) 24... Qe6 25.
Qh5+ Ke7 26. b3 c3 27. b4 Rag8 28. Qe2 Qc4 29. Qxc4 bxc4 30. Rfe1 Rd8 31. Re3
Rd4 32. f3 Rb8 33. Rxc3 Bc8 34. Rb1 Be6 35. a3 Rd2 36. Rd1 Rd4 37. Kf2 Rbd8 38.
Ke2 Rg8 39. g3 h5 40. Ke3 Rgd8 41. Re1 h4 42. gxh4 Rh8 43. Bd1 Rxh4 44. Be2 f5
45. exf5 Bxf5 46. Rg1 Be6 47. Rg2 {1/2-1/2 Schlecht,D-Schaefer,M/Germany 1998/
GER-chT (47)}) (17... h6 18. Bxc5 hxg5 19. Be3 g4 20. Qe2 O-O-O 21. a4 b4 22.
Nd5 Nxd5 23. exd5 Bxd5 24. Qxg4+ Kb8 25. Rfd1 $40 Bf6 26. Rd2 Bb7 27. Rxd8+
Rxd8 28. Be4 Rd4 29. Bxd4 exd4 30. Bxb7 Kxb7 31. Rc1 Qe5 32. Qd7+ Kb6 33. a5+
Kc5 34. Qc8+ Kd6 35. Qxc4 Qxa5 36. Qc6+ Ke5 37. Rc5+ {1-0 Kruppa,Y-Collas,D/
Cappelle la Grande 2001/CBM 80 ext (37)}) 18. Bxc5 Bxc5 19. Ne6 Qb6 20. Nxf8
Rxf8 {Schwarz hat eine glatte Qualität weniger, aber dafür hat er Spiel auf
den schwarzen Feldern (insbesondere gegen f2) und die weißen Figuren sind noch
auf die letzten beiden Reihen postiert. Die Zukunft wird zeigen, ob Schwarz
wirklich genügend Kompensation hat.} 21. Nd5 $6 {Unter dem Eindruck der
gegnerischen Neurung spielt Kasimdzhanov zu gradlinig. Weiß will die Lage
klären, aber Schwarz erhält unmittelbar einen Bauern und einen
"Läufervorposten".} (21. Qe2 Qe6 {"mit den Ideen ...Bd4 und ...Ng4 und Schwarz
hat nahezu volle Kompensation" (Kasparov)}) (21. a4 Bxf2+ 22. Kh1 Bd4 23. axb5
axb5 $44 {(Kasparov)}) 21... Bxd5 $1 22. exd5 Bxf2+ 23. Kh1 (23. Rxf2 $2 Ng4
24. Qxg4 Qxf2+ 25. Kh1 Qf1+ 26. Rxf1 Rxf1#) 23... e4 $1 {Damit verankert
Schwarz den Läufer auf f2. Das Problem für Weiß ist nun, dass seine Türme
nicht mehr ins Spiel kommen. Der weiße Läufer steht auf c2 schlecht, er würde
auf e2 wesentlich besser stehen (Blockade des e-Bauern und Kontrolle über g4).}
24. Qe2 $2 {Gemäß Kasparov ein glatter Zeitverlust.} (24. a4 $5 {kam in
Betracht, um die a-Linie zu öffnen, z.B.} Rd8 25. axb5 axb5 26. Qe2 e3 27. Rad1
Qd6 28. Bf5 Qf4 29. Bh3 g6 {mit gutem Spiel für Schwarz (Kasparov)}) (24. d6 $5
{war vermutlich das stärkste, um sofort Aktivität zu suchen und insbesondere
den Bc2 ins Spiel zu bringen.} e3 25. Bf5 $1 g6 26. Bh3 Kg7 {(Kasparov), mit
Chancen für beide Seiten.}) 24... e3 25. Rfd1 $2 {Danach steht Weiß gemäß
Kasparov schon auf Verlust. Insbesondere hat Weiß nun nicht mehr die
Möglichkeit, auf f2 die Qualität zurückzuopfern.} (25. Rad1 {ist besser,
obwohl auch dann Schwarz Vorteil behält.} Qd6 26. Bf5 Kh8 27. Rxf2 exf2 28.
Qxf2 Re8 {"und es ist schwierig für Weiß, den Bauern zu behalten" (Kasparov).})
25... Qd6 $1 $19 {Die schwarzen Figuren nähern sich an den weißen König an,
während die weißen Figuren eingesperrt sind.} 26. a4 g6 $1 {Bereitet ...Nh5
vor und nimmt dem Bc2 das Feld f5.} 27. axb5 axb5 28. g3 Nh5 $1 {Schwarz lässt
die Aktivierung der weißen Dame zu.} (28... Qe5 29. d6 Nh5 30. d7 Nxg3+ 31.
hxg3 Qxg3 32. Bf5 $1 {(Kasparov) ist nur Dauerschach für Schwarz.}) 29. Qg4
Bxg3 $1 30. hxg3 (30. Qe6+ Qxe6 31. dxe6 Bh4 $19 {nebst Vormarsch des e-Bauern
(Kasparov)}) ({Nach} 30. Rg1 {hat Schwarz nach Kasparov die Wahl zwischen zwei
Gewinnzügen:} Bxh2 $5 (30... Bf2 $1 31. Qxh5 Bxg1 32. Rxg1 Rf1 $1 33. Qg4 Rf2
34. Qe6+ Qxe6 35. dxe6 Rxc2 $19) 31. Qxh5 (31. Bxg6 hxg6 32. Qxg6+ Qxg6 33.
Rxg6+ Kh7 34. Re6 Bf4 $19) 31... Bxg1 32. Rxg1 Rf1) 30... Nxg3+ 31. Kg2 Rf2+
32. Kh3 Nf5 $1 33. Rh1 h5 34. Qxg6+ (34. Qg5 Rf3+) 34... Qxg6 35. Rhg1 Qxg1 36.
Rxg1+ Kf7 0-1

[Event "Linares 22nd"]
[Site "Linares"]
[Date "2005.02.25"]
[Round "3"]
[White "Vallejo Pons, Francisco"]
[Black "Kasparov, Garry"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "D21"]
[WhiteElo "2686"]
[BlackElo "2804"]
[Annotator "Huzman,A"]
[PlyCount "58"]
[EventDate "2005.02.23"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventRounds "14"]
[EventCountry "ESP"]
[EventCategory "20"]
[SourceTitle "CBM 106"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceDate "2005.06.06"]
[SourceVersion "1"]
[SourceVersionDate "2005.06.06"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

1. Nf3 d5 2. d4 e6 3. c4 dxc4 4. e4 b5 5. a4 c6 6. axb5 (6. b3 Bb4+ 7. Bd2
Bxd2+ 8. Qxd2 Nf6 9. axb5 (9. e5 Ne4 10. Qc2 Qa5+ 11. Kd1 f5 12. exf6 Nxf6 13.
bxc4 O-O $17 {1/2-1/2 Olafsson,H-Schlosser,P/Aabybro Nordic-tt 1989 (28)}) 9...
Nxe4 10. Qc2 Ng5 11. Nxg5 Qxg5 12. bxc4 cxb5 13. Nc3 Nc6 14. Qe4 Bb7 15. cxb5
Nd8 16. Qe3 Qe7 17. f3 $16 {1-0 Andruet,G-Giffard,N/FRA-ch Val Thorens 1988 
(36)}) (6. Nc3 b4 7. Ne2 Nf6 8. Ng3 Ba6 9. Qc2 b3 10. Qc3 Qb6 11. Bd2 Bd6 $1
$13 {Zakharevich,I-Makarov,M/ch-RUS, Elista 1996}) 6... cxb5 7. b3 Bb7 (7...
Nf6 8. bxc4 Nxe4 (8... bxc4 9. e5 Ne4 10. Bxc4 Bb4+ 11. Ke2 O-O 12. Ba3 Qb6 13.
Bxb4 Qxb4 14. Qb3 $14 {1-0 Cvitan,O-Lane,G/Cappelle op 1995 (37)}) 9. c5 Bxc5
10. Bxb5+ Bd7 11. Bxd7+ Qxd7 12. dxc5 Qxd1+ 13. Kxd1 Nxf2+ 14. Ke2 Nxh1 15. Be3
$14 {Yermolinsky,A-Kupreichik,V/URS-FL Sverdlovsk 1987/1/2-1/2 (62)}) 8. bxc4 (
8. Nbd2 Bb4 (8... Nf6 9. e5 Ne4 10. bxc4 Bb4 (10... Nxd2 11. Bxd2 bxc4 12. Bxc4
Be7 13. O-O (13. Qb3 Qd7 14. O-O O-O 15. Rfd1 Be4 16. Re1 Bc6 17. Ra2 a6 18.
Rea1 Ra7 {1/2-1/2 Zakharevich,I-Yakovich,Y/Elista 2001/CBM 83 (18)}) 13... O-O
14. Be3 Bd5 15. Bd3 Nc6 16. Nd2 f5 17. exf6 Bxf6 18. Qh5 g6 19. Qg4 e5 $11 {
0-1 Kristan,D-Savchenko,S/Portoroz 1996/CBM 51 ext (71)}) 11. cxb5 O-O 12. Bc4
Nd7 13. Ba3 Nxd2 14. Nxd2 Bxa3 15. Rxa3 Nb6 $44 {1/2-1/2 Bocharov,D-Makarov,M/
Togliatti RUS 2003/(63)}) 9. bxc4 Bxe4 10. Qb3 (10. cxb5 Ne7 11. Qa4 (11. Ba3
Bxf3 $1 12. Qxf3 Qxd4 $1 13. Rd1 Nd5 14. Bxb4 Qxb4 $17 {0-1 Bocharov,
D-Vorobiov,E/Sochi 2004/CBM 101/[Huzman] (37)}) 11... Bxd2+ (11... Nd5) (11...
Bc3) 12. Nxd2 Bd5 13. Be2 O-O 14. O-O a6 15. bxa6 Bb7 16. Ba3 Bxa6 17. Rfb1 Re8
18. Rxb8 Qxb8 19. Bxa6 Nd5 20. Qc6 $16 {1/2-1/2 Komarov,D-Maksimenko,A/Niksic
1996/EXT 2000 (63)}) (10. Be2 Nf6 (10... Bxd2+ $5) 11. O-O Bxd2 12. Nxd2 $1 O-O
13. Ba3 Re8 14. Nxe4 Nxe4 15. Qc2 $5 $44 {1-0 Farago,I-Rausis,I/Osterskars
1995/EXT 97/[Tisdall] (39)}) 10... Nc6 11. cxb5 Bxf3 12. Qxf3 Nxd4 13. Qd3 Rc8
14. Kd1 Rc3 15. Qb1 Nb3 16. Qb2 Qd4 {0-1 Panzer,P-Mueller,K/BL9192 1992}) 8...
Bxe4 (8... bxc4 9. Bxc4 Bxe4 10. Ne5 $36) 9. cxb5 (9. Nbd2 Bb7 (9... Bb4 $1)
10. Qb3 Nf6 11. Qxb5+ Qd7 12. Qxd7+ Nfxd7 13. Rb1 Bc6 14. g3 a5 15. Bg2 Bb4 16.
O-O O-O 17. Rb3 Rc8 18. Ba3 Ba4 19. Re3 Nc6 20. Ra1 Ra7 21. Ne4 $36 {1-0
Bareev,E-Semkov,S/Vrnjacka Banja (10)/1987/ (40)}) 9... Nf6 (9... Nd7 10. Be2
Ngf6 11. O-O Be7 (11... Qc7 12. Ba3 Bxa3 13. Rxa3 O-O 14. Nc3 Bb7 15. Qd3 Rfd8
16. Rd1 Nd5 17. Nxd5 Bxd5 18. Qe3 Qb7 $11 {1-0 Berkes,F-Putzbach,G/Hamburg
2003/CBM 94 ext (63)}) (11... Nd5 12. Bc4 N7b6 13. Bxd5 Bxd5 14. Be3 {1/2-1/2
Weiss,F-Horvath,D/Chessfriend.com 2003/Telechess CBM 99 (14)}) 12. Nc3 (12.
Nbd2 Bd5 13. Ba3 (13. Nc4 Qc7 14. Nce5 {1/2-1/2 Shipov,S-Vorobiov,E/Moscow
2003/CBM 95 (14)}) 13... O-O 14. Bxe7 Qxe7 15. Ra5 Rfc8 16. Qa4 Nb6 17. Qa3 Qb7
18. Ra1 $14 {1-0 Ovod,E-Demina,J/Elista 2003/CBM 94 ext (24)}) 12... Bb7 13.
Ne5 Qc7 $146 (13... Nxe5 14. dxe5 Nd7 15. Bf3 (15. Bf4 O-O 16. Bf3 Qc7 17. Rc1
Ba3 18. Nd5 Qd8 19. Ra1 Bb2 20. Nf6+ Nxf6 21. Bxb7 Bxa1 22. Bxa8 Qxa8 23. Qxa1
Nd5 $15 {0-1 Ivanov,S-Rublevsky,S/RUS-ch m3-4 1997 (31)}) 15... Bxf3 (15... Qc7
$6 16. Bxb7 Qxb7 17. Qg4 $36 {1-0 Tregubov,P-Yakovich,Y/Samara 2000/CBM 78/
[Huzman] (30)}) 16. Qxf3 O-O (16... Nxe5 17. Qe4 Nd7 18. Rd1 $44) 17. Bf4 Nc5
18. Rfd1 Qb6 19. Be3 Qb8 20. Qg3 $16 {1/2-1/2 Galianina Ryjanova,J-Demina,J/St
Petersburg 2002/EXT 2004 (27)}) 14. Nc6 (14. Bf3 $5 Qxc3 (14... O-O $5) 15.
Bxb7 Qxa1 16. Bxa8 O-O 17. Nc6 Rxa8 18. Nxe7+ Kh8 19. d5 a6 20. dxe6 {1/2-1/2
Bacrot,E-Kharlov,A/France 2001/EXT 2002 (20)}) 14... Bxc6 15. bxc6 Qxc6 16. Qb3
$44 Qb6 $1 (16... Rc8 17. Nb5 O-O 18. Rxa7 $36) 17. Qxb6 Nxb6 {1/2-1/2
Krasenkow,M-Rublevsky,S/Polanica Zdroj 1998/CBM 67/[Huzman] (17)}) 10. Be2 (10.
Bd3 Bb4+ (10... Bb7 11. O-O Be7 12. Bb2 O-O 13. Nbd2 Nbd7 14. Nc4 Qc7 15. Nce5
$14 {1-0 Gouliev,S-Guseinov,E/Baku 2000/EXT 2001 (33)}) 11. Kf1 O-O 12. Bxe4
Nxe4 13. Qb3 a5 14. bxa6 Rxa6 15. Rxa6 Nxa6 $15 {0-1 Khalifman,A-Ivanchuk,V/
Tilburg 1994/CBM 44 (24)}) 10... Be7 (10... Bb4+ 11. Nbd2 Nd5 (11... O-O 12.
O-O Bd5 13. Ba3 Bxa3 14. Rxa3 Nbd7 15. Qa1 Qb8 16. Rc1 $14 {0-1 Bocharov,
D-Kotsur,P/Abu Dhabi UAE 2004/(50)}) 12. Ba3 Bc3 13. O-O Bxf3 14. Bxf3 Bxa1 15.
Qxa1 a6 16. Bc5 $40 {1-0 Gyimesi,Z-Ortega,L/Bolzano 2000/CBM 77 ext (22)}) 11.
O-O O-O 12. Nc3 (12. Nbd2 Bb7 13. Nc4 a6 14. b6 Nc6 15. Bd2 Nd5 16. Qb3 Bb4 17.
Bxb4 Ncxb4 18. Ra5 Nc6 19. Ra4 Nf4 $132 {0-1 Lutz,C-Schlosser,P/Lasker mem
1989 (37)}) 12... Bb7 13. Bf4 ({It is interesting to know what Kasparov would
have prepared after} 13. Ne5 a6 (13... Nd5 $5 14. Bd2 (14. Bb2 Nxc3 15. Bxc3
Qd5 $11) 14... Qb6 15. Qa4 Nxc3 16. Bxc3 Bd5 17. Bc4 Rc8 18. Bxd5 exd5 19. Bb4
Bxb4 20. Qxb4 Nc6 $11 {1/2-1/2 Tregubov,P-Reinderman,D/Germany 2000/CBM 82 ext
(40)}) (13... Nbd7 $5 14. Nc6 Bxc6 15. bxc6 Rc8 16. d5 (16. Bf3 Nb8 17. Qa4 Qe8
$11) 16... exd5 17. Nxd5 Rxc6 18. Nxe7+ Qxe7 19. Bf3 Re6 20. Rxa7 $14) (13...
Bb4 14. Bb2 a6 15. Bf3) 14. Bf3 Nd5 (14... Qb6 $5) 15. Nxd5 exd5 16. Rb1 $1 $16
{1-0 Anand,V-Karpov,A Las Palmas 96}) 13... Bb4 14. Na4 (14. Qb3 Bxc3 (14...
Bd6 15. Ne5 $36) (14... Qe7 15. Ra4 Bd6 16. Ne5 $14) 15. Qxc3 Nd5 16. Qd2 Nxf4
17. Qxf4 a6 $11) 14... Nbd7 15. Qb3 Nd5 16. Bg5 Be7 $11 17. Bd2 a6 $1 {Black
gets rid of the weak pawn on a7 and equalizes the game.} 18. b6 (18. bxa6 Bxa6
19. Bxa6 Rxa6 20. Nc3 Rb6 $15) 18... Bc6 (18... N5xb6 19. Ba5 Bd5 20. Qe3 Rb8
21. Ne5 Qe8 $11) 19. Ne5 $2 (19. Rfc1 Bxa4 (19... Bb5 20. Bxb5 axb5 21. Qxb5
N7xb6 22. Ba5 Qd7 $1 $15) 20. Rxa4 Qxb6 21. Qxb6 N7xb6 22. Rxa6 $11) 19... Nxe5
20. dxe5 Nxb6 $1 21. Nxb6 (21. Qxb6 Qxd2 (21... Bxa4 $2 22. Qxd8 Rfxd8 23. Ba5
Rd4 24. Bc3 Rh4 25. g3 Re4 26. Bf3 $16) 22. Qxc6 Qxe2 23. Nb6 Rab8 24. Nd7 Rfc8
25. Qxa6 Qxa6 26. Rxa6 Rb7 27. Nb6 Rc5 28. Re1 (28. Ra8+ Bf8 $17) 28... h5 $17)
21... Qxd2 22. Nxa8 (22. Bf3 $5 Bxf3 23. Qxf3 Rad8 (23... Ra7 24. Rfd1 Qb4 25.
Qc6 $44) 24. Rxa6 Qc2 $1 25. Ra4 Qc5 (25... Rd3 26. Rc4 Qb3 27. Qe4 Rfd8 28.
Rc7 Bf8 29. Nc4 $15) 26. Nc4 Rd4 $17) 22... Qxe2 23. Nc7 (23. Nb6 Qxe5 24. Rac1
Bb5 $17) 23... Qxe5 24. Qg3 (24. Nxa6 Bd6 25. Qh3 (25. g3) 25... Ra8 $1) 24...
Qf5 25. Rxa6 (25. Nxa6 $5 $11) 25... Be4 (25... Qe4 $1 26. Rc1 (26. Rd1 Rc8 $17
27. f3 Qe2 $17) 26... Bh4 (26... Rd8 $5 $17) 27. Qf3 Qxf3 28. gxf3 Bxf3 $17)
26. Ra7 $6 (26. Re1 Rd8 27. Raa1 $11) 26... Bc5 (26... Qc5 $5 27. Raa1 (27. Nb5
Bd8 28. Qe3 Qxe3 29. fxe3 Bd3 $17) (27. Rfa1 Bf6 28. R7a5 Qc3 $1 $17) 27... Bd6
28. Na6 Qc6 29. Qg4 (29. Qg5 h6 30. Qg4 f5) 29... f5 30. Qe2 Bxg2 31. Rfc1 Qe4
32. Qxe4 Bxe4 33. Nc5 Bd5 $17) 27. Ra5 $4 (27. Ra4 Rd8 (27... Rc8 28. Re1) 28.
Nb5 $15) 27... Bxf2+ 28. Qxf2 Qxa5 29. Nxe6 Bxg2 (29... Bxg2 30. Kxg2 (30. Nxf8
Bxf1 $19 (30... Bxf1 31. Nxh7 Bd3)) (30. Qxg2 Qb6+) 30... Qa8+ (30... Qd5+) 31.
Kg1 fxe6 $19) 0-1

[Event "Wch Blitz 2nd"]
[Site "Moscow"]
[Date "2007.11.21"]
[Round "9"]
[White "Savchenko, Boris"]
[Black "Anand, Viswanathan"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "B91"]
[WhiteElo "2583"]
[BlackElo "2801"]
[PlyCount "124"]
[EventDate "2007.11.21"]
[EventType "tourn (blitz)"]
[EventRounds "38"]
[EventCountry "RUS"]
[EventCategory "19"]
[SourceTitle "EXT 2008"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceDate "2007.11.25"]
[SourceVersion "1"]
[SourceVersionDate "2007.11.25"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 a6 6. g3 e5 7. Nb3 Be7 8. Bg2
O-O 9. O-O Be6 10. f4 Qc7 11. f5 Bc4 12. Rf2 Nbd7 13. g4 h6 14. h4 Nh7 15. g5
hxg5 16. hxg5 Nxg5 17. Bxg5 Bxg5 18. Qh5 Be3 19. Re1 Nf6 20. Qh4 Bxf2+ 21. Kxf2
Rfc8 22. Nd2 Qb6+ 23. Re3 Qxb2 24. Rg3 Kf8 25. Nxc4 Rxc4 26. Qh8+ Ke7 27. Qxa8
Rxc3 28. Rxc3 Qxc3 29. Qxb7+ Nd7 30. Qxa6 Qxc2+ 31. Qe2 Qc3 32. Qg4 Nf6 33.
Qxg7 Qb2+ 34. Kg3 Qxa2 35. Qg5 Qe2 36. Bf3 Qe1+ 37. Kg2 Qc3 38. Kf2 Qc5+ 39.
Kg2 Qc8 40. Kf2 Qh8 41. Kg3 Kf8 42. Qd2 Qg7+ 43. Kf2 Ke7 44. Qc2 Ne8 45. Qc1
Qh8 46. Kg3 Kf6 47. Qc8 Qf8 48. Qc1 Qg7+ 49. Kf2 Qg5 50. Qc8 Ke7 51. Qb7+ Kf8
52. Qc8 Qe7 53. Kg3 Qc7 54. Qa8 Ke7 55. Kf2 Nf6 56. Kg3 Qb6 57. Kg2 Qd4 58.
Qb7+ Kf8 59. Qc6 Qd2+ 60. Kg3 Kg7 61. Qb7 Nh7 62. Qc8 Qf4+ 0-1

[Event "51st Biel GM 2018"]
[Site "Biel SUI"]
[Date "2018.07.27"]
[Round "6.2"]
[White "Georgiadis, N."]
[Black "Mamedyarov, S."]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "B92"]
[WhiteElo "2526"]
[BlackElo "2801"]
[PlyCount "78"]
[EventDate "2018.07.22"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventRounds "10"]
[EventCountry "SUI"]
[EventCategory "20"]
[SourceTitle "The Week in Chess 1238"]
[Source "Mark Crowther"]
[SourceDate "2018.07.30"]
[SourceVersion "2"]
[SourceVersionDate "2018.07.31"]
[SourceQuality "2"]

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 a6 6. Be2 e5 7. Nb3 Be7 8. Be3
Be6 9. Nd5 Nbd7 10. Qd3 Bxd5 11. exd5 Rc8 12. c4 O-O 13. O-O Ne8 14. Qd2 b6 15.
Rac1 a5 16. Na1 f5 17. f3 f4 18. Bf2 Bh4 19. Bd3 Bxf2+ 20. Qxf2 Nc5 21. Bc2 g6
22. Rfe1 Ng7 23. Be4 Qd7 24. Nc2 Nf5 25. b3 Kh8 26. Rb1 Ng7 27. Na3 Nf5 28. Nb5
Rf6 29. a3 g5 30. Nc3 Nd4 31. b4 axb4 32. Rxb4 g4 33. Qh4 Nxe4 34. Nxe4 Rg6 35.
fxg4 Nc2 36. Rxb6 Nxe1 37. Nf6 Qg7 38. Rxd6 Rh6 39. Qxe1 Rxf6 0-1

[Event "Paris GCT Blitz"]
[Site "Paris"]
[Date "2017.06.25"]
[Round "12"]
[White "Grischuk, Alexander"]
[Black "Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "C77"]
[WhiteElo "2761"]
[BlackElo "2800"]
[PlyCount "66"]
[EventDate "2017.06.21"]
[EventType "tourn (blitz)"]
[EventRounds "18"]
[EventCountry "FRA"]
[EventCategory "22"]
[SourceTitle "CBM 179"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceDate "2017.07.12"]
[SourceVersion "1"]
[SourceVersionDate "2017.07.12"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4. Ba4 Nf6 5. d3 b5 6. Bb3 Bc5 7. c3 d6 8. Bg5 h6
9. Bh4 Bb6 10. Nbd2 O-O 11. O-O Be6 12. Re1 Kh7 13. Bc2 Ne7 14. d4 Ng6 15. Bg3
Re8 16. Nf1 Nh5 17. Ne3 Nxg3 18. hxg3 c5 19. Nf5 cxd4 20. cxd4 exd4 21. Bb3 d5
22. N3xd4 Qf6 23. Nxe6 fxe6 24. Ne3 Rf8 25. Qe2 d4 26. Ng4 Qg5 27. Rad1 h5 28.
Nh2 d3 29. Nf3 Qxg3 30. Qxd3 Bxf2+ 31. Kh1 Nh4 32. e5+ Kh8 33. Rg1 Nxf3 0-1

[Event "Amber-blindfold 17th"]
[Site "Nice"]
[Date "2008.03.26"]
[Round "10"]
[White "Gelfand, Boris"]
[Black "Anand, Viswanathan"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "D47"]
[WhiteElo "2737"]
[BlackElo "2799"]
[PlyCount "62"]
[EventDate "2008.03.15"]
[EventType "tourn (rapid)"]
[EventRounds "11"]
[EventCountry "FRA"]
[EventCategory "21"]
[SourceTitle "CBM 123 Extra"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceDate "2008.05.06"]
[SourceVersion "1"]
[SourceVersionDate "2008.05.06"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

1. d4 d5 2. c4 c6 3. Nf3 Nf6 4. Nc3 e6 5. e3 Nbd7 6. Bd3 dxc4 7. Bxc4 b5 8. Bd3
Bb7 9. a3 Bd6 10. O-O O-O 11. Qc2 a6 12. b4 a5 13. Rb1 axb4 14. axb4 Qe7 15. e4
e5 16. dxe5 Nxe5 17. Nxe5 Bxe5 18. Ne2 Qe6 19. f4 Ra2 20. Qd1 Ba1 21. e5 c5 22.
exf6 Bd4+ 23. Rf2 Bxf2+ 24. Kxf2 Qd5 25. Bb2 Qxg2+ 26. Ke1 c4 27. Bc2 Bf3 28.
fxg7 Re8 29. Be5 f6 30. Bxh7+ Kxh7 31. g8=Q+ Kxg8 0-1

[Event "PCA/Intel-GP"]
[Site "Paris"]
[Date "1995.11.12"]
[Round "4.2"]
[White "Kramnik, Vladimir"]
[Black "Kasparov, Garry"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "E92"]
[WhiteElo "2730"]
[BlackElo "2795"]
[PlyCount "130"]
[EventDate "1995.11.??"]
[EventType "k.o. (rapid)"]
[EventRounds "4"]
[EventCountry "FRA"]
[SourceTitle "CBM 049 Extra"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceDate "1996.01.01"]
[SourceVersion "1"]
[SourceVersionDate "1996.01.01"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

1. Nf3 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. Nc3 Bg7 4. e4 d6 5. d4 O-O 6. Be2 e5 7. d5 a5 8. Bg5 h6
9. Bh4 Na6 10. O-O Qe8 11. Nd2 Nh7 12. a3 f5 13. f3 Bd7 14. b4 axb4 15. axb4
Nxb4 16. Qb3 c5 17. dxc6 Nxc6 18. c5+ Kh8 19. cxd6 Nd4 20. Qxb7 Rb8 21. Qa6 Rc8
22. Bc4 Rc6 23. Qa2 Rxd6 24. Bd5 g5 25. Bf2 g4 26. exf5 gxf3 27. Nxf3 Bxf5 28.
Ne4 Bxe4 29. Bxe4 Nf6 30. Bb7 Ng4 31. Rae1 Qh5 32. Bg3 Nf5 33. Nxe5 Nxg3 34.
Rxf8+ Bxf8 35. Nxg4 Rd1 36. Rxd1 Bc5+ 37. Qf2 Bxf2+ 38. Nxf2 Ne2+ 39. Kh1 Nc3
40. Rd8+ Kg7 41. Bf3 Qb5 42. Rd3 Qb1+ 43. Bd1 Qb2 44. Kg1 Qc1 45. h3 h5 46. Kh2
h4 47. Bf3 Qc2 48. Rd7+ Kf8 49. Ng4 Qc1 50. Rd4 Nb5 51. Rd5 Qf4+ 52. Kh1 Nd4
53. Ne5 Qc1+ 54. Kh2 Qc7 55. Rc5 Nxf3+ 56. gxf3 Qb8 57. Kg1 Qb4 58. Nd3 Qd4+
59. Kg2 Qxd3 60. Rc8+ Kf7 61. Kf2 Qd7 62. Rc2 Qxh3 63. Ke3 Qg3 64. Rc4 h3 65.
Rf4+ Qxf4+ 0-1

[Event "London Classic 8th"]
[Site "London"]
[Date "2016.12.15"]
[Round "6"]
[White "Topalov, Veselin"]
[Black "So, Wesley"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "C54"]
[WhiteElo "2760"]
[BlackElo "2794"]
[Annotator "Stohl,I"]
[PlyCount "54"]
[EventDate "2016.12.09"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "ENG"]
[EventCategory "22"]
[SourceTitle "CBM 176"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceDate "2017.01.17"]
[SourceVersion "1"]
[SourceVersionDate "2017.01.17"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Bc5 4. c3 {The Giuoco Piano is here to stay, at
least for a while. Only one issue back in CBM 175 I annotated the game
Karjakin-Navara, Baku olm 2016 and there have been numerous high-level
examples since - last, but not least in the World Championship match...} ({
However, in this game both players will postpone castling for quite a few
moves. while both Karjakin and subsequently Carlsen preferred} 4. O-O Nf6 5. d3
O-O 6. a4 (6. c3 d5 $5 7. exd5 Nxd5 8. a4 $5 (8. h3 Nb6 9. Bb5 Bd6 10. Bxc6
bxc6 11. Re1 Re8 12. Nbd2 Bf5 13. Ne4 Bg6 14. Qb3 Bf8 15. Qc2 c5 16. b3 h6 17.
Bb2 Nd5 18. Rad1 Qd7 19. c4 Nb4 20. Qb1 f6 21. Re3 Rad8 22. Rd2 Qc6 $17 {
Fedoseev,V (2667)-Shirov,A (2673) Moscow rpd 2016}) 8... Bf5 $5 ({1a)} 8... a6
9. a5 (9. Nbd2 Nb6 10. Ba2 Qxd3 $5 (10... a5 11. d4 exd4 12. Nb3 Bd6 13. Nbxd4
Nxd4 14. Qxd4 Bd7 15. Bb3 Bc6 16. Ne5 Bxe5 17. Qxe5 Re8 18. Qg3 Bd5 19. Bg5 f6
20. Bh6 Qe7 21. Bc2 Qf7 22. Rfe1 {Kryvoruchko,Y (2701)-Almasi,Z (2702) Hungary
2016} Nc4 $11) 11. a5 Nd7 12. Bb1 Qd6 13. Ng5 Nf6 14. Qc2 Ne7 $1 (14... g6 15.
Nge4 Bf5 16. Nxd6 Bxc2 17. Nxb7 Bxb1 18. Nxc5 Bc2 19. Nc4 Ne4 20. Nxe4 Bxe4 21.
Re1 f5 22. f3 Bc2 23. Nxe5 Rfe8 24. Bf4 $14 {Schroeder,J (2507)-Shirov,A (2674)
Helsingor 2016}) 15. Nge4 Bf5 16. Nxd6 Bxc2 17. Nxb7 Bxb1 18. Nxc5 Bf5 19. Nc4
Nc6 20. Re1 Rfe8 21. b4 Nd7 22. Be3 Nxc5 23. Bxc5 f6 24. Ne3 Be6 $11 {Cornette,
M (2583)-Naroditsky,D (2634) Grosseto Prugna 2016}) 9... Bf5 $5 (9... b5 10.
axb6 Nxb6 11. Bb3 Bg4 {Karjakin,S (2773)-Giri,A (2785) Bilbao 2016} 12. h3 Bh5
13. Bg5 $1 $14 {Roiz}) 10. Nbd2 b5 11. axb6 Nxb6 12. Nb3 Be7 13. Bxa6 Rxa6 14.
Rxa6 Bxd3 15. Ra1 Bxf1 16. Qxd8 Rxd8 17. Kxf1 f6 18. Ke2 Kf7 19. Nfd2 f5 20. g3
Bf6 $11 {Alekseev,E (2636)-Predke,A (2587) Sochi blitz 2016}) (8... a5 9. Nbd2
Nb6 10. Bb5 Bd6 11. Ne4 (11. Re1 Bg4 12. Ne4 Na7 13. h3 Bh5 14. d4 Nxb5 15.
axb5 exd4 16. Nxd6 Bxf3 17. Qxf3 Qxd6 18. Rd1 {½-½ (88) Giri,A (2782)
-Aronian,L (2792) Leuven 2016} (18. Bf4 Qf6 19. Bxc7 Qxf3 20. gxf3 Nd5 21. Bxa5
dxc3 22. bxc3 Rfc8 23. Red1 Nf4 24. Kh2 h6 25. Bb4 Rxa1 26. Rxa1 Nd5 $11 {
Kramnik,V (2812)-Aronian,L (2792) Paris rpd 2016}) 18... Qc5 19. Rxd4 Qxb5 20.
Qxb7 Rac8 $132) 11... Na7 $5 (11... Bg4 12. h3 Bh5 13. Re1 Ne7 14. d4 exd4 {
Anand,V (2770)-So,W (2770) Leuven blitz 2016} 15. Nxd6 Qxd6 16. Qxd4 $36) 12.
d4 Nxb5 13. axb5 exd4 14. Nxd6 Qxd6 15. Qxd4 (15. Nxd4 Be6 16. Qf3 Bd5 17. Qg4
Qg6 18. Qxg6 fxg6 $1 19. b3 a4 20. Ba3 Rfd8 $15 {Asis Gargatagli,H (2499)
-Naiditsch,A (2684) Barcelona 2016}) 15... Bd7 16. Bf4 Qxd4 17. Nxd4 Rfc8 18.
Rfc1 c5 19. bxc6 Bxc6 20. b3 Bd7 21. Bd2 a4 22. bxa4 Nxa4 23. Rcb1 Nc5 $11 {
Predojevic,B (2639)-Banusz,T (2611) Austria 2015}) (8... Nb6 9. Bb5 Ne7 $1 10.
a5 (10. Nxe5 c6 11. Bc4 Bd6 12. Nf3 Nxc4 13. dxc4 Qc7 14. Re1 {Sedina,E (2275)
-Loiacono,A (2085) Trieste 2016} Bf5 $44) 10... c6 11. axb6 cxb5 12. Rxa7 Rxa7
13. bxa7 Bxa7 14. Nxe5 Bf5 (14... Bb8 15. d4 Nd5 16. Nd2 f6 17. Nef3 Bf5 18.
Re1 Re8 19. Nf1 Bg6 20. Ng3 Qd7 21. Rxe8+ Qxe8 22. Bd2 Qd7 23. Qa1 Bxg3 24.
hxg3 h6 25. Qf1 Qc6 26. Qe2 Bf7 27. Nh4 Qe8 28. Qxe8+ Bxe8 $44 {Bok,B (2613)
-Georgiadis,N (2470) Biel 2016}) 15. Be3 (15. Na3 Bb8 16. d4 {Mamedov,R (2666)
-Balogh,C (2614) Baku 2016} b4 $1 $44) 15... Bb8 16. d4 f6 17. Nf3 Nd5 18. Re1
g5 (18... Qd7 $44) 19. Nfd2 Bg6 20. Nf1 h5 21. Qb3 Qd7 22. Na3 b4 23. Nc2 bxc3
24. bxc3 b5 25. Na3 b4 26. cxb4 Bf7 $132 {Alekseev,E (2636)-Eliseev,U (2606)
St Petersburg 2016}) 9. Re1 Nb6 10. Bb5 Ne7 {is a new version of the 8...Nb6
idea, possibly a promising one:} 11. a5 c6 12. axb6 cxb5 13. Rxa7 (13. Be3 $5
$11) 13... Qxb6 14. Rxa8 Bxf2+ 15. Kh1 Rxa8 16. Rxe5 Bc5 17. Na3 Bd7 18. Nc2
Bd6 19. Re1 Nf5 20. d4 f6 21. Nb4 Bxb4 22. Qb3+ Kh8 23. Qxb4 Qc6 24. Bf4 Be6
25. Qc5 Bd5 26. Qxc6 bxc6 $36 {^-, Mamedov,R (2688)-Dominguez Perez,L (2739)
Doha 2016}) ({After} 6. Bg5 h6 7. Bh4 {the safest, but not the only choice is}
Be7 $5 (7... d6 8. c3 a6 9. a4 g5 10. Bg3 (10. Nxg5 hxg5 11. Bxg5 Kg7 12. Qf3 (
12. b4 Bb6 13. Qf3 Qe7 (13... Rh8 $142 $5) 14. Na3 Be6 15. Bd5 Rh8 16. Nc4 Rag8
17. b5 Nb8 18. Nxb6 cxb6 19. Bxb7 a5 20. d4 Nbd7 21. Bc6 Kf8 22. h4 $14 {
Daulyte,D (2421)-Abdumalik,Z (2389) Baku olw 2016}) 12... Rh8 13. Nd2 Kg6 14.
h4 Bg4 $1 15. Bxf6 Qd7 16. Qg3 Kxf6 17. d4 exd4 18. e5+ Ke7 19. Ne4 Rag8 20.
Nf6 Qf5 21. Bd3 Qe6 22. b4 Ba7 $17 {Caruana,F (2804)-Nakamura,H (2787) Paris
blitz 2016}) 10... Ba7 (10... g4 $6 11. Bh4 $1 $44) 11. Na3 (11. Nbd2 Nh7 $1 {
transposes to our game}) 11... Bg4 (11... Ne7 12. Nc2 Kg7 13. Kh1 Nh5 14. d4 f5
15. exf5 e4 16. Nxg5 Nxg3+ 17. fxg3 hxg5 18. f6+ Rxf6 19. Rxf6 Kxf6 20. Qf1+
Bf5 21. g4 d5 22. Be2 Qd6 23. Ne3 Qf4 24. Qg1 Kg7 25. Rf1 $16 {So,W (2770)
-Anand,V (2770) Leuven blitz 2016}) (11... Kg7 12. Nc2 Be6 13. Ba2 b5 14. Ne3
Ne7 15. Bb1 Bxe3 16. fxe3 Nd7 17. d4 f6 18. Bd3 c6 19. Nd2 Bf7 20. b4 Qc7 21.
c4 bxa4 22. c5 a5 23. cxd6 Qxd6 24. bxa5 Rxa5 25. Rxa4 Rxa4 26. Qxa4 $36 {
Muzychuk,M (2545)-Cramling,P (2463) Chengdu 2016}) 12. Re1 (12. Nc2 d5 $6 (
12... Nh5 $142) 13. exd5 Nxd5 14. d4 exd4 15. cxd4 Bh5 16. Ra3 Kh8 17. Qd2 f5
18. Be5+ Nxe5 19. Nxe5 Kg7 20. Rg3 f4 21. Rh3 Be8 22. Qd3 $14 {1/2-1/2 (45)
Dragun,K (2594)-Gajewski,G (2633) Poznan 2016}) (12. h3 Bh5 13. Qe2 Ne7 14. Nc2
Ng6 15. Ne3 Kh7 16. Nf5 Ne7 17. Ne3 Ng6 18. Nf5 $11 {½,Chocenka,D (2403)
-Jasinski,M (2393) email 2014}) 12... Nh5 13. h3 Bxf3 14. Qxf3 Nxg3 15. Qxg3
Qf6 16. Re2 Ne7 17. Nc2 Kg7 18. Rd1 Qf4 19. Qxf4 exf4 20. d4 Ng6 21. Ne1 Rae8
$11 {Neiksans,A (2614)-Lalith,B (2565) Warsaw 2016}) 8. c3 (8. Bg3 d6 9. a4 $5
$13 {/\} Nh5 $6 10. Nxe5 $1 $14) 8... d6 9. Nbd2 Nh5 (9... Na5 10. Bb5 a6 11.
Ba4 b5 12. Bc2 Nh5 13. Bxe7 Qxe7 14. a4 Bg4 15. b4 Nc6 16. h3 Bd7 17. Re1 Nf4
18. Nf1 Qf6 19. Ne3 Ne7 20. d4 Neg6 21. Kh2 a5 $1 $132 {Karttunen,M (2445)
-Stefansson,H (2521) Rhodes 2013}) 10. Bxe7 (10. Bg3 Nxg3 11. hxg3 Bf6 12. Nh2
g6 13. f4 Na5 14. Ng4 Bg7 15. Bb5 c6 16. Ba4 Qb6+ 17. Rf2 exf4 18. gxf4 Qxb2
$17 {Thorhallsson,T (2454)-Godena,M (2522) Saint Vincent 2005}) 10... Qxe7 11.
d4 Nf4 12. Re1 Qf6 13. dxe5 Nxe5 14. Nxe5 dxe5 15. Nf1 Rd8 16. Qb3 Qg6 17. Ng3
h5 18. h4 b6 19. Qb5 Qf6 20. Rad1 Bg4 $15 {Starostits,I (2489)-Berzinsh,R 
(2422) Riga 2012}) ({3)} 6. h3 d6 (6... d5 $6 7. exd5 Nxd5 8. Re1 Re8 9. Ng5 $1
Be6 10. c3 Nf4 11. Nxe6 Nxe6 12. Nd2 Bf8 13. Nf3 Bd6 14. Bd5 Qf6 15. Be3 h6 16.
Qa4 Nc5 17. Bxc5 Bxc5 18. Bxc6 bxc6 19. Qc4 Qd6 20. Rad1 Rad8 21. Rd2 Re7 22.
Rde2 $16 {Karthikeyan,M (2435)-Monnisha,G (2070) Golden Sands 2013}) ({However,
Black can postpone the advance of the Pd7 with} 6... a6 {, or}) (6... h6 {
Both are useful waiting moves and in most cases play just tranposes into the
main line,}) 7. c3 h6 (7... a6 8. Re1 Ba7 9. Bb3 h6 10. Nbd2 Re8 11. Nf1 Be6
12. Bc2 d5 13. exd5 Qxd5 ({We mentioned some relevant games after} 13... Nxd5
14. Ng3 Qd6 15. Nh4 {and}) (13... Bxd5 14. Ng3 Qd7 $5 15. Nh4 {in CBM 175}) 14.
Ng3 Rad8 15. Qe2 (15. Bd2 Qd6 16. Qc1 Nd5 17. d4 exd4 18. Bxh6 Ne3 19. fxe3 d3
20. Ne4 Qd5 21. Bxd3 Qxd3 22. Nf2 Qg6 23. Bf4 Bb6 $44 {Ponomariov,R (2709)
-Anton Guijarro,D (2650) Tallinn rpd 2016}) 15... Qd7 16. Be3 Bxe3 17. fxe3 Nd5
(17... Bd5 18. e4 Be6 $13) (17... Qd6 $5) 18. d4 exd4 19. exd4 Bxh3 (19... Bf5
$2 20. Ne5 $1 Rxe5 (20... Nf4 21. Qf2 Nxe5 22. Bxf5 Ned3 23. Rxe8+ Qxe8 24. Qd2
Qb5 25. b3 c5 26. Bxd3 Qxd3 27. Qxf4 Qxc3 28. Rc1 $18 {Radjabov,T (2788)
-Naiditsch,A (2712) Istanbul olm 2012}) 21. dxe5 Nf4 22. Qf2 Bxc2 23. Qxf4 Qe6
24. b3 $16 {Radjabov,T (2724)-Anand,V (2785) Dubai rpd 2014}) (19... Nf6 $5 20.
Qf2 $14 {/=}) 20. Qd3 g6 21. gxh3 Qxh3 22. Nh2 $6 (22. Ne4 $1 $16) 22... Ncb4
23. cxb4 Nxb4 24. Qb3 Nxc2 25. Rxe8+ Rxe8 26. Rf1 Re6 $15 {Gauri,S (2307)
-Chirila,I (2542) Chicago 2015}) 8. Re1 a5 (8... a6 9. Bb3 b5 $5 (9... Ba7 {
-7...a6}) 10. Nbd2 Bb6 11. Nf1 Ne7 12. a4 Rb8 13. d4 Ng6 14. Be3 exd4 $5 15.
Bxd4 c5 16. Bxf6 Qxf6 17. axb5 axb5 18. Ne3 Qd8 19. Nd5 Bb7 20. Nxb6 Qxb6 $11 {
Harikrishna,P (2752)-Carlsen,M (2857) Baku olm 2016}) 9. Bb3 (9. Nbd2 a4 10.
Bb5 Bd7 11. Nc4 (11. Bxa4 Rxa4 12. Qxa4 Nb4 13. Qd1 Nxd3 14. Rf1 Bc6 15. Qc2
Nf4 16. b4 Ba7 17. c4 Qc8 18. c5 Bd7 19. Nh4 Bxh3 20. Nc4 Qg4 21. Bxf4 exf4 22.
Qd3 Bxg2 23. Nxg2 f3 24. Nce3 Qg6 $40 {Drozdowski,K (1725)-Vyzharov,I (2148)
email 2010}) 11... Nb8 12. Bxd7 Nbxd7 13. d4 Ba7 14. dxe5 dxe5 15. Be3 Bxe3 16.
Nxe3 a3 17. b4 Nxe4 18. Nf5 Ndf6 19. Qc2 Qd7 20. g4 Qa4 21. Qxa4 Rxa4 22. Re3
g6 23. Nxh6+ Kg7 24. h4 Kxh6 25. g5+ Kg7 26. gxf6+ Nxf6 27. Rxe5 Rd8 $15 {
Papp,G (2587)-Harikrishna,P (2768) Novi Sad 2016}) 9... Re8 10. Nbd2 Be6 11.
Ba4 (11. Bc2 Ba7 12. Nf1 d5 13. Qe2 b5 14. Rd1 d4 15. Ng3 a4 16. c4 bxc4 17.
Bxa4 cxd3 18. Qxd3 Bd7 19. Bd2 Ne7 20. Bb3 Nc8 21. Rac1 c5 22. Be1 Nd6 $15 {
Beradze,I (2327)-Javakhadze,Z (2415) Poti 2012}) 11... Qb8 $5 (11... Ba7 {
Harikrishna,P (2752)-Karjakin,S (2769) Baku 2016}) 12. d4 exd4 13. cxd4 b5 14.
dxc5 bxa4 15. cxd6 cxd6 16. Nb1 (16. Qxa4 Nb4 $44) 16... d5 17. exd5 Bxd5 18.
Rxe8+ Qxe8 19. Be3 Rc8 20. Nc3 Bxf3 21. Qxf3 a3 {Harika,D (2528)-Adams,M (2745)
Douglas 2016} 22. bxa3 Ne5 23. Qf5 Rxc3 24. Bd4 $11) 6... d6 7. c3 a6 {was the
move order, employed in New York - we will get to the Carlsen-Karajkin games
below.}) 4... Nf6 5. d3 {Technically only this move is characteristic of the
Giuoco Piano.} (5. d4 exd4 6. e5 {is (was?) a favourite of Jobava, leading to
a more open and completely different type of struggle. This line was the topic
of an opening survey in CBM 158.}) 5... a6 ({The alternative to the typical
text move is} 5... d6 6. O-O a5 $5 {, fighting for queenside space at the cost
of slightly weakening b5.} ({Black still has the flexible} 6... h6 7. Re1 O-O
8. Nbd2 a6 {, now} 9. Nf1 ({The last chance to keep more tension and play} 9.
a4 $142) 9... Na5 $1 10. b4 Nxc4 11. bxc5 Na5 12. cxd6 cxd6 13. a4 b5 14. axb5
axb5 15. Rb1 Qc7 $1 16. Bd2 Re8 17. h3 Nb7 18. Nh4 d5 19. exd5 Nxd5 20. Rxb5
Nxc3 21. Bxc3 Qxc3 22. Nf3 Ra5 23. Rxa5 Qxa5 24. Qd2 Qb5 25. Qc3 f6 26. d4 exd4
27. Nxd4 Qd7 $11 {Giri,A (2755)-Mamedyarov,S (2761) Moscow 2016 petered out
into sterile symmetry.}) {There followed} 7. Re1 h6 (7... O-O 8. Nbd2 Kh8 9.
Nf1 Be6 10. Bb5 Bd7 11. Ng3 Bb6 12. Be3 Bxe3 13. Rxe3 Ne7 14. Bxd7 Qxd7 15. d4
Nc6 16. a4 Rfe8 17. h3 Kg8 18. Qe2 Ra6 19. Rd1 Qe7 20. Rd2 g6 21. Qd1 Rb6 22.
Rde2 Qf8 {½, Ehlvest,J (2620)-Spassky,B (2580) Clermont Ferrand 1989}) 8. a4
O-O 9. Na3 Be6 $5 ({For} 9... Re8 10. Nc2 Ba7 11. Be3 Be6 12. Bb5 Bd7 13. Bxa7
Nxa7 14. Bc4 {see Carlsen-Adams (notes by Carlsen in CBM 171) and
Caruana-Topalov (notes by Sagar Shah in CBM 172).}) 10. Bxe6 fxe6 11. Nc2 Qe8
12. Be3 Bxe3 13. Nxe3 Qg6 14. Qb3 Nd8 15. Nf5 Qf7 16. Ng3 b6 17. Rad1 Nc6 18.
Qc4 Qd7 19. h3 Rf7 20. Qb5 Raf8 21. Re2 Ne7 22. Qxd7 Nxd7 23. d4 Ng6 24. Rc2 {
Aronian,L (2795)-Tomashevsky,E (2731) Moscow blitz 2016} exd4 25. cxd4 Nb8 $1
$11) 6. a4 {This move is an integral part of the modern treatment of the
Italian.} ({For a long time White did without it, the position after} 6. Bg5 h6
7. Bh4 d6 8. Nbd2 Ba7 9. O-O g5 10. Bg3 O-O 11. Bb3 {can arise via different
move orders. Here Black has had good results with} Bg4 ({The analoguous} 11...
Nh7 $5 {also deserves attention.}) 12. Kh1 $6 (12. h3 $142 Bh5 13. Nc4 $5 $13
Kh7 14. Bc2 Bg6 15. Re1 Nh5 16. Bh2 Qf6 17. Ne3 Rae8 18. Nd5 Qd8 19. d4 Nf6 20.
dxe5 Nxe5 21. Nxe5 dxe5 22. Nxf6+ Qxf6 23. Qe2 Rd8 24. Rad1 Rfe8 25. Ba4 c6 26.
Rxd8 Rxd8 27. Rd1 Rxd1+ 28. Bxd1 h5 $11 {Nikac,P (2350)-Blagojevic,D (2532)
Tivat 2011}) 12... Bh5 13. Qe1 Kg7 14. Bd1 Bg6 15. Nc4 Re8 16. Bc2 Qd7 17. Qd2
Rad8 18. a4 Nh5 19. b4 d5 20. exd5 Qxd5 21. b5 e4 $1 $17 {Chandler,M (2485)
-Karpov,A (2710) Bath 1983}) 6... d6 7. Bg5 {Topalov finally opts for this
active sortie, but the two of them had already played this line earlier and So
was well prepared this time.} ({Transposing into Karjakin-Navara (CBM 175) is} 
7. O-O {and now:} h6 (7... Ba7 8. Re1 (8. Na3 Ne7 9. Nc2 Ng6 10. Be3 O-O 11.
Bxa7 Rxa7 12. Ne3 {is Anand-Aronian, Candidates 2016 - see the notes to this
game in CBM 172 by Marin.} a5 $5 (12... c6 13. Qc2 d5 14. Bb3 {Grischuk,A 
(2747)-Karjakin,S (2774) Almaty blitz 2016} a5 $5 $132) 13. Qc2 c6 14. Rfe1 d5
15. Ba2 b6 16. Rad1 Re7 17. Nf5 Ree8 18. c4 Be6 19. cxd5 {½, Kozionov,K (2453)
-Mastrovasilis,A (2555) Riga 2016}) 8... O-O 9. h3 Ne7 (9... h6 {- 7...h6}) 10.
Nbd2 (10. d4 Ng6 11. Bd3 (11. Nbd2 {- 10.Nbd2}) 11... c6 (11... Re8 12. Qc2 Bd7
13. Be3 d5 14. Nbd2 exd4 15. cxd4 dxe4 16. Nxe4 Bc6 17. Bg5 Bxe4 18. Bxe4 c6
19. Qb3 Qb6 20. Qxb6 Bxb6 21. Bxf6 gxf6 22. a5 Ba7 23. d5 Rab8 24. Rad1 Bc5 25.
Bxg6 Rxe1+ 26. Rxe1 hxg6 27. Rc1 Bb4 $11 {Kramnik,V (2801)-Aronian,L (2784)
Stavanger 2016}) 12. Be3 Nh5 13. Nbd2 Nhf4 14. Bf1 exd4 15. Bxd4 Bxd4 16. cxd4
d5 17. e5 f6 18. Ra3 fxe5 19. dxe5 a5 20. Qc1 Qe7 21. Rb3 Bf5 22. Nd4 Ne6 {
Nepomniachtchi,I (2740)-So,W (2782) Baku 2016} 23. Nxe6 $1 Bxe6 24. g3 $13)
10... Ng6 11. d4 c6 (11... h6 12. Bf1 $1 Re8 13. a5 Bd7 14. b4 Bc6 $6 15. d5
Bd7 16. c4 Nf4 17. c5 {(), Kramnik,V (2808)-Radjabov,T (2722) Baku olm 2016})
12. Bf1 $5 (12. b4 exd4 13. cxd4 Nxe4 $5 (13... d5 14. exd5 Nxd5 15. b5 axb5
16. axb5 Be6 17. bxc6 bxc6 18. Ra6 Bb6 19. Rxa8 Qxa8 20. Ng5 Bxd4 21. Ndf3 Bf6
22. Nxe6 fxe6 23. Rxe6 $36 {Karjakin,S (2785)-Matlakov,M (2694) Doha rpd 2016})
14. Bxf7+ Rxf7 15. Nxe4 d5 16. Nc5 h6 17. Ra3 Bf5 18. Ne5 Nxe5 19. dxe5 Qh4 20.
Rf3 {Carlsen,M (2853)-Karjakin,S (2772) New York 2016} Bg6 $5 $132) 12... a5
13. dxe5 dxe5 14. Qc2 Be6 15. Nc4 Qc7 16. b4 axb4 17. cxb4 b5 18. Ne3 bxa4 19.
Rxa4 Bxe3 20. Bxe3 (20. Rxe3 $14) 20... Rxa4 21. Qxa4 Nxe4 22. Rc1 Bd5 23. b5
$44 {Carlsen,M (2853)-Karjakin,S (2772) New York rpd plof 2016}) 8. Nbd2 (8.
Na3 O-O 9. Nc2 (9. b4 Ba7 10. Bb3 Ne7 11. Nc2 Ng6 12. Be3 Bxe3 13. Nxe3 Re8 14.
Qc2 Ng4 15. Qa2 Rf8 16. h3 Nxe3 17. fxe3 Qe7 18. Rf2 Be6 19. Bxe6 fxe6 20. Raf1
Rf6 21. a5 Raf8 22. c4 Nh4 $11 {Jakovenko,D (2712)-Matlakov,M (2684) Poikovsky
2016}) 9... Ne7 (9... Re8 {see Anand-Kramnik, Moscow blitz 2016.}) 10. a5 (10.
d4 exd4 11. cxd4 Ba7 12. Bd3 c5 13. b3 cxd4 14. Ncxd4 Bg4 15. Bb2 d5 16. e5 Ne4
17. Re1 Nf5 18. Bxe4 dxe4 19. Rxe4 Bxd4 20. Bxd4 Bxf3 21. gxf3 Qg5+ 22. Rg4 Qe7
$44 {Abasov,N (2552)-Golubov,S (2481) Baku op 2016}) 10... Ng6 11. Be3 Bxe3 12.
Nxe3 Ng4 13. h3 Nxe3 14. fxe3 Qe7 15. Qb3 Kh8 16. Rf2 Bd7 17. Raf1 Rab8 18. Kh2
f6 19. Kg1 Rfe8 20. Nd2 Nf8 21. Nf3 Ng6 {½, Salgado Lopez,I (2662)-Lenic,L 
(2622) Baku olm 2016}) 8... O-O 9. h3 (9. Re1 Be6 10. b4 (10. Bxe6 fxe6 11. Nf1
Nh5 12. Be3 Bxe3 13. fxe3 Qe8 14. b4 Nf6 15. Ng3 a5 16. b5 Ne7 17. c4 Ng6 18.
Rf1 b6 19. Nd2 Rd8 20. Qe2 Rd7 21. Nh5 Rdf7 22. Nxf6+ Rxf6 23. Rxf6 Rxf6 $11 {
Anand,V (2770)-Kramnik,V (2812) Leuven blitz 2016}) 10... Ba7 11. h3 Bxc4 12.
Nxc4 Re8 13. Be3 d5 14. exd5 Qxd5 15. Bxa7 Rxa7 16. Ne3 Qd7 17. Qc2 Raa8 18.
Nc4 Qd5 19. Ne3 Qd7 20. Nc4 Qf5 21. b5 axb5 22. axb5 Rxa1 23. Rxa1 e4 24. bxc6
exf3 $132 {Topalov,V (2761)-Kramnik,V (2812) Paris blitz 2016}) 9... Re8 (9...
Ba7 10. Re1 (10. b4 Ne7 11. Re1 Ng6 12. d4 Re8 13. b5 Bd7 14. Qc2 Nh5 $5 15.
bxa6 bxa6 16. Bxa6 exd4 17. Bc4 d3 18. Bxd3 Qf6 19. Nb3 Ngf4 20. Nbd4 Qg6 21.
Bf1 Nxh3+ 22. Kh1 Ng5 $40 {Rebord,M (2488)-Sadowski,M (2510) email 2010}) 10...
Nh5 $5 (10... Re8 {can after} 11. b4 {lead to positions from the 9...Re8 line.}
) 11. Nf1 Qf6 12. Be3 (12. Ne3 Nf4 13. Ng4 Qg6 14. Bxf4 exf4 15. d4 Bxg4 16.
hxg4 Qxg4 17. e5 (17. Qd3 {see Giri-So, Bilbao 2016}) 17... Rae8 18. exd6 cxd6
19. Qb3 Qd7 20. Bd5 g5 21. Be4 Re7 22. Qd5 Rfe8 23. Nxg5 Ne5 24. dxe5 Rxe5 25.
Bh7+ Kg7 26. Rxe5 Rxe5 27. Qxf7+ Qxf7 28. Nxf7 Re2 $11 {Espinosa Aranda,A 
(2438)-Antoli Royo,J (2441) Monzon 2016}) 12... Nf4 (12... Bxe3 $142 13. Nxe3
Nf4 $13) 13. d4 $5 (13. Ng3 g5 14. Nh2 Ne7 15. Ng4 Qg6 16. Bxa7 Rxa7 17. Ne3 h5
18. d4 Be6 19. dxe5 dxe5 20. Bxe6 fxe6 21. Qd7 {Seils,J (2366)-Rabiega,R (2524)
Germany 2004} Qf7 22. f3 Nc6 23. Rad1 Raa8 $11) 13... Ne7 14. N1h2 Neg6 15. Bf1
Re8 16. Qd2 exd4 17. Bxd4 Qe7 18. Rad1 Bd7 19. a5 Ba4 20. Ra1 Bc6 21. g3 Ne6
22. Bxa7 Rxa7 23. Nd4 Nxd4 24. cxd4 Raa8 25. Bg2 $14 {Antipov,M (2557)-Gledura,
B (2585) Bastia 2016}) ({2a)} 9... Be6 10. Bxe6 fxe6 11. b4 Ba7 12. Nc4 $13 {
/+/= A similar position arose in Giri-Kramnik. Leuven blitz 2016. This version
with the rook on f1 is perhaps slightly better for White.}) 10. Re1 Be6 11.
Bxe6 Rxe6 12. b4 Ba7 13. Qc2 {Now in my opinion the most logical is} Qd7 ({2b1)
} 13... Re8 14. Nf1 Ne7 15. Ng3 Ng6 16. c4 Nd7 17. a5 Ndf8 18. Be3 Ne6 19. c5
d5 $6 (19... Ngf4 $142) 20. d4 $1 dxe4 21. Nxe5 Nxd4 22. Bxd4 Qxd4 23. Nxg6 e3
24. fxe3 Qxb4 25. Nf4 $16 {Karjakin,S (2785)-Nguyen,N (2629) Doha rpd 2016}) (
13... d5 14. Nb3 dxe4 (14... b5 $6 15. Be3 Bxe3 16. Rxe3 {Karjakin,S (2769)
-Navara,D (2742) Baku olm 2016} Re8 $5 17. Nc5 Qd6 $14 {For more details see
the notes to this game in CBM 175.}) 15. dxe4 Ne7 (15... Qe8 16. Bd2 $14) 16.
Be3 (16. c4 $5) 16... Bxe3 17. Rxe3 b6 18. a5 Nc8 19. Qe2 (19. c4 $14) 19...
Nd6 20. Nfd2 Qc8 21. c4 Nb7 22. Nf3 bxa5 (22... c5 $1 $11) 23. Nxa5 Nxa5 24.
Rxa5 {Nepomniachtchi,I (2767)-Borisek,J (2561) Doha rpd 2016} Qf8 25. Qe1 Rb8
$132) ({2b4)} 13... Nh5 14. Nf1 Qf6 15. N1h2 (15. b5 $142) 15... Ree8 16. Ng4
Qe6 17. Rb1 Nf6 18. Ne3 Ne7 19. c4 Bxe3 $1 20. Bxe3 Ng6 21. d4 exd4 22. Bxd4
Nd7 $132 {Grischuk,A (2752)-Jakovenko,D (2714) Novosibirsk 2016}) (13... Ne7 {
is another solid and patient move - see CBM 175.}) 14. Nf1 (14. Nb3 Ree8 15.
Bd2 Ne7 16. c4 Ng6 17. Bc3 $2 (17. d4 $11) 17... Nh5 18. d4 Nhf4 19. Re3 Nxg2
$1 20. Kxg2 Nf4+ 21. Kg1 Qxh3 22. Ne1 Qg4+ 23. Kf1 Qh5 24. Kg1 Re6 $1 25. Ra2
Rae8 26. c5 {Khairullin,I (2630)-De Jong,J (2447) Novi Sad 2016} Rg6+ 27. Rg3
Rg4 $1 $40) 14... Ree8 15. Be3 Bxe3 16. Nxe3 Ne7 (16... Nd8 17. Nc4 Ne6 $11 {
Van Foreest,J (2551)-Tkachiev,V (2660) Stockholm 2016}) 17. d4 exd4 18. Nxd4
Nc6 19. Nef5 d5 20. Nxc6 Qxc6 21. e5 Ne4 22. Nd4 Qc4 23. Re3 c5 24. bxc5 Qxc5
$132 {Van Foreest,J (2614)-Kharchenko,B (2450) Novi Sad 2016}) 7... Ba7 8. Nbd2
(8. O-O {won't force Black to automatically follow suit and castle.
Interesting is} h6 9. Bh4 g5 10. Bg3 Ne7 $5 (10... Bg4 11. Nbd2 Nh5 12. Kh1 (
12. b4 Nxg3 13. hxg3 Qf6 14. b5 Na5 15. bxa6 bxa6 16. Bxa6 h5 17. Re1 h4 18.
Nf1 Be6 19. d4 hxg3 20. Nxg3 g4 $17 {Castellanos Rodriguez,R (2481)-Sasikiran,
K (2639) Benasque 2016}) 12... Nf4 13. b4 O-O 14. b5 axb5 15. axb5 Ne7 16. Qc2
Neg6 17. Bxf4 Nxf4 18. g3 Nh3 19. Kg2 Bb6 20. Rxa8 Qxa8 21. d4 Qe8 $13 {
Andreikin,D (2636)-Nyback,T (2628) Khanty-Mansiysk 2009}) 11. d4 (11. Nbd2 Ng6
12. d4 Qe7 13. Re1 Nh7 $1 14. h3 h5 15. Nf1 g4 16. hxg4 Bxg4 17. Ne3 O-O-O 18.
Nxg4 hxg4 19. Nh2 Nf6 20. Qd3 Nh5 21. Bxa6 Nxg3 22. fxg3 c6 23. Nxg4 exd4 24.
cxd4 Ne5 $19 {->, Yudin,S (2530)-Harutyunian,T (2452) Kazan 2016}) 11... Nxe4
12. Nxe5 O-O 13. Nxf7 Rxf7 14. Bxf7+ Kxf7 15. f4 g4 16. f5 Nxg3 17. hxg3 Ng8 $1
18. Qxg4 Qg5 19. Qxg5 hxg5 20. Nd2 Nf6 21. Nf3 Nh7 22. g4 Bd7 23. Rfe1 Rg8 24.
Kf2 Nf6 25. Kg3 c5 $15 {Mamedov,R (2655)-Caruana,F (2804) Shamkir 2016 For
more details see the notes to this game in CBM 173 by Mokal.}) 8... h6 9. Bh4
g5 10. Bg3 O-O 11. O-O Nh7 $1 $146 {A strong move, which seems to have
occurred previously only in an engine game. Black goes for direct cunterplay
by preparing h5.} (11... g4 $143 $6 12. Bh4 $1 Kg7 13. Kh1 gxf3 14. Qxf3 Nb8 $2
(14... Rg8 $1 15. Rg1 $5 (15. g4 Bxg4 16. Bxf6+ Qxf6 $11) (15. Bd5 $36 Nb8 16.
Qe2 Kh7 17. h3 c6 18. Bxf7 Rf8 19. Bb3 Qe8 20. f4 Nh5 21. f5 $44 {Tuncer})
15... h5 16. h3 Qe7 17. Nf1 Be6 18. Ne3 Bxe3 19. fxe3 Rh8 20. Qg3+ Kf8 21. Raf1
Rh6 22. Bd5 $1 $14) 15. g4 Nbd7 (15... Bxg4 16. Rg1 h5 17. h3 $18) 16. Rg1 Rh8
17. Nf1 Qe8 18. g5 $18 Ng8 19. gxh6+ Kf8 20. Qg3 Ngf6 21. Qg7+ Ke7 22. Rg6 Rg8
23. Bxf6+ Nxf6 24. Qxf6+ Kd7 25. Bxf7 {1-0, Demchenko,A (2589)-Howell,D (2671)
Gjakova 2016}) ({Previously the usual move was} 11... Kg7 12. Re1 Be6 (12...
Nh7 {allows} 13. d4 $5 g4 14. Nh4 exd4 15. cxd4 Bxd4 16. Nf1 $44 Bf6 $6 (16...
Nf6) (16... Kh8 {and}) (16... Qg5 {are all possible improvements}) 17. Nf5+
Bxf5 18. exf5 h5 19. Bf4 Bg5 20. Ng3 Kh6 21. Bc1 $1 Bxc1 22. Rxc1 Ne5 23. Ba2 (
23. f6 $1 Qxf6 24. Bd3 $40) 23... Nf6 24. Qd2+ Kh7 25. Qg5 Rg8 26. Qh4 {
Van Foreest,J (2615)-Leko,P (2709) Douglas 2016} Rg7 $14) 13. b4 (13. h3 $5 {
also deserves attention}) 13... g4 14. Nh4 Ne7 $2 ({Passive; he had to play} 
14... Nh5 $1 15. Bxe6 fxe6 16. Qxg4+ Qg5 $132) 15. Bxe6 fxe6 16. Nc4 (16. d4 $5
{/\} exd4 17. e5 $16) 16... b5 17. Ne3 h5 18. Kh1 Ng6 19. Nxg6 Kxg6 {Topalov,V
(2761)-So,W (2770) Leuven blitz 2016} 20. d4 $1 exd4 21. cxd4 Nxe4 22. axb5 $36
{/\} axb5 23. Nxg4 $1 Nxg3+ 24. fxg3 $40) 12. h3 {Subsequent attempts didn't
threaten Black's concept:} (12. Ne1 Kg7 13. Nc2 f5 14. exf5 Bxf5 15. Ne3 Bg6
16. Re1 Nf6 17. b4 Qd7 18. b5 Ne7 19. bxa6 bxa6 20. Ne4 Nh5 21. Rb1 {Mamedov,R
(2688)-Leko,P (2693) Tallinn blitz 2016} Nf4 $15 (21... Qc6 $5)) (12. b4 h5 13.
h3 h4 14. Bh2 g4 15. hxg4 Bxg4 16. Kh1 Qf6 17. Qe1 h3 18. Ng1 $6 (18. Rg1 Kh8
19. Bg3 $11) 18... hxg2+ 19. Kxg2 Kh8 20. f4 $2 Rg8 21. Kh1 Qg6 22. Qg3 Qh5 23.
Ndf3 {Ponomariov,R (2709)-Sychev,K (2453) Tallinn blitz 2016} Bxf3+ 24. Qxf3
Rxg1+ $1 $18) 12... h5 13. d4 {A thematic reaction, White parries a flank
attack with a central advance.} (13. b4 {- 12.b4}) ({The aforementioned engine
predecessor went} 13. Kh1 Kh8 (13... Qf6 $5) 14. b4 h4 15. Bh2 g4 16. Ng1 (16.
hxg4 Bxg4 $11) 16... Rg8 ({There is also the interesting} 16... Nf6 $5) 17.
hxg4 Bxg4 18. f3 Bd7 19. f4 Bxg1 20. Rxg1 exf4 21. d4 (21. Bxf7 $6 Rg3 $1 $36 {
is risky}) (21. Bxf4 Qf6 22. Qf1 $13) 21... Qf6 22. Qe2 $2 (22. Qh5 $8 $13 {
Tuncer}) 22... Rg3 $1 23. Raf1 Ng5 24. Bd5 Kg7 25. Qf2 Ne7 26. Bxb7 Rb8 27.
Bxa6 Ng6 28. b5 Qe6 29. e5 d5 30. Rb1 Rh8 $40 {Pacificrabitt-Chessgott Engine
Room 2016}) 13... exd4 ({Advancing the Pg5 was not ideal in the previous notes;
even now} 13... g4 14. Bh4 Qd7 15. Nh2 ({Here White can maybe afford even} 15.
hxg4 hxg4 16. Nh2) 15... exd4 16. cxd4 Bxd4 (16... Nxd4 17. Ra3 $1 $44) 17. Ra3
$44 ({or} 17. hxg4 hxg4 18. Be2 $13 {leads to a double-edged position, in
which Black's king could end up seriously exposed.})) 14. Nxd4 ({A suggestion
for the future might be} 14. cxd4 h4 15. Bh2 Nxd4 ({Maybe Veselin didn't like} 
15... g4 {, but this is at best unclear after} 16. hxg4 Bxg4 17. Be2 $5 h3 18.
d5 $13 {/+/=}) 16. Nxd4 Bxd4 17. Nf3 $44) 14... g4 {Now White's B doesn't have
the h4 square and So prefers active play to material. Although this aggressive
advance will quickly pay off, this was mainly due to Topalov's poor form in
London.} (14... h4 $143 $6 15. Nxc6 bxc6 16. Bh2 $36 {and the Ba7 is sorely
missed on the kingside.}) ({Objectively speaking, possibly the best move was} 
14... Nxd4 $5 15. cxd4 h4 16. Bh2 Bxd4 17. Nf3 (17. Qh5 Bxb2 18. Rab1 Be5 19.
f4 $44 {/=}) {We have already mentioned this position above, after} 17... Bxb2
18. Rb1 Bg7 19. e5 {Black should try to return some material to finish his
development:} g4 $5 (19... dxe5 $6 20. Qc2 $1 $32 e4 (20... Re8 $2 21. Bxf7+
Kxf7 22. Qxh7 $16) 21. Qxe4 Qf6 22. Qe3 $5 $14) (19... d5 20. Bxd5 c6 21. Be4
Qxd1 22. Rbxd1 Re8 23. Bxh7+ Kxh7 24. Nxg5+ Kg8 25. Ne4 $14) 20. hxg4 Bxg4 21.
exd6 (21. Rxb7 Ng5 $132) 21... cxd6 22. Rb4 (22. Bxd6 Bxf3 23. gxf3 Qg5+ 24.
Kh1 Qf5 25. Qd5 Qh3+ 26. Kg1 Kh8 27. Bxf8 Rxf8 28. Qh5 $8 Bd4 29. Bxf7 $8 Qg3+
$11) 22... Qd7 23. Qxd6 Qxd6 24. Bxd6 Rfd8 $11) 15. hxg4 $6 {Opening the <->h
gives Black attacking chances and So will fully exploit them.} (15. Nxc6 bxc6
16. h4 Re8 17. Re1 Nf8 18. Nb3 $14 {>< Kg8}) 15... hxg4 16. Nxc6 bxc6 17. e5 {
Topalov is again in a hurry to resolve the central position.} (17. Nb3 $142 $1
Qg5 18. Re1 $13 {/+/=}) 17... d5 18. Be2 $6 {Another inaccuracy.} ({As Black's
Q is aiming for g5 anyway, more to the point was} 18. Bd3 Qg5 19. Nb3 f5 20.
exf6 Nxf6 21. Qc1 $1 Qxc1 (21... Qh5 $6 22. Re1 Ne4 23. Bxe4 dxe4 24. Rxe4 Rf6
25. Re5 Bf5 26. Nd4 Rh6 (26... Bxd4 27. cxd4 Rh6 28. Kf1 $16) 27. Qxh6 Qxh6 28.
Nxf5 $16) 22. Raxc1 Rb8 23. Nd4 Rxb2 24. Nxc6 Bc5 $132 {/=}) 18... Qg5 19. a5
$2 {And on the other hand activating the R via a4 is too slow.} ({He had to
play} 19. Nb3 f5 20. exf6 Nxf6 21. Qd2 Qxd2 (21... Qh5 $5 22. Bd3 Bf5 $15) 22.
Nxd2 Nh5 23. Bh4 (23. Bxc7 Rf7 24. Bd6 (24. Bh2 Bd7 $17) 24... g3 $1 25. Bxh5
gxf2+ 26. Kh2 Rh7 $36) {, although Black already has the upper hand after}
23... Nf4 $15 (23... Rb8 $5 24. b3 a5 $15)) 19... f5 20. exf6 Nxf6 21. Ra4 (21.
Bxc7 Kg7 $19 {Veselin must have been regretting his 15th move here...} (21...
g3 $2 22. Bb6)) 21... Rf7 $1 {The final prophylaxis/preparation.} (21... Nh5
22. Bxg4 Nxg3 23. Bxc8 Rf4 24. Nf3 Qh6 25. Bh3 Rxa4 26. Qxa4 Nxf1 27. Kxf1 $15
{is unconvincing.}) 22. Re1 Nh5 $19 {The defence collapses, Black doesn't even
need his queenside pieces.} 23. Bxg4 Nxg3 24. Re8+ Kg7 25. Rxc8 Bxf2+ 26. Kh2
Qe5 {The quickest, So forces mate.} 27. Kh3 Ne2 (27... Ne2 28. Nf1 Ng1#) 0-1

[Event "Amber-blindfold 15th"]
[Site "Monte Carlo"]
[Date "2006.03.25"]
[Round "7"]
[White "Ivanchuk, Vassily"]
[Black "Anand, Viswanathan"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "E15"]
[WhiteElo "2729"]
[BlackElo "2792"]
[PlyCount "50"]
[EventDate "2006.03.18"]
[EventType "tourn (rapid)"]
[EventRounds "11"]
[EventCountry "MNC"]
[EventCategory "19"]
[SourceTitle "CBM 111 Extra"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceDate "2006.05.09"]
[SourceVersion "1"]
[SourceVersionDate "2006.05.09"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nf3 b6 4. g3 Ba6 5. Nbd2 d5 6. Bg2 Bd6 7. O-O O-O 8. b3
Nbd7 9. Bb2 c5 10. Re1 Rc8 11. e4 Nxe4 12. Nxe4 dxe4 13. Rxe4 Nf6 14. Rh4 Bb7
15. dxc5 Bxc5 16. Qc2 h6 17. Ng5 Bxf2+ 18. Qxf2 Bxg2 19. Qc2 Re8 20. Rd1 Qxd1+
21. Qxd1 hxg5 22. Rd4 Bc6 23. Rd6 Ne4 24. Qd4 e5 25. Qxe5 Rxe5 0-1

[Event "Istanbul ol (Men) 40th"]
[Site "Istanbul"]
[Date "2012.08.30"]
[Round "3.1"]
[White "Ziska, Helgi Dam"]
[Black "Radjabov, Teimour"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "C02"]
[WhiteElo "2469"]
[BlackElo "2788"]
[PlyCount "62"]
[EventDate "2012.08.28"]
[EventType "team-swiss"]
[EventRounds "11"]
[EventCountry "TUR"]
[SourceTitle "CBM 151"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceDate "2012.11.13"]
[SourceVersion "1"]
[SourceVersionDate "2012.11.13"]
[SourceQuality "1"]
[WhiteTeam "Faroe Islands"]
[BlackTeam "Azerbaijan"]
[WhiteTeamCountry "FAI"]
[BlackTeamCountry "AZE"]

1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. e5 c5 4. c3 Nc6 5. Nf3 Bd7 6. a3 Rc8 7. Bd3 cxd4 8. cxd4
Qb6 9. Bc2 Nxd4 10. Nxd4 Bc5 11. Nb3 Bxf2+ 12. Ke2 Nh6 13. Nc3 Ng4 14. a4 Bg3
15. Qd4 Qxd4 16. Nxd4 Bxe5 17. Nf3 Bd6 18. Bb3 O-O 19. h3 Nf6 20. Be3 a6 21.
Rac1 b5 22. axb5 axb5 23. Bg5 Nh5 24. Kd2 Ng3 25. Rhe1 b4 26. Ne2 Ne4+ 27. Kd1
Nc5 28. Bc2 e5 29. Bd2 Na4 30. Rb1 Rxc2 31. b3 Rcc8 0-1

[Event "Carlos Torre Wimbledon 20th"]
[Site "Merida"]
[Date "2007.12.19"]
[Round "1.1"]
[White "Bruzon Batista, Lazaro"]
[Black "Ivanchuk, Vassily"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "C43"]
[WhiteElo "2607"]
[BlackElo "2787"]
[PlyCount "56"]
[EventDate "2007.12.19"]
[EventType "k.o."]
[EventRounds "4"]
[EventCountry "MEX"]
[SourceTitle "CBM 121 Extra"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceDate "2008.01.10"]
[SourceVersion "1"]
[SourceVersionDate "2008.01.10"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nf6 3. d4 Nxe4 4. dxe5 Bc5 5. Qd5 Bxf2+ 6. Kd1 f5 7. Bc4 Qe7 8.
Nc3 c6 9. Qd3 b5 10. Bb3 a5 11. a4 b4 12. Nxe4 fxe4 13. Qe2 d5 14. exd6 Qxd6+
15. Bd2 e3 16. Rf1 Ba6 17. Bc4 Bxc4 18. Qxc4 Ra7 19. Ke2 Re7 20. Be1 Qg6 21. g3
Re4 22. Qd3 Nd7 23. Rd1 O-O 24. Qxd7 Qh5 25. g4 Qh3 26. Ng5 Qg2 27. Bxf2 Rxf2+
28. Rxf2 exf2+ 0-1

[Event "Gibraltar Masters 15th"]
[Site "Caleta"]
[Date "2017.02.02"]
[Round "10"]
[White "Edouard, Romain"]
[Black "Nakamura, Hikaru"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "E21"]
[WhiteElo "2613"]
[BlackElo "2785"]
[Annotator "Navara,D"]
[PlyCount "70"]
[EventDate "2017.01.24"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "10"]
[EventCountry "ENG"]
[SourceTitle "CBM 177"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceDate "2017.03.16"]
[SourceVersion "1"]
[SourceVersionDate "2017.03.16"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

{Before the last round, David Anton Guijarro was leading by half a point.
Romain Edouard and Hikaru Nakamura were amongst the 8 players who were half a
point behind.} 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. Nf3 O-O 5. Bg5 c5 6. Rc1 (6. d5
{might lead to a Benoni-like type of pawn structure with mutual chances and no
connection to the true Benoni.}) 6... h6 7. Bh4 cxd4 8. Nxd4 d5 9. e3 (9. cxd5
g5 $1 10. Bg3 Qxd5 11. e3 Qxa2 {Cavajda - Peuraniemi, 2012, corr. The game
eventually finished in a draw.}) 9... e5 $5 {This idea was (first?) played by
GM Alexey Kuzmin back in 1987. Hikaru Nakamura was born in that year, while
Romain Edouard is even several years younger.} 10. Nf3 d4 {This idea must have
surprised White, who started spending a lot of time. For good reason, as the
position is very tricky and any mistake might have serious consequences.} 11.
exd4 exd4 12. Nxd4 $6 {This might be inaccurate.} (12. Qxd4 {was probably
better.} Qe7+ (12... g5 13. Bg3 Re8+ 14. Be2 Qe7 15. O-O Nc6 16. Qe3 Bxc3 17.
bxc3 Qxe3 18. fxe3 Ne4 {Lednev - Peuraniemi, 2011, corr. That game also
finished peacefully.}) 13. Be2 (13. Qe3 Qxe3+ 14. fxe3 Ne4 $44) 13... Re8 14.
O-O (14. Qd2 $1 g5 15. Nxg5 Rd8 16. Qf4 Bd6 17. Qf3 $1 Bg4 18. Qe3 Qxe3 19.
fxe3 Bxe2 20. Nf3 $1 Bxc4 21. Bxf6 {is clearly better for White.}) 14... Nc6
15. Qf4 Bxc3 16. bxc3 (16. Rxc3 $1 Qxe2 17. Bxf6 gxf6 18. Qxh6 $44) 16... Qxe2
17. Rce1 Re4 $1 18. Qc1 (18. Qc7 $1 Qxf3 $1 19. gxf3 Rxh4 $17) 18... Qxf3 19.
gxf3 Rxh4 20. Re3 Rxc4 21. Rd1 Rc5 22. f4 Bf5 23. Qa3 b6 24. Qa4 Rc8 25. Rd6
Nd5 26. Re1 Nxc3 27. Qa6 Nb5 28. Rd2 {0-1 (28) Barsov,A-Kuzmin,A (2440)
Tashkent 1987}) 12... Qb6 {White is already facing some problems.} 13. Nf3 $6 (
13. a3 $1 {was stronger, e.g.} Rd8 14. Bxf6 $1 Qxf6 15. axb4 Rxd4 16. Qe2 ({or
} 16. Qf3 Qxf3 17. gxf3 {. Still, it is White who has to fight for equality,
as his kingside is seriously underdeveloped. True, so is Black's queenside,
but he can activate his pieces with tempi (...Nc6, ...Be6).})) 13... Rd8 (13...
g5 14. Bg3 Rd8 {is a mere transposition.}) 14. Qc2 g5 $1 {Black can afford to
play such a move due to his (prospective) lead in development. White is short
of time to attack Black's king.} 15. Bg3 Nc6 16. Bd3 {White is lacking one
tempo to complete his development. Black needs to act energetically. Hikaru
played very quickly until this moment, but here he spent over half an hour.} g4
$1 17. Nh4 (17. Nd2 Ba5 $5 {creates the threats 18...Nb4, 18...Nd4 and 18...
Qd4. Still, White might hold after} 18. a3 Qd4 19. Bh4 {, but he needs to see
some tricks like} Ne5 $6 (19... Qxd3 $1 20. Qxd3 Rxd3 21. Bxf6 Bf5 22. Nf1 $1
Rd6 23. b4 $1 Rxf6 24. bxa5 Ne5 $1 {is still slightly preferable for Black.})
20. O-O $1 Nxd3 21. Nb3 {, regaining the material. Not an easy task!}) 17...
Bf8 (17... Ba5 $5 18. a3 Nd4 19. Qb1 Re8+ 20. Kf1 Nb3 21. Rd1 Bxc3 22. bxc3 Nc5
{might have been slightly better for Black, but this is very difficult to
assess unless you are analysing the game with a strong engine like me.}) 18.
Qb1 $1 {This modest retreat is the best way to parry the threat 18...Nb4.} Re8+
19. Kf1 {The position is approximately balanced, but Hikaru was in his element.
He plays such positions superbly, as I can confirm (too) many times.} Be6 20.
h3 (20. Nf5 $1 {is Komodo's choice and perhaps rightly so, but it looks more
logical to bring the king into safety.}) 20... Nh5 $1 21. Ne4 {This is not the
best move, but White's task was rather hard.} ({Being equipped with Komodo, I
tried to discover what happens after} 21. Nf5 {. You are not obliged to read
it, of course. I would not if I were just a reader.} Rad8 $1 ({A spectacular
line} 21... Nb4 22. hxg4 Nxg3+ 23. Nxg3 Nxd3 24. Qxd3 Qxb2 25. Rb1 Rad8 $1 26.
Nd5 $1 Bxd5 $1 27. cxd5 Rxd5 $1 28. Qb3 $1 {might lead to approximate equality.
}) 22. Nd5 (22. hxg4 $2 Bxf5 23. gxf5 Nxg3+ 24. fxg3 Nb4 {and the black rooks
join the attack with decisive effect.}) 22... Bxd5 23. cxd5 Rxd5 24. hxg4 (24.
Bc4 Nxg3+ (24... Rd2 $6 25. Nxh6+ $1 Kg7 26. Nf5+ Kg8 (26... Kh8 $2 27. hxg4 {
and there is no check on g3.}) 27. Nh6+ $11) 25. Nxg3 Rd6 26. hxg4 (26. Nf5 g3
$3 (26... Rd2 $2 27. Nxh6+ $1) 27. Nxg3 (27. fxg3 $2 Rf6 28. g4 Qe3 {and White
is helpless against numerous threats.}) 27... Rf6 28. Nf5 Bc5 {with a strong
attack. White badly misses his kingside rook.}) 26... Ne5 27. Be2 Rd2 {with
Black's initiative.}) 24... Nxg3+ 25. Nxg3 Ne5 26. Be2 Rd2 $36) 21... Nxg3+ ({
Computers like} 21... gxh3 22. gxh3 {and now for example} Rad8 {, but it does
not look very logical to open the g-file.} (22... Kh8 $5)) ({Even} 21... f5 {
might be good, but the exhaustive analysis would also be fairly exhausting.})
22. Nxg3 Rad8 23. hxg4 Ne5 $1 24. Be2 Bxg4 ({Komodo rightly prefers} 24... Bxc4
$1 {, but the organizers rightly prefer human chess to impersonal computer
competitions. And we are thankful to them! White's back rank problems would
tell, as the following lines show:} 25. Rxc4 (25. Bxc4 $2 Nxc4 26. Rxc4 Rd2 $1
27. Kg1 (27. Rf4 Qxb2 28. Qxb2 Rd1#) 27... Qxf2+ 28. Kh2 Re3 $1 29. Ngf5 Bd6+
30. Nxd6 Qxh4+ 31. Kg1 Qf2+ 32. Kh2 Qxg2#) 25... Nxc4 26. Bxc4 {gives Black a
pleasant choice.} {, while} Rd2 $1 (26... Qxb2 $6 {allows} 27. Bxf7+ $1 (27.
Qg6+ $2 Kh8 $1) 27... Kxf7 28. Qg6+ Ke7 29. Kg1 {with some counterplay.}) 27.
Kg1 Qxf2+ 28. Kh2 Re3 $1 29. Bxf7+ Qxf7 {is rather bad for White.}) 25. Bxg4 $2
{This move loses. White probably missed Black's 26th move. He did not have
much time left.} ({Both} 25. f3) (25. Nf3 {were better. Black would maintain
his initiative, but not more.}) 25... Nxg4 26. Qc2 Bb4 $1 {Black intends 27...
Rd2 and there is no sensible way to parry the threat.} 27. c5 (27. Nf3 Rd2 $1
28. Nxd2 Qxf2#) 27... Qa6+ (27... Qb5+ 28. Kg1 Bxc5 $5 {was even quicker, as}
29. Qxc5 {fails to} Qxc5 30. Rxc5 Rd1+ 31. Nf1 Ree1 {with decisive mate(rial
gains). But the text is good enough.}) 28. Kg1 Be1 29. Rh3 Bxf2+ 30. Kh1 Re1+
31. Rxe1 Bxe1 32. Nf3 Nf2+ 33. Kh2 Nxh3 34. Nxe1 Ng5 35. Qc3 Qg6 {White
survived the attack, but his position was left in ruins. Being an exchange
down with a weak king and no compensation, he respectfully resigned. It is not
easy to defeat a solid GM with the black pieces, but Hikaru displayed very
powerful play in a must-win situation.} 0-1

[Event "Zuerich Chess Challenge Blitz 5th"]
[Site "Zuerich"]
[Date "2016.02.15"]
[Round "1"]
[White "Aronian, Levon"]
[Black "Anand, Viswanathan"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "A22"]
[WhiteElo "2792"]
[BlackElo "2784"]
[Annotator "Ramirez Alvarez,Alejandro"]
[PlyCount "70"]
[EventDate "2016.02.15"]
[EventType "tourn (blitz)"]
[EventRounds "5"]
[EventCountry "SUI"]
[EventCategory "21"]
[SourceTitle "CBM 171"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceDate "2016.03.14"]
[SourceVersion "2"]
[SourceVersionDate "2016.03.14"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

1. c4 e5 2. Nc3 Nf6 3. e3 Bb4 4. Nge2 c6 5. a3 Ba5 6. b4 Bc7 7. Bb2 O-O 8. Ng3
Re8 9. c5 d5 10. cxd6 Bxd6 11. Qc2 a5 12. b5 Bf8 13. Bd3 cxb5 14. Nxb5 Na6 15.
O-O Bd7 16. f4 e4 17. Be2 Rc8 18. Qb1 Nc5 19. Bd4 a4 20. Bc4 Ng4 21. h3 Nh6 22.
Nc3 Nf5 23. Nxf5 Bxf5 24. Qa2 Be6 25. Bxe6 Nxe6 26. Ne2 Nxd4 27. Nxd4 Bc5 28.
Nb5 Qd3 29. Rab1 Red8 30. Rf2 Rd5 31. Nc3 Bxe3 32. Qxd5 Rxc3 33. Rxb7 $2 (33.
Qxd3 Bxf2+ 34. Kxf2 Rxd3 35. Rxb7 f5 {is a difficult endgame for White, but if
it is lost is beyond my chess knowledge.}) 33... Bxf2+ 34. Kxf2 Qg3+ {
Unfortunately for Aronian, even though his threats are strong, he is getting
mated first} 35. Ke2 (35. Kf1 Rc1+ 36. Ke2 Re1#) 35... Qxg2+ {With mate next
move} 0-1

[Event "Geneve Masters GpB"]
[Site "Geneve"]
[Date "2013.06.27"]
[Round "2.2"]
[White "Kosteniuk, Alexandra"]
[Black "Nakamura, Hikaru"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "C82"]
[WhiteElo "2489"]
[BlackElo "2784"]
[PlyCount "52"]
[EventDate "2013.06.26"]
[EventType "tourn (rapid)"]
[EventRounds "3"]
[EventCountry "SUI"]
[EventCategory "17"]
[SourceTitle "CBM 155 Extra"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceDate "2013.08.26"]
[SourceVersion "1"]
[SourceVersionDate "2013.08.26"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4. Ba4 Nf6 5. O-O Nxe4 6. d4 b5 7. Bb3 d5 8. dxe5
Be6 9. Nbd2 Nc5 10. c3 Be7 11. Bc2 Bg4 12. Re1 Qd7 13. Nf1 Rd8 14. h3 Bh5 15.
Ng3 Bg6 16. Nd4 Nxd4 17. cxd4 Ne6 18. Nf5 c5 19. dxc5 Bxc5 20. Qf3 O-O 21. Qg3
f6 22. Bd2 fxe5 23. Qxe5 Rde8 24. Ne3 Bxe3 25. Bxg6 Bxf2+ 26. Kh1 hxg6 0-1

[Event "Titled Tuesday 2nd Feb"]
[Site "chess.com INT"]
[Date "2021.02.02"]
[Round "8"]
[White "Sarana, A."]
[Black "Vachier Lagrave, M."]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "B11"]
[WhiteElo "2649"]
[BlackElo "2784"]
[PlyCount "96"]
[EventDate "2021.02.02"]
[EventType "swiss (blitz)"]
[EventRounds "11"]
[SourceTitle "The Week in Chess 1370"]
[Source "Mark Crowther"]
[SourceDate "2021.02.08"]
[SourceVersion "1"]
[SourceVersionDate "2021.02.08"]
[SourceQuality "2"]

1. e4 c6 2. Nf3 d5 3. Nc3 Bg4 4. h3 Bxf3 5. Qxf3 e6 6. Be2 Bc5 7. O-O Nd7 8.
Rd1 d4 9. Nb1 Ne5 10. Qg3 d3 11. Qxe5 Bd4 12. Qg3 dxc2 13. Re1 cxb1=Q 14. Rxb1
Nf6 15. Bc4 Nd7 16. d3 Qf6 17. Be3 O-O-O 18. b4 Ne5 19. b5 c5 20. Bg5 Bxf2+ 21.
Qxf2 Qxg5 22. Qxc5+ Kb8 23. Kh1 b6 24. Qf2 Nxc4 25. dxc4 Rd2 26. Re2 Rhd8 27.
Rbe1 Rxe2 28. Rxe2 f6 29. e5 Rd1+ 30. Kh2 Qc1 31. exf6 Rh1+ 32. Kg3 Qg5+ 33.
Kf3 Rf1 34. f7 Rxf2+ 35. Rxf2 Qe7 36. Ke4 Qf8 37. Rf3 Kc7 38. a4 Kd7 39. Ke3
Kd6 40. Kd4 e5+ 41. Kd3 Kc5 42. Rf5 g6 43. Rf1 Kb4 44. Ke4 Kxc4 45. Rf6 Kc5 46.
g4 Kb4 47. Kxe5 Qe7+ 48. Re6 Qxf7 0-1

[Event "Lindores Abbey Tal Mem"]
[Site "Riga LAT"]
[Date "2021.11.08"]
[Round "6.23"]
[White "Ivic, Velimir"]
[Black "Aronian, L."]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "C78"]
[WhiteElo "2620"]
[BlackElo "2782"]
[PlyCount "70"]
[EventDate "2021.11.08"]
[SourceVersionDate "2018.05.14"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4. Ba4 Nf6 5. O-O Bc5 6. c3 b5 7. Bc2 d5 8. a4
dxe4 9. axb5 Bg4 10. bxc6 exf3 11. gxf3 Bh3 12. Re1 O-O 13. Ra5 Qd6 14. b4
Bxf2+ 15. Kxf2 e4 16. Kg1 Rae8 17. Re3 Nh5 18. Rg5 Qh6 19. f4 Nxf4 20. Rgg3 f5
21. d4 Bg4 22. Qf1 Nh5 23. Re1 Qxc6 24. Bf4 h6 25. Qf2 Nxg3 26. hxg3 Kh7 27.
Be5 Re6 28. Nd2 Qxc3 29. Bb1 Qxb4 30. Rf1 Bh3 31. Rc1 Rg6 32. Kh2 Bg4 33. Rxc7
Qa3 34. Nxe4 fxe4 35. Qxf8 Qxf8 0-1

[Event "Lindores Abbey Tal Mem"]
[Site "Riga LAT"]
[Date "2021.11.08"]
[Round "2.2"]
[White "Neiksans, A."]
[Black "Aronian, L."]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "C50"]
[WhiteElo "2575"]
[BlackElo "2782"]
[PlyCount "54"]
[EventDate "2021.11.08"]
[SourceVersionDate "2018.05.14"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Bc5 4. O-O Nf6 5. d3 O-O 6. Re1 Ng4 7. Re2 Kh8 8. h3
f5 9. exf5 Nxf2 10. Rxf2 d5 11. Bb3 Bxf2+ 12. Kxf2 Bxf5 13. Kg1 e4 14. Bg5 Qd6
15. dxe4 Qc5+ 16. Kh2 dxe4 17. Nh4 Qe5+ 18. Kg1 Be6 19. Qh5 Qc5+ 20. Kh2 Bxb3
21. axb3 Rf1 22. Ra4 Qd6+ 23. g3 Raf8 24. Rxe4 Rxb1 25. Re2 Qd5 26. Ng2 Nd4 27.
Rf2 Nf3+ 0-1

[Event "FIDE Grand Swiss 2021"]
[Site "Riga LAT"]
[Date "2021.11.05"]
[Round "9.23"]
[White "Pichot, A."]
[Black "Aronian, L."]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "C78"]
[WhiteElo "2628"]
[BlackElo "2782"]
[PlyCount "80"]
[EventDate "2021.10.27"]
[SourceVersionDate "2018.05.14"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4. Ba4 Nf6 5. O-O Bc5 6. c3 b5 7. Bb3 d6 8. a4
Bb7 9. d4 Bb6 10. Re1 O-O 11. Bg5 h6 12. Bh4 exd4 13. cxd4 g5 14. Nxg5 hxg5 15.
Bxg5 Nxd4 16. Bd5 c6 17. Ra3 Re8 18. Ba2 Re5 19. Rg3 Kf8 20. Nd2 Rxg5 21. Rxg5
c5 22. Bb1 c4 23. h4 Ne6 24. Rf5 Ng7 25. Rg5 Nh7 26. Rg3 Qf6 27. Nf3 Qf4 28.
Nd4 Qe5 29. Ne2 Nh5 30. Rf3 Bc8 31. Qd5 Qxd5 32. exd5 N7f6 33. Bf5 Ng4 34. Bxc8
Rxc8 35. Nc3 b4 36. Ne4 Re8 37. Rxf7+ Kxf7 38. Nxd6+ Kg6 39. Rxe8 Bxf2+ 40. Kh1
Ng3# 0-1

[Event "GCT Rapid Croatia 2021"]
[Site "Zagreb CRO"]
[Date "2021.07.09"]
[Round "9.4"]
[White "Van Foreest, Jorden"]
[Black "Mamedyarov, S."]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "C82"]
[WhiteElo "2688"]
[BlackElo "2782"]
[PlyCount "126"]
[EventDate "2021.07.07"]
[EventType "tourn (rapid)"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "CRO"]
[EventCategory "20"]
[SourceTitle "The Week in Chess 1392"]
[Source "Mark Crowther"]
[SourceDate "2021.07.12"]
[SourceVersion "1"]
[SourceVersionDate "2021.07.20"]
[SourceQuality "2"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4. Ba4 Nf6 5. O-O Nxe4 6. d4 b5 7. Bb3 d5 8. dxe5
Be6 9. c3 Bc5 10. Nbd2 O-O 11. Bc2 Nxf2 12. Rxf2 f6 13. Nf1 Bxf2+ 14. Kxf2 fxe5
15. Kg1 Bg4 16. Bg5 Bxf3 17. Qd2 Qd6 18. gxf3 e4 19. fxe4 Ne5 20. Kh1 Nf3 21.
Qg2 Rae8 22. Be3 c5 23. Ng3 d4 24. Rd1 Kh8 25. cxd4 cxd4 26. Bg1 Nxg1 27. Qxg1
Qf4 28. Qg2 Rc8 29. Qe2 Qe3 30. Bb3 Rf2 31. Qxe3 dxe3 32. e5 g6 33. e6 a5 34.
Kg1 Kg7 35. Ne4 Rf4 36. Nd6 Rc5 37. h4 Re5 38. Nf7 Rg4+ 39. Kh2 Ree4 40. Rd7
Rxh4+ 41. Kg3 Rhg4+ 42. Kf3 Kf6 43. Nd6 e2 44. Rf7+ Kg5 45. Nxe4+ Rxe4 46. Kxe4
e1=Q+ 47. Kd4 Qb4+ 48. Ke5 a4 49. Bd5 Qxb2+ 50. Kd6 Qh2+ 51. Kc6 b4 52. Ra7 Qb8
53. Rb7 Qa8 54. e7 b3 55. Kd7 bxa2 56. Rb5 Qa7+ 57. Bb7+ Kh6 58. e8=Q a1=Q 59.
Qe6 Qg7+ 60. Kc6 Qc3+ 61. Kd7 Qad4+ 62. Bd5 Qg7+ 63. Ke8 Qce5 0-1

[Event "Leon Man+Comp m"]
[Site "Leon"]
[Date "1999.06.13"]
[Round "5"]
[White "Karpov, Anatoly"]
[Black "Anand, Viswanathan"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "E15"]
[WhiteElo "2710"]
[BlackElo "2781"]
[Annotator "Winants,L"]
[PlyCount "91"]
[EventDate "1999.06.??"]
[EventType "match"]
[EventRounds "6"]
[EventCountry "ESP"]
[SourceTitle "CBM 072"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceDate "1999.10.01"]
[SourceVersion "1"]
[SourceVersionDate "1999.10.01"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nf3 b6 4. g3 Ba6 {L'une des nombreuses inventions de
Nimzovich : la mobilisation du Fou en g2 est contrée par une démonstration sur
l'aile opposée.} 5. b3 Bb4+ ({On pourrait aussi jouer} 5... d5 {,}) (5... b5) (
{ou même} 5... Bb7 {. La suite choisie profite du coup b3, pour perturber le
bon développement ennemi.}) 6. Bd2 (6. Nbd2 {ne conviendrait pas à cause de}
Bc3 7. Rb1 Bb7 {menaçant à la fois 8... Fxd4 et 8...Fe4.}) 6... Be7 {Les Noirs
ont empêché la sortie du Fou en b2 et surtout bloqué la case d2 aux dépens du
Cavalier. Ils envisagent donc de poursuivre les hostilités contre c4.} 7. Bg2 (
{Karpov dévie ainsi de la troisième partie qui avait continué par} 7. Nc3 O-O
8. e4 ({si} 8. Bg2 c6 9. O-O d5) 8... d5 9. cxd5 Bxf1 10. Kxf1 exd5 11. e5 Ne4
12. Kg2 c5 13. Qe2 Nxc3 14. Bxc3 Qd7 $1 {Pour conduire la Dame vers e6 :
devant le pion e5 et hors de portée du Fc3.} 15. Rhe1 Qe6 16. Ng1 {Une
retraite thématique, mais peu efficace.} Nc6 17. dxc5 d4 18. Bd2 Bxc5 19. f4 d3
$1 {Ce fantassin vaut manifestement plus que la majorité adverse sur
l'aile-Roi.} 20. Qe4 (20. Qxd3 {aurait entraîné la perte d'une pièce :} Rad8
21. Qe2 Qd5+ 22. Nf3 Nd4) 20... Rad8 21. Nf3 Nd4 22. Nxd4 Rxd4 23. Qf3 Rfd8 24.
f5 Qd5 {et les Noirs disposaient déjà d'un avantage conséquent.}) 7... c6 8.
Bc3 d5 9. Ne5 {Pour dégager la grande diagonale et préparer une percée au
centre (e4).} ({Après} 9. Nbd2 {le jeu se poursuivrait par} Nbd7 10. O-O O-O
11. Re1 c5 $1 {avec des chances partagées.}) 9... Nfd7 10. Nxd7 Nxd7 11. Nd2
O-O 12. O-O Nf6 {Le dernier cri dans cette variante : les Noirs se réservent
la possibilité de miner le centre adverse via ...c5 ou ...b5.} 13. Re1 ({
Quelques suites instructives :} 13. e4 b5 14. Re1 {menaçant 15.e5 suivi de c5
avec étouffement.} dxe4 {profitant encore du fait que le Cd2 est lié à la
défense du pion c4.} 15. Qc2 (15. Rc1 Rc8 16. c5 b4 $1 ({après} 16... Nd5 17.
Rxe4 {etc., le Fa6 se retrouverait hors du jeu, Karpov-Portisch, Rotterdam 1989
}) 17. Bb2 {forcé} ({si} 17. Bxb4 Nd5) 17... Bd3 18. Nxe4 Bxe4 19. Bxe4 Qd7 20.
Rc4 a5 21. Bc1 Nd5 {avec égalité, Yussupov-Karpov, Londres 1989}) 15... Rc8 16.
Rad1 Nd5 $3 17. Bxe4 Nxc3 18. Qxc3 Bf6 19. Qc2 g6 20. Nf3 bxc4 21. bxc4 Qa5 {
et les Noirs sont bien.}) 13... c5 14. dxc5 (14. e4 $2 {provoquerait le
démantèlement de la structure de pions :} cxd4 15. Bxd4 dxc4 16. Nxc4 Bxc4 17.
bxc4 Rc8 {etc. Van Wely-Karpov 1996}) 14... Bxc5 15. e3 Rc8 16. Bxf6 Qxf6 17.
cxd5 exd5 18. a3 {Une précaution utile.} ({La prise du pion aurait entraîné
des ennuis :} 18. Bxd5 Rfd8 19. Ne4 Qf5 20. Nxc5 Rxd5) ({et si} 18. Nf3 {alors}
Bb4 {force le Cavalier à rebrousser chemin.}) 18... Rfd8 19. b4 ({Toujours pas
} 19. Nf3 {à cause de} d4 $1) 19... Bf8 20. Nf3 Bc4 21. Qd2 {Il est possible
que Karpov ait considéré cette position à son avantage, compte tenu du pion
isolé sur d5 et de l'avant-poste pour le Cavalier en d4. Or justement, le Fc4
est, lui aussi, fort bien installé et on ne voit pas comment les Tours
blanches pourraient se montrer actives.} b5 {Non seulement pour renforcer c4,
mais aussi pour accroître le potentiel de l'artillerie sur la sixième rangée.}
22. Nd4 g6 {Ouvrant de nouvelles perspectives au Foou de cases noires.} 23.
Red1 Qb6 24. Rab1 Qa6 25. Ra1 {Il est désormais évident que les Noirs
conrôlent plus de terrain et que la présence des deux Fous devrait bientôt se
faire sentir.} Qb6 26. h4 h5 27. Bf3 Bg7 28. Rab1 Re8 {La Tour en c8 ne
rendant aucun service, Anand décide de modifier l'arrangement de ses forces.}
29. Bg2 Rcd8 30. Ra1 Bf8 31. Bf1 Bg7 32. Bg2 Rd6 {Maintenant la Te8 domine le
centre, via la colonne -e- et celle de d6 annonce la tempête qui se prépare à
l'aile-Roi (...g5)} 33. Rab1 Qd8 34. Rbc1 {La faute décisive.} (34. Nf3 {
s'imposait.}) 34... Ra6 35. Ra1 g5 {Premier coup de massue. Le Fg7 fera parler
de lui dès que les Noirs se seront débarrassés de la chaîne f2-g3-h4.} 36. hxg5
Qxg5 37. Nf3 Qg4 38. Qc1 Bf6 $1 {La Ta1 n'intéresse déjà plus personne !} 39.
Rb1 h4 40. Nh2 {Ou bien :} ({a)} 40. Nxh4 Bxh4 41. Rd4 (41. gxh4 Rg6) 41... Re4
) ({b)} 40. gxh4 Bg7 {suivi de Tg6.}) 40... Qg7 41. g4 d4 {Le chat est partie
en h2 et les souris dansent !} 42. exd4 Bxd4 43. Bf1 {Il y avait de jolies
variantes :} ({a)} 43. Re1 Bxf2+ $3 44. Kxf2 Qd4+ 45. Re3 Rae6 {Les Noirs
gagnent}) ({b)} 43. Nf3 Bxf2+ $3 44. Kxf2 Re2+ 45. Kg1 Rxg2+ $1 46. Kxg2 Qxg4+
47. Kf2 (47. Kh2 Qg3+ 48. Kh1 Qxf3+ 49. Kh2 Qg3+ 50. Kh1 Qh3+ 51. Kg1 Rg6+ 52.
Kf2 Qg3#) 47... Qg3+ 48. Ke3 Re6+ 49. Kd4 (49. Kd2 Re2+ 50. Kc3 Qxf3+ 51. Kd4
Qf6+ 52. Kc5 Qb6#) 49... Qf2+ 50. Kc3 Qxf3+ 51. Kc2 Re2+ 52. Rd2 Qd3+ 53. Kd1
Re1+ 54. Kxe1 Qf1#) 43... Qe5 {Menaçant 44... Dg3+ ou même 44... Fxf2+!} 44.
Bxc4 ({Si} 44. Rxd4 Qxd4 45. Qg5+ Rg6 46. Qxh4 Bd5 {,menaçant 47... De4, et
les Noirs gagnent.}) 44... Bxf2+ $1 {Le coup de grâce !} 45. Kg2 {Plus rien ne
pouvait sauver les Blancs :} ({a)} 45. Kxf2 Qxh2+ 46. Kf1 Rf6+ {et mat au coup
suivant}) ({b)} 45. Kh1 Qe4+) ({c)} 45. Kf1 Qxh2) 45... h3+ 46. Kf1 {et les
Blancs abandonnèrent sans attendre 46... Dxh2.} 0-1

[Event "10th London Classic 2018"]
[Site "London ENG"]
[Date "2018.12.13"]
[Round "1.5"]
[White "Aronian, L."]
[Black "Vachier Lagrave, M."]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "B51"]
[WhiteElo "2765"]
[BlackElo "2781"]
[PlyCount "110"]
[EventDate "2018.12.11"]
[EventType "k.o."]
[EventRounds "2"]
[EventCountry "ENG"]
[SourceTitle "The Week in Chess 1258"]
[Source "Mark Crowther"]
[SourceDate "2018.12.17"]
[SourceVersion "1"]
[SourceVersionDate "2018.12.17"]
[SourceQuality "2"]

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. Bb5+ Nd7 4. c3 Ngf6 5. Bd3 Ne5 6. Be2 Nxf3+ 7. Bxf3 e5 8.
d4 Be7 9. O-O O-O 10. Be3 b6 11. Nd2 Qc7 12. Re1 Bd7 13. a4 a6 14. b4 cxd4 15.
cxd4 Rfc8 16. h3 b5 17. axb5 Bxb5 18. Nb3 Qc2 19. d5 Qxd1 20. Rexd1 Rc4 21. Na5
Rxb4 22. Rdc1 Ra4 23. Nc6 Rxa1 24. Rxa1 Kf8 25. g3 Bd3 26. Bg5 h6 27. Bxf6 Bxf6
28. Ra3 Bb5 29. Bg4 Bd8 30. h4 Bb6 31. Rf3 Be2 32. Rb3 Bxf2+ 33. Kxf2 Bxg4 34.
Ra3 Bd7 35. Na5 Ke7 36. Rc3 Rc8 37. Rb3 Bb5 38. Rb2 Rc3 39. Nb3 g6 40. g4 Rh3
41. Nd2 Rxh4 42. Kg3 Rh1 43. Rc2 Kd7 44. Nf3 Rb1 45. Nd2 Rb4 46. Kf3 a5 47. Ke3
a4 48. Ra2 Ke7 49. Ra1 Bd7 50. Kf3 h5 51. gxh5 gxh5 52. Ra3 f5 53. exf5 Bxf5
54. Nf1 Be4+ 55. Ke2 Bxd5 0-1

[Event "Ubeda m"]
[Site "Ubeda"]
[Date "1994.??.??"]
[Round "5"]
[White "Lautier, Joel"]
[Black "Karpov, Anatoly"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "E02"]
[WhiteElo "2645"]
[BlackElo "2780"]
[PlyCount "116"]
[EventDate "1994.11.??"]
[EventType "match"]
[EventRounds "6"]
[EventCountry "ESP"]
[SourceTitle "CBM 045"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceDate "1995.04.01"]
[SourceVersion "1"]
[SourceVersionDate "1995.04.01"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. g3 d5 4. Bg2 dxc4 5. Nf3 Nc6 6. Qa4 Bd7 7. Qxc4 Na5 8.
Qd3 c5 9. O-O Bc6 10. Rd1 c4 11. Qc2 Be4 12. Qa4+ Bc6 13. Qc2 Be4 14. Qd2 h6
15. Qe1 Nc6 16. Qf1 Bd5 17. Nc3 Bb4 18. Nxd5 exd5 19. Ne5 O-O 20. Be3 Rc8 21.
f4 b5 22. a4 bxa4 23. Rxa4 a5 24. Raa1 Qb6 25. Bf2 Qb5 26. Bf3 a4 27. Qg2 c3
28. bxc3 Bxc3 29. Rac1 Bxd4 30. Nxc6 Bxf2+ 31. Qxf2 Rxc6 32. Rb1 Qa6 33. Qd4 a3
34. Ra1 Rfc8 35. Kf2 Rc2 36. Qd3 Qa7+ 37. Qe3 Ra8 38. Qxa7 Rxa7 39. Ke1 Rc5 40.
Ra2 g5 41. Rd3 Rca5 42. fxg5 hxg5 43. Rd4 Kf8 44. h4 g4 45. Bxg4 Ne4 46. Bf5
Nxg3 47. Bd3 Ke7 48. Rg4 Nh5 49. Kd2 Rc7 50. Rb4 Kd6 51. Rb3 Rca7 52. Rb4 Ng3
53. e3 f5 54. Kc3 Ne4+ 55. Bxe4 dxe4 56. Rb3 Rd5 57. Rb6+ Kc5 58. Rf6 Ra4 0-1

[Event "chess.com Speed 5m+1spm 2018"]
[Site "chess.com INT"]
[Date "2018.10.11"]
[Round "2.7"]
[White "Nakamura, Hi"]
[Black "Vachier Lagrave, M."]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "D85"]
[WhiteElo "2777"]
[BlackElo "2779"]
[PlyCount "82"]
[EventDate "2018.07.24"]
[EventType "k.o. (blitz)"]
[EventRounds "4"]
[EventCountry "USA"]
[SourceTitle "The Week in Chess 1249"]
[Source "Mark Crowther"]
[SourceDate "2018.10.15"]
[SourceVersion "1"]
[SourceVersionDate "2018.10.15"]
[SourceQuality "2"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. Nc3 d5 4. cxd5 Nxd5 5. e4 Nxc3 6. bxc3 Bg7 7. Bg5 c5 8.
Rc1 cxd4 9. cxd4 Nc6 10. d5 Nd4 11. Be3 e5 12. Bc4 O-O 13. Ne2 Re8 14. O-O Bd7
15. f3 b5 16. Bd3 Qb6 17. Nxd4 exd4 18. Bf2 Rac8 19. f4 Qd6 20. Qd2 Rc3 21. e5
Qxd5 22. Rfd1 Rec8 23. Bf1 Rxc1 24. Rxc1 Rxc1 25. Qxc1 Bf8 26. h4 h5 27. Qd2
Bc5 28. Be2 Bf5 29. Bxb5 d3 30. a4 Bxf2+ 31. Kxf2 Qd4+ 32. Qe3 Qb2+ 33. Kg3 d2
34. Be2 Qc1 35. Qf3 Qe1+ 36. Kh2 Qxh4+ 37. Kg1 Qe1+ 38. Kh2 Bg4 39. Qa8+ Kg7
40. Qd8 Qxe2 41. Qf6+ Kg8 0-1

[Event "Wch Blitz 9th"]
[Site "Berlin"]
[Date "2015.10.13"]
[Round "2"]
[White "Bachmann, Axel"]
[Black "Kramnik, Vladimir"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "E01"]
[WhiteElo "2593"]
[BlackElo "2777"]
[PlyCount "69"]
[EventDate "2015.10.13"]
[EventType "swiss (blitz)"]
[EventRounds "21"]
[EventCountry "GER"]
[SourceTitle "CBM 168 Extra"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceDate "2015.10.29"]
[SourceVersion "1"]
[SourceVersionDate "2015.10.29"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

1. c4 e6 2. Nf3 d5 3. d4 Nf6 4. g3 Bb4+ 5. Bd2 Bd6 6. Nc3 O-O 7. Bg5 c6 8. Bg2
h6 9. Bxf6 Qxf6 10. O-O Bc7 11. Qb3 Nd7 12. e4 dxc4 13. Qxc4 e5 14. Nd5 Qe6 15.
Ne3 Qxc4 16. Nxc4 exd4 17. Nxd4 Rd8 18. Rfd1 Nb6 19. Ne3 Na4 20. Rab1 Bb6 21.
Nec2 Bg4 22. Rd2 Rd7 23. h3 Be6 24. a3 Rad8 25. Nxe6 Rxd2 26. Nxd8 Bxf2+ 27.
Kh2 Rxd8 28. b4 Rd3 29. g4 Bg3+ 30. Kg1 Rd2 31. Ne1 Nc3 32. Ra1 Re2 33. Nd3 Re3
34. Nc5 b6 35. Na6 0-1

[Event "Gjovik Aker CC Rapid"]
[Site "Gjovik"]
[Date "2009.01.03"]
[Round "4"]
[White "Lie, Kjetil A"]
[Black "Carlsen, Magnus"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "A11"]
[WhiteElo "2539"]
[BlackElo "2776"]
[PlyCount "56"]
[EventDate "2009.01.02"]
[EventType "tourn (rapid)"]
[EventRounds "6"]
[EventCountry "NOR"]
[EventCategory "18"]
[SourceTitle "CBM 128 Extra"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceDate "2009.03.05"]
[SourceVersion "2"]
[SourceVersionDate "2009.03.25"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

1. c4 c6 2. g3 d5 3. Bg2 Nf6 4. Nf3 Bg4 5. Ne5 Be6 6. cxd5 Bxd5 7. Nf3 c5 8.
Nc3 Bc6 9. O-O e6 10. d3 Be7 11. a3 O-O 12. Qc2 Nbd7 13. Rd1 b5 14. b3 Qb6 15.
Bb2 Rac8 16. Rac1 Rfd8 17. Qb1 c4 18. dxc4 bxc4 19. bxc4 Bc5 20. Rf1 Ng4 21. e3
Ndf6 22. Qc2 Bxe3 23. Rcd1 Nxf2 24. Rxf2 Ng4 25. Rdf1 Nxf2 26. Rxf2 Bxf3 27.
Bxf3 Rd2 28. c5 Bxf2+ 0-1

[Event "Zuerich Chess Challenge 4th"]
[Site "Zuerich"]
[Date "2015.02.14"]
[Round "1"]
[White "Caruana, Fabiano"]
[Black "Nakamura, Hikaru"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "B90"]
[WhiteElo "2811"]
[BlackElo "2776"]
[Annotator "Pavlovic,M"]
[PlyCount "82"]
[EventDate "2015.02.14"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventRounds "5"]
[EventCountry "SUI"]
[EventCategory "22"]
[SourceTitle "CBM 165"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceDate "2015.03.11"]
[SourceVersion "1"]
[SourceVersionDate "2015.03.11"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 a6 6. h3 {A popular line
nowadays, played by Bobby Fischer on a very few occasions a long time ago, has
now resurfaced again. I guess that 6.Bg5 is in crisis as well as 6.Be3,
otherwise I don't really see why would anybody would play such a passive move
with White.} e5 7. Nde2 h5 {A very popular line, it is a direct attempt to
stop a g4 expansion or Ng3.} 8. g3 Nbd7 9. Bg5 Be7 10. a4 Nc5 $5 {I can't say
if this is new or not. In today's chess with so many games played every day it
is difficult to draw a line as to what is new and what is not.} (10... b6 11.
Bg2 Bb7 12. O-O O-O 13. Qd2 Rc8 14. Rfd1 Re8 15. Qe3 Rc4 16. b3 Rc5 17. Rd3 Qc7
18. Rad1 Qc6 19. h4 b5 20. axb5 axb5 21. Bh3 Bf8 22. Bxd7 Nxd7 23. Qf3 Qc8 {
1/2-1/2 (53) Shirov,A (2675)-Oparin,G (2543) Moscow (rapid) 2014; with a
complicated struggle ahead of us.}) 11. Bg2 Be6 12. a5 b5 (12... O-O 13. g4 $5
{Although interesting, there is no real need for this; White can play 13.0-0
and transpose to the game.} b5 14. axb6 hxg4 15. b7 Rb8 16. Ng3 Qb6 17. hxg4
Qxb2 18. Bd2 Bxg4 19. f3 Be6 20. Rb1 Qa3 21. Rh2 $13 {1-0 (34) Romm,M-Dolin,B
corr. 2014}) 13. axb6 Qxb6 14. b3 O-O 15. O-O a5 16. Qd2 Rfc8 17. Rfd1 a4 {
An intuitive pawn sacrifice, there are interesting computer generated ideas as
an option:} (17... Rc6 18. Ra3 Rac8 19. Rda1 Ncxe4 $5 20. Nxe4 Rxc2 21. Qd3
Nxe4 22. Be3 Nxf2 23. Kxf2 Qd8 24. Rxa5 Bf8 25. R5a2 Rxa2 26. Rxa2 d5 27. Kg1
d4 28. Bd2 Qb6 $44) ({A logical attempt is} 17... Qb4 $5 18. Bxf6 Bxf6 19. Qxd6
Rd8 20. Qc6 Rxd1+ 21. Rxd1 Rc8 22. Qb5 Qxb5 23. Nxb5 a4 24. bxa4 Nxa4 25. Rc1
Be7 $11) 18. bxa4 Bc4 19. a5 $1 $14 {White has an initiative: the black pawn
sacrifice didn't fully pay off and White is gaining momentum.} Qd8 (19... Rxa5
20. Bxf6 Rxa1 21. Bxe7 Rxd1+ 22. Qxd1 $16) 20. Bxf6 Bxf6 21. Qxd6 Qxd6 22. Rxd6
Nb7 23. Rd2 Rxa5 {Black should have considered an alternative to be played
sooner or later:} (23... h4 $5 24. Nd5 Rxa5 25. Rxa5 Nxa5 26. Nxf6+ gxf6 27.
Nc3 Be6 28. Nd5 Bxd5 29. exd5 Nc4 30. Rd3 Nd6 31. Rb3 hxg3 32. fxg3 Rxc2 33.
Rb6 Rc1+ 34. Kh2 Nf5 {Black has good counterplay in this endgame.}) 24. Rb1 Nc5
25. Nd5 Bd8 26. h4 $1 Ra3 27. Nec3 Rca8 28. Rdd1 Ba5 {Black has accumulated
all his forces on the queenside but still that won't be enough.} 29. Nb5 Ra2
30. Bf3 g6 31. Ne7+ (31. Nd6 $1 Bxd5 32. Rxd5 Rxc2 33. Ra1 {with an unpleasant
position for Black.}) 31... Kg7 32. Nc6 Na4 33. Nd6 Be6 34. Rb7 Rxc2 35. Nxe5
$2 {A serious mistake after which White loses the thread in the game.} (35.
Nxf7 $1 Nc5 (35... Bxf7 36. Nxe5 Rc7 37. Rxc7 Bxc7 38. Nxf7 $16) 36. Rb5 Bxf7
37. Rxa5 Rxa5 38. Nxa5 {White is a pawn up.}) 35... Nc5 36. Re7 Kf8 {The rook
is trapped now, the position has changed dramatically in Black's favour.} 37.
Nc6 (37. Rxf7+ Bxf7 38. Ndxf7 Bc7 39. Nd6 Kg7 40. Ndc4 Raa2 41. Rd5 Bb8 42.
Rxc5 Bxe5 43. Rxe5 Rxc4 44. Rg5 Rcc2 45. Bxh5 Rxf2 $17) 37... Nb3 38. e5 Bb6
39. Rb7 $2 {A big mistake but a logical one; previous moves had been played to
save the rook and not to sac it so Rb7 is consequently played, unfortunately
for White it just loses.} Bxf2+ 40. Kg2 Bc5+ 41. Kh1 Raa2 0-1

[Event "World Blitz 2019"]
[Site "Moscow RUS"]
[Date "2019.12.29"]
[Round "12.17"]
[White "Abdusattorov, Nodirbek"]
[Black "Aronian, L."]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "C65"]
[WhiteElo "2635"]
[BlackElo "2775"]
[PlyCount "76"]
[EventDate "2019.12.29"]
[EventType "swiss (blitz)"]
[EventRounds "21"]
[EventCountry "RUS"]
[SourceTitle "The Week in Chess 1312"]
[Source "Mark Crowther"]
[SourceDate "2019.12.30"]
[SourceVersion "1"]
[SourceVersionDate "2019.12.30"]
[SourceQuality "2"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 Nf6 4. d3 Bc5 5. c3 d5 6. Nbd2 O-O 7. O-O Re8 8. Re1
dxe4 9. dxe4 Qe7 10. Nf1 Bxf2+ 11. Kxf2 Qc5+ 12. Ne3 Nxe4+ 13. Kg1 Qxb5 14. Nd5
Rd8 15. Rxe4 Qxd5 16. Qe1 f6 17. b3 Bf5 18. Re3 Qd1 19. Bb2 Qxe1+ 20. Raxe1 Bg4
21. Bc1 Bxf3 22. gxf3 Rd7 23. Kf2 Rad8 24. R3e2 Rd3 25. Rc2 Kf7 26. Ke2 R3d5
27. Be3 a6 28. b4 Ne7 29. a4 Nf5 30. Bf2 h5 31. Rb1 c6 32. Rcb2 Nd6 33. Ra2 Nc4
34. b5 axb5 35. axb5 Rxb5 36. Rxb5 cxb5 37. Ra7 Rd2+ 38. Ke1 Rd7 0-1

[Event "Vienna Millenium"]
[Site "Vienna"]
[Date "1996.08.17"]
[Round "9"]
[White "Shirov, Alexei"]
[Black "Karpov, Anatoly"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "B12"]
[WhiteElo "2685"]
[BlackElo "2775"]
[Annotator "Hecht,H"]
[PlyCount "80"]
[EventDate "1996.08.09"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "AUT"]
[EventCategory "18"]
[SourceTitle "CBM 055"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceDate "1996.12.01"]
[SourceVersion "1"]
[SourceVersionDate "1996.12.01"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

1. e4 c6 2. d4 d5 3. e5 Bf5 4. Nf3 e6 5. Be2 Ne7 6. O-O c5 7. c4 Nbc6 8. Nc3
dxc4 9. dxc5 Nd5 10. Nd4 Nxc3 11. bxc3 Bxc5 12. Nxf5 exf5 13. Bxc4 Bxf2+ 14.
Kh1 Qxd1 15. Rxd1 Nxe5 16. Bb5+ Nc6 17. Ba3 f6 18. Rab1 Kf7 19. Rd7+ Kg6 20.
Rf1 Be3 21. Bd3 Ne5 22. Bxf5+ Kh6 23. Rxb7 Rab8 24. Rc7 g6 25. Bc2 f5 26. Bd6
Rbe8 27. Re1 f4 28. c4 g5 29. h3 Ng6 30. c5 Bf2 31. Rf1 Re2 32. Bxg6 Kxg6 33.
Rxa7 Rhe8 34. Re7 R8xe7 35. Bxe7 {[#] Mattangriff; konzeptlose Verteidigung 
(Zeitnot!?)} Rxa2 36. c6 Rc2 37. Rd1 $2 (37. c7 $5 Be3 38. Bd6 (38. Bd8 h5 39.
Rd1 g4 40. Rf1 g3 $19 {wegen f3}) 38... Kf5 (38... h5 39. h4) 39. g4+ Ke6 $17)
37... h6 38. Ba3 Be3 39. Rd7 h5 40. Rd1 g4 0-1

[Event "Amber-blindfold 05th"]
[Site "Monte Carlo"]
[Date "1996.??.??"]
[Round "4"]
[White "Piket, Jeroen"]
[Black "Kramnik, Vladimir"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "D48"]
[WhiteElo "2570"]
[BlackElo "2775"]
[PlyCount "82"]
[EventDate "1996.04.??"]
[EventType "tourn (rapid)"]
[EventRounds "11"]
[EventCountry "MNC"]
[EventCategory "17"]
[SourceTitle "CBM 052 Extra"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceDate "1996.07.01"]
[SourceVersion "1"]
[SourceVersionDate "1996.07.01"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

1. d4 d5 2. c4 c6 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. e3 e6 5. Nf3 Nbd7 6. Bd3 dxc4 7. Bxc4 b5 8. Bd3
Bb7 9. O-O a6 10. e4 c5 11. e5 cxd4 12. Nxb5 Bxf3 13. Qxf3 Nd5 14. Nxd4 Nxe5
15. Qe4 Nxd3 16. Qxd3 Bc5 17. Nf3 O-O 18. Bd2 Qb6 19. Rac1 Rfd8 20. Qe2 Rac8
21. b3 Qb5 22. Qxb5 axb5 23. a4 bxa4 24. bxa4 f6 25. Rfd1 Nb4 26. Ne1 Bxf2+ 27.
Kxf2 Rxc1 28. Rxc1 Rxd2+ 29. Ke3 Ra2 30. Rc8+ Kf7 31. Rc7+ Kg6 32. Ra7 e5 33.
Nf3 Nd5+ 34. Kd3 Nf4+ 35. Kc4 Nxg2 36. a5 e4 37. Nd4 e3 38. Kd3 Rd2+ 39. Kc3
Nf4 40. a6 Nd5+ 41. Kc4 Rxd4+ 0-1

[Event "Norway Chess 1st"]
[Site "Stavanger"]
[Date "2013.05.12"]
[Round "4"]
[White "Anand, Viswanathan"]
[Black "Nakamura, Hikaru"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "C78"]
[WhiteElo "2783"]
[BlackElo "2775"]
[Annotator "Szabo,Kr"]
[PlyCount "78"]
[EventDate "2013.05.08"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "NOR"]
[EventCategory "21"]
[SourceTitle "CBM 155"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceDate "2013.07.16"]
[SourceVersion "1"]
[SourceVersionDate "2013.07.16"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4. Ba4 Nf6 5. O-O b5 6. Bb3 Bc5 7. c3 d6 8. d4
Bb6 9. Be3 {This line is very popular nowadays. White wants to avoid the sharp
8.a4 lines and tries to play positionally.} O-O 10. Nbd2 Re8 ({The other main
lines are} 10... Bb7) ({and} 10... h6) 11. Re1 ({One month ago} 11. h3 {
was tried} Na5 12. Bc2 Bb7 (12... c5 13. dxc5 (13. d5 c4) (13. Re1 {transposes
to 11.Re1.}) 13... dxc5 14. Qe2 {is similar to the text move.}) 13. Qb1 (13.
Re1 exd4 14. Bxd4 c5 15. Be3 h6 $13) 13... exd4 (13... h6 14. Re1) 14. cxd4 Nc4
15. Nxc4 bxc4 16. Nd2 (16. e5 dxe5 (16... Bxf3 $2 17. exf6) 17. dxe5 Bxf3 18.
exf6 Bxg2 $1 19. Kxg2 Qd5+ 20. Kg1 Bxe3 21. fxe3 Rxe3 (21... Qg5+ 22. Kh1 Qd5+
23. e4 Qh5 {with perpetual checks.}) 22. Bxh7+ Kh8 23. fxg7+ Kxg7 24. Rf2 Rg3+
25. Kh2 Qd6 $13 {with a very unclear fight.}) 16... Rb8 17. Nxc4 Bxe4 18. Bxe4
Nxe4 19. Qd3 Qd7 20. Rfc1 Nf6 21. Bd2 Ba7 $13 {and Black looks OK,
Ponomariov-Giri, Zug 2013.}) 11... Na5 12. Bc2 c5 13. dxc5 $146 {A logical
novelty.} (13. h3 cxd4 {Probably Anand didn't want to allow this move.} (13...
Nc6 14. d5 (14. dxc5 dxc5 (14... Bxc5 15. Bg5 h6 16. Bh4) 15. a4 Rb8 16. axb5
axb5 {and Black hasn't got any problems.}) 14... Ne7 (14... Na5 15. b3 $14) 15.
a4 Bd7 {with a typical Ruy Lopez middlegame.}) 14. cxd4 exd4 15. Nxd4 (15. Bxd4
Bb7 $11) 15... Bb7 16. Nf5 Bxe3 17. Rxe3 g6 {and Black looks nicely placed.})
13... dxc5 14. Qe2 Ng4 {Nakamura would like to take advantage of White's
missing h3 immediately.} 15. Nf1 Be6 16. Ng5 (16. h3 {was an interesting
alternative} Nxe3 ({or} 16... Bc4 17. Qd2 Nxe3 (17... Qxd2 18. Bxd2) 18. Qxd8 (
18. Nxe3 Qxd2 19. Nxd2 Be6 20. Nf3 f6 21. Nd5 Nc4 $11) 18... Raxd8 19. Nxe3 Bc7
(19... Be6 $2 20. Nxe5) 20. b4 cxb4 21. cxb4 Nc6 22. Nxc4 bxc4 23. Ba4 Re6 24.
Rac1 $14 {and White is slightly better.}) 17. Nxe3 Nc4 18. Red1 Qc7 19. Nd5
Bxd5 20. Rxd5 Nxb2 21. Bb3 c4 22. Qxb2 cxb3 23. axb3 f6 {with a nearly equal
position.}) 16... Nxe3 17. Nxe6 fxe6 (17... Rxe6 $6 {is dubious because of} 18.
Nxe3 $14 {followed by Nd5.}) 18. Nxe3 c4 19. Qh5 Qc7 20. Ng4 Rf8 {A very
unusual position in Ruy Lopez. Black has doubles e-pawns, but thanks to the
weak f2 P he gets enough counterplay.} 21. Re2 (21. Rad1 Nc6 $11) 21... Rad8 $1
22. Rd1 (22. Qxe5 $2 {doesn't work because of} Qxe5 23. Nxe5 Rxf2 $1 24. Rxf2
Rd2 $15 {and White is in a big trouble.}) 22... Rxd1+ 23. Bxd1 Rd8 (23... Qd6
24. Bc2 Nc6 $11) 24. Bc2 (24. Rd2 $5 Nc6 $11) 24... b4 $2 {A very ambitious
move, but he missed White's strong answer.} ({The simple} 24... Nc6 {was the
correct} 25. Rd2 Qe7 26. Rxd8+ Qxd8 27. h3 Kf8 $1 28. Qxh7 Qd2 $44 {and Black
has good counterchances.}) 25. cxb4 $2 {Spoiling the sudden chance.} (25. Rd2
$1 {was the strongest move:} Nc6 26. Ba4 $1 bxc3 27. bxc3 g6 28. Qh6 Rxd2 29.
Qxd2 $16 {and Black faces a very unpleasant endgame.}) 25... Nc6 (25... c3 {
was also possible, but after} 26. bxc3 (26. bxa5 $2 cxb2) 26... Qxc3 27. h3 (
27. h4 $5) 27... Nc6 28. Bb3 Nd4 29. Re3 Qxb4 30. Nxe5 Rf8 31. Qg4 {it is very
difficult to play with Black.}) 26. Ba4 $6 ({Still} 26. Rd2 {gives the best
chance} Nd4 27. Ne3 a5 $44) 26... Nxb4 27. Qxe5 Qe7 $1 {A very strong
cold-blooded move by Nakamura!} 28. Qh5 Nxa2 (28... Nd3) ({or} 28... Rf8 {
were also promising for Black.}) 29. g3 $2 {A decisive mistake probably in
time trouble.} (29. Ne5 {was the last chance, which sometimes threatens with
Nc6 fork.} g6 (29... Nc1 30. Rc2) 30. Qg4 Qd6 31. Nf3 Nc1 32. Rd2 Nd3 33. Bc2 {
and White can hold his position.}) 29... Nc1 $1 $19 {A very strong N move,
followed by Nd3. White's position is already hopeless.} 30. Rc2 Nd3 31. e5 Rf8
32. Rxc4 (32. Bc6 Rf5 33. Qe8+ Qxe8 34. Bxe8 h5 $19) 32... Bxf2+ 33. Kg2 (33.
Nxf2 Qa7 $1 $19) 33... Bc5 34. Bc6 Rf5 35. Qh4 Ne1+ 36. Kh3 Qf7 37. Rxc5 Rh5
38. Bg2 Rxh4+ 39. gxh4 Qf5 {A great win by Nakamura!} 0-1

[Event "Eurasian Blitz Chess Cup"]
[Site "Almaty"]
[Date "2016.06.18"]
[Round "13"]
[White "Onischuk, Vladimir"]
[Black "Karjakin, Sergey"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "C54"]
[WhiteElo "2613"]
[BlackElo "2774"]
[PlyCount "70"]
[EventDate "2016.06.18"]
[EventType "swiss (blitz)"]
[EventRounds "22"]
[EventCountry "KAZ"]
[SourceTitle "CBM 173 Extra"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceDate "2016.08.29"]
[SourceVersion "1"]
[SourceVersionDate "2016.08.29"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Bc5 4. d3 Nf6 5. O-O d6 6. c3 a6 7. Bb3 Ba7 8. Nbd2
O-O 9. h3 Ne7 10. d4 exd4 11. cxd4 d5 12. e5 Ne4 13. Re1 Bf5 14. Bc2 Nxd2 15.
Bxd2 Qd7 16. Rc1 c6 17. Bb4 Rfe8 18. Ng5 Ng6 19. Nf3 h6 20. Bd2 Rad8 21. b4 Qe6
22. a4 f6 23. b5 axb5 24. axb5 cxb5 25. Rb1 fxe5 26. dxe5 Rf8 27. Bxf5 Qxf5 28.
Rxb5 Nh4 29. Rxb7 Nxf3+ 30. Qxf3 Bxf2+ 31. Kh1 Qxf3 32. gxf3 Bxe1 33. Bxe1 Rxf3
34. Kg2 Re3 35. Bg3 d4 0-1

[Event "chess.com Speed 2019"]
[Site "chess.com INT"]
[Date "2019.11.19"]
[Round "2.16"]
[White "So, W."]
[Black "Vachier Lagrave, M."]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "B13"]
[WhiteElo "2767"]
[BlackElo "2774"]
[PlyCount "58"]
[EventDate "2019.09.02"]
[EventType "k.o. (blitz)"]
[EventRounds "4"]
[EventCountry "USA"]
[SourceTitle "The Week in Chess 1309"]
[Source "Mark Crowther"]
[SourceDate "2019.12.10"]
[SourceVersion "1"]
[SourceVersionDate "2019.12.10"]
[SourceQuality "2"]

1. e4 c6 2. d4 d5 3. exd5 cxd5 4. Bd3 Nf6 5. c3 Nc6 6. Bf4 g6 7. h3 Bg7 8. Nf3
O-O 9. O-O Bf5 10. Be2 Ne4 11. Nbd2 Nd6 12. Qb3 Rc8 13. Rfe1 Na5 14. Qxd5 Be6
15. Qg5 Nf5 16. Bh2 Qb6 17. b4 Nc4 18. Bxc4 Bxc4 19. Nxc4 Rxc4 20. Qd2 Rfc8 21.
g4 Rxc3 22. Rac1 Nxd4 23. Rxc3 Rxc3 24. Nxd4 Bxd4 25. Rxe7 Bxf2+ 26. Qxf2 Rc1+
27. Kg2 Qc6+ 28. Qf3 Rc2+ 29. Kg3 Qd6+ 0-1

[Event "London Classic"]
[Site "London"]
[Date "2009.12.10"]
[Round "3"]
[White "McShane, Luke J"]
[Black "Kramnik, Vladimir"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "C27"]
[WhiteElo "2615"]
[BlackElo "2772"]
[Annotator "Saunders,J"]
[PlyCount "72"]
[EventDate "2009.12.08"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventRounds "7"]
[EventCountry "ENG"]
[EventCategory "18"]
[SourceTitle "CBM 134"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceDate "2010.01.18"]
[SourceVersion "1"]
[SourceVersionDate "2010.01.18"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

1. e4 e5 2. Bc4 {[The Bishop's Opening was known to the 16th pioneers of chess
(as we know it). It is not fashionable at the higher levels of the game.
Though there is nothing specifically wrong with it (and it often transposes
into better known openings), it lacks the sort of bite that the super-GMs look
for when playing White.]} Nf6 3. d3 Bc5 (3... c6 {is another move often seen
here, planning to drive back the c4 bishop with d7-d5. One snag with the
Bishop's Opening is that it doesn't oblige Black to play Nc6 to defend his
e-pawn; consequently, Black has a little extra flexibility of choice.}) 4. Nf3
O-O 5. Nc3 ({Snatching a pawn with} 5. Nxe5 $2 {is unthinkable at this level.
The game might proceed} d5 6. exd5 Re8 7. d4 Bxd4 $1 {(looks clever but most
experienced players at club level would know this trick)} 8. Qxd4 Nc6 {and
White is struggling. Elite players would dismiss such a continuation within
nanoseconds, but Vlad Kramnik was kind enough to take the trouble to show us
this variation in the commentary room. He is a relaxed and entertaining
commentator, striking exactly the right note with his audience.}) 5... d6 6.
Na4 {[If you've got one of those old Fred Reinfeld chess books for
near-beginners, he would probably tell you that all White's problems stem from
this - making two moves with the same piece in the opening. Well... on this
occasion, I would be inclined to agree. This looks insipid to me.]} Bb6 7. c3
Be6 8. Bb3 ({If} 8. Bxe6 fxe6 {, the doubled pawns aren't much of a problem
for Black. He can usually even them out later on by playing d7-d6 and he gets
an open file for his f8 rook into the bargain.}) 8... Bxb3 9. axb3 {[Again,
the argument in favour of doubling the pawns is to give the rook some scope.]}
Nbd7 10. b4 {#[White's opening has not been a success but now Black plays
rather a surprising move.]} Bxf2+ $5 {[This looks like a tactical blow but in
fact Black was probably thinking more of its positional consequences.]} 11.
Kxf2 b5 {[That is the tactical point: the white knight cannot escape the pawn
attack, so material equilibrium will be restored immediately.]} 12. Bd2 bxa4
13. Qxa4 {[The previous sequence may look a little unsophisticated at first
sight but I'm quite sure both players would have been already focusing on this
position (and perhaps beyond) for a number of moves previously. McShane must
have considered it reasonably defensible, but Kramnik now begins to exert his
authority on the position.]} c5 $1 14. b5 ({Although it would offer him the
chance to undouble his pawns, White cannot contemplate} 14. bxc5 $2 Nxc5 15.
Qc2 Qb6 {when Black has several nasty threats.}) 14... d5 $1 {[Black has one
eye on White's exposed king on f2 and he is trying to open up a central file
in order to menace it.]} 15. exd5 ({With hindsight,} 15. Rhe1 {seems better.
At least it doesn't leave the h1 rook out of play as in the game. Black has
several ways to proceed, e.g.} c4 $5 16. exd5 Nb6 17. Qc2 Re8 {though I'm not
entirely convinced.}) 15... Nb6 16. Qc2 c4 17. Nxe5 $2 ({After this, White is
history:} 17. Rhe1 Re8 {would transpose to the line given above and at least
leave White with his full complement of pieces to play with.}) 17... Qxd5 18.
d4 Ne4+ 19. Kg1 ({White has to go backwards and incarcerate his own h1 rook. If
} 19. Ke3 $2 Nxd2 20. Qxd2 Rae8 {he will lose material.}) 19... Rfe8 20. Nf3 ({
There is no time for} 20. Re1 {because of} Rxe5 $1 21. dxe5 Nxd2 {with a
substantial material and positional advantage.}) 20... Qxb5 21. h4 {#[White
has few useful moves and he plays this in a desperate attempt to get his h1
rook into play. Spectating grandmaster were no longer bothering to follow this
game, dismissing it as a routine win for Black.]} Qb3 $1 22. Qb1 (22. Qxb3 cxb3
{and Black will play Nc4, tightening the grip on White's position.}) (22. Qc1 {
is even worse:} Ng3 {would threaten the h1 rook and a king/queen fork with
Ne2+.}) 22... Nd5 23. Rh3 h6 {[Removing another square from the scope of
White's already desperately restricted bishop.]} 24. Qc1 Qb6 25. Ra4 Rab8 26.
Ra2 ({After} 26. Rxc4 Qxb2 27. Qxb2 Rxb2 28. Be1 Rb1 {it is becoming clear
that the bishop is doomed. Consequently, White is tied to the defence of the
b2 pawn.}) 26... Qb3 27. Qa1 Rb6 28. Kh2 {[The knot is getting tighter. White
is running out of moves to play.]} Ndf6 29. Be1 ({White was now very short of
time. If} 29. Kg1 Ng4 30. Bf4 Ngf2 31. Rh2 Nd3 {it is close to the end.}) 29...
Ng4+ 30. Kg1 Nef6 31. d5 Nxd5 32. Rg3 Ndf6 33. Bd2 Rd6 34. Ra3 Qb6+ 35. Kh1
Nf2+ 36. Kh2 N6g4+ (36... N6g4+ {Let's look at one finish:} 37. Rxg4 Nxg4+ 38.
Kg3 Qf2+ 39. Kxg4 Qxg2+ 40. Kf4 Rf6#) 0-1

[Event "Superbet Blitz 2019"]
[Site "Bucharest ROU"]
[Date "2019.11.09"]
[Round "6.5"]
[White "Caruana, F."]
[Black "Mamedyarov, S."]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "C77"]
[WhiteElo "2822"]
[BlackElo "2772"]
[PlyCount "136"]
[EventDate "2019.11.09"]
[EventType "tourn (blitz)"]
[EventRounds "18"]
[EventCountry "ROU"]
[EventCategory "21"]
[SourceTitle "The Week in Chess 1305"]
[Source "Mark Crowther"]
[SourceDate "2019.11.11"]
[SourceVersion "2"]
[SourceVersionDate "2019.11.18"]
[SourceQuality "2"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4. Ba4 Nf6 5. d3 b5 6. Bb3 Bc5 7. c3 O-O 8. Nbd2
d5 9. exd5 Nxd5 10. Ne4 Bb6 11. Nfg5 h6 12. h4 Nce7 13. Qf3 c6 14. Bd2 f5 15.
Ng3 Qe8 16. c4 e4 17. Qh5 exd3 18. cxd5 Nxd5+ 19. Kf1 Qxh5 20. Nxh5 hxg5 21.
hxg5 Be6 22. g6 f4 23. Rh4 Rae8 24. Re1 Ne3+ 25. Kg1 Bxb3 26. axb3 Nd5 27. Rxe8
Rxe8 28. Rh3 Bxf2+ 29. Kxf2 Re2+ 30. Kf3 Rxd2 31. Nxf4 Nxf4 32. Kxf4 Rxg2 33.
Kf5 Rf2+ 34. Kg5 d2 35. Rd3 Kf8 36. Kg4 Ke7 37. Kg3 d1=Q 38. Rxd1 Rxb2 39. Rd3
Kf6 40. Kf4 Kxg6 41. Rd6+ Kh7 42. Rxc6 Rxb3 43. Rxa6 Rb1 44. Rb6 b4 45. Kg3 b3
46. Kf3 g6 47. Rb7+ Kh6 48. Rb5 g5 49. Rb6+ Kh5 50. Rb4 Kg6 51. Rb5 Kf6 52. Kf2
Ke6 53. Kg2 Kd6 54. Rxg5 Rc1 55. Rb5 Rc3 56. Kf2 Kc6 57. Rb8 Kc5 58. Ke2 Kc4
59. Rc8+ Kb4 60. Ra8 b2 61. Kd2 Rc5 62. Rb8+ Ka3 63. Ra8+ Kb3 64. Rb8+ Ka2 65.
Ra8+ Kb1 66. Rb8 Rd5+ 67. Ke2 Kc2 68. Rc8+ Kb3 0-1

[Event "Magnus Carlsen Inv Prelim"]
[Site "chess24.com INT"]
[Date "2021.03.15"]
[Round "12.2"]
[White "Karjakin, Sergey"]
[Black "Mamedyarov, S."]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "B29"]
[WhiteElo "2757"]
[BlackElo "2770"]
[PlyCount "56"]
[EventDate "2021.03.13"]
[EventType "tourn (rapid)"]
[EventRounds "15"]
[EventCategory "20"]
[SourceTitle "The Week in Chess 1375"]
[Source "Mark Crowther"]
[SourceDate "2021.03.15"]
[SourceVersion "1"]
[SourceVersionDate "2021.03.15"]
[SourceQuality "2"]

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 Nf6 3. e5 Nd5 4. Nc3 e6 5. Nxd5 exd5 6. d4 Nc6 7. dxc5 Bxc5 8.
Qxd5 Qb6 9. Bc4 Bxf2+ 10. Ke2 O-O 11. Rf1 Bc5 12. Ng5 Nd4+ 13. Kd1 Ne6 14. Ne4
d6 15. exd6 Rd8 16. c3 Bxd6 17. Kc2 Bf4 18. Qb5 Qxb5 19. Bxb5 Bxh2 20. g3 b6
21. Bc4 b5 22. Bxb5 Bb7 23. Bd3 Rd7 24. Re1 Rc8 25. Bf1 Nd4+ 26. Kb1 Nf3 27.
Re2 f5 28. Bh3 Ng1 0-1

[Event "Wch Blitz 6th"]
[Site "Astana"]
[Date "2012.07.10"]
[Round "25"]
[White "Bologan, Viktor"]
[Black "Morozevich, Alexander"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "C00"]
[WhiteElo "2732"]
[BlackElo "2770"]
[PlyCount "82"]
[EventDate "2012.07.09"]
[EventType "tourn (blitz)"]
[EventRounds "30"]
[EventCountry "KAZ"]
[EventCategory "19"]
[SourceTitle "CBM 149 Extra"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceDate "2012.08.24"]
[SourceVersion "1"]
[SourceVersionDate "2012.08.24"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

1. e4 e6 2. d3 d5 3. Qe2 Nc6 4. Nf3 e5 5. g3 dxe4 6. dxe4 Nf6 7. Bg2 Bc5 8. O-O
O-O 9. c3 a5 10. Rd1 Qe7 11. Bg5 h6 12. Bxf6 Qxf6 13. Nbd2 Ne7 14. Nc4 Ng6 15.
Rd5 Ba7 16. Rxa5 Be6 17. Ra3 b5 18. Ncd2 c6 19. h3 Qe7 20. Nf1 Rad8 21. Ne3 Qb7
22. Nf5 Rd7 23. Rd1 Rfd8 24. Rxd7 Qxd7 25. h4 Bc5 26. b4 Bb6 27. h5 Nf8 28.
Nxe5 Qc7 29. Nf3 Bc4 30. Qe1 Ne6 31. Ne3 Rd3 32. Nxc4 bxc4 33. Ra6 Qb7 34. Ne5
Qxa6 35. Nxd3 cxd3 36. Qd2 Qc4 37. Bf1 Qxe4 38. Qxd3 Qe5 39. Bg2 Qe1+ 40. Qf1
Bxf2+ 41. Kh2 Bxg3+ 0-1

[Event "Magnus Carlsen Inv Prelim"]
[Site "chess24.com INT"]
[Date "2021.03.14"]
[Round "9.3"]
[White "Van Foreest, Jorden"]
[Black "So, W."]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "C45"]
[WhiteElo "2701"]
[BlackElo "2770"]
[PlyCount "110"]
[EventDate "2021.03.13"]
[EventType "tourn (rapid)"]
[EventRounds "15"]
[EventCategory "20"]
[SourceTitle "The Week in Chess 1375"]
[Source "Mark Crowther"]
[SourceDate "2021.03.15"]
[SourceVersion "1"]
[SourceVersionDate "2021.03.15"]
[SourceQuality "2"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 exd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Bb5 Bc5 6. Nb3 Bb6 7. Nc3 d6 8.
O-O Bg4 9. Qd3 O-O 10. Bxc6 bxc6 11. a4 a5 12. Bg5 h6 13. Bh4 g5 14. Bg3 Nh5
15. Nd4 Bd7 16. Rad1 Qf6 17. e5 dxe5 18. Ne4 Qg7 19. Nf3 Be6 20. Bxe5 f6 21.
Ng3 fxe5 22. Nxh5 Qf7 23. Ng3 Bc4 24. Qe4 Bxf1 25. Rxf1 Rae8 26. h4 gxh4 27.
Nxh4 Bxf2+ 28. Kh1 Re6 29. Qg4+ Kh7 30. Nh5 Rg8 31. Qe2 Rf8 32. Qg4 Qg8 33.
Qe4+ Kh8 34. g3 Qg5 35. Qe2 Rd6 36. Kg2 Rdf6 37. Kh3 Bxg3 38. Nxg3 Rxf1 39.
Nxf1 Rf4 40. Nf3 Qg4+ 41. Kh2 Qxf3 42. Qxe5+ Kh7 43. Ng3 Rh4+ 44. Kg1 Rg4 45.
Kh2 Rg7 46. b4 axb4 47. a5 c5 48. a6 c4 49. a7 b3 50. cxb3 cxb3 51. Qe1 b2 52.
Qb1+ Rg6 53. Qe1 b1=Q 54. a8=Q Qc2+ 55. Kh3 Qcg2+ 0-1

[Event "Mainz Classic rap Prelim"]
[Site "Mainz"]
[Date "2009.08.01"]
[Round "5"]
[White "Naiditsch, Arkadij"]
[Black "Aronian, Levon"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "C60"]
[WhiteElo "2697"]
[BlackElo "2768"]
[PlyCount "98"]
[EventDate "2009.07.31"]
[EventType "tourn (rapid)"]
[EventRounds "6"]
[EventCountry "GER"]
[SourceTitle "CBM 131 Extra"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceDate "2009.09.03"]
[SourceVersion "2"]
[SourceVersionDate "2009.09.16"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 Nge7 4. O-O g6 5. c3 a6 6. Bxc6 Nxc6 7. d4 d6 8. d5
Ne7 9. c4 Bg7 10. Nc3 O-O 11. Ne1 b5 12. cxb5 axb5 13. Nd3 Bd7 14. Nb4 h6 15.
Qd3 f5 16. f3 f4 17. Bd2 Qe8 18. Rfc1 g5 19. Nd1 Rc8 20. Nf2 h5 21. h3 Ng6 22.
Na6 Qd8 23. Rc3 Bf6 24. Rac1 g4 25. Nxc7 Bh4 26. hxg4 Bxf2+ 27. Kxf2 Qh4+ 28.
Ke2 Qh2 29. gxh5 b4 30. Rc4 Nh4 31. Rf1 Bh3 32. Rf2 Bxg2 33. Kd1 Qh1+ 34. Kc2
Bxf3 35. Kb3 Qd1+ 36. Qc2 Qxc2+ 37. Kxc2 Bxe4+ 38. Kb3 Bd3 39. Rc1 Nf5 40. Kxb4
Nd4 41. b3 Ne2 42. Rc6 Nd4 43. Rc3 Rb8+ 44. Ka3 Rfc8 45. Kb2 Bf5 46. Bxf4 exf4
47. Rc4 Nc2 48. Rfxf4 Ne3 49. Rc3 Nd1+ 0-1

[Event "China Elite Mind blitz"]
[Site "Huaian"]
[Date "2016.03.01"]
[Round "24"]
[White "Li, Chao B"]
[Black "Ding, Liren"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "C52"]
[WhiteElo "2751"]
[BlackElo "2766"]
[PlyCount "96"]
[EventDate "2016.02.28"]
[EventType "tourn (blitz)"]
[EventRounds "30"]
[EventCountry "CHN"]
[EventCategory "19"]
[SourceTitle "CBM 171 Extra"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceDate "2016.04.26"]
[SourceVersion "1"]
[SourceVersionDate "2016.04.26"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Bc5 4. b4 Bxb4 5. c3 Ba5 6. d4 d6 7. Qb3 Qd7 8. O-O
Bb6 9. Bb5 a6 10. Ba4 Ba7 11. Na3 Nge7 12. d5 b5 13. Nxb5 axb5 14. Bxb5 O-O 15.
dxc6 Qg4 16. Qc2 f5 17. Re1 Ng6 18. h3 Qh5 19. Ng5 Nh4 20. Bc4+ Kh8 21. Qe2 Qg6
22. g3 fxe4 23. gxh4 Rxf2 24. Qxf2 Bxf2+ 25. Kxf2 h6 26. Nf7+ Kh7 27. Bd5 Qf5+
28. Kg1 Qxh3 29. Bxe4+ Bf5 30. Bg2 Qxh4 31. Be3 Rf8 32. Nxd6 cxd6 33. c7 Be4
34. Re2 Qg3 35. Rf1 Rc8 36. Bf4 exf4 37. Rxe4 Rxc7 38. Rf3 Qg5 39. Rexf4 Rxc3
40. Rxc3 Qxf4 41. Rd3 h5 42. Rf3 Qd4+ 43. Kh2 Qe5+ 44. Kg1 g5 45. a4 Qd4+ 46.
Kh2 Qxa4 47. Rf6 Qh4+ 48. Bh3 g4 0-1

[Event "Chess Classics"]
[Site "Frankfurt"]
[Date "1997.??.??"]
[Round "3"]
[White "Topalov, Veselin"]
[Black "Anand, Viswanathan"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "B90"]
[WhiteElo "2725"]
[BlackElo "2765"]
[PlyCount "68"]
[EventDate "1997.06.26"]
[EventType "tourn (rapid)"]
[EventRounds "6"]
[EventCountry "GER"]
[EventCategory "19"]
[SourceTitle "CBM 058 Extra"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceDate "1997.07.29"]
[SourceVersion "1"]
[SourceVersionDate "1997.07.29"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 a6 6. Be3 Ng4 7. Bc1 Nf6 8.
Be3 Ng4 9. Bg5 h6 10. Bh4 g5 11. Bg3 Bg7 12. Be2 h5 13. Bxg4 Bxg4 14. f3 Bd7
15. Bf2 Nc6 16. O-O e6 17. Nde2 Qc7 18. Qd2 g4 19. f4 h4 20. Be3 b5 21. Rad1
Bf8 22. e5 dxe5 23. Ne4 O-O-O 24. Qe1 f5 25. Ng5 h3 26. g3 Re8 27. Qf2 Kb8 28.
fxe5 Bc8 29. Nf4 Rg8 30. Nh5 Rxg5 31. Bxg5 Nxe5 32. Bf4 Bc5 33. Rfe1 Bxf2+ 34.
Kxf2 Qxc2+ 0-1

[Event "Airthings Masters KO 2020"]
[Site "chess24.com INT"]
[Date "2020.12.30"]
[Round "1.32"]
[White "Nepomniachtchi, I."]
[Black "Radjabov, T."]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "B00"]
[WhiteElo "2784"]
[BlackElo "2765"]
[PlyCount "102"]
[EventDate "2020.12.29"]
[EventType "k.o. (rapid)"]
[EventRounds "3"]
[SourceTitle "The Week in Chess 1365"]
[Source "Mark Crowther"]
[SourceDate "2021.01.04"]
[SourceVersion "1"]
[SourceVersionDate "2021.01.04"]
[SourceQuality "2"]

1. e4 b6 2. d4 Bb7 3. Nc3 e6 4. Nf3 d6 5. a4 a6 6. Bd3 Nd7 7. O-O h6 8. Re1
Ngf6 9. h3 Be7 10. Bf4 g5 11. Bh2 g4 12. hxg4 Nxg4 13. d5 Rg8 14. dxe6 fxe6 15.
Bc4 Rg6 16. Ne2 Nxh2 17. Nxh2 Bg5 18. Nd4 Nf8 19. Qh5 Qf6 20. e5 Qf7 21. exd6
Be3 22. d7+ Nxd7 23. Ng4 Bxf2+ 24. Kh1 Bxe1 25. Rxe1 O-O-O 26. Bxe6 Rxe6 27.
Qxf7 Rxe1+ 28. Kh2 Re4 29. Qg7 h5 30. Nh6 Kb8 31. c3 Ne5 32. a5 bxa5 33. Ne6
Nf3+ 34. gxf3 Rxe6 35. Nf5 Re2+ 36. Kg3 Rxb2 37. Nd4 h4+ 38. Kxh4 Rb6 39. Kg3
a4 40. Qe7 Rdd6 41. Nf5 Rd3 42. Qf8+ Ka7 43. Qc5 Rd5 44. Qf8 a3 45. Ne7 Rg5+
46. Kf4 Ra5 47. Nc8+ Bxc8 48. Qxc8 Rc6 49. Qe8 Rc4+ 50. Kg3 a2 51. Qe3+ Rcc5
0-1

[Event "Chessable Masters Final 8"]
[Site "chess24.com INT"]
[Date "2020.07.03"]
[Round "3.14"]
[White "Carlsen, M."]
[Black "Giri, A."]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "B51"]
[WhiteElo "2863"]
[BlackElo "2764"]
[PlyCount "51"]
[EventDate "2020.06.25"]
[EventType "k.o. (rapid)"]
[EventRounds "3"]
[SourceTitle "The Week in Chess 1339"]
[Source "Mark Crowther"]
[SourceDate "2020.07.06"]
[SourceVersion "1"]
[SourceVersionDate "2020.07.06"]
[SourceQuality "2"]

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. Bb5+ Nd7 4. a4 Ngf6 5. Nc3 g6 6. a5 Bg7 7. O-O a6 8. Be2
O-O 9. Re1 b5 10. axb6 Bb7 11. d3 Nxb6 12. e5 Nfd5 13. Nxd5 Nxd5 14. exd6 exd6
15. c3 Re8 16. Bd2 Qb6 17. Qc2 a5 18. h3 Bc6 19. d4 cxd4 20. Nxd4 Nb4 21. cxb4
Bxd4 22. bxa5 Bxf2+ 23. Kf1 Qd4 24. Qxc6 Bxe1 25. Bxe1 Qxb2 26. Bf3 0-1

[Event "Online Nations Cup Prelim"]
[Site "chess.com INT"]
[Date "2020.05.06"]
[Round "4.3"]
[White "Vidit, S."]
[Black "Wang Hao"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "D20"]
[WhiteElo "2726"]
[BlackElo "2763"]
[PlyCount "58"]
[EventDate "2020.05.05"]
[EventType "team (rapid)"]
[EventRounds "10"]
[SourceTitle "The Week in Chess 1331"]
[Source "Mark Crowther"]
[SourceDate "2020.05.11"]
[SourceVersion "1"]
[SourceVersionDate "2020.05.11"]
[SourceQuality "2"]
[WhiteTeam "India"]
[BlackTeam "China"]
[WhiteTeamCountry "IND"]
[BlackTeamCountry "CHN"]

1. d4 d5 2. c4 dxc4 3. e4 e5 4. Nf3 exd4 5. Bxc4 Nc6 6. O-O Be6 7. Bb5 Bc5 8.
b4 Bb6 9. a4 a6 10. Bxc6+ bxc6 11. a5 Ba7 12. Bb2 Nf6 13. Nbd2 O-O 14. Qc2 Re8
15. Rad1 Rb8 16. Ne5 Bd7 17. Ndc4 Rxb4 18. Qd2 c5 19. Bxd4 Rxc4 20. Ba1 Rd4 21.
Bxd4 cxd4 22. Qf4 Bb5 23. Rfe1 Qd6 24. Nd3 Qxf4 25. Nxf4 Rxe4 26. Rxe4 Nxe4 27.
Nd5 d3 28. Nxc7 Bxf2+ 29. Kh1 Bc4 0-1

[Event "Amber-rapid 18th"]
[Site "Nice"]
[Date "2009.03.17"]
[Round "4"]
[White "Karjakin, Sergey"]
[Black "Radjabov, Teimour"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "B31"]
[WhiteElo "2706"]
[BlackElo "2761"]
[PlyCount "148"]
[EventDate "2009.03.14"]
[EventType "tourn (rapid)"]
[EventRounds "11"]
[EventCountry "FRA"]
[EventCategory "21"]
[SourceTitle "CBM 129 Extra"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceDate "2009.05.05"]
[SourceVersion "2"]
[SourceVersionDate "2009.05.20"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 g6 4. Bxc6 dxc6 5. d3 Bg7 6. h3 Nh6 7. a3 b6 8. Nc3
O-O 9. O-O f6 10. b4 cxb4 11. axb4 Nf7 12. Be3 f5 13. Ra3 e5 14. Qe2 f4 15. Bd2
h5 16. Nh2 Ng5 17. Rfa1 a6 18. Na4 Ne6 19. Qd1 Ra7 20. Be1 Rd7 21. f3 b5 22.
Nc5 Nxc5 23. bxc5 g5 24. Rxa6 Bxa6 25. Rxa6 Rc7 26. Bf2 Qd7 27. Qa1 Rf7 28. Qa2
Kh7 29. Kf1 Ra7 30. Ke2 Qb7 31. Rxa7 Qxa7 32. Qb2 Qa4 33. Nf1 Ra7 34. Nd2 Qa2
35. Qc1 Ra3 36. Kd1 Kg6 37. Qb1 Qxb1+ 38. Nxb1 Ra2 39. Kc1 Bf6 40. Nd2 Ra1+ 41.
Nb1 g4 42. hxg4 hxg4 43. fxg4 Kg5 44. Kb2 Ra8 45. Nd2 Kxg4 46. Nf3 Kh5 47. Kc1
Rg8 48. Kd2 Rxg2 49. Ke2 b4 50. Kf1 Rg8 51. d4 exd4 52. e5 Be7 53. Nxd4 Bxc5
54. Nxc6 Rc8 55. Bxc5 Rxc6 56. Bxb4 Kg4 57. Ke2 Rc4 58. Be1 Re4+ 59. Kd2 Rxe5
60. Bf2 f3 61. Ba7 Re7 62. Bb6 Re6 63. Ba7 Ra6 64. Bc5 Kg3 65. Kd3 Rc6 66. Ba7
Rc7 67. Bb6 f2 68. Bxf2+ Kxf2 69. c4 Kf3 70. Kd4 Kf4 71. Kd5 Kf5 72. c5 Rd7+
73. Kc6 Ke6 74. Kb6 Kd5 0-1

[Event "World Cup"]
[Site "Reykjavik"]
[Date "1988.10.??"]
[Round "14"]
[White "Timman, Jan H"]
[Black "Kasparov, Garry"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "E88"]
[WhiteElo "2660"]
[BlackElo "2760"]
[PlyCount "89"]
[EventDate "1988.10.??"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventRounds "17"]
[EventCountry "ISL"]
[EventCategory "15"]
[SourceTitle "CBM 010"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceDate "1989.06.01"]
[SourceVersion "1"]
[SourceVersionDate "1989.06.01"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. Nc3 Bg7 4. e4 d6 5. f3 O-O 6. Be3 e5 7. d5 c6 8. Bd3 b5
9. cxb5 cxd5 10. exd5 e4 11. Nxe4 Nxd5 12. Bg5 Qa5+ 13. Qd2 Qxd2+ 14. Bxd2 Bxb2
15. Rb1 Bg7 16. Ne2 Nd7 17. Nxd6 Nc5 18. Bc2 Be6 19. Ne4 Rac8 20. O-O Nxe4 21.
Bxe4 f5 22. Bd3 Nb6 23. Nc1 Rfd8 24. Bg5 Rd7 25. Re1 Kf7 26. Be2 h6 27. Bh4 Nd5
28. Bd1 Bd4+ 29. Bf2 Bxf2+ 30. Kxf2 Nc3 31. Bb3 Bxb3 32. Rxb3 Nd1+ 33. Rxd1
Rxd1 34. Nd3 Rd2+ 35. Ke3 Rxg2 36. Ra3 Re8+ 37. Kd4 Re7 38. Ne5+ Kf6 39. Nc6
Rd7+ 40. Kc4 Rc2+ 41. Kb4 Rxh2 42. Ra6 Kg5 43. a4 h5 44. Rxa7 Rxa7 45. Nxa7 0-1

[Event "Las Vegas Millionaire op"]
[Site "Las Vegas"]
[Date "2015.10.10"]
[Round "5"]
[White "Troff, Kayden W"]
[Black "So, Wesley"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "E15"]
[WhiteElo "2517"]
[BlackElo "2760"]
[PlyCount "66"]
[EventDate "2015.10.08"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "USA"]
[SourceTitle "CBM 168 Extra"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceDate "2015.10.29"]
[SourceVersion "1"]
[SourceVersionDate "2015.10.29"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nf3 b6 4. g3 Ba6 5. Qb3 Nc6 6. Nbd2 Na5 7. Qa4 Bb7 8. Bg2
Rc8 9. O-O c5 10. dxc5 Bxc5 11. b4 Bc6 12. Qa3 Be7 13. c5 Nb7 14. cxb6 a5 15.
e4 Bb5 16. Rd1 Bxb4 17. Qe3 Bc5 18. Qg5 h6 19. Qh4 Bxf2+ 20. Kh1 Be2 21. e5
Bxd1 22. exf6 Qxf6 23. Qxf6 gxf6 24. Ne4 Bxf3 25. Nxf6+ Ke7 26. Bxf3 Bd4 27.
Ba3+ Kxf6 28. Rd1 Rc3 29. Bxb7 Rxa3 30. Rxd4 Rxa2 31. Ba6 Rb2 32. b7 Rb6 33.
Rc4 Rc6 0-1

[Event "Aimchess US Rapid KO 2021"]
[Site "chess24.com INT"]
[Date "2021.09.03"]
[Round "2.22"]
[White "Artemiev, V."]
[Black "Firouzja, Alireza"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "E54"]
[WhiteElo "2704"]
[BlackElo "2759"]
[PlyCount "92"]
[EventDate "2021.08.31"]
[EventType "k.o."]
[SourceVersionDate "2018.05.14"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. Nf3 d5 3. c4 e6 4. Nc3 Bb4 5. e3 O-O 6. Bd3 dxc4 7. Bxc4 c5 8. O-O
Nc6 9. a3 Ba5 10. Bd3 Qe7 11. Ne4 cxd4 12. exd4 Nd5 13. Bc2 Rd8 14. b4 Bb6 15.
Qd3 e5 16. Nc3 Nf6 17. Bg5 Nxd4 18. Ne4 Bf5 19. Bxf6 gxf6 20. Nxd4 Bxd4 21. Qf3
Bg6 22. Rae1 Kg7 23. Bb1 f5 24. Ng3 f4 25. Nf5+ Bxf5 26. Bxf5 Qg5 27. Bb1 Rac8
28. Rc1 Rxc1 29. Rxc1 Bb6 30. Rf1 Rd2 31. Qxb7 f3 32. Qxf3 Rxf2 33. Qxf2 Bxf2+
34. Kxf2 Qd2+ 35. Kg3 Qe3+ 36. Kh4 Qxa3 37. Bf5 Qxb4+ 38. g4 Qd2 39. Kg3 Qe3+
40. Rf3 Qe1+ 41. Kg2 e4 42. Rf1 Qe3 43. Ra1 Qd2+ 44. Kf1 e3 45. Kg1 Qf2+ 46.
Kh1 e2 0-1

[Event "Chess.com SIG Bullet KO"]
[Site "chess.com INT"]
[Date "2021.04.07"]
[Round "2.11"]
[White "Nakamura, Hi"]
[Black "Firouzja, Alireza"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "B10"]
[WhiteElo "2736"]
[BlackElo "2759"]
[PlyCount "118"]
[EventDate "2021.04.06"]
[EventType "k.o. (blitz)"]
[EventRounds "3"]
[SourceTitle "The Week in Chess 1379"]
[Source "Mark Crowther"]
[SourceDate "2021.04.12"]
[SourceVersion "1"]
[SourceVersionDate "2021.04.12"]
[SourceQuality "2"]

1. e4 c6 2. Nf3 d5 3. Nc3 dxe4 4. Nxe4 Nf6 5. Ng3 g6 6. Bc4 Bg7 7. h3 O-O 8. a4
c5 9. O-O Nc6 10. Re1 b6 11. c3 Bb7 12. d3 e6 13. Qe2 Qc7 14. Bg5 h6 15. Bd2
Rad8 16. Rad1 Nd5 17. Bc1 Nf4 18. Qe3 e5 19. Ne2 Nd5 20. Qd2 Nce7 21. Qc2 Bc6
22. Ng3 Rfe8 23. Bb3 Kh7 24. d4 exd4 25. cxd4 Nb4 26. Qc3 Ned5 27. Qd2 Nf6 28.
Rxe8 Nxe8 29. Qf4 Qxf4 30. Bxf4 Bxf3 31. gxf3 Rxd4 32. Re1 Rxf4 33. Rxe8 Rxf3
34. Bc4 Bd4 35. Ne2 Bxf2+ 36. Kg2 Rf6 37. Re7 Bd4 38. Bxf7 Nc6 39. Rc7 Rf2+ 40.
Kg3 Be5+ 41. Kxf2 Bxc7 42. Bd5 Ne5 43. Be4 Kg7 44. Nc3 Nc4 45. b3 Be5 46. Nb5
Na5 47. Nxa7 Nxb3 48. Nc6 Bc7 49. Bc2 Nd4 50. Nxd4 cxd4 51. Kf3 Kf6 52. h4 g5
53. Bd3 gxh4 54. Kg4 Bg3 55. Be2 Ke5 56. Bd3 Kd5 57. Kf3 Kc5 58. Bb5 Kb4 59.
Ke2 Kc3 0-1

[Event "Amber-blindfold 18th"]
[Site "Nice"]
[Date "2009.03.25"]
[Round "10"]
[White "Carlsen, Magnus"]
[Black "Kramnik, Vladimir"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "E32"]
[WhiteElo "2776"]
[BlackElo "2759"]
[PlyCount "40"]
[EventDate "2009.03.14"]
[EventType "tourn (rapid)"]
[EventRounds "11"]
[EventCountry "FRA"]
[EventCategory "21"]
[SourceTitle "CBM 129 Extra"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceDate "2009.05.05"]
[SourceVersion "2"]
[SourceVersionDate "2009.05.20"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. Qc2 O-O 5. e4 d6 6. Bd3 Nc6 7. Nge2 Ba5 8. O-O
Bb6 9. d5 Nb4 10. Qd2 exd5 11. cxd5 Ng4 12. Bb1 Qh4 13. Qf4 f5 14. exf5 Bxf5
15. h3 Bxf2+ 16. Kh1 Bd7 17. Qg5 Bc5 18. Rxf8+ Rxf8 19. Ng1 Rf1 20. Bxh7+ Kh8
0-1

[Event "AZE-The World m"]
[Site "Baku"]
[Date "2009.05.09"]
[Round "8"]
[White "Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar"]
[Black "Kramnik, Vladimir"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "D55"]
[WhiteElo "2725"]
[BlackElo "2759"]
[PlyCount "116"]
[EventDate "2009.05.07"]
[EventType "schev (rapid)"]
[EventRounds "8"]
[EventCountry "AZE"]
[SourceTitle "CBM 130 Extra"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceDate "2009.07.02"]
[SourceVersion "2"]
[SourceVersionDate "2009.07.15"]
[SourceQuality "1"]
[WhiteTeam "Azerbaijan"]
[BlackTeam "The World"]
[WhiteTeamCountry "AZE"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nf3 d5 4. Nc3 Be7 5. Bg5 h6 6. Bxf6 Bxf6 7. Qb3 c6 8. e3
O-O 9. Rd1 Nd7 10. Bd3 b6 11. O-O Bb7 12. Bb1 g6 13. e4 dxc4 14. Qxc4 b5 15.
Qb3 Bg7 16. h4 Qe7 17. h5 a6 18. e5 c5 19. d5 Nxe5 20. Nxe5 Bxe5 21. Rfe1 Qg5
22. hxg6 fxg6 23. Ne4 Qh4 24. g3 Qg4 25. Nxc5 Bd4 26. Re4 Bxf2+ 27. Kg2 Qh5 28.
Nxb7 Ba7 29. Rd2 Rf1 30. Kxf1 Qh1+ 31. Ke2 Rf8 32. Rf4 Qg2+ 33. Kd1 Qg1+ 34.
Ke2 Qg2+ 35. Kd1 Qg1+ 36. Kc2 Rc8+ 37. Qc3 Rxc3+ 38. bxc3 Be3 39. dxe6 Bxd2 40.
Kxd2 Qg2+ 41. Kc1 Qxb7 42. Bxg6 Qe7 43. Bc2 Qa3+ 44. Kb1 Qxc3 45. Re4 Kf8 46.
e7+ Ke8 47. Re6 Qb4+ 48. Kc1 Qc4 49. Re3 a5 50. Kd2 Qxa2 51. Kd1 Qa1+ 52. Kd2
Qd4+ 53. Ke2 Qg4+ 54. Kf2 a4 55. Be4 Qe6 56. Bd3 Qc6 57. Be2 Qf6+ 58. Kg2 Qg5
0-1

[Event "Eurasian Blitz Chess Cup"]
[Site "Almaty"]
[Date "2016.06.19"]
[Round "21"]
[White "Karjakin, Sergey"]
[Black "Svidler, Peter"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "B41"]
[WhiteElo "2774"]
[BlackElo "2759"]
[PlyCount "80"]
[EventDate "2016.06.18"]
[EventType "swiss (blitz)"]
[EventRounds "22"]
[EventCountry "KAZ"]
[SourceTitle "CBM 173 Extra"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceDate "2016.08.29"]
[SourceVersion "1"]
[SourceVersionDate "2016.08.29"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 e6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 a6 5. c4 Nf6 6. Nc3 Bb4 7. Qd3 d6 8. Be2
Nbd7 9. f3 Ne5 10. Qc2 O-O 11. a3 Bc5 12. Nb3 Ba7 13. Bg5 h6 14. Bh4 Ng6 15.
Bg3 Nh5 16. Bf2 Bxf2+ 17. Kxf2 b5 18. Rhd1 Qb6+ 19. Kf1 Nhf4 20. cxb5 Nxe2 21.
Qxe2 axb5 22. Qf2 Qb8 23. Kg1 b4 24. axb4 Rxa1 25. Rxa1 Qxb4 26. Nc1 Nf4 27.
Ra4 Qb8 28. Qd2 e5 29. N1e2 Qb6+ 30. Kf1 Ba6 31. Ra1 Rc8 32. Nd5 Nxd5 33. exd5
Rc5 34. g3 Rb5 35. Rb1 Rb3 36. Kg2 Bd3 37. Re1 Bg6 38. Rd1 Rxb2 39. Qe1 Qe3 40.
Kf1 Bd3 0-1

[Event "Tata Steel India Blitz"]
[Site "Kolkata IND"]
[Date "2019.11.25"]
[Round "2.4"]
[White "Aronian, L."]
[Black "Anand, V."]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "C53"]
[WhiteElo "2772"]
[BlackElo "2757"]
[PlyCount "122"]
[EventDate "2019.11.25"]
[EventType "tourn (blitz)"]
[EventRounds "18"]
[EventCountry "IND"]
[EventCategory "21"]
[SourceTitle "The Week in Chess 1307"]
[Source "Mark Crowther"]
[SourceDate "2019.11.25"]
[SourceVersion "1"]
[SourceVersionDate "2019.11.25"]
[SourceQuality "2"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Bc5 4. c3 Nf6 5. d4 exd4 6. e5 d5 7. Bb5 Ne4 8. cxd4
Bb6 9. Nc3 O-O 10. Be3 Bg4 11. h3 Bh5 12. Qc2 Nxc3 13. bxc3 f6 14. exf6 Qxf6
15. Be2 Bg6 16. Qd2 Rae8 17. O-O Qd6 18. Rfe1 a6 19. Nh2 Na5 20. Ng4 Nc4 21.
Bxc4 dxc4 22. Ne5 Rxe5 23. dxe5 Qxd2 24. Bxd2 Bxf2+ 25. Kh2 Bxe1 26. Rxe1 Rf2
27. Be3 Rxa2 28. e6 Be4 29. Kg3 Rxg2+ 30. Kf4 Bd3 31. Ba7 Re2 32. Rxe2 Bxe2 33.
Bb8 c5 34. Ba7 Kf8 35. Bxc5+ Ke8 36. Bb6 Ke7 37. Ke5 g5 38. Bc5+ Ke8 39. Kf5
Bf1 40. Kg4 a5 41. Bb6 a4 42. Bc5 b6 43. Bb4 Bg2 44. Bd6 h6 45. Bb4 Bf1 46. Ba3
Be2+ 47. Kf5 Bd3+ 48. Kg4 Bg6 49. h4 gxh4 50. Kxh4 Kd8 51. Bd6 Kc8 52. Kg4 Kb7
53. Kf4 Kc6 54. Ba3 Kd5 55. e7 h5 56. Bb4 Be8 57. Kf5 b5 58. Kf4 h4 59. Kg4 Ke4
60. Kxh4 Kd3 61. Kg5 Kc2 0-1

[Event "CHN-ch"]
[Site "Xinghua"]
[Date "2015.05.20"]
[Round "3"]
[White "Yu, Yangyi"]
[Black "Ding, Liren"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "C65"]
[WhiteElo "2723"]
[BlackElo "2757"]
[Annotator "Ramirez Alvarez,Alejandro"]
[PlyCount "58"]
[EventDate "2015.05.18"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventRounds "11"]
[EventCountry "CHN"]
[EventCategory "15"]
[SourceTitle "CBM 167"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceDate "2015.07.13"]
[SourceVersion "1"]
[SourceVersionDate "2015.07.13"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 Nf6 4. d3 Bc5 5. c3 O-O 6. O-O Re8 7. b4 Bb6 8. Bc4
d6 9. a4 a5 10. b5 Ne7 11. Qb3 Rf8 12. Nbd2 Ng6 13. d4 Nh5 14. dxe5 Nxe5 15.
Nxe5 dxe5 16. Nf3 Qf6 17. Bg5 Qg6 18. Be7 Nf4 19. Nh4 Qg4 20. g3 g5 $5 {
Ding Liren, having a couple of choices on how to win material, decides instead
to give up an exchange to retain pressure!} (20... Nh3+ {Leads to some
unbelievable complications:} 21. Kh1 Nxf2+ 22. Rxf2 Bxf2 23. Rf1 Bb6 (23...
Qxe4+ 24. Ng2 {is also not that clear.}) 24. Bxf7+ Kh8 25. Bxf8 Qxe4+ 26. Nf3
Bh3 27. Be8 $3 {is crazy. For example:} Bxf1 (27... Bg2+ 28. Kxg2 Qe2+ 29. Kh3
Qxf1+ 30. Kg4 h5+ $1 {Only move!} 31. Bxh5 Rxf8 {with a Black advantage in a
still messy position.}) 28. Bxg7+ Kxg7 29. Qf7+ {gets Black mated.}) 21. Ng2
Nh3+ 22. Kh1 Qf3 23. Bxf8 Kxf8 {White is up the exchange, but there is some
clear positional pressure in the position. White's king feels unsafe,
specially with the unguarded f2 pawn.} 24. Qa2 Bg4 (24... Nxf2+ 25. Rxf2 Qxf2
26. Qxf2 Bxf2 27. Rf1 {is clearly bad for Black.}) 25. Rae1 $6 (25. Qd2 $1 {
was important, preventing Rd8.}) 25... Rd8 $1 {The rook joins the fray and it
is all over now.} 26. Be2 Nxf2+ 27. Kg1 (27. Rxf2 Qxf2 28. Qa3+ Bc5 $19) 27...
Qxc3 $1 28. Rxf2 Bxf2+ 29. Kxf2 Rd2 {White has no good way of defending
against the multiple threats on the second rank.} 0-1

[Event "Beijing Sportaccord blitz"]
[Site "Beijing"]
[Date "2013.12.14"]
[Round "10"]
[White "Leko, Peter"]
[Black "Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "B19"]
[WhiteElo "2730"]
[BlackElo "2757"]
[PlyCount "72"]
[EventDate "2013.12.14"]
[EventType "tourn (blitz)"]
[EventRounds "30"]
[EventCountry "CHN"]
[EventCategory "20"]
[SourceTitle "CBM 157 Extra"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceDate "2013.12.19"]
[SourceVersion "1"]
[SourceVersionDate "2013.12.19"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

1. e4 c6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 dxe4 4. Nxe4 Bf5 5. Ng3 Bg6 6. h4 h6 7. Nf3 Nf6 8. Ne5
Bh7 9. Bd3 Nbd7 10. Bxh7 Nxe5 11. dxe5 Qa5+ 12. Kf1 Nxh7 13. e6 Nf6 14. exf7+
Kxf7 15. Qe2 e6 16. Rh3 Rd8 17. Bf4 Qb4 18. c4 Rd4 19. Be5 Rd2 20. Qf3 Qxc4+
21. Kg1 Bc5 22. Rf1 Qd5 23. Qf4 Rxf2 24. Rxf2 Bxf2+ 25. Qxf2 Qxe5 26. Qxa7 Qxb2
27. Nf1 e5 28. Rb3 Qd4+ 29. Qxd4 exd4 30. Rxb7+ Ke6 31. Rxg7 Ra8 32. g4 c5 33.
Rg6 Kf7 34. h5 c4 35. Rxh6 Rg8 36. Rg6 c3 0-1

[Event "Aiacciu Masters"]
[Site "Ajaccio"]
[Date "2004.10.26"]
[Round "5.2"]
[White "Rublevsky, Sergei"]
[Black "Topalov, Veselin"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "B22"]
[WhiteElo "2649"]
[BlackElo "2757"]
[PlyCount "92"]
[EventDate "2004.10.25"]
[EventType "k.o. (rapid)"]
[EventRounds "1"]
[EventCountry "FRA"]
[SourceTitle "EXT 2005"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceDate "2004.11.15"]
[SourceVersion "1"]
[SourceVersionDate "2004.11.15"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 e6 3. c3 Nf6 4. e5 Nd5 5. Bc4 b6 6. Bxd5 exd5 7. O-O Ba6 8. d3
Be7 9. Re1 O-O 10. d4 d6 11. exd6 Bxd6 12. Bg5 Qd7 13. Nbd2 Nc6 14. Qa4 Bd3 15.
dxc5 bxc5 16. Nb3 Rab8 17. Rad1 Bb5 18. Qh4 Rfe8 19. Be3 c4 20. Nbd4 Ba4 21.
Rd2 f6 22. Qh5 Ne5 23. Nxe5 fxe5 24. Nf3 Bc6 25. Red1 a6 26. h3 Qf7 27. Qg4 Qe6
28. Qh5 h6 29. Re1 Qf6 30. Nh2 Rf8 31. Ng4 Qf7 32. Qh4 Qg6 33. Rde2 h5 34. Nh2
d4 35. Qg5 Rf6 36. Bc1 d3 37. Qxg6 Rxg6 38. Re4 d2 39. Bxd2 Rxb2 40. Nf3 Rxa2
41. Bg5 Bc5 42. Rxe5 Bxf2+ 43. Kf1 Bxf3 44. gxf3 Bxe1 45. Kxe1 Kf7 46. Kf1 Rd6
0-1

[Event "Thessaloniki FIDE GP"]
[Site "Thessaloniki"]
[Date "2013.06.03"]
[Round "11"]
[White "Bacrot, Etienne"]
[Black "Ivanchuk, Vassily"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "D85"]
[WhiteElo "2725"]
[BlackElo "2755"]
[PlyCount "80"]
[EventDate "2013.05.22"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventRounds "11"]
[EventCountry "GRE"]
[EventCategory "21"]
[SourceTitle "CBM 155"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceDate "2013.07.16"]
[SourceVersion "1"]
[SourceVersionDate "2013.07.16"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. Nc3 d5 4. cxd5 Nxd5 5. e4 Nxc3 6. bxc3 Bg7 7. Nf3 c5 8.
Rb1 O-O 9. Be2 cxd4 10. cxd4 Qa5+ 11. Bd2 Qxa2 12. O-O b6 13. Qc1 Qe6 14. Re1
Bb7 15. Bb5 Na6 16. Bf4 Qc8 17. Qe3 Qd8 18. d5 Nc5 19. Ne5 e6 20. Nc6 Bxc6 21.
Bxc6 Rc8 22. Bg5 f6 23. Bh4 g5 24. Bg3 f5 25. exf5 exd5 26. Bb5 Qf6 27. Qa3
Qxf5 28. Qxa7 Bd4 29. Rbd1 Bxf2+ 30. Bxf2 Qxf2+ 31. Kh1 Ne4 32. Qb7 Nc3 33. Bd3
Qf7 34. Re7 Nxd1 35. Rxf7 Nf2+ 36. Kg1 Rc1+ 37. Bf1 Rxf7 38. Qxd5 Ne4 39. Qd8+
Kg7 40. Qd4+ Kh6 0-1

[Event "Wch Blitz 2nd"]
[Site "Moscow"]
[Date "2007.11.22"]
[Round "29"]
[White "Bacrot, Etienne"]
[Black "Leko, Peter"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "A02"]
[WhiteElo "2695"]
[BlackElo "2755"]
[PlyCount "68"]
[EventDate "2007.11.21"]
[EventType "tourn (blitz)"]
[EventRounds "38"]
[EventCountry "RUS"]
[EventCategory "19"]
[SourceTitle "EXT 2008"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceDate "2007.11.25"]
[SourceVersion "1"]
[SourceVersionDate "2007.11.25"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

1. b3 c5 2. Bb2 Nc6 3. f4 d5 4. Nf3 Bg4 5. e3 a6 6. d3 e6 7. Nbd2 Nf6 8. h3
Bxf3 9. Nxf3 d4 10. e4 Nh5 11. Qd2 Qf6 12. g4 Qxf4 13. gxh5 Qxf3 14. Bg2 Qxh5
15. O-O Bd6 16. Rf3 O-O 17. Raf1 Ne5 18. R3f2 Ng6 19. Bc1 h6 20. e5 Nxe5 21.
Bxb7 Ra7 22. Bg2 Ng6 23. Qe1 Bg3 24. Qe4 Bxf2+ 25. Rxf2 Qe5 26. Qg4 Qe1+ 27.
Rf1 Qh4 28. Qf3 Qe7 29. Qh5 Kh7 30. Rf3 f5 31. Rg3 Qf6 32. a4 Rc7 33. Kh1 e5
34. Bd5 Nf4 0-1

[Event "Amber-rapid 14th"]
[Site "Monte Carlo"]
[Date "2005.03.30"]
[Round "10"]
[White "Gelfand, Boris"]
[Black "Kramnik, Vladimir"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "E21"]
[WhiteElo "2696"]
[BlackElo "2754"]
[PlyCount "88"]
[EventDate "2005.03.19"]
[EventType "tourn (rapid)"]
[EventRounds "11"]
[EventCountry "MNC"]
[EventCategory "20"]
[SourceTitle "CBM 105 Extra"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceDate "2005.05.01"]
[SourceVersion "1"]
[SourceVersionDate "2005.05.01"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

1. Nf3 Nf6 2. c4 b6 3. Nc3 Bb7 4. d4 e6 5. g3 Bb4 6. Bd2 O-O 7. Bg2 c5 8. dxc5
Bxc5 9. O-O Nc6 10. Rc1 h6 11. Bf4 d6 12. Qd2 Qe7 13. e4 Ng4 14. a3 g5 15. b4
Bxf2+ 16. Rxf2 gxf4 17. Re2 fxg3 18. Bh3 Nge5 19. Nxe5 Nxe5 20. Qxh6 Nf3+ 21.
Kg2 Qg5 22. Qxg5+ Nxg5 23. Kxg3 Nxh3 24. Kxh3 Rfd8 25. c5 dxc5 26. bxc5 Rd3+
27. Kh4 Rc8 28. Nb5 Rxc5 29. Rxc5 bxc5 30. Nxa7 Rd4 31. Nb5 Rxe4+ 32. Rxe4 Bxe4
33. a4 Bc6 34. Nc3 Kg7 35. Kg5 f6+ 36. Kf4 Kg6 37. a5 e5+ 38. Kg3 Bb7 39. Kf2
f5 40. Nb5 c4 41. Ke1 f4 42. Kd2 e4 43. Nc3 e3+ 44. Ke2 Kg5 0-1

[Event "Online Olym Top DivB 2021"]
[Site "chess.com INT"]
[Date "2021.09.09"]
[Round "6.5"]
[White "Aleksandrov, A."]
[Black "Anand, V."]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "E54"]
[WhiteElo "2525"]
[BlackElo "2753"]
[PlyCount "45"]
[EventDate "2021.09.08"]
[EventType "team"]
[SourceVersionDate "2018.05.14"]
[WhiteTeam "Belarus"]
[BlackTeam "India"]
[WhiteTeamCountry "BLR"]
[BlackTeamCountry "IND"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. e3 O-O 5. Bd3 d5 6. Nf3 c5 7. O-O dxc4 8. Bxc4
cxd4 9. exd4 b6 10. Bg5 Bb7 11. Ne5 h6 12. Bh4 Nbd7 13. Bd3 Nxe5 14. dxe5 Bxc3
15. Bxf6 gxf6 16. Qg4+ Kh8 17. Qh3 Bd2 18. f4 Qd4+ 19. Rf2 Bxf4 20. Qh4 Be3 21.
Qxf6+ Kg8 22. Rd1 Bxf2+ 23. Kh1 0-1

[Event "Yuri Razuvaev Mem 2020"]
[Site "chess.com INT"]
[Date "2020.11.06"]
[Round "3.1"]
[White "Nepomniachtchi, I."]
[Black "Kramnik, V."]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "A13"]
[WhiteElo "2784"]
[BlackElo "2753"]
[PlyCount "58"]
[EventDate "2020.11.06"]
[EventType "tourn (blitz)"]
[EventRounds "7"]
[EventCategory "18"]
[SourceTitle "The Week in Chess 1357"]
[Source "Mark Crowther"]
[SourceDate "2020.11.09"]
[SourceVersion "1"]
[SourceVersionDate "2020.11.09"]
[SourceQuality "2"]

1. c4 e6 2. Nf3 d5 3. e3 Nf6 4. Nc3 Be7 5. b3 O-O 6. Bb2 b6 7. cxd5 Nxd5 8. h4
Ba6 9. Be2 c5 10. Qb1 Nb4 11. Bxa6 N8xa6 12. Ke2 f5 13. a3 Nc6 14. g4 fxg4 15.
Ng5 Rxf2+ 16. Kxf2 Qxd2+ 17. Kg1 Bxg5 18. Rh2 Qxe3+ 19. Kh1 Bf4 20. Ne4 Qf3+
21. Rg2 Qh3+ 22. Kg1 Be3+ 23. Nf2 g3 24. Qe4 Bxf2+ 25. Kf1 Rc8 26. Rd1 Bd4 27.
Bxd4 Nxd4 28. Kg1 Qf5 29. Qxf5 exf5 0-1

[Event "Wch Blitz 7th"]
[Site "Khanty-Mansiysk"]
[Date "2013.06.10"]
[Round "18"]
[White "Nguyen, Ngoc Truong Son"]
[Black "Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "E67"]
[WhiteElo "2625"]
[BlackElo "2753"]
[PlyCount "108"]
[EventDate "2013.06.09"]
[EventType "swiss (blitz)"]
[EventRounds "30"]
[EventCountry "RUS"]
[SourceTitle "CBM 154 Extra"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceDate "2013.06.25"]
[SourceVersion "2"]
[SourceVersionDate "2013.06.25"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. g3 Bg7 4. Bg2 O-O 5. Nf3 d6 6. O-O Nbd7 7. Nc3 e5 8. e3
Re8 9. b4 exd4 10. exd4 Nb6 11. Qb3 a5 12. bxa5 Rxa5 13. Be3 d5 14. c5 Nc4 15.
Bg5 c6 16. Nd2 h6 17. Bxf6 Bxf6 18. Nxc4 dxc4 19. Qb4 Bxd4 20. Rad1 Rxc5 21.
Ne4 Rce5 22. Nd2 Re2 23. Qxc4 Bf5 24. Nb3 Bxf2+ 25. Kh1 Qxd1 26. Rxd1 Re1+ 27.
Rxe1 Rxe1+ 28. Qf1 Rxf1+ 29. Bxf1 Bb6 30. Bg2 Kf8 31. Bf3 Ke7 32. Kg2 Bb1 33.
a4 Bc2 34. a5 Ba7 35. Nd2 Bd3 36. Ne4 f5 37. Nc3 Bc5 38. Ne2 g5 39. g4 fxg4 40.
Bxg4 Bb4 41. Nd4 Bxa5 42. Bc8 Bb6 43. Nf5+ Bxf5 44. Bxf5 Bc7 45. h3 b5 46. Kf3
Kd6 47. Ke4 c5 48. Bg6 c4 49. Be8 Kc5 50. Ke3 b4 51. Kd2 b3 52. Bf7 Bf4+ 53.
Kc3 Be5+ 54. Kd2 Kd4 0-1

[Event "Wch Blitz 2nd"]
[Site "Moscow"]
[Date "2007.11.21"]
[Round "3"]
[White "Bacrot, Etienne"]
[Black "Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "A05"]
[WhiteElo "2695"]
[BlackElo "2752"]
[PlyCount "52"]
[EventDate "2007.11.21"]
[EventType "tourn (blitz)"]
[EventRounds "38"]
[EventCountry "RUS"]
[EventCategory "19"]
[SourceTitle "EXT 2008"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceDate "2007.11.25"]
[SourceVersion "1"]
[SourceVersionDate "2007.11.25"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

1. Nf3 Nf6 2. g3 g6 3. b4 Bg7 4. Bb2 d6 5. Bg2 c5 6. bxc5 dxc5 7. c4 O-O 8. O-O
Nc6 9. d3 Bg4 10. Ne5 Nxe5 11. Bxe5 b6 12. Nc3 Qd7 13. Bxa8 Rxa8 14. d4 Rd8 15.
dxc5 Qc8 16. Qa4 Qxc5 17. Bxf6 exf6 18. Rfd1 Rc8 19. Qxa7 f5 20. Rac1 Bd4 21.
Rf1 Qxc4 22. Nb5 Bxf2+ 23. Kxf2 Qxe2+ 24. Kg1 Qe3+ 25. Kg2 Rxc1 26. Rxc1 Qd2+
0-1

[Event "Bundesliga 9900"]
[Site "Germany"]
[Date "2000.02.19"]
[Round "10.1"]
[White "Movsesian, Sergei"]
[Black "Shirov, Alexei"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "C02"]
[WhiteElo "2668"]
[BlackElo "2751"]
[PlyCount "92"]
[EventDate "1999.10.09"]
[EventType "team-tourn"]
[EventRounds "15"]
[EventCountry "GER"]
[SourceTitle "CBM 074 Extra"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceDate "2000.03.10"]
[SourceVersion "2"]
[SourceVersionDate "2000.03.10"]
[SourceQuality "1"]
[WhiteTeam "Neukoelln"]
[BlackTeam "Luebeck"]
[WhiteTeamCountry "GER"]
[BlackTeamCountry "GER"]

1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. e5 c5 4. c3 Nc6 5. Nf3 Bd7 6. Be2 f6 7. O-O fxe5 8. dxe5
Qc7 9. Re1 O-O-O 10. Bd3 Nh6 11. Na3 a6 12. Bg5 Re8 13. Bf4 Be7 14. Qd2 Ref8
15. Nc2 c4 16. Bf1 Rhg8 17. Bxh6 gxh6 18. Ncd4 Bg5 19. Qe2 h5 20. Nxc6 Bxc6 21.
Nd4 Rg6 22. b3 cxb3 23. axb3 Bd7 24. c4 dxc4 25. bxc4 Be7 26. c5 Bxc5 27. Rec1
Kb8 28. Rab1 b5 29. Qc2 Bb6 30. Qb2 Qb7 31. g3 Rg4 32. Rd1 Qa7 33. Qa3 Bc5 34.
Bxb5 axb5 35. Nxb5 Bxf2+ 36. Kg2 Bc6+ 37. Kh3 Qxa3 38. Nxa3+ Kc7 39. Rbc1 Kb7
40. Rb1+ Kc7 41. Rbc1 Kb7 42. Rd6 Be4 43. Nc4 Rff4 44. Na5+ Ka8 45. Rd8+ Ka7
46. Nc6+ Kb6 0-1

[Event "ICC op final"]
[Site "ICC INT"]
[Date "2016.06.05"]
[Round "2"]
[White "Carlsen, Magnus"]
[Black "Grischuk, Alexander"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "B51"]
[WhiteElo "2855"]
[BlackElo "2747"]
[PlyCount "182"]
[EventDate "2016.06.05"]
[EventType "k.o. (blitz)"]
[EventRounds "3"]
[EventCountry "USA"]
[SourceTitle "CBM 172 Extra"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceDate "2016.06.21"]
[SourceVersion "1"]
[SourceVersionDate "2016.06.21"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. Bb5+ Nd7 4. a4 Ngf6 5. d3 e6 6. O-O Be7 7. a5 O-O 8. a6
Qb6 9. axb7 Bxb7 10. Na3 d5 11. e5 Qc7 12. exf6 Nxf6 13. Re1 Bd6 14. Ba4 a6 15.
Bg5 Nh5 16. c3 h6 17. Bh4 Nf4 18. Bg3 g5 19. d4 c4 20. Bxf4 Bxf4 21. g3 Bd6 22.
Nc2 Rab8 23. Ne3 Bc8 24. Ng4 Kg7 25. Bc2 f6 26. h4 h5 27. Nxf6 Rxf6 28. hxg5
Rf8 29. Nh4 Bxg3 30. Qxh5 Bxf2+ 31. Kh1 Rh8 32. Qg6+ Kf8 33. Qf6+ Kg8 34. Qxf2
Rxb2 35. Rac1 Qf7 36. Qxf7+ Kxf7 37. Rf1+ Kg7 38. Rf4 Bd7 39. Kg1 Be8 40. Nf3
a5 41. Ne5 Rh3 42. Rf3 Rxf3 43. Nxf3 a4 44. Bxa4 Bxa4 45. Ne5 Bc2 46. Ra1 Be4
47. Ra7+ Kg8 48. Kf1 Rg2 49. g6 Rg5 50. Ra8+ Kg7 51. Ra7+ Kg8 52. Ra8+ Kg7 53.
Re8 Bxg6 54. Rxe6 Be4 55. Re7+ Kf6 56. Rf7+ Ke6 57. Ra7 Rg3 58. Ra3 Kf5 59. Ke2
Kf4 60. Ra8 Rg2+ 61. Kf1 Ke3 62. Rh8 Rc2 63. Rh3+ Kd2 64. Kf2 Rxc3 65. Rh2 Rc2
66. Kg3+ Ke3 67. Rh8 Kxd4 68. Ng4 c3 69. Rc8 Rg2+ 70. Kf4 Rxg4+ 71. Kxg4 Kd3
72. Kf4 c2 73. Ke5 Kd2 74. Kd4 c1=Q 75. Rc5 Qxc5+ 76. Kxc5 Kc3 77. Kd6 d4 78.
Ke5 Bc2 79. Kf4 d3 80. Kf3 d2 81. Kf4 d1=Q 82. Ke5 Qd2 83. Ke6 Qe2+ 84. Kf6 Qe3
85. Kf7 Kd4 86. Kf6 Qe5+ 87. Kf7 Kd5 88. Kf8 Kd6 89. Kf7 Qf4+ 90. Ke8 Bg6+ 91.
Kd8 Qf8# 0-1

[Event "EU-chT (Men) 20th"]
[Site "Reykjavik"]
[Date "2015.11.22"]
[Round "9.1"]
[White "Nisipeanu, Liviu Dieter"]
[Black "Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "C54"]
[WhiteElo "2683"]
[BlackElo "2743"]
[Annotator "CB"]
[PlyCount "72"]
[EventDate "2015.11.13"]
[EventType "team-swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "ISL"]
[SourceTitle "CBM 170"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceDate "2016.01.15"]
[SourceVersion "1"]
[SourceVersionDate "2016.01.15"]
[SourceQuality "1"]
[WhiteTeam "Germany"]
[BlackTeam "Azerbaijan"]
[WhiteTeamCountry "GER"]
[BlackTeamCountry "AZE"]
[TimeControl "6000+1360"]
[WhiteClock "0:00:33"]
[BlackClock "0:30:59"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Bc5 4. O-O Nf6 5. d3 d6 6. c3 O-O 7. Nbd2 a6 8. Bb3
Ba7 9. h3 Re8 10. Re1 Be6 11. Nf1 h6 12. Bc2 d5 13. exd5 Bxd5 14. Ng3 Qd7 15.
b4 Rad8 16. a4 b5 17. axb5 axb5 18. Nh4 Bb6 19. Nhf5 Ne7 {Diagramm [#]} 20.
Nxg7 (20. Nxe7+ Rxe7 {kann nicht die Intention des Manövers Sh4-Sf5 sein -
Schwatz steht strukturell besser und muss am Königsflügel nichts mehr
befürchten}) (20. Rxe5 Nxf5 21. Rxf5 Qc6 $1 {und Weiß hat Probleme alle
Problemstellen zu versorgen}) 20... Kxg7 21. Rxe5 Ng6 22. Bxh6+ Kxh6 23. Nf5+
Kh7 24. Qc1 Kg8 25. Qh6 {Diagramm [#]} Nh5 $1 {gibt eine der beiden
Mehrfiguren zurück und gewinnt dafür wichtige Zeit zur Konsolidierung} 26.
Rxe8+ Rxe8 27. Qxh5 Qc6 28. c4 bxc4 29. d4 Be6 30. Ba4 Qa8 31. Nh6+ Kg7 32. d5
Bd7 33. Nxf7 Bxa4 34. Ra3 Bxf2+ 35. Kxf2 Qa7+ 36. Kf1 c3 0-1

[Event "Corus"]
[Site "Wijk aan Zee"]
[Date "2002.01.15"]
[Round "3"]
[White "Gelfand, Boris"]
[Black "Adams, Michael"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "C88"]
[WhiteElo "2703"]
[BlackElo "2742"]
[Annotator "Ftacnik,L"]
[PlyCount "78"]
[EventDate "2002.01.12"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventRounds "13"]
[EventCountry "NED"]
[EventCategory "18"]
[SourceTitle "CBM 087"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceDate "2002.03.21"]
[SourceVersion "1"]
[SourceVersionDate "2002.03.21"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4. Ba4 Nf6 5. O-O Be7 6. Re1 b5 7. Bb3 O-O 8. h3
Bb7 9. d3 d6 10. a3 Na5 11. Ba2 c5 12. Nc3 Nc6 13. Ne2 (13. Bg5 Qd7 (13... h6
14. Bxf6 Bxf6 15. Bd5 Qd7 16. Nh2 Bd8 17. Ng4 Kh8 18. Ne3 Bg5 $11 {1/2-1/2
Polgar,J-Adams,M/Frankfurt 1999/CBM 72 (44)}) 14. Nh2 Ne8 15. Bd2 Nc7 16. Nf1
Kh8 17. Ng3 Nd4 $15 {1-0 Kasparov,G-Adams,M/Linares 1999}) 13... Bc8 (13... d5
14. exd5 Nxd5 15. Ng3 Bf6 16. Ne4 Be7 17. Bg5 Nf6 18. Bxf6 gxf6 19. Ng3 Kh8 20.
Nh4 Nd4 21. c3 Ne6 22. d4 cxd4 23. cxd4 Nxd4 24. Qh5 Rg8 {0-1 Westerinen,
H-Kraidman,Y/Netanya 1971/ (51)}) 14. Ng3 Be6 15. Nf5 (15. Bxe6 fxe6 16. b3 Nd7
$11) 15... Bxf5 $5 {Certainly a courageous strategic decision. Adams is very
strong in this field and can afford to play a bit originally.} 16. exf5 Qd7 17.
g4 h6 18. c3 (18. Bd2 Bd8 19. b4 Bc7 $13) 18... Rfe8 19. b4 (19. d4 e4 20. Nh2
d5 $15) 19... cxb4 20. cxb4 (20. axb4 a5 (20... Bd8 21. d4 e4 22. Nd2 d5 23.
Nb3 Bc7 24. Kg2 (24. Nc5 $2 Qd6 $19) 24... Qd6 25. Rh1 a5 $15) 21. bxa5 Rxa5
22. Qb3 Bd8 $11) 20... Bd8 21. Bb2 (21. Be3 $5 d5 $15) 21... a5 $5 (21... Bb6
22. Rc1 Rac8 23. Bb3 $13) 22. bxa5 (22. d4 e4 23. d5 Nxb4 24. axb4 exf3 25.
Qxf3 axb4 $17) 22... Bxa5 23. Re2 Bb6 24. Qb3 $2 {Gelfand suddenly panics even
though a bishop pair was still giving him a great chance to keep the chances
balanced.} (24. d4 $5 Nxd4 (24... e4 25. d5 exf3 26. Rxe8+ Qxe8 27. dxc6 Ne4
28. Qxf3 $11) 25. Nxd4 exd4 26. Rxe8+ Rxe8 27. Bxd4 Bxd4 28. Qxd4 d5 29. Qd3
$11) 24... Qb7 $1 25. Qd1 (25. Ree1 b4 26. g5 $132) 25... Ra4 $6 (25... Nb4 $1
26. Rd2 (26. axb4 Qxf3 27. Qf1 Qxd3 $19) 26... Nxa2 27. Rxa2 Nd5 $17) 26. Rc2
Ne7 (26... Nd4 27. Nxd4 Bxd4 28. Bxd4 exd4 29. Bb3 Ra7 30. a4 Nd7 $15) 27. Nh2
$2 {The last serious mistake as black pieces will now sneak deeply into
white's territory.} (27. d4 $1 e4 28. Ne1 $11) 27... Ned5 28. Qf3 Rf4 29. Qg2
e4 $1 30. Re1 (30. dxe4 Nxe4 31. Nf3 Nxf2 32. Rxf2 (32. Nd4 Rxd4 33. Bxd4 Bxd4
34. Rxf2 Bxa1 $1 35. Bxd5 Re1+ 36. Rf1 Bd4+ 37. Kh2 Rxf1 38. Bxb7 Be5+ $19)
32... Re2 33. Bd4 Bxd4 34. Nxd4 Rfxf2 35. Qxd5 Rg2+ 36. Kf1 Ref2+ 37. Ke1 Rxa2
$19) (30. Bxf6 Nxf6 31. Re1 (31. Qg3 exd3 32. Qxd3 Rd4 33. Qf1 Qe4 $17) 31...
Qa8 $1 32. Rce2 Qxa3 33. dxe4 Nxe4 $19) 30... Rxf2 $1 31. Rxf2 Nf4 32. Qg3
Bxf2+ 33. Kxf2 Nxd3+ 34. Kf1 Nxb2 35. h4 Qd7 36. Kg2 Nd3 37. Rf1 e3 38. g5 hxg5
39. hxg5 Nh5 0-1

[Event "Cannes NAO Masters"]
[Site "Cannes"]
[Date "2002.02.27"]
[Round "6"]
[White "Bareev, Evgeny"]
[Black "Morozevich, Alexander"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "D11"]
[WhiteElo "2707"]
[BlackElo "2742"]
[Annotator "Huebner,R"]
[PlyCount "60"]
[EventDate "2002.02.22"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "FRA"]
[EventCategory "18"]
[SourceTitle "CBM 088"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceDate "2002.03.21"]
[SourceVersion "1"]
[SourceVersionDate "2002.03.21"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

1. d4 {McShane} d5 2. c4 c6 3. Nf3 Nf6 4. e3 a6 5. Nbd2 Bf5 6. Qb3 Qc7 7. Bd3
Bg6 8. O-O e6 9. Re1 Be7 10. e4 {Der Aufbau des Weißen mutet gekünstelt an;
der Springer auf d2 sorgt für eine unharmonische Figurenaufstellung. Zum
Ausgleich genügt es.} O-O 11. e5 Nfd7 (11... Bxd3 {ist ebenfalls gut genug:}
12. Qxd3 dxc4 13. Nxc4 Nd5 14. Bg5 Bb4 15. Rec1 Re8 {mit etwa gleichem Spiel.})
12. Bxg6 hxg6 ({Die Antwort} 12... fxg6 {ist nach strategischen
Gesichtspunkten nicht ohne weiteres von der Hand zu weisen.}) 13. Nf1 Re8 14.
Bg5 Bf8 {'!' McShane. McShane: 'Given the central pawn structure, the Black
bishop is the better one. Additionally, an exchange on g5 would afford White
dangerous attacking chances with Nf3-g5 and Qb3-h3.'} 15. Ne3 dxc4 16. Qxc4 c5
17. Ng4 {Es ist nicht nötig, die Beobachtung des Punktes d5 aufzugeben.} ({Nach
} 17. b4 b6 ({Die Folge} 17... b5 18. Qc3 c4 19. d5 {führt zu deutlichem
Vorteil für Weiß.}) 18. bxc5 bxc5 19. Rac1 Nc6 20. Red1 Rec8 {dürfte die
Stellung ungefähr ausgeglichen sein.}) 17... b5 18. Qe2 c4 19. Rac1 Nc6 {
McShane: 'Now the queenside majority gives Black a positional advantage,
though Bareev's next move must be a mistake.'} 20. b3 $6 {Es ist unnötig, dem
Schwarzen einen unangenehmen Freibauern auf der c-Linie zu schenken. Nach '?'
McShane.} (20. Ne3 {ist die Stellung des Weißen befriedigend.}) 20... c3 {
'!' McShane.} 21. Qe3 (21. Rxc3 Bb4 {wins the exchange.}) 21... Rac8 22. Rxc3 {
Das Qualitätsopfer bietet die besten Aussichten; Schwarz droht mit Sc6-b4-d5
eine strategische Gewinnstellung zu erreichen. McShane: 'By now Bareev is
forced to burn bridges, as otherwise the pawn would be too strong. But
Morozevich defends extremely calmly.'} Bb4 23. Bf6 $2 {Dieser Angriffsversuch
schlägt nicht durch.} ({Nach} 23. Rc2 Bxe1 24. Qxe1 Nb6 25. Qd2 Nd5 26. Ne3 {
ist der Vorteil des Schwarzen noch nicht entscheidend.}) 23... gxf6 (23... Nxf6
{ist weniger überzeugend:} 24. exf6 Bxc3 25. fxg7 (25. Ng5 {ist unzureichend:}
Bxd4 26. Qh3 gxf6 {, und der Angriff des Weißen kommt zum Stillstand.}) 25...
Nxd4 26. Nxd4 Bxe1 27. Qh6 f5 28. Qh8+ Kf7 29. Ne5+ Ke7 30. Nxg6+ Kf7 (30...
Kd6 {führt zum Verlust:} 31. g8=Q Rxg8 32. Qe5+ Kd7 33. Qxe6+ Kd8 34. Nc6+ Qxc6
35. Qe7#) (30... Kd7 31. Nf8+ Rxf8 32. gxf8=N+ (32. gxf8=Q Bxf2+ 33. Kxf2 Qf4+
34. Nf3 Rc2+ 35. Kf1 Qc1+ 36. Ne1 Qf4+ {ergibt Unentschieden.}) 32... Kd6 (
32... Rxf8 33. Qg7+ Kd6 34. Qxc7+ Kxc7 35. Nxe6+ {und Weiß gewinnt.}) 33. Qh6
Rxf8 34. Qxf8+ Kd5 35. Nf3 {, und Weiß sollte gewinnen.}) 31. Ne5+ {mit remis
durch Dauerschach.}) 24. exf6 (24. Qh6 Bf8 {ist offensichtlich unzureichend.})
24... Qd8 {'!' McShane. McShane: 'Attacking the f6 pawn prevents Qe3-h6.'} 25.
Qg5 (25. Nh6+ Kf8 26. Nxf7 ({Nach} 26. Ng5 {folgt} Nxf6 27. Nhxf7 Qd5 {, und
Schwarz gewinnt.}) 26... Qxf6 (26... Kxf7 {führt zum Verlust:} 27. Ng5+ Kf8 (
27... Kg8 28. f7+ Kg7 29. fxe8=Q Qxe8 30. Nxe6+ Kg8 31. Qh6 Bf8 32. Qf4 {
Weiß steht auf Gewinn.}) 28. Nxe6+ Kg8 (28... Kf7 29. Qh6 {ist nicht besser
für Schwarz.}) 29. f7+ Kxf7 30. Nxd8+ Rcxd8 31. Qf4+ Nf6 32. Rxe8 Rxe8 33. Re3
{, und Weiß gewinnt.}) 27. N7e5 Ndxe5 28. Nxe5 Nxe5 29. Rxc8 Rxc8 {reicht für
Weiß auch nicht aus.}) (25. Qf4 Bxc3 26. Nh6+ Kf8 27. Qd6+ Ne7 {also gets
White nowhere.}) 25... Bxc3 26. Nh4 Bxd4 {McShane: 'Obviously Nh4xg6 must be
dealt with, so the bishop returns to guard the king.'} (26... Bd2 27. f4 (27.
Nh6+ Kf8 28. Qxg6 Qxf6 {mit leichtem Gewinn.}) (27. Qxd2 Nxf6 {, und Schwarz
siegt ohne jede Mühe.}) 27... Bc3 28. Nxg6 Bxd4+ 29. Kh1 Bxf6 {genügt auch zum
Sieg.}) (26... Bxe1 $2 27. Nxg6 Nxf6 28. Nxf6+ Qxf6 29. Qxf6 {führt nur zum
Remis.}) 27. Nh6+ (27. Nxg6 {hätte dem Schwarzen mehr Probleme bereitet, ist
aber schließlich auch hoffnungslos:} Bxf6 28. Ne7+ (28. Nxf6+ Qxf6 {and Black
wins easily again.}) (28. Nh6+ Kg7) 28... Kf8 29. Nxf6 Nxf6 30. Nxc8 Nd5 31.
Qh6+ Kg8 32. Re4 Nf4 33. h4 Ng6 34. h5 Nge5 35. Na7 Qd1+ 36. Kh2 Qg4 {usw.})
27... Kf8 (27... Kh7 {ist auch nicht schlecht.}) 28. Qxg6 Bxf2+ 29. Kh1 Qxf6
30. Qg8+ Ke7 0-1

[Event "FIDE-Wch k.o."]
[Site "Moscow"]
[Date "2001.11.28"]
[Round "1.2"]
[White "Zeliakov, Nugzar"]
[Black "Morozevich, Alexander"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "D11"]
[BlackElo "2742"]
[Annotator "Huebner,R"]
[PlyCount "34"]
[EventDate "2001.11.27"]
[EventType "k.o."]
[EventRounds "7"]
[EventCountry "RUS"]
[SourceTitle "CBM 086"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceDate "2002.02.05"]
[SourceVersion "1"]
[SourceVersionDate "2002.02.05"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

1. d4 d5 2. Nf3 Nf6 3. c4 c6 4. e3 a6 5. Nbd2 {Dieser Zug beeindruckt mich
nicht besonders. Er wurde aber immerhin schon von Karpov gewählt, wenn auch
nur in einer Blindpartie (Karpov-Ivancuk, 2001).} Bf5 6. Qb3 Qc7 7. Bd3 {
Die Aufstellung des Weißen mutet unharmonsich an; sein Damenflügel kann nicht
mehr auf ungezwungene Art entwickelt werden.} Bg6 8. O-O e6 9. Re1 Be7 10. e4
O-O 11. Ne5 (11. e5 dxc4 12. Nxc4 Nd5 13. Bd2 {führt zum Ausgleich.}) 11...
dxc4 12. Qxc4 ({Ich sehe nicht, was gegen} 12. Ndxc4 {spricht:} b5 13. Nxg6
hxg6 14. Ne5 c5 15. Qc3 Bd6 16. Nf3 {braucht Weiß nicht zu fürchten.}) 12... c5
13. Nxg6 hxg6 14. a4 $2 (14. Nf3 b5 15. Qc3 {ist noch stets befriedigend für
Weiß.}) 14... Nc6 15. dxc5 $6 ({Zäheren Widerstand konnte Weiß mit der
Fortsetzung} 15. Nf3 cxd4 16. Nxd4 Ng4 17. Nf3 Qb6 18. Be3 Nxe3 19. Rxe3 Rac8
20. Qc2 {leisten.}) 15... Ne5 16. Qc3 (16. Qb3 {rettet natürlich den Weißen
auch nicht mehr:} Bxc5 17. h3 Rfd8 (17... Neg4 18. hxg4 Nxg4 19. Kf1 Qh2 20.
Nf3 Qh1+ 21. Ke2 Qxg2 {dürfte schon genügen.}) 18. Bf1 Neg4 {usw.}) 16... Bxc5
17. Nf1 Bxf2+ 0-1

[Event "WchT 8th"]
[Site "Ningbo"]
[Date "2011.07.24"]
[Round "7.1"]
[White "Radjabov, Teimour"]
[Black "Kamsky, Gata"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "C45"]
[WhiteElo "2744"]
[BlackElo "2741"]
[PlyCount "78"]
[EventDate "2011.07.17"]
[EventType "team-tourn"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "CHN"]
[SourceTitle "CBM 144"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceDate "2011.09.16"]
[SourceVersion "1"]
[SourceVersionDate "2011.09.16"]
[SourceQuality "1"]
[WhiteTeam "Azerbaijan"]
[BlackTeam "US of America"]
[WhiteTeamCountry "AZE"]
[BlackTeamCountry "USA"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 exd4 4. Nxd4 Bc5 5. Nb3 Bb6 6. Nc3 Nge7 7. Bg5 O-O 8.
Qd2 f6 9. Bh4 a5 10. Bb5 Ne5 11. f4 N5g6 12. Bf2 Bxf2+ 13. Qxf2 c6 14. Bc4+ Kh8
15. a4 Qc7 16. O-O d6 17. h4 Bg4 18. Nd4 Qb6 19. Be6 f5 20. exf5 Nxf5 21. Bxf5
Bxf5 22. h5 Ne7 23. Rae1 Rae8 24. Nb3 Qb4 25. g4 Bd3 26. cxd3 Qxb3 27. h6 Qf7
28. f5 d5 29. Qd4 Qf6 30. hxg7+ Kxg7 31. Qf4 Kh8 32. Re2 Rg8 33. Re6 Qh4 34.
Qd4+ Rg7 35. Rf4 c5 36. Qe5 Reg8 37. Kg2 Nc6 38. Qf6 Qxf6 39. Rxf6 Ne5 0-1

[Event "FIDE World Cup"]
[Site "Tromsoe"]
[Date "2013.08.16"]
[Round "2.3"]
[White "Shimanov, Aleksandr"]
[Black "Kamsky, Gata"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "C45"]
[WhiteElo "2655"]
[BlackElo "2741"]
[PlyCount "146"]
[EventDate "2013.08.11"]
[EventType "k.o."]
[EventRounds "7"]
[EventCountry "NOR"]
[SourceTitle "CBM 156"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceDate "2013.09.17"]
[SourceVersion "1"]
[SourceVersionDate "2013.09.17"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 exd4 4. Nxd4 Bc5 5. Nb3 Bb6 6. Nc3 Nge7 7. Bg5 h6 8.
Bh4 d6 9. Qd2 Be6 10. Nd5 Bxd5 11. exd5 Ne5 12. f4 N5g6 13. Bb5+ Kf8 14. Bf2
Bxf2+ 15. Qxf2 Nxd5 16. g3 c6 17. Bc4 Qe7+ 18. Kd2 Nb6 19. Bd3 Qf6 20. c3 Ne5
21. Be2 Nec4+ 22. Kc2 g6 23. a4 Re8 24. Bxc4 Nxc4 25. Rae1 Kg7 26. Qxa7 b6 27.
Qd7 Ne3+ 28. Kd2 Nc4+ 29. Kc1 Ra8 30. Nd4 Rxa4 31. Qxc6 Rha8 32. Kc2 b5 33.
Qxb5 Qd8 34. Qb7 Kg8 35. b3 Ra2+ 36. Kd3 Nb2+ 37. Ke3 Rc8 38. c4 Rb8 39. Qd5
Ra5 40. Qg2 Qe7+ 41. Qe4 Nxc4+ 42. bxc4 Ra3+ 43. Kf2 Rb2+ 44. Nc2 Qxe4 45. Rxe4
Rxc2+ 46. Re2 Rxc4 47. Rd1 Rc6 48. Red2 Raa6 49. Rb1 Kg7 50. Rb7 h5 51. Re2 Rc5
52. Rd7 Rf5 53. Rd2 Rf6 54. Rd3 Ra2+ 55. Kf3 Ra6 56. Re3 g5 57. Rd3 g4+ 58. Ke4
Re6+ 59. Kd5 Ra5+ 60. Kc6 Ra2 61. R7xd6 Rxd6+ 62. Kxd6 Rxh2 63. Ke5 Ra2 64. Kf5
Ra5+ 65. Ke4 Kg6 66. Ke3 Kf5 67. Rb3 f6 68. Rc3 Ra2 69. Rc5+ Kg6 70. Rc3 Rg2
71. Kd4 h4 72. gxh4 Kf5 73. Kd5 Rd2+ 0-1

[Event "Dortmund SuperGM 36th"]
[Site "Dortmund"]
[Date "2008.07.05"]
[Round "6"]
[White "Gustafsson, Jan"]
[Black "Leko, Peter"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "E15"]
[WhiteElo "2603"]
[BlackElo "2741"]
[Annotator "Krasenkow,M"]
[PlyCount "90"]
[EventDate "2008.06.28"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventRounds "7"]
[EventCountry "GER"]
[EventCategory "18"]
[SourceTitle "CBM 125"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.30"]
[SourceVersion "1"]
[SourceVersionDate "2008.07.30"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nf3 b6 4. g3 Ba6 5. Qa4 Bb7 6. Bg2 c5 7. dxc5 bxc5 8. O-O
Be7 9. Nc3 O-O 10. Rd1 Qb6 11. Bf4 Rd8 12. Rd2 d6 13. Rad1 Ne8 14. e4 Bc6 15.
Qc2 Qb7 $5 {More accurate than} (15... Nd7 {- see Mamedyarov - Kramnik in this
issue.}) 16. Qb3 {A strategically risky idea (especially as White was trying
to obtain a draw in this game). Doubled pawns will be a serious defect in his
position.} (16. Bg5 f6 17. Be3 Nd7 18. Nd5 Nb6 19. Nxe7+ Qxe7 20. Ne1 e5 21.
Nf3 a5 22. Nh4 g6 23. f3 Rab8 24. b3 Nd7 25. Rd3 a4 26. Bh3 axb3 27. axb3 Nf8
28. Qd2 Bd7 29. Bxd7 Nxd7 30. Ng2 Rb7 31. Bh6 Nb8 32. Ne3 Nc6 33. Nd5 Qe6 34.
Be3 Ra8 {1/2-1/2 Berdichesky,R-Alvarez,R/email 1999/79 telechess}) 16... Qxb3
17. axb3 f6 $1 $146 {In order to meet e4-e5 with ...f6xe5 keeping the d6 pawn.}
(17... Nd7 $143 18. e5 $1 dxe5 19. Nxe5 Nxe5 20. Bxe5 Rxd2 21. Rxd2 Bxg2 22.
Kxg2 f6 23. Bf4 g5 24. Rd7 $1 Kf8 25. Be3 Rb8 26. Ne4 Rxb3 27. Bxc5 Bxc5 28.
Nxc5 Rxb2 29. Nxe6+ Kg8 30. c5 $18 {1-0 Dlugy,M-Berzinsh,R/Liepaja 2006/CBM
113 ext (33)}) 18. Ne1 (18. e5 fxe5 19. Nxe5 Bxg2 20. Kxg2 Rc8 21. Nf3 Nc6)
18... Nd7 19. Ra1 Rdb8 20. Ra3 Rb7 21. e5 $6 {An unnecessary move. Dynamic
equality could be kept by} (21. Nd3 Rab8 22. Ra6 Rc8 23. Be3 $13) 21... Nxe5
22. Bxe5 Bxg2 23. Bxd6 $6 (23. Bxf6 Bc6 ({or} 23... gxf6 24. Kxg2) 24. Bxe7
Rxe7 {doesn't solve White's problems but after the text move he can hardly
avoid serious losses.}) 23... Nxd6 24. Kxg2 Nf5 25. Ra6 (25. Nb5 Nd4 $1) (25.
Nc2 Nd4 $1) 25... Nd4 26. Nf3 (26. Nd3 $142) 26... Nxb3 {and Black gradually
brought home his extra pawn:} 27. Rd3 e5 28. Rd5 Rd8 29. Rxd8+ Bxd8 30. Rd6 Be7
31. Ra6 Nd4 32. Nxd4 cxd4 33. Nb5 d3 34. Kf1 Bc5 35. Rc6 d2 36. Ke2 Rd7 37. Nc3
Bd4 38. Kxd2 $6 (38. Nd1 $142 Kf7 39. c5) 38... Bxf2+ 39. Nd5 a5 40. b3 (40.
Ra6 Ra7 41. Rxa7 Bxa7 {is hopeless}) 40... Kf7 41. g4 Rb7 42. Ke2 (42. Kc2 Kg6
$5 43. Nc3 Be1 44. Ne4 Rd7 45. Rd6 Rxd6 46. Nxd6 Bb4 47. Ne4 Kf7 {and Black
should win}) 42... Bd4 43. h4 e4 44. h5 Rxb3 45. Rc7+ Ke6 (45... Ke6 46. Rxg7 (
46. Re7+ Kd6 47. Rxe4 Kc5) 46... a4 47. Re7+ Kd6 48. Rxe4 Be5 $19) 0-1

[Event "Saint Louis blitz"]
[Site "Saint Louis"]
[Date "2017.08.17"]
[Round "4"]
[White "Caruana, Fabiano"]
[Black "Dominguez Perez, Leinier"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "A14"]
[WhiteElo "2807"]
[BlackElo "2739"]
[PlyCount "44"]
[EventDate "2017.08.17"]
[EventType "tourn (blitz)"]
[EventRounds "18"]
[EventCountry "USA"]
[EventCategory "21"]
[SourceTitle "CBM 180"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.13"]
[SourceVersion "1"]
[SourceVersionDate "2017.09.13"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

1. c4 e6 2. Nf3 d5 3. b3 Nf6 4. g3 Be7 5. Bg2 O-O 6. O-O c5 7. e3 Nc6 8. Bb2 b6
9. cxd5 Nxd5 10. d4 Ba6 11. Re1 Ndb4 12. Bc3 Nd3 13. Re2 cxd4 14. Nxd4 Nxd4 15.
exd4 Rc8 16. Re3 Nb4 17. Bxb4 Bxb4 18. a3 Bc5 19. Re4 f5 20. Re1 Bxd4 21. Ra2
e5 22. Nd2 Bxf2+ 0-1

[Event "Saint Louis Rapid 2018"]
[Site "Saint Louis USA"]
[Date "2018.08.12"]
[Round "5.5"]
[White "So, W."]
[Black "Dominguez Perez, L."]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "E06"]
[WhiteElo "2780"]
[BlackElo "2739"]
[PlyCount "100"]
[EventDate "2018.08.11"]
[EventType "tourn (rapid)"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "USA"]
[EventCategory "22"]
[SourceTitle "The Week in Chess 1240"]
[Source "Mark Crowther"]
[SourceDate "2018.08.13"]
[SourceVersion "1"]
[SourceVersionDate "2018.08.13"]
[SourceQuality "2"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nf3 d5 4. g3 Be7 5. Bg2 O-O 6. O-O dxc4 7. Qc2 a6 8. a4
c5 9. dxc5 Bxc5 10. Nbd2 b5 11. Ng5 Ra7 12. Nde4 Nxe4 13. Qxe4 g6 14. axb5 axb5
15. Qh4 h5 16. Rxa7 Bxa7 17. g4 f6 18. Ne4 Nc6 19. g5 fxg5 20. Bxg5 Qc7 21. Bh6
Rf5 22. Ng3 Rf7 23. Nxh5 Bd4 24. Nf4 Ne7 25. Nxe6 Bxf2+ 26. Rxf2 Bxe6 27. Rxf7
Bxf7 28. Qf6 Nf5 29. Bd2 Qc5+ 30. e3 Qd6 31. Qxd6 Nxd6 32. Bb4 Nf5 33. Kf2 Be8
34. Bd5+ Kg7 35. e4 Nh6 36. Bc3+ Kf8 37. Bb4+ Kg7 38. Bc3+ Kf8 39. Kg3 Nf7 40.
Kf4 Bd7 41. Bf6 Ke8 42. e5 Nd8 43. Kg5 Ne6+ 44. Kh6 Nf4 45. Be4 Bf5 46. Bc6+
Bd7 47. Be4 Bf5 48. Bxf5 gxf5 49. Kg5 b4 50. Kxf5 c3 0-1

[Event "Wch Blitz 4th"]
[Site "Moscow"]
[Date "2009.11.17"]
[Round "22"]
[White "Carlsen, Magnus"]
[Black "Ivanchuk, Vassily"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "D07"]
[WhiteElo "2801"]
[BlackElo "2739"]
[PlyCount "48"]
[EventDate "2009.11.16"]
[EventType "tourn (blitz)"]
[EventRounds "42"]
[EventCountry "RUS"]
[EventCategory "19"]
[SourceTitle "EXT 2010"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceDate "2010.11.25"]
[SourceVersion "1"]
[SourceVersionDate "2010.11.25"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

1. d4 d5 2. c4 Nc6 3. Nc3 dxc4 4. Nf3 Nf6 5. Bg5 h6 6. Bxf6 exf6 7. e3 Bd6 8.
Bxc4 O-O 9. Qc2 Ne7 10. O-O c6 11. h3 Bf5 12. e4 Bg6 13. a4 a5 14. Rad1 Qb6 15.
Rfe1 Rad8 16. Ba2 Bb4 17. Qb3 Qc7 18. e5 Nd5 19. Rc1 Nf4 20. exf6 Nd3 21. Nd5
Rxd5 22. Qxd5 Bxe1 23. fxg7 Bxf2+ 24. Kf1 Rd8 0-1

[Event "Meltwater Tour Final 2021"]
[Site "chess24.com INT"]
[Date "2021.09.27"]
[Round "3.1"]
[White "Aronian, L."]
[Black "Nakamura, Hi"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "C50"]
[WhiteElo "2782"]
[BlackElo "2736"]
[PlyCount "78"]
[EventDate "2021.09.25"]
[SourceVersionDate "2018.05.14"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Bc5 4. O-O Nf6 5. d3 O-O 6. h3 d5 7. exd5 Nxd5 8.
Re1 Be6 9. c3 h6 10. b4 Bb6 11. b5 Na5 12. Bxd5 Bxd5 13. Nxe5 Re8 14. Nd2 Bxf2+
15. Kxf2 Rxe5 16. Kg1 Qe7 17. Rf1 Qc5+ 18. d4 Qxc3 19. dxe5 Qxa1 20. Nb3 Qxa2
21. Qxd5 Qxb3 22. Qd7 Qe6 23. Qxc7 b6 24. Bf4 Nb3 25. Qb7 Qc8 26. Qf3 Nd4 27.
Qd5 Qd8 28. Qb7 Qc8 29. Qd5 Ne6 30. Be3 Rb8 31. Qf3 Qd7 32. Qg3 Qd3 33. Rf3 Qg6
34. Qe1 Rd8 35. Kh2 Qe4 36. Qa1 Rd3 37. Qxa7 Qxe5+ 38. Kg1 Rxe3 39. Qxf7+ Kh7
0-1

[Event "Titled Tuesday 7th July"]
[Site "chess.com INT"]
[Date "2020.07.07"]
[Round "6"]
[White "Xiong, Jeffery"]
[Black "Nakamura, Hi"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "A06"]
[WhiteElo "2709"]
[BlackElo "2736"]
[PlyCount "74"]
[EventDate "2020.07.07"]
[EventType "swiss (blitz)"]
[EventRounds "10"]
[SourceTitle "The Week in Chess 1340"]
[Source "Mark Crowther"]
[SourceDate "2020.07.13"]
[SourceVersion "1"]
[SourceVersionDate "2020.07.13"]
[SourceQuality "2"]

1. Nf3 d5 2. b3 c5 3. Bb2 f6 4. d4 cxd4 5. Nxd4 e5 6. Nf3 Nc6 7. e3 Be6 8. Be2
Bc5 9. O-O Nge7 10. a3 O-O 11. b4 Bb6 12. Nbd2 e4 13. Ne1 a5 14. b5 Ne5 15. c4
Nxc4 16. Nxc4 dxc4 17. Qc2 Qd5 18. Rd1 Qxb5 19. Qxe4 Qc6 20. Qc2 Rac8 21. Nf3
c3 22. Ba1 a4 23. Rc1 Nd5 24. Rb1 Bxe3 25. Bd3 f5 26. Rfe1 Ba7 27. Ne5 Qc7 28.
Qxa4 Bc5 29. Nf3 Bf7 30. Ng5 Kh8 31. Bxf5 Bxf2+ 32. Kh1 Bxe1 33. Rxe1 Rce8 34.
Rxe8 Rxe8 35. Qh4 Bg8 36. Bxc3 Nxc3 37. Bxh7 Qf4 0-1

[Event "Poikovsky Karpov 15th"]
[Site "Poikovsky"]
[Date "2014.05.14"]
[Round "4"]
[White "Bologan, Viktor"]
[Black "Nepomniachtchi, Ian"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "A81"]
[WhiteElo "2655"]
[BlackElo "2735"]
[Annotator "Meulders,R"]
[PlyCount "78"]
[EventDate "2014.05.11"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "RUS"]
[EventCategory "18"]
[SourceTitle "CBM 161"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceDate "2014.07.16"]
[SourceVersion "1"]
[SourceVersionDate "2014.07.16"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

1. d4 f5 2. Nf3 Nf6 3. g3 g6 4. Bg2 Bg7 5. O-O O-O 6. c3 {This can also be
played at move 4, e.g. 4.c3 Bg7 5.Qb3 Nc6 6.Nf3 d5, intending to answer 7.Bg5
with Ne4. If Black goes 6...e6 instead of 6...d5, then after 7.Bg5 it's
impossible to play ...Ne4, of course. White swaps the bishop for the knight on
f6, which in a closed position like this may favour him.} a5 {Not just
stealing some space on the queenside, but also discouraging a possible Qb3 and
exposing the drawback of not having a knight on c3.} 7. Nbd2 Nc6 8. Re1 d5 {
The advantage is that the white advance e4 is stopped for the time being, and
that Black gains space in the centre. The disadvantage is of course that the
black central squares are seriously weakened, as always in Stonewall-like
positions. You can't have your cake and eat it...} 9. Nb3 {I'm in two minds if
I should give this move an ?! It's not clear what the knight is doing here.} ({
I like} 9. a4 {stopping Black's queenside expansion and intending b3, Bb2/Ba3})
(9. c4 e6 10. b3 Ne4 11. Bb2 (11. e3 Nb4 12. Ba3 $11) (11. Ba3 Rf7 12. e3 Nb4
13. Bxb4 axb4 14. Ne5 Bxe5 15. dxe5 Rd7 16. Qc2 Qe7 $11 {1-0 (62) Ibragimov,I 
(2575)-Wall,G (2290) Fuerth 2000}) 11... a4 12. bxa4 $11) 9... Ne4 (9... b6 $5)
10. a4 e6 {Indicating that the future of Bc8 lies on the queenside, after an
eventual ...b6.} 11. Bf4 (11. h4 $5 {is certainly an option. Of course it
weakens the kingside, but it fights more for control of the black squares than
what White plays.}) 11... g5 $5 {The Dutch defence is not for the timid: Black
challenges the bishop at once at the cost of weakening the safety of his king.}
12. Be5 Bh6 $1 {White's 'bad' bishop is in the way on e5, so it's good for
Black to avoid its exchange. Since its retreat is cut off, Black can later
pick up the bishop if White should redeploy the knight on f3 (as he does).} 13.
Rf1 {Freeing the e1-square for the knight if Black were to advance the g-pawn.}
g4 14. Ne1 Nxe5 15. dxe5 {Black's opening strategy has been a success. Nb3 is
looking somewhat silly and after the cautious preparatory ...b6 he would have
a very fine game.} c5 $6 16. Bxe4 {White takes up the challenge. Otherwise
Black can simply strengthen his position with ...b6, followed by e.g. ...Ba6.
At the same time the Nb3 suddenly gets a life.} dxe4 17. Nxc5 ({And not} 17.
Qxd8 Rxd8 18. Nxc5 Rd2 $17) 17... Qb6 18. b4 (18. Nb3 Bg7 19. Qc2 Bxe5 20. Ng2
Bd7 21. Ne3 Bf6 22. Nd2 Bc6 23. Ndc4 Qc7 {and who wouldn't like this position
with Black?}) 18... Rd8 $5 (18... axb4 19. cxb4 Qxb4 20. Nd7 Bxd7 21. Qxd7 Rfe8
22. e3 Rad8 {and Black is on top. The text move leads to a much more
complicated position.}) 19. Qb3 Rd5 20. Qc4 {Here White must have already
decided to sacrifice the knight on c5.} (20. Qa3 $17) 20... Qc7 21. Nc2 (21.
Qa2 Rd2 22. Nc2 axb4 23. Nb3 Rxe2 {is terrible for White.}) 21... b6 22. Nd4
Rxe5 $6 ({Taking the knight at once is preferable:} 22... bxc5 23. Nxf5 Bg7 24.
Ne3 Rxe5 25. Nxg4 (25. b5 Bb7 26. Rad1 Qe7 27. Qb3 (27. Rd2 Bh6 28. Rfd1 Bxe3
29. fxe3 Bd5 $19) 27... Rg5 28. Rd2 Rf8 29. Rfd1 Qf6 $19) 25... Rg5 26. Qxe4
Bb7 27. Qxe6+ Kh8 28. Rad1 Rg6 $19) 23. Nb5 Qe7 {Now Black is only slightly
better.} 24. Nb3 e3 {Good but also forced: Black cannot allow a white e3.} 25.
Qd4 $6 (25. N3d4 $5 Bb7 26. f4 gxf3 27. Nxf3 Re4 28. Nfd4 {with a complicated
unclear position.}) 25... exf2+ 26. Rxf2 Re4 27. Qxb6 axb4 (27... Be3 28. Qd6
Qg5 29. Raf1 Bb7 30. Nc5 Bxf2+ 31. Rxf2 Rd8 (31... Qc1+ 32. Rf1 Qe3+ 33. Rf2
$11) 32. Nxe4 Bxe4 33. Qf4 $11) 28. cxb4 $4 (28. Nd6 $1 {would have turned the
tables:} Re5 29. Qc6 Rb8 30. Nxc8 Qd8 31. Qd6 Qxd6 32. Nxd6 bxc3 33. Nd4 Rb2
34. Nc4 {and now Black is fighting for the draw:} Re4 35. e3 Rb4 36. Nd6 Bxe3
37. Nxe4 Bxd4 38. Kf1 Bxf2 39. Nxf2 c2 40. Re1 Rxa4 41. Rc1 Rc4 42. Ke2 e5 43.
Nd3 Kg7 44. Kd2 Kf6 45. Rxc2 Rxc2+ 46. Kxc2 f4 47. gxf4 exf4 48. Nxf4 Kf5 49.
Nd3 g3 $11) 28... Be3 (28... Rxb4 $19 {is also winning outright.}) 29. N3d4 Bb7
$19 {White is a pawn up, but his position is a horrible mess.} 30. Rd1 Ra6 31.
Qc5 (31. Qc7 Qxc7 32. Nxc7 Rd6 33. Ncb5 Rd5 34. Kf1 Bxd4 {with complete
annihilation.}) 31... Qxc5 32. bxc5 Re5 33. Nd6 Ba8 34. Nc4 Bxf2+ {The
importance of taking with check!} 35. Kxf2 Rxc5 36. Ne3 Kf7 37. Nb3 Rc3 38. Nc1
Be4 39. Na2 Ra3 0-1

