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3/12/2016 – Svidler against Topalov was a sedate draw. Anand and Aronian played a theoretical battle where

both of them we re excellently prepared. Giri and Caruana ’s game promised quite a bit, but in the end alsofinished in a draw . The game of the d ay wa s sure ly Sergey Karjakin’s victory over Hikaru Nakamura. TheRussian put on the slow stove pressure and Nakamura simply self-destructed. Detailed game analysis.

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The 2016 FIDE World Chess Candidates Tournament is a 14-round event, which determines the next Challenger toMagnus Carlsen's title, is taking place in Moscow from March 10 –30. E ight players, including six of the W orld’s top-ten rated grandmasters. The time control is 100 minutes for the first 40 moves, 50 minutes for the next 20 movesand then 15 minutes for the rest of the game, plus an additional 30 seconds per move starting from move one. Theguaranteed prize fund is US $420,000.

Candidates Round two: Nakamura implodes, Karjakin strikes!

Report from Moscow by IM Sagar Shah

Round 2, Saturday 12 March 2016Svid le r P ete r ½-½ To pa lo v Ve se lin

Aronian Le von ½-½ Anand Viswanathan

Caruana Fabiano ½-½ Giri Anish

Karjakin Sergey 1-0 Nakamura Hikaru

It was the last day of the Aeroflot Open 2016. After seven hours of intense chess Boris Gelfand won his gameagainst Rinat Jumabayev and finished joint first at the event along with Evgeniy Najer. At the closing ceremonyI approached Gelfand with a request. “Boris, I would like to do an interview with you for the ChessBasenewspage. Will you have some time tomorrow?” Boris thought for a few seconds, “Tomorrow is the blitz eventand I have to leave immediately after it ends. How abo ut we find some time during the Candidates ? I will becommentating on the first two days at least, and we can work something out.” I agreed, fully aware that atthe C andidates it might be very difficult to ge t hold of him. After all there a re alwa ys dignitaries coming to thetournament hall and a player like Boris is alwa ys in great demand. Yet, I hoped that this interview wo uld takeplace, as Gelfand’s knowledge, skills and h ones t opinions abo ut chess could help every as piring player.

Come 12th of March and the second round of the Candidates just got underway. I went to the press room toset up my laptop and other stuff. We were 15 minutes into the game and the Israeli number one barged intothe press room. “Let’s do the interview”, he said. It was overwhelming in a way! Here was a guy who was not

only was a strong chess player but had great human qualities like keeping his word.

The interview consists of 58 minutes of chess discussions with Boris on varied topics that will benefit many chess players. The interview will be published on the website s oon.

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The reason for writing such an elaborate introduction about the interview was the sheer co-incidence of two of the games having quite a substantial connection with Gelfand’s games of the Aeroflot Open – the biggest onebeing Levon Aronian versus Vishy Anand, where the Armenian number one played the same novelty thatGelfand had essayed on 6th of March 2016 in his game against Boris Grachev.

Five games had reached th is position before and everyone had played 8.Nc3. Boris Gelfand played 8.Nd2!? in h is game against Grachev, and the same idea was picked up by Levon Aronian.

This position between Sergey Karjakin and Hikaru Nakamura is the s ame that wasreached between Gelfand and Martirosyan from the second round of the Aeroflot Open.

Moral of the story: Top players follow the games of other top players and grab onto any new idea orimprovements the y can learn from them.

Levon Aronian – Anand Viswanathan 0.5-0.5

Aronian faced grave pres sure in the first round a gainst Anish Giri when the latter employed the 5.Bf4 variationin the Queen ’s Gambit Declined. The Armenian thoug ht that it was a good idea to try this same line with thewhite pieces. How ever, Anand was quite clever in the ope ning and instea d of committing his dark-squaredbishop, he started with 4…Nbd7. Both the players were armed to the teeth with home preparation. Also theywere very well aware of the recent game between Boris Gelfand and Boris Grachev from the Aeroflot Open

2016. Anand found the important manoeu vre Ba6-b5-a4 at the key moment and Aronian couldn’t really presswith the white pieces. In the final position Vishy was a pawn up, but thanks to the opposite coloured bishop

endgame there was nothing much to play for.


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It is always nice to know what is the difference between playing 4…Nbd7 and 4…Be7? Apart from reserving theoption of developing the bisho p to any othe r square ap art from e7, this move also leads to the concrete linestarting with 5…dxc4 and 6…b5 that was played by Vishy Anand in this game.

You can always bank on Vishy Anand to be well prepared in the lines that he plays

“19.Qe1 may not be a move that I had prepared, but I always have a feeling of déjà vu when I s ee a position and think that this is something that I have worked on at home!” (Levon Aronian after the second round).

Fabiano Caruana – Anish Giri 0.5-0.5


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Two of the youngest participants of the Candidates locked horns against each other in the fashionable line of the Anti-Berlin Defence. Fashiona ble, because Vishy Anand ha d played the sa me line aga inst Veselin Topalovin the first round a nd had e merged victorious. Both the players had a t least some e xperience in this ope ning.Fabiano had played a game ag ainst Topalov at the Sinquefield Cup 2015 w ith the black pieces, while Anish’sgood friend Dutch GM Benjamin Bok already had three ga mes in that line. Caruana ’s direct Qd1 withoutinserting a4 move was a novelty. Anish’s reaction was quite provocative. He allowed the white pawn to cometo e6. It seemed as if Caruana had some pressure on the position, but his time was just too low for him totake any so rt of calculated risks. In the end he s ettled for the most natural moves and the game ende d in adraw.

[Event "FIDE Candidates 201 6"] [Site "Moscow RUS"] [Date "2016.03.12"] [Round "2"] [White "Caruana,Fabiano"] [Black "Giri, Anish"] [Result "1/2-1/2"] [ECO "C6 5"] [WhiteElo "2 794"] [BlackElo "2 793"] [Annotator"Amruta Mokal/ Sagar Shah"] [PlyCount "83"] [EventDate "2016.03.10"] 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 Nf6 4. d3Bc5 5. c3 O-O ({Anish op ted for} 5... d5 { against MVL in Tashkent 2 014. The game en ded in a comfortabledraw. 1/2 (32)-1/ 2 (32) Vachier Lagrave,M (2757)-Giri,A (2768) Tashkent 2014}) 6. O-O d6 7. Nbd2 {Ca ruanahad ea rlier gone for 7.h3 in Malmo 2012 a gainst Giri! Four years later, both are players ha ve become supe rstrong an d we are sure to see many more battles in the yea rs to come.} (7. h3 Ne7 8. d4 Bb6 9. Re1 c6 10.Bd3 Ng6 1 1. Be3 Re8 12 . Nbd2 {1-0 (41) Carua na,F (2770)-Giri,A (2693) Malmo 2012}) 7... Ne7 8. d4 exd4 9.cxd4 Bb6 10. Re1 Bg4 11. h3 Bh5 {All this was see n in the game Ana nd-Topalov from the first round o f theCandidate s 2016. Anand w ent 12. a4 in this position. Caruana prefers to break the pin immediately and playsQb3.} 12. Qb3 d5 {Recently Caruana h imself played this with Topalov in Sinquefeld Cup 201 5 and w on a nicegame. Its important to no te though he w on w ith black he still chose to play this line from white. This sho wsthat the top players analyze their games objectively and make use of any new ideas that they come across,espe cially in their ow n games.} 13. e5 Nd7 14. Qd1 {[%cal Gd1b3,Gb3d1] What's going on?!! Qd 1-b3-d1? IsCaruana our of his mind? Not really! Things in the centre are s ettled now and the qu een do esn't mind thisbackwa rd move, mainly vacating the b3 sq uare for the knight.} f6 $5 { Immediately challenging the cen ter. AsGiri said during the pres s conference, he thought tha t this line was fine for Black, but after the game he thinksthat his seconds somehow had underestimated the dangers in the position.} 15. e6 Nb8 {Undevelopingmoves see m to be the order of the da y. However, to be fair, the knight simply didn't have a good s quare to goto.} 16. Nb3 {Eyeing for the c5 outpost w hich would force Black to part w ith his dark squared bishop . At the

same time the route for the bishop to develop on d6 has been opened.} Qd6 (16... Nbc6 {was possible but itsee ms as if Anish w anted to prevent his oppo nent from going Bf4.}) 17. g4 Bg6 18. Nh4 Nbc6 19. Bxc6 (19.Nxg6 Nxg6 {looks fine for Black.}) (19. Ng2 {preparing Bf4 can be an option, but Black has a s trong move inthe form of} f5 $1 20. Bf4 Qb4 21. Bxc6 Nxc6 $11 ) 19... Qxc6 (19... bxc6 20. Ng2 {is no w a clearly betterposition for White as Bf4 is threatened and there is no bishop to attack on b5 with Qb4.} f5 21. Bf4 Qb4 22.a3 Qa4 23. g5 $16 {Black is left without any countrplay.}) 20. Bd2 {Wh ite is ready to give up the d4 pa wn inorder to get go od amount of piece activity.} (20. Bf4 {is natural but it always see ms dangerous to put a piecewhe re a paw n fork can happen. In this case the move g7 -g5.} Bc2 21. Qd2 Bxb3 22. axb3 g5 23. Bxg5 fxg524. Qxg5+ Kh8 {Giri show ed so me blistering analysis in this position. One of the lines that wa s very

entertaining wa s the following.} 25. Qe5+ Kg8 26. Nf5 Nxf5 27. gxf5 Qd6 28. f6 Qxe5 29. dxe5 $1 6 { [%cslGe5,Ge6,Gf6] Anish gave us an e xample of four row s of paw ns (32 paw ns!) vs all the other pieces. Trulywo nderful the kind of thing these top players like to indulge in!}) 20... Bc2 21. Qe2 Bxb3 22. axb3 Bxd4{Although Black has won a pawn, it doesn't really matter. The pawn on e6 is a monster and the rook on a1 isalso a ctivated without a ny efforts. Giri has to play carefully here.} 23. Bb4 Bc5 (23... Rfe8 $2 24. Bxe7 Rxe7 25.Nf5 $18) 24. Rec1 b6 25. Bxc5 bxc5 26. Ra6 (26. Ra5 {w inning the c5 pawn could have been e ven stronge r.})26... Qb7 27. Rxc5 Rfe8 28. Qb5 {It was poss ible to play more aggres sively, but Caruan a had a lready spent alot of his thinking time and he nce decided it wa s sa fer to simplify the game.} (28. Nf5 $142 $ 1 Qxb3 29 . Ra3$1 (29. Rxc7 $2 Nxf5 30. gxf5 Qxh3 $ 11) 29... Qb4 30. Rxc7 $16) 28 ... Qxb5 29. Rxb5 d4 $1 {This pa wn is thesoul of Black's position. It will create threats a nd give him the necess ary counterplay.} 30. Nf5 (30. f4 {looksnatural.} Rad8 31. Nf3 d3 32. Nd2 {This wa s Vladimir Kramnik's su ggestion. W hite threatens f5 now , so Blackmust do something abo ut it.} f5 $1 33. gxf5 (33. Kf2 {looks strong er but after} Rd5 {it should nevertheless bearound equal.}) 33... Rd5 34. Rxd5 Nxd5 35. Rxa7 Rf8 $11) 30 ... Rad8 31. Rxa7 (31. Nxe7+ Rxe7 32. Kf1 d3 33.

Ke1 Rde8 34. Kd2 Rxe6 35. Rxe6 Rxe6 36. Kxd3 Rd6+ $11) 31... Nxf5 32. gxf5 d3 {Now it is just a draw .} 33.Ra1 g6 34. Rc5 Re7 35. Rd1 gxf5 36. Rc6 Rd4 37. Kg2 Kg7 38. Kf3 Kg6 39. Rc4 Rd5 40. Rc3 d2 4 1. Re3 Rd6 42.Re2 {An exciting game where we could have seen even more fireworks had Caruana not been under timepressu re.} 1/2-1/2




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If Caruana would have managed his t ime better might well have seen another decisive result today

Anish Giri definitely seems to have come to Mos cow in a fight ing mood

The analysis session was highly entertaining. Fabiano: “This was too deep for me.” Anish: “A few more press con ferences with m e and you w ill start con sidering s uch m oves! ”

Sergey Karjakin – Hikaru Nakamura 1-0




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It wou ld not be inapp ropriate to sa y that Sergey Karjakin simply outplayed Hikaru Nakamura toda y. TheRussian, who h ad the w hite pieces, slowly increase d his press ure. As Vladimir Kramnik, who was in thecommentary box during round tw o, rightly pointed out: “Black must do something pretty soo n or else he wou ldsimply have to suffer for the rest o f the game.” And Nakamura is definitely not a player w ho likes to su ffer. Hesacrificed his knight on g3 and calculated that he wou ld win back the piece along w ith interest. Turns out tha tKarjakin had seen one move further and Nakamura ended up with a knight less! In the end there was nothing

to be done. With a complete piece down, Hikaru had to resign.

In this position Nakamura took on g3. What exactly was h is idea and how is it refuted. Try to see if you can play like Karjakin to w in the game!

[Event "FIDE Candidates 2016"] [Site "Moscow RUS"] [Date "2016.03.12"] [Round "2"] [White "Karjakin,Sergey"] [Black "Nakamura, Hikaru"] [Result "1-0"] [ECO "E1 5"] [WhiteElo "2 760"] [BlackElo "2 790"][Annotator "Sagar Sha h"] [PlyCount "75"] [EventDate "2016.03.10"] 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nf3 b6 4. g3 Ba6 5.b3 Bb4+ 6. Bd2 Be7 7. Bg2 d5 ({ O f course} 7 ... c6 {is the main line, but 7...d5 is a lso becoming quite po pularthese days.}) 8. cxd5 exd5 9. O-O O-O 10. Nc3 Nbd7 11. Qc2 {Sergey makes the normal developing movesand loo ks forwa rd to a complex middlegame.} Re8 12. Rfd1 Nf8 (12... Rc8 {w ith the idea of directly going c5wo uld be more appropriate.}) 13. Ne5 Bb7 14. Bc1 $5 {The bishop w ould be much better placed on b2.} Ne615. Bb2 Bd6 {The threa t is Nxd4.} 16. e3 (16. Nb5 $5 Nxd4 17. Bxd4 Bxe5 18. Bxe5 Rxe5 19. Qxc7 $14) 16...a6 17. Ne2 c5 $6 {Black is absolutely not ready for this opening of the cente r. Firstly have a look at the w hitepieces. They are just perfectly situated: the bishop s on long diago nals, one knight in the center, the otherready to jump to f4 to put further press ure.} ( 17... c6 {Trying to hold w as the right way to p roceed.}) 18.dxc5 Nxc5 (18... bxc5 19. Nc4 $1 Bc7 20. Nf4 $16) 19 . Nd3 Nce4 20. Rac1 {Kramnik, who is s o go od a t such

technical positions, felt that Black must do so mething quickly or else he w ould just have to suffer w ith apass ive and inferior position.} Rc8 21. Qb1 Qe7 22. Bd4 Rxc1 23. Rxc1 b5 24. b4 {The s ad face of the bishopon b7 de termines W hite's advantage } Nd7 25. a3 Nf8 26. Ba1 Ne6 27. Qa2 Bc7 28. Nd4 Bb6 29. h4 $5 {[#]Karjakin has things under control and he tries to g ain some spa ce on the kingside. It is true that this wea kensthe g3 sq uare, but is it concretely dangerou s? Nakamura thinks so a nd that explains his next move.} Nxg3 $4{A huge b lunder at this level. But as it is rightly said, such blunders do not hap pen in vaccuum. It was thesusta ined press ure of Karjakin that prompted Hikaru to make the mistake.} (29... Nxd4 30. Bxd4 Bxd4 31.exd4 Qf6 $14 { is s lightly worse bu t nonethe less playable.}) 30. fxg3 Nxd4 31. Bxd4 Bxd4 32. exd4 Qe3+{Hikaru must have ended h is calculations at this point. The knight on d3 is hanging and if Nf2 then the c1-rookhangs . So White has to give back the piece. But Sergey has see n a move further.} 33. Qf2 $1 Qxd3 34. Rc7 $1{ [%cal Gc7f7,Gc7b7] A strong d ouble attack an d just like that Black loses a piece.} f5 35. Rxb7 h6 36. Bxd5+




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Kh7 37. Bg2 Re2 38. Bf1 {A painful defeat for Hikaru, but still a long way to go.} 1-0

Things didn’t work out s o well for Hikaru today. But it is a long event.With twelve rounds t o go he can surely make a comeback.

Seeing one move further – Sergey Karjakin joins the leader with a roun d two win

A huge smile is natu ral, when your husband wins ! Galiya Kamalova,wife of Sergey, came to the t ournament h all at the end of the game

Video analysis of Karjakin vs Nakamura by GM Daniel King




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Peter Svidler – Veselin Topalov 0.5-0.5

Wha t is more boring than the Berlin endga me? The Nxe5 symmetrical paw n structure line in the Berlin! Svidlertried a line in which Alexander Areshchenko ha d beate n Etienne Bacrot from the white side. But Topalov waspretty well prepared and after a few accurate moves, the players shook hands and a draw w as a greed. AfterTopalov’s loss yeste rday it is surprising that Pete r didn’t press harder with the w hite pieces. But it is a longtournament and one can understand that the players are just getting into the groove.

[Event "FIDE Candidates 2016"] [Site "Moscow RUS"] [Date "2016.03.12"] [Round "2"] [White "Svidler, Peter"][Black "Topalov, Vese lin"] [Result "1/2-1/2"] [WhiteElo "2757"] [BlackElo "2780"] [Annotato r "Sagar Shah"][PlyCount "60"] [EventDate "2016 .03.10"] 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 Nf6 4. O-O Nxe4 5. Re1 Nd6 6. Nxe5{nine times out of ten w hen this line is played we can e xpect a draw .} Be7 7. Bf1 Nxe5 8. Rxe5 O-O 9. Nc3Ne8 10. Nd5 Bd6 1 1. Re1 c6 12. Ne3 Be7 13. c4 Nc7 14. d4 d5 1 5. cxd5 {All this has b een s een in the gameAreshchenko-Bacrot. Bacrot took on d5 with his knight, but Topalov improves with Bb4.} Bb4 16. Bd2 Bxd2 17.Qxd2 Nxd5 18. Nxd5 Qxd5 19. Re5 Qd6 20. Bc4 Bd7 {An accurate move connecting the rooks.} 21. Rae1 b522. Bb3 a5 23. a4 bxa4 24. Bxa4 Be6 25. Rxa5 Rxa5 26. Qxa5 Qxd4 27 . Bxc6 Qxb2 28 . Bd5 Bxd5 29. Qxd5 Qf630. g3 g6 {As you can see nothing really substantial happened and a draw was agreed.} 1/2-1/2




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What do you do when your games ends in an hour from the start? Pose for pictures…

….or kibitz live games with friends. Here you see Ilya Merenzon, CEO of Agon, Arkady Dvorkovich,an economist wh o was a Deputy Prime Minister in Dmitry Medvedev's Cabinet,Peter Svidler and Mark Glukhovs ky, Chairman of the RCF Management board.

It was a pleasure to s ee Vladimir Kramnik in the commentary room and the playerstoo were happy to see their friend and rival! Here Levon Aronian greets th e big Vlad




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Indian chess supporters follow Vishy wherever he goes!

Bird’s eye view of th e press cent er and the live games big screen

Anna Burtasova, wh o conduct s in terviews with t op grandmas ters and dignitaries

at the venue, is a WGM, chess journalist and the producer of Chesscast broadcasts

Pictures by Amruta Mokal of ChessBase India ,

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Pairings and results

Round 1, Friday 11 March 2016Ka rja kin Se rge y ½-½ Svidle r P ete r

Na ka mu ra Hika ru ½-½ C aru an a Fa bia no

Giri Anish ½-½ Aronian Levon

Anand Viswanathan 1-0 Topa lov Ve se lin

Round 2, Saturday 12 March 2016

Svidler Peter ½-½ Topalov Veselin

Aronian Levon ½-½ Anand Visw anathan

C aruana Fa bia no ½-½ Giri Anis h

Karjakin Sergey 1-0 Nakamura Hikaru

Round 3, Sunday 13 March 2016

Nakamura H ikaru Svid le r Pe te r

Giri Anish Karjakin Sergey

Anand Viswanathan Caruana Fabiano

To pa lo v Ve se lin Aro nia n Le vo n

Rest day, Monday 14 March 2016

Round 4, Tuesday 15 March 2016Svidler Peter Aronian Levon

Caruana Fab iano Topalov Vese lin

Ka rja kin Se rgey Anand Viswanathan

Nakamura H ikaru Giri Anish

Round 5, Wed. 16 March 2016

Giri Anish Svidler Peter

Anand Viswanathan Nakamura Hikaru

Topa lov Ve se lin Ka rja kin Se rgey

Aronia n Levo n Ca ruana Fabia no

Round 6, Thursday 17 March 2016

Anand Viswanathan Svidler Peter

To pa lo v Ve se lin Giri An is h

Aronia n Levo n Na ka mura Hika ru

Caruana Fab iano Karjakin Sergey

Rest day, Friday 18 March 2 016

Round 7, Saturday 19 March 2016Svidler Peter Caruana Fabiano

Ka rja kin Se rgey Aronian Levon

Nakamura H ikaru Topalov Vese lin

Giri Anish Anand Viswanathan

Round 8, Sunday 20 March 2016Svidler Peter Karjakin Sergey

Caruana Fab iano Nakamura H ikaru

Aronian Levon Giri Anish

Topa lov Ve se lin Anand Viswanathan

Round 9, Monday 21 March 2016

Topa lov Ve se lin Svid le r Pete r

Anand Viswanathan Aronian Levon

Giri Anish Caruana Fabiano

Nakamura Hikaru Karjakin Sergey

Rest day, Tuesday 22 March 2016

Round 10, Wed. 23 March 2016

Svidler Peter Nakamura Hikaru

Ka rja kin Se rgey Giri An ish

Caruana Fab iano Anand Viswanathan

Aro nia n Levo n To palov Ve selin

Round 11, Thursday 24 March 2016Aro nia n Levo n Svidle r P ete r

Topa lov Ve se lin Caruana Fabiano

Anand Viswanathan Karjakin Sergey

Giri Anish Nakamura Hikaru

Round 12, Friday 25 March 2016

Svidler Peter Giri Anish

Nakamura H ikaru Anand Viswanathan

Ka rja kin Se rgey Topa lov Ve se lin

Caruana Fabiano Aronian Levon

Rest day, Saturday 26 March 2016

Round 13, Sunday 27 March 201 6

Caruana Fab iano Svid le r Pe te r

Aro nia n Levo n Ka rja kin Se rge y

Topa lov Ve se lin Nakamura Hika ru

Anand Viswanathan Giri Anish

Round 14, Monday 28 March 2016Svidler Peter Anand Visw anathan

Giri Anish Topalov Veselin

Nakamura H ikaru Aronian Levon

Ka rja kin Se rgey Caruana Fabiano

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Candidates R03: Aronian beats Topalov3/13/2016 – In a tens e battle Anish Giri sacrificed two p ieces to force a perpetua l

against Sergey Karjakin. Viswanathan Anand and Fabiano Caruana split the point ina clearly dawn rook-and-paw n endga me. Vese lin Topalov miscalculated badly tolose two pawns and the game to Levon Aronian. Svidler was better with blackagainst Hikaru Nakamura but could not win. Flash report with the finished games.[Discuss]

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Candidates R01: Anand the first to score3/11/2016 – Today, the 2016 W orld Championship Candidates tournament finallytook off in the Ce ntral Telegraph building in Moscow . And what a fighting round itwa s! Although there w as on ly one decisive game, all the players tried really hard.Like in 2014, Vishy Anand is the on ly player to lead the even t with 1.0/1 after hebeat Veselin Topalov. We have extensive and Elo-boosting ana lysis of all fourgames. [Discuss]

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still, a goo d, creative draw by vishy..

I think that Beluga Vodka g ot the be st of Nakamura...

wors t coverage of candidates by official site ever

if the winner of this candidate is not Karjakin, Caruana or Giri, it will be a great disap pointment.Even Hikaru is still far for being able to ha ndle Carslen and he will be like a piece o f pie, onlythose three can give Carlsen the hardest time, and only then we can watch a decentchampionship match instead of the punching bag Anand used to be the last two championships

I agree w ith asoni. It's pathetic...

@ JohnTVian

Hhhhha that's a good one, but honestly it's not that easy to foresee the intermediate moveRc7 when playing N×g3.

I think Nakamura's blunder demonstrates his lack of respe ct. Would Karjakin have a llow ed Ng3if it were g ood?

I agree on the lack of quality coverage. The announcers are so so and the presentation is far

from top notch. Where are Nigel and Lawrence??

Capsule summarySvidler-Topalov: The sharpest dressed players today but on the board they were happy tosettle for a colorless draw that lasted 30 moves only due to the regulations. Moral loser-Svidler, for not trying harder w ith White.Aronian-Anand: Another example of Anand's deep op ening preparation. A correct and goodgame by both sides.

Caruana -Giri: Having the same ex-coach (Chuchelov) must make it hard for these tw o to face each o ther andthey usually draw. Today Caruana was better but ran into time pressure. He needs better clock handling infuture rounds.Karjakin-Nakamura: The game of the round. Karjakin was headed for a positional squeeze when Nakamuralashed ou t tactically. Losing a ga me when you're outplayed happe ns to e veryone but making a big hole inyour calculations is indicative of s haky form. Not a goo d sign for Hikaru's fans.Overall, Anish Giri has played the best chess in these two rounds and will be the man to watch.

I agree wityh Rational. I'm surprised that Nakamura didn't double check his calculation be foreplaying 29...Nxg3. If a player as great as Karjakin offers you the chance to w reck his kingsideand w in a pawn with an ob vious sacrifice, surely you should think twice about it? Maybe thereis a flaw in your combination... (though as a lgorthmy says, Rc7 is hard to see).

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You people are harsh. One and two move blunders happen at the World Championship leveloccasionally. And Kramnik allow ed mate in one in his match vs. Deep Fritz.

Lovely trash talking in press con ference betw een Ca ruana an d Giri during their analysis.Caruana "it's to deep for me..." Giri "a few more press conferences w ith me and you'll startconsidering such moves" ^^ Besides the jokes, it was a quite complicated and interes tinggame.

Hi, pretty fine chess diagrams, the be st you can flip pieces a lso kind of elegant. Thank you

@rational "I think Nakamura's blunder de monstrates h is lack of respect. Would Karjakin haveallowed Ng3 if it were good?"

I agree that Nxg3 was somewhat naive. It will be tough to even just return to 50%, Topalovmight be Na kamura's last chance.

About Naka mura not double-checking his calculation before p laying 29...Nxg3 -- Nakamuraspent s ignificant time on only 4 of his moves:

8 minutes 1 0 second s on 29...Nxg3, his 4th longest think37 minutes on 2 1...Qe722 minutes on 1 6...a6

and an a stounding 89 minutes o n 12...Nf8

so I think it likely that he sa w a nd calculated 29...Nxg3 earlier in the game, at least w hen he w as s pending37 minutes o n 21...Qe7, maybe e arlier.

My guess is Naka just got a bit lazy and sto pped calculating Nxg3 sacrifice after Qxe3, as Qf2with Rc7 is trivial if you look.

I think one of the young on es w ill win as q uite long schedule and o ldies need to rea lly pullaway early so they have some lead before the later rounds when they have more chance fortheir playing strength to wane,

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Yeah, too much comercials and very big useless introduction to p layers again a nd aga in ...veryless commentary part and you have to reload site again and again , unpleasant experience toeven most enthusiastic fan

Amazing how long it has take n to have a diagram in which you can flip the board. Hopefully by2026 w e w ill use a diagram with a little button to blow the b oard full screen. Ches s players do

need a lof of time.

Good second round. Good games.

Svidler-Topalov.Sharp draw. Although the ga me was kind of short, Peter kept it sharp. Topalov,understa ndably, didn't go all out for the w in this time. Keep it sharp, Pete r, and you'llhave real chances o f winning this thing.

Aronian-Anand.Aronian couldn't quite impose his game. He never got out o f the opening, and Anand is the one to b lame forthat: he pres sed right from the start! Goo d game from Vishy, again (solid performance). Levon: they're notkidding this time, man. They wan t to w in this thing, and they'll push you around if you allow it. Fight back, myfriend! Play the Eva ns Gambit with White, or some sharp s tuff with Black, I don't know , but show s omeattitude: they wont mess with you anymore if you throw a knight at the ir king's shelter, say at move 15!(OK: not at move 15; but you ge t the point).

Caruana-Giri.

Tense ga me. Giri seemed to be OK after a w hile, but Caruan a never lost his grip and manage d to keeppressing, and he even might've had s ome better options, here a nd there, later in the game. Yet, it was acomplex game and there wa sn't enough time to so lve every little thing. Good game by bo th.

Karjakin-Nakamura.I don't think Karjakin had much before Naka mura went all out for the win w ith the knight sac at g 3. He, Naka,could've simply exchanged a couple of pieces a t d4 (29... Nxd4, 30... Bxd4, instead o f 29... Nxg3), and it is apretty balanced game after that. But Hikaru wanted to w in, and exchan ging on d4 is just too bo ring. Maybehe felt frustrated by not having much either after the opening phas e. Good defens ive refutation by Sergei,Hikaru will have to be a little more cautious next time.

Can't wa it for Round 3.

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I found Svidler's ope ning strange against Topa lov, the line he picked against the Be rlin is very

drawish a nd if anyone is seriously trying to win the tournament W hite vs Topalov is anopportunity as Anand show ed.(admittedly Anand wa s lucky Topalov missed his Bf2 chance)

come on topalov is an ex w orld champion and p layed twice for the title. everyone se e him asan outs ider. no one can mess w ith him and just go for a win at all costs aga inst him.

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I did not mean to disrespect Topalov, who is a great player w ith an attractive style of play. Buthaving just lost and ha ving a more variable level of form he w ould be a ta rget at this level atthis time. It was more a po int about Svidler's opening choice, I would be interested wha tothers think

This coverage is step ba ckward. Games without an alysis, only notation is catastrop hic. Also Iexpected Jan to do commentary. Very bad, I must sa y.

Everybody sho uld know it is correct to press Topa lov in the first half of the tou rnament. ;)

Re live coverage Kos teniuk and Miroshnichenko do a n ice job analysing the games andinterviewing players. Post-games conferences are good and focused on what happened on theboard. Having Gelfand and Kramnik commenting as w ell was great.Overall it's entertaining despite the too many ads and useless interruptions, when I canconnect...Nigel Short is a fantastic commentator bu t he too can become a bit boring after a wh ile. His

stock of funny little stories is not inexhaustible and I for one does not want to hear once again the story of Kasparov's dog.

I see many criticizing the live coverage . I gave it a try and liked a lot.We ll, sure they are having so me technical faults like taking long to show the boa rds duringanalisys. But the leve of commentary is massive and Alexandre Kos teniuk is doing a grea t job.

@ algorithmy, I'm very careful whe n I say a nything about a ny GM because I'm fully aw are thatthe sho e doe sn't fit. But look at the move Naka mura made against Sergey as an example,12...Nf8, instea d of 12...Rc8. The guy is ignoring all of the logistics in ches s by n ot conten dingfor the center. I understan d that it's okay to s tray into left field, as long as one can find theirway b ack. But not during one o f the most important tournaments o f one's lifetime. I wishNakamura well and hop e he can pe rform better in the games to come. Gee, the sho e really

does n't fit, perhaps it's best not to say anything...

This site is still show ing Caruana as p laying for Italy.

Not much room in a super-tournament like this for errors like that made by Naka a gainst Karjakin. Must've misse d Rc7.

How can one flip the board? I still can't, been waiting for that simple option for ages .

Great notes to the games by Saga r. Speaking as a lower rated p layer, it's so nice to be ab le to"read" explanations about w hat is going on, rather than getting bogged down in endless headspinning variations. Sometimes an illustration of a variation is appropriate an d neces sary, tobring out key points in the player's thinking, but too o ften annota tors simply indulge in"alternative games". Sagar's notes make me want to play through the game when I see somany words, w hereas usually I just see lots of 'moves" and am immediately turned off. Great

stuff Sagar...please keep annota ting in this vein!

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