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Contents

Editorial .................................................................................... 4 Malcolm Pein on the latest developments 60 Seconds with... .................................................................... 7 Grandmaster Stephen Gordon A Deserved Triumph ................................................................. 8 Nakamura collapsed as Gelfand won the Tal Memorial British Domination in Haarlem ................................................ 16 Yochanan Afek reports from a strong weekender Opening Trends ...................................................................... 18 The Reti is enjoying a burst of unprecedented popularity The Big Slick ........................................................................... 20 Danny Gormally reports from Purley Champion Again After 30 Years! ................................................ 26 Norman Stephenson was at the BCA Championship A Mental Edge ........................................................................ 28 D.W.Jones’s thoughts on chess and the mind Studies ................................................................................... 29 Brian Stephenson discovered that a famous study was cooked Kasparov: The New World Champion ...................................... 30 John Saunders looks back on Garry’s exploits in 1985/86. The King's Gambit ................................................................... 34 An extract from John Shaw’s new work Find the Winning Moves .......................................................... 36 How many can you solve this month? How Good is Your Chess? ....................................................... 40 Daniel King examines one of Boris Gelfand’s wins in Moscow Never Mind the Grandmasters ................................................ 44 Carl Portman on the art of sportmanship Chances Are ............................................................................ 46 Peter Lalic’s latest advice for the club player Home News ............................................................................. 48 Strong speed events took place in Edinburgh and London Three British World Champions! ............................................. 51 A report on the ACO Championships in Crete Overseas News ....................................................................... 52 Plenty of top-flight rapid events have been taking place Solutions ................................................................................ 54 New Books and Software ........................................................ 56 The latest reviews and arrivals at Chess & Bridge Saunders on Chess .................................................................. 58 John was inspired by a reflective article on cricket Photo credits: Amateur Chess Organisation (p.51), Peter Binkhorst (p.17), Eteri Kublashvili (pp.9-12, 15, 52), Ray Morris Hill (pp. cover, 4, 5, 7, 21, 34), John Saunders (p.45), John Upham (pp.24, 48).

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A Deserved Triumph

Nakamura collapsed as Gelfand eclipsed his young rivals in Moscow

He left the London Candidates in good shape, tied for first and yet had to settle for second on tiebreak in the Alekhine Memo-rial, but Boris Gelfand finally enjoyed the tournament victory he’d been threatening in the 8th Tal Memorial. In many ways the tournament was a battle between the solid if hardly undynamic 44 year-old Gelfand and the 25 year-old Nakamura; although that appeared unlikely after the first round. There Sergey Karjakin had neutralised Gel-fand’s Catalan without too much difficulty, but better that than the fate which befell the American winner of the opening blitz tournament.

H.Nakamura-S.Mamedyarov

Round 1 Ragozin Defence

1 d4 Ìf6 2 c4 e6 3 Ìf3 d5 4 Ìc3

In the final round the American no.1 preferred 4 Íg5 Íb4+ 5 Ìbd2!?, but after 5...dxc4 6 e3 b5 7 a4 c6 8 Ëc2 Íb7 9 Íe2 Ìbd7 10 0-0 0-0 11 b3 c3! (11...cxb3 12 Ëxb3 Íxd2 13 Ìxd2 a6 14 Íd3 would give White excellent compensa-tion thanks to his bishops and pressure) 12 Ìe4 h6 didn’t have any advantage and was later outplayed in Nakamura-Morozevich, Moscow 2013. 4...Íb4 5 Ëa4+ Ìc6 6 e3 0-0 7 Íd2

White has succeeded in forcing Black to block his c-pawn, but Mamedyarov now shows that ...c5 doesn’t have to be Black’s only effective break. 7...dxc4 8 Íxc4 a6 9 0-0 Íd6 10 Îad1

This fails to prevent the freeing ad-vance, but it seems that Black has equalised in any case: for example, 10 Ëc2 e5 11 dxe5 Ìxe5 12 Ìxe5 Íxe5 13 f4 Íd6 14 Íd3 Êh8! 15 Êh1 b5 16 Ìe4 Íf5 led to further simplification and an early draw in Radjabov-Kramnik, Dortmund 2003. 10...e5 11 dxe5

11 d5 Ìe7 12 e4 Íg4 13 Íe2 Ìg6 looks like a comfortable version of a Chi-gorin for Black, but perhaps White should have preferred this, since the text gives Black pretty easy play. 11...Ìxe5 12 Íe2 Ëe7

13 Ìg5?! A further sign that Nakamura isn’t too at

home in White’s fairly restrictive set-up. He might have aimed for a more pointed ver-sion of the text with 13 Ëc2 when 13...Ìfg4 may look scary, but after 14 Ìxe5! Ëxe5 15 f4 the defence is holding, as shown by 15...Ëc5 16 b4! Ëa7

(16...Ëxb4 17 h3 Ìf6 18 Ìd5 generates fantastic compensation) 17 Îf3. 13...Íf5!

Provocative and good. Once White’s pawn is on e4, not only can it be targeted, but his queen no longer influences the play right across the fourth rank. 14 e4 Íd7 15 Ëc2 h6 16 Ìf3 Îfe8 17 Îfe1 Îad8

Involving his final piece before looking to forge a path on the kingside. Indeed, Black will attack there, whereas it’s far from clear what White should do. 18 g3?

Ugly, although even after 18 h3 the onus would have been on White to equalise, with 18...Ìxf3+ 19 Íxf3 Ëe5 20 g3 Ëc5 21 Íe3 Ëc4 22 Íg2 Íe5 one simple way for Black to maintain a small pull. 18...Ìeg4!

Mamedyarov is quick to pinpoint the defects to White’s last. 19 h3

With e4 hanging and ...Íc5 threatened, this was the point of White’s last move, but Black has seen further. 19...Ìxf2! 20 Êxf2 Íxh3 21 Êg1

Trying to run away from the big check on c5. The alternative was 21 Ìd4, but after 21...Íc5 22 Íe3 Ëe5 23 Ëd3 Îxd4! 24 Íxd4 Îd8 White would have found himself defenceless, despite the extra rook, since 25 Ìd5 fails to 25...Ìxe4+. 21...Íxg3

Black’s bishops dominate the kingside and

he already has three pawns for the piece with the exchange about to be regained. Already

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Tal Memorial, Moscow 2013

Rat. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 Perf. 1 Gelfand 2755 * ½ ½ ½ 1 1 ½ 1 ½ ½ 2900 6 2 Carlsen 2864 ½ * ½ ½ 0 1 ½ ½ 1 1 2847 5½ 3 Mamedyarov 2753 ½ ½ * ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ ½ ½ 2818 5 4 Andreikin 2713 ½ ½ ½ * ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 2823 5 5 Caruana 2774 0 1 ½ ½ * 0 ½ 1 1 ½ 2816 5 6 Nakamura 2784 0 0 0 ½ 1 * 1 0 1 1 2777 4½ 7 Karjakin 2782 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 0 * ½ ½ ½ 2739 4 8 Morozevich 2760 0 ½ ½ ½ 0 1 ½ * 0 ½ 2701 3½ 9 Anand 2786 ½ 0 ½ ½ 0 0 ½ 1 * ½ 2698 3½ 10 Kramnik 2803 ½ 0 ½ 0 ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ * 2655 3

the game is up for Nakamura. 22 Íf1 Íxe1 23 Îxe1 Íg4 24 Íg2 Íxf3!

Not only simplifying, but retaining the initiative to prevent White from gaining any real activity for his minor pieces. 25 Íxf3 Ëd6 26 Îe2 Ëg3+ 27 Íg2 Ìg4

Nakamura remains condemned due to his king’s complete lack of pawn cover. A rook lift is now imminent and, indeed, it didn’t take Mamedyarov long to finish White off: 28 Ìd1 Îe6 29 Ìe3 Îc6 30 Ëb1 Ëh2+ 31 Êf1 Ëf4+ 0-1

32 Êe1 (or 32 Êg1 Îxd2!) 32...Ëg3+ 33 Êf1 Ìh2+ is a killer check.

The second round saw Gelfand com-

pletely outplay Fabiano Caruana with his old favourite the Najdorf, as Daniel King shows later in this issue. Meanwhile Nakamura found himself a pawn down against no lesser player than Kramnik, but the Ameri-can is renowned for his determination, and some sloppy play from the 14th World Champion allowed the game to turn around.

V.Kramnik-H.Nakamura

Round 2

White is a pawn ahead and his pawns on

c5 and e4 give him a certain grip on the position. Progress isn’t easy, but he might well begin with a prophylactic move, such as 27 Îb1. 27 h3?! Ìc4!

This undermining blow is why a prophy-lactic move was indicated for White. Kram-nik must have assumed that he’d be able to invade along the seventh, but already White has lost most, if indeed not all of his advan-tage. 28 bxc4 Îxa4 29 Îd7?

The b-pawn is easily defended, some-thing which won’t happen to the little guy on c5. A much better try was 29 Îb1, and if 29...Íf8 30 Îxb7! when 30...Íxd6 31 cxd6 Îxc4 32 e5 gives White full compen-sation for the exchange. 29...Îb4 30 f4 Íf8 31 Êh2 Íxc5 32 Íc1

Retaining the two bishops and hoping to regain the initiative, but perhaps Nakamura was right that White should already be thinking of a draw at best and so aimed for opposite-coloured bishop simplification with 32 f5!? Íxe3 33 fxe6 Îxe6 34 Îf1. 32...Îa8 33 f5

The pressure would also have continued to mount in the event of 33 Íd2 Îb3 (un-surprisingly 33...Îxc4? 34 f5 Ìf8 35 Îxb7 is much better for White than the game) 34 Íe1 Îa4. 33...Ìf8

Forcing the rook back. The knight will keep guard over its king, allowing the rest of the black pieces to make major inroads on the other flank. 34 Î7d3

Even the tactics are against White as shown by the line 34 Îd8 Îxd8 35 Îxd8 Îb1 36 Íh6 Íg1+. 34...Îxc4 35 Íh6 Íe7 36 Î1d2 b5

Just contrast this diagram with the last

one. Black’s queenside pawns are mobile and already White might well just be lost. Kram-nik thrashes valiantly, but Nakamura was able to maintain control. 37 Îf3 b4 38 e5 gxf5 39 Îxf5 Ìg6 40 Îdf2 Íf8!

Wisely taking control of g7, or covering f7 in the event of a trade, ahead of pushing the b-pawn. 41 Íg5 b3 42 Îxf7 Îb8 43 Íf1 Îc3 44 e6

The only real try to confuse the issue. 44...b2 45 Íf6 b1Ë 46 Íxc3 Ëb3 47 Î7f3 Íc5 Boris Gelfand, looking relaxed as he racks up an astonishing result for a 44-year-old.

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Returning some material to simplify, al-though as Nakamura showed after the game, 47...Ëxe6 48 Îe2 Ëd5 49 Íg2 Íg7! should also be winning without too much difficulty for Black. 48 Îb2 Ëxb2+ 49 Íxb2 Îxb2+ 50 Íg2 Íe7 51 h4 Îe2 52 Îc3 c5 53 Êh3 Êg7 54 Íd5 Ìe5 55 g4

There was nothing else, but now the knight is able to return as Nakamura launches a decisive late attack. 55...Ìg6! 56 Îf3 Íd6 57 Îf7+ Êh8 58 g5 Îh2+ 59 Êg4 0-1

Before the first rest day Nakamura had

joined the leaders on 2/3 after a smooth positional demolition of Karjakin’s Grünfeld. That rampage continued when the hapless Caruana lost his second game in succession

against the Najdorf in round 4. Nakamura’s run was ended in the next round by a solid Queen’s Indian Defence from the Russian Champion, Dmitry Andreikin, but he re-sponded in some style once back behind the black pieces.

V.Anand-H.Nakamura

Round 6 Ruy Lopez

1 e4 e5 2 Ìf3 Ìc6 3 Íb5 g6

This, the Smyslov Variation, must have come as a surprise to Anand. Playing in Moscow, Nakamura admitted that he had been inspired to play the line by the games of both Smyslov and Spassky. 4 0-0

Keeping it simple. The critical test used to be 4 d4 exd4 5 Íg5!?, but Ivan Sokolov and others have discovered some new re-sources here for Black. Those interested in the further particulars should consult The Ruy Lopez Revisited by the aforementioned Sokolov. 4...Íg7 5 c3 a6

6 Íxc6 An interesting decision. 6 Ía4 d6 7 d4

looks more normal and after 7...Íd7 play actually transposes to Caruana-Andreikin from the final round. That game reached this position via a Steinitz Deferred move order and after 8 h3 Ìf6 9 Îe1 0-0 10 Ìbd2 Îe8 11 Íc2 Ëe7 12 Ìf1 Ëf8 13 Ìg3 Îad8 14 d5 Ìe7 15 Ìh2 Íh6 Black was able to begin his counterplay on the kingside. 6...dxc6 7 d4 exd4 8 cxd4 Ìe7 9 h3 0-0 10 Ìc3 h6 11 Ëb3?!

Anand’s classical opening play has net-ted him a small edge, but now he begins to drift. After 11 Íf4 followed by a timely Íe5 Black would have lacked sufficient counterplay against White’s centre, whereas the text gives Nakamura time to prevent this important positional concept. 11...g5! 12 Îd1 b6 13 a4 a5

Back at move 10 it wasn’t so clear what

Black’s plan was, but now the challenge is for White to come up with a good plan. Na-kamura is clearly going to mass his pieces on the kingside and Anand was unable to find anything better than transforming the game into a King’s Indian-type position.

Hikaru Nakamura achieved the remarkable feat of winning more games than anyone else, as well as losing more games than anyone else. “If only I could avoid losing...”

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14 Íe3 I dare say Anand even considered radical

measures like 14 h4?!, but after 14...g4 15 Ìe5 Íe6 16 Ëc2 f6 17 Ìd3 Ëxd4 18 Ìf4 Ëe5 White doesn’t have enough for his pawn. Nakamura was also looking at the immediate 14 Ìe5!?, which is another way in which White might hope to stir up some trouble. 14...Ìg6 15 d5 c5 16 Ìb5

White hopes to blast through in the

centre with d5-d6, but Black will be first to the bounce.

16...g4! 17 hxg4 Íxg4 18 Íd2 Rather defensive, but as various com-

mentators pointed out during and after the game, Anand was quite possibly remember-ing that brutal turnaround he suffered at Nakamura’s hands in the 2011 London Clas-sic. There Black triumphed from a suspect position with a typical King’s Indian kingside attack, but trying to avoid coming under a direct attack won’t save White here. Quite possibly White had to take a deep breath and opt for 18 d6!? when 18...Íxf3 19 gxf3 (and not 19 dxc7? Ëh4 20 gxf3 Ëh3 with the lethal threat of ...Ìh4) 19...Ëh4 looks rather scary, but White might try to hide his king on e2. 18...Ëd7 19 Îac1

After the game Nakamura gave the line 19 Îe1 c4!? (Black might still go 19...c6) 20 Ëe3 f5 21 e5 Íxf3 22 e6 Ëxd5 23 Ìxc7 Ëb7 (and here 23...Ëd6!?, and if 24 Ìb5 f4 looks like an improvement) 24 Ìxa8 Íxg2 25 e7, aptly commenting: “It’s very messy, very complicated, but it’s much very in the spirit of Tal, so it’s good to play like this.” 19...c6

Nakamura wants to undouble his pawns and target e4. There’s nothing wrong with

this call, although he might have first in-serted 19...Îae8 20 Îe1 and only then gone 20...c6. 20 dxc6

With his rook still on d1, White might have tried 20 Ìa3!? and after 20...Îae8 (the simple 20...Îfe8 21 Ìc4 Îab8 is probably Black’s best course) 21 Ìc4 Îxe4 22 Ìxb6 Ëd6 the position would have remained rather murky, vulnerable though the white kingside does appear in lines like 23 Ìc4 Îxc4!? 24 Ëxc4 Íxf3 25 gxf3 Íd4 26 Ëf1. 20...Ëxc6 21 Íc3

White’s position was quite unpleasant in any case, largely thanks to the power ex-erted by Black’s bishops, but his attempt to simplify does allow his kingside defences to be broken up after all. 21...Íxf3 22 gxf3

22...Îad8!? Continuing to build up. Against 22...Ìf4

Anand had planned the positional exchange sacrifice 23 Îd6 Ëc8 24 Íd2! Ìe2+ 25 Êg2 Ìxc1 26 Íxc1 when White isn’t get-ting mated and even enjoys some well-placed pieces. 23 Îxd8?!

It looks a little grim, but it seems that 23 Íxg7! Êxg7 24 Êf1 had to be tried. Here, of course, 23...Ìf4 likely scared the World Champion, but after 24 Ìd6! Ìe2+ 25 Êh2 Ìxc1 26 Ëc3! the cold-blooded machine indicates that he has sufficient counterplay due to the point 26...Îxd6 27 Íxf8 Êxf8 28 Ëxc1. 23...Îxd8 24 Îd1 Îd7!

Fighting for the d-file. Nakamura has correctly judged the endgame that will re-sult if White removes the queens as well as the rooks. 25 Îxd7

Avoiding a nasty, little trap in 25 Íxg7? Ëe6! when 26 Ëc2 Ëh3! 27 Îxd7 Ìh4 would have seen Black sacrificing all his pieces to win in the style of Tal. 25...Ëxd7 26 Ëd5

Hardly a move he wanted to play, but ...Ëh3 was a huge threat and 26 Íxg7 Êxg7 (but not 26...Ëh3? 27 Ìd6!) 27 Ëd5 Ëxd5 28 exd5 Êf6 no improvement on the misery of the game.

Sergey Karjakin, practising his Tal-like stare at the tournament dedicated to the memory of the Wizard of Riga, the 8th World Champion.

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26...Ëxd5! 27 exd5 Íxc3 28 bxc3 Ìe5

White has been totally outplayed and now finds himself in a lost endgame where Black’s passed pawn and knight are both somewhat superior to their counterparts. 29 Ìd6 Êf8 30 Êh2

Easy to criticise, but 30 f4 Ìd3 31 Ìc8 Ìxf4 32 c4 Êe8 33 Ìxb6 Êd8 would have been very similar. Here White can rescue his knight with 34 d6, but after, say, 34...Ìh5 35 Ìd5 Êd7 36 Ìe3 Êxd6 37 Ìf5+ Êe6 38 Ìxh6 Ìf4 Black should be winning easily enough thanks to his much more active pieces.

Instead 30 Êh1!? was a try to prevent Black from bringing his knight to d2 with tempo, but all the same after 30...Êe7! 31 Ìf5+ Êf6 32 Ìxh6 Ìc4 Black’s soon to be passed queenside pawns should decide. 30...Êe7!

31 Ìc8+ Allowing the knight to be snared, but

there was a big problem too with 31 Ìf5+ Êd7 32 Ìxh6 in the shape of 32...b5!. 31...Êd7 32 Ìxb6+ Êc7 33 f4 Ìf3+ 34 Êg2 Ìd2

Maintaining the cage around the hapless white steed, but he might have won far more simply with 34...Ìe1+! 35 Êf1 Êxb6 36 Êxe1 c4. 35 Ìa8+ Êb7 36 d6

Anand is able to rescue his piece at the cost of the d-pawn, but cannot save the game. 36...Êc6 37 Ìc7 Êxd6 38 Ìb5+ Êd5 39 Êg3 Êc4 40 Ìd6+ Êxc3 41 Ìxf7 c4

42 f5 When I first saw this position I assumed

Nakamura had blundered as it didn’t seem at all easy to win after 42 Ìd6. However, as the American pointed out in the post-game press conference, Black has the lovely 42...Êd3! 43 f5 c3 44 f6 c2 45 f7 c1Ë 46 f8Ë Ëg1+ 47 Êh3 (47 Êh4 Ëh2+ 48

Êg4 Ëg2+ runs White’s king out of good squares) 47...Ëh1+ 48 Êg3 Ìf1+! when there’s absolutely no defence in view of 49 Êg4 Ëg2+ 50 Êh4 Ëg5+ 51 Êh3 Ëh5+ 52 Êg2 Ëh2+! 53 Êf3 Ìd2+ 54 Êg4 Ëg2+ (Nakamura). This was a most impressive piece of calculation from Na-kamura at the end of a long game. 42...Êd4 43 Ìd6 Êe5 44 Ìb5 Êxf5 45 f3 h5 0-1

Having improved on

a line of the Rossolimo which gave him some problems in the London Candidates to hold An-and, Gelfand stayed in the reckoning by out-playing Morozevich in the fifth round ahead of drawing with Carlsen.

B.Gelfand-A.Morozevich

Round 5 Benoni Defence

1 d4 Ìf6 2 c4 c5 3 d5 g6 4 Ìc3 Íg7 5 e4 d6 6 h3 0-0 7 Ìf3 e6

Morozevich hopes to transpose into the Modern Benoni, but this has long been con-sidered a slightly questionable move order. 8 Íd3 exd5 9 exd5!

This is the problem. Fans of Alexey Dreev’s new book may be happy with 9 cxd5 and a transposition, but after the text Black will find it much harder to create counterplay in the resulting symmetrical structure. 9...Îe8+ 10 Íe3 Îxe3+!?

This may appear dynamic and interest-ing, but is tantamount to playing for a draw, and Black will only achieve that if his for-tress cannot be breached. However, it seems that Black is worse in any case, with the critical line 10...Íh6 11 0-0! Íxe3 12 fxe3 Îxe3?! (12...Ìbd7 is a better try, heading for e5) 13 Ëd2 Îe8 14 Ëh6 long known to be extremely dangerous for him. 11 fxe3 Ëe7 12 0-0

12...Ìbd7?! It’s hard to believe this was preparation,

so easily does Gelfand destroy Black’s posi-tion. A better try would have been 12...Ìfd7 13 Ëe2 Ìe5 14 Ìxe5 Íxe5, avoiding coming under pressure on the f-file and after 15 Îf3 Íxc3! 16 bxc3 Ìd7 17 Îaf1 Ìe5 18 Îf6 Íf5! 19 Î6xf5 gxf5 20 Íxf5 Ëg5 21 Îf4 Ëg3 Black enjoyed full positional compensation for the pawn in Lputian-T.L.Petrosian, Armenian Champion-ship, Yerevan 2008. However, it’s not so easy to find a good path for the second player after Viktor Mikhalevski’s prophylac-tic suggestion 15 Ìe4!, since White is able to open the position in the event of 15...f5 16 Ìc3 Íxc3 17 bxc3 Ìd7 18 e4. 13 Ëd2 Ìe5

This trade only plays into White’s hands, but also after both 13...Íh6 14 Îae1 Ìe5 15 Ìxe5 Ëxe5 16 Ëf2 Íg7 17 Ëf4 and 13...Ìh5 14 Ëf2 Ìe5 15 Íe2 no route to equality is apparent for Black. He does have An indifferent result for the mercurial Alexander Morozevich.

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some positional compensation, but so long as White is careful and patient, it shouldn’t be anywhere near enough. 14 Ìxe5 Ëxe5 15 Îf3!

Simple and highly effective. White wants a rook in front to generate the maximum pressure on the f-file. 15...Íd7 16 Îaf1 Îf8 17 Ëf2 Ëe7

17...Íe8 was the alternative, still hop-ing to get in ...Ìd7-e5, but after 18 Îxf6! Íxf6 19 Ëxf6 Ëxe3+ 20 Êh2 Ëxd3 21 Îf4 White will pick up d6 with a huge plus.

18 Îxf6! Sometimes you don’t need pawn breaks.

Gelfand returns the exchange to liquidate to a highly favourable endgame. 18...Íxf6 19 Ëxf6 Ëxe3+ 20 Îf2 Ëxd3 21 Ëxd6 Íf5 22 Ëxc5

Taking stock after a fairly forced pas-sage of play, it’s easy to note that White has emerged a pawn ahead and that Delroy is ready to motor. 22...b6 23 Ëc7 Îc8

This fails to help, but it’s hard to offer any real improvement. Quite simply Moro-zevich’s position has gone. 24 Ëxa7 Ëe3

Keeping the b-pawn, but now Gelfand can advance his prize asset. 25 d6 Ëd4

26 Ìb5 Good enough, although 26 Ëe7 would

have been even more clinical. White threat-ens to break the defence with 27 Ìd5 and 26...Íe6 (or 26...Îxc4 27 Ìe2 when there’s no good square for the queen and

White wins, such as after 27...Ëc5 28 Ëe8+ Êg7 29 d7) 27 d7! Ëxd7 28 Ëxd7 Íxd7 29 Ìd5 is a neat little simplification to reach a trivial rook ending after 29...Êf8 30 Ìxb6 Îc7 31 Ìxd7+ Îxd7. 26...Ëxc4 27 Ëxb6 Ëc1+

27...Ëb4 was a better try, although af-ter Gelfand’s intended 28 Êh2! (wisely avoiding any potential danger on the back rank) 28...Íd7 29 a4 Ëxa4 30 Ìc7 White ought to be winning thanks to his en-trenched knight and passed pawns. 28 Êh2 Îe8 29 Ëc7 Ëd1

Attempting to place the passed pawn

under lock and key, but the defence is easily shattered. 30 Îxf5! gxf5 31 d7 Îf8 32 Ëg3+ Êh8 33 Ëd6 1-0

A neat final touch. After 33...Ëxd6+ 34 Ìxd6 there’s no way for Black to deal with the threats of 35 Ìxf7+ and 35 Ìe8.

Going into the second rest day the

seemingly unstoppable Nakamura led on 4½/6 from Gelfand on 4, with Carlsen and Mamedyarov back on 3½. The man now sponsored by Silence Therapeutics faced his closest rival in the seventh round and was no doubt looking to extend his lead before facing his bête noire, Carlsen, in the eighth.

H.Nakamura-B.Gelfand

Round 7

In a typically unbalanced Sveshnikov

Black has just regained his pawn on b3. Faced with the bishop-pair and a mobile a-pawn, simplification should have been on White’s mind and after 29 Îxb3 Îxb3 30 g4! a4 (and not 30...fxg4 31 Íxe4 a4? 32 Ìb6) 31 Ìxf5 Íxf5 32 gxf5 a3 33 Íxe4 he would have obtained enough counterplay to hold. However, Gelfand was already quite low on time and Nakamura overoptimisti-cally if also characteristically wanted to exploit that factor. 29 Ìb6? Îxb1 30 Îxb1 Íe6 31 Íf1 Íd4

Emphasising just who has the bishop-pair while preventing any simplification with f2-f3. 32 Îb5 Êf7 33 Ìec4 Êg7!

This may seem paradoxical, but Black had to avoid 33...Êf6? 34 Ìxa5! Ìxa5 35 Îxa5 Íxc5 36 Îxc5 Îxb6 when White would have escaped with a draw. 34 Ìd6

Thanks to Black’s last, the trapper would have become the trapped in the event of 34 Ìxa5?? Ìa7 35 Îb1 Íxc5. 34...Êf6 35 Ìa4?

An admission that his previous play was too ambitious, but the resulting simplifica-tion only serves to ease Black’s task. A bet-ter try was 35 Êg2, and if 35...Íxc5 36 Îxc5 Îxb6 37 g4! with decent chances to hold. 35...e3!

Simplification, but simplification on Black’s terms as Gelfand begins a late mid-dlegame attack. 36 fxe3 Íxe3+ 37 Êg2 Íd5+ 38 Êh3 Îxb5 39 Íxb5 Ìe5!

White’s king has been forced to a rather

sub-optimal square and now the entire re-maining black army wants to hunt him down. 40 Ìc3?

A further and definitely decisive mis-take. It would have been mate on f2 after 40 c6? Ìg4 41 c7 Íg5, but 40 Ìb6! Íf3 41 Ìdc4 would have enabled White to stay on the board, even if one would expect Gel-fand’s technique to count after 41...Ìxc4 42 Íxc4 Êg5. 40...Íf3 41 Íe2 Íxe2 42 Ìd5+

There’s no mate after 42 Ìxe2 Íxc5

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43 Ìb5 a4, but the a-pawn should decide. 42...Êg5! 43 Ìxe3 Ìg4

Continuing to attack despite the limited material. Similarly decisive would have been 43...Íf3!? 44 Ìdxf5 Ìg4!. 44 Êg2

This is hopeless, but it’s mate after 44 Ìxg4 Íf1#. 44...Ìxe3+ 0-1

45 Êf2 regains the piece, but only leads to a trivial pawn ending after 45...Ìc4 46 Êxe2 Ìxd6 47 cxd6 Êf6.

After that lovely late attack, Gelfand

was happy to play solidly as white against Mamedyarov in the penultimate round and then drew his final game comfortably against an out-of-sorts Kramnik. Nakamura, though, not only failed to close the gap, but even saw his tournament slide from bad to worse as he was yet again outplayed by Carlsen and then fell to defeat at the hands of Morozevich.

Where was the world no.1? Many expected the Tal Memorial to be all about Magnus Carlsen and, while he hardly had a nightmare, just as in Norway the world no.1 had to settle for second place having yet again badly misplayed a rook ending.

M.Carlsen-F.Caruana

Round 3

Carlsen had blundered a pawn soon out

of the opening, but by this stage it appeared that his policy to exchange as many pieces as possible had been the correct one. 33 h4

Always a good advance in such struc-tures and this endgame should really be a draw, especially if one is the world no.1. 33...Êf8 34 Îd7 Îe4

Black didn’t have to allow his king to be-come cut off on the back rank, but after, say, 34...h5 35 Êf3 g6 36 Êe3 Êg7 37 Îb7 Êf6 38 Êd3 Êe6 39 f3 it’s far from easy to make further progress. 35 Îb7 Îe6

Switching the rook from in front to the side in a bid to keep White’s king cut off.

36 g4 Carlsen responds accurately and well on

the kingside, although as he showed after the game, 36 h5! was also very sensible. Following 36...Îf6 37 g4 Êe8 38 Êg3 Êd8 39 f4 Êc8 40 Îe7 b5 41 g5 White’s counterplay is clearly fast enough to draw without any difficulty. 36...g5

37 f4? A radical and rather strange choice, but

it turned out that Carlsen had missed Black’s 40th. 37 hxg5 hxg5 38 f4 was the much easier way to do it, and if 38...gxf4 39 Êf3 Îf6 40 g5 Îf5 41 Îxb6. 37...gxf4 38 Êf3 Îf6

“Here I suddenly have some chances”, as Caruana pointed out after the game. 39 g5 Îc6 40 Êxf4

Regaining the pawn and a much better defence than 40 gxh6? Îxh6 41 h5 Îf6 42 Êg4? f3!. 40...h5!

Revealing an important difference with the position we considered in the notes to White’s 37th. By retaining the h-pawns Black acquires some extra trumps and no longer is it at all easy for White to hold. 41 Êf5

The black rook also returns to frontal duties in the event of 41 Îb8+ Êg7 42 Îb7 Îc4+ 43 Êf5 Îb4. 41...Êg7 42 Îb8 Îc5+! 43 Êf4 Îb5 44 Êe4 Îb1

Without the h-pawns White would be

able to bring his king across to the queen-

side, but now that will likely lead to a lost version of that famous rook, f and h versus rook endgame. 45 Êf5 Îb2 46 Êf4 Îb4+ 47 Êe5?

This seems to lose. Carlsen was worried about 47 Êf5 Îb1, but after 48 Êf4 b5 49 Îb6 Îb3 (or 49...b4 50 Êg3! b3 51 Êg2 b2 52 Êh2 when Black’s king will not be able to escape the white rook’s attentions) 50 Îb7 b4 51 Êf5 Îf3+ 52 Êe5 b3 53 Êe4 Îg3 54 Êf5 it seems that White should hold as the players analysed in the post-mortem. 47...Êg6!

Another move which Carlsen missed. In-stead he had been hoping for 47...b5 48 Êf5 Îb1 49 Îb7 b4 50 g6 with an easy draw, as shown by the forcing continuation 50...b3 51 Îxf7+ Êg8 52 Îb7 b2 53 Îb8+ Êg7 54 Îb7+ Êf8 55 Îb8+ Êe7 56 g7. 48 Îg8+ Êh7 49 Îf8

Another strange decision after which Caruana shows impeccable technique. White may also be lost after the triangulation 49 Îb8 Êg7, but surely he should have tried this and then 50 Êf5 Îb1 51 Îb7 Îb5+ 52 Êf4 Êg6 53 Îd7 Îb4+ 54 Êg3 Îg4+ 55 Êh3 b5 56 Îd6+. 49...Îxh4 50 Îxf7+ Êg6 51 Îf6+ Êxg5 52 Îxb6 Îa4

Black may only have an h-pawn left, but

White’s problem is that his king can’t get back. 53 Îb8 Êg4 54 Îg8+ Êf3 55 Îf8+ Êg3 56 Îg8+ Êh2!

Precise and much stronger than 56...Îg4? when White can draw with 57 Îa8 Îf4 (or 57...h4 58 Îa3+ Êg2 59 Êf5 Îg3 60 Îa2+ Êh1 61 Êf4) 58 Îa1! Îf2 59 Îa8!, since his king is close enough after 59...h4 60 Îg8+ Êh2 61 Êe4 h3 62 Êe3. 57 Êf5 h4 58 Îb8 h3 59 Êg5

There’s also nothing to be done about the h-pawn after 59 Îb2+ Êg3 60 Îb3+ Êh4 when Black’s rook will decisively shep-herd it home, such as by heading to the kingside via a1, g1 and g2. 59...Îe4!

Lucena-like play as Black prepares to block with his rook on the second should White keep checking.

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60 Êf5 Îe2 61 Îg8 Îg2 62 Îd8 Îf2+ 0-1

To be fair to Carlsen he might have

caught Gelfand had he been able to defeat Mamedyarov with the black pieces in the final round, but the Norwegian was rapidly in some trouble and arguably rather fortunate to draw. Not the ideal warm-up for India perhaps, but that is still some months away. Moreover, Carlsen did brutally dispatch his rival for the world championship in Moscow,

as we saw in last month’s Editorial, and he also reminded us that his endgames are often far from shabby.

M.Carlsen-V.Kramnik

Round 1

White hadn’t got much out of a Trom-

powsky, but he is, of course, slightly for choice here on account of Black’s three isolanis. That said, at the time it was hard to

believe that such a fine technical player as Kramnik wouldn’t hold the draw without too much difficulty. 31 Îe4

Beginning to probe, although even here Carl-sen “was not very opti-mistic about [his] win-ning chances”, as he admitted after the game. 31...Îa3 32 Î1e3 h5 33 Îh4 Íe8

Black’s defence is holding for the moment, but he isn’t going any-where so Carlsen calmly activates his king. 34 Êh2 Íg6 35 Îb4 Êf6 36 Êg3 e5 37 Êh4! Îd4+

Giving up a pawn to rely on the resulting passed d-pawn, but Black didn’t have to force the play so. Indeed, he might well have de-fended with the solid 37...Îa5 when it’s not so clear how White might seek to increase the pressure. 38 Îxd4 exd4 39 Îe6+ Êg7 40 Îxb6 d3 41 Íd1 Îa2 42 Êg3

Kramnik had pre-sumably been relying on the line 42 Íxh5 Íxh5 43 Êxh5 Îxf2 44 g4

Îf6! 45 Îb7+ Îf7 46 Îb1 Îd7 when White’s rook will be too passive for him to have any real winning chances. 42...h4+?

Another nervy decision, perhaps betray-ing a lack of confidence or energy in the fifth hour. The text certainly surprised Carl-sen who indicated the calm 42...Îa1 43 Íf3 Îa4 as the way for Black to defend. 43 Êxh4 Îxf2 44 Êg3

44...Îf6? It wasn’t Kramnik’s day. After 44...Îf1

45 Íg4 White would have enjoyed decent winning chances, but Black had to try this. 45 Îxf6 Êxf6 46 Êf4

Black’s problem is that he cannot save his d-pawn. White is now winning by force and Carlsen was never going to fall for a bishop sacrifice to leave him with the wrong coloured rook’s pawn. 46...d2 47 Êe3 Êe5 48 g3 Íf5 49 h4 Íe6 50 Êxd2 Êe4 51 Êe2 Íg4+ 52 Êe1 Íe6 53 Êf2 Êe5 54 Êe3 Íd7 55 Íc2 Íg4 56 Íg6 Íd7 57 h5 Êf6 58 Êf4 Íe6 59 Íe4 Êg7 60 Êg5 Íd7 61 h6+

First the king is driven into the corner

and then White will use his bishop to drive away its opposite number ahead of safely advancing the g-pawn. 61...Êh8 62 Êf4 Íe6 63 Íf5 Íf7 64 g4 Íh5 65 g5! Êg8 66 Íe6+ Êh7 67 Êf5 Íg6+ 68 Êf6 Êh8 69 Íd7 Íh5 70 Íc6 Êh7 71 Íd5

Threatening 72 Íf7 and placing Black in a fatal zugzwang. 71...Íg6 72 Íg8+! 1-0 A thoroughly deserved victory for the amiable Boris Gelfand.

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