Almost a rest day at the World Cup

The 2011 FIDE World Cup is down to 8 players, and maybe the length of the event is beginning to take its toll. Today saw the first game of the quarter finals, and most of the games were over pretty quickly. Two of them were drawn in under 20 moves (one was a perpetual), another took a little longer to finish wit the same result, and only 1 game was decisive. This was Ivanchuk's win over Radjabov, which is given below.
Playing through the game I wonder what players from 80 years ago would think of it.. The hyper-moderns might appreciate Ivanchuk's play (7.Nde2, 13.Rc1), but the more classical minded might frown at some of the manoeuvring. But from move 28 onwards I suspect they would be in agreement that White had emerged with a winning position.


Ivanchuk,Vasilly - Radjabov,Teimour [B70]
World Cup, 09.09.2011

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 g6 6. g3 Nc6 7. Nde2 Bg7 8. Bg2 Bd7 9. h3 h5 10. a4 Qc8 11. Be3 Be6 12. Nd5 O-O 13. Rc1 Re8 14. b3 Rb8 15. c4 b6 16. Nef4 Bd7 17. O-O Nh7 18. Kh2 h4 19. g4 Qd8 20. Ne2 e5 21. Qd2 Be6 22. f4 exf4 23. Nexf4 Rb7 24. Rf2 Rd7 25. Rcf1 Ne5 26. Kh1 Nc6 27. Ne2 g5 28. Nf6+ Nxf6 29. Bxg5 Nxg4 30. Bxd8 Nxf2+ 31. Rxf2 Rdxd8 32. Qg5 Bc8 33. Nf4 Re5 34. Qxh4 Rde8 35. Nh5 R8e6 36. Qf4 f6 37. Bf3 Rg5 38. Bg4 Rxh5 39. Bxh5 Ne5 40. Rg2 Kf8 41. Bg4 1-0