Sometimes final rounds can a bit dull, while other times they can be hard fought. It often depends what is at stake. In that latter column comes the following game from the 2014 Gibraltar Congress. With Vassily Ivanchuk leading by half a point, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave threw everything into an attack which looked good (from a spectators point of view) but was never quite winning. Eventually Vachier-Lagrave reached a position where he ran out of new pieces to sensibly sacrifice, and so a draw by repetition was the best result. This leaves Ivanchuk still in the lead, but with a number of games in progress, a tie for first (plus a playoff) is still a likely result.
Ivanchuk,Vassily - Vachier-Lagrave,Maxime [A39]
2014 Gibraltar, 06.02.2014
1. Nf3 Nf6 2. c4 c5 3. g3 g6 4. Bg2 Bg7 5. O-O O-O 6. d4 cxd4 7. Nxd4 Nc6 8. Nc3 Qa5 9. Nb3 Qh5 10. h3 d6 11. g4 Bxg4 12. hxg4 Nxg4 13. Bf4 Be5 14. Qd2 g5 15. Bxe5 Ncxe5 16. Rfc1 f5 17. Nd4 Qh2+ 18. Kf1 Nxf2 19. Kxf2 Ng4+ 20. Kf1 f4 21. Qd3 Qh4 22. Nd1 Ne3+ 23. Nxe3 fxe3+ 24. Kg1 Qf2+ 25. Kh1 Qh4+ 26. Kg1 Qf2+ 27. Kh1 Qh4+ 1/2-1/2
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