Friday, 5 September 2014

Caruana 7-0 (and Carlsen 11-0)

The Caruuana train roles on, with a seventh consecutive win at the 2014 Sinqufield Cup. Todays anointed victim was Maxime Vachier-Lagrave who played the part by falling apart in 20 moves, although he did hang on the move 39 before throwing in the towel.
Caruana's winning streak has of course overshadowed some other interesting features from this tournament. In what would normally be the feature game of just about any other event, Magnus Carlsen scored his 11th career win over Hikaru Nakamura. The game seemed to be played at a breakneck pace, with Nakamura playing a line that looked good on the surface but turned out just to be bad. In the other game, Topalov and Aronian drew, but given the events on the other boards, I'm not sure whether anyone really noticed.


Carlsen,Magnus (2877) - Nakamura,Hikaru (2787) [D10]
2nd Sinquefield Cup 2014 Saint Louis USA (7.2), 03.09.2014

Start positionPrevious MoveNext MoveEnd positionPlay movesStop playing
1. d4 d5 2. c4 c6 3. Nc3 dxc4 4. e3 b5 5. a4 b4 6. Ne4 Qd5 7. Nd2 c3 8. bxc3 bxc3 9. Nb1 Qa5 10. Qc2 e5 11. Nf3 Na6 12. Nxe5 Nb4 13. Qb3 Be6 14. Bc4 c2 15. Bxe6 Nd3+ 16. Ke2 Nxe5 17. dxe5 fxe6 18. Qxe6+ Ne7 19. Nd2 Qd5 20. Qxd5 Nxd5 21. Ne4 Rb8 22. Bd2 Bb4 23. Rhc1 Bxd2 24. Nxd2 Nb4 25. Nf3 Ke7 26. Ne1 Rhd8 27. f4 c5 28. Nxc2 Nd3 29. Rcb1 Nb2 30. Ra2 Nxa4 31. Rxb8 Nc3+ 32. Kf3 Nxa2 33. Rb5 Nb4 34. Nxb4 cxb4 35. Rxb4 Ra8 36. Ke4 a5 37. Ra4 Kf7 38. g4 Ke7 39. f5 h6 40. h4 Kf7 41. e6+ Kf6 42. Rd4 Ke7 43. Rd7+ Kf8 44. e7+ Ke8 45. Rd8+ Rxd8 46. exd8Q+ Kxd8 47. Kd5 Ke7 48. g5 a4 49. Kc4 hxg5 50. hxg5 Kd6 51. e4 Ke5 52. Kb4 1-0


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