Wednesday, 16 May 2012

Two more draws in the 2012 World Championship Match

The 2012 World Championship Match between Viswanathan Anand and Boris Gelfand is tied 2-2, after games 3 & 4 were drawn. Of the 4 drawn games played so far, game 3 is probably the most interesting, given Anand's choice of  3.f3 as an anti-Gruenfeld system. Of course Gelfand could have transposed into a Kings Indian but stuck with 3. ... d5. With Anand then trying a bit of a hack down the h file, the game had a degree of excitement for most of it's duration. However an inaccurate move from Anand while short of time allowed Gelfand to reach a drawn position, with two rooks on the 7th rank.
Game 4 was a little more familiar, with Gelfand not getting much against Anand's Semi-Slav system, and once again a liquidated centre followed by the exchange of most of the pieces resulted in another draw.


Anand,Viswanathan (2799) - Gelfand,Boris (2739) [D70]
WCh 2012 Moscow (3), 14.05.2012


Start positionPrevious MoveNext MoveEnd positionPlay movesStop playing
1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. f3 d5 4. cxd5 Nxd5 5. e4 Nb6 6. Nc3 Bg7 7. Be3 O-O 8. Qd2 e5 9. d5 c6 10. h4 cxd5 11. exd5 N8d7 12. h5 Nf6 13. hxg6 fxg6 14. O-O-O Bd7 15. Kb1 Rc8 16. Ka1 e4 17. Bd4 Na4 18. Nge2 Qa5 19. Nxe4 Qxd2 20. Nxf6+ Rxf6 21. Rxd2 Rf5 22. Bxg7 Kxg7 23. d6 Rfc5 24. Rd1 a5 25. Rh4 Rc2 26. b3 Nb2 27. Rb1 Nd3 28. Nd4 Rd2 29. Bxd3 Rxd3 30. Re1 Rd2 31. Kb1 Bf5+ 32. Nxf5+ gxf5 33. Re7+ Kg6 34. Rc7 Re8 35. Rh1 Ree2 36. d7 Rb2+ 37. Kc1 Rxa2 1/2-1/2
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Anonymous said...

Gelfand proposed the following in the post match press conference: instead of 34. Rc7; 34.d7 Rcc2 35.Rc4 Rb2+ 36.Kc1 Rxa2 37.Rc8 Rf2 38.Re6+ Kf7 39.Rf6+ Kg7 40.Rg8+ with a winning position for Anand. Though at move 34 Anand had close to 10mins on his clock to make the next time control (move 40)

17 May 2012 at 06:24

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