Baku 06: Caruana 2851 live! by Alejandro Ramirez 10/8/2014 – The Italian wrecking ball keeps accumulating victories! Today he outplayed Svidler in an immensely complicated position stemming from the Grunfeld. With this victory Caruana leads the tournament by half a point and reaches a new record in his live rating: 2851, only twelve points away from Carlsen. Kasimdzhanov and Radjabov also won, capitalizing on their opponents mistakes. Kasimdzhanov, Rustam 1-0 Andreikin, Dmitry Andreikins opening left him in an already nearly-lost position. His counterplay on the kingside was not close to giving him compensation. Kasimdzhanov brought back his pieces to defend and then the game was basically ever. Caruana, Fabiano 1-0 Svidler, Peter A very complicated Grunfeld! The position was very tense from the get-go as Caruana quickly launched a kingside attack. A misplay by Svidler allowed the Italian player to mount an initiative and control his opponents pieces, but he was too eager and his pawn push to e5 allowed a counter-sacrifice that gave Black good compensation. In time trouble and in a complex position Svidler made a mistake and Caruana punished him severely, securing his extra piece and beating back the initiative. Although it is only the Live Rating, the number 2851 carries a bit of magic to it in the chess world, thanks to the towering record rating Garry Kasparov had established for so many years. This also marks the first time the top two players open up a gap of 50 Elo or more over the rest of the field since Kasparov and Karpov, which they last did in January 1995. However, before talk of records enters the discussion, it must be noted the two Ks once opened up a gap of 100 Elo over no.3 and beyond in January 1989, when the world number three was Nigel Short at 2650, then came Anatoly Karpov with 2750, followed by Garry Kasparov at 2775. Grischuk, Alexander 0-1 Radjabov, Teimour Grischuk made some strange strategical decisions, but the true mistake came with his weakening of e3. Radjabovs precise moves created more and more pressure on this pawn that simply could not be defended. After the trade of queens Whites position could not be held together anymore. Radjabov cleaned up the pawns and Grischuk had to resign. Dominguez, Leinier ½-½ Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar Dominguez experiment in the Spanish did not leave him with any good results. Black had a more than acceptable position and fine counterplay. Both sides had alternatives to make the position more interesting. After some trades the position reached a drawn rook endgame, but before that Dominguez probably had some chances had he decided not to trade queens. Tomashevsky, Evgeny ½-½ Nakamura, Hikaru Another successful implementation of the Lasker Defense. Nakamuras quick c5 foiled any attempts from White to bind him on the queenside. The resulting endgame was maybe a tiny bit better for White, but the American player held without any difficulties. Karjakin, Sergey ½-½ Gelfand, Boris Karjakin banked on surprising Gelfand in the opening with a very unusual early f4 in the Najdorf. However the Israeli was very well prepared and his own novelty simply neutralized Whites play. Black might even have been better at some point, but Gelfand was satisfied with splitting the point. en.chessbase/post/baku-06-caruana-2851-live
Posted on: Thu, 09 Oct 2014 19:22:14 +0000
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