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Arkadij Naiditsch

CHESS EVOLUTION

Top analysis by Super GMs

May 2012

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Key to symbols 5Editorial Preface 7Contributors 9

A 11B 81C 135D 199E 281

Endgames 315Puzzles 323World Chess Championship 2012 331

EDITORIAL PREFACE

1 year has passed, a new one begins

With the CE May 2012 edition we are entering into the top games of the year 2012. Th e book includes major tournaments like Wijk ann Zee, Gibraltar, Aerofl ot Open, the European Individual Championship, etc. Besides, we did not want the chess fans to wait until September for the World Chess Champi-onship match games between Viswanathan Anand and Boris Gelfand, so we included the WCC as well!

We have new additions to our team

GM Csaba Balogh he is my good friend for many years (Young Balogh Csaba as I used to call him). You are going to hear more from GM Balogh, as we also started together the new project Chess Evolution Weekly Newsletter and who became the master of chess puzzles by writing his fi rst book Greatest 365 puzzles. From practical games of 2012. I hope You will enjoy his 20 puzzles in the current issue.

My second introduction goes to Piotr Pielach. Th is is the new Chess Evolu-tion pdf hero. Piotr Pielach, who is now responsible for all Chess Evolution editing, managing his very diffi cult part in a great style and makes the reading of huge trees of lines as easy as it can only be.

Content of CE May 2012

CE May 2012 keeps the usual structure: commented games, endgames, puzzles. But things have also changed, this year we are publishing only 3 editions (May 2012, September 2012, January 2013). 6 books a Year with about 350 pages of chess material is just too much.

We also keep the general principle of trying to bring You the best chess mate-rial, real life practical examples, and to create an easy readable, user friendly book. Sometimes this is a diffi cult task due to the very wide trees of lines, but one thing is sure, with Chess Evolution You stay ahead of current chess theory.

Complementary products

Now there is also of soft er chess material from the Chess Evolution series. Th ere is the already mentioned Chess Evolution Weekly Newsletter in pdf and pgn formats, in July the GM Sakaev book Complete Slav I is coming to the market. At the same time GM Balogh and I made our fi rst DVD Dirty Chess-classical time control that shows 30 tricks that should be known dur-ing a practical game. Usually the saying goes Th e fi rst pancake is always get-ting burned, but we hope that ours will be tasty J.

In the middle of August we are planning our second DVD Dirty Chess-rapid and blitz which is going to be a lot of fun as well.

As usual I hope that our readers will fi nd a lot of new information from the CE May 2012 issue, and few easy wins according to the ideas inside the book!

Arkadij Naiditsch

CONTRIBUTORS

Etienne Bacrot: France, 28 years old, GM 2714, number 29 in the world. Became GM at the age of 14, a record at the time. Six times French Champion starting from 1999.Winner of many international events including: 2005: 1st place in Poikovsky, 3rd in Dortmund and 3rd of the World Cup in Khanty-Mansiysk. 2009: 1st in Aerofl ot Open, second in Montreal and Antwerp. 2010: First equal in Gibraltar, 3rd in Nanjing and winner of Geneva Open. 2011: First equal in Basel, Geneva (rapid) and Rabat (blitz).

Csaba Balogh: Hungary, 25 years old, GM 2672. Grandmaster since 2004. Won the U-16 section of the 2003 European Youth Chess Championship. Member of the Hungarian national team since 2005.Best tournament result: winner of the Fischer memorial Super-tournament in 2008, Hviz.

Kamil Miton: Poland, 27 years old, GM 2622. World Junior U-12 Champion in 1996. Number 2 at the World Junior Champion (U-20).

Twice the winner (2002 and 2005) of one of the worlds biggest tournaments, the World Open in Philadelphia, USA.

Arkadij Naiditsch: Germany, 26 years old, GM 2712, number 31 in the world. Became Interna-tional Master at the age of 13, Grandmaster at 15. Winner of 2005 Super-tournament in Dortmund and since 2006 the top-rated German player. In 2007 was German Champion and won the Baku Open. In 2010 Arkadij won a match against Efi -menko in Mukachevo and was 1st equal in the European Rapid Championship in Warsaw.

Borki Predojevic: Bosnia and Herzegovina, 24 years old, GM 2642. Gained the GM title at the Calvia Olympiad in 2004 when he was 17. Best Elo was 2654 in September 2009. Joined the top 100 in 2007; highest place so far was 68th on the October 2007 list.Winner of several international open tournaments in-cluding: Open Metalis in Bizovac, Croatia in 2006, Za-greb Open, Croatia in 2007, Hit Open in Nova Gorica, Slovenia in 2008, Acropolis Open in Greece 2009. in 2008, Acropolis Open in Greece 2009.

David Baramidze: Germany, 23 years old, GM 2607.Georgian and German Champion. 3 silver-medals at European and Worldchampionships in junior classes. Qualifi cation to the World-Cup 2007,kicked out Nigel Short in the fi rst round. Member of German National team in the Olympiad in Dres-den 2008.

A

GAME 1 Malakhov Movsesian [A09] 12

GAME 2 Nakamura Navara [A22] 20

GAME 3 Nakamura Topalov [A23] 29

GAME 4 Potkin Nepomniachtchi [A30] 37

GAME 5 Korobov Caruana [A58] 43

GAME 6 Navara Ivanchuk [A70] 54

GAME 7 Aronian Nakamura [A88] 61

GAME 8 Karjakin Nakamura [A97] 72

B

GAME 1 Karjakin Topalov [B23] 82

GAME 2 Topalov Caruana [B42] 90

GAME 3 Smeets Smirin [B42] 96

GAME 4 Sutovsky Olszewski [B43] 102

GAME 5 Gashimov Radjabov [B45] 109

GAME 6 Motylev Potkin [B60] 116

GAME 7 Najer Vachier-Lagrave [B90] 122

GAME 8 Giri Gashimov [B94] 128

C

GAME 1 Kurnosov Andreikin [C11] 136

GAME 2 Alekseev Gupta [C19] 142

GAME 3 Adams Mamedyarov [C41] 148

GAME 4 Vachier Lagrave Giri [C42] 154

GAME 5 Sjugirov Bacrot [C65] 160

GAME 6 Aronian Kramnik [C65] 168

GAME 7 Karjakin Aronian [C84] 175

GAME 8 Gashimov Kamsky [C88] 186

GAME 9 Negi Sasikiran [C95] 191

D

GAME 1 Le Quang Liem Felgaer [D10] 200

GAME 2 Anand Eljanov [D16] 208

GAME 3 Jobava Hua Ni [D17] 216

GAME 4 Moiseenko Rublevsky [D27] 222

GAME 5 Rapport Gustafsson [D35] 229

GAME 6 Riazantsev Macieja [D37] 237

GAME 7 Giri Aronian [D37] 249

GAME 8 Aronian Shirov [D45] 255

GAME 9 Miton Mastrovasilis [D45] 262

GAME 10 Aronian Kamsky [D99] 270

E

GAME 1 Ivanchuk Van Wely [E04] 282

GAME 2 Dreev Lupulescu [E32] 288

GAME 3 Le Quang Liem Iordachescu [E39] 296

GAME 4 Caruana Karjakin [E46] 301

GAME 5 Khenkin Sebenik [E84] 309

ENDGAMES

GAME 1 Najer Bacrot [C67] 316

GAME 2 Bacrot Bellia [C92] 318

GAME 3 Bacrot Rapport [D46] 320

WORLD CHESS CHAMPIONSHIP 2012

GAME 1 Anand Gelfand [D85] 332

GAME 2 Gelfand Anand [D85] 338

GAME 3 Anand Gelfand [D70] 343

GAME 4 Gelfand Anand [D45] 351

GAME 5 Anand Gelfand [B33] 357

GAME 6 Gelfand Anand [D45] 362

GAME 7 Gelfand Anand [D45] 368

GAME 8 Anand Gelfand [A40] 375

GAME 9 Gelfand Anand [E54] 379

GAME 10 Anand Gelfand [B30] 385

GAME 11 Gelfand Anand [E54] 390

GAME 12 Anand Gelfand [B30] 395

332 MAY, 2012

GAME 1

V. Anand (2791) B. Gelfand (2727) WCC 2012, Moscow11.05.2012, [D85][Chess Evolution Team]

1.d4 As it was expected Anand starts

the match with 1.d4 just as he did in the previous two WCC matches against Kramnik and Topalov no reason to change the winning move!

1...f6 2.c4 g6 3.c3 d5 What asurprise! Gelfand goes for

the Gruenfeld, an opening, what he never tried in his life before! For a while probably Anand thought, that Gelfand is going to play Kings-Indian, in which Vishy lost his last game against Nakamura from almost awinning position.

4.f3 g7 5.cxd5 xd5 6.e4 xc3 7.bxc3 c5

we are in one of the basic positions, where White can choose between many setups. 8.b1 or 8.e3 is con-sidered to be the main move.

8.b5+!? We can see this move much more

rarely, but still of course almost thou-sand games in the database. Anand decides to avoid the mainlines in the fi rst game, to check how Gelfand is prepared against the less known ideas.

8...c6 8...d7 and 8...d7 are alternatives,

but theory considers the textmove to be the best way to equality.

9.d5! But this is almost anovelty, played

quickly by Anand. He wants to pre-tend, like Gelfands opening choice has not surprised him at all. Black has two options to solve the problem of the pin.

9.00 is the standard 9...cxd4 10.cxd4 00 11.e3 g4 12.xc6 bxc6 leads to really drawish lines.

9...a5 9...a6!? is the other main move in

this position, and it is not easy to see aclear plan for White of getting any-

CHESS EVOLUTION 333

thinghere 10.e2!? the only chance (on 10.a4 b5 11.dxc6 bxa4 and only Black can be better.) 10...xc3+ 11.d2 xa1 12.xa1 d4 13.xd4 cxd4 14.xd4 so far everythi ng was more or less forced. It looks like White is just an exchange down, but in fact probably White can develope some initiative 14...00

15.00 (15.h6 greedyness leads to nowhere 15...a5+! 16.f1 f6! 17.xf8 xf8 18.b2 d7! Whites rook is out of the game, while Blacks one is coming dangerously to c8. Black is better.) 15...f6 16.c4! b5 17.b3 g7 18.e5 with a very complicated posi-tion. Could it be Anands idea on 9...a6 ?! Iguess we will never know.

9...xc3+?? is not an alternative 10.d2 xa1 11.xa1 with dou-bleattack.

10.b1! Agood move! Protects the bishop

and leaves from the xc3 threat.

10...a6 Strong move! Gelfand already spent

some time, but probably only on re-calling his analysis.

10...xc3+ 11.d2 (11.e2?! looks spectacular, but it is abad move 11...a6 12.a4 b5 13.dxc6 e6! agreat move by Black! Using the unfor-tunate situation of the White King and Queen 14.b3 c4 15.c2 d8! followed by xa2 with awinning position for Black) 11...a6 12.xc6+

a) 12.e2 d4 13.xd4 cxd4 14.xc3 dxc3 15.00 00 16.c2 b5 (16...e6) 17. fc1 d7 18.xc3 xc3 19.xc3 fc8=;

b) 12.a4 xd2+ 13.xd2 b5 14.dxc6 bxa4 15.00 e6 16.c1 00 17.f3 a7 18.h6 f6;

12...bxc6 13.dxc6 and it seems, White can hope for an advantage. (13.00 xd2 14.xd2 cxd5 15.b3 b4 16.xd5 b7 17.e5 f6 18.xc5 xe4 19.f3 d5) 13...e6 14.c1

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(14.c1 xd2+ 15.xd2 b4 16.00 xd2 17.xd2 000=; 14.xc3 xc3+ 15.d2 c4 16.e3 000 17.c7 d3 18.f4 d6 19.d2 c3 20.00 xd2 21.b8+ xc7 22.xd2 xd2 23.xh8 xa2; 14.00 xd2 15.xd2 d8 16.b3 c7 17.c2 xb3 18.xb3 xc6=) 14...xd2+ 15.xd2 xa2 (15...a4 16.00 00 17.e5 xe4 18.fe1 d4 19.h6) 16.xa2 xa2 17.c1 d8 18.xc5 c7

11.xc6+ 11.a4 is not working 11...xc3+

12.d2 xd2+! and White can not take with the usual xd2, because the bishop on a4 is hanging 13.xd2 b5 14.dxc6 bxa4 and only Black can be better. 15.00 e6

11...bxc6 12.00! White king escaped from the dan-

gerzone, while the Black one is still in the center.

12...xa2!

Th is move is looking extremely dan-gerous, but probably the only way to stay in the game. Black wastes some tempi on collecting apawn with the hope, that White will be unable to use the unsafe position of his king.

12...00 13.dxc6 is clearly better for White 13...g4

a) 13...e6 14. f4 xa2 (14...xc3 15.c7 c4 16.a4 xf1 17.xf1 b4 18.e5 xc7 19.xg6 d8 20.xf8 xd1+ 21.xd1 xf8 22.e2) 15.a1 xc3 16.d2 fc8 17.c2 xa1 18.xa1 b5 19.xa2 xc6 20.c4;

b) 13...c7 14.d5 a5 15.xc5 a6 16.d4;

14.g5 (14.b7 ac8 15.g5 xc6 16.xe7 fc8 17.d6 xa2 18.e5) 14...c7 15.d5 fc8 16.fc1 xf3 17.gxf3 e6 18.xc5 xc6 19.xc6 xc6

13.b2 13.g5 cxd5 (13...h6 14.dxc6 hxg5

15.b8+-) 14.a1 c4 (14...b2 15.xd5 b7 16.xc5 00 17.xe7

CHESS EVOLUTION 335

e8 18.d6 g4 19.e5 ac8 20.a5 e2 21.fe1 b5) 15.a4 xc3

(15...b5 16.exd5 00 (16...xc3 17.d6 00 18.xe7 e8 19.g5; 16...f6 17.c4 b6 18.e3 00 19.d2 d7 20.a5) 17.xe7 e8 18.d6)

16.xd5 b8 (16...a7 17.c4 a5 18.e5 xe5 19.xe5 00 20.xc5 d8 21.h6 f6 22.a1 e8 23.e5) 17.xe7 xe7 18.d1 d4 19.xd4 cxd4 20.e5+ e6 21.xa6 a8 22. xe6+ fxe6 23.g7+ d6 24.xd4+ c6 25.d6+ xd6 26.xc3

13...a5! Not an easy move to make!

On the obvious 13...c4 14.d6! e6

(14...a7 15.g5! f6 (15...exd6 16.xd6 d7 17.xc6 and Black does not have 17...c7 like in the game. 17...00 18.b8+-) 16.e3 d7 17.d2 xc3 18.c2 d3 19.dxe7 is really unpleasant.)

15.d2! would give White a very dangerous initiative 15...00? loses to (15...a7 16.a3!) 16.d7!

14.d6 Only this way, White can try to

squeeze out something from the opening, but Gelfand reacts precisely!

14.dxc6 00 would lead to an equal position.

14.g5 a7 15.dxc6 00

14...a7! Th is cold-blooded move probably

solves all problems! 14...d8? looks logical, but it is bad

15.f4! White keeps the Black king in the center and organizes a very dangerous attack! 15...xc3 16.b1! exd6 (16...00 17.dxe7 xe7 18.d6) 17.xd6

15.g5 Th is was the fi rst moment, when

Anand sank into a longer thought. But the move he made lead to easy equality...

Th e last try to play for advantage could have been 15.f4! but aft er 15...d7!

(15...00 is a mistake, because of 16.e5! Attacking the c6 pawn forces Black to give up his Gruen-feld bishop (16.dxe7 xe7 17.d6 d7) 16...xe5

(16...exd6 17.xc6 xc3 18.b3 (18.c2 f6 19.xd6 d7 20.e5

336 MAY, 2012

e6 21.xc5 b7) 18...f6 19.xa7 xf4 20.xc8 xc8 21.d5 e5 22.g3 f6 23.g2)

17.xe5 e8 18.d2! Lacking of the g7 bishop gives good attacking chances for White 18...exd6 19.f6! White controls the long diagonal.)

16.d2 (16.b8 00 17.dxe7 xe7 18.d6 d7 19.e5 dd8 20.xf8 xd1 21.xd1 a4 22.e1 xf8 23.xc8; 16.e5 xd6 17.c2 00 18.c4 xc3 19.xd6 exd6 20.xc3 xc3 21.c2 b4 22.xd6 e6) 16...exd6 17.xd6 (17.xd6 d8! 18.xd7 xd7 19.d6

f6! followed by e7 and 00 seems to hold, but anyway, this was what White should have tried.) 17...xc3 18.c2 (18.d3 c4! 19.e3 a1 20.e2 b2 21.xc4 xd6 22.xc3 00 23.e5 e6 24.h4 xc3 25.exd6 f6 26.e1 c4) 18...f6 (18...d8 19.e5 f5 20.e2) 19.e5 e7 fol-lowed by 00. 20.c1 00 21.xe7 (21.d2 xd6 22.c4 d8 23.xd6 f6=) 21...xe7 22.xc5 b4 23.c4 (23.xc6 b7=) 23...b7 24.h6 f6; 15.b8 just helps Black 15...00

15...exd6 16.xd6 d7 White can not stop Black from cas-

tling anymore, which means Black is fi ne!

17.xc6 17.b8 00 18.e5 b7 19.xb7 xb7 20.d6 c4 21. f6 xf6 22.xf6 xc3 (22...d8 23.xd8 xd8 24.b1 c5 25.f3 c8=) 23.h4 d4 24.h5 d8

17...c7! Th is important defensive move was

the point of the 13...a5 retreat!

18.xc7 xc7 and we reached an endgame aft er

only 18 moves. It is clear, that White got no real chances here. Blacks bish-op pair always guarantee him enough counterplay.

19.f4 b7 20.c2 White goes to passivity... 20.a2 was preferable, which leads

to complete equality 20...00 21.xa6 xc3=

CHESS EVOLUTION 337

20...00! 20...e7?! In endgames, generally it

is good to keep the king in the cent-er, but here it moves into the conrete 21.g5+! f6 22.e3 and White is maybe slightly better.

21.d6 e8 Due to the strong bishop pair and

the dangerous passed a-pawn, it is al-ready White who has to be careful to secure the draw!

22.d2 f5 22...d7!? would have been an in-

teresting alternative 23.fc1 (23.xc5 c8 24.e3 xc3 25.xc3 xc3) 23...a5 (23...c8 24.e5 White should be able to hold.) 24.xc5 a4 Probably Gelfand would have played like this, if he had to win at any cost.

23.f3 23.xc5 maybe this would have

been abit more exact 23...c7 24.b4 fxe4 25.e1 f5 26.a2 e6 27.a3 h5 28.f1! with an equal position.

23...fxe4 It is akind of draw off er. However 23...d7! could have cause

some unpleasent moment for the World Champion right in the fi rst game.

24. fc1!? Very difficult move to fi nd, but the best chance! (24.xc5 c8 25.e3 xc3 26.fc1 bc7; 24.a1 b5! 25.xc5 d3 26.cc1 b2) 24...b5 25.xc5 d3 26.a2 c8 27.e3 xc3 28.exf5 gxf5 29.g3! to prevent the f4 threat. White should hold the draw.

Aft er 23...e6 aforced line is com-ing with 24.xc5 c6 25.e3 xc3 26.xc3 xc3 27.c1 c7 28.exf5 xf5 29.f2 with a minimal plus for Black, but of course, it should be draw.

24.xe4 f5 Gelfand went for simplifi cation and

agreed to draw. 1/2

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