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pawn.” said Anand, who was backed up by Kasparov who opined that “I wouldn't criticize anyone for not taking on b2, especially if you see the 30. ... c4! plan which Vishy played.” It turns out that 29. ... Bxb2
30. Rae1 Rb6 31. Bd5 Bd4! is good for Black, but only be - cause of the line 32. Rxe6 (32. R3e2 Qf6) 32. ... fxe6 33. Rxe6 Qf8!! when after 34. Qg2 Rdd6 White is running out of moves. However 35. Kh2! seems to hold because 35. ... Rxe6 36. Nxe6+ Rxe6 37. Bxe6 Qxf2 38. Qxf2 Bxf2 39. Kg2 feels like a drawn endgame. In fact after 39. ... Be1! ...
from h1.”
35. ... Bf6 36. Rxd3 Rxd3 37. Rxd3 Rd8
“I saw 37. ... Bd4,” said Anand, “but after 38. Qe2 I didn’t see any way to make progress.”
38. Rxd8 Bxd8 39. Bd3 Qd4 40. Bxb5 Qf6
Here Anand offered a draw 33. ... Qb4?! (0.12)
... Black is very close to win - ning because White’s king is tied to the kingside while Black can just run his king to f6-e5- d4 and c3 and help the b-pawn run home. Yet after all White has one
slim path to a draw; 40. Bd7! b4 41. Ba4 Kf6 42. d4!! cxd4 (On 42. ... c4 43. Bb5 c3 44. Ba4 Ke6 45. Bb3+ sets up a perfect blockade.) 43. Bc2 when Black cannot reach the queen side quickly enough.
30. Re2 c4! 31. Nxe6+ fxe6 32. Be4! (0.06)
“Magnus will not panic if he
can see the right squares to place his pieces,” said Kasparov.
32. ... cxd3 (0.16) 33. Rd2 (see diagram top of next column)
“He played this move immediately,” said Kasparov, “but the queen is heading in the wrong direction. he needed to target f2 with 33. ... Rf8! and after 34. Bxd3 he has to find 34. ... Qd6! which is a funny sort of double attack— against g3 and on the d-file.” Kasparov had in mind the variation 35. Qg2 Rxf2! 36. Rxf2 Rf8 37. Raf1 Rxf2 38. Rxf2 Bxf2+ 39. Qxf2 Qxd3 when the queen endgame should be a slow but sure win for Black, e.g. 40. Qa7+ Kf6 41. Qf2+ Ke5 42. Qc5+ Ke4 and the black king easily escapes the checks after which the e-pawn can start advancing.
34. Rad1 Bxb2? (0.09) This was the last chance to
play 34. ... Rf8! 35. Bxd3 Qd6! and return to the variation in the last note. Of course 35. ... Qd6 is a hard move to see once you have committed your queen to b4. Anand said that he looked at 35. ... Rxf2!? 36. Rxf2 Rf8 but decided that White would be fine after 37. Qe4!—“the upside was not clear to me,” Anand added.
35. Qf3! (0.05)
“I am sure Magnus stopped worrying now,” said Kasparov. “He is a player who likes his pieces on healthy squares and he would not need to be asked twice to bring his queen back
but Carlsen decided to keep going, presumably since this was the best position he had had all game!
41. Qb7+ Be7 42. Kg2 g5 43. hxg5 Qxg5 44. Bc4 h4 45. Qc7 hxg3 46. Qxg3 e5 47. Kf3 Qxg3+ 48. fxg3
1. c4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 c6!? 4. e4 The sharpest move against
Black’s Triangle system. 4. Nf3 dxc4 would be the tricky Note - boom Variation while 4. e3 Nf6 would enable Anand to trans - pose back to the Slav system which he employed in his world title defense against GM Boris Gelfand in 2012.
4. ... dxe4 5. Nxe4 Bb4+ 6. Nc3!? The first surprise. 6. Bd2
Qxd4 7. Bxb4 Qxe4+ is the “other” Marshall Gambit, ana - lyzed almost to death.
6. ... c5 7. a3 Ba5 8. Nf3 Nf6 9. Be3 Nc6 (1.46)
48. ... Bc5 “If someone had knocked
back a draw against me, I would have played 48. ... Bh4!,” said Kasparov.
49. Ke4 Bd4 50. Kf5 Bf2 51. Kxe5 Bxg3+, Draw agreed.
After another exciting draw, Carlsen’s breakthrough win came in game five.
Queen’s Gambit Declined, Semi-Slav Variation (D31) GM Magnus Carlsen (FIDE 2870, NOR) GM Viswanathan Anand (FIDE 2775, IND)
Chennai World Championship (Game 5)
WORLD CHESS CHAMPIONSHIP 2013, CHENNAI, INDIA, NOVEMBER 9-22, 2013 Rating
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GM Viswanathan Anand (India) GM Magnus Carlsen (Norway)
2775 2870
½ ½
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½ ½ ½ ½
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½ ½
5 6 7 8 9
10. Qd3!? (1.42) Not a completely new idea,
but one which caused Anand to start thinking seriously for the first time in the game. 10. dxc5 Qxd1+ 11. Rxd1 Ne4 is sup - posed to be fine for Black.
10. ... cxd4 (1.34) 11. Nxd4 Ng4 12. 0-0-0 (1.29) Nxe3 (1.24) 13. fxe3 Bc7 (1.12)
A curious move but “it's an unconventional position,” ad - mit ted Carlsen. 13. ... 0-0 seemed safe enough.
14. Nxc6 (1.12) Typical Carlsen, heading for
an endgame when a sharp middlegame was available via 14. Qe4!? after which Black needs to respond bravely with 14. ... Nxd4 15. exd4 0-0 16.
10
0 0½ ½0 ½ 1 1½ ½1 ½
Time Control: 40 moves in 120 minutes, 20 moves in 60 minutes, game in 15 minutes (increment of 30 seconds after move 61). Carlsen won $1.53 million and Anand won $1.02 million. For more information, see
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Total 3½
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