Sinquefield Rd2: Thrills and drama in all games

by Albert Silver
8/7/2016 – After the excitement of round one, round two, if anything, it was even more thrilling with every game having a story to tell. Topalov seemed poised to play a masterpiece after a beautiful attack on Caruana, but somehow botched it and let Fabiano escape, while Anand came back from a bad position to outplay MVL and score his first win. The last game to finish was Nakamura's superb win over Giri, and that was not all that happened. Here is the detailed report with analysis by GM Elshan Moradiabadi.

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2016 Sinquefield Cup

The 2016 Sinquefield Cup is an elite international event, featuring 10 of the strongest chess players in the world. Over the course of nine rounds, these competitors will battle for $300,000 in prize money (first: $75,000, second: $50,000, third: $40,000, last: $15,000) plus points toward the Grand Chess Tour and the coveted title of 2016 Sinquefield Cup Champion.

The venue is the Chess Club and Scholastic Center at 4657 Maryland Avenue, Saint Louis, MO 63108. Tickets cost $10 per round or $80 for all ten rounds. Full information available at the official web site.

Hundreds of thousands of spectators worldwide are expected to enjoy the all-star commentary team of GM Yasser Seirawan, GM Maurice Ashley and WGM Jennifer Shahade as they provide keen insights and analysis, in depth player interviews and witty discussions. Commentary is also available on the CCSCSL YouTube Channel, Livestream and Twitch.

Round Two - Saturday, August 6, 1pm
Name
Rtg
Res.
Name
Rtg
Levon Aronian
2784
1-0
Peter Svidler
2751
Fabiano Caruana
2807
½-½
Veselin Topalov
2761
Hikaru Nakamura
2791
1-0
Anish Giri
2769
Ding Liren
2755
½-½
Wesley So
2771
M. Vachier-Lagrave
2819
0-1
Viswanathan Anand
2770

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After seeing an excellent movie that you know will have a sequel, the first concern is whether the sequel can live up to the original. It can certainly happen of course, but overall the statistics are not in favor, and more often than not we find ourselves trying to rationalize why it really was ‘pretty good’. Sticking with the analogy, if round one was that excellent first movie, then one can confidently say that round two was a tremendous sequel that improved on round one in many ways.

Alejandro Ramirez and Robert Hess are on lcoation providing live commentary to the audience visiting

In round two there were more wins, more drama, and not a single dull draw. In fact, the draws that happened had seemed destined to a decisive result, while two games saw very unexpected wins.

The first game to end, and the one that had seemed headed towards a win, was Ding Liren against Wesley So. Wesley found himself in trouble fairly early on against Ding Liren, who was nursing a nice advantage, when suddenly he played a tactic winning a pawn…. Or so he thought.

Ding Liren - Wesley So

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1.d4 (3s) Nf6 (7s) 2.c4 (4s) e6 (5s) 3.Nf3 (4s) d5 (3s) 4.Nc3 (4s) Nbd7 (5s) 5.Bg5 (134s) h6 (6s) 6.Bh4 (3s) Be7 (7s) 7.e3 (4s) 0-0 (5s) 8.Be2 (2s) dxc4 (560s) 9.Bxc4 (57s) c5 (9s) 10.0-0 (5s) cxd4 (34s) 11.Nxd4 (37s) Nb6 (398s) 12.Bb3 (1134s) Nbd5 ( 162s) 13.Nxd5 (263s) Nxd5 (4s) 14.Bg3 (3s) Bf6 (225s) 15.Rc1 (1459s) Nb6 (2446s) 16.Qe2 (1529s) Bd7 (366s) 17.Nb5 (5s) a6 (912s) 18.Nd6 (395s) Bc6
(18s) 19.Nxb7? (72s) Overdoing it and undercalculating. Bxb7 (18s) 20.Bc7 (4s) Qe7 (158s) 21.Bxb6
(9s) 21...Bxg2! (4s) This fairly easy move to see was missed by the Chinese player and now leads him to some trouble. 22.Kxg2 (264s) Ding Liren spent nearly 5 minutes staring at his position in disbelief Qb7+ ( 5s) 23.Qf3 (14s) Qxb6 (5s) 24.Rc6 (2s) Qb7 (163s) 25.Rc2 (116s) Qxf3+ (5s) 26.Kxf3 (3s) Rfc8 (8s) 27.Rfc1 (4s) Rxc2 (6s) 28.Rxc2 (3s) Rb8 (7s) 29.Rc6 (50s) a5 (62s) 30.Rc5 (23s) Ra8 (5s) 31.Rb5 (36s) Ra7 (470s) 32.Bc2 (193s) Kf8 33.a4 (5s) Ke7 ( 27s) 34.b4 (6s) Bc3 (31s) 35.bxa5 (27s) Rxa5
½–½
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Ding,L2755So,W2771½–½2016D374th Sinquefield Cup 20162

Wesley So, with good reason to smile

Ding Liren’s tactical ability is not to be underestimated, but here he got impatient to take it home and was lax in his thoroughness. As a result, Wesley So left the battlefield without a scratch, albeit after a small scare.

If So got off easy, then Fabiano Caruana has to consider he really dodged a bullet. Veselin Topalov was quite simply crushing him and had played a masterful attack with tactical finesses. Unfortunately, as soon as he reached the winning line, he seemed distracted, and began to miss moves badly, allowing Caruana to escape with fortress ideas.

Fabiano Caruana - Veselin Topalov

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1.e4 (3s) e5 (5s) 2.Nf3 (4s) Nc6 (4s) 3.Bb5 (4s) a6 (5s) 4.Ba4 (8s) Nf6 (7s) 5.0-0 (9s) Be7 (10s) 6.d3 (102s) b5 (26s) 7.Bb3 (4s) d6 (21s) 8.a4 (15s) Bd7 (44s) 9.c3 ( 14s) Na5 (20s) 10.Ba2 (6s) c5 (63s) 11.Bg5 (90s) 0-0 (16s) 12.axb5 (332s) axb5 (5s) 13.Na3 (4s) Qb8 (708s) 14.Nc2 (145s) h6 (94s) 15.Bh4 (402s) c4 (203s) 16.Nb4 ( 1387s) Be6 (198s) 17.Re1 (18s) Qb7 (464s) 18.d4 (522s) Bg4 (408s) 19.Bb1 (1794s) Nb3 (167s) 20.Rxa8 (6s) Rxa8 (13s) 21.Ba2?? (845s) A terrible blunder that should have cost the American the game. Nxe4 (1134s) 22.Bxe7 (675s)
White just took the bishop on e7, and the knee-jerk reaction would be to recapture, but Topalov's instincts do not fail him here. Black to play and win.
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Caruana,F2807Topalov,V2761½–½2016C844th Sinquefield Cup 20162

Topalov had to be wondering how things got so out of hand after what promised to be a day of victory

Maxime Vachier Lagrave had been enjoying one of the great runs in elite chess, and had been undefeated in 67 games… until today. He came out of the opening against Vishy Anand with a  nice edge, and even seemed likely to win, but the former world champion is not without a large set of tools.

Anand faced an MVL who had gone 67 moves without losing. His 2819 rating was a direct result.

Maxime Vachier-Lagrave - Vishy Anand (annotated by GM Elshan Moradiabadi)

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1.e4 (4s) c6 (7s) Anand plays the Caro-Kann which might have come as a surprise to MVL. Anand had previously opted for the Berlin for a long time. It seems that Vishy in an 'experimental' mood in Sinquefield. 2.Nf3 (125s) MVL goes for something less forced and theoretical. d5 (10s) 3.Nc3 (3s) An interesting choice against Anand's Caro-Kann. Nf6 (15s) 4.e5 (13s) Ne4 (8s) This is the idea behind Anand's previous move. 4...Nfd7 5.e6!? fxe6 6.d4 Looks very promising for White 5.Ne2!? (383s) again after a somewhat long thought, Maxim goes for the most principled continuation. White tries to quarantine Black's active knight in the middle of board. Qb6 (33s) Almost forced. 6.d4 (7s) e6 (10s) 7.Nfg1 (70s) Nimzowitsch would have been delighted if he could see this game! White is planning to capture the knight with f3. f6 (13s) 7...h6 8.h4 does not solve anything. 8.f3 (8s) Ng5 (13s) 9.exf6 (8s) gxf6 (7s) 10.f4 (8s) Ne4 (15s) Anand deviates from a recent game between Grischuk and Ding Liren. 10...Nf7 11.Nf3 Be7 12.c4 dxc4 13.Nc3 Nd6 14.b3 cxb3 15.axb3 0-0 16.Bd3 Rf7 17.0-0 1/2-1/2 (31) Grischuk,A (2747)-Ding,L (2778) Wenzhou 2016 11.Ng3 (24s) Bd7 (250s) This seemingly awkward move is approved of by engines. Vishy builds a shelter for his king in order to bring it to the queen side via d8 and c7. 12.Nxe4 (625s) dxe4 (23s) 13.c3 (6s) Na6?! (548s) This move seems a bit passive and it posed some troubles for Anand in this game. c5 Looks like a natural reaction in this position. 13...c5 14.d5 exd5 15.Qh5+ Kd8 16.Qxd5 Qc6 17.Qf7 Qe6 and Black seems fine to me. 18.Qh5 Kc7 19.b3 Nc6 20.Bc4 Qe8 with very good play for Black. 14.Qh5+ (360s) Kd8 (50s) 15.Bc4 (28s) Kc7 (1116s) 15...Nc7 runs into 16.Qf7 Be7 17.f5‼
This is a brilliant positional sacrifice. White controls every important square on the board after this move. 17.Qg7 Re8 18.f5 Qa5 19.Ne2 Qxf5 20.Ng3 Qg6= 17...exf5 18.Ne2 Ne8 19.Nf4 Nd6 20.Qg7 Re8 21.Be2 with a very inconvenient position for Black.
16.a4 (462s) c5 (90s) 17.Ne2 (27s) Rd8 (306s) Anand prepares an artificial castle. 18.Be3 (536s) f5 (393s) While the computer does not like this move, I must side with the human here as I think it a very good decision as it cuts White's queen off from the queenside. 19.0-0 (209 s) Kb8 (346s) The engines believe that White is much better after either Qh4 or Rfd1. However, I find this assessment somewhat irrelevant when a game with such a degree of complication is under way. From a practical point of view, White has the upper hand but Black is not that tied down. 20.Qf7?! (495s) according to the engines. Nc7 (452s) 21.a5 (312s) Qc6 (10s) 22.Qf6 (11s) Bd6 (7s) These moves are more or less forced. 23.dxc5 (18s) Bxc5 (247s) 24.Nd4 (42s) Qd6 (81s) 25.b4 (213s) Qe7 (246s) 26.Qh6 ( 1161s) Vishy spent a lot of time here assessing Qf8, nevertheless he correctly overruled this because after Qh4 White will transfer his queen to f2 which would have put a lot of pressure on Anand's king. Bd6 (1414s) 27.Rad1 (68s) Rhf8 (49s) 28.Bf2 (73s) Rf6 (35s) 29.Qh4 (123s) Nd5 (282s) 29...Ba4 is what the AI suggests. 30.Rd2 Rg8 with equal chances. 30.Nxe6?? (409s) MVL blunders in a day of blunders! he could have exhchange the knight and d5 and tried to black on dark squares. 30.Bxd5 exd5 31.Qh3! Qg7 31...Bxf4 32.Bh4 32.Qe3 32.Bh4 Rh6 32...Rg6 33.g3 a6 33...h5 34.Nxf5 34.Nc2 with very unpleasant play for Black. 30...Bxe6 (70s) 31.Bxd5 (11s) e3! (63s) Anand finds the trick quite fast. Bishop on e3 will be en prise. As a result, Anand wins a piece and the game. 32.Bxe3 (16s) Bxd5 (9s) 33.Bxa7+ (5s) Kxa7 (124s) 34.Qf2+ (726s) Bc5! (32s) Final finesse! From here on, Anand converts his advantage comfortably. I highly recommend carefully examining the rest of the game since you can learn a lot from Anand's technique! 35.Qxc5+ (5s) Qxc5+ (12s) 36.bxc5 (1s) Rd7 (35s) 37.Rfe1 (69s) h6 (87s) 38.Kf2 (147s) Kb8 (144s) 39.c4 (166s) Bc6 (21s) 40.Rxd7 (0s) Bxd7 (0s) 41.Rb1 (31s) Ra6 (485s) 42.Rb6 (32s) Rxa5 (177s) 43.Rxh6 (22s) Rxc5 (6s) 44.h4 (39s) Rxc4 (7s) 45.g3 (7s) Kc7 (83s) 46.h5 (19s) b5 (85s) Today MVL handled the opening very well but he fell for a trap in what was a very promising position. Anand's opening choice was very risky but it also represents good news for Vishy's fans since he seems willing to play out of his comfort zone.
0–1
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Vachier-Lagrave,M2819Anand,V27700–12016B114th Sinquefield Cup 20162

A fantastic win for Anand, who has a great start

Maxime knew the run had to end one day, and just wished it did not have to be today

With this win Anand moves into a tie for first after two rounds. Naturally it is much too early to begin talking about leaders in any serious way.

If MVL had been on a run to end all runs, Svidler is having trouble getting out of a pit that seems to get deeper every time he looks. Naturally, his opponent Levon Aronian is one of the all-time greats, but Svidler is no slouch and the endgame seemed a relatively simple thing to draw. Instead, with all the pieces off the board except one pair, the Russian seemed to forget some of the most basic fundamentals, and declined to develop and centralize his king! This cost him very soon, and decisively so.

Levon Aronian was quite perplexed by Svidler's decision to leave his king in the corner

Levon Aronian - Peter Svidler

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1.d4 (14s) d5 (7s) 2.c4 (21s) c6 (2s) 3.Nc3 (11s) Nf6 (6s) 4.e3 (11s) a6 (8s) 5.Nf3 (39s) b5 (6s) 6.b3 (41s) Bg4 (5s) 7.Qd2 (50s) Nbd7 (2165s) 8.Ne5 (14s) Nxe5 ( 133s) 9.dxe5 (6s) Nd7 (3s) 10.cxd5 (1510s) cxd5 (27s) 11.Qxd5 (689s) e6 (38s) 12.Qd4 (26s) h5 (45s) 13.Bd2 (936s) Qb8 (1428s) 14.Ne4 (1023s) Qxe5 (186s) 15.a4 (307 s) Bf5 (180s) 16.Ng3 (96s) Bc2 (205s) 17.axb5 (765s) h4 (48s) 18.Ne2 (665s) Qxb5 ( 173s) 19.Qc3 (104s) Bh7 (259s) 20.Nd4 (83s) Qb7 (20s) 21.h3 (211s) Be7 (783s) 22.Be2 (28s) 0-0 (558s) 23.Bf3 (11s) Be4 (6s) 24.Bxe4 (83s) Qxe4 (4s) 25.Qc6 (51s) Nc5 (173s) 26.Qxe4 (7s) Nxe4 (4s) 27.Nc6 (8s) Bc5 (160s) 28.Ra4 (146s) Nxd2 (43s) 29.Kxd2 (5s) Rfc8 (2s) 30.Na5 (65s) Be7 (120s) 31.Rc1 (47s) Rxc1 (145s) 32.Kxc1 (3s) Rc8+ (12s) 33.Rc4 (55s) Rxc4+ (28s) 34.Nxc4 (4s) g5 (134s) 35.Kd2
(9s) 35...f5? (38s) It is rather extraordinary to see a player of Svidler's calibre completely spurn developing his king and bringing it to play. 36.Ne5 (23s) Bd6 (20s) 37.Nf3 (7s) Be7 (0s) 38.Ne5 (4s) Bd6 (1s) 39.Nf3 (3s) Be7 (2s) 40.Kd3 (0s) Kg7 (0s) 41.Ne5 (135s) Bb4?
(422s) And now White gets to play Kc4 with a free tempo. 42.Kc4 (189s) a5 (513s) 43.Kb5 (373 s) Kf6 (241s) 44.Nc4 (180s) Be1 (138s) 45.f3 (10s) g4 (32s) 46.Nxa5 (100s) gxh3 (23 s) 47.gxh3 (4s) Ke5 (4s) 48.Nc4+ (551s) Kd5 (4s) 49.Nb6+ (10s) Kd6 (33s) 50.Kc4 ( 23s) Kc6 (128s) 51.Na4 (64s) Bf2 (5s) 52.e4 (119s) fxe4 (16s) 53.fxe4 (4s) Kd6 (3s) 54.Nb2 (5s)
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Aronian,L2792Svidler,P27511–02016D104th Sinquefield Cup 20162

The final game of the day, and the longest by far, was the battle between Hikaru Nakamura and Anish Giri. After playing quite poorly, and losing to an opponent he bests more often than not, Nakamura had pronounced fighting words in the post-game interview, but with great optimism, a sign he was ready to do battle. He pointed out that even Magnus had had terrible starts and bounced back to win the event he was playing, so there was no reason to overreact.

It was a very tense and thrilling battle between Anish Giri and Hikaru Nakamura

Anish Giri - Hikaru Nakamura (annotated by GM Elshan Moradiabadi)

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His positive thinking paid off and in spite of some rocky moments, Nakamura emerged victorious and is back in the mix.

The tournament is clearly on the way to provide intense excitement, so be sure to follow it!

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Schedule

Day Date Time Event
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German
Saturday Aug. 6 1 p.m. Round 2
Oliver Reeh/Georgios Souleidis
Klaus Bischoff
Sunday Aug. 7 1 p.m. Round 3
Chris Ward
Christian Bauer
Monday Aug. 8 1 p.m. Round 4
Simon Williams
Klaus Bischoff
Tuesday Aug. 9 1 p.m. Round 5
Simon Williams
Klaus Bischoff
Wednesday Aug. 10 Rest Day
Thursday Aug. 11 1 p.m. Round 6
Chris Ward
Thomas Luther
Friday Aug. 12 1 p.m. Round 7
Yannick Pelletier
Thomas Luther
Saturday Aug. 13 1 p.m. Round 8
Simon Williams
Yannick Pelletier
Sunday Aug. 14 1 p.m. Round 9
Yannick Pelletier
Klaus Bischoff
Monday Aug. 15 1 p.m. Playoffs
 
 

Pairings

Round One - Friday, August 5, 1pm
Name
Rtg
Res.
Name
Rtg
Ding Liren
2755
½-½
Levon Aronian
2784
Wesley So
2771
1-0
Hikaru Nakamura
2791
Anish Giri
2769
½-½
M. Vachier-Lagrave
2819
Viswanathan Anand
2770
½-½
Fabiano Caruana
2807
Veselin Topalov
2761
1-0
Peter Svidler
2751
Round Two - Saturday, August 6, 1pm
Name
Rtg
Res.
Name
Rtg
Levon Aronian
2784
1-0
Peter Svidler
2751
Fabiano Caruana
2807
½-½
Veselin Topalov
2761
Hikaru Nakamura
2791
1-0
Anish Giri
2769
Ding Liren
2755
½-½
Wesley So
2771
M. Vachier-Lagrave
2819
0-1
Viswanathan Anand
2770
Round Three - Monday, August 7, 1pm
Name
Rtg
Res.
Name
Rtg
Wesley So
2771
  Levon Aronian
2784
Anish Giri
2769
  Ding Liren
2755
Viswanathan Anand
2770
  Hikaru Nakamura
2791
Veselin Topalov
2761
  M. Vachier-Lagrave
2819
Peter Svidler
2751
  Fabiano Caruana
2807
Round Four - Tuesday, August 8, 1pm
Name
Rtg
Res.
Name
Rtg
Levon Aronian
2784
  Fabiano Caruana
2807
M. Vachier-Lagrave
2819
  Peter Svidler
2751
Hikaru Nakamura
2791
  Veselin Topalov
2761
Ding Liren
2755
  Viswanathan Anand
2770
Wesley So
2771
  Anish Giri
2769
Round Five - Wednesday, August 9, 1pm
Name
Rtg
Res.
Name
Rtg
Anish Giri
2769
  Levon Aronian
2784
Viswanathan Anand
2770
  Wesley So
2771
Veselin Topalov
2761
  Ding Liren
2755
Peter Svidler
2751
  Hikaru Nakamura
2791
Fabiano Caruana
2807
  M. Vachier-Lagrave
2819
Round Six - Friday, August 11, 1pm
Name
Rtg
Res.
Name
Rtg
Levon Aronian 2771   M. Vachier-Lagrave
2819
Hikaru Nakamura 2731   Fabiano Caruana
2807
Ding Liren 2793   Peter Svidler
2751
Wesley So 2779   Veselin Topalov
2761
Anish Giri 2765   Viswanathan Anand
2770
Round Seven - Saturday, August 12, 1pm
Name
Rtg
Res.
Name
Rtg
Viswanathan Anand
2770
  Levon Aronian
2784
Veselin Topalov
2761
  Anish Giri
2769
Peter Svidler
2751
  Wesley So
2771
Fabiano Caruana
2807
  Ding Liren
2755
M. Vachier-Lagrave
2819
  Hikaru Nakamura
2791
Round Eight - Sunday, August, 13, 1pm
Name
Rtg
Res.
Name
Rtg
Levon Aronian
2784
  Hikaru Nakamura
2791
Ding Liren
2755
  M. Vachier-Lagrave
2819
Wesley So
2771
  Fabiano Caruana
2807
Anish Giri
2769
  Peter Svidler
2751
Viswanathan Anand
2770
  Veselin Topalov
2761
Round Nine - Monday, August 14, 1pm
Name
Rtg
Res.
Name
Rtg
Veselin Topalov
2761
  Levon Aronian
2784
Peter Svidler
2751
  Viswanathan Anand
2770
Fabiano Caruana
2807
  Anish Giri
2769
M. Vachier-Lagrave
2819
  Wesley So
2771
Hikaru Nakamura
2791
  Ding Liren
2755

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