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The Alekhine Memorial is taking place from April 20th to May 1st 2013. The first part of the event takes place in Paris, France, (April 21-26, rounds one to five), the second in Saint Petersburg, Russia, (April, 26-May 1, rounds six to nine). The super tournament is dedicated to a great Russian chess player Alexander Alexandrovich Alekhine, a citizen of Russia and France, and is held at the initiative and with the support of Russian businessmen Gennady Timchenko and Andrey Filatov. Ten grandmasters from seven countries are playing in the Memorial starts with with five rounds in the Louvre Museum in Paris and ends with four rounds in Saint Michael’s Castle in Saint-Petersburg.
The excitement in Paris was turned down a notch as the players settled down somewhat and had more peaceful games. However, some of the ones that ended in peace were as wild as the games we have been seeing in previous rounds.
Round 03 – April 23 2013, 14:00h | ||||
Ding Liren | 2707 |
½-½
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Laurent Fressinet | 2706 |
Vladimir Kramnik | 2801 |
½-½
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Maxime Vachier-Lagrave | 2722 |
Viswanathan Anand | 2783 |
½-½
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Levon Aronian | 2809 |
Peter Svidler | 2747 |
½-½
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Nikita Vitiugov | 2712 |
Boris Gelfand | 2739 |
1-0
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Michael Adams | 2727 |
Anand, Vishy – Aronian, Levon ½-½
As has been the norm this year, White fought the Spanish with an early d3
system. Aronian proved again that such systems don’t really give White
any chance to fight for a strong advantage from the opening, and after many
quick trades the game was drawn in a lifeless position.
Ding Liren – Fressinet, Laurent ½-½
A very wild game ended in a disappointing result. Fressinet was relentless
with his pawn grabbing, and although it seemed that his position was always
on the verge of collapse, it never actually fell apart. Ding kept putting
up pressure, but at no point did he have a break-through. In the final position,
Fressinet had the option of repeating again for a three-fold repetition or
looking to get out of it with the move 30… Kc7! The variations are rather wild, and Fressinet would have had to find some very interesting variations which included him sacrificing his bishop with check just to deflect the White queen, but the resources were certainly there.
Laurent Fressinet and Ding Liren analyse in the press conference after their game
Svidler, Peter – Vitiugov, Nikita ½-½
Vitiugov’s poisoned pawn Winawer always promises fun games.
Here Svidler castled very early on the queenside. This gave Vitiugov an obvious path for attack as the half open c-file provided many strong targets
to compensate for the missing pawn. After some tactical blows Black was forced to
sacrifice a rook, but he was on time to deliver a perpetual and seal the
draw.
Nikita Vitiugov and Peter Svidler analysing
Kramnik, Vladimir – Vachier Lagraeve, Maxim ½-½
Kramnik continues with his somewhat unambitious setups with White.
Vachier Lagraeve, or MVL as he likes to be referred as, was prepared and
he valiantly sacrificed a pawn early in the game to obtain good piece placement
and pressure on the a-file. Kramnik managed to consolidate his pawn, but
Black’s position was still active. Eventually a strange rook endgame
was drawn, in which although White had a passed pawn and his rook was powerfully
placed behind it, there was simply no way to make progress.
Gelfand, Boris – Adams, Michael 1-0
Black’s unorthodox way of handling the Queen’s Gambit Declined
structure landed him in a very passive, though solid, position. The resulting endgame in which White had a knight and a rook against a bishop and a rook
was favorable to the White side only because of his piece activity, however
it seems that was enough to cause the tournament leader some serious problems.
A mistake with the move 24... Kg7? allowed Gelfand to swoop a pawn with
a simple combination, and from then on Gelfand started torturing Adams.
Eventually the Englishman broke down and committed further mistakes which
gave Gelfand the full point.
An illustious GM crowd watching the games:
Anatoly Vaisser (France),
Vladimir Tukmakov (Ukraine), Genna Sosonko and Jan Timman (both Holland)
Alekhine's grave at the Cimetière de Montparnasse in Paris. Jeff Sonas has pointed out that the placement of the glass vases on d2, b3, f3, c5, e6, and g5 represent a mini knight’s tour. Clearly a chess fan at work there.
Summary by GM Alejandro Ramirez, pictures by Boris Dolmatovsky
Select games from the dropdown menu above the board
You can watch live video of the games, with GM commentary in English, in the above player. Video streams of past rounds can be reviewed on this page. Information and videos provided by Mark Gluhovsky, press attaché of the Alekhine Memorial.
New in Chess editor Dirk Jan Ten Geuzendam and Jan Timman doing English commentary
Ilya Smirin and Alexander Grischuk discussing the games in Russian
Swiss GM Yannick Pelletier analysing with Ukrainian GM Kateryna Lahno
Round 01 – April 21 2013, 14:00h | ||||
Maxime Vachier-Lagrave | 2706 |
½-½
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Laurent Fressinet | 2709 |
Ding Liren | 2707 |
1-0
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Levon Aronian | 2809 |
Vladimir Kramnik | 2801 |
1-0
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Nikita Vitiugov | 2712 |
Viswanathan Anand | 2783 |
0-1
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Michael Adams | 2727 |
Peter Svidler | 2747 |
½-½
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Boris Gelfand | 2739 |
Round 02 – April 22 2013, 14:00h | ||||
Laurent Fressinet | 2706 |
½-½
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Boris Gelfand | 2739 |
Michael Adams | 2727 |
1-0
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Peter Svidler | 2747 |
Nikita Vitiugov | 2712 |
½-½
|
Viswanathan Anand | 2783 |
Levon Aronian | 2809 |
1-0
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Vladimir Kramnik | 2801 |
Maxime Vachier-Lagrave | 2722 |
1-0
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Ding Liren | 2707 |
Round 03 – April 23 2013, 14:00h | ||||
Ding Liren | 2707 |
½-½
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Laurent Fressinet | 2706 |
Vladimir Kramnik | 2801 |
½-½
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Maxime Vachier-Lagrave | 2722 |
Viswanathan Anand | 2783 |
½-½
|
Levon Aronian | 2809 |
Peter Svidler | 2747 |
½-½
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Nikita Vitiugov | 2712 |
Boris Gelfand | 2739 |
1-0
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Michael Adams | 2727 |
Round 04 – April 24 2013, 14:00h | ||||
Laurent Fressinet | 2706 |
-
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Michael Adams | 2727 |
Nikita Vitiugov | 2712 |
-
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Boris Gelfand | 2739 |
Levon Aronian | 2809 |
-
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Peter Svidler | 2747 |
Maxime Vachier-Lagrave | 2722 |
-
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Viswanathan Anand | 2783 |
Ding Liren | 2707 |
-
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Vladimir Kramnik | 2801 |
Round 05 – April 25 2013, 14:00h | ||||
Vladimir Kramnik | 2801 |
-
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Laurent Fressinet | 2706 |
Viswanathan Anand | 2783 |
-
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Ding Liren | 2707 |
Peter Svidler | 2747 |
-
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Maxime Vachier-Lagrave | 2722 |
Boris Gelfand | 2739 |
-
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Levon Aronian | 2809 |
Michael Adams | 2727 |
-
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Nikita Vitiugov | 2712 |
Round 06 – April 28 2013, 14:00h | ||||
Laurent Fressinet | 2706 |
-
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Nikita Vitiugov | 2712 |
Levon Aronian | 2809 |
-
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Michael Adams | 2727 |
Maxime Vachier-Lagrave | 2722 |
-
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Boris Gelfand | 2739 |
Ding Liren | 2707 |
-
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Peter Svidler | 2747 |
Vladimir Kramnik | 2801 |
-
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Viswanathan Anand | 2783 |
Round 07 – April 29 2013, 14:00h | ||||
Viswanathan Anand | 2783 |
-
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Laurent Fressinet | 2706 |
Peter Svidler | 2747 |
-
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Vladimir Kramnik | 2801 |
Boris Gelfand | 2739 |
-
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Ding Liren | 2707 |
Michael Adams | 2727 |
-
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Maxime Vachier-Lagrave | 2722 |
Nikita Vitiugov | 2712 |
-
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Levon Aronian | 2809 |
Round 08 – April 30 2013, 14:00h | ||||
Laurent Fressinet | 2706 |
-
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Levon Aronian | 2809 |
Maxime Vachier-Lagrave | 2722 |
-
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Nikita Vitiugov | 2712 |
Ding Liren | 2707 |
-
|
Michael Adams | 2727 |
Vladimir Kramnik | 2801 |
-
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Boris Gelfand | 2739 |
Viswanathan Anand | 2783 |
-
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Peter Svidler | 2747 |
Round 09 – May 01 2013, 14:00h | ||||
Peter Svidler | 2747 |
-
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Laurent Fressinet | 2706 |
Boris Gelfand | 2739 |
-
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Viswanathan Anand | 2783 |
Michael Adams | 2727 |
-
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Vladimir Kramnik | 2801 |
Nikita Vitiugov | 2712 |
-
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Ding Liren | 2707 |
Levon Aronian | 2809 |
-
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Maxime Vachier-Lagrave | 2722 |
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