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8th round on 15 February 2013
at 15:00
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Fridman Daniel | 2667 |
½-½
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Adams Michael | 2725 |
Naiditsch Arkadij | 2716 |
0-1
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Caruana Fabiano | 2757 |
Anand Vishy | 2780 |
½-½
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Meier Georg | 2640 |
Daniel Fridman had suffered two tough losses in rounds 6 and 7 and clearly had few Napoleonic plans for his game against Adams. Until move 12 they were following the game Gawain Jones played against Adams on top board in Round 4 of the recent tournament in Gibraltar. Jones tweeted, “Fridman using an old line against the Nimzo that I played against Mickey in Gibraltar. I managed an edge so Mickey deviated with 12...Qe5”. In that earlier game Adams had castled queenside immediately and ended up worse, though he eventually drew. The most curious moment of today’s game came on move 14.
World Champion Viswanathan Anand was downhearted in today’s post-game press conference, lamenting that he’d “blown his game” and spoiled an ending that “must be technically winning, somehow”. In the end he’d been the one who had to find only moves to force a perpetual in a pawn race he described as “a mess – I had no idea what was going on”. It had all started off very differently. Meier’s pet 7…Nd5 line in the Rubinstein French had been dealt a powerful blow in his first round game against Caruana (GM Dmitry Kryakvin wrote a fine article about that in Russian for the Russian Chess Federation website), so he varied today with 7…Bd6. The opening seemed to go fine for the German except that the World Champion was obviously well-prepared.
Not for the first time here in Baden-Baden it was Arkadij Naiditsch who ensured the spectators wouldn’t be deprived of spectacular attacking chess, though Fabiano Caruana is fast becoming his nemesis. First Naiditsch only managed to draw an overwhelming position against the Italian in last year’s Dortmund tournament, and now Caruana has twice actually won when all the odds have been stacked against him.
So with only two rounds to go Fabiano Caruana now leads World Champion Viswanathan Anand by a full point. Anand will have to go all out to beat Fridman in Saturday’s Round 9 and hope that Caruana can’t beat Adams.
Report by Colin McGourty, photos Georgios Souleidis, videos Macauley Peterson
1st round on 07 February 2013
at 15:00
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Naiditsch Arkadij | 2716 |
½-½
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Fridman Daniel | 2667 |
Adams Michael | 2725 |
½-½
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Anand Vishy | 2780 |
Caruana Fabiano | 2757 |
1-0
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Meier Georg | 2640 |
2nd round on 08 February 2013
at 15:00
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Fridman Daniel | 2667 |
½-½
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Meier Georg | 2640 |
Anand Vishy | 2780 |
½-½
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Caruana Fabiano | 2757 |
Naiditsch Arkadij | 2716 |
1-0
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Adams Michael | 2725 |
3rd round on 09 February 2013
at 15:00
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Adams Michael | 2725 |
½-½
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Fridman Daniel | 2667 |
Caruana Fabiano | 2757 |
1-0
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Naiditsch Arkadij | 2716 |
Meier Georg | 2640 |
½-½
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Anand Vishy | 2780 |
4th round on 10 February 2013
at 15:00
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Fridman Daniel | 2667 |
½-½
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Anand Vishy | 2780 |
Naiditsch Arkadij | 2716 |
1-0
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Meier Georg | 2640 |
Adams Michael | 2725 |
½-½
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Caruana Fabiano | 2757 |
5th round on 11 February 2013
at 15:00
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Caruana Fabiano | 2757 |
½-½
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Fridman Daniel | 2667 |
Meier Georg | 2640 |
½-½
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Adams Michael | 2725 |
Anand Vishy | 2780 |
1-0
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Naiditsch Arkadij | 2716 |
6th round on 13 February 2013
at 15:00
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Fridman Daniel | 2667 |
0-1
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Naiditsch Arkadij | 2716 |
Anand Vishy | 2780 |
½-½
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Adams Michael | 2725 |
Meier Georg | 2640 |
½-½
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Caruana Fabiano | 2757 |
7th round on 14 February 2013
at 15:00
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Meier Georg | 2640 |
1-0
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Fridman Daniel | 2667 |
Caruana Fabiano | 2757 |
½-½
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Anand Vishy | 2780 |
Adams Michael | 2725 |
½-½
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Naiditsch Arkadij | 2716 |
8th round on 15 February 2013
at 15:00
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Fridman Daniel | 2667 |
½-½
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Adams Michael | 2725 |
Naiditsch Arkadij | 2716 |
0-1
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Caruana Fabiano | 2757 |
Anand Vishy | 2780 |
½-½
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Meier Georg | 2640 |
9th round on 16 February 2013
at 15:00
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Anand Vishy | 2780 | Fridman Daniel | 2667 | |
Meier Georg | 2640 | Naiditsch Arkadij | 2716 | |
Caruana Fabiano | 2757 | Adams Michael | 2725 | |
10th round on 17 February
2013 at 13:00
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Fridman Daniel | 2667 | Caruana Fabiano | 2757 | |
Adams Michael | 2725 | Meier Georg | 2640 | |
Naiditsch Arkadij | 2716 | Anand Vishy | 2780 |
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