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ROMGAZ and the Chess Club Society "Elisabeta Polihroniade” of Bucharest are staging a double round robin tournament with six of the world's top GMs: the young Teimour Radjabov (Azerbaidjan, Elo 2756, ranking 5th in the world), the experienced Vassily Ivanchuk (Ukraine, Elo 2746, 12th in the world), Alexei Shirov (Spain, Elo 2745, 13th), Boris Gelfand (Israel, Elo 2733, 15th), Gata Kamsky (USA, Elo 2720, 24th), as well as the best ever rated Romanian chess player Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu (Elo 2675, 55th in the world), 2005 European Champion. The competition is taking place from June 14th to 25th 2009 in Bazna, Romania.
Round 5: Thursday, June 18, 2009 |
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Teimour Radjabov |
½-½ |
Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu |
Alexei Shirov |
0-1 |
Boris Gelfand |
Gata Kamsky |
0-1 |
Vassily Ivanchuk |
Teimour Radjabov, Azerbaijan, vs Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu in round five
Nisipeanu with the Black pieces against Radjabov played the relatively rare Scandinavian Defense. “His opening choice was a surprise for me. Then I missed Black’s transfer of the queen to a6, after which I could find nothing for White” (Radjabov). The game soon transposed into an equal endgame and even the 30-moves rule couldn’t prevent the players to agree to a draw on move 26 in a completely equal position (with arbiter’s permission, of course).
Alexei Shirov vs Boris Gelfand
Shirov-Gelfand saw a Queen’s Indian, where White spent a lot of time in the opening. Then in the middlegame Shirov blundered a pawn by missing a small tactical trick. “Surprisingly it was quite an easy game. After I won the pawn, considering his upcoming time-trouble the win for me was just a matter of technique ” (Gelfand).
America vs Ukraine: Gata Kamsky vs Vassily Ivanchuk
In Kamsky-Ivanchuk the players reached a standard position of the Sicilian Scheveningen. On move 15 Kamsky started to think and produced a move, which was characterized by Ivanchuk “very strange, looking like an obvious blunder”. Ivanchuk immediately used the tactical drawbacks of 15.Bc4 and Black achieved a pleasant advantage. Then Kamsky started to play very imaginatively, finding every chance in the position. Black needed to play very accurately to keep the advantage. Then in severe time trouble Kamsky blundered again and the game was immediately over.
Radjabov,Teimour - Nisipeanu,Liviu Dieter [B01]
Kings' Tournament Bazna ROM (5), 18.06.2009
1.e4 d5 2.exd5 Qxd5 3.Nc3 Qd6
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Black has completed development and the position became completely equal. 17.Re1 Rhe8 18.Nf4 e6 19.h3 h5 20.Be3 Nd5 21.Nxd5 exd5 22.Bd2 Rxe1+ 23.Rxe1 Kd7 24.b4 Re8 25.Rxe8 Kxe8 26.Bf1 draw. . [Click to replay]
1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 b6 4.g3 Ba6 5.Qb3. Alexey used to play 5.Qc2 here. Possibly he wanted to surprise his opponent, but soon he started to invest a lot of time in his opening moves. 5...Nc6 6.Nbd2 Na5 7.Qc3 c5 8.dxc5 bxc5 9.e4 Bb7 10.e5 Ne4 11.Nxe4 Bxe4 12.Bg2 Nc6 13.0-0 Rb8
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White is a pawn down and the presence of the opposite-coloured bishops make things even worse for Shirov. There is nothing White can do against Black's simple plan to advance the central pawns. 23.Qd3 f5 24.g4 g6 25.gxf5 gxf5 26.b4 Qc6. 26...Rxb4 would be a bad mistake in view of 27.Rxb4 Qxb4 28.Qg3+ Kh8 29.Qxe5+ Bf6 30.Qxf5 and White will hold the position. 27.b5 Qb6 28.Qg3+ Qg6 29.Bh5 Qxg3+ 30.hxg3 Bc5 31.Kg2 e4 32.Rh1 d3 33.Bd1 f4 34.Rh5 f3+ 35.Kf1 d6 36.Bb3 Rbe8 37.Re1 d2 38.Rd1 Bxf2 39.Rxd2 [or 39.Kxf2 e3+ and Black queens.] 39...Bc5 40.Bc2 Re7 0-1. . [Click to replay]
Kamsky,Gata - Ivanchuk,Vassily [B90]
Kings' Tournament Bazna ROM (5), 18.06.2009
1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 a6 6.Be3 e6 7.a4 Nc6 8.Be2 Be7 9.0-0 0-0 10.f4 Qc7 11.Kh1 Re8 12.Qd2 Bd7 13.Rad1 Nxd4 14.Qxd4 Bc6
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0-1. [Click to replay]
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