Biel, Round 3: Keymer loses against Gelfand

by André Schulz
7/30/2021 – Three years ago Vincent Keymer defeated Boris Gelfand at the Isle of Man Open in a sensational game. In round 3 of the Grandmaster Tournament in Biel Gelfand, Vice World Champion 2012, now took a form of revenge and outplayed the young German Grandmaster. In the second decisive game of the round Noel Studer won against Maxime Lagarde. | Photos: Biel Chess Festival
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Kirill Alekseenko and Gata Kamsky drew as did Alan Pichot and Nihal Sarin.

Vincent Keymer had to play with Black against Gelfand and in a Catalan he quickly came under pressure.

Gelfand,B (2675) - Keymer,Vincent (2591) E10

54th Biel GM 2021 Biel SUI (3), 29.07.2021

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 d5 4.g3 Bb4+ 5.Bd2 Be7 6.Bg2 0–0 7.Qc2 c6 8.Nc3 dxc4 9.0–0 Nbd7 10.Ne4 Here White often played 10.e4 b5 11.e5 Nd5 but this did not pose Black too many problems.

10...Nxe4 11.Qxe4 Nf6 12.Qc2 b5 13.b3 Bb7 Or 13...cxb3 14.axb3 Bb7 15.Ba5 with good play for the pawn.

14.bxc4 c5 14...a6 15.c5 and the bishop on b7 does not lead a happy life.

15.cxb5 15.dxc5 bxc4 16.Qxc4 Bd5 17.Qc2 Rc8 with counterplay.

15...cxd4 16.Rfd1

 

16... Qb6?! Better was 16...a6 17.a4 axb5 18.axb5 Qb6=

17.a4 Ne4 18.Qd3 Bf6? Now Black gets into trouble.

18...Nc3!? offered better chances to equalize, e.g. 19.Ne5!? (19.Rdc1 Be4 20.Qc4 Rac8 21.Qb3 Nxe2+) 19...Nxd1 20.Nd7 Nb2 21.Qb1 Qc7 22.Nxf8 Rxf8 23.Qxb2 Bxg2 24.Kxg2

19.a5 Qc5 20.Nh4 Nd6 21.Rdc1 Qh5 22.Bb4 Bxg2 23.Bxd6 Rfd8 24.Bc7 Bd5 25.Bxd8 Rxd8 26.Ng2 Qe5 Black is an exchange down and has a lost endgame.

 

27.b6 axb6 28.axb6 g5 29.Ra5 Qd6 30.Rb1 Qc6 31.Ne1 Rb8 32.Qb5 Qc3 33.Ra7 Bc6 34.Qb4 Be4 35.Rc7 Qxb4 36.Rxb4 Be5 37.Nd3 Bd6 38.Nc5 Bd5 39.Na6 Rf8 40.Rb2 Kg7 41.Rd7 Be5 42.Rb5 Ra8 43.Ra7 Rc8 44.Nc7 1–0

Live commentary of round 3

Overall standings

Rank Name Games Classical Rapid Blitz Total
1 GM Gata Kamsky 10 7 11 0 18
2 GM Kirill Alekseenko 10 7 8 0 15
3 GM Sarin Nihal 10 3 10 0 13
4 GM Maxime Lagarde 10 3 9 0 12
  GM Alan Pichot 10 7 5 0 12
6 GM Boris Gelfand 10 5½ 4 0 9½
7 GM Vincent Keymer 10 3 6 0 9
8 GM Noel Studer 10 5½ 3 0 8½

A win in the classical tournaments counts 4 points, a draw counts 1.5 points.

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MTO Master Open

In the MTO Master Open the top encounter between the two leaders Salem Saleh and Surya Ganguly ended with a draw. The pursuers Pavel Eljanov and Dennis Wagner also draw their game. Of the top 20 in the table eleven players come from India.

Table MTO Master Open

Rk. Name Pts.  TB1 
1 Saleh Salem A.R. 3,5 8,5
2 Fedorchuk Sergey 3,5 8,0
3 Ganguly Surya Shekhar 3,5 8,0
4 Murali Karthikeyan 3,5 7,5
5 R Praggnanandhaa 3,5 7,5
6 Eljanov Pavel 3,0 9,0
7 Raja Harshit 3,0 9,0
8 Banusz Tamas 3,0 8,0
9 Wagner Dennis 3,0 8,0
10 Narayanan S.L. 3,0 8,0
11 Yuffa Daniil 3,0 7,5
12 Sethuraman S.P. 3,0 6,5
13 Erdos Viktor 3,0 6,0
14 Sadhwani Raunak 3,0 5,5
15 Chithambaram Aravindh 2,5 9,5
16 Kalyan Arjun 2,5 9,0
17 Valsecchi Alessio 2,5 9,0
18 Vaishali R 2,5 8,5
19 Puranik Abhimanyu 2,5 8,0
20 Dragnev Valentin 2,5 8,0

73 players

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1.c4 e6 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.g3 b6 4.Bg2 Bb7 5.0-0 Be7 6.d4 0-0 7.Re1 Qc8 8.Nc3 Ne4 9.Bd2 c5 10.d5 exd5 11.cxd5 Nxd2 12.Nxd2 d6 13.e4 Nd7 14.f4 c4 15.Kh1 a6 16.Rc1 b5 17.b4 Bf6 18.a4 Bxc3 19.Rxc3 Qc7 20.g4 Rae8 21.a5 g5 22.fxg5 Ne5 23.Rf1 Qe7 24.Rf5 f6 25.gxf6 Rxf6 26.Rg3 Nd3 27.Qa1 Ref8 28.Bf1 Ne5 29.Be2 Bc8 30.Qd4 R6f7 31.Rxf7 Rxf7 32.Qe3 Ng6 33.Nf3 Rf4 34.Nd2 Qe5 35.h3 Qa1+ 36.Rg1 Qe5 37.Rc1 Bb7 38.Rc3 Kg7 39.Kg1 Ne7 40.Bf1 Bxd5 41.exd5 Nxd5 42.Qxe5+ dxe5 43.Rc1 Nxb4 44.Nxc4 bxc4 45.Bxc4 Rf6 46.Rb1 Nc6 47.Rb7+ Kg6 48.Bd3+ Kg5 49.Rxh7 Kf4 50.Kg2 e4 51.Bxa6 Nxa5 52.Bb5 Nb3 53.Rd7 Nc5 54.Rd5 Ne6 55.Bc4 Ng5 56.Be2 Ne6 57.Bc4 Ng5 58.Be2 Ne6 59.Bd1 Ke3 60.Rf5 Rxf5 61.gxf5 Nd4 62.f6 Ne6 63.Bg4 Nf8 64.Kg3 Kd4 65.Kf4 e3 66.f7 Kd5 67.Kf5 Kd4 68.Kf6 1–0
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WhiteEloWBlackEloBResYearECOEventRnd
Salem Saleh2682Noaman Omar23671–02021E17MTO1.101
Donchenko Alexander2652Tahay Alexis2349½–½2021A34MTO1.103
J Sai Agni Jeevitesh2322Sethuraman S.P.26440–12021E04MTO1.104
Chithambaram Aravindh2641Dordzhieva Dinara23111–02021D27MTO1.105
Fecker Noah2309Banusz Tamas26310–12021C84MTO1.106
Chigaev Maksim2630Stelmaszyk Nico22961–02021D33MTO1.107
Löffler Markus2295Ganguly Surya Shekhar26250–12021C18MTO1.108
Narayanan S.L.2624Kamber Bruno22751–02021E11MTO1.109
Ammar Sedrani2274Erdos Viktor2614½–½2021A45MTO1.110
R Praggnanandhaa2608Wacker Peter22631–02021A01MTO1.111
Eric Jovana2250Murali Karthikeyan26060–12021B51MTO1.112
Fedorchuk Sergey2598Blagojevic Tijana22221–02021C50MTO1.113
Pahud Cédric2200Puranik Abhimanyu25890–12021C47MTO1.114
Gukesh Dommaraju2578Al Hosani Omran21971–02021D00MTO1.115
Salzgeber Frank2183Yuffa Daniil25780–12021E94MTO1.116
Wagner Dennis2572Doluhanova Evgeniya21791–02021C67MTO1.117
Gueci Tea2179Dragnev Valentin25690–12021B51MTO1.118
Erigaisi Arjun2567Rakhmangulova Anastasiya21671–02021E74MTO1.119
Zimmermann Luc2151Sadhwani Raunak25550–12021C28MTO1.120
Korpa Bence2536Ferster Fabian21431–02021D03MTO1.121
Schweizer Simon2142Kantor Gergely25271–02021C26MTO1.122
Valsecchi Alessio2527Borner Daniel21331–02021E73MTO1.123
Giacomini Hector2104Tang Andrew25250–12021E14MTO1.124
NR Visakh2516Schmid Christoph20911–02021D37MTO1.125
Paladini Jean-Michel2084Shchekachev Andrei25150–12021A37MTO1.126
Budisavljevic Luka2509Kornitzky Tino20831–02021D36MTO1.127
Gomez Barrera Javiera Belen2083Kalyan Arjun25030–12021B56MTO1.128
Raja Harshit2484Sultan Ibrahim20761–02021C11MTO1.129
Vasquez Toledo Cristian2064NR Vignesh24280–12021B90MTO1.130
Papadiamandis Elliot-Eljanov Pavel-0–12021B15MTO1.102
Erigaisi Arjun2567Salem Saleh26820–12021B12MTO2.101
Eljanov Pavel2671Korpa Bence25361–02021E18MTO2.102
Sethuraman S.P.2644Valsecchi Alessio25270–12021C11MTO2.103
Sadhwani Raunak2555Chithambaram Aravindh26410–12021C54MTO2.104
Banusz Tamas2631NR Visakh25161–02021D02MTO2.105
Tang Andrew2525Chigaev Maksim2630½–½2021A48MTO2.106
Ganguly Surya Shekhar2625Budisavljevic Luka25091–02021B40MTO2.107
Shchekachev Andrei2515Narayanan S.L.26240–12021A06MTO2.108
Kalyan Arjun2503R Praggnanandhaa2608½–½2021B33MTO2.109
Murali Karthikeyan2606Raja Harshit2484½–½2021E44MTO2.110
NR Vignesh2428Fedorchuk Sergey25980–12021E32MTO2.111
Puranik Abhimanyu2589Gschnitzer Adrian24201–02021B11MTO2.112
Vaishali R2393Gukesh Dommaraju25781–02021B31MTO2.113
Yuffa Daniil2578Haimovich Tal23881–02021D11MTO2.114
Schweizer Simon2142Wagner Dennis25720–12021C54MTO2.115
Dragnev Valentin2569Mayrhuber Nikola20621–02021D02MTO2.116
Seul Georg2372Donchenko Alexander26521–02021C24MTO2.117
Erdos Viktor2614Ohler Julius20141–02021B11MTO2.118
Bänziger Fabian2392Ammar Sedrani22741–02021E09MTO2.119
Tahay Alexis2349Dornieden Jonas20011–02021B31MTO2.120
Kantor Gergely2527Doluhanova Evgeniya21791–02021E16MTO2.121
Unuk Laura2407Gueci Tea2179½–½2021D34MTO2.122
Ferster Fabian2143Papadiamandis Elliot23630–12021A29MTO2.124
Borner Daniel2133J Sai Agni Jeevitesh23220–12021C00MTO2.125
Dordzhieva Dinara2311Zimmermann Luc2151½–½2021D76MTO2.126
Schmid Christoph2091Fecker Noah2309½–½2021A58MTO2.127
Stelmaszyk Nico2296Giacomini Hector21041–02021B14MTO2.128
Kornitzky Tino2083Löffler Markus22951–02021D85MTO2.129
Kamber Bruno2275Paladini Jean-Michel20841–02021B90MTO2.130
Noaman Omar2367Rakhmangulova Anastasiya21670–12021E71MTO2.123
Salem Saleh2682Puranik Abhimanyu25891–02021D87MTO3.101
Fedorchuk Sergey2598Eljanov Pavel2671½–½2021C92MTO3.102
Chithambaram Aravindh2641Yuffa Daniil2578½–½2021D16MTO3.103
Wagner Dennis2572Banusz Tamas2631½–½2021C42MTO3.104
Valsecchi Alessio2527Ganguly Surya Shekhar26250–12021A18MTO3.105
Narayanan S.L.2624Dragnev Valentin2569½–½2021D87MTO3.106
Chigaev Maksim2630Vaishali R2393½–½2021A21MTO3.107
Kalyan Arjun2503Erdos Viktor2614½–½2021C54MTO3.108
R Praggnanandhaa2608Bänziger Fabian23921–02021B23MTO3.109
Seul Georg2372Murali Karthikeyan26060–12021B30MTO3.110
Raja Harshit2484Tang Andrew25251–02021E04MTO3.111
Sethuraman S.P.2644Tahay Alexis23491–02021B90MTO3.112
Gukesh Dommaraju2578Stelmaszyk Nico2296½–½2021D02MTO3.113
Pahud Cédric2200Erigaisi Arjun25670–12021B07MTO3.114
Rakhmangulova Anastasiya2167Sadhwani Raunak25550–12021C26MTO3.115
Korpa Bence2536Kamber Bruno22751–02021A47MTO3.116
Gomez Barrera Javiera Belen2083Kantor Gergely2527½–½2021C55MTO3.117
NR Visakh2516Blagojevic Tijana22221–02021C54MTO3.118
Mayrhuber Nikola2062Shchekachev Andrei2515½–½2021E94MTO3.119
Budisavljevic Luka2509Al Hosani Omran2197½–½2021A48MTO3.120
Küng Nicolas2005NR Vignesh24280–12021E32MTO3.121
Gschnitzer Adrian2420Schweizer Simon21421–02021E20MTO3.122
Haimovich Tal2388Kornitzky Tino20831–02021C93MTO3.123
Papadiamandis Elliot2363Sultan Ibrahim20761–02021C07MTO3.124
J Sai Agni Jeevitesh2322Manukonda Arun20331–02021E14MTO3.125
Donchenko Alexander2652Gueci Tea21791–02021B30MTO3.126
Zimmermann Luc2151Unuk Laura24070–12021B15MTO3.127
Ohler Julius2014Dordzhieva Dinara23110–12021D27MTO3.128
Fecker Noah2309Dornieden Jonas20011–02021B33MTO3.129
Ammar Sedrani2274Schmid Christoph20911–02021D00MTO3.130

 

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