Biel, Round 4: Kamsky and Gelfand draw

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7/31/2021 – Two legends met yesterday at the Biel Chess Festival: Gata Kamsky and Boris Gelfand, both former World Championship runners-up and World Cup winners. With a draw, Kamsky defended his lead in the overall standings. Frenchman Maxime Lagarde is the new runner-up, as the Frenchman defeated Kirill Alekseenko in round 4. | Photos: Official site

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Kamsky leads the main event

Two legends met yesterday at the Biel Chess Festival: Gata Kamsky and Boris Gelfand, both former World Championship runners-up and World Cup winners. With a draw, Kamsky defended his lead in the tournament ranking. The new first chaser is the Frenchman Lagarde, who overtook Alekseenko with a win. Keymer was also victorious, as the German defeated the Argentine Pichot. Noël Studer and Nihal Sarin drew.

Yesterday in Biel, there was a replay of the semi-final of the 2011 Candidates’ Tournament: Boris Gelfand had then beaten Gata Kamsky in the tie-break blitz, before beating Grischuk in the final, thus qualifying to challenge, in 2012, the then reigning world champion Viswanathan Anand. While Kamsky was unable to exact revenge today, he should not be unhappy with a draw that puts him in the 3½ points ahead of the runner-up in the overall standings.

Biel Chess Festival 2021

The playing hall

Frenchman Maxime Lagarde is the new runner-up behind Kamsky. Lagarde won the direct duel with Kamsky’s previous rival, Kirill Alekseenko, as the Russian, who was better at times, made decisive mistakes in time trouble. Like Lagarde, Vincent Keymer also won his first classical game in round 4. Against Alan Pichot, he managed to steadily build up his position and then safely convert it into a win.

Vincent Keymer

Vincent Keymer

After his opening defeat, Nihal Sarin drew for the third time in a row on Friday. Inspired by his victory in the previous round, Noël Studer, playing with white, got a good position, but the Indian managed to hold the draw.

Overall standings

Rank

Name

Country

Games

Classic

Rapid

Blitz

TOTAL

1

GM Gata Kamsky

USA

11

11

 

19½

2

GM Maxime Lagarde

FRA

11

7

9

 

16

3

GM Kirill Alekseenko

RUS

11

7

8

 

15

4

GM Nihal Sarin

IND

11

10

 

14½

5

GM Vincent Keymer

GER

11

7

6

 

13

6

GM Alan Pichot

ARG

11

7

5

 

12

7

GM Boris Gelfand

ISR

11

7

4

 

11

8

GM Noël Studer

SUI

11

7

3

 

10

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1.b3 24 e5 44 2.Bb2 6 d6 15 3.c4 1:19 Nf6 1:30 4.e3 5:22 g6 46 5.d4 6:51 exd4 14 6.Qxd4 7:39 Bg7 16 7.Nf3 6 0-0 10 8.Be2 31 Re8 2:55 9.0-0 1:16 Na6 7:01 10.Nc3 15:33 Nc5 22:46 11.Rad1 2:54 a5 6:13 12.Ba1 20:52 Bf5 11:41 13.Qd2 1:39 Qb8 10:20 14.Qc1 6:36 Qa7 6:53 15.Nd4 8:13 Bd7 1:41 16.Ndb5 53 Qb6 3:03 17.Bb2 5:13 Bxb5 20:54 18.cxb5 5:23 a4 1:02 19.b4 2:18 a3 4 20.bxc5 7:45 axb2 5 21.cxb6 3 bxc1Q 6 22.Rxc1 5 cxb6 50 23.Bf3 11 Re7 1:19 24.Rfd1 1:35 Rc7 2:09 25.Nd5 1:01 Nxd5 38 26.Bxd5 1 Rac8 52 27.Rxc7 40 Rxc7 2 28.Bb3 2:00 Bf8 3:42 29.g3 1:47 Rc5 1:00 30.a4 18 Be7 1:34 31.Bd5 2:33 Kf8 1:18 32.Bxb7 1:43 Rc4 3 33.Ra1 7 Bf6 44 34.Ra2 47 Bc3 1:33 35.Kg2 47 h5 2:11 36.Bd5 1:35 Rc5 15 37.Rc2 1:20 f5 1:12 38.f4 1:18 Ke7 40 39.Kf3 5 Kf6 34 40.e4 35 fxe4+ 34 41.Kxe4 50:47 Ba5 4:36 42.Re2 0 Rc1 41 43.Kf3 0 Rf1+ 12:12 44.Kg2 0 Re1 28 45.Rxe1 0 Bxe1 4 46.h4 0 Bb4 1:21 47.Kf3 0 Ba5 1:14 48.Ke2 0 Bb4 9 49.Be4 0 Ba5 1:15 50.Kf3 0 Bb4 25 51.Bc6 0 Ba5 1:04 52.Bd7 0 d5 4:50 53.Bc6 0 Ke6 1:30 54.g4 0 hxg4+ 4:47 55.Kxg4 0 Kf6 1:54 56.Bxd5 0 Bb4 3:45 57.Be4 0 Bd2 4:47 58.Bc2 0 Be1 2:47 59.Bd3 0 Bd2 1:36 60.Bb1 0 Be1 12 61.Bc2 6:34 Bd2 15:23 62.Kf3 5 Kg7 9:18 63.f5 ½–½
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Nihal Sarin2620Lagarde,M2648½–½2021A0154th Biel GMT Classical 20217.3

Masters Tournament

The Master Tournament saw two top duels among 2600+ rated players: Karthikeyan Murali, playing with black, defeated top seed Salem Saleh to take the lead with 4½ points, while young Indian star Praggnanandhaa drew with his compatriot Surya Shekhar Ganguly, which means both have so far collected 4 points in the tournament. Also on 4 points after 5 rounds are Tamas Banusz from Hungary, Pavel Eljanov from Ukraine and Sethuraman S.P. from India.

Saturday is a rest day in the Masters Tournament.

Current standings - Top 20

Rk. Name Pts.  TB1 
1 Murali Karthikeyan 4,5 12,0
2 Ganguly Surya Shekhar 4,0 13,5
3 Eljanov Pavel 4,0 13,0
  Banusz Tamas 4,0 13,0
5 R Praggnanandhaa 4,0 13,0
6 Sethuraman S.P. 4,0 11,5
7 Saleh Salem A.R. 3,5 15,0
8 Fedorchuk Sergey 3,5 13,5
9 Wagner Dennis 3,5 13,5
10 Kalyan Arjun 3,5 13,0
11 Erdos Viktor 3,5 12,5
12 Chigaev Maksim 3,5 11,5
13 Narayanan S.L. 3,5 11,5
14 Tang Andrew 3,5 11,0
15 Erigaisi Arjun 3,5 11,0
16 Sadhwani Raunak 3,5 11,0
17 Gukesh Dommaraju 3,5 9,5
18 Kantor Gergely 3,5 9,0
19 Raja Harshit 3,0 16,0
20 Valsecchi Alessio 3,0 14,5

...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 7...Na6 is becoming the main line. 8.Nc3 E17: Queen's Indian: 4 g3 Bb7 5 Bg2 Be7. Ne4 9.Bd2 c5 10.d5 White is slightly better. exd5 11.cxd5
11...Bf6N      
Predecessor: 11...Nxd2 12.Qxd2 d6 13.e4 Nd7 14.Bh3 Qd8 15.Qf4 a6 16.Rad1 f6 17.Be6+ Kh8 18.Qe3 Ne5 ½-½ (18) Jurek,J (2387)-Voloshin,L (2494) Imperia 2004 12.Kh1??       12.Nxe4+- Qd8 13.Nxf6+ Qxf6 14.Bc3 12...g5??       13.g4??       13.Nxe4+- Be7 14.Bxg5 13...Kg7??       14.h3??       14.Nxe4+- d6 15.Nfxg5 Bxg5 16.Bxg5 14...Kg6??       15.Kg1? Weighted Error Value: White=2.37/Black=1.46 15.Nxe4 Re8 16.Nd6
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WhiteEloWBlackEloBResYearECOEventRnd
Salem,A2682Omar,N23671–02021E1754th Biel Festival MTO 20211.101
Donchenko,A2652Tahay,A2349½–½2021A3454th Biel Festival MTO 20211.103
Sai Agni Jeevitesh,J2322Sethuraman,S26440–12021E0454th Biel Festival MTO 20211.104
Aravindh,C2641Dordzhieva,D23111–0202154th Biel Festival MTO 20211.105
Fecker,N2309Banusz,T26310–12021C8454th Biel Festival MTO 20211.106
Chigaev,M2630Stelmaszyk,N22961–02021D3354th Biel Festival MTO 20211.107
Loeffler,M2295Ganguly,S26250–12021C1854th Biel Festival MTO 20211.108
Narayanan.S.L2624Kamber,B22751–02021E1154th Biel Festival MTO 20211.109
Praggnanandhaa R2608Wacker,P22631–02021A0154th Biel Festival MTO 20211.111
Fedorchuk,S2598Blagojevic,T22221–02021C5054th Biel Festival MTO 20211.113
Gukesh D2578Al Hosani,O21971–02021D0054th Biel Festival MTO 20211.115
Salzgeber,F2183Yuffa,D25780–1202154th Biel Festival MTO 20211.116
Wagner,D2572Doluhanova,E21791–02021C6754th Biel Festival MTO 20211.117
Erigaisi Arjun2567Rakhmangulova,A21671–02021E7454th Biel Festival MTO 20211.119
Korpa,B2536Ferster,F21431–02021D0354th Biel Festival MTO 20211.121
Schweizer,S2142Kantor,G25271–02021C2654th Biel Festival MTO 20211.122
Valsecchi,A2527Borner,D21331–02021E7354th Biel Festival MTO 20211.123
Giacomini,H2104Tang,A25250–12021E1454th Biel Festival MTO 20211.124
Visakh N R2516Schmid,C20911–0202154th Biel Festival MTO 20211.125
Paladini,J2084Shchekachev,A25151–02021A3754th Biel Festival MTO 20211.126
Gomez Barrera,J2083Arjun Kalyan25030–12021B5654th Biel Festival MTO 20211.128
Raja Harshit2484Sultan,I20761–02021C1154th Biel Festival MTO 20211.129
Vasquez Toledo,C2064Vignesh N R24280–12021B9054th Biel Festival MTO 20211.130
Fedorchuk,S2598Eljanov,P2671202154th Biel Festival MTO 20213.102
Narayanan.S.L2624Dragnev,V2569202154th Biel Festival MTO 20213.106
Arjun Kalyan2503Erdos,V2614202154th Biel Festival MTO 20213.108
Praggnanandhaa R2608Baenziger,F2392202154th Biel Festival MTO 20213.109
Seul,G2372Karthikeyan,M2606202154th Biel Festival MTO 20213.110
Gukesh D2578Stelmaszyk,N2296202154th Biel Festival MTO 20213.113
Pahud,C2200Erigaisi Arjun2567202154th Biel Festival MTO 20213.114
Rakhmangulova,A2167Sadhwani,R2555202154th Biel Festival MTO 20213.115
Korpa,B2536Kamber,B2275202154th Biel Festival MTO 20213.116
Gomez Barrera,J2083Kantor,G2527202154th Biel Festival MTO 20213.117
Visakh N R2516Blagojevic,T2222202154th Biel Festival MTO 20213.118
Gschnitzer,A2420Schweizer,S2142202154th Biel Festival MTO 20213.122
Haimovich,T2388Kornitzky,T2083202154th Biel Festival MTO 20213.123
Sai Agni Jeevitesh,J2322Manukonda Arun2033202154th Biel Festival MTO 20213.125
Donchenko,A2652Gueci,T2179202154th Biel Festival MTO 20213.126
Fecker,N2309Dornieden,J2001202154th Biel Festival MTO 20213.129
Ammar,S2274Schmid,C2091202154th Biel Festival MTO 20213.130
Sethuraman,S2644Erdos,V26140–12021C7854th Biel Festival MTO 20219.103
Erigaisi Arjun2567Chigaev,M26301–02021C9254th Biel Festival MTO 20219.105

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