Bilbao Rd. 5: Three draws

by Johannes Fischer
7/17/2016 – Like it or not, Magnus Carlsen is the player who provides the greatest entertainment in Bilbao. In round five he played with Black against Anish Giri and managed to create winning chances from an equal position. However, Giri's tenacious defense allowed him to draw. Sergey Karjakin and Hikaru Nakamura played an old line of the Queen's Gambit Declined and after an improvement by White Black quickly forced a draw. Wesley So tried hard to win against Wei Yi but had no success. After five of ten rounds Carlsen leads with 10.0/15.

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Results

Board Title Name ELO Res. Title Name ELO
1 GM Anish Giri 2790 1-1 GM Magnus Carlsen 2851
2 GM Sergey Karjakin 2779 1-1 GM Hikaru Nakamura 2787
3 GM Wesley So 2775 1-1 GM Wei Yi 2694

Standings

In Bilbao the three-point rule applies.

 
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1.d4 d5 2.c4 dxc4 3.Nf3 a6 4.e3 Bg4 5.Bxc4 e6 6.h3 Bh5 7.Nc3 Nc6 8.0-0 Nf6 9.b3 Bd6 10.Bb2 0-0 11.Be2 Qe7 12.Rc1 Rad8 13.Ne5 Nxe5 14.Bxh5 Ng6 15.Bxg6 hxg6 16.Qf3 c6 17.Rfd1 e5 18.dxe5 Bxe5 19.Rxd8 Rxd8 20.Rd1 b5 21.g3 Rxd1+ 22.Qxd1 c5 23.Qd3
The position looks drawish but Carlsen still manages to get some chances. 23...Kh7 24.Nd1 Bxb2 25.Nxb2 Qe6 26.g4 Qc6 27.Qe2 Ne4 28.Qc2 Ng5 29.f4 Ne6 30.Qg2 Qd6 31.Qe2?!
This could have increased White's difficulties. The engines propose 31.Kh2 as safer. After g5 White has 32.Qe4+ g6 33.Nd3 with a roughly equal position. 31...Qd5?! 31...g5! would have given White a few problems to solve. 32.Qg2 Qd6 33.h4 Nc7 34.h5 gxh5 35.gxh5 Qe7 36.Qf3 Qd7 37.Nd1 Qd5 38.Qe2 Qf5 39.Nf2 Black is clearly better but finds no way to win. Nd5 40.Kg2 c4 41.bxc4 bxc4 42.Kg3 c3 43.Qxa6 c2 44.Qd3 Ne7 45.Qc4 Qxh5 46.Qxc2+ Nf5+ 47.Kg2 Qg6+ 48.Kh2 Qg3+ 49.Kh1 g6 50.Qe2 Nxe3 51.Ne4 Liquidating into a knight endgame in which Black is a pawn up but that White should be able to draw. Qxf4 52.Qh2+ Qxh2+ 53.Kxh2 Nc4 54.Kg3 Kg7 55.a4 f5 56.Ng5 Kf6 57.Kh4 Na5 58.Nh7+ Kg7 59.Ng5 Nc6 60.Ne6+ Kf6 61.Ng5 Ke5 62.Nh3
Black cannot make progress. ½–½
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Giri,A2785Carlsen,M2855½–½2016D229th Masters Final 20165.2

Games Rounds 1-5

 
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1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 Nf6 4.d3 Bc5 5.c3 0-0 6.0-0 d6 7.h3 Ne7 8.d4 Bb6 9.Bd3 Ng6 10.Re1 Re8 11.Nbd2 c6 12.Nf1 d5 13.Bg5 dxe4 14.Rxe4 h6 15.Bxf6 Qxf6 16.Re3 Bf5 17.Bxf5 Qxf5 18.Ng3 Qd7 19.Nxe5 Nxe5 20.Rxe5 Rxe5 21.dxe5 Qe7 22.Qh5 g6 23.Qe2 Qg5 24.Kf1 Kf8 25.Re1 Re8 26.Qd3 Rxe5 27.Qd6+ Re7 28.Ne4 Qf5 29.Re2 Bc7 30.Qd4 Qe5 31.Qxa7 Qh2 32.Ng3 Bxg3 33.Rxe7 Qh1+ 34.Ke2 Kxe7 35.Qe3+ Kf6 36.Qxg3 Qb1 37.Qf4+ Kg7 38.Qd4+ Kg8 39.Qb4 Qxa2 40.Qxb7 Qc4+ 41.Ke3 Qc5+ 42.Kf3 Qd5+ 43.Kg3 Qg5+ 44.Kh2 Qf4+ 45.Kg1 Qc1+ 46.Kh2 Qf4+ ½–½
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WhiteEloWBlackEloBResYearECOEventRnd
Karjakin,S2773So,W2770½–½2016C659th Masters Final 20161.1
Carlsen,M2855Nakamura,H27870–12016B209th Masters Final 20161.2
Giri,A2785Wei,Y2696½–½2016C509th Masters Final 20161.3
So,W2770Nakamura,H2787½–½2016E329th Masters Final 20162.1
Wei,Y2696Carlsen,M28550–12016B069th Masters Final 20162.2
Karjakin,S2773Giri,A2785½–½2016C509th Masters Final 20162.3
Giri,A2785So,W2770½–½2016C509th Masters Final 20163.1
Carlsen,M2855Karjakin,S27731–02016B509th Masters Final 20163.2
Nakamura,H2787Wei,Y2696½–½2016D419th Masters Final 20163.3
Wei,Y2696Karjakin,S2773½–½2016E009th Masters Final 20164.1
Carlsen,M2855So,W27701–02016C659th Masters Final 20164.2
Nakamura,H2787Giri,A2785½–½2016D459th Masters Final 20164.3
Karjakin,S2773Nakamura,H2787½–½2016D379th Masters Final 20165.1
Giri,A2785Carlsen,M2855½–½2016D229th Masters Final 20165.2
So,W2770Wei,Y2696½–½2016C429th Masters Final 20165.3

 

Schedule

Round Day Time
Opening ceremony 12.July 16:00
1. round 13.July 16:00
2. round 14.July 16:00
3. round 15.July 16:00
4. round 16.July 16:00
5. round 17.July 16:00
Free day 18.July  
6. round 19.July 16:00
7. round 20.July 16:00
8. round 21.July 16:00
9. round 22.July 16:00
10. round 23.July 15:00
Closing ceremony... 23.July  

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Johannes Fischer was born in 1963 in Hamburg and studied English and German literature in Frankfurt. He now lives as a writer and translator in Nürnberg. He is a FIDE-Master and regularly writes for KARL, a German chess magazine focusing on the links between culture and chess. On his own blog he regularly publishes notes on "Film, Literature and Chess".

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