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The FIDE Candidates Tournament is taking place in Khanty-Mansiysk (Russia). The first round will start on Thursday, March 13 at 3 p.m. local time, the final round is on Sunday, March 30, 2014. The event is a double round robin (14 rounds). The time control is 120 minutes for the first 40 moves, 60 minutes for the next 20 and 15 minutes for the rest of the game plus an additional 30 seconds per move starting from move 61. The tournament will determine the challenger who will face the reigning World Champion Magnus Carlsen in a title match later this year. The prize fund is 600,000 Euros (= US $832,000), the first place 135,000 and last (8th) place 25,000 Euros. |
Aronian casually strolls by a couple of grandmasters
playing what some dubbed as the "Aronian variation"
Round six – 19.03.2014, 15:00h (GMT+6) | ||||
Aronian Levon |
½-½
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Andreikin Dmitry | ||
Anand Viswanathan |
½-½
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Karjakin Sergey | ||
Mamedyarov Shakhriyar |
1-0
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Svidler Peter | ||
Topalov Veselin |
1-0
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Kramnik Vladimir |
Daniel King shows the highlights of round 6
Andreikin: a man that is counting his lucky stars
Aronian, Levon ½-½ Andreikin, Dmitry
"I went completely mad" - Levon Aronian
Anand, Viswanathan ½-½ Karjakin, Sergey
A little energy before the game helped Karjakin
put all of his pieces in defensive positions
Anand prepared a long variation against the Berlin endgame, but Karjakin responded in the most logical and ultra-solid way. The Indian player was unable to prove any kind of advantage and the players agreed to a draw in a position that already seemed completely locked up by Black's passive but untouchable pieces.
Solid chess brings keeps Anand in the lead
Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar 1-0 Svidler, Peter
The gladiators in post-mortem
This game was certainly as strange as it gets. Svidler played the Dutch instead of the Gruenfeld, already a surprise. Mamedyarov played very erratically and managed to be worse after only 20 moves of chess. Svidler had a powerful continuation with a timely 22...Qd7! which would have left him with a powerful initiative. Instead of that he got himself in a position where it was difficult to find a move, and he blundered a pawn and his king safety with it.
Mamedyarov simply kept up the pressure and a cute tactic before entering the opposite colored bishop endgame gave him three passed pawns and sealed Svidler's fate.
Svidler came out for the kill, got the advantage but made too many mistakes
Topalov, Veselin 1-0 Kramnik, Vladimir
No handshake between these two.
Kramnik is about to make the antipositional 10...f5!?
"I played this move, 9.Be5 which is objectively dubious, but I thought for one game it was ok.
It was pretty deep, maybe for him too deep" - Veselin Topalov
Cristian Chirila - Guest CommentatorFormer World u-16 Champion and currently a grandmaster finishing his studies at the University of Texas at Dallas, Cristian is an ambitious chess player. Find out more about Cristian, including his chess lesson services, biography and games here. |
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Round one – 13.03.2014, 15:00h (GMT+6) | ||||
Andreikin Dmitry |
½-½
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Kramnik Vladimir | ||
Karjakin Sergey |
½-½
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Svidler Peter | ||
Mamedyarov Shakhriyar |
½-½
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Topalov Veselin | ||
Anand Viswanathan |
1-0
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Aronian Levon | ||
Round two – 14.03.2014, 15:00h (GMT+6) | ||||
Kramnik Vladimir |
1-0
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Karjakin Sergey | ||
Svidler Peter |
1-0
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Andreikin Dmitry | ||
Topalov Veselin |
½-½
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Anand Viswanathan | ||
Aronian Levon |
1-0
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Mamedyarov Shakhriyar | ||
Round three – 15.03.2014, 15:00h (GMT+6) | ||||
Andreikin Dmitry |
½-½
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Karjakin Sergey | ||
Svidler Peter |
½-½
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Kramnik Vladimir | ||
Topalov Veselin |
½-½
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Aronian Levon | ||
Mamedyarov Shakhriyar |
0-1
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Anand Viswanathan | ||
Round four – 17.03.2014, 15:00h (GMT+6) | ||||
Mamedyarov Shakhriyar |
1-0
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Andreikin Dmitry | ||
Karjakin Sergey |
½-½
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Topalov Veselin | ||
Aronian Levon |
1-0
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Svidler Peter | ||
Anand Viswanathan |
½-½
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Kramnik Vladimir | ||
Round five – 18.03.2014, 15:00h (GMT+6) | ||||
Andreikin Dmitry |
½-½
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Anand Viswanathan | ||
Karjakin Sergey |
½-½
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Mamedyarov Shakhriyar | ||
Svidler Peter |
1-0
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Topalov Veselin | ||
Kramnik Vladimir |
½-½
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Aronian Levon | ||
Round six – 19.03.2014, 15:00h (GMT+6) | ||||
Aronian Levon |
½-½
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Andreikin Dmitry | ||
Anand Viswanathan |
½-½
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Karjakin Sergey | ||
Mamedyarov Shakhriyar |
1-0
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Svidler Peter | ||
Topalov Veselin |
1-0
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Kramnik Vladimir | ||
Round seven – 21.03.2014, 15:00h (GMT+6) | ||||
Karjakin Sergey |
-
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Aronian Levon | ||
Svidler Peter |
-
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Anand Viswanathan | ||
Kramnik Vladimir |
-
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Mamedyarov Shakhriyar | ||
Andreikin Dmitry |
-
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Topalov Veselin | ||
Round eight – 22.03.2014, 15:00h (GMT+6) | ||||
Kramnik Vladimir |
-
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Andreikin Dmitry | ||
Svidler Peter |
-
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Karjakin Sergey | ||
Topalov Veselin |
-
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Mamedyarov Shakhriyar | ||
Aronian Levon |
-
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Anand Viswanathan | ||
Round nine – 23.03.2014, 15:00h (GMT+6) | ||||
Karjakin Sergey |
-
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Kramnik Vladimir | ||
Andreikin Dmitry |
-
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Svidler Peter | ||
Anand Viswanathan |
-
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Topalov Veselin | ||
Mamedyarov Shakhriyar |
-
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Aronian Levon | ||
Round ten – 25.03.2014, 15:00h (GMT+6) | ||||
Karjakin Sergey |
-
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Andreikin Dmitry | ||
Kramnik Vladimir |
-
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Svidler Peter | ||
Aronian Levon |
-
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Topalov Veselin | ||
Anand Viswanathan |
-
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Mamedyarov Shakhriyar | ||
Round eleven – 26.03.2014, 15:00h (GMT+6) | ||||
Andreikin Dmitry |
-
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Mamedyarov Shakhriyar | ||
Topalov Veselin |
-
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Karjakin Sergey | ||
Svidler Peter |
-
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Aronian Levon | ||
Kramnik Vladimir |
-
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Anand Viswanathan | ||
Round twelve – 27.03.2014, 15:00h (GMT+6) | ||||
Anand Viswanathan |
-
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Andreikin Dmitry | ||
Mamedyarov Shakhriyar |
-
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Karjakin Sergey | ||
Topalov Veselin |
-
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Svidler Peter | ||
Aronian Levon |
-
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Kramnik Vladimir | ||
Round thirteen – 29.03.2014, 15:00h (GMT+6) | ||||
Andreikin Dmitry |
-
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Aronian Levon | ||
Karjakin Sergey |
-
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Anand Viswanathan | ||
Svidler Peter |
-
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Mamedyarov Shakhriyar | ||
Kramnik Vladimir |
-
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Topalov Veselin | ||
Round fourteen – 30.03.2014, 15:00h (GMT+6) | ||||
Aronian Levon |
-
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Karjakin Sergey | ||
Anand Viswanathan |
-
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Svidler Peter | ||
Mamedyarov Shakhriyar |
-
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Kramnik Vladimir | ||
Topalov Veselin |
-
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Andreikin Dmitry |
Date | Round | English commentary | German commentary |
March 21 | Round 7 | Simon Williams/Daniel King | Oliver Reeh/Merijn van Delft |
March 22 | Round 8 | Daniel King/Yasser Seirawan | Oliver Reeh/Karsten Müller |
March 23 | Round 9 | Simon Williams/Alejandro Ramirez | Oliver Reeh/Merijn van Delft |
March 25 | Round 10 | Daniel King/Simon Williams | Klaus Bischoff |
March 26 | Round 11 | Alejandro Ramirez/Irina Krush | Klaus Bischoff |
March 27 | Round 12 | Daniel King/Yasser Seirawan | Klaus Bischoff |
March 29 | Round 13 | Daniel King/Irina Krush | Klaus Bischoff |
March 30 | Round 14 | Daniel King/Yasser Seirawan | Klaus Bischoff |
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