Dortmund Festival: Warmerdam still perfect in the Open

by Patrick Zelbel
7/23/2022 – Vishy Anand continues to lead the standings in the No-Castling World Masters after drawing Dmitrij Kollars on Friday. In the Sparkassen Open-A, one of many tournaments taking place as part of the Dortmund Chess Festival, Dutch GM Max Warmerdam has scored 7 points in as many games. Warmerdam beat Thomas Beerdsen in style and analysed his victory in the post-game interview. | Photos: Michelle Lassak

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7 out of 7

The Sparkassen Open A is one of many tournaments taking place as part of the massive festival in Dortmund.

In the seventh round, Max Warmerdam rejected an early draw offer from Thomas Beerdsen and won the Dutch duel in remarkable fashion. He presented his kingide attack in an interview after the game.

For Thomas Beerdsen, a final GM norm is therefore no longer possible in Dortmund. GM Andreas Heimann is on 6 out of 7, as is FM Jasper Holtel, who is playing an outstanding tournament so far.

Max Warmerdam analyses his impressive win

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Anand still leads the NC World Masters

A special guest had the honour of making the first move for Viswanathan Anand on Friday. Nenad Tomasev, programmer at DeepMind, is currently a guest at the International Dortmund Chess Days. He is one of the brains behind the famous artificial intelligence AlphaZero, and in this capacity he already analysed the No-Castling Chess games with Vladimir Kramnik and press spokesman Patrick Zelbel last year. Today he was also a guest on the live commentary booth and reported on exciting projects in the field of artificial intelligence.

For Anand, as he usually does in No Castling chess, he opened with 1.c4, and an isolated-pawn position developed early on in his game against Dmitrij Kollars. Kollars defended skilfully, activated his rook and held a draw. Another exclamation mark for Kollars, who is only half a point behind the leader Anand.


Standings after round 4

Rk.NameRtg.Nt.Pts.n
1
2
3
4
TBPerf.
1
2756
2.5
4
4.50
2743
2
2648
2.0
4
4.50
2702
3
2696
2.0
4
3.50
2651
4
2599
1.5
4
3.00
2612
TBs: Sonneborn-Berger

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1.c4 3 c5 12 2.Nf3 18       e6 13 3.Nc3 22 Nf6 21 4.e4 28 Nc6 11 5.d4 20 cxd4 24 6.Nxd4 10 Bb4 5 7.f3 34 d5 5:39 8.cxd5 45 exd5 12 B44: Sicilian: Taimanov: 5 Nb5. 9.Bb5 12 dxe4 1:02 ...Qb6 is the strong threat. 10.Nxc6 4:43
10...Bxc3+ 13 11.bxc3 6:47 Qxd1+ 15 12.Kxd1 3 a6 13
13.Ba4N 56 And now Nd4+ would win. Predecessor: 13.Nd4+ axb5 14.Nxb5 0-0 15.Bg5 Ra6 16.Kd2 exf3 17.gxf3 h6 18.Be3 Nd5 19.Bd4 0-1 (44) Farago,S (2249)-Erdelyi,Z (2362) Budapest 2009 13...Bd7 11      
Pin 14.Re1 5:55 Bxc6 1:07 15.Bxc6+ 2:49 bxc6 11 16.Bg5 19 Kd7 4:46 16...0-0-0+ feels stronger. 17.Kc2 exf3 17.Bxf6 11:19 gxf6 11 18.Rxe4 8 Rhe8 20 19.Rxe8 9:39 Rxe8= 9       Endgame KR-KR 20.Rb1 6 Re5 1:57 21.Rb4 2:36 Rh5 1:07 22.h3 1:26 Rg5 1:07 23.g4 54 f5 8:19 24.h4 6:54 Rg6 1:43 25.g5 4:01 f6 1:11 26.gxf6 2:40 Rxf6 9 26...Kc7 with more complications. 27.Ra4 Kb6 28.f7 Rf6 27.Ke2 2:26 Kd6 2:30 28.Ke3 2:17 Ke5 1:28 29.Ra4 2:51 f4+ 3:55 30.Kd3 43 aiming for Ra5+. Rh6 1:02 31.Rxa6 1:35 Rxh4 22 32.Ra5+ 7 Kd6 7 33.Ke4 37 Rh2 11 The position is equal. 34.Kxf4 3:55 Rc2 1:24 35.Ra7 2:16 Rxc3 15 36.Rxh7 12 Ra3 6 37.Rh2 34 c5 44 38.Ke4 50 Ke6 58 39.Rh6+ 55 Kf7 7 40.Rh2 33 Ke6 6 41.Rh6+ 30:11 Kf7 30:06 42.Rh2 8 Weighted Error Value: White=0.06 (flawless) /Black=0.05 (flawless)
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WhiteEloWBlackEloBResYearECOEventRnd
Kollars,D2648Anand,V2756½–½2022B44NC World Masters 20221.1
Adams,M2696Fridman,D25991–02022C65NC World Masters 20221.2
Adams,M2696Anand,V2756½–½2022A33NC World Masters 20222.1
Fridman,D2599Kollars,D26481–02022A47NC World Masters 20222.2
Anand,V2756Fridman,D25991–02022C65NC World Masters 20223.1
Kollars,D2648Adams,M26961–02022C47NC World Masters 20223.2
Anand,V2756Kollars,D2648½–½2022D32NC World Masters 20224.1
Fridman,D2599Adams,M2696½–½2022B20NC World Masters 20224.2
Fridman,D2599Anand,V2756½–½2022B13NC World Masters 20225.1
Adams,M2696Kollars,D2648½–½2022B59NC World Masters 20225.2
Anand,V2756Adams,M2696½–½2022D35NC World Masters 20226.1
Kollars,D2648Fridman,D25991–02022C28NC World Masters 20226.2

Eljanov defends resourcefully against McShane

Pavel Eljanov chose the solid Berlin Wall for the top pairing in the German Grand Prix. McShane gained an advantage and tried to get something going for long. But in the rook ending with two pawns against one, there was no way to win. Thus, last year’s winner Eljanow is in the race with good prospects. McShane is currently in the lead, but has only one game left and is free on Sunday.

Luke McShane, Pavel Eljanov


Current standings

Rk.NameRtg.Nt.Pts.n
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
TBPerf.
1
2681
4.5
6
3.00
2857
2
2692
4.0
6
3.00
2787
3
2649
3.5
6
3.00
2727
4
2649
2.5
6
3.00
2613
5
2634
2.5
6
3.00
2615
6
2688
2.0
6
3.00
2538
7
2673
2.0
6
3.00
2541
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1.e4 6 e5 8 2.Nf3 5 Nc6 6 3.Bc4 51 Nf6 14 4.d3 8 Bc5 5 5.Nc3 45 h6 2:47 6.0-0 2:10 d6 4:29 7.Na4 2:53 Bb6 2:09 8.a3 3:59 0-0 1:36 9.h3 5:49 Qe7 13:44 10.b4 15:21 Be6 9:09 11.Bxe6 11 Qxe6 1:18 12.c4 6:38 a6 15:04 13.Nxb6 21 cxb6 5 14.Bb2 2:33 Rfc8 4:43 15.Nh4 8:19 b5 2:41 16.cxb5 7 axb5 6 17.f4 1:33 Nd7 11:48 18.Kh1 5:47 Nb6 7:27 19.Rc1 8:59 Ne7 8:40 20.f5 5:33 Qf6 3:01 21.Nf3 38 Rxc1 1:06 22.Bxc1 5:38 d5 1:01 23.Nh2 1:01 Nd7 2:02 24.Ng4 7 Qh4 1:29 25.Kh2 8:14 Nf6 18 26.Nxe5 48 dxe4 33 27.Rf4 6:28 Qh5 1:32 28.g4 16 Qh4 37 29.dxe4 25 Nc6 2:59 30.Nxc6 3:44 bxc6 2 31.e5 2:23 Nd5 19 32.Rf3 6 Re8 1:25 33.Qe2 2:00 Qe7 1:25 34.Bb2 14 Nb6 7 35.e6 1:12 Nc4 56 36.Kg2 2:26 Nxb2 1:31 37.Qxb2 5 fxe6 1:09 38.f6 1 Qf7 37 39.Qc3 1:21 e5 50 40.Qxc6 39 e4 36 41.Re3 18:03 Re5 13:46 42.Rxe4 6:14 Qa2+ 4:54 43.Kg3 18 Qb3+ 9:57 44.Kf4 1:03 gxf6 7 45.Rxe5 2:37 fxe5+ 1 46.Kf5 1:44 Qd3+ 1:49 47.Qe4 1:12 Qxa3 1:06 48.Qd5+ 8 Kf8 2:06 49.Qd8+ 54 Kf7 10 50.Qf6+ 55 Ke8 21 51.Qxe5+ 12 Kd8 1:02 52.Ke6 22 Kc8 40 53.Qc5+ 12 Kb7 13 54.Qxb5+ 6 Kc8 5 55.Qc5+ 2:45 Kb7 8 56.h4 16 Qg3 1:31 57.Qd5+ 9 Ka7 11 58.Qd4+ 22 Kb7 20 59.Qe4+ 1:14 Ka7 23 60.h5 14 Qf2 44 61.Ke7 1:20 Qd2 48 62.Kf7 13 Kb6 26 63.Kg7 30 Kb5 21 64.Kh7 8 Ka4 44 65.Qc6+ 1:06 Kxb4 5 66.Qxh6 26 Qe2 59 67.Qf4+ 41 Kb3 9 68.Qf7+ 5 Kb2 25 69.g5 10 Kc1 1:01 70.h6 12 Qd3+ 21 71.g6 6 Kb1 23 72.Qf6 37 Qe4 46 73.Kg7 22 Qb7+ 19 74.Qf7 13 Qe4 42 75.h7 1:12 Qd4+ 18 76.Kf8 24 Qc5+ 33 77.Qe7 10 Qc8+ 12 78.Kf7 16 Qc4+ 16 79.Qe6 1:27 Qf4+ 31 80.Ke7 13 Qh4+ 27 81.Ke8 39 Qa4+ 21 82.Qd7 33 Qe4+ 35 83.Kd8 1:11 Qa8+ 30 84.Ke7 5 Qe4+ 17 85.Kf6 15 Qh4+ 1:32 86.Kg7 6 Qe4 29 87.h8Q 40 Qe5+ 13 88.Kf7 1:08 Qxh8 7 89.Qf5+ 5 Ka1 7 90.g7 5 1–0
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Eljanov,P2681Svane,R26491–02022C50Deutschland Grand Prix 20221.2
Deac,B2692Navara,D26881–02022D85Deutschland Grand Prix 20221.3
McShane,L2649Bluebaum,M26731–02022C42Deutschland Grand Prix 20221.4
Navara,D2688McShane,L26490–12022E16Deutschland Grand Prix 20222.1
Svane,R2649Deac,B2692½–½2022E06Deutschland Grand Prix 20222.2
L'Ami,E2634Eljanov,P26810–12022E11Deutschland Grand Prix 20222.3
Deac,B2692L'Ami,E2634½–½2022B51Deutschland Grand Prix 20223.1
McShane,L2649Svane,R2649½–½2022C85Deutschland Grand Prix 20223.2
Bluebaum,M2673Navara,D2688½–½2022D11Deutschland Grand Prix 20223.3
Svane,R2649Bluebaum,M2673½–½2022C42Deutschland Grand Prix 20224.1
L'Ami,E2634McShane,L2649½–½2022E11Deutschland Grand Prix 20224.2
Eljanov,P2681Deac,B2692½–½2022A14Deutschland Grand Prix 20224.3
McShane,L2649Eljanov,P2681½–½2022C67Deutschland Grand Prix 20225.1
Bluebaum,M2673L'Ami,E2634½–½2022D33Deutschland Grand Prix 20225.2
Navara,D2688Svane,R2649½–½2022C54Deutschland Grand Prix 20225.3
L'Ami,E2634Navara,D2688½–½2022A34Deutschland Grand Prix 20226.1
Eljanov,P2681Bluebaum,M26731–02022A07Deutschland Grand Prix 20226.2
Deac,B2692McShane,L26491–02022E53Deutschland Grand Prix 20226.3
Bluebaum,M2673Deac,B2692½–½2022D11Deutschland Grand Prix 20227.1
Navara,D2688Eljanov,P2681½–½2022D35Deutschland Grand Prix 20227.2
Svane,R2649L'Ami,E2634½–½2022A37Deutschland Grand Prix 20227.3

Youth Cup and Women’s Tournament

In the Sportland NRW Youth Cup, the trend of the last days intensified: IM Jonathan Carlstedt seems to be in excellent shape, as he won his third game in a row and leads Artem Lutsko by a full point. An IM norm is still possible for the U16 player. To get it, he needs 1½ points in the last two rounds.

Lara Schulze leads by half a point over local hero Zoya Schleining in the closed women’s tournament. Fittingly, the direct duel between the two players will take place in the last round on Sunday. Lara Schulze also needs 1½ points in two games to get a WGM norm — the Sportland NRW Women’s Cup is the only round-robin tournament in Germany in 2022 where this norm is possible.

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Patrick Zelbel is the press officer at the Sparkassen Chess Trophy yearly event in Dortmund.

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