SPARKASSEN
CHESS MEETING
2005
8
to 17 July 2005
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Round three report
Round 3: Sunday, July 10, 15:00h |
Michael Adams |
0-1
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Loek van Wely |
Vladimir Kramnik |
1-0
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Veselin Topalov |
Peter H. Nielsen |
½-½
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Emil Sutovsky |
Etienne Bacrot |
½-½
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Peter Svidler |
Arkadij Naiditsch |
1-0
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Peter Leko |
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Before we come to the games and the TV ChessBase coverage we would like to
draw your attention to a remarkable fact: the number of games drawn in this
tournament so far has been five, which amounts to just 33 percent of all the
games. How many exclamation points does that deserve? 60% of all games were
won by White, and 7% (one game, today) by Black. We refrain from drawing any
sweeping early conclusions, but if this continues we will be forced to do so.
Comparisons with last year's tournament and with the no-draws-allowed experiment
two months ago in Sofia are just waiting to be drawn.
Nielsen vs Sutovsky: This was quite hard-fought, with the
Danish GM trying to nurse an extra pawn to victory. But Emil Sutovsky defended
imaginatively and the game was drawn. You may want to take a look at the position
after Black's 52nd move and speculate what drove the two GMs to continue for
four more moves.
Bacrot vs Svidler saw a lot of manoeuvring and some to-and-froing,
with first White doing well and then Black taking the initiative. It ended
in a draw after 38 moves.

How to bridge 150 Elo points: Naiditsch vs Leko
Naiditsch vs Leko was the big sensation of round three. The
young Dortmunder simply outplayed the world championship challenger who is
150 points higher than him on the rating scale. The game lasted 59 moves and
was one of the best Naiditsch efforts we have seen in a long time.

Summit meeting: Vladimir Kramnik vs Veselin Topalov
Kramnik,V (2744) - Topalov,V (2788) [E06]
It Dortmund GER (3), 10.07.2005
1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 d5 4.g3 Bb4+ 5.Bd2 Be7 6.Bg2 0-0 7.0-0 c6 8.Bf4
b6 9.Nc3 Ba6 10.cxd5 cxd5 11.Rc1 Nc6 12.Nxd5 Qxd5 13.Ne5
13...Nxd4 14.Bxd5 Nxe2+ 15.Qxe2. The point of the queen sacrifice
on move 13 is that for instance after 15.Kh1 Nxd5 16.Rc2 Nexf4 17.gxf4 Bxf1
18.Qxf1 Nxf4 Black has a rook, bishop and two pawns for the queen, and is doing
fine. 15...Bxe2 16.Bxa8 Rxa8 17.Rfe1 Bb5. Black has a pawn
for the exchange, and it is unclear whether there is enough compensation for
that. 18.Rc2 Nd5 19.Rec1.
We have the exact position we saw a little less than two months ago in Ponomariov-Topalov
at the Mtel Masters in Sofia. There Topalov had lost horribly after 19...Bc5
20.Bd2 f6 21.b4 Bf8 22.Ng4 Rd8 23.Rc8 Rd7 24.Nh6+ gxh6 25.Bxh6 Rf7 26.Rd8 Ne7
27.Rc7 Ng6 28.Rcc8 e5 29.f4 Bd7 30.Ra8 Bh3 31.Kf2 b5 32.Rdb8 exf4 33.gxf4 Bd7
34.h4 Bc6 35.h5 Bxa8 36.hxg6 hxg6 37.Rxa8 f5 38.Kg3 a6 39.Kh4 Rg7 40.Kg5 1-0.
Astonishingly Topalov tries the same line against Vladimir Kramnik, and suffers
a second defeat.
19...Ba6N 20.Bd2 f6 21.Nc4 Rd8 22.a3 Kf7 23.Ne3 h5 24.Nxd5 Rxd5 25.Bb4
Bd8 26.Rc6 Be2 27.Rd6 Rxd6 28.Bxd6 Ke8 29.Bb8 a5 30.Bc7 Bf3 31.Rc3 Bd5 32.f4
Kd7 33.Bxd8 Kxd8 34.Kf2 Kd7 35.Ke3 e5 36.fxe5 fxe5 37.Rc1 a4 38.Rf1 Ke6 39.Rf8
b5 40.Rg8 Kf6 41.Rb8 1-0.

We come to Adams vs van Wely, which produced a surprise black
win (the first in this tournament) for the Dutch GM. Immediately after the
game Loek van Wely came over to our TV ChessBase studio and analysed it for
a world-wide audience. It was a "test broadcast", but worked so well
that everyone thoroughly enjoyed it.

TV ChessBase broadcast with Loek van Wely (left) showing his win over Adams
to hundreds of spectators all over the world.

Van Wely with Olena Boytsun and IM Oliver Reeh from ChessBase
For those of you who did not catch the transmission live on Playchess.com
we have a video stream plus van Wely's postgame analysis. You can replay the
video and follow the analysis on the JavaScript board. Naturally on the Playchess
server this is synchronised, and the pieces move automatically as the GM moves
them.
Remember that our regular TV ChessBase live broadcasts will be conducted
every evening at around 19:30h Central European Time from Monday until the
end of the tournament.
Standings

Full Schedule and Results
Round 1: Friday, July 8, 15:00h |
Peter Leko |
1-0 |
Loek van Wely |
Michael Adams |
1-0 |
Veselin Topalov |
Arkadij Naiditsch |
1-0 |
Emil Sutovsky |
Vladimir Kramnik |
½-½ |
Peter Svidler |
Peter H. Nielsen |
1-0 |
Etienne Bacrot |
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Round 2: Saturday, July 9, 15:00h |
Loek van Wely |
1-0 |
Etienne Bacrot |
Veselin Topalov |
1-0 |
Arkadij Naiditsch |
Emil Sutovsky |
1-0 |
Vladimir Kramnik |
Peter Svidler |
½-½ |
Peter H. Nielsen |
Peter Leko |
½-½ |
Michael Adams |
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Round 3: Sunday, July 10, 15:00h |
Michael Adams |
0-1 |
Loek van Wely |
Vladimir Kramnik |
1-0 |
Veselin Topalov |
Peter H. Nielsen |
½-½ |
Emil Sutovsky |
Etienne Bacrot |
½-½ |
Peter Svidler |
Arkadij Naiditsch |
1-0 |
Peter Leko |
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Round 4: Monday, July 11, 15:00h |
Loek van Wely |
-
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Peter Svidler |
Veselin Topalov |
- |
Peter H. Nielsen |
Emil Sutovsky |
- |
Etienne Bacrot |
Peter Leko |
- |
Vladimir Kramnik |
Michael Adams |
- |
Arkadij Naiditsch |
Games – Report |
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Round 5: Tuesday, July 12, 15:00h |
Arkadij Naiditsch |
- |
Loek van Wely |
Etienne Bacrot |
- |
Veselin Topalov |
Peter Svidler |
- |
Emil Sutovsky |
Peter H. Nielsen |
- |
Peter Leko |
Vladimir Kramnik |
- |
Michael Adams |
Games – Report |
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Rest day: Wednesday, July 13 |
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Round 6: Thursday, July 14, 15:00h |
Loek van Wely |
- |
Emil Sutovsky |
Veselin Topalov |
- |
Peter Svidler |
Peter Leko |
- |
Etienne Bacrot |
Michael Adams |
- |
Peter H. Nielsen |
Arkadij Naiditsch |
- |
Vladimir Kramnik |
Games – Report |
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Round 7: Friday, July 15, 15:00h |
Vladimir Kramnik |
-
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Loek van Wely |
Emil Sutovsky |
- |
Veselin Topalov |
Peter Svidler |
- |
Peter Leko |
Etienne Bacrot |
- |
Michael Adams |
Peter H. Nielsen |
- |
Arkadij Naiditsch |
Games – Report |
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Round 8: Saturday, July 16, 15:00h |
Loek van Wely |
- |
Veselin Topalov |
Peter Leko |
- |
Emil Sutovsky |
Michael Adams |
- |
Peter Svidler |
Arkadij Naiditsch |
- |
Etienne Bacrot |
Vladimir Kramnik |
- |
Peter H. Nielsen |
Games – Report |
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Round 9: Sunday, July 17, 13:00h |
Peter H. Nielsen |
-
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Loek van Wely |
Veselin Topalov |
- |
Peter Leko |
Emil Sutovsky |
- |
Michael Adams |
Peter Svidler |
- |
Arkadij Naiditsch |
Etienne Bacrot |
- |
Vladimir Kramnik |
Games – Report |
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