
From Thursday July 13 to Sunday July 22, 2012 the 41st edition annual Sparkassen
Chess-Meeting is taking place in Dortmund, Germany. It is a ten-player round
robin played. Draw offers are not allowed – a game
can only be declared a draw, by the arbiter, if there is no possible win for
one side, or if a position is repeated three times. The winner of the tournament
will be determined after nine rounds.
Games start at 15:00h = 3 p.m. local time (CEST, = 17:00 Moscow, 14:00 p.m.
London, 9:00 a.m. New York). All games will be broadcast by the official web
site's "Live
Games" page and on the Playchess.com
server. As in the previous year the moves of the Sparkassen Chess-Meeting
will be transmitted on the Internet with a delay of 15 minutes – which
means that the moves stay in the playing hall for that period, before they are
broadcast to the rest of the world. This is an important anti-cheating measure
that has been proposed to FIDE since October 2005 and has the support of most
of the top players. We commend the Dortmund organisers for taking the initiative.
Round six
Round 6: Thursday, July 19, 15:00h |
Jan Gustafsson |
0-1 |
Arkadij Naiditsch |
Ruslan Ponomariov |
0-1 |
Mateusz Bartel |
Daniel Fridman |
½-½ |
Vladimir Kramnik |
Peter Leko |
½-½ |
Sergey Karjakin |
Fabiano Caruana |
½-½ |
Georg Meier |
It was a day for the unexpected, a day for the dark horses. The first major result was Arkadij Naiditsch’s win over Jan Gustafsson, who seems to never have recovered his equilibrium after the shock against Kramnik. For Naiditsch, and the German fans, it was more than a second straight victory, it was a taste of gold, even if shared, as he climbed to 4.0/6 and joined Vladimir Kramnik and Sergey Karjakin.

Arkadij Naiditsch moved into shared first to the delight of the home crowd
As to the other leader, Ruslan Ponomariov, it was a fall from heaven as he lost to Mateusz Bartel, the lamb sent to the slaughterhouse in every round but one until now. As much as he tried, Bartel would not wilt as he had done previously, and instead it was Ponomariov’s hand that shook on move 40, leaving him with an awkward position.

Ponomariov suffered a bitter blow in round six
Seven moves later, he blundered, and this time there was no salvation as he lost, while Bartel will leave the tournament with the comfort that at least once blood other than his was drawn in his duels.

A relieved Bartel finally scores
1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.0-0 Be7 6.d3 d6 7.c3 0-0 8.Re1 b5 9.Bc2 Nd7 10.d4 Bb7 11.Nbd2 Bf6 12.Nf1 Re8 13.Ne3 Nb6 14.Ng4 Bc8 15.h3 Bxg4 16.hxg4 g6 17.d5 Ne7 18.g3 Qd7 19.g5 Bg7 20.Kg2 c6 21.dxc6 Qxc6 22.Nh2 d5 23.exd5 Nexd5 24.Be4 Rad8 25.Qf3 Qe6 26.Ng4 Na4 27.Rd1 Nc7 28.Rxd8 Rxd8 29.Bc2 Nc5 30.Be3 Nd3 31.Rd1 e4 32.Nf6+ Bxf6 33.Qxf6 Qxf6 34.gxf6 Nd5 35.Bd4 Nxb2 36.Re1 e3 37.Be4 exf2 38.Kxf2 h5 39.Kf3 Nc7 40.Bb7? 40.Bxg6! fxg6 41.Re7 Ne8 42.Kf4 Nc4 43.Kg5 Nxf6 44.Bxf6 Rd3= 40...Rb8 41.Re7 Rxb7 42.Be5 Rb6 43.Rxc7 Nc4 44.Bd4 Re6 45.Kf4 Nd6 46.Ra7 Nf5 47.Be5? Nxg3!-+ 48.Re7 Nf5! 49.Rd7 Nh6 50.Re7 Ng4 51.Bd4 Kf8 0–1
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Ponomariov,R | 2726 | Bartel,M | 2674 | 0–1 | 2012 | C84 | 40th GM | 6 |
Please, wait...
Ponomariov dropped to second with 3.5/6, a half-point behind the leaders.

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.g3 d5 4.Nf3 Be7 5.Bg2 0-0 6.0-0 dxc4 7.Qc2 a6 8.a4 Bd7 9.Qxc4 Bc6 10.Bg5 Bd5 11.Qd3 c5 12.Nc3 Bc6 13.Rfd1 Qa5 14.Ne5 Bxg2 15.Kxg2 cxd4 16.Qxd4 Rd8 17.Qc4! Qxe5 18.Rxd8+ Bxd8 19.Bf4 Qa5 20.Qc8 Qb6 21.f3 g5! 22.a5 Nc6 23.Qxa8 Qxb2 24.Bxg5 Kg7! 25.Rd1 Qxc3 26.Rxd8 Nxd8 27.Qxd8 Nd5 28.e4 Ne3+ 29.Bxe3 Qxe3 30.g4 Qe2+ 31.Kg3 Qe1+ 32.Kg2 Qe2+ 33.Kg3 Qe1+ ½–½
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Leko,P | 2730 | Karjakin,S | 2779 | ½–½ | 2012 | E06 | 40th GM | 6 |
Fridman,D | 2655 | Kramnik,V | 2799 | ½–½ | 2012 | D93 | 40th GM | 6 |
Ponomariov,R | 2726 | Bartel,M | 2674 | 0–1 | 2012 | C84 | 40th GM | 6 |
Gustafsson,J | 2629 | Naiditsch,A | 2700 | 0–1 | 2012 | E94 | 40th GM | 6 |
Caruana,F | 2775 | Meier,G | 2644 | ½–½ | 2012 | C11 | 40th GM | 6 |
Please, wait...
Standings after six rounds

Schedule and results
Round 1: Friday, July 13, 15:00h |
Daniel Fridman |
½-½ |
Jan Gustafsson |
Peter Leko |
½-½ |
Ruslan Ponomariov |
Fabiano Caruana |
½-½ |
Arkadij Naiditsch |
Georg Meier |
1-0 |
Mateusz Bartel |
Sergey Karjakin |
½-½ |
Vladimir Kramnik |
|
Round 2: Saturday, July 14, 15:00h |
Jan Gustafsson |
0-1 |
Vladimir Kramnik |
Ruslan Ponomariov |
1-0 |
Fabiano Caruana |
Arkadij Naiditsch |
½-½ |
Georg Meier |
Mateusz Bartel |
0-1 |
Sergey Karjakin |
Daniel Fridman |
½-½ |
Peter Leko |
|
Round 3: Sunday, July 15, 15:00h |
Peter Leko |
1-0 |
Jan Gustafsson |
Georg Meier |
0-1 |
Ruslan Ponomariov |
Sergey Karjakin |
½-½ |
Arkadij Naiditsch |
Vladimir Kramnik |
1-0 |
Mateusz Bartel |
Fabiano Caruana |
1-0 |
Daniel Fridman |
|
Round 4: Monday, July 16, 15:00h |
Jan Gustafsson |
½-½ |
Mateusz Bartel |
Ruslan Ponomariov |
½-½ |
Sergey Karjakin |
Arkadij Naiditsch |
½-½ |
Vladimir Kramnik |
Daniel Fridman |
½-½ |
Georg Meier |
Peter Leko |
½-½ |
Fabiano Caruana |
|
Round 5: Tuesday, July 17, 15:00h |
Fabiano Caruana |
1-0 |
Jan Gustafsson |
Vladimir Kramnik |
½-½ |
Ruslan Ponomariov |
Mateusz Bartel |
0-1 |
Arkadij Naiditsch |
Sergey Karjakin |
1-0 |
Daniel Fridman |
Georg Meier |
½-½ |
Peter Leko |
|
Round 6: Thursday, July 19, 15:00h |
Jan Gustafsson |
0-1 |
Arkadij Naiditsch |
Ruslan Ponomariov |
0-1 |
Mateusz Bartel |
Daniel Fridman |
½-½ |
Vladimir Kramnik |
Peter Leko |
½-½ |
Sergey Karjakin |
Fabiano Caruana |
½-½ |
Georg Meier |
|
Round 7: Friday, July 20, 15:00h |
Georg Meier |
|
Jan Gustafsson |
Arkadij Naiditsch |
|
Ruslan Ponomariov |
Mateusz Bartel |
|
Daniel Fridman |
Vladimir Kramnik |
|
Peter Leko |
Sergey Karjakin |
|
Fabiano Caruana |
|
Round 8: Saturday, July 21, 15:00h |
Jan Gustafsson |
|
Ruslan Ponomariov |
Daniel Fridman |
|
Arkadij Naiditsch |
Peter Leko |
|
Mateusz Bartel |
Fabiano Caruana |
|
Vladimir Kramnik |
Georg Meier |
|
Sergey Karjakin |
|
Round 9: Sunday, July 22, 13:00h |
Sergey Karjakin |
|
Jan Gustafsson |
Ruslan Ponomariov |
|
Daniel Fridman |
Arkadij Naiditsch |
|
Peter Leko |
Mateusz Bartel |
|
Fabiano Caruana |
Vladimir Kramnik |
|
Georg Meier |
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