
Ganguly started the tournament with an impressive run of seven wins en suite but then suffered his first and only defeat against Samuel Shankland in round eight. Shankland began the tournament with 6.5/7 and took the lead after winning against Ganguly.
In the last round Ganguly won a fine game against top-seed Alexei Shirov to finish the tournament with 8.0/9, but this impressive result was not enough for tournament victory because Shankland needed only a draw against Canadian Richard Wang to win the tournament on tie-break.
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1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 e5 6.Ndb5 d6 7.Bg5 a6 8.Na3 b5 9.Nd5 Be7 10.Bxf6 Bxf6 11.c3 Bg5 12.Nc2 Rb8 13.a4 bxa4 14.Ncb4 Nxb4 15.cxb4 0-0 16.Rxa4 a5 17.h4 Bh6 18.b5 Bd7 19.Nc3 d5 20.exd5 e4!?N 20...Kh8 21.Be2 f5 22.g3 Qb6 23.0-0 Rbd8 24.Kg2 Bc8 25.f4 Rfe8 26.fxe5 Rxe5 27.Qd4 Qf6 28.Rc4 Bd7 29.Rf3 Bxb5 30.Nxb5 Rxe2+ 31.Kh3 Rxb2 32.Rc6 Qxd4 33.Nxd4 Rd2 34.Ne6 Re8 35.Rxf5 g6 36.Rf6 Kg8 37.d6 Bg7 38.Nxg7 Kxg7 39.Rf4 Kg8 40.Rc7 Rxd6 41.Rff7 21.Be2 21.Rxe4 f5 22.Rd4 Re8+ 23.Be2 Rxb5 24.0-0 Rxb2 21...f5 22.d6 Kh8 23.g3 f4?! 23...Rf6 24.Rxe4 Bf5 25.Re5 Qf6 26.Qd5 fxg3 27.fxg3 Qg6 28.g4! Bc8 28...Bxg4 29.Rg1 29.Ne4 Bb7 30.h5 Qxe4 31.Qxe4 Bxe4 32.Rxe4 Rfd8 33.Rd4 Bc1 34.d7 Bxb2 35.Rd5 Rb7 36.0-0! g6 37.h6 Ba3 38.Rf7 a4 39.Re5 Rbb8 40.Bc4 Bf8 41.Kg2 a3 42.Ba2 Bd6 43.Re6 Bf8 44.b6 1–0 - Start an analysis engine:
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Ganguly,S | 2654 | Shirov,A | 2682 | 1–0 | 2016 | B33 | 11th Edmonton Festival 2016 | 9 |
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Shirov,A | 2682 | Wang,R | 2341 | 1–0 | 2016 | C02 | 11th Edmonton GM 2016 | 1.1 |
Bitan,B | 2341 | Ganguly,S | 2654 | 0–1 | 2016 | D35 | 11th Edmonton GM 2016 | 1.2 |
Sethuraman,S | 2653 | Haessel,D | 2234 | 1–0 | 2016 | A34 | 11th Edmonton GM 2016 | 1.3 |
Findlay,I | 2257 | Sambuev,B | 2540 | 0–1 | 2016 | C08 | 11th Edmonton GM 2016 | 1.4 |
Shankland,S | 2646 | Valencia,B | 2277 | 1–0 | 2016 | E98 | 11th Edmonton GM 2016 | 1.5 |
Shankland,S | 2646 | Shirov,A | 2682 | ½–½ | 2016 | B33 | 11th Edmonton GM 2016 | 2.1 |
Ganguly,S | 2654 | Sethuraman,S | 2653 | 1–0 | 2016 | B12 | 11th Edmonton GM 2016 | 2.2 |
Valencia,B | 2277 | Sambuev,B | 2540 | 0–1 | 2016 | D11 | 11th Edmonton GM 2016 | 2.3 |
Haessel,D | 2234 | Findlay,I | 2257 | 1–0 | 2016 | D38 | 11th Edmonton GM 2016 | 2.4 |
Wang,R | 2341 | Bitan,B | 2341 | ½–½ | 2016 | E60 | 11th Edmonton GM 2016 | 2.5 |
Shirov,A | 2682 | Valencia,B | 2277 | 1–0 | 2016 | E91 | 11th Edmonton GM 2016 | 3.1 |
Findlay,I | 2257 | Ganguly,S | 2654 | 0–1 | 2016 | B94 | 11th Edmonton GM 2016 | 3.2 |
Sethuraman,S | 2653 | Wang,R | 2341 | 1–0 | 2016 | D45 | 11th Edmonton GM 2016 | 3.3 |
Bitan,B | 2341 | Shankland,S | 2646 | 0–1 | 2016 | B92 | 11th Edmonton GM 2016 | 3.4 |
Sambuev,B | 2540 | Haessel,D | 2234 | ½–½ | 2016 | A48 | 11th Edmonton GM 2016 | 3.5 |
Shirov,A | 2682 | Bitan,B | 2341 | ½–½ | 2016 | C02 | 11th Edmonton GM 2016 | 4.1 |
Ganguly,S | 2654 | Sambuev,B | 2540 | 1–0 | 2016 | C17 | 11th Edmonton GM 2016 | 4.2 |
Shankland,S | 2646 | Sethuraman,S | 2653 | 1–0 | 2016 | E84 | 11th Edmonton GM 2016 | 4.3 |
Wang,R | 2341 | Findlay,I | 2257 | 0–1 | 2016 | D05 | 11th Edmonton GM 2016 | 4.4 |
Valencia,B | 2277 | Haessel,D | 2234 | ½–½ | 2016 | A05 | 11th Edmonton GM 2016 | 4.5 |
Sethuraman,S | 2653 | Shirov,A | 2682 | 1–0 | 2016 | D47 | 11th Edmonton GM 2016 | 5.1 |
Haessel,D | 2234 | Ganguly,S | 2654 | 0–1 | 2016 | D45 | 11th Edmonton GM 2016 | 5.2 |
Findlay,I | 2257 | Shankland,S | 2646 | 0–1 | 2016 | C92 | 11th Edmonton GM 2016 | 5.3 |
Bitan,B | 2341 | Valencia,B | 2277 | ½–½ | 2016 | E71 | 11th Edmonton GM 2016 | 5.4 |
Sambuev,B | 2540 | Wang,R | 2341 | 1–0 | 2016 | B76 | 11th Edmonton GM 2016 | 5.5 |
Shirov,A | 2682 | Findlay,I | 2257 | 1–0 | 2016 | B78 | 11th Edmonton GM 2016 | 6.1 |
Valencia,B | 2277 | Ganguly,S | 2654 | 0–1 | 2016 | E46 | 11th Edmonton GM 2016 | 6.2 |
Bitan,B | 2341 | Sethuraman,S | 2653 | ½–½ | 2016 | A50 | 11th Edmonton GM 2016 | 6.3 |
Shankland,S | 2646 | Sambuev,B | 2540 | 1–0 | 2016 | B01 | 11th Edmonton GM 2016 | 6.4 |
Wang,R | 2341 | Haessel,D | 2234 | 1–0 | 2016 | A36 | 11th Edmonton GM 2016 | 6.5 |
Sambuev,B | 2540 | Shirov,A | 2682 | 0–1 | 2016 | A09 | 11th Edmonton GM 2016 | 7.1 |
Ganguly,S | 2654 | Wang,R | 2341 | 1–0 | 2016 | B76 | 11th Edmonton GM 2016 | 7.2 |
Sethuraman,S | 2653 | Valencia,B | 2277 | 1–0 | 2016 | A45 | 11th Edmonton GM 2016 | 7.3 |
Haessel,D | 2234 | Shankland,S | 2646 | 0–1 | 2016 | E12 | 11th Edmonton GM 2016 | 7.4 |
Findlay,I | 2257 | Bitan,B | 2341 | 0–1 | 2016 | C05 | 11th Edmonton GM 2016 | 7.5 |
Shirov,A | 2682 | Haessel,D | 2234 | 1–0 | 2016 | C67 | 11th Edmonton GM 2016 | 8.1 |
Shankland,S | 2646 | Ganguly,S | 2654 | 1–0 | 2016 | D35 | 11th Edmonton GM 2016 | 8.2 |
Sethuraman,S | 2653 | Findlay,I | 2257 | 1–0 | 2016 | A13 | 11th Edmonton GM 2016 | 8.3 |
Bitan,B | 2341 | Sambuev,B | 2540 | ½–½ | 2016 | A42 | 11th Edmonton GM 2016 | 8.4 |
Valencia,B | 2277 | Wang,R | 2341 | 0–1 | 2016 | A04 | 11th Edmonton GM 2016 | 8.5 |
Ganguly,S | 2654 | Shirov,A | 2682 | 1–0 | 2016 | B33 | 11th Edmonton Festival 2016 | 9 |
Wang,R | 2341 | Shankland,S | 2646 | ½–½ | 2016 | A46 | 11th Edmonton Festival 2016 | 9 |
Findlay,I | 2257 | Valencia,B | 2277 | 0–1 | 2016 | B46 | 11th Edmonton Festival 2016 | 9 |
Sambuev,B | 2540 | Sethuraman,S | 2653 | 1–0 | 2016 | B82 | 11th Edmonton Festival 2016 | 9 |
Haessel,D | 2234 | Bitan,B | 2341 | 0–1 | 2016 | E73 | 11th Edmonton Festival 2016 | 9 |
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