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The World Championship 2007 will take place from September 12 to 30 in the Sheraton Centro Histórico Hotel in Mexico City. Eight players are qualified – the tournament will be a double round robin. The prize fund is US $1.3 million.
GM Mihail Marin in his analysis kitchen at home in Romania
The following express commentary was provided by Romanian Mihail Marin, who is the author of a number of very popular ChessBase training CDs and articles for ChessBase Magazine. GM Marin will study the games of the World Championship tournament in much greater detail and provide the full results of his analysis in the next issue of ChessBase Magazine.
In a sharp line of the Najdorf, Svidler improved upon his play against Topalov in San Luis 2005. Grischuk was just one move too slow in building his counterplay and found nothing better than simplify to a hopeless ending. Anand chose a safe plan against Leko's Marshall Attack and had little trouble to reach the draw that ensured him the supreme title.
Morozevich-Gelfand was an interesting hard-fought game. After missing a far from obvious possibility to get an advantage, Morozevich was left with just compensation for the sacrificed exchange, eventually leading to a draw. Aronian reacted badly against Kramnik's novelty in a modern line of the Queen's Indian and went down without too much fight.
Svidler,P (2735) - Grischuk,A (2726) [B90]
WCh Mexico City MEX (14), 29.09.2007 [Mihail Marin]
1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 a6 6.Be3 Ng4 7.Bg5 h6 8.Bh4 g5 9.Bg3 Bg7 10.h3 Ne5 11.Nf5 Bxf5 12.exf5 Nbc6 13.Nd5 e6 14.fxe6 fxe6 15.Ne3
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White has a decisive material advantage, maintaining an acceptable coordination. The rest is easy. 33...b4 34.Nc2 b3 35.Nd4 Rb6 36.Kc1 a5 37.Bxd5 a4 38.Be5 b2+ 39.Kb1 a3 40.Ba2 Rb7 41.Bd6 Rd7 42.Nb5 1-0. [Click to replay]
Anand,V (2792) - Leko,P (2751) [C89]
WCh Mexico City MEX (14), 29.09.2007 [Mihail Marin]
1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.0-0 Be7 6.Re1 b5 7.Bb3 0-0 8.c3 d5. Nowdays, the Marshall Attack can hardly be considered an aggressive weapon. White can make a draw almost by force, if he really wants to. 9.exd5 Nxd5 10.Nxe5 Nxe5 11.Rxe5 c6 12.Re1 Bd6 13.d3 Bf5
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14.Nd2 Instead of sticking to his small material advantage, White hurries to complete his development and... win the World title. 14...Nf4 15.Ne4 Nxd3 16.Bg5 Qd7 17.Nxd6 Qxd6 18.Bc2 Qg6 19.Bxd3 Bxd3 20.Be3. Opposite coloured bishops, symmetrical position, no significant weaklnesses for any side... Yes a draw is the most liley result. Long live the new Champ! 1/2-1/2. [Click to replay]
Morozevich,A (2758) - Gelfand,B (2733) [C42]
WCh Mexico City MEX (14), 29.09.2007 [Mihail Marin]
1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.Nxe5 d6 4.Nf3 Nxe4 5.d4 This Gelfand's fourth game with the Petroff in this tournament, but the first time when he faces the classical main line. His opponents from the previous games played 5.Nc3. 5...d5 6.Bd3 Nc6 7.0-0 Be7 8.Re1
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White has sufficient compensation for the exchange, because of his active minor pieces and advantage of space on the queenside. 28...b6 29.Nb3 Ne4 30.c5 bxc5 31.Nxc5 Nc3 32.Na6 Nd5 33.Rc1 Nxe3 34.fxe3 Rxe3 35.Rxc7 Re2 36.Kh2 Rf8 37.Rxa7 Rff2 38.Kg3 Rxg2+ 39.Kf3 Rgf2+ 40.Kg3 Rg2+ 41.Kf3 Rgf2+ 42.Kg3 g5 43.b5 Rf4 44.b6 Re3+ 45.Kg2 Re2+ 1/2-1/2. [Click to replay]
Kramnik,V (2769) - Aronian,L (2750) [E15]
WCh Mexico City MEX (14), 29.09.2007 [Mihail Marin]
1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3. For the first time in this tournament, Kramnik refrains from the Catalan. Aronian usually answers 3.g3 with 3...c5 4.d5 exd5 5.cxd5 b5 and in fact lost his last two games (against Kramnik himself, in their rapid match earlier this year and against Gelfand, here in Mexico.) 3...b6 4.g3. Still, the bishop goes to g2, which seems to suit Kramnik's taste these days. 4...Ba6 5.b3 Bb4+ 6.Bd2 Be7 7.Bg2 c6 8.Bc3. This was the last chance to transpose to a genuine Catalan with 8.0-0 d5 9.Qc2 , although some might call it a Bogo Indian. 8...d5 9.Ne5 Nfd7 10.Nxd7 Nxd7 11.Nd2 0-0 12.0-0 Rc8 13.e4 dxe4 14.Nxe4 b5 15.Re1 bxc4
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The rest is a matter of technique. 22...Nc7 23.Rxa2 Nxa6 24.Rxa6 Qd7 25.Qc3 f6 26.Qc5 Rf7 27.Bc3 Qb7 28.Qc4 Qd7 29.Bg2 Kh8 30.Bxc6 Qb7 31.Kg2 h6 32.d5 Qb8 33.dxe6 Re7 34.Bb4 Rec7 35.e7 1-0. [Click to replay]
Round 14: Saturday, Sept. 29th 2007, 14:00h | ||
Peter Svidler |
Alexander Grischuk | |
Viswanathan Anand |
Peter Leko | |
Alexander Morozevich |
Boris Gelfand | |
Vladimir Kramnik |
Levon Aronian | |
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