Jerusalem Masters: Svidler and Ivanchuk lead at halftime

by André Schulz
9/25/2024 – The Chess Federation of Israel is currently organising a chess festival in Jerusalem. The headliner of the event is a rapid chess invitational tournament. An open will also be played. At the end of the three-day event, 1000 chess fans will compete against 50 master players in a simultaneous match. After five rounds, Peter Svidler and Vasyl Ivanchuk (pictured) are sharing the lead in the Masters. | Photo: Fred Lucas / Tata Steel Masters 2012
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A 3-day chess festival

Jerusalem Chess MastersA highly competitive invitational tournament with ten top grandmasters is currently taking place in Jerusalem, the Jerusalem Masters. The field consists of five players from Israel and five international players, namely Jorden van Foreest, Vasyl Ivanchuk, Peter Svidler, Daniil Dubov and Pavel Eljanov as the international representatives and Maxim Rodshtein, Ilia Smirin, Evgeny Postny, Avital Boruchovsky and Ido Gorshtein as players from the host country.

The tournament is being played as a single round-robin with a rapid-chess time control (15 minutes for the game plus 5 seconds per move).

The total prize fund amounts to 75,500 US dollars. The first prize is 30,000 US dollars.

Peter Svidler and Vasyl Ivanchuk, two of the top three players in the field, share the lead with 4/5 points going into the second day of action. The co-leaders have already faced each other, with Svidler holding a 37-move draw with the black pieces against his long-time colleague in the fourth round.

Standing in sole third place is Ilia Smirin, the second-highest rated Israeli representative in the field. Smirin faced the two current co-leaders at the outset of the event, losing to Ivanchuk in round 1 and drawing Svidler in round 2.

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1.Nf3 4 Nf6 20 2.g3 11 c5 4 3.Bg2 8 Nc6 6 4.0-0 12 e5 10 5.e4 40 Nxe4 1:28 6.Re1 44 A04: Unusual lines after 1 Nf3 and King's Indian Attack. Nf6 1:27 7.Nxe5 35 Be7 32 8.Nc3 3:33 d5N 3:02 Predecessor: 8...Nxe5 9.Rxe5 d6 10.Re1 Bg4 11.Bf3 Bxf3 12.Qxf3 Qd7 13.d4 cxd4 14.Ne2 0-0 15.Nxd4 1-0 Schweber,S (2445)-Rubinetti,J (2420) Santos Lugares 1977 (9) 9.d3 2:38 0-0 10 10.Nxc6 8 bxc6 3 11.h3 10 h6 52 12.b3 38 Be6 1:58 13.Ne2 1:22 Re8 35 14.Nf4 11 Bd7 2 15.Bb2 32 Nh7 2:29 16.Qd2 19 Bf6 28 17.Rxe8+ 13 Bxe8 2 18.Bxf6 27 Qxf6 2 19.Re1 8 a5 7 20.c4 43 d4 39 21.Qe2 1:16 Bd7 5 22.Qh5 4 22.Nh5 Qg6 23.Nf4 22...g5 1:12 23.Ne2 2 Re8 4 24.Rf1 1:14
24.Be4 24...Bf5? 5 Better is 24...Re5!-+ And now ...g4! would win. 25.Nc1 g4 25.Nc1!= 2 Qe6 18 26.Kh2 10 26.g4? Bg6 27.Qxh6 Qd6-+ 26...Kg7 1 27.Qf3 7 Rc8 27 28.Qd1 3 Re8 2 29.Qd2 2 Nf8 9 30.Qxa5 4 Nd7! 11 31.Qd2 11 Qg6 12 31...g4 32.g4 17 White should try 32.Re1± Rxe1 33.Qxe1 32...Be6 3
32...Qd6+ 33.Kh1 Bh7 33.f4 2 33.Bxc6 Bxg4 34.Bg2 Bf5 33.Ne2!± 33...f5 8 34.fxg5 23 hxg5 1 35.gxf5 16 Bxf5 2 36.Re1 2 36.Qf2= keeps the balance. Qd6+ 37.Kg1 36...Ne5 4 37.Kg1? 8       37.Rf1 37...g4!-+ 5 37...Nxd3 38.Rxe8 38.Nxd3 Rxe1+ 39.Nxe1 g4+- 38...Qxe8 39.Nxd3+- 38.hxg4 9 Qxg4 2 38...Bxd3? 39.Nxd3 Nxd3 40.Rxe8 Qxe8 41.Qxd3+- 38...Bxg4 ( -> ...Nf3+) 39.Rxe5 Rxe5 39.Qf2? 4 39.Rf1 Ng6 40.Kh1 39...Nf3+! 4 39...Nxd3? is the wrong capture. 40.Nxd3 40.Rxe8? perishes. Nxf2 41.Kxf2 Qf4+ 42.Ke2 Qxc1-+ 40...Rxe1+ 41.Nxe1+- Weaker is 39...Bxd3 40.Rxe5 Rxe5 41.Nxd3= 0–1
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WhiteEloWBlackEloBResYearECOEventRnd
Rodshtein,M2600Boruchovsky,A25370–12024A04Jerusalem Masters 20241.1
Svidler,P2698Eljanov,P26721–02024C50Jerusalem Masters 20241.2
Ivanchuk,V2635Smirin,I25751–02024B42Jerusalem Masters 20241.3
Gorshtein,I2543Dubov,D26931–02024E71Jerusalem Masters 20241.4
Postny,E2577Van Foreest,J26961–02024E01Jerusalem Masters 20241.5
Boruchovsky,A2537Van Foreest,J26960–12024B15Jerusalem Masters 20242.1
Dubov,D2693Postny,E25771–02024D30Jerusalem Masters 20242.2
Rodshtein,M2600Ivanchuk,V2635½–½2024B63Jerusalem Masters 20242.3
Smirin,I2575Svidler,P2698½–½2024B48Jerusalem Masters 20242.4
Eljanov,P2672Gorshtein,I2543½–½2024D02Jerusalem Masters 20242.5
Gorshtein,I2543Smirin,I25750–12024D00Jerusalem Masters 20243.1
Svidler,P2698Rodshtein,M26001–02024B90Jerusalem Masters 20243.2
Ivanchuk,V2635Boruchovsky,A25371–02024C88Jerusalem Masters 20243.3
Postny,E2577Eljanov,P26720–12024E11Jerusalem Masters 20243.4
Van Foreest,J2696Dubov,D2693½–½2024B72Jerusalem Masters 20243.5
Boruchovsky,A2537Dubov,D2693½–½2024B52Jerusalem Masters 20244.1
Eljanov,P2672Van Foreest,J2696½–½2024A25Jerusalem Masters 20244.2
Ivanchuk,V2635Svidler,P2698½–½2024C78Jerusalem Masters 20244.3
Rodshtein,M2600Gorshtein,I25431–02024D02Jerusalem Masters 20244.4
Smirin,I2575Postny,E25771–02024C65Jerusalem Masters 20244.5
Svidler,P2698Boruchovsky,A25371–02024C88Jerusalem Masters 20245.1
Postny,E2577Rodshtein,M2600½–½2024E11Jerusalem Masters 20245.2
Gorshtein,I2543Ivanchuk,V26350–12024A63Jerusalem Masters 20245.3
Van Foreest,J2696Smirin,I2575½–½2024B67Jerusalem Masters 20245.4
Dubov,D2693Eljanov,P2672½–½2024E07Jerusalem Masters 20245.5
Boruchovsky,A2537Eljanov,P26721–02024A14Jerusalem Masters 20246.1
Smirin,I2575Dubov,D2693½–½2024B72Jerusalem Masters 20246.2
Ivanchuk,V2635Postny,E25771–02024B15Jerusalem Masters 20246.3
Svidler,P2698Gorshtein,I25431–02024B12Jerusalem Masters 20246.4
Rodshtein,M2600Van Foreest,J26960–12024E40Jerusalem Masters 20246.5
Gorshtein,I2543Boruchovsky,A25370–12024D40Jerusalem Masters 20247.1
Postny,E2577Svidler,P26980–12024D31Jerusalem Masters 20247.2
Van Foreest,J2696Ivanchuk,V26351–02024C26Jerusalem Masters 20247.3
Dubov,D2693Rodshtein,M2600½–½2024E16Jerusalem Masters 20247.4
Eljanov,P2672Smirin,I25751–02024E71Jerusalem Masters 20247.5
Boruchovsky,A2537Smirin,I25751–02024E71Jerusalem Masters 20248.1
Rodshtein,M2600Eljanov,P26721–02024D35Jerusalem Masters 20248.2
Ivanchuk,V2635Dubov,D26930–12024B70Jerusalem Masters 20248.3
Svidler,P2698Van Foreest,J2696½–½2024D10Jerusalem Masters 20248.4
Gorshtein,I2543Postny,E25770–12024A13Jerusalem Masters 20248.5
Postny,E2577Boruchovsky,A25370–12024D40Jerusalem Masters 20249.1
Van Foreest,J2696Gorshtein,I2543½–½2024B12Jerusalem Masters 20249.2
Eljanov,P2672Ivanchuk,V26351–02024D77Jerusalem Masters 20249.3
Dubov,D2693Svidler,P26981–02024B47Jerusalem Masters 20249.4
Smirin,I2575Rodshtein,M2600½–½2024B92Jerusalem Masters 20249.5

Standings after round 5

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Schedule of the Masters

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Day 1: 24 September

Round 1 – 14.00
Round 2 – 15.00
Round 3 – 16.00
Round 4 – 17:00
Round 5 – 18:00

Day 2: 25 September

Round 6 – 14.00
Round 7 – 15.00
Round 8 – 16.00
Round 9 – 17.00

The Masters is part of a chess festival which also includes an open (featuring 308 players from 12 different countries) and concludes with a major simultaneous match on the third and final day of the event.

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Simultaneous event

At the end of the event, on Thursday 26 September, a large simultaneous exhibition will be held on Safra Square with a thousand participants, who will be able to compete against the best players in Israel.

Safra Square is located in the Jerusalem Municipality complex, near the former Green Line between West and East Jerusalem, and is often used for major sporting events.

The simultaneous event will be contested by 50 masters, including five of the participants of the invitational tournament: Ilia Smirin, Maxim Rodshtein, Evgeny Postny, Avital Boruchovsky and Ido Gorshtein. Other strong players include the 17-year-old GM Yahli Sokolovsky, the U18 European Champion Noga Orian, GM Yehuda Gruenfeld and the country's best female player, Marsel Efroimski. GM Alik Gershon will commentate on the action.

Each of the professionals will play against 20 players simultaneously.

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André Schulz started working for ChessBase in 1991 and is an editor of ChessBase News.
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