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London continues to be a bloody battlefield as the decisive results keep pouring in! Even the dullest of games took a turn for the worse for one of the players, and the single draw of the round, Aronian-Kramnik, was a very entertaining game itself!
Round 6:
Friday, Dec. 7th, 2012, 14:00h |
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Magnus Carlsen |
1-0 |
Judit Polgar | ||||
Vishy Anand |
0-1 |
Michael Adams | ||||
Luke McShane |
1-0 |
Gawain Jones | ||||
Levon Aronian |
½-½ |
Vladimir Kramnik | ||||
Hikaru Nakamura (bye) – assisting
commentary |
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MIke Basman starts the game for Magnus Carlsen with his
tradmark 1. h3. Not surprisingly Magnus retracted it.
After this interlude the game Magnus Carlsen vs Judit Polgar can start in
ernest
Judit Polgar with minus four at the bottom of the table
Carlsen-Polgar 1-0
Judit Polgar’s hedgehog setup allowed her to get decent chances
straight out of the opening. After some inaccuracies Magnus Carlsen gained an
edge, and he was able to exploit Black’s terrible piece positions with
a very nicely timed e5! With her pieces gasping for air, Judit began to simplify
the position by exchanging her dark squared bishop for an opponent’s knight.
However, this proved to be a fatal mistake, as her kingside position had too
many dark squared weaknesses and not a single piece that could cover them. Magnus
swooped in and finished her off elegantly to reach 2864.
Magnus Carlsen on the attack – from move one
Levon Aronian gets some assistance from a chess junior
Aronian-Kramnik ½-½
Vladimir Kramnik used his trusty Berlin Defense against Levon Aronian,
who has not shown us his best chess. This game was no exception, as Kramnik
pushed throughout the entire game with his pair of bishops. But at the end Aronian
was still solid enough to suffer just a little bit and end the game in a draw.
Vishy Anand is helped with 1.e4 by another chess kid...
... and then settles down to a game that ended in disaster
England's Michael Adams won and advanced to third place
Anand-Adams 0-1
Adams neutralized Vishy’s opening preparation without any problems,
and even got the pair of bishops to start playing for the win. However with
some precise play, and with the help of a powerful knight on d5, White was able
to parry all the threats and obtain an equal position. When all eyes had turned
away from the game, which would surely soon end in a draw, Anand blundered huge
after reaching the time control, with 41. Bc4?? Adams thought forever, probably
in disbelief, but eventually played the killer sequence and it was all over.
McShane-Jones 1-0
Gawain Jones is not a man known for his love of material balance. Shortly
after the end of a very theoretical English Opening he sacrificed an exchange
for a pawn, the pair of bishops and good compensation. However his handling
of the position afterwards wasn’t optimal, and slowly but surely White
was pushing Black back, until eventually he broke with e4 and his advantage
was undisputed. A clever attack forced some simplifications in which Black only
had two disconnected pawns for a piece, and McShane picked up the point.
Gawain Jones at minus four in his first Chess Classic
Pictures by Pascal Simon for ChessBase
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