Netanya: McShane stopped, Dominguez takes the lead

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6/28/2019 – After starting with two wins, the McShane-Express came to a screeching halt after running into Tamir Nabaty in the 3rd round of the GM tournament in Netanya. But Nabaty was able to enjoy his lead at the Netanya Chess Festival for only one round, before losing Leinier Dominguez who leapfrogged him into first place where he has stayed through six rounds of play. In the Open, two players have 5½ points. | Photos: Yoav Nisenbaum / imt.chess.org.il

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Dominguez has a half point lead

After two victories, Luke McShane's run ended abruptly, as he suffered losses in rounds three and five, against Tamir Nabaty and Evgeny Postny. In the third round, the Israeli grandmaster rejected the invitation to the King's Indian Defence and responded with a system that had rarely been played. The Englishman got on the wrong track surprisingly quickly, found no antidote to White's initiative and was forced to resign on just move 25.

 
Nabaty-McShane

Black literally stands with his back to the wall. After the brutal 25.f6 it was all over.

Results of Round 3

NameRtg.Nt.Pts.Pts.NameRtgNt.
2678
1-0
2
2688
2655
½
½-½
2760
2737
1
½-½
1
2700
2594
1
1-0
½
2601
2685
0
½-½
1
2676

Nabaty turn at the top was short-lived, as he was immediately dealt a loss in round four at the hands of Leinier Dominguez. The Elo favourite coming in at 2760 to the Netanya Chess Festival won a rook ending and moved to plus two and into the tournament lead.

 
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25...Be4
26.f3 Rf4? 26...Bd3± was called for. 27.fxe4+- Rf1+ 28.Kh2 Qb8 29.Qxd5 29.exd5 R1f4 29...g6 30.Qd4 Kg8 31.Qd5+ Kh8 32.Qd4
Strongly threatening Ra8! 32...Kg8! 33.Ra5 Rxd1 34.Raxb5 Rxd4 35.Rxb8 Rxb8 36.cxd4 Rxb2 Endgame KR-KR 37.Rc5 Rb4 38.d5 c3 39.e5 Rd4 40.d6 Kf7 41.Rxc3 Ke6 42.Re3 Black is simply down two pawns. g5 43.Kg3 h5 44.Kf3 Rd2 45.Re2 Rd3+
46.Kf2! Rd1 47.Re3 Rd2+ 48.Ke1 Rd4 49.Ke2 Rd5 50.Re4 Ra5 51.Kf3 Rd5 52.Ke3 Ra5 53.Kd2 Rc5 54.Rd4 Threatening mate with d7. Rc8 55.d7 White mates. Rd8 56.Kd3 Kxe5 57.Kc4 Ke6 58.Kc5 Rxd7 59.Rxd7 Kxd7 60.Kd5 Accuracy: White = 83%, Black = 52%.
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WhiteEloWBlackEloBResYearECOEventRnd
Dominguez Perez,L2760Nabaty,T26781–02019C64Netanya International GM 20194.1

Dominguez was the only player with 3 out of 4. But Daniil Dubov also picked up a victory over Evgeny Postny.

 
Dubov vs Postny
20...b6

Black put the question to the white rook here but Dubov's answer was 21.xd4 xe5 22.c6 xc6 23.xd5 xd6 24.xd6 xb5 Dubov snatched the exchange.

Daniil Dubov

Maxim Rodshtein celebrated the third victory on the day against Peter Svidler, with the black pieces. Svidler was a bit unsuccessful in the opening and had an edge for most of the game.

 
Svidler-Rodshtein

Here came the decisive blow with 37...xc5 38.xc5 d6 and White gave up.

Results of Round 4

NameRtg.Nt.Pts.Pts.NameRtgNt.
2760
2
1-0
2678
2688
2
½-½
2
2594
2676
½-½
1
2655
2737
0-1
½
2685
2700
1-0
½
2601

Dominguez played a short draw in the fifth round against Ilya Smirin and maintained the lead with his 3½ points, but had to watch as Daniil Dubov drew even with him; Dubov bested Maxim Rodshtein and scored a whole point in a sideline of the Tarrasch Defence. 

Are you looking for an active defence against 1.d4? Look no further! The Tarrasch Defence (1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 c5) is one of Black's most ambitious ways to meet 1.d4.

 
Rodshtein vs Dubov
Position after 38...Bf7

Rodshtein simply has no satisfactory way to defend his bishop, given the weakness of his king. Black's pieces all pile on: 39.f2 (or 39.Qc5 Qf3 40.Bf2 Bd5) 39...e2 40.c5 f3 0-1

Postny celebrated the second win of the day over McShane, after the latter blundered in a minor piece endgame on move 63.

 
Postny vs McShane
Position after 63.Bg6

63...b6? didn't offer the stiffest resistance as White's king was able to rapidly penetrate the black position. 64.d3 c4 65.c3 d7 66.b4 d6 67.a5 c7 68.a6 b8 69.b6 etc.

Results of Round 5

NameRtg.Nt.Pts.Pts.NameRtgNt.
2594
½-½
3
2760
2678
½-½
2
2676
2685
0-1
2700
2655
½-½
2737
2601
½
1-0
2688

The sixth round on Friday took place already this morning, so as to be over in time for Shabbat. Saturday, the Sabbath, is the tournament's rest day.

Dominguez picked up the pace again and scored another full point with a mating attack against Postny.

 
Dominguez-Postny

With 36.xg6 Dominguez launched his final assault. 36...xg6 37.xg6 xf5 38.exf5 d7 39.f6 1-0 (with a very pretty mate: 39...Rf7 40.Rg8+ Kxg8 41.Qg7#).

Dominguez

Dominguez is now in the driver's seat | Photos: Yoav Nisenbaum / imt.chess.org.il

Dubov had to settle for a draw against McShane and fell half a point back in the fight for the lead. 

Boris Gelfand celebrated his first full point after five draws. The 2012 World Championship challenger defeated Ilya Smirin.

 
Gelfand vs Smyrin
Position after 29...Qd4

Gelfand had fought Smirin's treasured King's India Defence in the Classic Main Line with the unusual move 9.♗g5 and gained an advantage heading into the middlegame. Here Gelfand was able to win with 30.♗h7+ ♚h8 31.♘f7+ ♚xh7 32.♕g6+ ♔g8 33.♘e5#. But the prosaic 30.f3, is also of course quite enough. (30...♛f6 31.♕g6). Black gave up. 

After a few setbacks, Maxim Rodshtein was again back to his winning ways, and scored a point against Pavel Eljanov.

Results of Round 6

NameRtg.Nt.Pts.Pts.NameRtgNt.
2700
½-½
2688
2676
1-0
3
2594
2760
1-0
2601
2737
2
½-½
3
2678
2685
1-0
2
2655

Standings after Round 6

Rk.NameRtg.Nt.Pts.n
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
TBPerf.
1
2760
4.5
6
0.00
2851
2
2700
4.0
6
1.00
2789
3
2678
3.5
6
1.00
2733
4
2676
3.5
6
0.00
2732
5
2688
3.0
6
1.00
2652
6
2594
3.0
6
0.00
2684
7
2685
2.5
6
1.00
2646
8
2737
2.5
6
0.00
2635
9
2655
2.0
6
0.00
2566
10
2601
1.5
6
0.00
2486
TBs: Wins with black, Koya

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1.Nf3 d5 2.g3 Nf6 3.Bg2 e6 4.0-0 Be7 5.c4 0-0 6.d4 dxc4 7.Qc2 b5 8.a4 E05: Open Catalan: 5 Nf3 Be7 b4 9.Nfd2 c6 10.Nxc4 Qxd4 11.Rd1 Qc5 12.Nbd2 Ba6 13.b3 Nbd7 14.Bb2 Rad8 Don't go for 14...Ng4? 15.Ne4+- 15.Rac1
15...Nb8N Predecessor: 15...Nb6 16.e3 Qh5 17.Nf3 c5 18.Nfe5 The position is equal. Ng4 19.Nxg4 Qxg4 20.Ne5 Qe2
...Qxc2 is the strong threat. 21.Qb1! And now Bf3 would win. Qh5! Accuracy: White = 79%, Black = 89%.
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WhiteEloWBlackEloBResYearECOEventRnd
Gelfand,B2676Dubov,D2700½–½2019E05Netanya International GM 20191.1
Svidler,P2737Dominguez Perez,L2760½–½2019D02Netanya International GM 20191.2
Rodshtein,M2685McShane,L26880–12019A29Netanya International GM 20191.3
Eljanov,P2655Postny,E2601½–½2019C77Netanya International GM 20191.4
Nabaty,T2678Smirin,I2594½–½2019B07Netanya International GM 20191.5
McShane,L2688Eljanov,P26551–02019A14Netanya International GM 20192.1
Postny,E2601Nabaty,T26780–12019D31Netanya International GM 20192.2
Dubov,D2700Smirin,I2594½–½2019C45Netanya International GM 20192.3
Gelfand,B2676Svidler,P2737½–½2019A16Netanya International GM 20192.4
Dominguez Perez,L2760Rodshtein,M26851–02019C65Netanya International GM 20192.5
Smirin,I2594Postny,E26011–02019B12Netanya International GM 20193.1
Rodshtein,M2685Gelfand,B2676½–½2019A36Netanya International GM 20193.2
Eljanov,P2655Dominguez Perez,L2760½–½2019C50Netanya International GM 20193.3
Nabaty,T2678McShane,L26881–02019B07Netanya International GM 20193.4
Svidler,P2737Dubov,D2700½–½2019B31Netanya International GM 20193.5
Dominguez Perez,L2760Nabaty,T26781–02019C64Netanya International GM 20194.1
McShane,L2688Smirin,I2594½–½2019B40Netanya International GM 20194.2
Svidler,P2737Rodshtein,M26850–12019A11Netanya International GM 20194.3
Dubov,D2700Postny,E26011–02019D20Netanya International GM 20194.4
Gelfand,B2676Eljanov,P2655½–½2019E18Netanya International GM 20194.5
Rodshtein,M2685Dubov,D27000–12019D33Netanya International GM 20195.1
Eljanov,P2655Svidler,P2737½–½2019A48Netanya International GM 20195.2
Nabaty,T2678Gelfand,B2676½–½2019A46Netanya International GM 20195.3
Smirin,I2594Dominguez Perez,L2760½–½2019Netanya International GM 20195.4
Postny,E2601McShane,L26881–02019A90Netanya International GM 20195.5
Gelfand,B2676Smirin,I25941–02019E97Netanya International GM 20196.1
Dominguez Perez,L2760Postny,E26011–02019C90Netanya International GM 20196.2
Dubov,D2700McShane,L2688½–½2019C67Netanya International GM 20196.3
Rodshtein,M2685Eljanov,P26551–02019D35Netanya International GM 20196.4
Svidler,P2737Nabaty,T2678½–½2019C78Netanya International GM 20196.5
McShane,L2688Dominguez Perez,L27601–02019C67Netanya International GM 20197.1
Nabaty,T2678Rodshtein,M26850–12019A46Netanya International GM 20197.2
Smirin,I2594Svidler,P27371–02019B13Netanya International GM 20197.3
Postny,E2601Gelfand,B2676½–½2019E00Netanya International GM 20197.4
Eljanov,P2655Dubov,D27001–02019B31Netanya International GM 20197.5
Svidler,P2737Postny,E26011–02019C90Netanya International GM 20198.1
Gelfand,B2676McShane,L26881–02019E94Netanya International GM 20198.2
Eljanov,P2655Nabaty,T26781–02019D31Netanya International GM 20198.3
Dubov,D2700Dominguez Perez,L2760½–½2019D30Netanya International GM 20198.4
Rodshtein,M2685Smirin,I2594½–½2019D37Netanya International GM 20198.5
Nabaty,T2678Dubov,D2700½–½2019D02Netanya International GM 20199.1
Smirin,I2594Eljanov,P26550–12019B31Netanya International GM 20199.2
Postny,E2601Rodshtein,M2685½–½2019D82Netanya International GM 20199.3
McShane,L2688Svidler,P27370–12019C47Netanya International GM 20199.4
Dominguez Perez,L2760Gelfand,B2676½–½2019B31Netanya International GM 20199.5

Open

In the Open, the Elo favourite Anton Korobov lost a wild game against Dmitry Svetushkin in round three and the Moldavian has won 2½/3 since. His latest victim was David Gorodetzky, when Svetushkin uncorked a brutal rook sacrifice:

 
Svetushkin vs Gorodetzky
Position after 32...Kh8

33.xf7!! xf7 34.xe6 and both black rooks are under attack. 34...cc7 35.g4 was not the most precise (that would be 35.Qd6!) but good enough. 

Standings after Round 6 (top 10)

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Translation from German and additional reporting: Macauley Peterson

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