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The Unibet Norway Chess Tournament will take place in Stavanger, Norway from June 2nd to June 13th. The tournament features some of the best players in the world and has a massive rating average of 2774
Round five of this Super-GM tournament – our reporter GM Alejandro Ramirez – called is a "blunderful round", brought us a remarkable game between Vladimir Kramnik and Fabiano Caruana. After 52 moves of a King's Indian, where the young Italian GM (who is currently number three in the world) had been desperately defending, the following position was reached:
Kramnik,V (2783) - Caruana,F (2791) [E60]
2nd Norway Chess 2014 Stavanger NOR (5), 08.06.2014
White has just played 52.Kg7, when suddenly Caruana resigned. In his notes, which are, incidentally, published immediately after the final game of the round is over, Alejandro Ramirez wrote: "The position is objectively winning for White, but I'm sure many players might have played on a few more moves. Kramnik himself was surprised that Caruana resigned, as he still has to prove the win." He gave a line to support it (52...Rb3 53.Kxg6 Rd3 54.Kf6 Rd6+ 55.Kf5 Rd3 56.e5 Kf8 57.Ke4 Rg3 58.Kf4 Rc3 59.e6 Rc6 60.Ke5 Rc3 61.Kf6 Rf3+ 62.Kg6 Rg3 63.Kf5 Re3 64.g6 Rf3+ 65.Ke4 Rg3 66.Ra8+ Ke7 67.Kf5 Rf3+ 68.Ke5 Re3+ 69.Kf4+-), but not everybody was convinced.
Fabiano Caruana, currently ranked number three in the world, before the start of the fateful round five
So we decided to bring in the big guns and asked the resident ChessBase endgame expert, GM Karsten Müller, to take a look. A few hours later he replied: "Alejandro is right, White is winning – see my attached analysis." Play through the analysis – you can learn a few things from it.
After a loss in the next round (against his arch-enemy Veselin Topalov) Vladimir is still in the lead, which he shares with Carlsen and Caruana.
As Ramirez pointed out: there is only a single point separating the leaders from the players at the bottom of the table. It's anyone's tournament.
LinksThe games are being broadcast live on the official web site and on the chess server Playchess.com. If you are not a member you can download a free Playchess client there and get immediate access. You can also use ChessBase 12 or any of our Fritz compatible chess programs. |