Speed Chess Championship: Artemiev beats Giri

by André Schulz
11/17/2020 – In the last match of the round of the last 16 at the chess.com Speed Chess Championship Vladislav Artemiev played against Anish Giri. The blitz matches were close but the bullet games helped Artemiev to win the match and to qualify for the quarterfinal. | Picture: Chess.com
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A close match: Vladislav Artemiev vs Anish Giri

In the official World Blitz Ranking List (for over-the-board blitz) Artemiev is currently number 11 while Giri is ranked as number 24. Thus, nominally Artemiev was the favourite in this match. But in the first two blitz matches – 5+1 and 3+1 – the 22-year old Russian was only slightly superior. But in the 1+1 bullet portion of the match he dominated Giri and won the match.

In the 5+1 blitz games Artemiev won 5.5:3.5, and he also began the match with a win.

 
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1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.Nf3 Nf6 4.Qc2 g6 5.cxd5 cxd5 6.Bf4 Nc6 7.Nc3 Bg7 8.e3 0-0 9.Be2 Bf5 10.Qb3 Na5 11.Qb4 a6 12.0-0 Rc8 13.Rfc1 b5 14.Ne5 Nc6 15.Nxc6 Rxc6 16.a4 bxa4 17.Nxa4 a5 18.Qb7 Rxc1+ 19.Rxc1 Ne4 20.Bc7 Qa8 21.Qxa8 Rxa8 22.Nb6 Ra7 23.Nxd5 Bf8 24.f3 Nd2 25.Nb6 Rb7 26.g4 Bb1 27.Rc6 Ra7 28.Bf4 f6 29.e4 Nxe4 29...Nb3 30.Bc4+ 30.fxe4 Bxe4 31.Rc8 Rb7 32.Bh6 1–0
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Artemiev,V2708Giri,A27641–02020D11chess.com Speed 20201.11

After a draw in game 2 Artemiev was clearly better in game 2 but then blundered the win away.

 
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1.e4 c5 2.Nc3 Nc6 3.g3 g6 4.Bg2 Bg7 5.d3 d6 6.Be3 e6 7.Qd2 Rb8 8.Nge2 Nd4 9.0-0 b5 10.Nd1 Nxe2+ 11.Qxe2 Ne7 12.Qd2 0-0 13.Bh6 b4 14.Bxg7 Kxg7 15.Ne3 a5 16.f4 f5 17.Rae1 Bb7 18.exf5 exf5 19.Nc4 Bxg2 20.Qxg2 d5 21.Nxa5 Ra8 22.Nb3 Qd6 23.d4 c4 24.Nc5 Rf6 25.Re5 Rxa2 26.Rfe1 Ra7 27.h3 c3 28.bxc3 bxc3 29.Kh2 h6 30.R1e3 Kf7 31.Rxc3 Qb6 32.Rce3 Qc6 33.Qe2 Ng8 White is clearly better. 34.Re8 Kg7 35.R3e6?! Exchanging rooks is not best way to proceed. 35.Rb3 with infiltration on the 8th rank decides the game. 35...Rxe6 36.Nxe6+ Kh7 Hoping for 36...Kf7 37.Nd8+ is not very realistic. 37.Nf8+ Kg7 38.Qe5+? This careless check costs the game. Better was 38.Ne6+!? Kh7 39.Nc5 or 38.h4!? 38...Kf7 Threatening to win a piece with ... Ne7. 39.Nxg6 Qxc2+ 40.Qe2 Qxe2+ 41.Rxe2 Kxg6 Game over. 42.g4 Nf6 43.Kg3 Ra3+ 44.Kh4 Rd3 45.Re6 Rxd4 46.Kg3 Kf7 47.Ra6 Ne4+ 48.Kh4 Nf6 49.Kg3 Re4 50.Ra7+ Re7 51.Ra6 d4 52.g5 Ne4+ 53.Kh4 hxg5+ 54.fxg5 Re6 55.Ra7+ Kg6 56.Rd7 Rd6 0–1
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Artemiev,V2708Giri,A27640–12020B26chess.com Speed 20201.13

In the 3+1 blitz games Giri was slightly better and won the mini-match 4.5:3.5.

The second game of this stage of the match allowed Giri to shine.

 
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1.d4 Nf6 2.Nc3 d5 3.Bf4 This move was certainly part of Beth Harmon's edition of Walter Korn's "Modern Chess Openings". It leads to line of the Richter-Veresov which currently is quite popular in online chess - because Carlsen plays it. a6 Preventing Nb5. 4.e3 e6 4...Bf5 5.Bd3 Bg6 0-1 (76) Artemiev,V (2716) -Nakamura,H (2736) chess.com INT 2020 5.g4 Bb4 5...c5 6.g5 Nfd7 7.Nf3 Nc6 8.h4 1-0 (36) Carlsen,M (2876)-Grandelius,N (2691) chess24.com INT 2020 6.Nge2 0-0 7.a3 Be7 8.Ng3 8.g5 Nh5 9.h4 1-0 (44) Carlsen,M (2876) -Sjugirov,S (2662) chess24.com INT 2020 8...c5 8...Ne8 9.h4 c5 10.g5 Nc6 0-1 (42) Tologontegin,S (2358)-Illingworth,M (2493) chess. com INT 2020 9.g5 Nfd7 10.Qh5 Re8 11.h4 11.Bd3 Nf8 11...g6 12.Qh6 Nc6 yields nothing for White. 11...Nc6 12.0-0-0 b5 Black's attack is much faster and much more dangerous. 13.dxc5 b4 14.axb4 Nxb4 15.e4? More stubborn was 15.c6 Nxc6 16.Bd3 g6 17.Qf3 though Black is still better. 15...Qa5 16.Kb1 Nxc5 17.exd5 exd5 17...Na4!? 18.Qf3 Be6 Giri also had a more flashy option: 18...d4! 19.Qxa8 19.Rxd4 Bb7 19...Nb3 20.cxb3 dxc3 21.Qf3 Qa2+ 22.Kc1 Qxb2# 19.Nge2 19.Be5 d4 20.Rxd4 Na4 19...Bf5 20.Nd4 Nb3! Nice! 21.Nxb3 Bxc2+ 22.Kc1 Bxb3 23.Bd3 Qa1+ 24.Bb1 Na2+ 25.Nxa2 Bxa2 26.Qd3 Rac8+ and mate will follow soon. 0–1
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Artemiev,V2708Giri,A27640–12020D00chess.com Speed 20201.22

But in the bullet games Artemiev dominated again and won 6.5:3.5, which led to a final result of 15.5:11.5. In the quarterfinal Artemiev will play against Magnus Carlsen.

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Commentary by GM Laurent Fressinet

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1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.Nf3 Nf6 4.Qc2 g6 5.cxd5 cxd5 6.Bf4 Nc6 7.Nc3 Bg7 8.e3 0-0 9.Be2 Bf5 10.Qb3 Na5 11.Qb4 a6 12.0-0 Rc8 13.Rfc1 b5 14.Ne5 Nc6 15.Nxc6 Rxc6 16.a4 bxa4 17.Nxa4 a5 18.Qb7 Rxc1+ 19.Rxc1 Ne4 20.Bc7 Qa8 21.Qxa8 Rxa8 22.Nb6 Ra7 23.Nxd5 Bf8 24.f3 Nd2 25.Nb6 Rb7 26.g4 Bb1 27.Rc6 Ra7 28.Bf4 f6 29.e4 Nxe4 30.fxe4 Bxe4 31.Rc8 Rb7 32.Bh6 1–0
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Artemiev,V2708Giri,A27641–02020D11chess.com Speed 20201.11
Giri,A2764Artemiev,V2708½–½2020B28chess.com Speed 20201.12
Artemiev,V2708Giri,A27640–12020B26chess.com Speed 20201.13
Giri,A2764Artemiev,V2708½–½2020B41chess.com Speed 20201.14
Artemiev,V2708Giri,A27641–02020E20chess.com Speed 20201.15
Giri,A2764Artemiev,V2708½–½2020C42chess.com Speed 20201.16
Artemiev,V2708Giri,A2764½–½2020C27chess.com Speed 20201.17
Giri,A2764Artemiev,V27080–12020C45chess.com Speed 20201.18
Artemiev,V2708Giri,A2764½–½2020A28chess.com Speed 20201.19
Giri,A2764Artemiev,V27080–12020C45chess.com Speed 20201.21
Artemiev,V2708Giri,A27640–12020A45chess.com Speed 20201.22
Giri,A2764Artemiev,V27081–02020C45chess.com Speed 20201.23
Artemiev,V2708Giri,A27641–02020A06chess.com Speed 20201.24
Giri,A2764Artemiev,V27081–02020C42chess.com Speed 20201.25
Artemiev,V2708Giri,A2764½–½2020C26chess.com Speed 20201.26
Giri,A2764Artemiev,V27080–12020B28chess.com Speed 20201.27
Artemiev,V2708Giri,A27640–12020E10chess.com Speed 20201.28
Giri,A2764Artemiev,V27080–12020B28chess.com Speed 20201.31
Artemiev,V2708Giri,A2764½–½2020A01chess.com Speed 20201.32
Giri,A2764Artemiev,V2708½–½2020B28chess.com Speed 20201.33
Artemiev,V2708Giri,A2764½–½2020A01chess.com Speed 20201.34
Giri,A2764Artemiev,V27080–12020B46chess.com Speed 20201.35
Artemiev,V2708Giri,A2764½–½2020A06chess.com Speed 20201.36
Giri,A2764Artemiev,V27080–12020C50chess.com Speed 20201.37
Artemiev,V2708Giri,A27641–02020E60chess.com Speed 20201.38
Giri,A2764Artemiev,V27081–02020B28chess.com Speed 20201.39
Artemiev,V2708Giri,A2764½–½2020A01chess.com Speed 20201.54

All results of the round of the last 16

Vachier-Lagrave- Sarin 16.5-11.5
Carlsen - Maghsoodloo 24-5
Fedoseev - Firouzja 15-14
So - Abdussatorov 18-10
Aronian - Nepomniachtchi 14-11
Nakamura - Martirosyan 21-5
Duda - Caruana 17-9
Artemiev-Giri 15.5:11.5

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