5/24/2012 – With two whites to go, Anand chose 1.e4 as one means to try and keep his opponent off-balance. Gelfand was ready with his Sicilian, and even Vishy's 3.Bb5, and fairly offbeat 5.b3, were replied to nearly instantly. The queens came off by move eleven after which the position remained equal until their handshake at move 25. Illustrated report with GM analysis and videos.
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The World Chess Championship 2012 is being staged in the Tretyakov Gallery
in Moscow, between the current World Champion Viswanathan Anand of India and
the winner of the Candidates tournament Boris Gelfand of Israel. The match is
over twelve games and lasts from May 11 to 30. The prize fund is US $2.55 million,
the winner getting $1.53 million (60%), the loser $1.02 million (40%).
Round
ten – An offbeat Sicilian is flavor of the day
Gelfand arrives first at the board, showing a hunger for play that is fitting
Strike a pose
As in the fifth game, Viswanathan Anand started the tenth game with 1.e4. The opponents once again played the Sicilian Defence, but on the third move the world champion veered away from the Sveshnikov variation, choosing 3.Bb5. Just two moves later Boris Gelfand showed a new plan – 5…e5, which resulted in an interesting position with mutual chances.
The play gets underway
5...e5? Never saw that before... is it good?
Judging by how quickly the moves were made, the Israeli grandmaster had analysed this variation very deeply.
The online coverage by the Russian Federation has been nothing short of stellar. In
Russian they had Sergey Karjakin, Ilya Smirin, and Alexander Grischuk providing commentary.
In English, Dirk Jan
ten Geuzendam, Alexander Morozevich, and Peter Svidler opined.
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Soon the queens were exchanged, the position simplified considerably, but, according to many experts, all three results of the game were still possible. Black’s position was weakened by doubled pawns on the queenside, but he had the two-bishop advantage. New exchanges followed, and the position simplified even further. On move 25 the opponents agreed to a draw.
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Game ten analysis by GM Romain Edouard
Game ten analysis by Malcolm Pein
IM Malcolm Pein comments on the games on TWIC and live during each game via Twitter #telegraphchess.
Rest day reflection by GM Daniel King
Analysis of game ten by GM Daniel King on Playchess
Video commentary by Andrew Martin
GM
Robert Fontaine and his video producer Gérard Demuydt are in Moscow,
producing video reports and interviews after each round for the French chess
magazine Europe Echecs. We are grateful
to receive the reports very soon after the end of the games, so that we are
able to publish them on the same day. It is also great to catch a glimpse of
the many interesting personalities that visit the World Championship.
Video report by Vijay Kumar for Doordarshan Indian TV Network
Pictures by Anastasya Karlovich in Moscow
Video stream of the round (from the official World
Championship site)
Once again the Russian organisers are providing unprecedented
coverage,
with a HD video stream of the action and commentary by visiting grandmasters.
Scoreboard
Players
Rtng
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
Tot.
Perf.
+/–
Vishy Anand
2791
½
½
½
½
½
½
0
1
½
½
5.0
2727
–9
Boris Gelfand
2727
½
½
½
½
½
½
1
0
½
½
5.0
2791
+9
Remaining schedule
Days of play, with live commentators on Playchess.com.
Note that the games start at 15:00h local time = 13:00 CEST, 07 a.m. New York
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