5/15/2012 – As in game two, the players stuck to their guns, showing the Semi-Slav was here to stay. Despite a slight modification, Gelfand's preparation was insufficient to generate any winning chances and the game remained both tame and balanced throughout. This also means it lacked excitement and though lasting ten more moves than before, the result was never in doubt. Report with GM analysis.
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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
four: Gelfand unable to dent Anand's Semi-Slav
The fourth game of the ongoing World Chess Championship at the Treyatov Gallery
in Moscow was a rather tame affair, in stark contrast to the lively, exciting
and entertaining one played in the third round yesterday. The eventual outcome,
however, was the same as in the third game – a draw after 34 moves.
Boris Gelfand and Vishy Anand before the start of game four: Well,
let me see...
... why don't I just play 1.d4 as in game two?
1...d5 – will he, won't he go for the Semi-Slav again?
He went for it, and is playing super-fast. What to do, he has everything
covered...
Ahhh, he starts to think. Have I got him out of book?!
He is thinking. Maybe Baris get him out of the book?!
Anand opted for the Slav defence and the game was a positional one, where the
challenger Boris Gelfand could hardly get initiative despite pressing. When
quizzed at the press conference on whether he had an edge because of the bishop
pair, Gelfand responded: ”Optically White was better, but the pieces lacked
co-ordination”. Anand, commenting on the draw quipped ‘The match
is just developing and at this point we are just probing.” The Indian
was also quick to add: "The ending today became a bit interesting”
The scores are still level at 2.0-2.0 after four games of the twelve-game match.
Wednesday is a rest day and the fifth game will be played on Thursday, 17th
May, when Anand will have the White pieces
Press Release by Team Anand at NIIT, photos by WGM Anastasya
Karlovich
Game four: commentary by GM Romain Edouard
GM Romain Edouard, 21 years old, learnt to play chess at the age of
five. He played his first national youth championship at ten, became a
FIDE Master at 16, an IM at 17, and a GM at 18.
Romain won the French and European U16 Championships in 2006, came second
in the U18 section in European and World Championships in 2007, and came
second in the French Championship 2010 (shared first on points with Laurent
Fressinet).
He has been a member of the French national team since 2009 (except in
2011). He won several international open tournaments: Bad Wiessee 2008,
Zaragoza 2008, Echternach 2009, Andorra 2009, Hastings 2010, Echternach
2010, Clermont-Ferrand 2011, etc. as well as closed tournaments: Grand
Prix de Bordeaux 2007, Antwerp 2011, Nancy 2012.
Romain delivers his analyses of the World Championship in Moscow minutes
after the games have ended, something we greatly appreciate.
Game four: commentary by IM Malcolm Pein
IM Malcolm Pein comments on the games on TWIC
and live during each game via Twitter #telegraphchess.
Analysis of game four by GM Daniel King on Playchess
GM Danny King's analysis in his daily wrap-up show
IM Andrew Martin analyzes game four
GM
Robert Fontaine and his video producer Gérard Demuydt are in Moscow produced
video reports and interviews after each round for the French chess magazine
Europe Echecs. In the round four
report we see a bit of Moscow, the arrival of players, a résumé
of the game, the press conference, and an interview with Dorit Golender, the
Israeli Ambassador to Russia.
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
2.0
2727
–4
Boris Gelfand
2727
½
½
½
½
2.0
2791
+4
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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The games are being broadcast live on the official web site and on the
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