5/21/2012 – What a game, what a fascinating turn of events! World Champion Vishy Anand shockingly lost the seventh game and let Challenger Boris Gelfand take the lead. Today he struck back with a resounding 17-move win that took commentators Peter Leko and Ian Nepomniachtchi and more importantly Gelfand completely by surprise. Express report with tons of GM commentary 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
eight – Anand strikes back, wins in 17 moves!
The reigning World Chess Champion Viswanathan Anand bounced back into the World
Chess Championship in style with a short, sweet and stunning victory over Challenger
Boris Gelfand in the eighth game. Yesterday night in the seventh game, Anand
had ended on the losing side but the ‘Chennai Tiger’ as he is known
roared back with a 17 move victory.
Anand was in full flow today and showed his natural aggressive side. It was
a fantastic effort by him as one seldom comes across a decisive miniature less
than 20 moves in World Championship games. What is more important is the way
Anand shrugged off yesterday’s defeat and would definitely be enjoying
a psychological edge and to a certain extent some peaceful sleep and rest on
the free day.
The theoretical discussion in the Grunfeld did continue, which incidentally
has been Gelfand’s pet defence so far in this event. Gelfand deviated
rather early on the third move from their third game in this match. Gaining
confidence after yesterday’s victory he tried to provoke Anand on the
kingside, but the Indian did not take the bait. An invitation to swap bishops
on the eighth move by Gelfand was rather surprising. Anand unhesitatingly accepted.
Another sharp move by Gelfand on the tenth move and Anand was equal to the challenge.
By the twelfth move Anand appeared distinctly better, and a wrong queen move
on the 14th had Anand smelling victory! Gelfand’s queen ventured into
Anand’s territory and it was probably too late for the Challenger to realize
that there was no way out for her, prompting an immediate resignation.
The Score once again stands equal 4-4 in the 12 Game Match. Tuesday is the
rest day and the ninth game will be played on Wednesday with Gelfand wielding
white.
Game eight analysis by GM Alejandro Ramirez
Game eight analysis by GM Romain Edouard
Game eight analysis by Malcolm Pein
IM Malcolm Pein comments on the games on TWIC
and live during each game via Twitter #telegraphchess.
What it looked like in Playchess, with Let's Check on
Analysis by GM Daniel King
Analysis by IM Andrew Martin
Video report
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 this musically
enhanced round eight report we see the moment Gelfand realises that 17.Qf2 traps
his queen. Interesting to hear Anand and Peter Leko talk about it in the press
conference.
Video by Vijay Kumar
We would strongly advocate replaying the HD video stream that is provided
by the organisers (below) and fast forward to the position after White's 14th
move – that's around 16:41:00 into the stream, and especially from 16:48:00
onwards. Very entertaining – do not miss it!
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
4.0
2727
–7
Boris Gelfand
2727
½
½
½
½
½
½
1
0
4.0
2791
+7
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