5/21/2012 – At last another game with action and excitement – and a 1-0 decision! Many spectators kept their cool, but some didn't. We brought you full analysis by different GMs and IMs in our previous report, and now we add to that with a video report by Europe Echecs and some wonderful pictures provided by the event photographers Anastasiya Karlovich and Alexey Lushenkov. Relax and enjoy.
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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%).
Press release
The second half of the World Championship has started
The seven game of the match for FIDE World Champion was played on 20 May at
the State Tretyakov Gallery’s Engineering Building. The opponents continued
their theoretical dispute in the Slav Defence. Boris Gelfand, who played White,
was the first to move away from the lines that had been tried out before, opting
for the most principled continuation, 6.c5. A complicated strategic fight ensued,
with nearly all pieces remaining on the board.
Experts note that the World Champion did not play energetically enough and
failed to equalise. Black’s main problem was his bad light-squared bishop,
which never made it through the fence of black pawns. Gelfand skillfully built
up pressure on the queenside and managed to penetrate his opponent’s camp
with his pieces via the open c-file, putting Black in a very poor position.
Vishy Anand’s desperate attempt to sacrifice a piece and launch an attack
against his rival’s king brought no success, and he resigned on move 38.
To recap, this is Gelfand’s first win against Anand in events with classical
time control over the past 19 years – since 1993. The match score is now
4-3 in Gelfand’s favour. The next, eighth, game will be played 21 May.
Viswanathan Anand will play with white pieces.
Mr. Cool giving his opponents some extra time to ponder their positions
Camera man Anton Skrypnik providing images for the live HD video stream
Vijay Kumar, unassuming and kind-hearted (he always brings us Indian spices),is
a
producer for the Doordashan TV channel that reaches about half a billion viewers
Behind the camera in the Europe Echecs reports: Gérard Demuydt
Pictures by WGM Anastasiya Karlovich and Alexey Lushenkov
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 round seven
report we see the moment Anand resigns the game and the hug-and-hop jubilation
of Gelfand fans in the press centre.
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
3.0
2678
–11
Boris Gelfand
2727
½
½
½
½
½
½
1
4.0
2840
+11
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
or here
in your location.
The 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
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