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Viswanathan Anand was, in his own words, "about to lose for most of the game", but defended brilliantly Magnus Carlsen to a draw. This gave Peter Svidler, who won for the second consecutive day, the chance to catch the Norwegian in the first place of the Grenke Chess Clbadic in Karlsruhe, Germany.
Even though it was split into two tournaments (the last game of Shamkir and the start of Grenke), Carlsen lost his chance to "make a Caruana", with seven wins in a row. After five straight wins, it's the 15th World Champion Anand who stopped him.
Carlsen was about to win though. Twice, actually.
First, Anand did a kind of "mouse slip" in the opening of the 10th move. The game had followed the Carlsen-Caruana match's first tiebreaker match as well as a recent match Svidler-Tomashevsky of the Bundesliga.
Anand stated that he had removed his gaze from the balloon a moment he had played 10 … c6.
With 11.f4! Carlsen unleashed a storm of pawns on the shore that gave him a big advantage of space. The engines started giving White a rating of +2 very soon, which seemed a little too much, but it was clear that Anand was having problems.
The Indian general manager, who briefly joined the comment later (Carlsen did not do so), could only admit that he was expecting to lose. However, the five-time world champion continued to fight like a tiger and hold on until he made a new mistake and found new problems.
"I thought I lost the match again," said Anand about when Carlsen played 53.Bf2!, an awesome mini-plan that started with Kf2-g1 and was intended to move the bishop on the much better place.
It looks familiar …. @ vishy64theking @MagnusCarlsen #GRENKEchess pic.twitter.com/WS1yjM3KIh
– GRENKEChess 2019 (@GRENKEChess) April 22, 2019
Anand stated that he could not find any defense but that he escaped anyway because Carlsen did not see what he saw: the strength of the silent movement of 56.Kg2. Black is surprisingly helpless.
It was the 66th clbadic meeting between the last two world champions. The score is 12-8 for Carlsen with 46 draws.
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Carlsen finds now Peter Svidler next to him in the rankings. The grand master of St. Petersburg duly commented: "It's mystifying."
He won Georg Meier in a French, the usual opening for the great German master. The latter managed to surprise his opponent by opting for a clean line in the clbadic variant instead of his "normal" Rubinstein, but Svidler managed to understand a lot of strong hits on the board.
Svidler was particularly pleased to have managed to win a final phase with rounds and bishops of opposite color, because it is this type of end where he himself had suffered painful losses.
Do not miss his last two moves. so cruel!
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Almost the same variation was played in Levon Aronian (again for 1.e4) vs Paco Vallejo. The difference was 12 … a6which also leads to a lot of theory.
Vallejo: "This line is of course thoroughly badyzed, but remembering everything is a nightmare."
Aronian: "I love challenges! I love to torture myself with that."
The Armenian general manager also admitted, in his own way, that he did not perfectly manage to prepare himself perfectly for this game: "This is what we professionals do: to prepare ourselves for something other than what happens!"
And so, without their knowledge, the players followed a Shirov match last year for 23 strokes, shortly before the draw.
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Vincent Keymer will have to face the fact that he played three rather decent games at the highest level, but he still has no point behind his name on the scoreboard. If he learns one thing, it is that chess is difficult.
Monday he was clearly better against Fabiano Caruanawho said, "At one point my position was so dangerous."
The American grandmaster struggled to find a position offering opportunities for victory. "It seems like he has a very solid repertoire and in general he is a very good player," he said.
Keymer would have been close to winning hit 32 if he had played Qf4 (Caruana: "I did not see a shot"), but he completely lost the plot. His trainer Peter Leko probably already calmed, but otherwise, Caruana's words could help:
"He should not be angry with fights that result in defeats.His game against Magnus, it's normal, it's very easy to lose against this guy, even if you have a good position or a winning position.I do not think he should also hit himself But the fact that he gets chances to win, good positions and big fights is a good sign for him.The score does not reflect really the hardness of these matches. "
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In what has been the best round of the tournament to date, the game number five, the draw between Maxime Vachier-Lagrave and Arkadij Naiditsch, was very interesting too. The French general manager is the most dangerous white player in the world in the final phase of Berlin and largely dominated his opponent early.
The 25.Nf6 + bag from MVL was a good idea, but the follow-up was not. Instead of taking e6, winning Black's pion was a more promising option. As and when, the game is over on a (pretty) perpetual.
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2019 Grenke Chess Clbadic | Round 3 Ranking
| # | fed | first name | Rtg | Perf | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 0 | pts | SB |
| 1 | Svidler, Peter | 2737 | 2999 | ½ | 1 | 1 | 2.5 / 3 | 3 | ||||||||
| 2 | Carlsen, Magnus | 2845 | 2941 | ½ | 1 | 1 | 2.5 / 3 | 2 | ||||||||
| 3 | Caruana, Fabiano | 2828 | 2795 | ½ | ½ | 1 | 2.0 / 3 | 2 | ||||||||
| 4 | Anand, Viswanathan | 2779 | 2830 | ½ | ½ | 1 | 2.0 / 3 | 2 | ||||||||
| 5 | Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime | 2775 | 2773 | ½ | ½ | ½ | 1.5 / 3 | 2.5 | ||||||||
| 6 | Aronian, Levon | 2761 | 2677 | ½ | ½ | ½ | 1.5 / 3 | 1.5 | ||||||||
| 7 | Naiditsch, Arkadij | 2710 | 2638 | 0 | ½ | ½ | 1.0 / 3 | 1.5 | ||||||||
| 8 | Vallejo Pons, Francisco | 2698 | 2622 | 0 | ½ | ½ | 1.0 / 3 | 1.25 | ||||||||
| 9 | Meier, Georg | 2621 | 2612 | 0 | ½ | ½ | 1.0 / 3 | 1.25 | ||||||||
| ten | Keymer, Vincent | 2509 | 2018 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 / 3 |
Fourth round matches, Tuesday 23 April:
Vallejo Pons vs Anand
Caruana ?? vs Carlsen
Naiditsch (vs. Keymer)
Meier vs Vachier-Lagrave
Aronian ?? vs Svidler
The first five rounds (20-24 April) of the Grenke Chess Clbadic will take place in the Schwarzwaldhalle in Karlsruhe. After a day of rest, the tournament goes to the Kulturhaus LA8 in Baden-Baden for rounds six to nine (26-29 April).
The time control is 100 minutes for 40 moves, then 50 minutes for 20 moves followed by 15 minutes to complete the game, with a 30 second increment of a shot. Pre-move 40 draw offers are not allowed.
The games begin at 15:00 (2 pm London, 9 am Eastern Time and 6 pm Pacific). You can follow the tournament here, as part of our events portal. The games will also be relayed in Live Chess.
IM Levy Rozman covers the tournament on his Twitch, GothamChess channel.
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