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Friday, 15 June 2012

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Controversy
T.Kosintseva - Koneru
4th WGP Kazan 2012 (5), 15.06.2012 The Chessvibes website and Ruslan
XIIIIIIIIY Ponomariov in his blog at the same
8-+-+-+-+0{ website are discussing the fact that
7+-+-+-+-0 those Grandmasters who, as
6-zP-+-+-+0 announced already, have qualified for
5+-+-+k+-0 the World Blitz Championship, are not
4-trN+-+-+0 invited to play in this championship,
which is scheduled to take place in
3+-+K+-+-0 early July in Astana, Kazakhstan.
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A new move in an old line
World Chess News by GM Mikhail Golubev

Women Grand Prix, Sicilian, Dragon, Yugoslav attack; B78

Kazan 1.e4 c5 2.¤f3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.¤xd4
¤f6 5.¤c3 g6 6.¥e3 ¥g7 7.f3 0–0
After 5 rounds, Elina Danielian and 8.£d2 ¤c6 9.¥c4 ¥d7 10.h4 ¦c8
Anna Muzuchyk are leading with 3½
11.¥b3 ¤e5 12.0–0–0 ¤c4
points.
13.¥xc4 ¦xc4 14.h5 ¤xh5 15.g4
¤f6 (D)
Official website
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Tal Memorial, Moscow 7zpp+lzppvlp0
6-+-zp-snp+0
Standings after 6 rounds: 5+-+-+-+-0
1-2. Morozevich and Kramnik - 4, 4-+rsNP+P+0
3-5. Radjabov, Carlsen and Caruana - 3+-sN-vLP+-0
3½, 2PzPPwQ-+-+0
6. Nakamura - 3, 1+-mKR+-+R0}
7-8. Grischuk and Aronian - 2½, xabcdefghy
9. McShane - 2,
10. Tomashevsky - 1½. 16.e5 ¤xg4 17.fxg4 ¥xg4 18.¦dg1
dxe5 19.¦xg4 h5 20.£e2 exd4
June 15 is a free day at the 21.¦xg6 fxg6 22.£xc4+ (D)
tournament. XIIIIIIIIY
Round 7 (June 16) pairings: 8-+-wq-trk+0{
Radjabov – Caruana 7zpp+-zp-vl-0
Aronian – Grischuk 6-+-+-+p+0
Nakamura – Carlsen 5+-+-+-+p0
Tomashevsky- Morozevich 4-+Qzp-+-+0
McShane - Kramnik 3+-sN-vL-+-0
2PzPP+-+-+0
Official website 1+-mK-+-+R0
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22...¢h8 23.¦d1 e5 24.¤e4 £h4 35.£xb4
25.¤g5 £g4 26.¥d2 e4 27.¤e6 e3 35.¦g1 £xb3+ followed by d2 =.
28.¥b4 b5 29.£d5 (D) 35...exd1£ (D)
XIIIIIIIIY XIIIIIIIIY
8-+-+-tr-mk0{ 8-+-+-sN-mk0
7zp-+-+-vl-0 7zp-+-+-+-0
6-+-+N+p+0 6-+-+-+-+0
5+p+Q+-+p0 5+p+-+-+p0
4-vL-zp-+q+0 4-wQ-+-+-+0
3+-+-zp-+-0 3+-+p+-+-0
2PzPP+-+-+0 2PmKP+-+-+0
1+-mKR+-+-0 1+-+q+-+-0}
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Recently, while preparing a small And here, for example,
article in Russian (chess- 36.£c3+
news.ru/node/7826), I looked again at After 36.cxd3 the simplest is 36...£e2+
this position, which occurred in the 37.¢c3 £e1+!=
Vitomskis-Koifman, corr. 1985 game 36...¢g8 37.¤g6 £xc2+ 38.£xc2
(published in the Chess Informant at dxc2= (D)
the time). With the help of the engine XIIIIIIIIY
Stockfish, it turned out that my 8-+-+-+k+0
improvement, found, in the 1980s, 7zp-+-+-+-0
29...d3 6-+-+-+N+0
works after all. The point is that after 5+p+-+-+p0
30.¤xf8 ¥xb2+ 31.¢xb2 £xb4+
32.£b3 (D) 4-+-+-+-+0
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8-+-+-sN-mk0{ 2PmKp+-+-+0
7zp-+-+-+-0 1+-+-+-+-0}
6-+-+-+p+0 xabcdefghy
5+p+-+-+p0 with an easy draw. So, not only 22...
¢h7 23. ¦d1 £b8! but also the 22...
4-wq-+-+-+0 ¢h8 line may be playable for Black
3+Q+pzp-+-0 after all.
2PmKP+-+-+0
1+-+R+-+-0 Solution to our Quiz:
xabcdefghy T.Kosintseva - Koneru
Black plays 83...¥xb6! 84.¢c3 ¦b5! 84...¥c5? 85.¦e5+
85.¤d6+ ¢g5!= 86.¦e6
32...e2!! 86.¤xb5 ¥a5+ 86...¦b1 87.¤c4 ¥c7
immediately. Not 32...£xb3+? 33.cxb3 88.¢d3 ¦g1 89.¦e2 ¥f4 90.¢e4 ¢g4
e2 34.¤xg6+ ¢h7 35.¤f8+ ¢h8 91.¤b6 ¢g3 92.¤d5 ¦xg2 93.¤xf4
36.¢c1 exd1£+ 37.¢xd1 which I ¦xe2+ ½–½
analysed in the 1980s. I wrote about it
in CT-3100. Contact information. Have some comments
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