London Chess Classic 2017 - Round 8

Ian Nepomiachtchi beats Magnus Carlsen and now leads the Tournament with Caruana.
All other games are draws. Standings after 9 Rounds

Carlsen, Magnus-Nepomniachtchi, IanNakamura, Hikaru-Caruana, FabianoAdams, Michael-Aronian, LevonVachier-Lagrave, Maxime-Anand, ViswanathanSo, Wesley-Karjakin, Sergey

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Carlsen, Magnus2837–Nepomniachtchi, Ian27290–1A049th London Chess Classic 20178London10.12.2017ChessBase

1.f3 c5 2.c3 d5 3.d4 cxd4 4.cxd4 c6 5.c3 f6 6.f4 h5 7.d2 D13: Slav Defence: Exchange variation without ...Bf5 f6 8.e3 e6 9.d3 The position is equal. d6 10.e4 dxe4 11.xe4 e7 12.0-0 0-0 13.c2 h6 14.ad1 d7 15.a3 c8

16.c3N Predecessor: 16.b1 b6 17.b4 xe4 18.xe4 f6 19.e3 c7 1/2-1/2 (49) Safarli,E (2620)-Mammadov,Z (2442) Baku 2012 16...a6 17.c1 e8 18.fe1 f8 19.f4 b5 20.d2 b4 21.axb4 xb4 22.e5 xd3 23.xd3 a5 24.f3 b4

24...e7= 25.e3 25.xh6!± xc3 25...gxh6 26.e4 26.xg7 xg7 27.bxc3 25...xc3 26.bxc3 a4 27.a1 c2! 28.h3 f5 29.g4 h7 29...g6= remains equal. 30.c4 d7 31.c6 31.c5! 31...f6!= Hoping for ...g5. 32.xa5 b6 33.c5 xc5! 34.dxc5 xa1+ 35.h2 xa5 36.c6? White must play 36.cxb6 xb6 37.c3 36...a4-+ Black has a decisive advantage. 37.xa4 xa4 38.c6 If only White now had time for Rb3.... b6 39.c7 f6 ...e5 is the strong threat. 40.b3

c8! Precision: White = 48%, Black = 80%. 0–1

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