London Chess Classic 2017 - Round 4

First Victory in London Chess Classic 2017 belongs to Fabiano Caruana, all other  games, from all players are draws, till now.

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Karjakin, Sergey2760–Caruana, Fabiano27990–1B489th London Chess Classic 20174London05.12.2017ChessBase

1.e4 c5 2.f3 e6 3.d4 cxd4 4.xd4 c6 5.c3 c7 6.e3 a6 7.f3 B48: Sicilian: Taimanov: 5 Nc3 Qc7 6 Be3 a6 without Be2 7.a3 b5 8.xc6 xc6 9.d3 b7 10.0-0 f6 11.e1 c8 12.f3 d6 13.d4 c7 14.xf6 gxf6 15.h5 e5 16.d1 e7 17.c3 cg8 18.e3 g5 19.h3 0-1 (47) Carlsen,M (2837)-Ding,L (2774) Saint Louis 2017 7...e5 8.g3 b5 9.0-0-0 f6 10.f4 eg4 11.g1 LiveBook: 21 Games. Black must now prevent e5. h5 12.e5 aiming for h3. b4! 13.a4 d5 14.b3 14.e2 14...b7!=

15.ac5N c6! 16.e4 f5 17.h3 17.exf6!= remains equal. gxf6 18.h3 xf4 19.e1 17...h4! 18.e1 fxe4 19.hxg4 xf4 20.xh4 xh4 21.xh4 And now Qg5 would win. xe5 ...e3 is the strong threat. 22.d4 g6 23.h3

g5+! 24.b1 d5 25.g1 25.d2 25...e7 26.g3 26.e3 h4 27.xh4 xh4 28.c5 26...e5-+ 27.e2

f3! 28.xf3 28.b6 is a better defense. 28...exf3 29.d4 f7 30.c1 d6 31.d3 e5 32.f2 e6 33.xb4 e4 Don't do 33...xg4 34.f1-+ 34.h1 c8 Strongly threatening ...a5. Don't take 34...xg4 35.c6-+ Much less strong is 34...xg4 35.e1 35.xa6? 35.c3 35...a5 Black is clearly winning. 36.h5+ xh5 37.gxh5 g5 38.e1 c4 39.b4 e8 40.e3 xe3 41.xe3 e5 42.g4

g5! Precision: White = 33%, Black = 87%. 0–1

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