80th Tata Steel Chess Tournament - Round 4 Games

Hou, Yifan-Matlakov, MaximCaruana, Fabiano-So, WesleyWei, Yi-Jones, Gawain C BKramnik, Vladimir-Svidler, PeterAdhiban, B.-Anand, ViswanathanKarjakin, Sergey-Mamedyarov, ShakhriyarGiri, Anish-Carlsen, Magnus

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Hou, Yifan2680–Matlakov, Maxim27180–1C8980th Tata Steel Masters 20184Wijk aan Zee16.01.2018ChessBase

1.e4 e5 2.f3 c6 3.b5 a6 4.a4 f6 5.0-0 e7 6.e1 b5 7.b3 0-0 8.c3 d5 9.d4 exd4 10.e5 C89: Closed Ruy Lopez: Marshall Attack e4 11.cxd4 f5 12.c3 xc3 13.bxc3 a5 13...d7 14.g5 a3 15.h4 e6 16.c2 g6 17.f6 fe8 1-0 (30) Mastrovasilis,D (2580)-Sargissian,G (2650) Minsk 2017 14.c2 xc2 15.xc2 c4 16.a4 d7 17.g5N Predecessor: 17.g5 xg5 18.xg5 fb8 19.f4 bxa4 20.f5 0-1 (44) Pym,T (2050)-Guthrie,D (2170) Coventry 2005 17...bxa4 18.xa4 a5 19.ea1 fb8 19...ab8 20.xe7 xe7 21.c1 20.4a2 20.xe7 xe7 21.c1 20...xg5 21.xg5 g6 22.h3 b6 22...f5 23.c1 b3 24.g4 23.f3 ab8 24.c1 g7 25.h2 25.d2 25...f5 26.d2 b2 26...f4+ 27.h1 27.g1 b2 27...b2 27...b2 27...xf2? 28.xc4 xa2 29.xb6 28.xb2 xb2 27.f3

27.f1= 27...a4! 28.xa4 28.e3 28...xa4 29.xa4 b2 30.e3 e4 31.xe4 dxe4 32.g5 xf2 33.xe4 e2 34.f6 bb2 35.g3 e3+ 36.f4 36.h2 was called for. 36...xc3 37.a8 xg2 38.g8+ h6 39.h8? 39.g4+ nothing else works. h5 40.g7 39...f2+ 40.e4 xf6 40...g5 41.g4+ g7 42.xh7+ xh7 43.xf2 g6 41.exf6

g5! Much less strong is 41...xh3 42.f8 42.xh7 xf6 43.h8 43.d5 only move. 43...g5 43...c5-+ is more deadly. 44.h7 c4 44.h4+ g4 45.d5 c4+ 46.e5? 46.d3 ist eine bessere Chance. c1 47.d4 46...f5 47.h5 e4+ 47...g5 48.e6 gxh5 49.g8+ f4 48.f6 gxh5 49.c8 f4 50.xc7 f3 51.g7+ f4 51...h3 52.f5 e1 53.f7 f2 54.g6 f1 55.xf1 xf1 56.d6 h4 57.d7 d1 58.f5 xd7 59.f4 g2 60.f5 h3 61.e6 d2 62.e7 h2 63.e6 h1 64.f7 g3 65.g7 b7+ 66.f6 d6+ 67.g5 d5# 52.h7 f2 53.xh5 g3 54.g5+ g4 0–1

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