80th Tata Steel Chess Tournament - Round 8 Games

Carlsen, Magnus-Jones, Gawain C BHou, Yifan-Caruana, FabianoGiri, Anish-Mamedyarov, ShakhriyarKramnik, Vladimir-So, WesleySvidler, Peter-Anand, ViswanathanAdhiban, B..-Karjakin, SergeyWei, Yi-Matlakov, Maxim

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Carlsen, Magnus2834–Jones, Gawain C B26401–0B7680th Tata Steel Masters 20188Wijk aan Zee21.01.2018ChessBase

1.e4 c5 2.f3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.xd4 f6 5.c3 g6 6.e3 g7 7.f3 c6 8.d2 0-0 9.0-0-0 d5 10.e1 e5 11.xc6 bxc6 12.exd5 xd5 13.c4 e6 14.b1 B76: Sicilian Dragon: Yugoslav Attack, 9 g4 and 9 0-0-0 e8 15.e4 LiveBook: 3 Games f5N Predecessor: Find the theoretical novelty and annotate with similar games: 15...c7 16.c5 h6 17.g4 f4 18.d6 b6 19.xe6 xe6 20.c5 b5 21.b3 ee8 1-0 (36) Leko,P (2709)-Trent,L (2463) Douglas 2016 16.g5 The position is equal. c8 17.g4?

17.h4 keeps the upper hand. and White has nothing to worry. 17...f4!-+ 18.h4 Strongly threatening Bc5. But not 18.h4? h6-+ 18...fxe3 19.xe3

h6! 20.c5 b7 Don't take Resist 20...hxg5 21.xc6 e6 22.xd5 21.e4 e6 22.h5 b6 22...g5-+ and Black stays clearly on top. 23.b3 f8 22...f8-+ 23.f2 g5 23.g5! hxg5 Black should try 23...f8 24.g1 xg1 25.dxg1 h8 25...e7 26.gxh6 g5 27.xg5 e7 24.a3!= b8 Hoping for ...Bf8. And now ...Bf8 would win. Don't take 24...f8 25.d3 25.b3 d8 25...gxh5= 26.xh5 g4 27.fxg4 be8 26.xa7 gxh5? 26...e7± 27.xh5+- g6

27...h6 28.xg5 h8 28.xg5! xg5 29.xg5 c8? 29...d6 might work better. is a better defense. 30.g1 f8 30.g1 a8 31.b6 Black must now prevent Bxd5+. a6 32.c5 White wants to mate with Qe7. d7? 32...f8 was worth a try. 33.e6 xc5 34.xg7+ 34.xc5 a7 34...h8 35.xc5 xg7 33.e4 h8 If Black can now play ...Ra8 this consolidates a bit. Now ...Ra8 and Black clings on. 34.f2 Qh4+ would kill now. White threatens Qh4+ and mate. e7 35.xa6 xa6 36.h2+ g8 37.h6 a7? 37...f8 38.xc6 b7 38.e6+ White is clearly winning. f8 39.g5 e3 39...e7 40.f5+ f6 41.xc6 b7 42.xf6+ xf6 43.xf6+ xf6 44.xf6 xf3 45.d7+ e7 46.xe5 e2 46...h5 40.d6+ f7 41.c5 41.xc6 e7 42.xa6 41.d8 Intending Nd6+ and mate. d3 42.cxd3 41...c8

42.xg7+! Precision: White = 68%, Black = 28%. Precision: White = 62%, Black = 29%. 1–0

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