80th Tata Steel Chess Tournament - Round 9 Games

Matlakov, Maxim-Giri, AnishJones, Gawain C B-Hou, YifanCaruana, Fabiano-Adhiban, B..Karjakin, Sergey-Wei, YiSo, Wesley-Svidler, PeterMamedyarov, Shakhriyar-Kramnik, VladimirAnand, Viswanathan-Carlsen, Magnus

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Matlakov, Maxim2718–Giri, Anish27520–1A0680th Tata Steel Masters 20189Wijk aan Zee23.01.2018ChessBase

1.f3 d5 2.g3 g4 3.g2 c6 4.0-0 d7 5.h3 h5 6.d4 A07: Réti Opening: New York and Capablanca Systems e6 7.c4 e7 8.c3 The position is equal. dxc4 9.b3 cxb3 10.xb3 b6N Predecessor: 10...gf6 11.xb7 0-0 12.f4 a5 1/2-1/2 (41) Eljanov,P (2751)-So,W (2822) Shamkir 2017 11.a4 gf6 12.b1 c7 13.f4 c8 14.fc1 14.b3 14...0-0 15.b3 g6 16.b2 d8 17.a4 a5 18.d2 h5 19.e3 hf6 20.c4 d5 Black should try 20...a7= 21.xb7 b4 22.xc8 axc8 22...dxc8 23.a2 c5 23.a2!± xe3 24.fxe3 c5

25.d6 25.d1!± 25...a3 Black has some pressure. 26.xc8 xb2 27.e7+ f8 28.xg6+ hxg6 29.c2 a3! 30.c6 cxd4 31.exd4 c8 32.e3 e7 33.f1 d6 34.g4 b6 35.c1?

35.f2= 35...a3!-+ 36.c3 b4 37.xb4? 37.c2 keeps fighting. 37...axb4 Black is winning. 38.c5 b3 39.a5 d7 Precision: White = 56%, Black = 69%. 0–1

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