80th Tata Steel Chess Tournament - Round 10 Games

80th Tata Steel Chess Tournament - Standings after 10 Games


80th Tata Steel Chess Tournament - Round 10 Games

Carlsen, Magnus-So, WesleyHou, Yifan-Adhiban, B..Kramnik, Vladimir-Matlakov, MaximSvidler, Peter-Mamedyarov, ShakhriyarJones, Gawain C B-Anand, ViswanathanGiri, Anish-Karjakin, SergeyWei, Yi-Caruana, Fabiano

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Carlsen, Magnus2834–So, Wesley27921–0D0280th Tata Steel Masters 201810Groningen24.01.2018ChessBase

1.f3 d5 2.d4 f6 3.f4 f5 4.e3 e6 5.c4 xb1 6.xb1 D02: 1 d4 d5 2 Nf3 sidelines, including 2...Nf6 3 g3 and 2...Nf6 3 Bf4 b4+ 7.d1 d6 8.g5 h6 LiveBook: 3 Games 9.xf6 xf6 10.cxd5N Predecessor: 10.c5 f8 11.c2 c6 12.b4 a6 13.d3 d7 1/2-1/2 (40) So,W (2822)-Wojtaszek,R (2745) Shamkir 2017 10...exd5 11.e4

Threatens to win with e5. e7 12.b5+ c6 13.e5 f4 14.d3 c5 15.dxc5! c6 16.c1! b4 Black is not keeping still 17.a3 xc5 18.e2 d4+ 19.xd4 xd4 20.f4 0-0 21.d2 Bh7+! is the strong threat. b6 22.he1 f6 Hoping for ...fxe5. Threatens to win with ...fxe5. 23.e6 xe6+ 24.f3 d7 25.ad1 ad8 26.e3 26.c4!? e8 27.xd5+ h8 28.g3 26...d6 27.g6 f5 28.e6+! Much weaker is Don't play 28.xd5 c6 28...xe6 29.xe6 c5 30.e5 f6 31.xf5 d6 32.dxd5 f7 33.e4 g6 34.g4 h5 35.h3 e8 36.ed4 e5

37.b4! Stronger than Of course not 37.xe5 xe5 38.g3 g5 38...e1 37...g5 38.g3 Not And not 38.xe5 xe5 39.c8 xf4+ 40.xf4+ gxf4 38...b6 39.d7+ 39.d7± e7 40.b5 39...f8!= 40.h7 Black must now prevent Rh8+. aiming for Rh8+. g4+ 41.xg4 hxg4+ 42.xg4 Precision: White = 70%, Black = 60%. Hoping for Rh8+. d6 43.c4 a5 44.c6 g8 45.b7! e5 46.cxb6 xb6 47.xb6 Endgame KRB-KR d4 48.b5 e2 49.b3 xh2 50.xa5 e2 50...f7 51.d5± b2 51...f2± 52.a4+- c3

53.f5! e8

54.g4! f8+ 55.e4 b8 56.b5 e8+? 56...a8 was worth a try. 57.d3 a5 57.d3 e1 58.a5 f2 59.b4 e3+ 60.c4 e4+ 61.b3 f7 62.e5 d4 63.b5 d3+ 64.c2 g3 64...d4 65.f5+ e6 65.g5 d4 66.d5 e3 67.d3 g2+ 68.b3 c1 69.b6 e6 70.d4 b2+ 71.a4 f5 72.b4 a2+ 73.b5 xf4

74.xf4+! xf4 75.b7 Precision: White = 87%, Black = 46%. 1–0

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