Sergey Karjakin X Fabiano Caruana - Berlin 2018

This great game take place at World Chess Candidates in Round 12  (24/3/2018)

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Karjakin, Sergey2763–Caruana, Fabiano27841–0C42World Chess Candidates 201812Berlin24.03.2018

1.e4 e5 2.f3 f6 3.xe5 d6 4.f3 xe4 5.c3 xc3 6.dxc3 c6 7.e3 e7 8.d2 e6 9.0-0-0 C42: Petroff Defence: 3 Nxe5 and unusual White 3rd moves d7 9...a6 10.b3 h6 11.e2 d7 12.b1 f6 13.d4 xd4 14.xd4 xd4 15.xd4 0-0 16.c4 fe8 17.f3 ab8 1-0 (41) Anand,V (2776)-Mamedyarov,S (2809) Moscow 2018 10.a3 LiveBook: 5 Games h6 11.d4N White has an edge. Predecessor: 11.b1 g8 12.d3 0-0-0 13.e2 f6 14.b5 b8 15.he1 g5 16.d2 h8 1/2-1/2 (71) Kasimdzhanov,R (2698)-Li,D (2488) Chengdu 2017 11...xd4 12.xd4 g8 13.e2 c5 14.e3 d5 15.f4 0-0-0 16.f3 g4 17.xd5 xd1 18.xd1 c7 19.c4 ge8 20.f2 b6 21.g4 f6 22.b1 White has compensation. d7 23.d3 g5 24.a2 ee7 Better is 24...d6 25.f3± d8 26.d2 c8 27.f1 d6 27...a6± 28.fxg5+- xg5 29.xg5 hxg5 30.f5+ dd7 and if ...Qf4 works, Black does fine. 31.xg5 e5 32.h6 d8?

32...f6± 33.h4 d6 33.g5 d6 33...b5 34.f8+ c7 34.h8+ e8 35.h4 g6 36.g4 e5 37.h4 e7 38.d2 b5 38...d8 39.f4 d6 39.xf7 White is clearly winning. f5 40.xd7+ xd7 41.xf5+ xf5 Endgame KR-KB 42.g6 e7 43.cxb5 h5 44.c4 xh4 45.a4 g4 46.a5 d6 47.a6 c7 48.b3 Precision: White = 79%, Black = 38%. 1–0

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