Scala - Chess Games: September 2018

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Friday, September 28, 2018

Fabiano Caruana X Viswanathan Anand - Round 4.1 - 43rd Olympiad Batumi 2018 Open

A game that I liked (ChessBase 14)

Caruana, Fabiano2827–Anand, Viswanathan27711–0E0343rd Olympiad Batumi 2018 Open4.1Batumi27.09.2018

1.d4 f6 2.c4 e6 3.g3 d5 4.g2 dxc4 5.a4+ bd7 6.xc4 a6 LiveBook: 46 Games 7.e3N E03: Open Catalan: 5 Qa4+ Nbd7 6 Qxc4 Predecessor: 7.c2 c5 8.f3 b5 9.e5 d5 10.xd7 xd7 11.xd5 exd5 12.dxc5 c6 13.0-0 d4 14.f4 d5 15.f3 d3 16.exd3 xc5+ 17.xc5 xc5+ 18.g2 d4 19.c3 d7 20.ae1 1/2-1/2 (20) Giri,A (2752)-Anand,V (2767) Wijk aan Zee 2018 7...d6 8.c2 0-0 9.h3 e5 10.0-0 h6 11.dxe5 xe5 12.c3 e7 13.ad1 e8 14.f4 c6 15.d4 g5 16.d3 xd3 17.xd3 e5 But not 17...f5? 18.xf6 xd3 19.xe7+- 18.d2 f5 19.e4 g6 20.f4 gxf4 20...xd4+= 21.xd4 ad8 21.xe5 xe5 22.gxf4 Much worse is 22.xf4?! xf4 23.xf4 g7= 22...c5+

23.h1! xe4 24.xe4 xe4

25.g3! d4

26.e3!+- 1–0

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