While Aronian and Radjabov drew quickly, Karjakin won with the Black pieces against Dominguez to guarantee himself at least a share of 1st place. The only player who can catch Karjakin is Carlsen but he is a pawn down against Wang Yue in the endgame.
GM Dominguez (2717) – GM Karjakin (2706) [B90]
Corus A (13), 01.02.2009
1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 a6 6.Be3 Ng4 7.Bc1 Nf6 8.Be3 Ng4 9.Bg5 h6 10.Bh4 g5 11.Bg3 Bg7 12.h3 Nf6 13.Qe2 Nc6 14.Nxc6 bxc6 15.e5 dxe5 16.Bxe5 0–0 17.g4 a5 18.h4 Bxg4 19.f3 Bf5 20.hxg5 hxg5 21.Qe3 a4 22.Qxg5 Bg6 23.Bd3 a3 24.b4 Qb6 25.Rh4 Nh7 26.Rxh7 Kxh7 27.0–0–0 Qxb4 28.Rh1+ Kg8 29.Bxg7 Kxg7 30.Qh6+ Kf6 31.Ne4+ Ke6 32.Rd1 Qb2+ 33.Kd2 Kd7 34.Qf4 Rfd8 35.Ke2 Ke8 36.Rh1 Ra5 37.Qc7 Rad5 38.Ke3 Kf8 39.c3 Rxd3+ 40.Kf4 f6 41.Rh8+ Kf7 Black wins 0–1
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Does any body knows, if Carlsen manages to win, who wins between them on the point tie-breaker?
I dont think it matters, there’s no way Carlsen is winning.
Karjakin finally puts one over Carlsen. If only he can be consistent enough, the chess world will have another great rivalry.
Pity. I’d prefer Carlsen over Karjakin any day; Karjakin is the most anaemic person to sit on the board ever, worse than even Leko.
Leko likes quiet games. Both Karjakin and Carlsen prefer attacking chess.
@ 10:18:
Yeah, but for one thing Karjakin’s chess is somehow artificial – to me anyway. And having such an uncharismatic player on the top can’t be good for chess.
They are both young and their chess styles can still change. With a Carlsen-Karjakin rivalry, and with the ascent of players like Giri, So, Yifan, et al, the chess world is assured of exciting times ahead.
Carlsen blunders 60. … Re5?? and will lose the game (having 1 hour on the clock, while Wang Yue 11 minutes). So congartualtions to Karjakin!!!
The players who stand actually on the top are also very good chess champions. let’s first enjoy them and afterwords the young talents coming.
Anand has waited long enough for these years being and staying worldchampion. He deserves it!
okay
Yes, everyone had to wait till Gary would quit. Still anybody’s tournament since then.
ok
We know all winners of Corus 2009:
A. Karjakin
B. Caruana
C. So
Congratulations!!!
“karjakin…such an uncharismatic player”.
Cheez. What jerks. Perhaps you would like Bozo the clown to be next World Chess Champion??
BTW, Carlsen is also pretty nerdy. Perhaps you should admit that you are just cauht up in the general hype that surrounds Carlsen?
Karjakin is the real deal.. nad perhaps at least we will at last see the rise of the true child genius….
Funny, but this year’s Corus winners all seem to have been, at one time or another, the world’s youngest grandmaster.