Final position after 24.f4!
GM Topalov (2780) – GM Gelfand (2737) [C42]
17.01.2008
1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.Nxe5 d6 4.Nf3 Nxe4 5.d4 d5 6.Bd3 Nc6 7.0–0 Be7 8.Nc3 Nxc3 9.bxc3 Bg4 10.Re1 0–0 11.Bf4 Bd6 12.Bxd6 cxd6 13.Re3 Qd7 14.h3 Bh5 15.Qd2 Rae8 16.Nh4 Rxe3 17.Qxe3 Qe6 18.Nf5 Rd8 19.Qg5 Bg6 20.Ne3 Be4 21.Re1 h6 22.Qh4 Qg6 23.Be2 Bxc2 24.Bh5 Qe4 25.Qg3 Bd3 26.f3 Qe7 27.Ng4 Qg5 28.f4! White wins 1–0
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Quote from GM Nakamura:
Smallville(GM) kibitzes: If I stay in form and Onischuk does, we should win the Olympiad in Dresden
Quotes from GM Nakamura:
Smallville(GM) kibitzes: I’m not really scared of Svidler or Kramnik
Smallville(GM) kibitzes: and Moro is deathly scared of me
Topalov again begins to validate the “Topalov Tournament Gambit”. For the price of 2 early games he now has the winning momentum.
Topalov is like UFC fighters that punch themselves in the face and once the rage settles in – go for the kill 🙂
Gelfand = pwned!
gelfand got smoked like a cheap cigar…
I don’t know if Gelfand was in time pressure or just really off. The end was horribly evident, how could he have grabbed the pawn like a patzer? In that structure it was useless anyway.
An immediate Qg6 instead of h6 first and Black was OK as he either eliminates the Queen or bishop. Game is simple draw without White having one of those.
I am not certain one can win a tournament by losing to the good players and hoping the bad ones try too hard to beat you also and then blunder.
Why is Leko even here?
Does anyone know how the colors are determined?
Kramnik gets black against the top two rated players Anand and Topalov.
by pure chance
wow, lots of aggressive, juvenile comments
looks like it is hard for Gelfand to pass up the opportunity to take an undefended pawn. he took a pawn in Aronian’s game and that was a blunder. In this game, too, he could not resist taking tha pawn. perhaps, he is too much of a materialist on the board. This is something he needs to deal with at a psychological level. (it may be unfair for me to say this, as I don’t really know how he has played in the past. Anyway, this is a great tournament. Peace to the world!)
Vahik
26…Qe7 is a dubious move. Don’t quite understand the ‘incredible’ piece of this. I suppose if you were a Topalov fan, anytime he wins could be construed as an incredible event and should be heralded on equal footing as Fischer’s play in the Candidates Matches, at least that is what it seems.
Anyway, 26…Qh7 looks to hold ok, but is ugly looking.
Yea, May be Topalov again will show his agressive stile to the end of the tournament. I hope he will be in form to meet Kramnik on the table.
Topalov can win all he wants. The chess public at large dislike him intensely.He is not to be trusted.
And why so dislike him? Because he try to defend his rights confronting russian mafia?
By the way Bobby left chess by same reasons.
Good stuff with Drawnik and Leko!