GM Anand (2779) – GM Carlsen (2690) [C96]
04.03.2007
1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.0-0 Be7 6.Re1 b5 7.Bb3 d6 8.c3 0-0 9.h3 Na5 10.Bc2 c5 11.d4 Nd7 12.d5 Nb6 13.Nbd2 g6 14.b4 cxb4 15.cxb4 Nac4 16.Nxc4 Nxc4 17.Bb3 Nb6 18.Be3 Bd7 19.Rc1 Rc8 20.Rxc8 Bxc8 21.Qc2 Bd7 22.Rc1 Na8 23.Qd2 Qb8 24.Bg5 Bxg5 25.Nxg5 Rc8 26.Rf1 h6 27.Ne6 Kh7 28.f4 Qa7+ 29.Kh2 Be8 30.f5 gxf5 31.exf5 f6 32.Re1 Nc7 33.Rc1 Bd7 34.Rc3 e4 35.Rg3 Nxe6 36.dxe6 Be8 37.e7 Bh5 38.Qxd6 White wins 1-0
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Go Vishy!
If Carlsen actually took the knight….what would have happened ?? why was it a bad move if Carlsen accepted the knight sacrifice ???
i couldnt understand most of it after the knight sac
While Carlsen was offering the Knight, my comp seems to think the Black Knight can come out and block the White Bishop (N-b6, N-c4) and then things are OK or +ve for Black.
The Knigh offer was available for so many moves, so the exact move sequence is difficult to five. Can someone point out hte White’s winning movies for all those times, when carlsen could have taken the knight?
A most interesting game!
Rgds M.
My computer shows Carlsen should have won this game but instead fell apart.
I think Carlsen assumed Anand had this all calculated out because of what happened to Carlsen in the last game. In the last game Anand definitely had a superior understanding of the position. I think the knight move was psychological more than anything.
computer takes a while to show positive evals after the night sac. The sac was sound according to fritz and Rybka..
“My computer shows Carlsen should have won this game but instead fell apart. “
Not really. Computer takes a while to show positive eval but then the score increases rapidly to about 2.00. I am not saying that vishy calculated everything(which he might have given that he went into a long think on 26. and played rest of the moves very fast), but the sac itself was sound.
Computers are materialistic and they show + eval. So the position must be really winning.
Also comps cannot see the long term danger posed by the very strong passers..
Carlsen played good moves to defend according to comp.
comps liked 25..rc8 and so did a bunch of GMs, but turns out that was the big blunder. Anand was winning after rf1.
according to a post on chessgames.com, Anand now leads Topalov by 7 points in up-to-the minute ELO calculations and need to finish no worse than -1 relative to Topalov in the last four linares rounds to become the new number 1 on the ELO list.
There is no doubt that, despite ratings, Anand is a better overall player than Topalov. He will win this tournament.
I think Anand would be a good challenger to Kramnik.
Where is Kamsky? Has one of the top 10 players in the world disappeared? I he going to be playing in Mexico? If not, why?
I sure hope he will one day play for the world title. He’s not playing any other super-GM’s on a regular basis. Why?
funny you mention Kamsky. I was on the official web site of M-tel 2006. I was shocked what I learned.
Topalov played all games at the same table. view the pictures. that table was set up close to the audience. there were 6 players or 3 tables. the other 2 tables were in the back away from the audience. So Topalov was obviously in position to take signals from Danailov for the entire tournament.
Kamsky was winning the tournament but Topalov staged a strong ending and edged out Kamsky for first place. IF and I only say if. but if topalov was taking signals to help then he stole first place from Kamsky last year and probably stole first place from Anand at San Luis the year previous.
So it seems like the cheating is more important than I ever imagined if it is true. I hope it is not true.
However, I can only guess that Danailov is not getting an opportunity to signal Topalov at Linares and Topalov is not playing like he did at his winning tournaments. So far Topalov has not played well like his old self without a possibility of signals. I hope he can show the old super winning ways at a tournament without the possibility of signals so he can prove his innocense.
Right now all the evidence is piling up against him.
here is the gallery of pictures. it takes some work.
http://www.mtelmasters06.com/en/gallery.html
this picture shows clearly the 3 tables.
http://www.mtelmasters06.com/plugins/gallery/plugin.gallery.view.php?photo=0000000093
Just as Morelio pictures from last year explain his not being able to see the audience. now pictures show his ability to see the audience at M-tel Masters 2006.
There were 10 rounds and he sat at that table for all 10 games. check the pictures for all 10 games. did I miss one. I dont think so.
The point is that if he cheated then Anand should have won in San Luis and history would be different.
If he cheated at M-tell then Kamsky would have won and he probably would have been invited to Corus and Linares. So Kamsky is taking big hits if Topalov cheated.
I now see that it is super important that all these big tournaments must have total honesty on all moves of all games. It is most important the best player at the tournament be the winner and lose out to someone who cheats.
I sure hope and pray that topalov has been honest on all his moves. I just wish he would prove it by playing better in situations where there is no possibility for Danailov to signal him.
Topalov is having a bad run of games… He will bounce back in next tourney and prove his innocense.
Topalov can prove himself to the world….
Let him play the newest verstion of RYBKA in a match and win just one, just ONE game…maybe draw a second…that would prove a lot…but he will not play against computers as Kramnik, Adams, and Kasparov did.
Plus, if he played Rybka…any Dainalov gesture would have little merit as his “advice” would be coming from a program weaker than Rybka because the newest version of Rybka can defeat any human GM in the world. Period.
For even the best to get a draw would be a powerful statement on the GM’s abilities.
Vishys knight move was simple yet brilliant.Carlsen would capture at his peril.If he did,he would lose material and expose his king to mate in few moves.The pawn gained tremendous power with every push.
I remind you that Ivanchuk was not invited initially at Linares. He is definetely better than Kamsky now (ratingwise) as well as his lifetime achievements. WHY would linares invite Kamsky? Why not Mamedyarov, or J. Polgar or Adams, or Shirov or Gelfand?
Yous see this as unjust, only because you are americans… (and to those that will speak of last year’s M-tel I’ll remind you last years Corus…)