It’s Ivanchuk vs Carlsen in the Leon Super Rapid Final! Who will prevail?
Ivanchuk defeated Morozevich 2.5 – 1.5 while Carlsen had to go into 2 playoff blitz games to overcome Wang Yue.
Game 1: Ivanchuk 1/2 Carlsen
GM Ivanchuk (2746) – GM Carlsen (2770) [B76]
Leon Rapid Final (1), 07.06.2009
1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 g6 6.Be3 Bg7 7.f3 Nc6 8.Qd2 0–0 9.0–0–0 d5 10.exd5 Nxd5 11.Nxc6 bxc6 12.Bd4 Bxd4 13.Qxd4 Qb6 14.Na4 Qc7 15.Bc4 Rd8 16.Bb3 Bf5 17.g4 Nf4 18.Qe3 Be6 19.h4 Bxb3 20.axb3 Ng2 21.Rxd8+ Rxd8 22.Qe4 Qf4+ 23.Qxf4 Nxf4 24.Nc3 h5 25.Re1 hxg4 26.fxg4 Ne6 27.Ne4 Kg7 28.b4 Rh8 29.Ng5 Nxg5 30.hxg5 e6 31.Re4 Rb8 32.Rc4 Rb5 33.Rxc6 Rxb4 34.c4 a5 35.Kb1 e5 36.Rc5 e4 37.Rxa5 Rxc4 38.Re5 e3 39.Rxe3 Rxg4 40.Re5 f5 41.gxf6+ Kxf6 42.Re8 g5 43.Kc2 Rf4 44.Rf8+ Ke5 45.Rxf4 Kxf4 46.b4 g4 47.b5 Ke5 48.b6 Kd6 49.b7 Kc7 50.b8Q+ Kxb8 51.Kd3 Game drawn ½–½
　
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Well, since Ivanchuk has already drawn the first game as white, I will pick Carlsen to prevail.
first 2 games drawn
Chucky will be slightly more logical.
Question to Susan: why aren’t you mentioning today’s grandslam final of tennis at Roland Garros, as you usually do?
Federer made it 14!
Then, I still choose Carlsen if Ivanchuk brought that wine with him to the table.
Watch the games here:
http://www.soloajedrez.com/torneos/leon/leon09/
Chucky must be slightly favorite in this discipline. He’s the best rapid player at the moment, proven many a times.
ivanchuk!
Ivanchuk one up, one to go..
Chucky!
Magnificent Magnus did it again!
;D
2-2
Tiebreak-time!
First tiebreak drawn.
Another draw..
Last game, 5 min – 4 min, draw wins for black!
And chaos.
The live stream just stopped working.
But Magnus.. won!?