Final position
GM Arkell – GM Ivanchuk [E60]
European Club Cup Championship
October 3, 2007
1.d4 Nf6 2.Nf3 g6 3.c4 Bg7 4.g3 d5 5.cxd5 Nxd5 6.Nc3 Nb6 7.Bg2 Nc6 8.e3 0-0 9.0-0 Re8 10.b3 e5 11.dxe5 Bg4 12.Qc2 Nb4 13.Qe4 Bxf3 14.Bxf3 Bxe5 15.Qxb4 Qf6 16.Bd2 Qxf3 17.Rad1 Rad8 18.Qb5 Re6 19.Bc1 Rxd1 20.Nxd1 a6 21.Qb4 Rc6 22.Bb2 Bxb2 23.Nxb2 Nd5 24.Qd2 Nc3 25.Re1 Ne4 26.Qe2 Qf5 27.Nd3 Rd6 28.Rc1 c6 29.Rc2 Nxg3 30.hxg3 Rxd3 31.e4 Qd7 32.g4 Rh3 33.Rd2 Qe7 34.Rd3 Rh4 35.Rg3 h5 36.gxh5 Qe5 37.Kg2 Rxh5 38.Qg4 Kg7 39.Kf3 Rh2 40.Rg2 Black wins 0-1
Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
So much hype about Ivanchuck at the moment. Let him win a tournament where the top 10 play. It was looong time ago Ivanchuck won a tourney with Anand, Kramnik, etc.
you just jealous how many tournaments have you won??
good luck chy…. see u in merida!
Susan that chess column of yours looks excellent, i bet all the other interviews will be also bright, i havent even read so, so u think that the turn point was winning against svidler in r 5?
i think that it was also when kramnik was unable to beat either anand or gelfand, what do u think? and what happend to aronian apart from being sick, why did he disappaear from the world stage of chess? i bet magnus would of done better than him!!!
jb.
bye the way i dont agree that anand played bad against grischuk, perhaps it was a miracously escape at the end but the point is that on that game he played bold and brilliant out of his style and somewhere along the lines he lost track and the position turned agint him – a pawn but i enjoyed that game more than most of his boring 20 move drwas or the 13 kramnik game, dont u agree??
that and the moroz game i think were his best although i dont remember all his games, but if i can remember those two of his it must be because of something, kramnik played an excellent game at the start of the tourn, befor 6 round, and most at least played 1 or 2 brilliant games, what would the international board claim the proficiency of the tournament was from aA to F, sory for the long post, to cut it all short, anand played a brilliant 13th game, cest tout!!!
jb. love always to u susy.
great job too tks hope u will follow next year mattch against kr vs va.
bye for now!!!
anon 5:40 is right about Chucky’s scores in the big events with the top 10 playing, Anand, Kramnik etc… It seems that he excels better in events of lower scale. My guess is that the reason is somewhat connected to psychology. Maybe to pressure or personality and how Chucky views himself. He is a very odd guy. I like him a lot though as a person as well as a chess player and his style of play is delightful at many times with excellent moves.
Going back to the final position in the diagram posted. IT is unclear why it is the final position. Does Chucky have a move here that wins him the game? I think that GM Keith Arkell just lost on time.
I followed the game in real time and I confirm, GM Arkell lost on time.
Fra
wOw, I just found out that Grischuk married at the Euro team, probably before! There a picture of is wife! Not single any more, sigh.
I would never forget when
sissy Ponomariov beat Ivanchuk
in their match for FIDE crown.
And I still don’t understand what
happend then.
Vas is so much better and exciting player than Pono.
It looks like white cannot avoid the loss of another pawn (a2).
“wOw, I just found out that Grischuk married at the Euro team, probably before! There a picture of is wife! Not single any more, sigh.”
That explains why he smiled so rarely at the tournament in Mexico.
Sorry I had to do that joke.