Final position
After performing above 2900 and beating many of the highest rated players in the tournament, Nakamura unexpectedly lost to the lowest rated player in the tournament, GM Oms 2506. He is still leading the event but his lead has been narrowed to just 1/2 point.
GM Oms (2506) – GM Nakamura (2648) [E97]
24.10.2007
1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.e4 d6 5.Be2 0–0 6.Nf3 e5 7.0–0 Nc6 8.d5 Ne7 9.Nd2 a5 10.Rb1 Nd7 11.a3 f5 12.b4 Kh8 13.f3 axb4 14.axb4 c6 15.Kh1 Nf6 16.Nb3 cxd5 17.cxd5 f4 18.Nb5 Nh5 19.Bd2 Ng8 20.Be1 Bf6 21.Qc2 Bh4 22.Bxh4 Qxh4 23.Kg1 Ng3 24.Rfe1 Rf6 25.Qc7 Nxe4 26.fxe4 f3 27.Bxf3 Rxf3 28.Rf1 Qxe4 29.gxf3 Qe3+ 30.Kh1 Bh3 31.Nxd6 Bxf1 32.Nf7+ Kg7 33.Rxf1 Qxb3 34.Ng5+ Kh6 35.Qxe5 White wins 1–0
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Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
Growing pain!
I followed this game live. The plan Nakamura started with moves 20-24 looked dubious. And 25 .. Nxe4 was definitely unsound.
But the computer found an alternative 25th move. After relatively long calculation it evaluated the wild line 25 .. Ra2 26. Nc1 Nxe4 27. Nxa2 Qf2+ 28. Kh1 Bh3 as almost equal!
If that’s true, then moves 20-24 weren’t dubious, Nakamura just didn’t find the right continuation.
Moves 20-24 were foolish enough. It’s the arrogance of youth; he just didn’t respect his opponent enough, and played the rating instead of the board.
Whatever the case may be,
that final position is pretty
cool. It looks more like a
contrived chess problem than
something from a real game.