Position after 40…Rgc7
[Event “World Team Championship”]
[Date “2010.01.12”]
[Round “8”]
[White “Aronian, Levon”]
[Black “Nakamura, Hikaru”]
[ECO “E98”]
[WhiteElo “2781”]
[BlackElo “2708”]
1. d4 Nf6 2. Nf3 g6 3. c4 Bg7 4. Nc3 d6 5. e4 O-O 6. Be2 e5 7. O-O Nc6 8. d5 Ne7 9. Ne1 Nd7 10. Nd3 f5 11. Bd2 Nf6 12. f3 f4 13. c5 g5 14. cxd6 cxd6 15. Nf2 Ng6 16. Qc2 Rf7 17. Rfc1 Ne8 18. a4 h5 19. Ncd1 Bf8 20. Ra3 a6 21. Qc3 Bd7 22. Qa5 b6 23. Qb4 Rg7 24. Rac3 Nh4 25. h3 Be7 26. Be1 Qb8 27. Kf1 Bd8 28. Rb3 Bc7 29. Qa3 Qd8 30. Rbc3 Bb8 31. b4 Ra7 32. Rc6 b5 33. axb5 axb5 34. Ra6 Rb7 35. Rcc6 Bxc6 36. dxc6 Ra7 37. Nc3 d5 38. Nxd5 Nf5 39. exf5 Qxd5 40. Ne4 Rgc7 +-
Even though the position is quite complicated, White does have a nice advantage. I remember asking Aronian a few years ago about what kind of style he has. He said he loves unbalanced and complicated positions because he believes that he can out-calculate his opponents. Well, this is exactly that type of position. However, Hikaru is also a brilliant tactician and he excels in this type of position as well. Therefore, it will be exciting to see who will come out ahead in this important game.
41. Nxg5 Ng7 42. Rb6 Nxf5 (if 42… Rxa3 43. Rxb8+ Ne8 44. Rxe8+ Kg7 45. Ne6+ Kh7 46. Nxc7 Qxc6 47. Re7+ Kh8 48. Ne6 Qc2 +-) 43. Rxb8+ Kg7 44. Rxe8+ Kg7 45. Ne6+ Kh7 46. Nxc7 Qxc6 47. Re7+ Kh8 48. Ne6 Qc2) 43. Rxb8+ Kg7 44. Qb2 Ra2 45. Qb1 Rc2 46. Rxb5 Qd6 47. Rb7 Kh6 48. Kg1 Qxc6 49. Nf7+ Rxf7 50. Rxf7 Ne3 51. Ra7 Qd5 52. Qa1 Nxg2 53. Qa6+ +-
And Black should resign shortly. An exciting game by both players.
i agree.. both of them are excellent tactical players…im glad to see nakamura stepping up his game..
looks like nakamura might try and activate that knight and use it to attack the kingside..
another possibility is swing that rook to g7. trade with the pawns and get the rook on g4.. pick off that f pawn protecting aronians knight.
Qd4 would be nice. trade the rooks and take his b pawn.
Naka is lost.
Nice game from Shulman, Susan see if ya got an extra copy of capas endings and give it to Onischuk, thats one of the problems with theses robots.
Nakamura did indeed resign there.
He had one chance at move 41: 41…Nd6 is unclear. But after 41…Ng7, Aronian’s Queen sacrifice 42.Rb6!! must be reckoned as one of “The” moves of the tournament. Live by the sword, die by the sword…and the kind of lost game one can really learn from.
It’s still a great performance by the US team, who now need to hope Israel defeats Russia while they defeat Azerbaijan—ties don’t do it. The tournament overall is making an excellent spectacle.
Susan i just got back from chess.com have “The Russians” resigned yet? They sent some guy from Sweden at me there, i think he thought i was GM Ashley, Susan! I told him we lookatlikes but he gotta a pretty smile i dont! Then some Russian showed up and tried to crush me but he decided to give me a DRAW!!! boy oh boy IAM ULTRALUCKY.