Mamedyarov, S (2742) – Ivanchuk, V (2781)
2008 Tal Memorial, (4), 21.08.2008
1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.e3 a6 5.Qc2 Bg4 6.h3 Bh5 7.cxd5 cxd5 8.Qb3 Ra7 9.g4 Bg6 10.g5 Nfd7 11.Nxd5 Nc6 12.Nf4 e5 13.Nxg6 hxg6 14.Bd2 Be7 15.Nf3 e4 16.Ng1 Bxg5 17.Ne2 Nce5 18.Ng1 Nc6 19.0–0–0 Nf6 20.Bg2 Qc8 21.Kb1 Qf5 22.Be1 Bh4 23.Ne2 0–0 24.Ng3 Bxg3 25.fxg3 Nd5 26.h4 a5 27.Bd2 a4 28.Qc2 Re8 29.a3 Raa8 30.Bh3 Qf3 31.Rde1 Qxg3 32.h5 gxh5 33.Bd7 Red8 34.Rxh5 Rxd7 35.Reh1 f5 36.Rh8+ Kf7 37.Rxa8 Nxe3 38.Bxe3 Qxe3 39.Qc4+ Kf6 40.Rf8+ Kg5 41.Qc5 g6 42.Rfh8 Qd3+ 43.Ka1 Nxd4 44.Rg1+ Kf6 45.Qf8+ Ke5 46.Qc5+ Kf6 47.Qb6+ Ke5 48.Qc5+ 1/2
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Looks like all 1/2 today
Superb stuff indeed. The consecutive moves by White:
15. Ng1-f3
16. Nf3-g1
17. Ng1-e2
18. Ne2-g1,
none involving a capture, are amazing!
The tied result is the only resemblance between this and a soccer match. I’m saying this because numerous times in the slow first 70 minutes of today’s Brazil-USA women’s soccer final, which I had on while frying littlefish and debugging my own C++ code, the NBC live commentators referred to it as a “chess match”. Then when the game heated up after US goalie Hope Solo made an amazing pure-reflex save off Marta, this stopped. The 24 minutes after the US team scored were furious action, with the US team also getting golden chances. The Brazilians had better positional and attacking play the entire game, but as a Brazilian grad in our department also agreed, the US goal and some other individual strikes were brilliant.
Brilliant game! Especially by Ivanchuk who’s moves and evaluation were more difficult.
I wonder if Mamedyarov ever wins a game by the way. This is an exiting game, but mostly his games are most boring.