Author: Mike Byrne
Date: 21:13:07 01/15/03
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On January 15, 2003 at 12:40:46, Rafael Vasquez wrote: >[Event "GMA"] >[Site "Wijk aan Zee NED"] >[Date "2003.01.15"] >[Round "2"] >[White "Karpov, A."] >[Black "Polgar, J."] >[Result "1-0"] >[ECO "E97"] >[WhiteElo "2688"] >[BlackElo "2700"] > >1. d4 Nf6 2. Nf3 e6 3. c4 b6 4. a3 Bb7 5. Nc3 d5 6. cxd5 Nxd5 7. Qc2 Nxc3 8. >Qxc3 >h6 9. e3 Nd7 10. b4 Be7 11. Bb2 0-0 12. Rd1 a5 13. b5 Rc8 14. Qb3 c6 15. bxc6 >Bxc6 16. Bb5 Bb4+ 17. axb4 Bxb5 18. bxa5 Bc4 19. Qa3 bxa5 20. Qd6 Bb5 21. d5 Rc2 >22. Rd2 Qc8 23. Qa3 Rxd2 24. Kxd2 Nb6 25. Qc3 Nc4+ 26. Kc2 e5 27. Kb1 Qg4 28. >Rc1 Rb8 29. Rc2 f6 30. d6 Qxg2 31. Nd2 Qh1+ 32. Ka2 Nxd6 33.Qc5 Rc8 0-1 As annoated by Polgar herself.... (http://www.corusgroup.com/coruschess/) Karpov 2688 - Polgar 2700 1.d4 Nf6 2.Nf3 e6 3.c4 b6 4.a3 Bb7 5.Nc3 d5 6.cxd5 Nxd5 7.Qc2 Nxc3 8.Qxc3 h6 9.e3 (see picture) Nd7 10.b4 Be7 11.Bb2 0-0 12.Rd1 (see diagram) "He was feeling confident until now, but after my next move he completely lost it." 12...a5 "I found this idea at the board. I don't know if it has been played before." 13.b5 Rc8 14.Qb3 "We analysed for a long time and looked at many moves here. Probably, 14.Bc4 is the best, but Black is very active. I'm not sure White will be enthusiastic about this line." 14...c6 15.bxc6 Bxc6 "Anatoly simply blundered with his next move." 16.Bb5? (see diagram) 16…Bb4+! "Now White is clearly worse, in a very unpleasant way, too." 17.axb4 Bxb5 18.bxa5 Bc4 19.Qa3 "The best choice is 19.Qa4 bxa5 20.Bc3 and now maybe 20...Qf6!? 21.Qxd7 Qg6. It could work, but it has to be checked." 19...bxa5 20.Qd6 Bb5! 21.d5 Rc2 "Someone suggested 21...Nc5, but I didn't really consider it, because I was too happy with 21...Rc2." 22.Rd2 "After 22.Nd4 Rxb2 23.Nxb5 Rxb5 24.dxe6 fxe6 25.Qxd7 Qxd7 26.Rxd7 Rb1+ 27.Rd1 Rxd1+ 28.Kxd1 Rxf2 I have a completely winning rook endgame." 22...Qc8 23.Qa3 Rxd2 24.Kxd2 Nb6 "24...Qc4 is very promising as well." 25.Qc3 Nc4+ 26.Kc2 e5 27.Kb1 Qg4 28.Rc1 Rb8 (see diagram) 29.Rc2 f6 "I guess I could have played 29...Qxg2 30.Nxe5 Qh1+, but now at least I'll never get mated on g7." 30.d6 Qxg2 "I just had to make sure I wasn't going to ruin it in his timetrouble." 31.Nd2 Qh1+ 32.Ka2 Nxd6 "I was enjoying myself now." 33.Qc5 Rc8 White resigned. 0 - 1 "Lately I was losing a couple of games to Anatoly. Actually, this was my first victory over him in classical chess (see picture). It's interesting to play him, but I just hate it when he tortures me. (…) That I have plus two doesn't mean anything, just that I feel happy" The other leaders, Vishy Anand and Evgeny Bareev (see picture), could keep the pace with Polgar and are now trailing the sole leader by half a point. They drew Jan Timman and Veselin Topalov respectively. The latter was a balanced game where White had two bishops against two knights; however, before drawing, Topalov lighted the board with a piece sacrifice. Bareev stayed calm, counter sacrificed and forced a draw by perpetual check. Long before, the encounter between Vasyl Ivanchuk and Alexander Grischuk had ended undecided as well. FIDE World Champion Ruslan Ponomariov is having a rocky tournament so far. Avenging a first round loss with a second round victory over his fellow World Champion Vladimir Kramnik, Ponomariov seemed destined to do some more damage. For a while, he seemed to be on the right track, playing Alexei Shirov. The latter repeated his game against Vasyl Ivanchuk at the 1996 Corus Chess Tournament. In the razor sharp Botvinnik Variation of the Slav Defense, Shirov felt confident enough to use the line again as Black. He was about ready to sacrifice an exchange to fight for a draw, when Ponomariov gave up an important pawn. Shirov didn't hesitate, collected the pawn and converted the advantage. The remaining two games almost took the full seven hours to finish. For a very long time, it seemed that young Teimour Radjabov was on his way to score his first full point, playing Loek van Wely. Nonetheless, Van Wely already has shown in the past rounds that he's had enough of losing in Wijk aan Zee. He hung on to his last life line and secured a draw at move eighty. Michal Krasenkow (see picture) also appeared to be heading to a safe haven in his game against Vladimir Kramnik. It was not to be, for, like yesterday against Bareev the Russian giant came up with a study-like win (see diagram). With only seconds on both players' clock, the game continued 69.h6! Ra7! 70.Ne3 70.h7 fails to 70…Re7! and White can't escape the black rook's suicide checks 70…gxh6 71.Nf5 ra5 72.Kf4 Ra4 73.Kf3 Ra3 74.Kg4 Ra4 75.Kh5 Ra7 76.Rf8! 76.Nxh6 Ra5 77.Kg4 Kg7! and Black survives 76…Rb7 77.Kh4 threatening 78.Rf777…Kg3 78.Rb6 Kg7 79.Rf7 and with checkmate on the next move, Black resigned.1 - 0 In Grandmaster B, Zhang Zhong continued his campaign. Although it looked as if the Chinese grandmaster was in some trouble against Jonny Hector, it didn't stop him from scoring his third win. Three players managed to keep their course. Wijk aan Zee veteran Friso Nijboer needed some good fortune to convert a better endgame against Viktorija Cmilyte (Alexei Shirov's partner and life; see picture). Arkadij Naiditsch on the contrary, scored a slow and agonizing, but convincing win against Sergey Karjakin (see picture). A bit more flashy was Daniel Stellwagen's third victory in the tournament. With a provocative exchange sacrifice, he bamboozled Harmen Jonkman into his second loss in a row
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