Arkadij Naiditsch

CHESS EVOLUTION

Top analysis by Super GMs

September 2012

TABLE OF CONTENTS

KEY TO SYMBOLS 5EDITORIAL PREFACE 7CONTRIBUTORS 9

A 11Game 1. Nakamura Wang 12Game 2. Kramnik Bartel 23Game 3. Wang Bologan 31Game 4. Carlsen Bologan 36

B 39Game 1. Karjakin Fridman 40Game 2. Efi menko Moiseenko 48Game 3. Grischuk Radjabov 57Game 4. Volokitin Eljanov 64Game 5. Svidler Dubov 75Game 6. Bacrot Giri 85Game 7. Wang Nakamura 90

C 97Game 1. Naiditsch So 98Game 2. Caruana Naiditsch 106Game 3. Movsesian Avrukh 119Game 4. Saric Pavlovic 131Game 5. Carlsen Bacrot 134Game 6. Carlsen Aronian 149Game 7. Karjakin Naiditsch 154

Game 8. Morozevich Radjabov 165Game 9. Carlsen Grischuk 172

D 181Game 1. Moiseenko Kuzubov 182Game 2. Morozevich Nakamura 185Game 3. Rodshtein Panomariov 192Game 4. Bacrot Morozevich 196Game 5. Sjugirov Vitiugov 202Game 6. Bacrot Nakamura 213Game 7. Korobov Kuzubov 222Game 8. Kramnik Tomashevsky 224Game 9. Laznicka Shirov 231Game 10. Moiseenko Ponomariov 234Game 11. Eljanov Arshchenko 237Game 12. Melkumyan Kurnosov 241Game 13. Grischuk Caruana 250Game 14. Miton Vachier 258

E 265Game 1. Kramnik Leko 266Game 2. Leko Karjakin 275Game 3. Aronian Grischuk 281Game 4. Morozevich Carlsen 286Game 5. Ponomariov Volokitin 295Game 6. Moiseenko Vovk 298Game 7. Giri Bacrot 308Game 8. Kramnik Grischuk 315Game 9. Wang Bacrot 322

ENDGAMES 327PUZZLES 333

KEY TO SYMBOLS

= Equality or equal chances White has a slight advantage Black has a slight advantage White is better Black is better+- White has a decisive advantage-+ Black has a decisive advantage unclear with compensation with counterplay with initiative with an attack with the idea only move

N novelty! a good move!! an excellent move? a weak move?? a blunder!? an interesing move?! a dubious move+ check# mate

EDITORIAL PREFACE

INTRODUCTION

A great 4-month period of chess has passed, and we bring You the new CESep-tember 2012 issue. We worked hard to collect the best theoretical moments in this period, selecting games from tournaments like the Dortmund Super Tournament, the Biel Super Tournament, the Tal Memorial Our goal is to give you theoretical knowledge that takes you from a basic level to a level where only very few players in the world would have a chance to compete with You! (If you do remember the lines, of course).

ON THE COVER

We are in the game VolokitinEljanov from Ukraine Championship 2012 in Sveshnikov opening, where White does fi nd a new way with 11.c4!? to compli-cate things in a position, which already almost been analyzed till completely dry. We can be sure to see very soon more games on this topic.

CONTENT OF CE SEPTEMBER 2012

Th e content of the CE Septermber 2012 issue remains as usual: commented games (Kamil Miton, Borki Predojevic, Arkadij Naiditsch) + an endgame sec-tion (by Etienne Bacrot) + a puzzle section (by Csaba Balogh).

From the openings point of view: Finally, the Kings Indian fans will have ablast because we analyzed quite a few important games played on this open-ing. Of course, we didnt miss the main topics in openings like the Sicilian, Slav or Catalan (with a very important game from Dortmund 2012, Kramnik-Leko).

A FEW GENERAL WORDS TO THE CE READERS

Sometimes its hard to see and we might forget the hundreds of hours of prepa-ration that the Top players spend before playing each game. A short and bor-ing draw can oft en contain a lot of new information and great play. Th ats why the most beautiful and spectacular analyses are left in the shadow for the usual spectator.

With deep opening analysis, we are trying to show You the behind the scenes of the novelty, give You our opinion about it, and whats most important, give You directions for further home analysis -where the right path is usually not an easy one to fi nd.

FUTURE

Already now we can announce that the next CE issue, CE January 2013, is going to probably be one of the most interesting ones we have ever published chess-wise. Events like the Chess Olympiad, the Fide Grand Prix, Bilbao and the London Super Tournament, with all the best players of the world partici-pating, give a huge load of new chess material from which we can harvest the best theoretical moments and analyze them in the book.

Arkadij Naiditsch

CONTRIBUTORS

Etienne Bacrot: France, 28 years old, GM 2714, number 29 in the world. Became GM at the age of 14, a record at the time. Six times French Champion starting from 1999.Winner of many international events including: 2005: 1st place in Poikovsky, 3rd in Dortmund and 3rd of the World Cup in Khanty-Mansiysk. 2009: 1st in Aerofl ot Open, second in Montreal and Antwerp. 2010: First equal in Gibraltar, 3rd in Nanjing and winner of Geneva Open. 2011: First equal in Basel, Geneva (rapid) and Rabat (blitz).

Csaba Balogh: Hungary, 25 years old, GM 2672. Grandmaster since 2004. Won the U-16 section of the 2003 European Youth Chess Championship. Member of the Hungarian national team since 2005.Best tournament result: winner of the Fischer memorial Super-tournament in 2008, Hviz.

Kamil Miton: Poland, 27 years old, GM 2622. World Junior U-12 Champion in 1996. Number 2 at the World Junior Champion (U-20).

Twice the winner (2002 and 2005) of one of the worlds biggest tournaments, the World Open in Philadelphia, USA.

Arkadij Naiditsch: Germany, 26 years old, GM 2712, number 31 in the world. Became Interna-tional Master at the age of 13, Grandmaster at 15. Winner of 2005 Super-tournament in Dortmund and since 2006 the top-rated German player. In 2007 was German Champion and won the Baku Open. In 2010 Arkadij won a match against Efi -menko in Mukachevo and was 1st equal in the European Rapid Championship in Warsaw.

Borki Predojevic: Bosnia and Herzegovina, 24 years old, GM 2642. Gained the GM title at the Calvia Olympiad in 2004 when he was 17. Best Elo was 2654 in September 2009. Joined the top 100 in 2007; highest place so far was 68th on the October 2007 list.Winner of several international open tournaments in-cluding: Open Metalis in Bizovac, Croatia in 2006, Za-greb Open, Croatia in 2007, Hit Open in Nova Gorica, Slovenia in 2008, Acropolis Open in Greece 2009. in 2008, Acropolis Open in Greece 2009.

A

GAME 1 Nakamura Wang [A23] 12

GAME 2 Kramnik Bartel [A25] 23

GAME 3 Wang Bologan [A58] 31

GAME 4 Carlsen Bologan [A59] 36

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GAME 4

Magnus Carlsen (2837) Viktor Bologan (2732)45th Biel GM Biel, SUI Round 8, 31.07.2012 [A59]Annotated by Arkadij Naiditsch

Another game on the Benko Gambit. Th is time well analyze the main line with 7.e4 and not 7.g3. It seems like in both lines White achieves some ad-vantage, and probably 12.e2 is the safest way for White to play.

1.d4 f6 2.c4 c5 3.d5 b5 4.cxb5 a6 5.bxa6 g6 6.c3 xa6 7.e4 xf1 8.xf1 d6 9.f3 g7 10.g3 00 11.g2 bd7

12.e2! b6 Another try for Black could be 12...a5 13.a4

(13.e5 dxe5 14.xe5 xe5 15.xe5 fd8

(15...a7 16.d1 d8 17.e2 ad7 18.a4 (18.f3 c4 19.e3 xd5 20.xd5 xd5 21.xd5 xd5 22.xd5 xd5 M. CarlsenD. Andreikin 2012.) )

16.xe7 xd5 17.xd5 xd5 18.e1 c4=)

13... fb8 14.a3 (14.d2 xb2 15.d1 xd2 16.xd2 xe4 17.c4 b4 18.db2 c3 19.xe7 e5+ A. RamirezM. Leon Hoyos, 2012.) 14...b4 (14...b6 15.e1 e8 16.d1 c7 17.e3) 15.b3

15...e8 (15...ab8 16.d2 e8 17.b5 b6 18.a2 c4 19.xc4 xc4 20.bxc4 xa4 21.xa4 xa4 22.e3) 16.d1 b6 (16...a6 17.xa6 xa6 18.d2) 17.d2

(17.c2 c4 18.bxc4 a6 19.b2 xb2 (19...c5 20.d2 xa4 21.d3 bb8 22.c5) 20.xb2 xc4 21.e2 b4 (21...xa4 22.xa4 xa4 23.a1+-) 22.c2 ef6 23.e1 c4 (23...c5 24.e5 xd5 25.exd6 exd6 26.a5) 24.c3 xc3 25.xc3 c5 26.e5 xd5 27.d4 d3=)

17...b7 18.b2 xb2 19.xb2.

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13.a4 fb 8 White has alot of options here and

all of them seem to give asmall ad-vantage.

13...e8 14.g5.

14.b5 14.e5 dxe5 15.xe5 xe5 16.xe5 b7;

14.d2!? e8 15.a3 (15.c4 a6 16.a3 b4) 15...c7 16.c4 a6 17.d2 e6 (17...e5 18.b3 xc4 19.bxc4 b4 20.b5 xb5 21.cxb5 xb5 22.xb5 xb5 23.axb5 xa3 24.b1 a7 25.b6 b7 26.f1 f8 27.e2 e8 28.d3 d7 29.c4) 18.dxe6 xe6 19.b5

19...xb2 (19...d4 20.d3 xb5 21.axb5 xb5 22.xa8 xa8 23.d5 f8 24.xd6 xb2 25.e3; 19...c6 20.bxd6 e5 21.c3) 20.xb2

xb5 21.xb5 xb5 22.axb5 xa3 23.c4 a4 24.c1 f8 25.b6.

14...e8 15.g5 d8 16.a3 16.hb1 h6 (16...c7 17.xe7 xe7 18.xc7).

16...b6 16...h6 17. f4 c7 18.c3 b4

(18...a5 19.ha1 a6 20.d1 b4 21.c1) 19.a5 b8 20.a2 b5 (20...b3 21.e5) 21.d2.

17.b3

17...d7 17...c7 18.xc7 xc7 19.c2.

18.a2 f6?! Th is move makes things go faster for

White, but Blacks position is clearly worse anyway.

19.c1 f5 20.exf5 gxf5 20...xf5 21.d1 xd5 22.c4 e6

23.g4 f6 24.g5.

21.d1 f6 22.e6+ xe6 23.dxe6 e4

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23...c4 24.bxc4 xc4 (24...e4 25.e1+-) 25.bd4 e4 26.e1+-.

24.h4

24...c4 Bologan looks for chances in the

complications, but these things dont work with the Worlds Number 1 player. White controls the game and fi nishes it easily.

25.bxc4 25.xf5 cxb3 26.xe7+ f8 27.e2 xe7 28. xe4 xa4 29.g5+ f6 30.xf6+ xf6 31.e3 b4 32.d4+-.

25...xc4 26.c7 c3 27.xa8 xa2 28.c7 c3 29.d3 c8 30.b5 xb5 31.axb5 c5

31...e5 32.d1 f6 33.xf5 c5 34.b6 b5 35.e3 xb6 36.d5 b1 37.xf6+ exf6 38.xd6+-.

32.b3 a5 33.b1 d4 34.b6 b7 35.b4 xf2 36.xf2 c2+ 37.f3 xc1 38.xf5 f1+ 39.g4 c5 40.b7

Aft er such agame, maybe its time to reconsider the opening choice. Im not sure if Black can improve somewhere, but Iam quite sure that White is doing slightly better and that 12.e2 is really astrong idea to accommodate Whites pieces.

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B

GAME 1 Karjakin Fridman [B12] 40

GAME 2 Efi menko Moiseenko [B30] 48

GAME 3 Grischuk Radjabov [B30] 57

GAME 4 Volokitin Eljanov [B33] 64

GAME 5 Svidler Dubov [B67] 75

GAME 6 Bacrot Giri [B81] 85

GAME 7 Wang Nakamura [B96] 90

C

GAME 1 Naiditsch So [C42] 98

GAME 2 Caruana Naiditsch [C45] 106

GAME 3 Movsesian Avrukh [C45] 119

GAME 4 Saric Pavlovic [C58] 131

GAME 5 Carlsen Bacrot [C65] 134

GAME 6 Carlsen Aronian [C67] 149

GAME 7 Karjakin Naiditsch [C67] 154

GAME 8 Morozevich Radjabov [C80] 165

GAME 9 Carlsen Grischuk [C84] 172

D

GAME 1 Moiseenko Kuzubov [D17] 182

GAME 2 Morozevich Nakamura [D20] 185

GAME 3 Rodshtein Panomariov [D20] 192

GAME 4 Bacrot Morozevich [D31] 196

GAME 5 Sjugirov Vitiugov [D38] 202

GAME 6 Bacrot Nakamura [D45] 213

GAME 7 Korobov Kuzubov [D45] 222

GAME 8 Kramnik Tomashevsky [D45] 224

GAME 9 Laznicka Shirov [D48] 231

GAME 10 Moiseenko Ponomariov [D58] 234

GAME 11 Eljanov Arshchenko [D70] 237

GAME 12 Melkumyan Kurnosov [D85] 241

GAME 13 Grischuk Caruana [D92] 250

GAME 14 Miton Vachier [D97] 258

E

GAME 1 Kramnik Leko [E01] 266

GAME 2 Leko Karjakin [E06] 275

GAME 3 Aronian Grischuk [E15] 281

GAME 4 Morozevich Carlsen [E35] 286

GAME 5 Ponomariov Volokitin [E60] 295

GAME 6 Moiseenko Vovk [E70] 298

GAME 7 Giri Bacrot [E97] 308

GAME 8 Kramnik Grischuk [E97] 315

GAME 9 Wang Bacrot [E97] 322

ENDGAMES

GAME 1 Giri Bacrot [E97]

GAME 2 Bacrot Carlsen [A40]

GAME 3 Wang Carlsen [E15]

GAME 4 Bacrot Istratescu [D10]

GAME 5 Lagarde Bacrot [C46]

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