FIDE Grand Prix 2014-2015

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Re: FIDE Grand Prix 2014-2015

Post by David Robertson » Sun May 24, 2015 4:56 pm

Astonishing blunder by Jakovenko, v Gelfand. Black turned down an easy repetition on move 24 to stand worse. By move 49, Jakovenko stood [+9.87] when he lazily played 49 hxg4, apparently shrugging off Gelfand's swindling chances, but clearly overlooking the stalemate/repetition tricks now available to Black. So 0.5 - 0.5 shortly followed. Wacko Jako, poor lad

[ah, beaten to it, twice :-) ]

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Re: FIDE Grand Prix 2014-2015

Post by Jonathan Bryant » Sun May 24, 2015 5:29 pm

Tim Harding wrote: Also a strange incident in Caruana's game, maybe it will be explained later at the press conference.
Not only is it not a threefold repetition it doesn’t even seem to be a repetition at all as far as I can tell.

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Re: FIDE Grand Prix 2014-2015

Post by David Robertson » Sun May 24, 2015 5:47 pm

There's been another repetition though - a second improbable 'save' in Karjakin - Caruana.

Did anyone mention chess is hard?

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Re: FIDE Grand Prix 2014-2015

Post by Tim Harding » Sun May 24, 2015 5:51 pm

Then Caruana spent too long deciding to go for the queen ending (the only theoretical win according to the commentators).
When it arose he immediately went wrong (74...Qe5?=) and didn't even give himself much of a chance to win it after that. Karjakin seemed to understand what was required and found the nice drawing manoeuvre Q-c8-h3.

No press conference on chess24 but maybe we will find out eventually what caused the interruption to the game.

Two rounds to go and still very hard to guess who will qualify for the candidates!
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Re: FIDE Grand Prix 2014-2015

Post by Jonathan Bryant » Sun May 24, 2015 6:42 pm

Tim Harding wrote:Then Caruana spent too long deciding to go for the queen ending (the only theoretical win according to the commentators).
When it arose he immediately went wrong (74...Qe5?=) and didn't even give himself much of a chance to win it after that. Karjakin seemed to understand what was required and found the nice drawing manoeuvre Q-c8-h3.

No press conference on chess24 but maybe we will find out eventually what caused the interruption to the game.

Two rounds to go and still very hard to guess who will qualify for the candidates!

Chess24 saying on twitter that Karjakin unhappy he had to play on because scoresheets were signed by both players and only then did Caruana realise it wasn’t a draw and call an arbiter. If the scoresheets really were signed by K and C, doesn’t Karjakin have a point?

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Re: FIDE Grand Prix 2014-2015

Post by Mike Truran » Sun May 24, 2015 6:48 pm

No, just half a point. :lol:

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Re: FIDE Grand Prix 2014-2015

Post by Matt Mackenzie » Sun May 24, 2015 7:09 pm

Are you here all week? :P
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Re: FIDE Grand Prix 2014-2015

Post by Jonathan Bryant » Sun May 24, 2015 7:18 pm

Mike Truran wrote:No, just half a point. :lol:

Very good. But seriously folks, much as I’m happy to see Karjakin getting the sh**ty end of whatever stick is going, once a scoresheet is signed isn’t that game over regardless of what might have gone on before?

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Re: FIDE Grand Prix 2014-2015

Post by Paolo Casaschi » Sun May 24, 2015 8:46 pm

Jonathan Bryant wrote:much as I’m happy to see Karjakin getting the sh**ty end of whatever stick is going
What has Karjakin ever done to you to deserve this?

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Re: FIDE Grand Prix 2014-2015

Post by Matt Mackenzie » Sun May 24, 2015 9:47 pm

Huge admirer of Big Vlad, isn't he? And I don't mean Kramnik in this instance......
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Re: FIDE Grand Prix 2014-2015

Post by David Robertson » Sun May 24, 2015 9:48 pm

Supportin' Putin

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Re: FIDE Grand Prix 2014-2015

Post by Chris Rice » Mon May 25, 2015 9:23 am

Two rounds left

Tournament standings after round 9:
1= Dominguez Perez Leinier 2734 CUB, Caruana Fabiano 2803 ITA, Nakamura Hikaru 2799 USA 5½
4= Gelfand Boris 2744 ISR, Jakovenko Dmitry 2738 RUS, Karjakin Sergey 2753 RUS 5
7= Grischuk Alexander 2780 RUS, Giri Anish 2776 NED 4½
9= Svidler Peter 2734 RUS, Tomashevsky Evgeny 2749 RUS 4
11 Jobava Baadur 2699 GEO 3
12 Vachier-Lagrave Maxime 2754 FRA 2½

Grand Prix current standings:

1 Caruana 370
2 Nakamura 347
3 Tomashevsky 287
4 Gelfand 250
5 Jakovenko 250
6 Karjakin 237
7 Mamedyarov 235
8 Dominguez 225

Round 10 – May 25 2015
Gelfand, Boris 2744 Tomashevsky, Evgeny 2749
Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime 2754 Svidler, Peter 2734
Jobava, Baadur 2699 Dominguez, Leinier 2734
Grischuk, Alexander 2780 Giri, Anish 2776
Caruana, Fabiano 2803 Nakamura, Hikaru 2799
Jakovenko, Dmitry 2738 Karjakin, Sergey 2753

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Re: FIDE Grand Prix 2014-2015

Post by Tim Harding » Mon May 25, 2015 3:42 pm

After Caruana and Nakamura drew today, it seems pretty certain they will qualify for the Candidates.
However Jakovenko can join them in the tournament lead if he can finish off Karjakin.
Dominguez lost to Jobava and the other games were drawn.

Third place in the Grand Prix will be first reserve for the Candidates so there is some motivation for others to get as many points as possible.
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Re: FIDE Grand Prix 2014-2015

Post by David Robertson » Mon May 25, 2015 4:10 pm

It's another nightmare for Jakovenko, attempting to win a 'won' ending. Karjakin has found more resilience in the position than he deserves, with a fortress largely built. Meanwhile Jako is scooting about, trying to find the correct idea

....and finally found it. 1-0

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Re: FIDE Grand Prix 2014-2015

Post by Tim Harding » Mon May 25, 2015 4:52 pm

David Robertson wrote:It's another nightmare for Jakovenko, attempting to win a 'won' ending. Karjakin has found more resilience in the position than he deserves, with a fortress largely built. Meanwhile Jako is scooting about, trying to find the correct idea
Credit to Jakovenko. After his foul-up yesterday, he found a neat finish despite being a bit short of time. Good to see Karjakin beaten.
So it's a 3-way tie going into the last round tomorrow which I think may start an hour earlier.
Two of the joint leaders meet:
Karjakin-Gelfand
Nakamura-Jakovenko
Giri-Caruana
Dominguez-Grischuk
Svidler-Jobava
Tomashevsky-MVL
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