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The Opening Ceremony & Press Conference (09.03.2018) The Opening Ceremony & Press Conference (09.03.2018) As us customary in every important world- mistakes of your parents’. wide sport event, the Opening Ceremony Speaking of ‘artificial intelligence’, Mer- should be and it was a luxurious affair! enzon said he would welcome someone At the opening Press-Conference, World from Google to friend him on Facebook Chess CEO Ilya Merenzon said that the ‘immediately’. ‘What we would like to do is eight players in this Candidates tournament to develop, let’s say, an AI mechanism ‘will definitely feel like rock stars’. which teaches chess individually (‘on your One of the reasons for holding the event in Smartphone’). the Kuehlhaus was to make chess visually He proposed that there should be a ‘virtual appealing for journalists to film chess and Vladimir’ or ‘virtual Fischer’ who can talk present it in a new way. to you personally and teach you the game. And for a brief moment, as they were Once again citied the specious YouGov beckoned onstage at the opening cere- survey data from 2012, as a basis for setting mony/party later in the evening, they proba- expectations of viewership, Merenzon said bly did. that the goal is to reach 20-30 million people As the music swelled, a thick cloud of who will follow the Candidates in Berlin artificial smoke shot up all around with the regularly. lighting designed to fully conceal the players He asserted that 10 million people fol- from view, until they were all assembled in a lowed ‘almost every game online’ during the neat line. On cue, the lighting changed and 2016 New York World Championship they were the centre of attention in the match. multi-floor Berlin Kuehlhaus. Georgios Makropoulous suggested that At the outset, the most prominent guest, there remains a chance of chess to be ac- Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan, kicked cepted into the Olympic Games, an outcome off the proceedings, with remarks in Arme- which is generally regarded as unlikely. nian, translated into English. The speakers of the Press-Conference in- He made the ceremonial first move of the cluded FIDE Deputy President Georgios first round. Sargsyan noted that despite hav- Makropoulos, CEO of World Chess Ilya ing a tiny population (Armenia as a whole Merenzon, President of the German Chess has about half a million people fewer than Federation Ulrich Krause, Grandmaster the city of Berlin); Armenia is a ‘chess su- Vladimir Kramnik and Russian Chess Fed- perpower’. eration Vice-President, CEO PJSC He highlighted the positive effect of chess PhosAgro Andrey Guryev. on children and touted the introduction of FIDE Deputy President Georgios Makro- chess into the school curriculum, and par- poulos said: ‘Germany is a very developed ticularly called out the benefit of instilling chess country, with a lot of players, a lot of ‘respect for the opponent’. He also quoted chess fans, so for us it’s the right place for Emanuel Lasker: ‘When you see a good the Candidates Tournament’. move, look for a better one’. CEO of World Chess Ilya Merenzon said: The centrepiece of the opening party was ‘The World Chess Championship cycle is a an ice sculpture containing two pieces of the fight for the title of the smartest person on Berlin Wall from the studio of Thierry Noir, the planet. The main challenge for us is to the French artist who is said to be the first interest tens of millions of people around the street artist to paint the Berlin Wall in 1984. world in this show, and we are glad that this He also gave brief remarks which concluded is happening. Countries are rooting for their by urging the audience: ‘do not repeat the chess players. FIDE WC - Candidates 2018 ® Efstratios Grivas 2018 31 We know that in Russia, Armenia, Nor- ing. PhosAgro’s participation in world-class way, Azerbaijan, China and even in the chess championships allows the company to United States millions of people will care for remain competitive at the world stage and the outcome of the tournament. It will be not count its actions on several moves forward. only exciting, but also modern and beautiful. Western Europe is one of the priority mar- Welcome to Berlin or to kets for us and we are delighted that today www.worldchess.com’. we are opening the Tournament precisely in Russian Chess Federation Vice-President Germany, the country in which chess is one and Board of Trustees Member, CEO PJSC of the most popular sports. PhosAgro Andrey Guryev said: ‘The deci- It will definitely attract the attention of our sion to support chess was made seven years partners and customers, both at the corporate ago. level and at the retail level’. And then it was Not only is it an intellectual sport, but also time for the traditional social hanging- an excellent way to develop strategic think- around, as the fights were yet to start! Grandmaster Vladimir Kramnik - FIDE Deputy President Georgios Makropoulos CEO of World Chess Ilya Merenzon - President of the German Chess Federation Ulrich Krause The Opening Ceremony Berlin Wall from the studio of Thierry Noir FIDE WC - Candidates 2018 ® Efstratios Grivas 2018 32 Round 1 (10.03.2018) Round 1 XABCDEFGHY 10.03.2018 - 15:00 1 Kramnik - Grischuk 1:0 8rsn-+-trk+( 2 Karjakin - Mamedyarov 0:1 7zplwq-zppvlp' 3 Aronian - Ding ½:½ 4 Caruana - So 1:0 6-zp-zp-snp+& An interesting and fighting first round, 5+-+-+-+-% where all participants tried to be creative and above all to put a fight, honouring the great 4-+P+-+-+$ history of the FIDE World Championship, 3+P+-zPN+-# dated back in 1886! 2PvL-sNLzPPzP" 1.1. Vladimir Kramnik played another one positional masterpiece, where he squeezed 1+-tRQ+RmK-! his opponent from a nothing-to-do position! xabcdefghy Grischuk would have preferred a more 12.Nb1! complicated position, suiting his style, but A good manoeuvre, as in the game above. Kramnik never gave hi any chance of such The knight should have been relocated to a short-of. more central square, controlling b5- and d5- □ Kramnik Vladimir (2800) squares as well. ■ Grischuk Alexander (2767) 12...Nbd7 13.Nc3 Rac8 14.Rc2! A48 Berlin 2018 Again a typical manoeuvre for such pawn 1.d4 Nf6 2.Nf3 g6 3.b3 c5 4.dxc5 Qa5+ structures, relocating the heavy pieces. 5.Nbd2 Qxc5 6.Bb2 Bg7 7.e3 0-0 8.c4 (D) Kramnik is a great master in this kind of positions where mortals find it difficult to XABCDEFGHY plan. 8rsnl+-trk+( 14...Qb8 15.Qa1 a6 16.Rd2 Rfe8 17.Rfd1 7zpp+pzppvlp' Ba8 (D) XABCDEFGHY 6-+-+-snp+& 8lwqr+r+k+( 5+-wq-+-+-% 7+-+nzppvlp' 4-+P+-+-+$ 6pzp-zp-snp+& 3+P+-zPN+-# 5+-+-+-+-% 2PvL-sN-zPPzP" 4-+P+-+-+$ 1tR-+QmKL+R! 3+PsN-zPN+-# xabcdefghy 8...b6 2PvL-tRLzPPzP" Technically a novelty, although Black fi- 1wQ-+R+-mK-! anchettoed his bishop as well in the game 8...d6 9.Be2 Nbd7 10.0-0 b6 11.Rc1 Bb7 xabcdefghy 12.Nb1!, in Grachev,B-Chatalbashev,B As- Well, White has got somewhat more space, tana 2017. otherwise he couldn't claim anything else. 9.Be2 Bb7 10.0-0 Qc7 11.Rc1 d6 (D) Still it seemed that it was easier for White to FIDE WC - Candidates 2018 ® Efstratios Grivas 2018 33 do something compared to Black... 18.Ng5! XABCDEFGHY Planning to post a knight on d5 (Ng5-h3- 8lwq-+r+k+( d5), as Black couldn't really afford to play ...e6, making his d-pawn a target. 7+-+-zppvlp' 18...Rc5 19.Nh3 b5 6p+-zp-+p+& This was Black's only 'counterplay' and he had to play it sooner or later. 5+-snNsn-tr-% 20.Nf4 4-+-tR-sN-+$ 20.cxb5 axb5 21.b4 Rf5, was a bit compli- cated and obviously not in Kramnik's play- 3+P+-zP-+-# ing style! 20...bxc4 21.Bxc4 Rg5 2PvL-+LzPPzP" 21...Ne5! 22.Bf1 Bc6 23.Nfd5 Qb7, was 1wQ-+R+-mK-! probably Black's best. 22.Ncd5! (D) xabcdefghy 25.h4! Rf5 26.e4?! XABCDEFGHY Even better was 26.g4 Rxf4 27.exf4 +/-. But 8lwq-+r+k+( Kramnik's classical style 'doesn't allow' him to weaken the king... 7+-+nzppvlp' 26...Rxf4 6p+-zp-snp+& 26...Nxe4? 27.Rxe4 Bh6 28.Rb4 +-. 27.Nxf4 Nxe4 28.Nd5 Nc5 5+-+N+-tr-% Maybe Black had to try 28...f5, where he could preserve some compensation. 4-+L+-sN-+$ 29.Rb4 Qa7 30.Ne3 a5 31.Rb5 Ne6 (D) 3+P+-zP-+-# XABCDEFGHY 2PvL-tR-zPPzP" 8l+-+r+k+( 1wQ-+R+-mK-! 7wq-+-zppvlp' xabcdefghy 6-+-zpn+p+& Aron Nimzowitsch would be proud of the over-protection of the d5-square - five white 5zpR+-sn-+-% pieces on the control! 4-+-+-+-zP$ 22...Ne5? A bad move. 22...Nxd5 23.Bxd5 Bxb2 3+P+-sN-+-# 24.Qxb2 Nf6 25.Bxa8 Qxa8 26.h3, was pre- serving the balance. 2PvL-+LzPP+" 23.Be2 Ne4 1wQ-+R+-mK-! Black was in real trouble here - no move was satisfactory. 23...Ned7 24.Nxf6+ Nxf6 xabcdefghy 25.Bxa6, was a good pawn-up for White. 32.Rxe5! 24.Rd4 Nc5?! (D) A nice way to transform the advantage from And an exchange was lost. But how to win exchange-up to a much better endgame - it? White had two ways to do the job and in quite typical for top-players but not for mor- such practical cases it is never an easy deci- tals who hung-up to their material pluses... sion! A lot is based n the personal style and 32...dxe5 33.Bxe5 Qc5 34.Bxg7 Nxg7 the ‘appetite’ to calculate a lot.
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