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Round 9: 13 December 2015 7TH LONDON CHESS CLASSIC (4-13 DECEMBER 2015) CLASSIC ROUND 9: 13 DECEMBER 2015 John Saunders reports: To adapt Gary Lineker’s famous football quote (and not for the first time): chess is a simple game. The players play longplay, rapidplay and blitz and in the end Magnus Carlsen wins . The final day of the London Classic had the lot – a mind-numbing, eight- hour extravaganza of chess in three different formats, brilliant moves, crazy strategies, outrageous slices of luck – and somehow you just knew that Magnus Carlsen would come through it all to snatch first place in the tournament and in the inaugural Grand Chess Tour. He did so and deserves the plaudits. But let’s also hear it for his co-stars in the last-day drama – Alexander Grischuk, Anish Giri and Maxime Vachier- Lagrave – who deserve to share some of the winner’s stardust. London Classic, final scores : 1 Magnus Carlsen 5½, 2 Maxime Vachier-Lagrave 5½, 3 Anish Giri 5½, 4 Levon Aronian 5, 5-7 Alexander Grischuk, Fabiano Caruana, Michael Adams 4½, 8 Hikaru Nakamura 4, 9 Viswanathan Anand 3½, 10 Veselin Topalov 2½. Rapidplay Play-off Semi-Final : Maxime Vachier-Lagrave beat Anish Giri 2-1 (after an Armageddon decider); Rapidplay Play-off Final : Magnus Carlsen beat Maxime Vachie-Lagrave 1½-½. Grand Chess Tour, leading final placings : 1 Carlsen 26, 2 Anish Giri 23, 3 Aronian 22, 4 Vachier-Lagrave 20, 5 Nakamura 19, 6 Topalov 18, etc. London Classic Stats Round-Up : This was Carlsen’s fourth Classic victory, adding to his wins in 2009, 2010 and 2012. Other Classic winners have been Kramnik (2011), Hikaru Nakamura (2013, rapidplay k.o. format), Anand (2014). Carlsen’s first Classic victory in 2009 took him to the top of the rating list, where he has stayed ever since. His 2012 victory, with a TPR of 3021, took him over Garry Kasparov’s peak rating. Most pundits expected Carlsen-Grischuk to be the game of the round, given that the world champion needed to win to have any chance of winning the tournament and the Grand Chess Tour. The players did not disappoint and it proved to be the only decisive result of the last round. This was a gripping encounter, if not necessarily a well-played one. Sometimes, when he’s gung-ho for a result, Carlsen can vary his style from the relentless Capablanca/Karpov model, to something resembling Tal at his mercurial best, following slightly crazy plans and beguiling opponents into errors they wouldn’t usually make against anyone else. And Carlsen playing in the last round of a London Classic tournament, as we know from past occasions, is in his element. Carlsen didn’t have the best of luck in the earlier legs of the Grand Chess Tour but Caïssa smiled on him today. He played a suitably imbalanced opening to ensure there were no easy routes to a draw and soon established a comfortable edge. It looked as if he would smooth his way to victory but he then embarked on a crazy plan to snatch a queenside pawn, whilst leaving his kingside wide open to invasion by Grischuk’s forces. Commentators were incredulous as he compounded his error by misdirecting another of his pieces away from the key sector of the battlefield. It suddenly looked odds-on for Grischuk to draw at the very least, if not win. Carlsen was a very lucky Round 9 Report: 13 December 2015, John Saunders (amended 15 December 2015) boy, however: Grischuk failed to find what seemed a fairly obvious plan to draw, blundered and was gone. So Carlsen won to tie for first and go into a three-way play-off with Maxime Vachier-Lagrave and Anish Giri. Round 9 M. Carlsen - A. Grischuk 1.Nf3 c5 2.e4 d6 3.Bb5+ Nd7 4.0 -0 a6 5.Bd3 Carlsen has been this way before. 5...Ngf6 6.Re1 b5 7.c4 g5 7...Ne5 was played by Nakamura against Carlsen in the Zurich Rapidplay 2014. 8.Nxg5 Ne5 9.Be2 bxc4 10.Nc3 Carlsen played 10.Na3 against Topalov in the 2015 Sinquefield Cup, which he lost. After the text move we are in new territory. 10...Rb8 11.Rf1 h6 12.Nf3 Nd3 13.Ne1 Nxb2 13...Nxc1? is poor here as 14.Bxc4! cleverly postpones the recapture of the knight and brings White ’s position to life. The analysis engine suggests the intriguing 13...Rg8!? 14.Bxd3 cxd3 15.Nxd3 Bg7 16.Nf4 Ng4, giving up a pawn for some activity. 14.Bxb2 Rxb2 15.Bxc4 Rb4 A waste of a move: 15...Rb6 immediately seems better. 16.Qe2 Bg7 17.Nc2 Rb6 18.Rab1 0 -0 19.Rxb6 Qxb6 20.Ne3 e6 21.f4 Kh8 22.f5 a5 23.a4 (diagram) White has a pleasant advantage here, and was well ahead on the clock. Consequently most pundits expected Carlsen to win smoothly from here. But last rounds always have unexpected twists. 23...Qd8 24.h3 Qe7 25.Ba6 The plan is simple enough: to get the queen to a6 and mop up the a - pawn. It is corroborated by the analysis engines and yet human spectators, from the humblest woodpusher up to the GM commentators, were suspicious. Wouldn ’t this plan leave the queen out of play? Couldn ’t Black conjure up something interesting on the kingside while the queen is looking the other way? 25...Bxa6 Black used 7 of his remaining 19 minutes on this move. The alternative is 25...Bd7, which would prevent the queen invasion. So it seems Grischuk at least shared the spectators ’ assessment of the merits of Carlsen ’s plan. 26.Qxa6 Nh5! Grischuk played this quickly. The knight on the rim isn ’t dim. It opens diagonals for both queen and bishop and also has ideas of jumping to g3 at an appropriate moment. 27.Rf3 Rg8! Grischuk lines up another piece against the white king. Surely Carlsen must attend to the situation on the kingside... 28.Nb5? What? You can judge what GM Julian Hodgson thinks of a move by the pitch of his voice, and I think he hit a soprano top C hereabouts. Nobody could quite believe their eyes here. Black is lining up four pieces for an attack on the white king, yet Carlsen moves one of his pieces away from the action, as well as blocking the queen ’s return to defensive duties. 28...Be5 29.Ng4 Qh4 The slight breeze wafting round the white king is now a howling gale. Analysis engines weren ’t expecting White to be mated here, but nor did they think he had much chance of winning. Most pundits thought a draw was probable now, which would have ended Carlsen ’s hopes of tournament and tour victory, of course. 30.fxe6!? (diagram) 30.Nxe5 allows perpetual check with 30...Qe1+ 31.Rf1 Rxg2+! 32.Kxg2 Qg3+ 33.Kh1 Qxh3+, etc. Perhaps Carlsen saw that and decided to gamble. 30...fxe6? Grischuk still had 8 minutes ’ thinking time left, which, for a world blitz champion, you would have thought might be long enough to discover 30...Rxg4! 31.hxg4 Qh2+ 32.Kf2 Nf4 33.Rg3 Nxe6!, with decent winning chances for Black. 31.Nxe5 dxe5 32.Qxe6 Qe1+? 32...Qg5! should draw here. 33.Kh2 Rxg2+ 33...Qxd2!? is a hard move to evaluate when short of time: 34.Qxe5+ Rg7 35.Rf8+ Kh7 36.Qf5+ Rg6 37.Qf2 and White probably wins anyway. 34.Kxg2 Qxd2+ 35.Kg1 Qe1+ 36.Rf1 Qe3+ 37.Rf2 Qe1+ 37...Qg3+ 38.Kf1 Qd3+ 39.Ke1 Qe3+ 40.Kd1 Qxf2 41.Qxh6+ Kg8 42.Qxh5 38.Kg2 1-0 Hereabouts Grischuk ’s face registered shock as he realised there was no perpetual check: 38...Qxe4+ 39.Kh2 and it ’s over, while 38...Nf4+ 39.Rxf4 exf4 40.Qxh6+ Kg8 41.Qxf4 also wins. THE PLAY-OFFS “I’ve created a monster!” Not a quote from the fictional Doctor Frankenstein, but Alexander Grischuk’s rueful comment on the negative part he played in securing Magnus Carlsen’s passage to the play-offs. Negative from the point of view of Messrs. Giri and Vachier-Lagrave, anyway. They were probably gearing up for their two-game rapid play-off when they discovered that a 2834-rated cuckoo had just dropped into their nest. To add insult to injury, they found they were now playing off, not for tournament and tour victory, but for the right to compete in a further play- off with Carlsen. How so? By beating Grischuk, Carlsen had not only tied with his two rivals but bettered their tie- break score by virtue of his last-round victim having a higher finishing score than those of his rivals – a cruel twist of fate. It meant that, within an hour of the end of the last round nine game (which ended about 3 hours 45 minutes into the session), MVL and Giri would be back at the board for two 25m+5s games (and possibly an Armageddon decider) whilst Carlsen had at least two hours to have some dinner and chill out. His second big slice of luck on the day. Round 9 Report: 13 December 2015, John Saunders (amended 15 December 2015) I don’t know how irrational or superstitious Giri and Vachier-Lagrave can be but they could be forgiven for sensing that Caïssa wasn’t playing ball with them. Let’s face it, this rule whereby one player can sit out the first two hours plus of a play-off is very unfair.
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