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Arkadij Naiditsch CHESS EVOLUTION Top analysis by Super GMs May 2012 TABLE OF CONTENTS Key to symbols 5 Editorial Preface 7 Contributors 9 A11 B81 C135 D199 E281 Endgames 315 Puzzles 323 World Chess Championship 2012 331 EDITORIAL PREFACE 1 year has passed, a new one begins With the CE May 2012 edition we are entering into the top games of the year 2012. Th e book includes major tournaments like Wijk ann Zee, Gibraltar, Aerofl ot Open, the European Individual Championship, etc. Besides, we did not want the chess fans to wait until September for the World Chess Champi- onship match games between Viswanathan Anand and Boris Gelfand, so we included the WCC as well! We have new additions to our team GM Csaba Balogh — he is my good friend for many years (“Young Balogh Csaba” as I used to call him). You are going to hear more from GM Balogh, as we also started together the new project “Chess Evolution Weekly Newsletter” and who became the master of chess puzzles by writing his fi rst book Greatest 365 puzzles. From practical games of 2012. I hope You will enjoy his 20 puzzles in the current issue. My second introduction goes to Piotr Pielach. Th is is the new Chess Evolu- tion “pdf hero”. Piotr Pielach, who is now responsible for all Chess Evolution editing, managing his very diffi cult part in a great style and makes the reading of huge trees of lines as easy as it can only be. Content of CE May 2012 CE May 2012 keeps the usual structure: commented games, endgames, puzzles. But things have also changed, this year we are publishing only 3 editions (May 2012, September 2012, January 2013). 6 books a Year with about 350 pages of chess material is just too much. We also keep the general principle of trying to bring You the best chess mate- rial, real life practical examples, and to create an easy readable, user friendly book. Sometimes this is a diffi cult task due to the very wide trees of lines, but one thing is sure, with Chess Evolution You stay ahead of current chess theory. Complementary products Now there is also of “soft er” chess material from the Chess Evolution series. Th ere is the already mentioned “Chess Evolution Weekly Newsletter” in pdf and pgn formats, in July the GM Sakaev book “Complete Slav I” is coming to the market. At the same time GM Balogh and I made our fi rst DVD “Dirty Chess-classical time control” that shows 30 tricks that should be known dur- ing a practical game. Usually the saying goes “Th e fi rst pancake is always get- ting burned”, but we hope that ours will be tasty J. In the middle of August we are planning our second DVD “Dirty Chess-rapid and blitz” which is going to be a lot of fun as well. As usual I hope that our readers will fi nd a lot of new information from the CE May 2012 issue, and few easy wins according to the ideas inside 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, Héviz. 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 world’s 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. David Baramidze: Germany, 23 years old, GM 2607. Georgian and German Champion. 3 silver-medals at European and Worldchampionships in junior classes. Qualifi cation to the World-Cup 2007,kicked out Nigel Short in the fi rst round. Member of German National team in the Olympiad in Dres- den 2008. — A — GAME 1 Malakhov — Movsesian [A09] 12 GAME 2 Nakamura — Navara [A22] 20 GAME 3 Nakamura — Topalov [A23] 29 GAME 4 Potkin — Nepomniachtchi [A30] 37 GAME 5 Korobov — Caruana [A58] 43 GAME 6 Navara — Ivanchuk [A70] 54 GAME 7 Aronian — Nakamura [A88] 61 GAME 8 Karjakin — Nakamura [A97] 72 — B — GAME 1 Karjakin — Topalov [B23] 82 GAME 2 Topalov — Caruana [B42] 90 GAME 3 Smeets — Smirin [B42] 96 GAME 4 Sutovsky — Olszewski [B43] 102 GAME 5 Gashimov — Radjabov [B45] 109 GAME 6 Motylev — Potkin [B60] 116 GAME 7 Najer — Vachier-Lagrave [B90] 122 GAME 8 Giri — Gashimov [B94] 128 — C — GAME 1 Kurnosov — Andreikin [C11] 136 GAME 2 Alekseev — Gupta [C19] 142 GAME 3 Adams — Mamedyarov [C41] 148 GAME 4 Vachier Lagrave — Giri [C42] 154 GAME 5 Sjugirov — Bacrot [C65] 160 GAME 6 Aronian — Kramnik [C65] 168 GAME 7 Karjakin — Aronian [C84] 175 GAME 8 Gashimov — Kamsky [C88] 186 GAME 9 Negi — Sasikiran [C95] 191 — D — GAME 1 Le Quang Liem — Felgaer [D10] 200 GAME 2 Anand — Eljanov [D16] 208 GAME 3 Jobava — Hua Ni [D17] 216 GAME 4 Moiseenko — Rublevsky [D27] 222 GAME 5 Rapport — Gustafsson [D35] 229 GAME 6 Riazantsev — Macieja [D37] 237 GAME 7 Giri — Aronian [D37] 249 GAME 8 Aronian — Shirov [D45] 255 GAME 9 Miton — Mastrovasilis [D45] 262 GAME 10 Aronian — Kamsky [D99] 270 — E — GAME 1 Ivanchuk — Van Wely [E04] 282 GAME 2 Dreev — Lupulescu [E32] 288 GAME 3 Le Quang Liem — Iordachescu [E39] 296 GAME 4 Caruana — Karjakin [E46] 301 GAME 5 Khenkin — Sebenik [E84] 309 ENDGAMES GAME 1 Najer — Bacrot [C67] 316 GAME 2 Bacrot — Bellia [C92] 318 GAME 3 Bacrot — Rapport [D46] 320 WORLD CHESS CHAMPIONSHIP 2012 GAME 1 Anand — Gelfand [D85] 332 GAME 2 Gelfand — Anand [D85] 338 GAME 3 Anand — Gelfand [D70] 343 GAME 4 Gelfand — Anand [D45] 351 GAME 5 Anand — Gelfand [B33] 357 GAME 6 Gelfand — Anand [D45] 362 GAME 7 Gelfand — Anand [D45] 368 GAME 8 Anand — Gelfand [A40] 375 GAME 9 Gelfand — Anand [E54] 379 GAME 10 Anand — Gelfand [B30] 385 GAME 11 Gelfand — Anand [E54] 390 GAME 12 Anand — Gelfand [B30] 395 332 MAY, 2012 GAME 1 ▷ V. Anand (2791) ▶ B. Gelfand (2727) WCC 2012, Moscow 11.05.2012, [D85] [Chess Evolution Team] 1.d4 As it was expected Anand starts the match with 1.d4 — just as he did in the previous two WCC matches against Kramnik and Topalov — no 8.b5+!? reason to change the winning move! We can see this move much more rarely, but still of course almost thou- 1...f6 2.c4 g6 3.c3 d5 sand games in the database. Anand What a surprise! Gelfand goes for decides to avoid the mainlines in the the Gruenfeld, an opening, what fi rst game, to check how Gelfand is he never tried in his life before! For prepared against the less known ideas. a while probably Anand thought, that Gelfand is going to play Kings- 8...c6 Indian, in which Vishy lost his last 8...d7 and 8...d7 are alternatives, game against Nakamura from almost but theory considers the textmove to a winning position. be the best way to equality. 4.f3 g7 5.cxd5 xd5 6.e4 xc3 9.d5! 7.bxc3 c5 But this is almost a novelty, played we are in one of the basic positions, quickly by Anand. He wants to pre- where White can choose between tend, like Gelfand’s opening choice many setups. 8.b1 or 8.e3 is con- has not surprised him at all. Black sidered to be the main move. has two options to solve the problem of the pin. 9.0–0 is the standard 9...cxd4 10.cxd4 0–0 11.e3 g4 12.xc6 bxc6 leads to really drawish lines. 9...a5 9...a6!? is the other main move in this position, and it is not easy to see a clear plan for White of getting any- CHESS EVOLUTION 333 thinghere 10.e2!? the only chance (on 10.a4 b5 11.dxc6 bxa4 and only Black can be better.) 10...xc3+ 11.d2 xa1 12.xa1 d4 13.xd4 cxd4 14.xd4 so far everythi ng was more or less forced.