Arkadij Naiditsch CHESS EVOLUTION Top analysis by Super GMs September 2012 TABLE OF CONTENTS KEY TO SYMBOLS 5 EDITORIAL PREFACE 7 CONTRIBUTORS 9 A 11 Game 1. Nakamura — Wang 12 Game 2. Kramnik — Bartel 23 Game 3. Wang — Bologan 31 Game 4. Carlsen — Bologan 36 B 39 Game 1. Karjakin — Fridman 40 Game 2. Efi menko — Moiseenko 48 Game 3. Grischuk — Radjabov 57 Game 4. Volokitin — Eljanov 64 Game 5. Svidler — Dubov 75 Game 6. Bacrot — Giri 85 Game 7. Wang — Nakamura 90 C 97 Game 1. Naiditsch — So 98 Game 2. Caruana — Naiditsch 106 Game 3. Movsesian — Avrukh 119 Game 4. Saric — Pavlovic 131 Game 5. Carlsen — Bacrot 134 Game 6. Carlsen — Aronian 149 Game 7. Karjakin — Naiditsch 154 Game 8. Morozevich — Radjabov 165 Game 9. Carlsen — Grischuk 172 D 181 Game 1. Moiseenko — Kuzubov 182 Game 2. Morozevich — Nakamura 185 Game 3. Rodshtein — Panomariov 192 Game 4. Bacrot — Morozevich 196 Game 5. Sjugirov — Vitiugov 202 Game 6. Bacrot — Nakamura 213 Game 7. Korobov — Kuzubov 222 Game 8. Kramnik — Tomashevsky 224 Game 9. Laznicka — Shirov 231 Game 10. Moiseenko — Ponomariov 234 Game 11. Eljanov — Arshchenko 237 Game 12. Melkumyan — Kurnosov 241 Game 13. Grischuk — Caruana 250 Game 14. Miton — Vachier 258 E 265 Game 1. Kramnik — Leko 266 Game 2. Leko — Karjakin 275 Game 3. Aronian — Grischuk 281 Game 4. Morozevich — Carlsen 286 Game 5. Ponomariov — Volokitin 295 Game 6. Moiseenko — Vovk 298 Game 7. Giri — Bacrot 308 Game 8. Kramnik — Grischuk 315 Game 9. Wang — Bacrot 322 ENDGAMES 327 PUZZLES 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 Nnovelty ! 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 CE Sep- 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 Volokitin–Eljanov 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 King’s Indian fans will have a blast because we analyzed quite a few important games played on this open- ing. Of course, we didn’t 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 it’s 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 at’s 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 what’s 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, 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. — 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 36 SEPTEMBER, 2012 (15...a7 16. d1 d8 17.e2 ad7 GAME 4 18.a4 (18.f3 c4 19.e3 xd5 20.xd5 xd5 21.xd5 xd5 ▷ Magnus Carlsen (2837) 22.xd5 xd5 M. Carlsen–D. ▶ Viktor Bologan (2732) Andreikin 2012.) ) 45th Biel GM Biel, SUI 16.xe7 xd5 17.xd5 xd5 Round 8, 31.07.2012 [A59] 18.e1 c4=) Annotated by Arkadij Naiditsch 13...fb8 14.a3 (14.d2 xb2 Another game on the Benko Gambit. 15.d1 xd2 16.xd2 xe4 17.c4 Th is time we’ll analyze the main line b4 18.db2 c3 19.xe7 e5–+ with 7.e4 and not 7.g3. It seems like in A. Ramirez–M. Leon Hoyos, 2012.) both lines White achieves some ad- 14...b4 (14...b6 15.e1 e8 vantage, and probably 12.e2 is the 16.d1 c7 17.e3) 15.b3 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 0–0 11.g2 bd7 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 12.e2! b6 xc4 21.e2 b4 (21... xa4 Another try for Black could be 12... 22.xa4 xa4 23.a1+-) 22.c2 a5 13.a4 ef6 23.e1 c4 (23...c5 24.e5 xd5 25.exd6 exd6 26.a5) 24.c3 (13.e5 dxe5 14.xe5 xe5 15.xe5 xc3 25.xc3 c5 26.e5 xd5 fd8 27.d4 d3=) 17...b7 18.b2 xb2 19.xb2. CHESS EVOLUTION 37 13.a4 fb 8 xb5 21.xb5 xb5 22.axb5 xa3 White has a lot of options here and 23.c4 a4 24.c1 f8 25.b6. all of them seem to give a small ad- vantage. 14...e8 15.g5 d8 16.a3 13...e8 14.g5. 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 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) 17...d7 18.dxe6 xe6 19.b5 17...c7 18.xc7 xc7 19.c2.