Author: Sune Larsson
Date: 11:15:57 12/03/05
Chess belongs to the young ones. Today in the World Chess Cup GM Cheparinov (19)and GM Carlsen (15) really battled it out. Magnus early got the worse position -having rook vs two minor pieces. Some pawn compansation was there but white clearly had the edge. It was very inspiring to see young Carlsen fighting back with all he had. Constantly looking for moves that could give his opponent problems. His spirit was like "Okey, you have the better position but it's still a long way to go - and even if you get a winning position, you have to win the game twice against me." Carlsens efforts finally payed off when he suceeded to construct a zugzwang after 63.-f4! The white bishop wanted to guard both the a5-pawn and the Nd4 - the Nd4 protected pawn f3 - and moving the King would give up a vital square. Suddenly Cheparainov was facing a lot of problems that he couldn't solve. Carlsen even went on to win the game. After move 60 it was 15 min for the rest of the game (+15 sec for each move). Maybe white's 63rd move was an error. [D]8/8/k5p1/P5P1/2pN1p2/2Br1P1p/2K4P/8 w - - 0 64 [Event "WCC 2005"] [Site "0:03.47-0:02.44"] [Date "2005.12.03"] [Round "31"] [White "Cheparinov, Ivan"] [Black "Carlsen, Magnus"] [Result "0-1"] [WhiteElo "2618"] [BlackElo "2570"] [PlyCount "170"] [EventDate "2005.??.??"] [WhiteTeam "Bulgaria"] [BlackTeam "Norway"] [WhiteTeamCountry "BUL"] [BlackTeamCountry "NOR"] 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nf3 b6 4. g3 Ba6 5. b3 b5 6. Nbd2 Bb4 7. Bg2 bxc4 8. bxc4 Bxc4 9. Rb1 Nc6 10. Rxb4 Bxe2 11. Qxe2 Nxb4 12. Nc4 O-O 13. O-O Rb8 14. Nfe5 d6 15. Nc6 Nxc6 16. Bxc6 Qc8 17. a4 Nd5 18. Ne3 Nb4 19. Bg2 Qa6 20. Qd1 Qd3 21. Bf3 d5 22. Ng4 Qxd1 23. Rxd1 Nc6 24. Ba3 Rfc8 25. Be2 Rb3 26. Bc5 a5 27. Bb5 Nb4 28. Bd7 Rd8 29. Ne5 Nd3 30. Rxd3 Rxd3 31. Nxd3 Rxd7 32. Kf1 Rd8 33. Ke2 f6 34. Kd2 Kf7 35. Kc2 h5 36. Ba3 h4 37. g4 h3 38. Bb2 Ke7 39. Nc5 Ra8 40. Bc3 Kd6 41. Bxa5 e5 42. Bb4 exd4 43. Kd3 Kc6 44. Kxd4 Re8 45. Kd3 g6 46. Nb3 Re4 47. Nd4+ Kb6 48. f3 Re8 49. Nb3 Ra8 50. Nc5 Kc6 51. Kd4 Re8 52. Kd3 d4 53. Nb3 Kd5 54. Nxd4 c5 55. Nb5 Kc6 56. Bd2 Ra8 57. Nc3 Rd8+ 58. Kc2 c4 59. Ne2 Rd3 60. Bc3 Kb7 61. Nd4 Ka6 62. a5 f5 63. g5 f4 64. Kb2 Rd1 65. Ka3 Rh1 66. Bd2 Rxh2 67. Bxf4 Rd2 68. Nc6 Rd3+ 69. Ka4 Rxf3 70. Nb4+ Ka7 71. Be5 Rf5 72. Bd6 Rxg5 73. Nc6+ Kb7 74. Nd8+ Ka6 75. Ne6 Rxa5+ 76. Kb4 Ra2 77. Kxc4 h2 78. Bxh2 Rxh2 79. Kd5 Rf2 80. Ke5 Rf1 81. Nf4 g5 82. Nh5 g4 83. Ke4 Kb5 84. Ng3 Rf2 85. Nh1 Rf3 0-1 /S
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