Topalov vs Anand Gmae 8

[michiguel]

I think we see the 1st blunder of the game maybe ?!

Topalov,V - Anand,V, World Chess Championship
[d]2r1kr2/1p4pp/p3p1b1/P3P1b1/5p2/2N1BP2/1P2K1PP/2RR4 w - - 0 1

Analysis by Stockfish 1.7.1-16 JA 64bit:

23.Bb6 Rc6 24.Bf2 Bd8 25.b4 Be7 26.b5 axb5 27.Nxb5
+/= (0.36) Depth: 6 00:00:00 2kN
+/= (0.36) Depth: 8 00:00:00 7kN

23.Ne4 Rxc1 24.Nd6+ Kd7 25.Bxc1 Kc6 26.Bd2 Be7 27.Bc1 Bh5 28.Nxb7 Rf5
+/= (0.44 ++) Depth: 8 00:00:00 8kN

23.Bb6 Rc6 24.Bf2 Bd8 25.b4 Be7 26.b5 axb5 27.Nxb5 Rf5
+/= (0.28 --) Depth: 9 00:00:00 13kN

23.Ne4 Rxc1 24.Nd6+ Kd7 25.Bxc1 Kc6 26.Rd4 Kc5 27.Rc4+ Kd5 28.Bd2 Rd8 29.Bc3 Be7 30.Rd4+ Kc6 31.Rxf4 Bxd6 32.exd6 Kxd6 33.Rd4+ Kc7 34.Rc4+ Kd6 35.Bxg7 e5 36.Rc1 Ke6 37.Rc7 Bd3+ 38.Ke1 Rd5 39.b4 e4 40.Rxb7 exf3 41.gxf3 Rh5 42.Rb6+ Kf7 43.Kd2 Bb5 44.Bd4 Rxh2+ 45.Ke3 Re2+ 46.Kf4 Rd2
+/= (0.44 ++) Depth: 9 00:00:00 13kN
+/- (1.01) Depth: 29 00:01:14 234mN

The end of the variation white is a pawn up with different color bishops. We cannot trust the absolute score of these long variations with a lot of pruning, particularly when you went into an endgame and the scores are within +/- 1 pawn. White has an advantage, but we can hardly say that black move was a blunder.

Miguel

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[d]5r2/1p1kb1pp/p2Np1b1/P3P3/5p2/2B2P2/1P2K1PP/2R5 b - - 0 28

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[d]5r2/1p1k2pp/p2bp3/P3Pb2/5p1P/2B2P2/1P2K1P1/3R4 b - h3 0 30

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5r2/1p1k3p/p2bp1p1/P3Pb2/5p1P/2B2P2/1P2K1P1/3R4 w - - 0 31

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[d]2k2r2/1p5p/p2Rp1p1/P3Pb2/5p1P/5P2/1P1BK1P1/8 b - - 0 32

[alpha123]

Who's the arbiter again? He looks sort of like someone I know....



Peter

[Sven]

Who's the arbiter again? He looks sort of like someone I know....

Panaqiotis Nikolopoulos (Greece)

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