World Chess Championship (Game 6)

[AdminX]

Nigel Short (GM UK) on Playchess: "It is all very clever. You leave you king in the centre, in preparation for the endgame, and connect your rooks via the third rank. 21st century chess!"

Excellent, let me remove my castling bonus from Schola and watch as it crushes the competition.

What will be interesting is to find the improvements that come for these openings and see if they can stand the test of time.

Andy.

Time defeats us all! "Time won't give me time ..."

[AdminX]

[Event "World Chess Championship 2008"]
[Site "Bonn"]
[Date "2008.10.21"]
[Round "6"]
[White "Anand, Viswanathan"]
[Black "Kramnik, Vladimir"]
[Result "*"]
[WhiteElo "2783"]
[BlackElo "2772"]
[PlyCount "39"]
[EventDate "2008.10.21"]
[EventRounds "6"]
[EventCountry "GER"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. Qc2 d5 5. cxd5 Qxd5 6. Nf3 Qf5 7. Qb3 Nc6 8.
Bd2 O-O 9. h3 b6 10. g4 Qa5 11. Rc1 Bb7 12. a3 Bxc3 13. Bxc3 Qd5 14. Qxd5 Nxd5
15. Bd2 Nf6 16. Rg1 Rac8 17. Bg2 Ne7 18. Bb4 c5 19. dxc5 Rfd8 20. Ne5 *

[d]2rr2k1/pb2nppp/1p2pn2/2P1N3/1B4P1/P6P/1P2PPB1/2R1K1R1 b - - 0 20

[Anil]

Playchess transmission is down

[AdminX]

[Event "World Chess Championship 2008"]
[Site "Bonn"]
[Date "2008.10.21"]
[Round "6"]
[White "Anand, Viswanathan"]
[Black "Kramnik, Vladimir"]
[Result "*"]
[WhiteElo "2783"]
[BlackElo "2772"]
[PlyCount "41"]
[EventDate "2008.10.21"]
[EventRounds "6"]
[EventCountry "GER"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. Qc2 d5 5. cxd5 Qxd5 6. Nf3 Qf5 7. Qb3 Nc6 8.
Bd2 O-O 9. h3 b6 10. g4 Qa5 11. Rc1 Bb7 12. a3 Bxc3 13. Bxc3 Qd5 14. Qxd5 Nxd5
15. Bd2 Nf6 16. Rg1 Rac8 17. Bg2 Ne7 18. Bb4 c5 19. dxc5 Rfd8 20. Ne5 Bxg2 21.Rxg2 *

[d]2rr2k1/p3nppp/1p2pn2/2P1N3/1B4P1/P6P/1P2PPR1/2R1K3 b - - 0 21

[Terry McCracken]

[Event "World Chess Championship 2008"]
[Site "Bonn"]
[Date "2008.10.21"]
[Round "6"]
[White "Anand, Viswanathan"]
[Black "Kramnik, Vladimir"]
[Result "*"]
[WhiteElo "2783"]
[BlackElo "2772"]
[PlyCount "41"]
[EventDate "2008.10.21"]
[EventRounds "6"]
[EventCountry "GER"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. Qc2 d5 5. cxd5 Qxd5 6. Nf3 Qf5 7. Qb3 Nc6 8.
Bd2 O-O 9. h3 b6 10. g4 Qa5 11. Rc1 Bb7 12. a3 Bxc3 13. Bxc3 Qd5 14. Qxd5 Nxd5
15. Bd2 Nf6 16. Rg1 Rac8 17. Bg2 Ne7 18. Bb4 c5 19. dxc5 Rfd8 20. Ne5 Bxg2 21.Rxg2 *

[d]2rr2k1/p3nppp/1p2pn2/2P1N3/1B4P1/P6P/1P2PPR1/2R1K3 b - - 0 21

Anand is using the very weapons that have brought Kramnik great success against him!

Terry

[AdminX]

[d]2rr2k1/p3nppp/1p2pn2/2P1N3/1B4P1/P6P/1P2PPR1/2R1K3 b - - 0 1

Analysis by Zappa Mexico II:

21...a5 22.Bd2 Rd5 23.Nd3 bxc5 24.Rc4 Ne8 25.Be3 Nd6 26.Rxc5 Nc4 27.g5 Rcxc5 28.Bxc5 Nf5 29.Rg4 Nxb2 30.Nxb2 Rxc5 31.Rc4 Rxc4 32.Nxc4 a4 33.Nb6
+/- (0.80) Depth: 19 00:00:00 0kN
+/- (0.72) Depth: 20/51 00:02:28 348mN

[Anil]

Playchess transmission up again

More of Nigel Short's comments:

When asked to judge the position (repeatedly):

" look, I am sitting here with my analysis engines running like all of you. However I do not see any reason to differ from the opinion of the machine that White is better - maybe much so."

" the next few moves are absolutely critical. If Vlad can't regain his pawn or generate play he is going down again."

[Jack Lad]

Black is now lost - Kramnik should have played 19...a5! instead inorder to have any chance of holding the draw.

[AdminX]

Time: White 00:54 - Black 00:36

[Terry McCracken]

[d]2rr2k1/p3nppp/1p2pn2/2P1N3/1B4P1/P6P/1P2PPR1/2R1K3 b - - 0 1

Analysis by Zappa Mexico II:

21...a5 22.Bd2 Rd5 23.Nd3 bxc5 24.Rc4 Ne8 25.Be3 Nd6 26.Rxc5 Nc4 27.g5 Rcxc5 28.Bxc5 Nf5 29.Rg4 Nxb2 30.Nxb2 Rxc5 31.Rc4 Rxc4 32.Nxc4 a4 33.Nb6
+/- (0.80) Depth: 19 00:00:00 0kN
+/- (0.72) Depth: 20/51 00:02:28 348mN

I think Anand is steering this game into an early draw so as to get some rest in preparation to Krush Kramnik, the hallmarks of Vlad and Kaspy combined.