Expressly annotated by Miss Lonelyhearts
Viswanathan Anand – Magnus Carlsen
World Chess Championship; match game 3; Sochi, November 11, 2014
Queen’s Gambit Declined D37
World Chess Championship; match game 3; Sochi, November 11, 2014
Queen’s Gambit Declined D37
1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nf3 d5 4. Nc3 Be7 5. Bf4 0-0 6. e3 Nbd7 7. c5 c6 8. Bd3. A “game clone” is 8. h3 (the only exception!) 8. ... b6 9. b4 a5 10. a3 Ba6 11. Bxa6 Rxa6 12. b5
cxb5 13. c6 Qc8 14. c7 b4 15. Nb5 a4 16. Rc1 Ne4 17. Nd2 Ndf6
18. f3 Ra5 19. Nxe4 Nxe4 20. fxe4 Rxb5 21. Qxa4 Ra5 22. Qc6
bxa3 23. exd5 Rxd5 24. Qxb6 Qd7 25. 0-0 Rc8 26. Rc6 (the position is the same as the actual game, except that here White’s Pawn is on h3 and not on h2) 26. ... h6
27. Rfc1 Kh7 28. Qa6 Rf5 29. Bd6 Bh4 30. Qxa3 Bf2+ 31. Kh1 Rd5
32. Bf4 f5 33. Qc3 Bh4 34. Rb6 Bg5 35. Be5 Bd8 36. Rb8 1 : 0 Tomashevsky – Riazantsev, 61th Russian Superfinal, Moscow 2008. 8. ... b6 9. b4 a5 10. a3 Ba6 11. Bxa6 Rxa6 12. b5! cxb5 13. c6 Qc8 14. c7. “Everyone is saying this is a solid line for Black. But... isn’t that a White Pawn on c7?”, Fabiano Caruana tweeted. 14. ... b4 15. Nb5 a4 16. Rc1 Ne4 17. Ng5 Ndf6. “Could very well be that Magnus remembers the game Aronian – Adams, [Bilbao] 2013 and nothing more than that. Not a good game to follow...”, Anish Giri said. 18. Nxe4 Nxe4. If 18. ... dxe4 then 19. Bd6. 19. f3 Ra5 20. fxe4! Far sharper than 20. Qe2 Qd7 21. fxe4 Rc8! 22. exd5
exd5 23. axb4 Rxb5 24. 0-0 Rxb4 25. Qa6 h6 26. Rc6 Bg5
27. Bxg5 hxg5 28. Rfc1 Rc4 29. R1xc4 dxc4 30. Qxb6 a3 31. Rxc4
a2 32. Qa5 Qe6 33. Qxa2 Rxc7! 34. Qa8+ Kh7 35. Rxc7 Qxe3+
36. Kf1 Qf4+ 37. Qf3 Qxc7 38. Qh5+ Kg8 39. Qxg5 Qc4+ 40. Kf2
Qxd4+ ½ : ½ Aronian – M. Adams, Bilbao 2013. 20. ... Rxb5 21. Qxa4 Ra5 22. Qc6! White already holds a powerful grip. 22. ... bxa3 23. exd5 Rxd5 24. Qxb6 Qd7 25. 0-0. Apparently 25. Qa6 it is very strong, but, as tweeted by Pentala Harikrishna, “25. Qa6 is such an easy move with engines running :D in my opinion 25. 0-0 is more human”. 25. ... Rc8
26. Rc6! After the hasty 26. Rb1 Black is just in time to “patch” with 26. ... Bd6(!). And now if 26. Qa6 then 26. ... Rb5! and Black consolidates. 26. ... g5 27. Bg3 Bb4 28. Ra1! Anand’s play is – as usual – very elegant. 28. ... Ba5 29. Qa6! Bxc7 30. Qc4. Of course 30. Qb7?? Rxd4! would be a careless blunder. 30. ... e5 31. Bxe5 Rxe5 32. dxe5 Qe7 33. e6! Kf8 34. Rc1 1 : 0. “Just a fantastic game from start to finish by Anand. I am really curious if he knew the Toma game though. Not sure I believe his answer
:)”, Hikaru Nakamura tweeted.
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