Anand vs. Gelfand WCC 2012 started

[Lion]

.???
1e4 =
1d4 =
1c4 =
1Cf3 =

Everything is nearly =

[tano-urayoan]

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Indeed....

So why doesn't he open with 1. e4 ...


Dr.D

Because Gelfand does not play e4 period.

Top players
Carlsen plays everything
Aronian d4 altough he experimented with e4 in his match against Kramnik
Kramnik d4-c4-Nf3
Anand Has switched to d4 for his matches. Rarely uses e4 nowadays
Radjabov Mainly d4 but also a little Nf3 and sometimes e4
Nakamura- everything
Caruana d4 or e4
Karjakin e4
Ivanchuk everything

[gleperlier]

Game 5 started with a sicilian !

[AdminX]

Game 5 started with a sicilian !

[Event "World Chess Championship Match"]
[Site "Moscow"]
[Date "2012.05.17"]
[Round "5"]
[White "Anand, Viswanathan"]
[Black "Gelfand, Boris"]
[Result "*"]
[ECO "B33"]
[WhiteElo "2791"]
[BlackElo "2727"]
[Annotator "Robot 3"]
[PlyCount "30"]
[EventDate "2012.??.??"]
[EventCountry "RUS"]
[TimeControl "40/7200+30:20/3600+30:900+30"]

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 e5 6. Ndb5 d6 7. Bg5 a6 8.
Na3 b5 9. Nd5 Be7 10. Bxf6 Bxf6 11. c4 b4 12. Nc2 O-O 13. g3 a5 14. Bg2 Bg5 15.
O-O Be6 *

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[AdminX]

[Event "World Chess Championship Match"]
[Site "Moscow"]
[Date "2012.05.17"]
[Round "5"]
[White "Anand, Viswanathan"]
[Black "Gelfand, Boris"]
[Result "*"]
[ECO "B33"]
[WhiteElo "2791"]
[BlackElo "2727"]
[Annotator "Robot 3"]
[PlyCount "34"]
[EventDate "2012.??.??"]
[EventCountry "RUS"]
[TimeControl "40/7200+30:20/3600+30:900+30"]

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 e5 6. Ndb5 d6 7. Bg5 a6 8.
Na3 b5 9. Nd5 Be7 10. Bxf6 Bxf6 11. c4 b4 12. Nc2 O-O 13. g3 a5 14. Bg2 Bg5 15.
O-O Be6 16. Qd3 Bxd5 17. cxd5 Nb8 *

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[AdminX]

[Event "World Chess Championship Match"]
[Site "Moscow"]
[Date "2012.05.17"]
[Round "5"]
[White "Anand, Viswanathan"]
[Black "Gelfand, Boris"]
[Result "*"]
[ECO "B33"]
[WhiteElo "2791"]
[BlackElo "2727"]
[Annotator "Robot 3"]
[PlyCount "40"]
[EventDate "2012.??.??"]
[EventCountry "RUS"]
[TimeControl "40/7200+30:20/3600+30:900+30"]

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 e5 6. Ndb5 d6 7. Bg5 a6 8.
Na3 b5 9. Nd5 Be7 10. Bxf6 Bxf6 11. c4 b4 12. Nc2 O-O 13. g3 a5 14. Bg2 Bg5 15.
O-O Be6 16. Qd3 Bxd5 17. cxd5 Nb8 18. a3 Na6 19. axb4 Nxb4 20. Nxb4 axb4 *

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[Uri Blass]

Precisely....

In the tie break Anand will rip him off to small pieces....

BG needs to find something better against the Slav if he wants to win as white - so far his efforts have been a bit of "damp squib" as Nigel Short said.

Indeed....

So why doesn't he open with 1. e4

We all know that Anand is well prepared against this move,but still....
1. e4 1-0 regards,
Dr.D

After 1.e4 anand can win by more than one way.

both c5 and c6 and e6 won games for anand.

[Event "London Chess Classic"]
[Site "0:32:33-0:28:33"]
[Date "2011.12.08"]
[EventDate "2011.12.03"]
[Round "5"]
[Result "0-1"]
[White "Nigel Short"]
[Black "Viswanathan Anand"]
[ECO "B52"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "124"]

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.Bb5+ Bd7 4.Bxd7+ Qxd7 5.O-O Nc6 6.Qe2 g6
7.c3 Bg7 8.Rd1 e5 9.b4 cxb4 10.cxb4 Nge7 11.d4 exd4 12.Bb2 O-O
13.b5 Ne5 14.Nxd4 Rac8 15.Nd2 d5 16.h3 Rfe8 17.Rab1 Qc7
18.Rbc1 Qb6 19.Rxc8 Nxc8 20.exd5 Nd6 21.Qf1 Rc8 22.N2b3 Nec4
23.Ba1 Na3 24.Qe1 Rd8 25.Qe7 Re8 26.Qg5 Naxb5 27.Nxb5 Qxb5
28.Bxg7 Kxg7 29.Qf4 Qb6 30.Rc1 h5 31.Nc5 Qd8 32.Qb4 Qe7 33.a4
b6 34.Na6 Qf6 35.Re1 Rc8 36.Qb1 Rc4 37.Nb4 Qc3 38.Nc6 Rxa4
39.Qd1 b5 40.Kh2 Qf6 41.Qd2 Ne4 42.Qe3 Qd6+ 43.Kg1 Qxd5
44.Nxa7 Qb7 45.Qd3 Qxa7 46.Rxe4 Rxe4 47.Qxe4 Qa1+ 48.Kh2 Qc3
49.f4 Qc5 50.Qd3 b4 51.f5 h4 52.Qd7 g5 53.Qd8 Qxf5 54.Qd4+ Kg6
55.Qd6+ Qf6 56.Qxb4 Qf4+ 57.Qxf4 gxf4 58.Kg1 Kf5 59.Kf1 Ke4
60.Ke2 f3+ 61.gxf3+ Kf4 62.Kf2 f6 0-1


[Event "20th Amber Tournament (Blindfold)"]
[Site "Monaco MNC"]
[Date "2011.03.22"]
[EventDate "2011.03.12"]
[Round "9"]
[Result "0-1"]
[White "Magnus Carlsen"]
[Black "Viswanathan Anand"]
[ECO "B23"]
[WhiteElo "2815"]
[BlackElo "2817"]
[PlyCount "90"]

1. e4 c5 2. Nc3 d6 3. f4 g6 4. Nf3 Bg7 5. Bb5+ Bd7 6. Bc4 Nc6
7. O-O Na5 8. d3 Nxc4 9. dxc4 Bxc3 10. bxc3 Bc6 11. e5 Qc7
12. Qd3 f5 13. Ng5 h6 14. Qh3 dxe5 15. Be3 e4 16. Ne6 Qc8
17. Nxc5 Nf6 18. Bd4 Kf7 19. Rae1 a5 20. Re2 b5 21. Nb3 bxc4
22. Nd2 Bd5 23. Rfe1 Qd8 24. Qh4 e6 25. Rb1 Qe7 26. Nxc4 Nd7
27. Qxe7+ Kxe7 28. Ne3 Rhb8 29. Rxb8 Rxb8 30. c4 Bc6 31. Rd2
e5 32. Bxe5 Nxe5 33. fxe5 f4 34. Nd5+ Bxd5 35. Rxd5 Rb1+
36. Kf2 Rb2 37. Rd4 Rxc2+ 38. Kf1 f3 39. gxf3 exf3 40. Rd6 g5
41. Rxh6 Rxa2 42. h3 a4 43. Rf6 Ra1+ 44. Kf2 a3 45. Ra6 a2 0-1

[Event "Anand-Shirov Match"]
[Site "Leon, Spain"]
[Date "2011.06.05"]
[EventDate "2011.06.02"]
[Round "5"]
[Result "0-1"]
[White "Alexey Shirov"]
[Black "Viswanathan Anand"]
[ECO "B12"]
[WhiteElo "2709"]
[BlackElo "2817"]
[PlyCount "82"]

1.e4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.e5 Bf5 4.h4 h5 5.Bg5 Qb6 6.Bd3 Bxd3 7.Qxd3
Qa6 8.Qf3 e6 9.Ne2 c5 10.c3 Nc6 11.Nd2 Nge7 12.Nb3 cxd4
13.cxd4 Nf5 14.O-O Be7 15.Bxe7 Ncxe7 16.g3 b6 17.Nf4 g6 18.Nh3
O-O 19.Qf4 Qe2 20.Rfd1 Rac8 21.Rd2 Qg4 22.Qxg4 hxg4 23.Ng5 a5
24.f3 Rc4 25.Kf2 Rfc8 26.fxg4 Nh6 27.Rad1 a4 28.Na1 Nxg4+
29.Kf3 Nh6 30.Kf4 Nef5 31.Nf3 b5 32.Ne1 f6 33.exf6 e5+ 34.Kxe5
Ne3 35.Rb1 Re8+ 36.Kf4 Rc6 37.Kg5 Re4 38.Kxh6 Rg4 39.Rf2 Nf5+
40.Rxf5 gxf5 41.Kh5 Rc7 0-1

[Event "20th Amber Tournament (Rapid)"]
[Site "Monaco MNC"]
[Date "2011.03.23"]
[EventDate "2011.03.12"]
[Round "10"]
[Result "0-1"]
[White "Vugar Gashimov"]
[Black "Viswanathan Anand"]
[ECO "C11"]
[WhiteElo "2746"]
[BlackElo "2817"]
[PlyCount "80"]

1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Bg5 dxe4 5. Nxe4 Be7 6. Bxf6
gxf6 7. Qd3 Nc6 8. O-O-O Nb4 9. Qb3 Qd5 10. Qxd5 Nxd5 11. Bc4
Nb6 12. Bb5+ c6 13. Be2 f5 14. Ng3 c5 15. Bb5+ Nd7 16. d5 a6
17. Be2 Nf6 18. dxe6 fxe6 19. Nh3 b5 20. Rhe1 Rb8 21. Nh5 Rb6
22. Kb1 Rg8 23. N3f4 Kf7 24. Nxf6 Kxf6 25. Rd3 Bd6 26. Nh5+
Kf7 27. Red1 Ke7 28. Rh3 Rxg2 29. Ng3 Bxg3 30. Rxh7+ Kf6
31. hxg3 Rxf2 32. Bh5 Bb7 33. Re1 Be4 34. Rf7+ Kg5 35. Bd1 Rd6
36. Kc1 Rdd2 37. g4 Bxc2 38. gxf5 Bxf5 39. Rf1 Rxb2 40. Rxf2
Rxf2 0-1

[rbarreira]

Why is the official stream talking about Jesus and paintings?

[AdminX]

[Event "World Chess Championship Match"]
[Site "Moscow"]
[Date "2012.05.17"]
[Round "5"]
[White "Anand, Viswanathan"]
[Black "Gelfand, Boris"]
[Result "*"]
[ECO "B33"]
[WhiteElo "2791"]
[BlackElo "2727"]
[Annotator "Robot 3"]
[PlyCount "43"]
[EventDate "2012.??.??"]
[EventCountry "RUS"]
[TimeControl "40/7200+30:20/3600+30:900+30"]

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 e5 6. Ndb5 d6 7. Bg5 a6 8.
Na3 b5 9. Nd5 Be7 10. Bxf6 Bxf6 11. c4 b4 12. Nc2 O-O 13. g3 a5 14. Bg2 Bg5 15.
O-O Be6 16. Qd3 Bxd5 17. cxd5 Nb8 18. a3 Na6 19. axb4 Nxb4 20. Nxb4 axb4 21. h4
Bh6 22. Bh3 *

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[Strelkaman]

Why 18.a3 is a novelty?Yes in depth 16,17 is a novelty but in Strelka depth 22 18.h4 is the best move


After 22.Bh3 Fire on the board by Strelka.Check out this variation(192m positions) 22... Qb6 23. Qc4 Qc5 24. Qxc5 dxc5 25. Rfb1 c4 26. Bf1 Rxa1 27. Rxa1 c3 28. bxc3 bxc3 29. Bd3 Rb8 30. Ra7 Kf8 31. Kf1 Rb2 32. d6 Ke8 33. Re7+ Kd8 34. Rc7 Bd2 35. Ke2 Bh6+ 36. Kf3 Bd2 37. Rxf7 c2 38. Bxc2 Rxc2 39. Rxg7 Bb4