Anand vs Topalov Game 7

[JuLieN]

Well... For his first move out of the book, Topalov put White's mark back at +1 with playing 21...Bf8, according to Stockfish...
(+.96 at depth 24/25)

EDIT: +1.01 at depth 26 (22.Rc7)

[AdminX]

[d]4rbk1/R4ppp/8/1q6/2pp4/5PP1/1P1B3P/1N3Q1K w - - 0 22

[AdminX]

Well... For his first move out of the book, Topalov put White's mark back at +1 with playing 21...Bf8, according to Stockfish...
(+.96 at depth 24/25)

EDIT: +1.01 at depth 26 (22.Rc7)

I wonder what member of Topalov's team came up the the novelty in this game???

[metax]

[d]4rbk1/R4ppp/8/1q6/2pp4/5PP1/1P1B3P/1N3Q1K w - -

Topalov's move is 21...Bf8!?.


Stockfish's evaluation significantly rises but +1 is not much for Stockfish anyway.

(analysis in German)

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26.01	 3:10 	+1.05 	2.Tc7 d3 3.Lc3 Lc5 4.Sd2 Db6 5.Le5 Txe5 6.Tc8+ Lf8 7.Sxc4 De6 8.Txf8+ Kxf8 9.Sxe5 Dxe5 10.Dxd3 Ke7 11.b3 Ke6 12.Kg2 Db2+ 13.Kh3 Df6 14.De4+ Kd6 15.g4 (207.740.655) 1091

[AdminX]

Stockfish gives 22. Rc7 covering all the business squares!

Anand,V - Topalov,V, World Chess Championship 2010
[d]4rbk1/R4ppp/8/1q6/2pp4/5PP1/1P1B3P/1N3Q1K w - - 0 1

Analysis by Stockfish 1.7.1-16 JA 64bit:

22.Kg2 d3 23.Nc3 Qxb2 24.Qc1 Qb6 25.Ra4 Qb3 26.h3 Re2+ 27.Nxe2 Qxa4
+/- (1.09) Depth: 6 00:00:00 4kN
+/= (0.36) Depth: 8 00:00:01 26kN

22.Na3 Bxa3 23.bxa3 d3 24.Rc7 h5 25.Bb4 c3 26.Bxc3 d2 27.Qg1 Re1
+/= (0.68) Depth: 8 00:00:01 31kN
+/= (0.44 --) Depth: 11 00:00:03 215kN

22.Rc7 d3 23.Bc3 Bc5 24.Nd2 Qb6 25.Be5 Rxe5 26.Rc8+ Bf8 27.Nxc4 Qe6 28.Rxf8+ Kxf8 29.Nxe5 Qxe5 30.Qxd3 Ke7 31.Qxh7 Qe1+ 32.Kg2 Qe2+ 33.Kh3 Qxf3 34.Qh4+ Ke8 35.Qa4+ Kd8 36.Qd4+ Ke7 37.Qe5+ Kf8 38.b4 Qf1+ 39.Kh4 Qc4+ 40.Qf4 Qe2 41.g4 Ke7 42.Kg3 Qe1+ 43.Kh3 Qe2 44.Qc7+ Ke6 45.Qc6+ Ke7 46.Qc5+ Ke6 47.b5 Qf3+ 48.Kh4
+/- (0.80 ++) Depth: 11 00:00:03 222kN
+/- (1.09) Depth: 30 00:04:24 925mN

[JuLieN]

Yayy! Anand played Rc7 (+1.05 at depth 30 for SF)

[AdminX]

And the business move was played!

[d]4rbk1/2R2ppp/8/1q6/2pp4/5PP1/1P1B3P/1N3Q1K b - - 0 22

[Sven]

Analysis by Stockfish 1.7.1-16 JA 64bit:
[...]
22.Rc7 d3 23.Bc3 Bc5 24.Nd2 Qb6 25.Be5 Rxe5 26.Rc8+ Bf8 27.Nxc4 Qe6 28.Rxf8+ Kxf8 29.Nxe5 Qxe5 30.Qxd3 Ke7 31.Qxh7 Qe1+ 32.Kg2 Qe2+ 33.Kh3 Qxf3 34.Qh4+ Ke8 35.Qa4+ Kd8 36.Qd4+ Ke7 37.Qe5+ Kf8 38.b4 Qf1+ 39.Kh4 Qc4+ 40.Qf4 Qe2 41.g4 Ke7 42.Kg3 Qe1+ 43.Kh3 Qe2 44.Qc7+ Ke6 45.Qc6+ Ke7 46.Qc5+ Ke6 47.b5 Qf3+ 48.Kh4
+/- (0.80 ++) Depth: 11 00:00:03 222kN
+/- (1.09) Depth: 30 00:04:24 925mN

Showing a PV that is 53 plies deep ... are we close to solving that game now?

The line after 22.Rc7 leads to an interesting queen ending. It may be a draw, though, but GMs and engines will analyze that much better than I

Sven

[AdminX]

[d]4rbk1/2R2ppp/8/1q6/2p5/3p1PP1/1P1B3P/1N3Q1K w - - 0 23

[JuLieN]

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