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  • Pravin Thipsay writes: After a thrilling draw within the ultimate recreation, Nepo could have the threshold in tie-breaker

    A tie after 14 thrilling, high-octane video games of the International Chess Championship is possibly the best consequence. Wouldn’t it had been a bitter victory had Ding Liren received the overall recreation and the fit? Taking part in with white items, he had the benefit however Nepo was once ready. With a attract 90 strikes, it was once simply probably the most thrilling fit of this Championship.

    The icing at the cake now’s that we’re in for a Tremendous Sunday! Tie-breakers are going to be a laugh if Sport 14 was once any indication of what’s going to come back. It was once outstanding the way in which Ding performed for a win on Saturday. He’s very transparent about the way in which he needs to play, and that’s to assault. It’s in point of fact in the real spirit of the game. We’re seeing such lively play after a number of many years. (Grandmaster Pravin Thipsay has been analysing video games of the International Chess Championship for The Indian Specific. You’ll learn his research of Sport 13, Sport 12, Sport 11, Sport 10,  Sport 9, Sport 8, Sport 7, Sport 6, Sport 5, Sport 4, Sport 3, Sport 2, and Sport 1.)

    Nepo spoke back to Ding’s Queen Pawn opening with Nimzo Indian Defence however Ding selected a hardly ever performed selection on transfer 5, a transfer he had selected towards Praggnanadhaa effectively final yr. On the other hand, Nepo made up our minds to change on transfer 7 with a central Pawn ruin. On transfer 9, Ding made a particularly uncommon transfer invented by way of Donchenko and however obviously, Nepo was once smartly ready for it. With a novelty on transfer 10, a logical Pawn alternate within the centre, Nepo had little problem in equalising.

    As a substitute of opting for a strategic trail with a Pawn advance within the centre, Ding initiated a rash assault towards Nepo’s King on transfer 12 and introduced a Knight on transfer 13. Nepo accurately kept away from shooting the Knight and targeting safeguarding his place. On transfer 15, it was transparent that the assault didn’t have a lot steam, so Ding exchanged Queens to succeed in a drawish finishing on transfer 18. With the intention to create some headaches, Ding introduced a Bishop alternate on transfer 19, a doubtful resolution that made some successful probabilities just for the opponent!

    On transfer 9, Ding made a particularly uncommon transfer invented by way of Donchenko and however obviously, Nepo was once smartly ready for it. On transfer 9, Ding made a particularly uncommon transfer invented by way of Donchenko and however obviously, Nepo was once smartly ready for it. (FIDE/ Anna Shtourman)

    Regardless that Nepo had an higher hand within the finishing, Ding succeeded in developing some headaches and obscure threats.

    Nepo guarded towards the threats effectively and by way of transfer 36, he gave the look to be all set to win the International Crown. Via activating his Rook additional on transfer 36, the Russian will have retained his benefit however his secure Pawn transfer gave Ding sufficient time to organise a a success defence.

    With an excellent Pawn sacrifice on transfer 18, in spite of serious time bother, Ding pressured a theoretically drawn Rook Finishing. Nepo attempted his perfect to use his further Pawn however Ding defended very correctly and the sport was once in the end drawn after 90 strikes.

    The avid gamers certainly performed excellent Chess from transfer 38, and not using a unmarried faulty transfer. And that’s in point of fact one thing. Nepo did press arduous for the final 50 strikes however the Russian Proverb “All Rook endings are drawn!” grew to become out to be very proper within the recreation.

    It’s going to be a difficult Sunday for the avid gamers and the person who presentations extra vigour, power and higher presence of thoughts will emerge as the brand new global Champion.

    Tie-breakers are all about taking part in temporarily and we’ve noticed the type of bother Ding has gotten into. It’s nearly 1/4th of the time the avid gamers had been eating now. For me, that in point of fact places the force at the Chinese language Grandmaster.

    It without a doubt feels that in relation to technique, Nepo has been nice together with his preparation. He’s very transparent together with his technique and when since they now have simply 25 mins each and every for a recreation, it without a doubt provides him the threshold.

    It must be made up our minds within the first tie-break itself which could have 4 Speedy video games with time regulate of 25 Min plus an increment of 10 seconds after each and every transfer.

    (Pravin Thipsay is an Indian Grandmaster and a recipient of the Arjuna Award)

    Strikes (Sport 14): 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.e3 0–0 5.Bd2 d5 6.a3 Be7 7.Nf3 c5 8.dxc5 Bxc5 9.Qc2 dxc4 10.Bxc4 Nbd7 11.Rd1 Be7 12.Ng5 h6 13.h4 Qc7 14.Be2 Rd8 15.Rc1 Nf8 16.Nge4 Nxe4 17.Nxe4 Qxc2 18.Rxc2 Bd7 19.Bb4 Bxb4+ 20.axb4 Bc6 21.Nc5 Bxg2 22.Rg1 Bd5 23.e4 Bc6 24.b5 Be8 25.Nxb7 Rd4 26.Rc4 Rd7 27.Nc5 Rc7 28.Rc3 Rac8 29.b4 Nd7 30.Rcg3 Nxc5 31.bxc5 Rxc5 32.Rxg7+ Kf8 33.Bd3 Rd8 34.Ke2 Rc3 35.Rg8+ Ke7 36.R1g3 e5? 37.Rh8! Rd6 38.b6!! Rxb6 39.Rxe8+! Kxe8 40.Bb5+! Rxb5 41.Rxc3 Kd7 42.Rf3 Ke7 43.Rc3 a5 44.Rc7+
    Kf6 45.Rc6+ Kg7 46.Ra6 Rb2+ 47.Kf3 Ra2 48.Kg3 h5 49.Ra8 Ra1 50.Kg2 a4 51.Ra5! f6 52.Kf3 a3 53.Ra6 Kf7 54.Ke3 Ke8 55.Ke2 Ke7 56.Kf3 Ra2 57.Ke3 Ra1 58.Ke2 Kf7 59.Kf3 Ra2 60.Ke3 Ke7 61.Kf3 Kd7 62.Rxf6 Rb2 63.Ra6 Rb3+ 64.Kg2 Kc7 65.f4!! [Only move to draw.] 65…exf4 66.e5! Kb7 67.Ra4 Kc6 68.Ra6+ Kb5 69.Ra7 Kb6 70.Ra8 Kc5 71.Ra6 Kb5 72.Ra7 Kb6 73.Ra8
    Kc6 74.Ra6+ Kd7 75.Kf2 Ke7 76.Kg2 Re3 77.Kf2 Rg3 78.Kf1 Rc3 79.Kf2 Re3 80.Kg2 Kd7 81.Kf2 Kc7 82.e6 Kd8 83.Ra7 Ke8 84.Kg2 Rxe6 85.Rxa3 Rg6+ 86.Kf2 Rg4 87.Ra5! Rxh4 88.Kf3 Ke7 89.Rf5 Ke6 90.Rxf4 Rxf4+ Sport drawn by way of settlement.

  • Pravin Thipsay writes: Ding Liren holds the benefit as Recreation 13 results in draw

    With simply the overall sport to head within the International Chess Championship, it’s benefit Ding Liren as his opponent Ian Nepomniachtchi didn’t win with White items in Recreation 13 on the St Regis in Astana, Kazakhstan, on Thursday.

    Frankly, I’m a bit of stunned with the way in which Nepo performed on Thursday. Agreed he had a devastating loss on Wednesday and had no time to get better, however that is the International Championships! Apart from Magnus Carlsen, Ding and Nepo are meant to be the most productive chess gamers on the planet. They will have to be able for any kind of problem.

    Nepo’s very best shot at getting an outright win was once Recreation 13. He needed to play to his strengths and use diversifications which he’s accustomed to. However at the tenth transfer, he selected a variation that hasn’t been widespread. In reality, from the previous 115 years no less than, it’s identified that Bishop to e3 isn’t a smart decision. It’s performed best via amateurs. It’s relatively widely recognized that this alteration provides the opponent the brink. There’s no approach that Nepo wasn’t conscious about this.

    The Russian adopted up the transfer with a untimely central Pawn destroy on transfer 14. This gave Ding, who was once supremely assured after the win on Wednesday, the higher hand. What’s stunning is that Nepo didn’t sense that he had now not put himself in a just right place and endured enjoying susceptible and weakening strikes which enabled Ding to organize for a central Pawn destroy which he activated on transfer 19.

    Via transfer 20, Nepo was once in an unenviable place. As has been the case in maximum video games, it was once Ding’s flip to play misguided strikes. On transfer 21, he ignored a possibility to organize for an attack in opposition to Nepo’s place via supporting his Queenside Bishop, thereby liberating his Knight for Kingside motion. All he needed to play at the transfer was once Rb8!, protective the Queen Bishop, thereby threatening to transport the Knight from ‘d5’ to ‘f4’ from a place in centre against Nepo’s King. This, if coupled with Black Queen becoming a member of the assault, may have been extraordinarily bad for Nepo.

    He then endured his deficient run via enjoying needless strikes thereby enabling Nepo to get out of threat. It was once right here that Nepo’s ‘sense of threat’ got here again and he started to play correct strikes to get out of bother.

    In a more or less equivalent place, Ding made up our minds to ‘sacrifice an trade’ (giving for free a Rook for a minor piece) to create what gave the look of a castle. Nepo may have retained some profitable probabilities with a Knight maneuver on transfer 36 however made up our minds to make a Rook transfer as a substitute, which enabled Ding to drive a draw with threefold repetition.

    The fit now appears to be tilting against Ding as he’s going to play with White Items within the ultimate sport to be performed on Saturday. The remaining day on Friday will be offering him a possibility to make stronger over the twelfth sport which he performed with White. After all, Nepo goes to play a forged gadget and we’re much more likely to peer a Queen’s Gambit Declined on Saturday, moderately than the Indian Defence.

    If those 13 video games have proven us the rest, it’s that each those gamers have super scope for development. It’s extraordinarily essential for either one of them to get into the main points in their shortcomings. Particular shortcomings will also be cured via specialist mavens. As an example, opening diversifications. There are mavens who will handle best that.

    Previous International Championships contenders had an overly robust strategic base. I believe this is lacking right here utterly. Ding’s ways are just right and Nepo’s strategic wisdom is just right however each those gamers lack that in-depth wisdom.

    Don’t get me mistaken, they’re nonetheless the most productive gamers. They’ve come this a long way on account of their talent to calculate higher. Their vigour and risk-taking talent also are awesome to their contemporaries. They’ve much more to do, despite the fact that.

    (Pravin Thipsay is an Indian Grandmaster and a recipient of the Arjuna Award)

    Strikes (Recreation 13): 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.0–0 Be7 6.d3 b5 7.Bb3 d6 8.c3 0–0 9.h3 Bb7 10.Be3?! Na5 11.Bc2 c5 12.Nbd2 Re8 13.a4 h6! 14.d4?! exd4 15.cxd4 cxd4 16.Nxd4 Nc4 17.Nxc4 bxc4 18.f3 Bf8 19.Bf2 d5! 20.exd5 Nxd5 21.Be4 Re5?! 22.Rc1 Rc8 23.Ne2 Qe7?! 24.Qd4! F5!? 25.Bg3! Rxe4 26.fxe4 Qxe4 27.Qxe4 fxe4 28.Rfd1 Nb4 29.Rd7 Bc5+ 30.Kh2 Bc6 31.Rc7 Rxc7 32.Bxc7 Bd5 33.Nc3 Nd3 34.Rc2 Bc6 35.a5 Kf7 36.Re2?! Nc1 37.Re1 Nd3 38.Re2?! Nc1 39.Re1 Nd3 40.Re2?! Recreation drawn via ‘Threefold Repetition’.

  • ‘Felt Humiliated’: Indian chess Grand Grasp SL Narayanan after being made to face barefeet for steel detector test in heart of taking part in corridor

    Indian GM SL Narayanan says he “felt humiliated” after he was once made to face barefoot in the course of a taking part in corridor prior to his fit whilst taking part in within the Bundesliga chess league on Sunday.

    So affected was once he by means of the humiliation, that he misplaced his first fit of the season for his group SV Deggendorf. He was once crushed by means of the Czech Republic No. 1 GM David Navara. This was once his first lack of the season for the group SV Deggendorf.

    The 24-year-old put out a observation on Twitter and Fb overdue on Sunday, explaining his ordeal.

    I will have to say this. @FIDE_chess percent.twitter.com/TRLl6fMr5E

    — SL Narayanan (@GMNarayananSL) November 27, 2022

    “Lately I felt humiliated,” his observation learn.

    “I performed within the Bundesliga as of late. Ahead of the primary spherical, I used to be some of the 5 gamers picked by means of the arbiter for a random test. Throughout the test with a steel detector, there was once a beep sound. So, I used to be advised to take away my sneakers and so they checked once more. Beep. Now, I used to be advised to take away my socks. The arbiter then ran the steel detector on my bare foot and we heard the beep once more.

    “At this level, I used to be advised to transport apart and the following participant was once requested to step ahead. It’s exhausting to give an explanation for how unhealthy it felt as though I used to be in charge of one thing I had no clue about in anyway.

    “All this took place in the course of the taking part in corridor. I held a sock and stood with a naked left foot. Believe how I may have felt,” he wrote.

    I gained a person bronze however I may just now not really feel a lot glad about it as a result of we neglected out at the podium by means of a whisker. We’re going to be again more potent. https://t.co/N5u8gF1a45 percent.twitter.com/0d1OtL8bGJ

    — SL Narayanan (@GMNarayananSL) November 26, 2022

    The ordeal quickly ended as the safety, on listening to the beep within the different participant’s foot too, made up our minds to test the carpet beneath best to understand that it was once the reason for the beep.

    “The arbiter apologised to me. However I will have to say how embarrassing it was once. And thoughts you, this took place simply mins prior to my spherical.

    “The truth that the arbiter apologised is favored. However this entire scenario may have been treated higher. Sure, we want such vigilant arbiters to forestall dishonest in chess however on the identical time they must act in some skilled means,” he wrote.

    With a draw towards Sethuraman within the ultimate spherical, GM SL Narayanan wins the Fagernes GM Open 2022! SL scored a fantastic 7/9 in an excessively sturdy box to clinch the primary position. Abhimanyu Puranik additionally had a perfect match – he clinched a win as of late to complete second with 7/9.
    ?: Tom Eriksen percent.twitter.com/NPtCG9u4Tb

    — ChessBase India (@ChessbaseIndia) October 16, 2022

    Ever since five-time International Champion Magnus Carlsen accused American GM Hans Niemann of dishonest in September this 12 months, safety at chess over-the-board tournaments has been beefed up. Whilst exams took place previous too, now the trying out has turn out to be extra inflexible.

    Conspiracy theories were floating that chess gamers can lift the smallest of units with them at tournaments with some even suggesting that vibrating anal beads can be utilized.

    So even a small beep right through safety exams is certain to lift suspicion.

    Whilst safety exams are completed on the front, detailed searches are usually performed in personal. What turns out to have irked Narayanan was once that he was once made to face barefoot in the course of the taking part in corridor, whilst different gamers have been probably looking at him.

    Narayanan, who two days in the past gained the person bronze medal for India at International Group Chess Championship, known as on FIDE and the match organisers to “save gamers from going via such humiliation.”

  • FIDE bans Russia and Belarus from preserving global chess occasions

    FIDE, the arena governing frame of chess, took the momentous step as they’ve made up our minds to prohibit Russia and Belarus from preserving any global chess occasions following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

    As said via FIDE President Arkady Dvorkovich, the FIDE Council regards its major project in holding the team spirit of FIDE and respecting the elemental human rights enshrined within the FIDE Constitution.

    These days, on February 27, 2022, an unusual assembly of the FIDE Council was once held at the present state of affairs and the pressing measures to be taken after the army motion introduced via Russia in Ukraine.

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    — Global Chess Federation (@FIDE_chess) February 27, 2022

    On this regard, the FIDE Council has followed various necessary emergency selections.

    “FIDE expresses its grave worry in regards to the army motion began via Russia in Ukraine. FIDE stands united in opposition to wars in addition to condemns any use of army manner to unravel political conflicts. FIDE will take any essential motion to verify the safety of chess avid gamers and different contributors of the chess neighborhood. No reputable FIDE chess competitions and occasions shall be held in Russia and Belarus,” FIDE mentioned in a commentary.

    FIDE’s ruling additionally comes simply days prior to the beginning of the following Grand Prix tournament in Belgrade, which is because of characteristic 5 Russian grandmasters, Andrey Esipenko (changing Dmitry Andreikin), Alexander Grischuk, Vladimir Fedoseev, Nikita Vitiugov and Alexandr Predke.

    The important thing selections FIDE made:

    1. Russia and Belarus banned from preserving reputable FIDE chess competitions and occasions.

    2. Russian and Belarusian avid gamers banned from showing nationwide flags at FIDE-rated occasions and nationals anthem may not be performed.

    3. FIDE will terminate all sponsorship agreements with Russian or Belarusian sanctioned and/or state-controlled corporations.

    FIDE additionally mentioned it condemns “any public commentary from any member of the chess neighborhood which helps unjustified army motion”. It mentioned two Russian grandmasters, Sergey Karjakin and Sergey Shipov, should face its Ethics and Disciplinary Fee following arguable feedback on-line.

    The verdict will nearly surely had been arguable internally for the reason that the organisation is in large part funded via Russian company donors and Russian sponsors akin to Gazprom and Nornickel.

    The FIDE President, Arkady Dvokovich, may be a former Kremlin insider – the ex-Deputy Top Minister of Russia and the organiser of the 2018 FIFA International Cup.

    The FIDE Council additionally steered that without reference to the group of the Chess Olympiad 2022, FIDE will prepare the once a year FIDE Congress all the way through the prior to now deliberate dates – from July 27 until August 2 with the election date on August 1. The desire is to mix the FIDE Congress with the Chess Olympiad 2022. Alternatively, consultations with the possible organizers of the Chess Olympiad 2022 shall be performed and adjustment of the FIDE Congress dates is imaginable if it does now not suggest a notable extend of elections. The FIDE Council confirms that the continental elections will probably be arranged inside of their constitutional phrases.