Chessable Houska's Caro

6th London Chess Classic 2014 (3)

All three games drawn in London Chess Classic Round 3

Nakamura tried the Evans Gambit against Anand. Photo © John Saunders.

Nakamura tried the Evans Gambit against Anand. Photo © John Saunders. | http://www.londonchessclassic.com

The third round of the London Chess Classic saw all the games drawn. Hikaru Nakamura caused some excitement with his choice of the Evans Gambit but Anand had looked at it recently (Kramnik faced it in Qatar) and knew the generally accepted antidotes. Anand was somewhat surprised by 9.a4 but was still doing fine. Probably Anand wasn't completely accurate in the next few moves as Nakamura got some pressure with 21.Nd6 (Nc5 was also interesting) but the game soon fizzled to a draw.

Anish Giri came armed with the waiting move 12...Rc8 in the Berlin Defence against Fabiano Caruana. Play was complicated and the players indicated that there were issues raised by the game but the game ended in a draw after 44 moves.

Michael Adams missed the opportunity to take the lead against Vladimir Kramnik's Berlin Defence when the latter became a bit too overoptimistic. 14...Bc4 was a new idea and Kramnik equalised but probably not more. Kramnik then spent 46 minutes on his 34th move but couldn't find anything winning for him and played b6 missing b5. Adams then took over had a direct win with 40.f6+. Sadly for him Adams' 40.c5 (missing Re3 and he did see the winning idea and if he'd have had only a few seconds he thought he might have played f6) wasn't even second best and his chance was gone.

Round 3 Scores: Giri, Kramnik 5pts, Adams 4pts, Anand 3pts, Nakamura, Caruana 2pts

Gawain Jones managed to hold a worse position to keep his lead against Romain Edouard after three games of their six game match.

Round 4 Pairings: Saturday 13 Dec, 2pm (weekend rounds two hours earlier than previously) Anand-Giri, Kramnik-Caruana, Nakamura-Adams.

6th London Classic 2014 London (ENG), 10-14 xii 2014 cat. XXII (2780)
1 2 3 4 5 6
1. Kramnik, Vladimir g RUS 2769 * . ½ ½ 1 . 5 2896
2. Giri, Anish g NED 2768 . * 1 . ½ ½ 5 2908
3. Adams, Michael g ENG 2745 ½ 0 * . . 1 4 2788
4. Anand, Viswanathan g IND 2793 ½ . . * ½ ½ 3 2791
5. Nakamura, Hikaru g USA 2775 0 ½ . ½ * . 2 2651
6. Caruana, Fabiano g ITA 2829 . ½ 0 ½ . * 2 2643
Round 1 (December 10, 2014)
Kramnik, Vladimir - Anand, Viswanathan ½-½ 45 D44 Anti-Meran Gambit
Adams, Michael - Caruana, Fabiano 1-0 73 C90 Ruy Lopez
Nakamura, Hikaru - Giri, Anish ½-½ 33 C67 Ruy Lopez Berlin
Round 2 (December 11, 2014)
Kramnik, Vladimir - Nakamura, Hikaru 1-0 41 E92 King's Indian Classical
Giri, Anish - Adams, Michael 1-0 47 E01 Catalan
Anand, Viswanathan - Caruana, Fabiano ½-½ 17 D37 QGD 5.Bf4
Round 3 (December 12, 2014)
Adams, Michael - Kramnik, Vladimir ½-½ 54 C67 Ruy Lopez Berlin
Nakamura, Hikaru - Anand, Viswanathan ½-½ 36 C52 Evans Gambit
Caruana, Fabiano - Giri, Anish ½-½ 44 C67 Ruy Lopez Berlin

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