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Zurich Chess Challenge 2015 (2)
Anand beats Aronian to join Nakamura in Zurich lead after two rounds
Mark Crowther - Sunday 15th February 2015
Levon Aronian resigns against Viswanathan Anand. Photo © | http://www.zurich-cc.com/
Viswanthan Anand inflicted the most painful of losses on Levon Aronian in the second round of the Zurich Chess Challenge. In a Gruenfeld Russian System Anand played 19.d7 which is what every modern computer recommends even after a few seconds and Aronian presumably had seen this too but is 19...Be4 may be wrong (19...Nc7 maybe?) but 20...Bc6 loses very directly after 21.Rd6 and there was nothing to fix this.
Vladimir Kramnik tried to test Hikaru Nakamura in a slightly older Catalan line but didn't find any serious advantage, especially after Nakamura gave up his Queen for Rook and Bishop. Neither player seemed to think black had serious problems.
The last game to finish was a draw between Sergey Karjakin and Fabiano Caruana in a 4.d3 Berlin where Caruana pushed his kingside pawns early. Both players thought white had an edge but play was very hard to judge and at move 41 they agreed a draw in a more or less balanced endgame.
Standings Round 2 (2pts for a win 1 for a draw this will then be combined with the rapid standings which has the normal scoring.): 1 Anand, Nakamura 3pts 3 Kramnik, Karjakin 2pts 5 Aronian, Caruana 1pt.
Round 3 Pairings Monday 16th February 2015 2pm GMT: Aronian-Kramnik, Caruana-Anand, Nakamura-Karjakin
Uhlmann and Korchnoi traded wins on day one of their four game rapid match.
| 4th Zurich CC Classical Zurich SUI (SUI), 14-19 ii 2015 | cat. XXII (2784) | |||||||||||
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| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | |||||||
| 1. | Anand, Viswanathan | g | IND | 2797 | * | . | ½ | . | 1 | . | 1½ | 2973 |
| 2. | Nakamura, Hikaru | g | USA | 2776 | . | * | ½ | . | . | 1 | 1½ | 2990 |
| 3. | Kramnik, Vladimir | g | RUS | 2783 | ½ | ½ | * | . | . | . | 1 | 2786 |
| 4. | Karjakin, Sergey | g | RUS | 2760 | . | . | . | * | ½ | ½ | 1 | 2794 |
| 5. | Aronian, Levon | g | ARM | 2777 | 0 | . | . | ½ | * | . | ½ | 2585 |
| 6. | Caruana, Fabiano | g | ITA | 2811 | . | 0 | . | ½ | . | * | ½ | 2575 |
| Round 2 (February 15, 2015) | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Anand, Viswanathan | - Aronian, Levon | 1-0 | 28 | D97 | Gruenfeld Russian | |
| Kramnik, Vladimir | - Nakamura, Hikaru | ½-½ | 40 | A14 | Reti Opening | |
| Karjakin, Sergey | - Caruana, Fabiano | ½-½ | 41 | C65 | Ruy Lopez Berlin | |
| Korchnoi-Ulhmann Rapid Zurich SUI Sun 15th Feb 2015 - Mon 16th Feb 2015
Leading Round 2 (of 4) Standings: |
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| Rk | Name | Ti | FED | Rtg | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Pts |
| 1 | Korchnoi, Viktor | GM | SUI | 2499 | 0 | 1 | 1 | ||
| 1 | Uhlmann, Wolfgang | GM | GER | 2326 | 1 | 0 | 1 | ||
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