Candidates Chess Tournament 2014 | Round 9

Candidates Tournament | Round 9

The five times winner of the World Chess Championship, Viswanathan Anand defeated Veselin Topalov to top the cross table with 6.0 points. He is leading with a full point and this maybe his chance to a rematch against the current World Champion, Magnus Carlsen for the World Chess Championship title. Mamedyarov supprises Aronian with a win and Karjakin beat Kramnik to stay fourth on the cross table, while Topalov is at the bottom of the table with 3.5 point.

[Site "Khanty-Mansiysk RUS"]
[Date "2014.03.23"]
[Round "9.1"]
[White "Andreikin, Dmitry"]
[Black "Svidler, Peter"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "B90"]
[WhiteElo "2709"]
[BlackElo "2758"]
[PlyCount "60"]
[EventDate "2014.03.13"]
[SourceDate "2014.01.04"]

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 a6 6. h3 e5 7. Nb3 Be6 8. g4
d5 9. g5 Nxe4 10. Nxe4 dxe4 11. Qxd8+ Kxd8 12. Bg2 Nc6 13. Bxe4 Kc7 14. Bd2 h6
15. h4 hxg5 16. hxg5 Rxh1+ 17. Bxh1 Be7 18. O-O-O Rh8 19. Be3 Rh4 20. Bg2 b6
21. a3 a5 22. Re1 g6 23. Nd2 Nd4 24. Nf3 Rg4 25. Bh1 Bd6 26. Bd2 Nc6 27. Be3
Nd4 28. Bd2 Nc6 29. Be3 Bf5 30. Rg1 Rxg1+ 1/2-1/2

[Event "FIDE Candidates 2014"]
[Site "Khanty-Mansiysk RUS"]
[Date "2014.03.23"]
[Round "9.2"]
[White "Karjakin, Sergey"]
[Black "Kramnik, Vladimir"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "D02"]
[WhiteElo "2766"]
[BlackElo "2787"]
[PlyCount "127"]
[EventDate "2014.03.13"]
[SourceDate "2014.01.04"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. Nf3 d5 3. Bf4 c6 4. e3 Bg4 5. c4 Nbd7 6. Nc3 e6 7. Qb3 dxc4 8.
Qxb7 Bxf3 9. gxf3 Nd5 10. Bg3 N5b6 11. Qxc6 Bb4 12. Qb5 Qe7 13. a3 Bxc3+ 14.
bxc3 O-O 15. Bxc4 Nxc4 16. Qxc4 Rac8 17. Qd3 Nb6 18. O-O Rc4 19. Rfb1 Rfc8 20.
Rb3 h5 21. e4 Qg5 22. h4 Qa5 23. Rc1 Qa4 24. Qb1 Nd7 25. Kg2 Nf8 26. Qb2 Qe8
27. Rb7 a6 28. Qb6 Ng6 29. Qxa6 Qd8 30. Qb5 e5 31. Rh1 Rxc3 32. dxe5 Nf8 33.
Qd5 Qe8 34. Ra1 Ne6 35. Qd7 Qf8 36. Qe7 Qxe7 37. Rxe7 Nd4 38. a4 Nxf3 39. e6
fxe6 40. Rxe6 Nd4 41. Re5 Ne2 42. Rxh5 Nxg3 43. fxg3 Re3 44. a5 Rxe4 45. a6 Re7
46. Rb5 Kh7 47. Kh3 Ra8 48. Rb6 Raa7 49. Ra5 Re3 50. h5 Rd3 51. Kh4 Rd4+ 52. g4
Re4 53. Kg5 Rf7 54. Rg6 Ra7 55. Kh4 Rb4 56. Rc6 Re4 57. Rb6 Re1 58. Ra4 Re3 59.
g5 Ree7 60. Rb8 g6 61. Rb6 gxh5 62. Rab4 Re1 63. Rb7+ Kg6 64. R4b6+ 1-0

[Event "FIDE Candidates 2014"]
[Site "Khanty-Mansiysk RUS"]
[Date "2014.03.23"]
[Round "9.3"]
[White "Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar"]
[Black "Aronian, Levon"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "E20"]
[WhiteElo "2757"]
[BlackElo "2830"]
[PlyCount "87"]
[EventDate "2014.03.13"]
[SourceDate "2014.01.04"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. f3 O-O 5. e4 d5 6. e5 Nfd7 7. cxd5 exd5 8. a3
Bxc3+ 9. bxc3 f6 10. exf6 Qe8+ 11. Qe2 Qf7 12. fxg7 Re8 13. Be3 Nc6 14. Qd2 Na5
15. Rb1 Nb6 16. Rb4 Nac4 17. Bxc4 dxc4 18. Rb5 Bf5 19. Kf2 Nd5 20. Rxd5 Qxd5
21. Ne2 a5 22. h4 b5 23. h5 b4 24. cxb4 axb4 25. axb4 Qb5 26. Re1 Bd3 27. Nf4
Ra3 28. d5 Bb1 29. Kg3 c3 30. Qc1 Rb3 31. Bc5 Rxe1 32. Qxe1 Qd7 33. h6 Qf7 34.
Nh5 Bg6 35. Qe8+ Qxe8 36. Nf6+ Kf7 37. Nxe8 Ra3 38. Nf6 Ra8 39. g8=Q+ Rxg8 40.
Nxg8 Kxg8 41. Kf4 Bd3 42. Ke5 Kf7 43. Be3 Bf1 44. g4 1-0

[Event "FIDE Candidates 2014"]
[Site "Khanty-Mansiysk RUS"]
[Date "2014.03.23"]
[Round "9.4"]
[White "Anand, Viswanathan"]
[Black "Topalov, Veselin"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "B90"]
[WhiteElo "2770"]
[BlackElo "2785"]
[PlyCount "113"]
[EventDate "2014.03.13"]
[SourceDate "2014.01.04"]

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 a6 6. h3 e6 7. g4 Nfd7 8. Bg2
Be7 9. Be3 Nc6 10. h4 Nde5 11. g5 Bd7 12. Nxc6 Bxc6 13. b3 f5 14. f4 Ng4 15.
Qe2 Nxe3 16. Qxe3 fxe4 17. O-O-O d5 18. Nxe4 Ba3+ 19. Kb1 Qe7 20. Nf2 Bc5 21.
Qg3 Bxf2 22. Qxf2 O-O 23. Qd4 Rf5 24. Rde1 Raf8 25. Rhf1 Qd6 26. Re5 Rxe5 27.
fxe5 Rxf1+ 28. Bxf1 Qe7 29. a4 Be8 30. Kb2 Bg6 31. Bh3 h6 32. gxh6 gxh6 33. Qg4
Kf7 34. h5 Be4 35. a5 Bh7 36. c3 Be4 37. c4 Bf5 38. Qf4 dxc4 39. Bxf5 exf5 40.
Qxf5+ Ke8 41. Qc8+ Kf7 42. Qxc4+ Kg7 43. Qd5 Kf8 44. Kc3 Ke8 45. b4 Qc7+ 46.
Kd4 Qe7 47. Qg8+ Kd7 48. Kd5 Kc7 49. Qg6 Qh4 50. Qd6+ Kc8 51. Kc5 Qf2+ 52. Qd4
Qf7 53. Qc4 Qg7 54. Kb6+ Kb8 55. Qc5 Qf7 56. Qd6+ Kc8 57. e6 1-0