Candidates Tournament | Round 11

Candidates Tournament | Round 11

The four matches played today were all draws, perhaps this is the first time since the inception of the candidates tournament. Anand leads with 3 games to go, he needs to score 1.5/ 3 in his last 3 rounds to qualify for a second world title match with the World number one, Magnus Carlsen.

[Event "FIDE Candidates 2014"]
[Site "Khanty-Mansiysk RUS"]
[Date "2014.03.26"]
[Round "11.1"]
[White "Svidler, Peter"]
[Black "Aronian, Levon"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "A07"]
[WhiteElo "2758"]
[BlackElo "2830"]
[PlyCount "65"]
[EventDate "2014.03.13"]
[SourceDate "2014.01.04"]

1. Nf3 d5 2. g3 Bg4 3. Bg2 e6 4. c4 c6 5. cxd5 Bxf3 6. Bxf3 cxd5 7. O-O Nf6 8.
Nc3 Nc6 9. d4 Be7 10. e3 O-O 11. Bd2 Qd7 12. Rc1 Rfc8 13. Bg2 Ne8 14. Qe2 Nd6
15. Rfd1 Bd8 16. Be1 Ne7 17. b3 Rc6 18. Na4 Rac8 19. Nc5 Qe8 20. Qb2 R6c7 21.
a4 Nc6 22. b4 Nb8 23. b5 Be7 24. Qb1 Nd7 25. Nd3 Rxc1 26. Rxc1 Rxc1 27. Qxc1
Nb6 28. Qd1 Qc8 29. Bf1 Bf8 30. Ne5 Nbc4 31. Nxc4 Nxc4 32. Qc2 Nb6 33. Qxc8
1/2-1/2

[Event "FIDE Candidates 2014"]
[Site "Khanty-Mansiysk RUS"]
[Date "2014.03.26"]
[Round "11.2"]
[White "Topalov, Veselin"]
[Black "Karjakin, Sergey"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "A15"]
[WhiteElo "2785"]
[BlackElo "2766"]
[PlyCount "114"]
[EventDate "2014.03.13"]
[SourceDate "2014.01.04"]

1. Nf3 Nf6 2. c4 b6 3. g3 c5 4. Bg2 Bb7 5. O-O g6 6. d4 cxd4 7. Qxd4 Bg7 8. Nc3
d6 9. Rd1 Nbd7 10. Be3 Rc8 11. Rac1 a6 12. b3 O-O 13. Qh4 Rc7 14. g4 Rc8 15. g5
Nh5 16. Ne4 Rc7 17. Ng3 Nxg3 18. hxg3 Qa8 19. Ne1 Nc5 20. Qh1 Rfc8 21. Bxb7
Qxb7 22. Qxb7 Rxb7 23. Nd3 Nxd3 24. exd3 f6 25. gxf6 Bxf6 26. a4 h5 27. b4 Kf7
28. Kg2 Ke6 29. Kf3 Rf8 30. Ke2 Kf5 31. f3 g5 32. Rh1 Kg6 33. Rc2 e5 34. b5 Ra8
35. a5 bxa5 36. b6 Bd8 37. Rb1 Rab8 38. Ra2 Bxb6 39. Rab2 Bxe3 40. Rxb7 Rxb7
41. Rxb7 Bc5 42. Rb8 a4 43. Kd1 h4 44. Rg8+ Kf6 45. g4 Bf2 46. Rh8 Kg7 47. Rh5
Kg6 48. Kc2 Bd4 49. Kb1 a3 50. Ka2 Bb2 51. Kb3 Bc1 52. Ka2 Bb2 53. Kb3 a5 54.
Ka2 a4 55. Kb1 Bd4 56. Ka2 Bb2 57. Kb1 Bd4 1/2-1/2

[Event "FIDE Candidates 2014"]
[Site "Khanty-Mansiysk RUS"]
[Date "2014.03.26"]
[Round "11.3"]
[White "Kramnik, Vladimir"]
[Black "Anand, Viswanathan"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "E06"]
[WhiteElo "2787"]
[BlackElo "2770"]
[PlyCount "61"]
[EventDate "2014.03.13"]
[SourceDate "2014.01.04"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nf3 d5 4. g3 Be7 5. Bg2 O-O 6. O-O dxc4 7. Ne5 Nc6 8.
Bxc6 bxc6 9. Nxc6 Qe8 10. Nxe7+ Qxe7 11. Na3 c5 12. dxc5 Qxc5 13. Be3 Qh5 14.
f3 c3 15. bxc3 Qa5 16. Qc1 Ba6 17. c4 Rac8 18. Bxa7 Bxc4 19. Nxc4 Qxa7+ 20. Qe3
Qa6 21. Ne5 Rc2 22. Nd3 Nd5 23. Qf2 Rxa2 24. Rxa2 Qxa2 25. e4 Qa3 26. exd5 Qxd3
27. dxe6 fxe6 28. Qe1 Qd5 29. Qe3 h6 30. Re1 Rxf3 31. Qxe6+ 1/2-1/2

[Event "FIDE Candidates 2014"]
[Site "Khanty-Mansiysk RUS"]
[Date "2014.03.26"]
[Round "11.4"]
[White "Andreikin, Dmitry"]
[Black "Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "E04"]
[WhiteElo "2709"]
[BlackElo "2757"]
[PlyCount "91"]
[EventDate "2014.03.13"]
[SourceDate "2014.01.04"]

1. Nf3 d5 2. d4 Nf6 3. c4 e6 4. g3 dxc4 5. Bg2 c5 6. O-O Nc6 7. dxc5 Qxd1 8.
Rxd1 Bxc5 9. Nbd2 c3 10. bxc3 O-O 11. Nb3 Be7 12. c4 Bd7 13. Bb2 Rfd8 14. Nfd4
Rac8 15. Nb5 b6 16. Rac1 a5 17. a4 Be8 18. Rxd8 Rxd8 19. h3 Nb4 20. c5 bxc5 21.
Nxa5 Nfd5 22. Nb7 Rb8 23. Nxc5 Bxb5 24. axb5 Rxb5 25. Ne4 f6 26. Nc3 Rc5 27.
Nxd5 Rxc1+ 28. Bxc1 Nxd5 29. g4 g5 30. Be4 Nf4 31. Kf1 Nd5 32. e3 Kg7 33. Bc2
h6 34. Bb3 Kg6 35. Ke2 h5 36. Kd3 hxg4 37. hxg4 Nc7 38. Bb2 Bd6 39. Bc2 Kf7 40.
Ke4 Nd5 41. Bb3 Nc7 42. f4 gxf4 43. exf4 Kg6 44. Bxe6 Bxf4 45. Bf5+ Kg5 46.
Bxf6+ 1/2-1/2