2008 Tal Memorial Round 6: Morozevich, Ivanchuck ,Gelfand victorious

Boris Gelfand defeated Shakhriyar Mamedyarov after 37th moves of a Semi-Slav (Anti-Meran). Peter Leko suffered his second defeats of the tournament by bowing to Vassily Ivanchuck's solid handling of the black pieces, the Ruy Lopez Chigorin and Rustam Ponomariov made an early blunder 11...b5? against Alexander Morozevich who also come up a new idea of his own 7.c6!? of the Nimzoindian that bothered Ponomariov all through out their game. Other matches ended in quiet draws. Alexei Shirov drew with Evgeney Alekseev after 31st moves of Ruy Lopez (Berlin) and Vladimir Kramnik also halve the points with Gata Kamsky after 38th moves of the Gruenfeld.

Below is our choice for the Game of the Day:





Kramnik, V (2788) - Kamsky, G (2723) [D93]
2008 Tal Memorial (6), 24.08.2008

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 d5 4.Nf3 Bg7 5.Bf4 0–0 6.e3 c5 7.dxc5 Qa5 8.Rc1 dxc4 9.Bxc4 Qxc5 10.Bb3 Nc6 11.0–0 Qa5 12.h3 Bf5 13.Qe2 Ne4 14.Nd5 e5 15.Bh2 Be6 16.Rfd1 Rfd8 17.Qc4 Nf6 18.e4 Rac8 19.Ng5 Nd4 20.Ne7+ Kf8 21.Nxe6+ Kxe7 22.Nxd8 Rxc4 23.Bxc4 Ne8 24.Nxf7 b5 25.Bd5 Ne2+ 26.Kh1 Nxc1 27.Rxc1 Qd2 28.Rc8 Qxf2 29.Bg1 Qf1 30.Ra8 Nc7 31.Rxa7 Kd7 32.b3 g5 33.a4 g4 34.hxg4 Qf6 35.g5 Qf4 36.axb5 Qh4+ 37.Bh2 Qe1+ 38.Bg1 ½–½


Mamedyarov, S (2742) - Gelfand, B (2720) [D43]
2008 Tal Memorial (6), 24.08.2008

1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.Nf3 e6 5.Bg5 h6 6.Bh4 dxc4 7.e4 g5 8.Bg3 b5 9.Be2 Bb7 10.e5 Nd5 11.0–0 Nd7 12.Nd2 Qb6 13.a4 a6 14.Nde4 0–0–0 15.Bh5 Nf4 16.Bxf7 Nxe5 17.Bxe6+ Kb8 18.Ne2 Bg7 19.Nxf4 gxf4 20.Bxf4 Rxd4 21.a5 Qd8 22.Qe2 Re8 23.Rad1 Ka8 24.Be3 Rxd1 25.Rxd1 Nd3 26.Bf5 Qd5 27.Qg4 Bxb2 28.h4 Bd4 29.Bg6 Rg8 30.Bxd4 Qxd4 31.Qe6 Qd5 32.Qe7 c5 33.f3 Qd4+ 34.Kh1 Qg7 35.Qxg7 Rxg7 36.h5 b4 37.Kg1 Bxe4 0–1

Leko, P (2741) - Ivanchuk, V (2781) [C92]
Tal Memorial Moscow RUS (6), 24.08.2008

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.0–0 Be7 6.Re1 b5 7.Bb3 d6 8.c3 0–0 9.h3 Bb7 10.d4 Re8 11.Nbd2 Bf8 12.d5 Nb8 13.Nf1 Nbd7 14.N3h2 Rc8 15.Ng4 Nxg4 16.Qxg4 Nc5 17.Bc2 c6 18.dxc6 Bxc6 19.Ne3 g6 20.Rd1 Bh6 21.b4 Ne6 22.Bb3 Kh8 23.Nd5 Bxc1 24.Raxc1 Rf8 25.Rc2 f5 26.exf5 gxf5 27.Qh5 Qd7 28.Qh6 Bxd5 29.Rxd5 Qe7 30.Rcd2 Rc6 31.g3 f4 32.Kh2 Rf6 33.Qh5 Qf8 34.R5d3 e4 35.Qd5 exd3 36.Qxc6 fxg3+ 37.fxg3 Ng5 38.Bd5 Qh6 39.h4 Nf3+ 40.Bxf3 Qxd2+ 41.Kh3 Qxa2 42.Qb6 -+ 0-1


Round 7 pairings:

Vassily Ivanchuk - Alexander Morozevich
Boris Gelfand - Vladimir Kramnik
Gata Kamsky - Peter Leko
Ruslan Ponomariov - Alexei Shirov
Evgeny Alekseev - S. Mamedyarov

Standing after 6 rounds:

1. Morozevich, Alexander g RUS 2788 4½
2. Ivanchuk, Vassily g UKR 2781 4
3. Gelfand, Boris g ISR 2720 3½
4. Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar g AZE 2742 3
5. Ponomariov, Ruslan g UKR 2718 3
6. Kramnik, Vladimir g RUS 2788 3
7. Alekseev, Evgeny g RUS 2708 2½
8. Leko, Peter g HUN 2741 2½
9. Kamsky, Gata g USA 2723 2½
10. Shirov, Alexei g ESP 2741 1½

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