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    Wednesday
    Feb022022

    COVID Strikes Again, FIDE Grand Prix Edition

    The FIDE Grand Prix is set to start this Friday in Berlin, the first of a series of three tournaments that will determine the last two spots for this year's Candidates tournament. Unfortunately, COVID has reared its ugly head once again, and at least two players will miss this tournament (HT: Allen Becker).

    One is Dmitry Andreikin. He's not a favorite, perhaps, but as he qualified for the Candidates in 2014 he shouldn't be considered a "tourist", either. The other player who can't make it, however, is even more notable - and unlike Andreikin he hasn't tested positive for COVID. The player? None other than world #3 Ding Liren, which is a terrible loss for him, the event, and potentially for the Candidates. Hopefully FIDE can find some sort of sensible workaround, but we'll see.

    Tuesday
    Sep112018

    Another Free Chess Lecture Video by Yours Truly

    I'd like to think that the relative preponderance of free ChessLecture videos by your faithful blogger is due to their excellence, but it might be that they're giving away their weakest presenter so that those who like my work will be even more impressed when they see everyone else's videos. Whatever the true explanation, this Monday's offering, which will be available for a couple of weeks, is a win by Dmitry Andreikin from the 2016 European Club Cup. The video is available for free, but you'll have to register if you haven't already (this can also be done for free).

    Enjoy, and if you like what you see, please consider a paid membership at ChessLecture.com. (And plug my videos, if you like them!)

    Wednesday
    Aug082018

    A Beautiful Tactic From the Xtracon Open

    Lost in the shuffle of recent super-tournaments was the Xtracon Open in Helsingor, Denmark. While not on the level of tournaments like Dortmund, Biel, and Danzhou, there were some fine players in action including Nikita Vitiugov, Dmitry Andreikin, Alexei Shirov, Baadur Jobava, and Jon Ludwig Hammer. In the end Hammer and Andreikin tied for first with 8.5/10 (Hammer took first on tiebreaks), and Andreikin's beautiful combination to defeat Aryan Tari in the last round shouldn't be missed. Good luck!

    Thursday
    May192016

    The Current World Chess Column: Winners and Prodigies at the Hasselbacken Open

    Just what it sounds like - the column is here.

    Friday
    Sep112015

    Nepomniachtchi Wins Moscow Blitz Championship

    Ian Nepomniachtchi won the Moscow Blitz Championship this past Sunday with a score of 14-5, half a point ahead of Dmitry Andreikin, who won their individual game. There's a nice report on it here, complete with the embedded video of the live coverage. (There's commentary in Russian by Sergey Shipov.)

    I've been watching the video, a little at a time, and so far a couple of games have caught my attention. You can replay those games, with my light analysis and comments, here.

    Sunday
    Nov022014

    Tashkent Grand Prix: Andreikin Wins!

    Maybe Dmitry Andreikin doesn't have any openings, but apparently he doesn't need them. His draw against Anish Giri (after a few mildly anxious moments) came after Hikaru Nakamura and Shakhriyar Mamedyarov both drew their games, and thus Andreikin finished in clear first in the Tashkent Grand Prix, half a point ahead of them. Mamedyarov played a crazy game with Baadur Jobava, and first Mamedyarov seemed to be in some trouble, and then later may have had a serious advantage had he played 23...Qxf4+. As for Nakamura, he may have been losing to Maxime Vachier-Lagrave at one point, and never seemed close to achieving that tie for first place.

    There were two decisive games today: Sergey Karjakin beat Rustam Kasimdzhanov and Fabiano Caruana beat Dmitry Jakovenko. Both winners finished the tournament at +1, and in the end that was enough to give Caruana the lead in the overall Grand Prix standings. Nakamura, who tied for third in the Baku Grand Prix and for second here, is second in the overall Grand Prix standings. The reason that's important is that the top two finishers qualify for the next Candidates event.

    Final Standings:

    • 1. Andreikin 7 (of 11)
    • 2-3. Nakamura, Mamedyarov 6.5
    • 4-7. Vachier-Lagrave, Caruana, Karjakin, Jobava 6
    • 8. Radjabov 5.5 (11 draws!)
    • 9. Giri 5
    • 10. Jakovenko 4.5
    • 11-12. Kasimdzhanov, Gelfand 3.5

    Friday
    Oct312014

    Tashkent, Round 9: Andreikin Leads After Defeating Jobava

    After losing in the first round of the Tashkent Grand Prix, Baadur Jobava battled his way into a tie for first after round 8. Very impressive! Unfortunately, he promptly lost to one of the co-leaders, Dmitry Andreikin, and now once again has his work cut out for him with just two rounds to go. Jobava has made a habit of playing 1.d4 2.Nc3 3.Bf4 lately, but Andreikin - another player who likes to avoid the main lines of theory - found an interesting approach against this and was already at least equal when he played 9...h5. Jobava sacrificed a pawn for the initiative, but nothing materialized for the material and he was soon lost; Andreikin won rather easily.

    Hikaru Nakamura didn't manage to keep pace with Andreikin, but drew a quick game with the black pieces against Sergey Karjakin. It looked like Karjakin had an edge, but apparently he couldn't find anything he could do with it, so they repeated the position and called it a day after just 26 moves.

    The day's only other decisive game was Dmitry Jakovenko vs. Shakhriyar Mamedyarov. It seemed headed for a draw, but instead of rounding up Black's passed a-pawn while it was still easy to do so, Jakovenko went on what soon turned out to be a self-destructive mission for counterplay against Black's c-pawn. He won it, but in the end the strength of Black's a-pawn was about to leave White a full piece down, so he resigned. Now Mamedyarov is tied for second with Nakamura, only half a point behind Andreikin.

    (Games here, with notes to both of the decisive battles.)

    Round 10 Pairings:

    • Gelfand (2.5) - Andreikin (6)
    • Giri (4) - Jobava (5)
    • Mamedyarov (5.5) - Vachier-Lagrave (5)
    • Nakamura (5.5) - Jakovenko (4)
    • Caruana (4.5) - Karjakin (4.5)
    • Kasimdzhanov (3) - Radjabov (4.5)

    Monday
    Oct272014

    Tashkent Grand Prix, Round 6: Andreikin, Nakamura Lead

    It was another day of aggressive chess in Tashkent, and those who started the game with an advantage didn't necessarily finish it that way.

    Maxime Vachier-Lagrave came up with an interesting but possibly dubious novelty in the Gruenfeld, and Boris Gelfand seemed to have a significant advantage. It soon slipped away though, and later it was "MVL" who stood better and could have obtained a rook ending with a solid extra pawn. He missed his chance too, and the game wound up drawn. Another drawn game with shifting fortunes was the battle of the Americans (thinking hopefully here): Fabiano Caruana had an extra pawn, and while Hikaru Nakamura had some compensation Caruana probably could have extinguished it with a sufficient stretch of precise play. By the end, however, Nakamura was even pressing a little, though it wasn't enough.

    Shakhriyar Mamedyarov played an offbeat Vienna against Rustam Kasimdzhanov and was worse, but as the game grew more complicated and time grew short it was hard for Kasimdzhanov to keep Mamedyarov's initiative under control. A couple of serious errors later, Kasimdzhanov lost.

    The other decisive game was won by Dmitry Andreikin, against Sergey Karjakin. Andreikin went for a sharp line of the Torre Attack, and while his opponent's initial reaction was good the decision to play 15...Ke7 and 16...g5 was not. Between the light-squared weaknesses and the exposed king plenty could go wrong, and after 28.c5! Black soon collapsed.

    Jobava-Jakovenko and Giri-Rajdabov were more stable draws, and you can replay all the games, with my comments, here.

    Round 7 Pairings:

    • Caruana (2.5) - Gelfand (2)
    • Kasimdzhanov (1.5) - Nakamura (4)
    • Radjabov (3) - Mamedyarov (3.5) (count on a draw)
    • Karjakin (2.5) - Giri (3)
    • Jakovenko (3) - Andreikin (4)
    • Vachier-Lagrave (3.5) - Jobava (3.5)

    Monday
    Sep022013

    2013 World Cup: Finals, Day 4: Game Drawn, Kramnik Wins The Event

    There was some possibility of a decisive result in the fourth and last (classical) game of the final round of the World Cup, but it was only Vladimir Kramnik who might have won. Instead, he took a draw from a position of strength, and so he won his match with Dmitry Andreikin with a 2.5-1.5 score and with it, the World Cup as a whole.

    Both he and Andreikin have qualified from this event into the next Candidates' tournament, where they will be joined by the following players:

    Levon Aronian & Sergey Karjakin (ratings qualifiers; Karjakin because Kramnik's World Cup success vacated a rating spot).

    The loser of the Viswanathan Anand - Magnus Carlsen match coming this fall.

    Veselin Topalov and either Shakhriyar Mamedyarov, Alexander Grischuk or Fabiano Caruana as Grand Prix qualifiers. If either Grischuk or Caruana takes solo first in the final Grand Prix event in Paris, he will take that second spot; if not, then Mamedyarov goes through.

    A wildcard to be selected later.

    Wednesday
    Aug282013

    2013 World Cup: Round 6, Day 3: Kramnik & Andreikin Reach Finals; Andreikin & Karjakin Qualify for Candidates

    Today's tiebreak session at the World Cup was a short one, as two 25-minute games were enough to determine the match winners. In the first session Evgeny Tomashevsky and Dmitry Andreikin had a fairly quick draw, but theirs was the marathon of the round. Maxime Vachier-Lagrave played like he had lost his mind in his white game against Kramnik, and had to resign after just 22 moves. After 16 moves of that game the position was level and sharp, and here Vachier-Lagrave's decision to bring the rook into play with 17.Re4 quickly backfired. After 20...Bf5 White was already in some trouble and the c-pawn looked likely to fall after a subsequent ...Bd3. That would have been a dream scenario for the Frenchman compared to what actually happened. After 21.Rh4?? Bc2 White's best would have been to surrender an exchange for less than nothing with 22.Qe2 Bd3 23.Qd1. Instead, he uncorked the even more disastrous 22.Qxc2??, hoping for 22...Qxc2 23.Be4. That also loses to 23...Qxd2+ 24.Bxh7+ Kh8 25.Bc2+ Qh6, which will leave Black a rook up, but Kramnik's 22...Nxf3+ was even simpler, winning the house.

    In the rematch Kramnik was a little slack, and his whole plan to swap everything with 13.d5, 14.Ne1 and 15.Nxd5 gave Vachier-Lagrave a little pull, but when Black played the premature 23...b5 the game started to tip back in Kramnik's favor. By the end Kramnik was close to winning, but took the opportunity to draw by repetition. That won him the match and a trip to the finals, but it didn't win him a ticket to next year's Candidates' tournament. That's because he had already qualified. What it did do was switch his ticket. Rather than qualifying by rating he qualifies as a World Cup finalist, and that means that the player who was the #3 finisher (and thus non-qualifier) on rating has now qualified: Sergey Karjakin.

    Today was an interesting day for Kramnik, and it's not clear that he really benefited. There's the prestige of making it to the finals of the World Cup, and even more if he wins it. There's the added payday, too. On the other hand, his score against Karjakin isn't fantastic, to put it mildly. Since 2010, taking all time controls into account, the score is 7-1 for Karjakin, not counting five draws. Even just taking classical games into account it isn't good news for Kramnik: 2-0 for Karjakin, plus four draws.

    Meanwhile, the other semi-final was also bad news for Kramnik. Kramnik did lose a blitz game to Tomashevsky last year, but their classical record shows that Kramnik has won both of their games: one in 2004 and one in 2012. As for Andreikin, Kramnik has lost both games they've played, both in the last couple of months.

    So who advanced? Andreikin, of course. Tomashevsky was doing pretty well with Black into the middlegame, but it all went downhill after 28...Re1? He apparently missed 30.Qd2 after the trade of rooks, and after that Andreikin whipped up an initiative that quickly decided the game. Tomashevsky should have traded queens with 28...Qxd3 and after 29.Rxd3 played 29...Re6 so as to defend the f-pawn if necessary. The position would have remained equal and the match unclear.

    Tomorrow is the one and only absolute day off in the entire event, and then the best-of-four game final begins on Friday.