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  • WCC2016: Too Early to Draw Any Conclusions

    WCC2016: Too Early to Draw Any Conclusions

    All eyes are on New York City as Magnus Carlsen defends his World Chess Champion title against Russian challenger Sergey Karjakin. Carlsen is the heavy favorite to win the tournament but if the first few games are any indication of what to expect from the whole tournament, we might be in for a long ride. As the name of the post suggests, its too early to *draw* any conclusions from these games, but there are many conclusions in these games that end in *draws*…

    #### Game 3: Bending Space and Time
    Hopes were high after the first two games that there would be some dramatics appearing in the third game and they came…in a sense. Reminding players, commentators, and fans alike that chess requires *mental* and *physical* resilience, the players battled it out in a 7-hour, 78-move nightmare that ended…you guessed it..in a draw.

    [pgn]
    [Event “WCh 2016”]
    [Site “New York USA”]
    [Date “2016.11.14”]
    [Round “3”]
    [White “Carlsen, Magnus”]
    [Black “Karjakin, Sergey”]
    [Result “1/2-1/2”]
    [ECO “C67”]
    [WhiteElo “2857”]
    [BlackElo “2769”]
    [Annotator “Mark”]
    [PlyCount “156”]
    [EventDate “2016.11.11”]

    1. e4 {Carlsen switches to 1.e4. Maybe this is his white true weapon for the
    rest of the match.} e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 Nf6 {The Berlin can hardly have come
    as a surprise.} 4. O-O Nxe4 5. Re1 Nd6 6. Nxe5 Be7 7. Bf1 Nxe5 8. Rxe5 {
    White doesn’t have a lot here, what is Carlsen’s idea?} O-O 9. d4 Bf6 10. Re2
    $5 {There is nothing new under the sun. This has been played three times.} b6 {
    Karjakin had a big think here, he has a number of options.} (10… Nf5 11. d5
    d6 12. c3 c6 13. Bf4 Bg5 14. Bxg5 Qxg5 15. Nd2 Bd7 16. Nf3 Qf6 17. Qa4 Rfd8 18.
    Rae1 h6 19. Qb3 b5 20. h3 c5 21. Re4 Rdb8 22. Qd1 Kf8 23. g4 Nh4 24. Nxh4 Qxh4
    25. Qf3 Re8 26. b4 Rxe4 27. Rxe4 Rc8 28. a3 {1/2-1/2 (28) Vallejo Pons,F (2677)
    -Tabatabaei,M (2461) Karlsruhe GER 2016}) (10… Re8) 11. Re1 (11. Bf4 Nf5 12.
    c3 Ba6 13. Re1 Bxf1 14. Kxf1 d5 15. Nd2 Qd7 16. Nf3 Rfe8 17. Qb3 Nh4 18. Nxh4
    Bxh4 19. Bg3 Bxg3 20. hxg3 g6 21. Rxe8+ Rxe8 22. Re1 Rxe1+ 23. Kxe1 c5 24. dxc5
    bxc5 25. Kd2 Qf5 26. Qb8+ Kg7 27. Qf4 Qb1 28. Qe5+ Kg8 29. Qb8+ Kg7 30. Qe5+
    Kg8 31. Qb8+ Kg7 32. Qe5+ {1/2-1/2 (32) Matinian,N (2439)-Lysyj,I (2628) St
    Petersburg RUS 2012}) 11… Re8 (11… Nb7 12. Na3 d5 13. c3 Nd6 14. Nc2 a5 15.
    Ne3 Nf5 16. Ng4 Bg5 17. Bd3 Bxc1 18. Rxc1 Nd6 19. h3 Re8 20. Qf3 Bxg4 21. Qxg4
    g6 22. Re5 c6 23. Rce1 Qc7 24. R1e3 Kg7 25. h4 f6 26. Rxe8 Rxe8 27. Rxe8 Nxe8
    28. h5 f5 29. Qg5 Nd6 30. hxg6 {1/2-1/2 (30) Kasimdzhanov,R (2704)-Melkumyan,H
    (2622) Berlin GER 2016}) 12. Bf4 Rxe1 13. Qxe1 Qe7 {Up to here Carlsen was
    playing quickly but here he thought for around 20 minutes.} 14. Nc3 (14. Na3 $5
    ) 14… Bb7 15. Qxe7 Bxe7 16. a4 $5 (16. Re1 Kf8) 16… a6 17. g3 (17. g4) (17.
    Bd3) 17… g5 {The computer’s favourite move. Is Carlsen still in preparation
    here? The computer thinks this position is level but maybe this will somehow
    be a long term weakness.} (17… Re8) 18. Bxd6 {This seems the only way
    forward for white but he has little if any advantage.} Bxd6 19. Bg2 (19. Bh3
    Be7 {is good enough.}) 19… Bxg2 20. Kxg2 f5 {straightening out black’s pawn
    structure.} 21. Nd5 Kf7 22. Ne3 Kf6 (22… Ke6 23. Re1 {is also playable.}) 23.
    Nc4 Bf8 {It’s understandable but not forced to avoid the trade of minor pieces.
    } (23… Re8 24. Nxd6 cxd6 25. Ra3 Rc8 26. c3 d5) 24. Re1 Rd8 {This move came
    under criticism after the game. It’s not clearly bad I think.} (24… b5) 25.
    f4 {A key moment and Karjakin spent some time here.} gxf4 26. gxf4 b5 27. axb5
    axb5 28. Ne3 c6 29. Kf3 Ra8 30. Rg1 Ra2 {This move is the start of a wrong
    plan from Karjakin. He’s not yet losing.} (30… Bh6) 31. b3 c5 $2 {Now black
    is under extreme pressure.} (31… d5) 32. Rg8 $1 {The most testing move.} Kf7
    33. Rg2 cxd4 34. Nxf5 d3 35. cxd3 Ra1 {Staying active.} (35… Ra3) 36. Nd4 (
    36. Rc2 {computers slightly prefer this move.}) 36… b4 37. Rg5 (37. Ke4 {
    was the alternative.}) 37… Rb1 38. Rf5+ {Played quite quickly by Carlsen.}
    Ke8 39. Rb5 Rf1+ (39… Bd6) 40. Ke4 Re1+ 41. Kf5 Rd1 42. Re5+ (42. Rb8+ {
    was perhaps stronger.} Kf7 43. Nf3 Bd6 44. Rh8 Rxd3 45. Ng5+ Ke7 46. Rxh7+)
    42… Kf7 43. Rd5 Rxd3 44. Rxd7+ (44. Ke4 Rh3 45. Rxd7+ Ke8 46. Rb7 Rxh2 47.
    Nf3 Re2+) 44… Ke8 45. Rd5 Rh3 46. Re5+ Kf7 47. Re2 Bg7 48. Nc6 Rh5+ {With
    this move Karjakin moves closer to the draw and avoids the obvious Rxb3 which
    loses.} (48… Rxb3 $2 49. Nd8+ Kg8 50. Re8+ Bf8 51. Kf6 Rh3 52. f5 Rh6+ 53.
    Ke5 Kg7 54. Ne6+) 49. Kg4 Rc5 50. Nd8+ Kg6 51. Ne6 h5+ 52. Kf3 Rc3+ 53. Ke4 Bf6
    54. Re3 h4 55. h3 Rc1 56. Nf8+ Kf7 57. Nd7 Ke6 58. Nb6 Rd1 59. f5+ Kf7 60. Nc4
    Rd4+ 61. Kf3 Bg5 62. Re4 Rd3+ 63. Kg4 Rg3+ 64. Kh5 Be7 $2 {After a long and
    tiring defence Karjakin finally goes wrong.} (64… Kf8) 65. Ne5+ Kf6 66. Ng4+
    Kf7 67. Re6 Rxh3 68. Ne5+ Kg7 69. Rxe7+ Kf6 70. Nc6 $2 (70. Re8 Kxf5 71. Nc6
    Rh1 72. Re2) 70… Kxf5 $2 {Should be losing.} (70… Rc3 $1 {saves the game.})
    71. Na5 {Maybe not the easiest way.} (71. Re1 Kf4 72. Rf1+ Ke4 73. Na5 {
    was winning for Carlsen.}) (71. Re2) 71… Rh1 72. Rb7 $2 {A mistake, now the
    game will be drawn.} (72. Rf7+ Ke6 73. Rf2 {returns to the winning idea.})
    72… Ra1 $1 {The only saviing move.} 73. Rb5+ {Now the draw is comparitively
    easy for Karjakin to find..} Kf4 74. Rxb4+ Kg3 75. Rg4+ Kf2 76. Nc4 h3 77. Rh4
    Kg3 78. Rg4+ Kf2 1/2-1/2
    [/pgn]

    #### Game 4: Drawing Up A New Strategy?
    After the marathon of Game 3, I was very impressed that the players were able to squeeze out the next game, which went 94 moves before ending in another *draw*. It was apparent in this game, however, that Magnus was becoming frustrated with Karjakin and that a draw was certainly not on his list of game ideas for the day.

    [pgn]
    [Event “WCh 2016”]
    [Site “New York USA”]
    [Date “2016.11.15”]
    [Round “4”]
    [White “Karjakin, Sergey”]
    [Black “Carlsen, Magnus”]
    [Result “1/2-1/2”]
    [ECO “C88”]
    [WhiteElo “2772”]
    [BlackElo “2853”]
    [PlyCount “187”]
    [EventDate “2016.11.11”]

    1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4. Ba4 Nf6 5. O-O Be7 6. Re1 b5 7. Bb3 O-O 8. h3
    Bb7 9. d3 d6 10. a3 Qd7 ({Relevant:} 10… Nb8 11. Nbd2 Nbd7 12. Nf1 Re8 13.
    Ng3 Bf8 14. Ng5 d5 15. exd5 Nc5 16. c4 Nxb3 17. Qxb3 c6 18. dxc6 Bxc6 19. cxb5
    Bd5 20. Qd1 axb5 21. N5e4 h6 22. Qf3 Ra6 23. Bd2 Ba8 24. Bb4 Nd5 25. Bxf8 Rxf8
    26. d4 exd4 27. Nf5 Ne7 28. Rad1 Nxf5 29. Qxf5 Re6 30. f3 d3 31. Qxb5 Bxe4 32.
    Rxe4 Rxe4 33. fxe4 Qd4+ 34. Kh1 Rd8 35. Qb4 Qe3 36. Qa5 Rd4 37. Qd2 Qxe4 38.
    Re1 Qd5 39. Re3 Kh7 40. b4 {Zhigalko,S (2656)-Carlsen,M (2850) Berlin 2015 0-1}
    ) 11. Nbd2 Rfe8 12. c3 Bf8 13. Nf1 h6 14. N3h2 $146 ({Predecessor:} 14. Ng3 Ne7
    15. Nh2 d5 16. Qf3 c5 17. Bc2 Rad8 18. Bxh6 gxh6 19. Qxf6 Bg7 20. Qf3 Rf8 21.
    Nh5 Ng6 22. Nf6+ Bxf6 23. Qxf6 dxe4 24. dxe4 Qd6 25. Qf3 Kg7 26. Rad1 Qe7 27.
    Nf1 Rxd1 28. Rxd1 Rd8 29. Ne3 Rxd1+ 30. Qxd1 Bc8 31. a4 Qg5 32. Qf3 Nf4 33. Kf1
    c4 34. axb5 axb5 35. Nf5+ Bxf5 36. exf5 Nd3 37. Bxd3 cxd3 38. Qxd3 Qc1+ 39. Ke2
    Qxb2+ 40. Kf3 b4 41. cxb4 Qxb4 42. Qe4 Qb3+ 43. Qe3 Qd1+ {Zeytinoglu,N (1927)
    -Tokmak,H Konya 2010 1-0}) 14… d5 15. Qf3 Na5 16. Ba2 dxe4 17. dxe4 Nc4 18.
    Bxh6 Qc6 19. Bxc4 $2 bxc4 20. Be3 Nxe4 21. Ng3 Nd6 22. Rad1 Rab8 23. Bc1 f6 24.
    Qxc6 Bxc6 25. Ng4 Rb5 26. f3 f5 27. Nf2 Be7 28. f4 Bh4 29. fxe5 Bxg3 30. exd6
    Rxe1+ 31. Rxe1 cxd6 32. Rd1 Kf7 33. Rd4 Re5 34. Kf1 Rd5 35. Rxd5 Bxd5 36. Bg5
    Kg6 37. h4 Kh5 38. Nh3 Bf7 39. Be7 Bxh4 40. Bxd6 Bd8 41. Ke2 g5 42. Nf2 Kg6 43.
    g4 Bb6 44. Be5 a5 45. Nd1 f4 $2 {Carlsen thought this just won but Karjakin
    shows this is a fortress.} (45… Be6) (45… fxg4) 46. Bd4 Bc7 47. Nf2 Be6 48.
    Kf3 Bd5+ 49. Ke2 Bg2 50. Kd2 Kf7 51. Kc2 Bd5 52. Kd2 Bd8 53. Kc2 Ke6 54. Kd2
    Kd7 55. Kc2 Kc6 56. Kd2 Kb5 57. Kc1 Ka4 58. Kc2 Bf7 59. Kc1 Bg6 60. Kd2 Kb3 61.
    Kc1 Bd3 62. Nh3 Ka2 63. Bc5 Be2 64. Nf2 Bf3 65. Kc2 Bc6 66. Bd4 Bd7 67. Bc5 Bc7
    68. Bd4 Be6 69. Bc5 f3 70. Be3 Bd7 71. Kc1 Bc8 72. Kc2 Bd7 73. Kc1 Bf4 74. Bxf4
    gxf4 75. Kc2 Be6 76. Kc1 Bc8 77. Kc2 Be6 78. Kc1 Kb3 79. Kb1 Ka4 80. Kc2 Kb5
    81. Kd2 Kc6 82. Ke1 Kd5 83. Kf1 Ke5 84. Kg1 Kf6 85. Ne4+ Kg6 86. Kf2 Bxg4 87.
    Nd2 Be6 88. Kxf3 Kf5 89. a4 Bd5+ 90. Kf2 Kg4 91. Nf1 Kg5 92. Nd2 Kf5 93. Ke2
    Kg4 94. Kf2 1/2-1/2
    [/pgn]

    #### Game 5: Drawn of the Dead
    Game 5 was played earlier today and felt like a blitz game at times. The moves were fast in some areas deep into the position with Magnus finding himself in trouble against his challenger for the first time in the match. There were certain moments in the game when Karjakin had clear advantage on the board, but Magnus was able to bring these situations back into balance and force a draw on move 51.

    [pgn]
    [Event “WCh 2016”]
    [Site “New York USA”]
    [Date “2016.11.17”]
    [Round “5”]
    [White “Carlsen, Magnus”]
    [Black “Karjakin, Sergey”]
    [Result “1/2-1/2”]
    [ECO “C50”]
    [WhiteElo “2853”]
    [BlackElo “2772”]
    [PlyCount “102”]
    [EventDate “2016.11.11”]

    1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Bc5 4. O-O Nf6 5. d3 O-O 6. a4 d6 7. c3 a6 8. b4 ({
    Relevant:} 8. h3 Ba7 9. Re1 Ne7 10. d4 Ng6 11. Bd3 c6 12. Be3 Nh5 13. Nbd2 Nhf4
    14. Bf1 exd4 15. Bxd4 Bxd4 16. cxd4 d5 17. e5 f6 18. Ra3 fxe5 19. dxe5 a5 20.
    Qc1 Qe7 21. Rb3 Bf5 22. Nd4 Ne6 23. Nxf5 Rxf5 24. Bd3 Rf4 25. Bxg6 hxg6 26. Qd1
    Raf8 27. Rf3 Qb4 28. Rxf4 Rxf4 29. Nf3 Qxa4 30. Qd3 Rf5 31. Qb1 Qf4 32. Qc2 Kh7
    33. Re3 Qc4 34. Qd1 Rf4 35. Rc3 Qb4 36. Qc1 a4 37. h4 Kg8 {Nepomniachtchi,I
    (2740)-So,W (2782) Baku 2016 0-1}) 8… Ba7 9. Re1 Ne7 10. Nbd2 Ng6 11. d4 c6
    12. h3 exd4 $146 ({Predecessor:} 12… Re8 13. Bd3 Be6 14. b5 axb5 15. axb5 Nf4
    16. Bf1 cxb5 17. Nb1 Bc4 18. Bxf4 exf4 {1/2-1/2 (18) Serazeev,A (2490)
    -Szczepanski,Z (2541) ICCF email 2014}) 13. cxd4 Nxe4 14. Bxf7+ $5 (14. Nxe4 d5
    15. Bd3 dxe4 16. Bxe4) 14… Rxf7 15. Nxe4 d5 16. Nc5 h6 17. Ra3 Bf5 18. Ne5 (
    18. Rae3 $5) 18… Nxe5 19. dxe5 Qh4 {25 minute think for Karjakin. He has 30
    minutes plus 30 seconds a move to reach move 40. If the position remains
    complicated he could have problems later.} (19… a5 {was the alternative that
    Karjakin was probably looking at.} 20. Rf3 axb4 21. e6 Re7 22. Nxb7 Rxb7 23.
    Rxf5) 20. Rf3 (20. e6) 20… Bxc5 $6 {It seems Karjakin was unhappy with a
    calculation battle.} (20… Bg6 {was the more critical move.}) 21. bxc5 Re8 22.
    Rf4 Qe7 23. Qd4 Ref8 24. Rf3 Be4 25. Rxf7 Qxf7 26. f3 Bf5 27. Kh2 Be6 28. Re2
    Qg6 29. Be3 Rf7 30. Rf2 Qb1 31. Rb2 Qf5 32. a5 Kf8 {Karjakin takes his king to
    the queenside.} 33. Qc3 Ke8 34. Rb4 g5 35. Rb2 Kd8 36. Rf2 Kc8 37. Qd4 {
    The position is equal but Carlsen is starting to drift.} Qg6 38. g4 (38. Qd2)
    38… h5 39. Qd2 Rg7 40. Kg3 (40. Bxg5 hxg4 (40… Qxg5 41. Qxg5 Rxg5 42. f4
    Rg8 43. f5 hxg4 44. hxg4 Rxg4) 41. h4 gxf3 42. Rxf3) 40… Rg8 (40… Qh6) 41.
    Kg2 $2 {Now white is definitely worse.} hxg4 42. hxg4 d4 $5 {Played quickly.} (
    42… Qh6 {is the computer suggestion.}) 43. Qxd4 (43. Bxd4 Qh6 44. Kg1 Qh3 45.
    Qe2 Rf8) 43… Bd5 $2 (43… Rh8 44. Qe4 Qh6 45. Kf1 Rd8 {with dangerous
    attacking chances for black.}) 44. e6 $5 {Opening up the queen to cover h8.} (
    44. Kg3 {is completely equal as white can challenge the h-file.}) 44… Qxe6
    45. Kg3 Qe7 $6 {Now any advantage for black has really gone.} 46. Rh2 $1 Qf7 (
    46… Qc7+ 47. f4 Qxa5 48. fxg5 {is equal but white still has to show care.})
    47. f4 $1 gxf4+ 48. Qxf4 Qe7 49. Rh5 $1 {Now a draw is absolutely the
    favourite result.} Rf8 50. Rh7 Rxf4 51. Rxe7 Re4 1/2-1/2
    [/pgn]

  • How to Watch the World Championship

    How to Watch the World Championship

    **Updated November 09, 2016**: Added additional viewing details and options. Campfire Chess will offer periodic reflection and post-game analysis throughout the event.

    Few chess fans will be as lucky as those living in New York City when the World Chess Championship kicks off later this week, but that doesn’t mean we are entirely removed from following the match and taking in some expert commentary from Grandmasters and fans around the world. The [recent victory](http://www.campfirechess.com/posts/2777) in Russia over Agon has probably lessened some of the push for more subversive broadcasts and the web will be teeming with opportunities for chess players and fans to follow and comment on the event.

    #### So, how can you view the match?
    * [Chess.com](http://www.chess.com) will be hosting the official [Agon widget]() on its site with access to chat functions with full video breakdowns scheduled after each round.
    * Chessbomb WCC2016 Arena: [https://www.chessbomb.com/arena/](https://www.chessbomb.com/arena/2016-carlsen-karjakin-world-chess-championship)
    * [Chess24.com](http://www.chess24.com) continues to establish itself as a bold new powerhouse in chess broadcasting and will cover the event with several big name commentators.
    * Chess24 WCC Broadcast Page: [https://chess24.com/en/wcc2016](https://chess24.com/en/wcc2016)
    * [Playchess](http://www.playchess.com) is the online chess play and broadcast service of [Chessbase](http://www.chessbase.com).
    * [Agon/FIDE](http://nyc2016.fide.com/), who is currently like the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) in terms of its behavior against modern chess, also has an official website where users can view the moves for free, but pay a *premium* fee for additional analysis and special commentary.

    The live match itself will happen in the historic Seaport District with tickets available via [Ticketfly](http://www.ticketfly.com/venue/24715).

  • The Agon Widget from Hell

    The Agon Widget from Hell

    Remember back in March when Agon, the [FIDE](http://www.fide.com) puppet company responsible for organizing and managing the World Chess Championship cycle limited the live game broadcasts and [infuriated](http://www.campfirechess.com/posts/2310) pretty much everyone except their billionaire Russian investors and mafia henchmen? Well, run-on sentences aside, the Agon mafia has returned to show its ugly teeth in the run-up to the World Chess Championship in New York City this November with an [announcement](https://worldchess.com/2016/10/17/an-open-letter-to-the-chess-community-on-our-new-broadcast-policy/) that broadcast of the games will be limited to a *widget* designed to be embedded into an external website to broadcast the games. Peter Doggers at [Chess.com](https://www.chess.com/news/view/agon-launches-widget-for-carlsen-karjakin-world-championship-9422) breaks the announcement down a little more. When you have finished reading his excellent report, behold the new widget:

    Agon’s WCC broadcast widget. (Credit: Chess.com)

    According to the official statement,

    > First, and most importantly, the live moves of the World Chess Championship match will be made available for free to responsible chess websites and other media organizations that take our official broadcast widget.

    Although it is presented as the most important part of the broadcast announcement, the idea that the WCC moves should be free is buried in the typical Agon-FIDE hyperbole and legal threats to the chess community and its myriad of online portals. For example,

    > It is fair to say that the furor that followed divided the global chess community. We were asked, “Does Agon have the right to prohibit anyone from broadcasting the moves as they were made?” We believe that we do and that we have a strong legal position. **We also have the full support of the World Chess Federation and many others within the game.**

    Agon acknowledges that its actions divided a deep and thriving community, but it still fails to see that the divide is between Agon-FIDE and *everyone else*, not a divide among the chess community. In fact, I don’t believe that I’ve ever witnessed an online community come together en masse like the chess community did when Agon announced its monopoly. With its restrictive broadcasting *agreements* and tactics aimed at subverting the established ecosystem, Agon has alienated itself from countless people who care about chess and want to see it grow. Furthermore, to assert that its position is legitimized by a FIDE endorsement is no different than saying that its okay to restrict the games because the Kremlin says so. In addition, those *within the game* that are often quoted by Agon-FIDE couldn’t care less about broadcast rights for chess. Their names are solidified in the annals of chess history and their view is always from the front row…at the board!

    > What we are doing has never been attempted before in the chess world. It is a revolutionary approach and I am sure we will probably make some mistakes in its implementation before we are finished.

    Really? It hasn’t? Do they mean that nobody has ever created a chess widget before to cover broadcasted games? How interesting because [Chessbase](http://www.playchess.com) has one and [Chessbomb](http://www.chessbomb.com/embed/l3/) has one that regularly broadcasts live tournament games. This kind of drivel expounds on how little Agon-FIDE really knows about the depths of ingenuity, innovation, and connectedness that exist in the online chess world.

    #### Suspicious Widget
    As a veteran of nearly thirty years of computer and network development, I can say that *most* competent webmasters are reluctant to arbitrarily add external widgets to their platforms. Companies often gain the trust and respect of their customers by demonstrating commitment to that platform’s service before said platform allows their widget or code to be embedded within their framework. For me, I trust [Chessbase](http://www.chessbase.com) and [Chessbomb](http://www.chessbomb.com) because they have earned trust and respect as reputable companies with a legitimate interest in furthering the game of chess. Agon has done nothing but drive a wedge between the chess community and the organization that is *supposed* to be championing our game.

    Would you trust a Soviet JavaScript or PHP widget on your network or content platform? I sure as hell wouldn’t. Call me paranoid, but the truth is always buried in fine print and revealed in data breaches or midnight special forces raids.

  • Nazi Paikidze and Hijab Hubbub

    Nazi Paikidze and Hijab Hubbub

    **Editor’s Note**: I try to keep away from writing about politics, but sometimes the world of chess becomes intimately entangled in the affairs of the world. The battles on the board begin to mimic those of the world around us and something has to be said.

    US Women’s Chess Champion [Nazi Paikidze](http://nazipaikidze.com) rocketed into mainstream fame recently with her [vocal protest](http://www.infowars.com/i-will-not-wear-a-hijab-u-s-chess-star-refuses-to-attend-world-championships-in-iran/) of Iran hosting the 2017 Women’s World Chess Championship due to the country’s strict laws regarding female dress codes and specifically, compulsory wear of the Muslim hijab. Given that Nazi (pronounced *na-SEE*) is an immigrant to the United States herself and with the foundation of our country being that of individual liberty, one would *expect* rousing support for the champion. Yet, that is not the case in a world gone mad.

    Social Justice Warriors Weenies, who seem to insert themselves anywhere they can criticize, ridicule, or otherwise remind others of their professional victim status, [have lashed out](http://heatst.com/world/sjws-attack-white-savior-us-chess-champion-for-anti-iran-womens-rights-campaign/) at Nazi for her protest because she is too *white* to make a difference… As a man who has served with people of all races, genders, nationalities, and sexual orientations, I have reached my wit’s end with the incessant blame game on race, inequality, or *random social condition flavor of the week* used to marginalize the voices of people trying to make a legitimate difference for others. The voices on Twitter and on television crying racism, sexism, or whatever-ism simply do not represent the truth in much of our country.

    One need not look too far to see that Nazi is not alone. Chess champions Garry Kasparov, Nigel Short, and lesser entities like *Campfire Chess* along with thousands of others have voiced their support for the protest because silently accepting the Iranian venue demonstrates a remarkable contempt for women’s rights around the world. You can sign her protest petition [here](https://www.change.org/p/stop-women-s-oppression-at-the-world-chess-championship-by-challenging-fide-s-decision).

    Chess is a game that empowers men and women of all races and all backgrounds to break down the walls that typically restrict them. That is why I am proud of Nazi and her resolve. She represents the best of what our nation was founded on.

  • The Queen of Katwe – A Movie Review

    The Queen of Katwe – A Movie Review

    Too often movies are judged as success or failure simply on the amount of money generated by theater, advertising, and merchandise revenue. With those factors typically making up the outcome measurements for modern films, most chess movies are doomed to commercial failure from the start or face relegation to independent distributors. Last year’s [Pawn Sacrifice](http://www.fandango.com/pawnsacrifice_184071/movieoverview) is a perfect example of the challenges faced by chess films. The film opened to high hopes, received [mixed reviews](http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/pawn_sacrifice), premiered almost two years after completion, received a [positive review](http://www.campfirechess.com/posts/1830) here on Campfire Chess, but has since disappeared into the abyss of forgotten films and misbegotten biopics. In reflecting on *Pawn Sacrifice* prior to reviewing *The Queen of Katwe*, I realized that *Pawn Sacrifice* simply does not have the creative longevity to remain at the forefront of modern chess cinema. Perhaps some of the early reflections (including my own) were the result of hype and excessive expectations that were ultimately underwhelmed and left disappointed. That is why when I went to see the film reviewed in this article, I was cautiously optimistic about the outcome and determined to guard myself against personal biases.

    #### Cautiously optimistic…
    The Disney biopic [The Queen of Katwe](http://www.fandango.com/queen-of-katwe_189751/movieoverview), which is based on the life story of [Phiona Mutesi](http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessplayer?pid=127569), premiered in theaters across America on Friday night and yours truly was there with my beloved to watch the film. I was pleasantly surprised to see that we were among 40-50 moviegoers in the theater for the 1845L showing. In contrast, *Pawn Sacrifice* was less than 15 the night of its local premier. After suffering through a collection of disappointing trailers (and one [about dogs](http://www.fandango.com/adogspurpose_195379/movieoverview) that had me bawling) the movie finally began and we were treated to just over two hours of Disney’s interpretation and dramatization of the life and trials of Phiona Mutesi.

    #### Capturing Ugandan Struggle and Pain
    Because this was a Disney movie, I was interested to see to what lengths the producers would go to portray the depths of pain and suffering endured by Phiona and her family in the Katwe slums. It only took a few minutes to realize that the producers had used subtle nuances present in the daily lives of Kampala’s slum citizens to maintain a sense of vibrancy while showing a deep and resounding pain felt by Phiona and her family. Singing and dancing for personal pleasure soon gave way to singing and dancing in the streets for money to buy dinner. The daily struggles presented throughout the film were never lost in the mixture of chess and personal victories, but those struggles also never whitewashed the sense of achievement and growth brought on by Phiona’s challenges and triumphs.

    Phiona was played expertly by Madina Nalwanga and her coach by David Oyelowo, but it was without a doubt the exceptional Lupita Nyong’o who played Phiona’s mother that stole the show. There were times throughout the film that I wondered if the story was actually about Phiona’s mother and less about Phiona and her brother. Yet, these powerful moments where we were treated to following Phiona’s mother through her daily struggles provided the audience with a wonderful context for the challenges that Phiona would face. Why would a mother hesitate to accept scholarships or growth opportunities for their child? These questions and many others were answered by the unique way in which the filmmakers frame the challenges, failures, and triumphs of Phiona in the parallel worlds of chess and life through the eyes of her mother. It become apparent early on that Phiona is certainly her mother’s child; a woman who refused to roll over or accept that she was not capable of rising to a higher level of achievement.

    #### Are We Still Looking for Bobby?
    It is hard to write a chess film review without comparing said film to the classic [Searching for Bobby Fischer](http://www.fandango.com/search/?q=searching%20for%20bobby%20fischer), but doing so with *The Queen of Katwe* sets a new precedent in chess cinema. That 1991 film staring Joe Mantegna and Max Pomeranc is often seen as a benchmark for chess filmmaking and storytelling. Many people, including myself, hold it dear as one of the best movies about chess ever made. Yet, I could not help but wonder as I watched *The Queen of Katwe* with my wife, if we were not watching what could become the *Searching for Bobby Fischer* of the 21st century.

    Earlier this week I wrote about how the Daily Caller wrote a [hit piece](http://www.campfirechess.com/posts/2727) on Phiona Mutesi quoting anonymous Grandmasters and others leading up to the film’s release. The intent of that article was to paint her as a subpar chess player undeserving of any sort of international attention. Yet, such language and disrespect is not levied at young Josh Waitzkin in press releases for *Searching*. Josh was (and still is) considered a legitimate chess prodigy although he has mostly given it up to pursue other activities. In her native country of Uganda and among the most powerful chess professionals in Africa, Phiona is a chess force to be reckoned with. The hit article certainly weighed on me as I watched the film. Fortunately, I was pleased to see that the filmmakers had treated Phiona and the chess world with an enormous amount of respect.

    Phiona expresses her desire to be a chess master and receives both good and bad advice throughout the film, but never is the idea of rising to the top of the chess world presented as an option to Phiona without an enormous amount of personal commitment and support. Even when Phiona attends the Moscow Olympiad, her defeat becomes the crux of the film’s final act in which she finds herself struggling to play for fear of losing.

    Ultimately, *The Queen of Katwe* exposes something about Phiona Mutesi that is often lost in stats, PGN files, and ELO references: her humanity. The film expertly balances the philosophy and challenges of playing chess but also shows how chess can bring out the truth of human struggle and triumph. Such stories are often overplayed in cinema, but here it is professionally mixed to where the chess victory is never really undermined by the struggles that it seeks to solve.

    #### A Final Verdict…
    *The Queen of Katwe* was much better than I had anticipated and it tugged at the heart strings in a way that only Disney can manage. It was easy to be empathetic with Phiona and her relatives facing daily starvation and deplorable conditions in the Katwe slums. The outstanding performances combined with some great chess scenes that were obviously supervised by chess professionals that cared about how the game was represented on screen, it is a film that is definitely worth seeing. Yet, I think that only time will tell if it has the longevity to remain a classic in chess cinema. The story of Phiona Mutesi is still ongoing, but that is the crux of the film’s entire premise. Life never stops, and those places were are used to are not always the places we are meant to be.

    I only hope that Phiona and this film continue to inspire people to pick up our game.

  • Susan Polgar, the Times, and Hired Help

    Susan Polgar, the Times, and Hired Help

    As I wrote a few days ago, the United States claimed victory in a Chess Olympiad for the [first time since 1976](http://www.campfirechess.com/posts/2723). Shortly thereafter, World Champion Magnus Carlsen posted a sarcastic tweet in which he openly wondered if Wesley So and Fabiano Caruana were *still for sale*. Because I am a huge baseball fan and have often wondered about the merits of a free agency system in professional chess, I took the tweet at face value and dismissed it as nothing more than a sarcastic way of Magnus congratulating the US team. Unfortunately, in most cases, in chess not everything is as it seems.

    Grandmaster Susan Polgar took exception with claims of “hired help” on the United States Chess Team.

    I commend Susan for addressing the claims because although she took some subsequent heat on Twitter for her comment, the assertions about *hired help* were not limited to Magnus Carlsen. The New York Times, which seems to pride itself on being at the forefront of racial and social divides in America, [boldly proclaimed](http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/14/sports/us-wins-chess-gold-with-help-of-imported-talent.html?_r=0) that the United States team won with the help of *imported talent*.


    The New York Times preferred to emphasize imported talent over national victory.

    What is lost on me is the almost relentless focus by the media on the ethic origins of the players on this team and participants in countless other activities including books, music, and movies for that matter. Does it make a difference that Wesley So and Fabiano Caruana are *recent* additions to the [United States Chess Federation](http://www.uschess.org) dossier? The article mentions that it is *unusual* for players to change federations, but is it any more unusual for a person to change their citizenship? Wesley So trained under Susan Polgar at [Webster University](http://www.webster.edu) and was integral to their team before dropping out of school to pursue chess full-time. Fabiano Caruana has played for the Italian Chess Federation for years, but is actually an American citizen who was born and raised in Florida.

    #### A Nation of Immigrants
    What gets lost in these arguments and what I think really got Susan Polgar’s blood boiling seems to be that the media forgets that 99.9% of the people who live in the United States of America are the product of immigration. My family is of German descent, but does that disqualify me from representing the United States in an official capacity? Of course not, just as switching from the Philippines to US Chess does not disqualify Wesley So from representing the United States at the Baku Olympiad.

    Ultimately, these are the things that make America such a unique place. America is a country where people from all backgrounds, of every ethnicity, and of all life experiences can stand on a podium and wear a gold medal as a representative of their country. These men were not *hired help* or *imported talent*. Instead, they represent the very core of what America stands for. Asserting anything else devalues that.

  • United States Victorious in Baku!

    United States Victorious in Baku!

    It was long before I was born the last time that the United States won a gold medal victory at a Chess Olympiad. That kind of drought is long enough for many American chess enthusiasts to start each Olympiad off with little to no hope for a competitive finish. Countries like Russia and China have dominated the scene for years, but all of that changed in the final round of the 2016 Chess Olympiad in Baku when the United States defeated Canada to earn its first gold medal since 1976!
    This got me to thinking…what was the world like the last time that the United States won a gold medal in a Chess Olympiad?

    • Height of the Fischer Chess Boom after the 1972 match against Boris Spassky.
    • First flight of the Concorde airplane.
    • Apple Computer Company was formed by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak.
    • The Canada CN tower was completed.
    • Howard Hughes dies at age 70.
    • Viking I Lander arrives on Mars.
    • Fidel Castro becomes President of Cuba.

    My, how far we have come… The Fischer boom is long gone and most people under 25 probably do not remember the Concorde. But it is 2016 and chess in America is undergoing a renaissance. The Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis has hosted some of the strongest tournaments in American history and the United States Chess Federation continues to transform itself into a powerhouse of chess promotion and advocacy. That strong advocacy led to the acquisition of Wesley So and Fabiano Caruana, who won the United States Chess Championship earlier this year. With a renewed vigor and youthful dynamic, the United States team steam rolled into the Baku Chess Olympiad to capture a series of early victories and never letting up on their competition.

    Power Out of the Gates
    It was readily apparent at the outset of the tournament that the United States team was a force to be reckoned with. They earned four victories early before falling behind a point to Scotland in Round 2.

    [pgn]
    [Event “Baku Chess Olympiad | Open”]
    [Site “chess24.com”]
    [Date “2016.09.02”]
    [Round “1”]
    [White “Nakamura, Hikaru”]
    [Black “Aloma Vidal, Robert”]
    [Result “1-0”]
    [Board “1”]
    [WhiteID “2016192”]
    [WhiteElo “2789”]
    [WhiteTitle “GM”]
    [WhiteCountry “USA”]
    [WhiteFideId “2016192”]
    [WhiteEloChange “1”]
    [BlackID “2260409”]
    [BlackElo “2482”]
    [BlackTitle “IM”]
    [BlackCountry “AND”]
    [BlackFideId “2260409”]
    [BlackEloChange “-1”]

    1. d4 {[%clk 1:30:54]} Nf6 {[%clk 1:30:43]} 2. Nf3 {[%clk 1:31:19]} e6 {[%clk
    1:29:54]} 3. g3 {[%clk 1:31:39]} b5 {[%clk 1:23:21]} 4. Bg5 {[%clk 1:30:10]} Bb7
    {[%clk 1:15:29]} 5. Nbd2 {[%clk 1:30:35]} c5 {[%clk 1:10:18]} 6. e4 {[%clk
    1:31:01]} cxd4 {[%clk 1:05:01]} 7. Bxb5 {[%clk 1:28:12]} Bb4 {[%clk 0:46:57]} 8.
    a3 {[%clk 1:20:23]} Bxd2+ {[%clk 0:45:52]} 9. Nxd2 {[%clk 1:16:08]} h6 {[%clk
    0:44:11]} 10. Bxf6 {[%clk 1:14:38]} Qxf6 {[%clk 0:43:57]} 11. O-O {[%clk
    1:15:03]} O-O {[%clk 0:43:38]} 12. Qe2 {[%clk 1:14:32]} Nc6 {[%clk 0:40:32]} 13.
    Nb3 {[%clk 1:11:53]} Rab8 {[%clk 0:35:20]} 14. Rad1 {[%clk 1:05:26]} d3 {[%clk
    0:24:49]} 15. cxd3 {[%clk 0:57:15]} Nd4 {[%clk 0:06:49]} 16. Nxd4 {[%clk
    0:56:54]} Qxd4 {[%clk 0:07:17]} 17. b4 {[%clk 0:49:13]} d5 {[%clk 0:06:36]} 18.
    e5 {[%clk 0:46:35]} a6 {[%clk 0:04:56]} 19. Ba4 {[%clk 0:46:49]} a5 {[%clk
    0:04:10]} 20. Rb1 {[%clk 0:47:14]} Ba6 {[%clk 0:03:24]} 21. b5 {[%clk 0:47:40]}
    Qxa4 {[%clk 0:03:13]} 22. bxa6 {[%clk 0:48:05]} Qxa3 {[%clk 0:02:14]} 23. d4
    {[%clk 0:47:53]} Qc3 {[%clk 0:00:56]} 24. a7 {[%clk 0:38:28]} Ra8 {[%clk
    0:00:49]} 25. Rb7 {[%clk 0:38:51]} Qxd4 {[%clk 0:00:38]} 26. Qe3 {[%clk 0:39:18]}
    Qc4 {[%clk 0:00:42]} 27. Qb6 {[%clk 0:38:25]} d4 {[%clk 0:00:33]} 28. Rd7 {[%clk
    0:34:07]} Qb4 {[%clk 0:00:37]} 29. Qxb4 {[%clk 0:33:50]} axb4 {[%clk 0:01:05]}
    30. Rb1 {[%clk 0:34:12]} d3 {[%clk 0:00:36]} 31. Rxb4 {[%clk 0:34:33]} Kh7 {[%clk
    0:00:35]} 32. Rbb7 {[%clk 0:30:08]} Kg6 {[%clk 0:00:44]} 33. Rxd3 {[%clk
    0:30:31]} Rfc8 {[%clk 0:00:38]} 34. Rdd7 {[%clk 0:30:55]} Rf8 {[%clk 0:00:52]}
    35. Rbc7 {[%clk 0:31:06]} h5 {[%clk 0:01:13]} 36. h4 {[%clk 0:31:23]} Rae8 {[%clk
    0:00:57]} 37. Rb7 {[%clk 0:31:36]} Ra8 {[%clk 0:00:58]} 38. Kf1 {[%clk 0:31:14]}
    Rac8 {[%clk 0:01:05]} 39. Ke2 {[%clk 0:31:32]} Ra8 {[%clk 0:00:54]} 40. Kd3
    {[%clk 0:59:47]} Rac8 {[%clk 0:31:18]} 41. Rbc7 {[%clk 0:59:37]} Ra8 {[%clk
    0:30:53]} 42. Kc4 {[%clk 1:00:00]} Rae8 {[%clk 0:31:11]} 43. Kb5 {[%clk 1:00:22]}
    Ra8 {[%clk 0:31:36]} 44. Ka6 {[%clk 1:00:37]} Rae8 {[%clk 0:31:35]} 45. Kb7
    {[%clk 1:00:52]} Ra8 {[%clk 0:31:59]} 46. f3 {[%clk 1:00:48]} 1-0

    [Event “Baku Chess Olympiad | Open”]
    [Site “chess24.com”]
    [Date “2016.09.02”]
    [Round “1”]
    [White “De La Riva Aguado, Oscar”]
    [Black “So, Wesley”]
    [Result “0-1”]
    [Board “2”]
    [WhiteID “6900224”]
    [WhiteElo “2503”]
    [WhiteTitle “GM”]
    [WhiteCountry “AND”]
    [WhiteFideId “6900224”]
    [WhiteEloChange “-2”]
    [BlackID “5202213”]
    [BlackElo “2782”]
    [BlackTitle “GM”]
    [BlackCountry “USA”]
    [BlackFideId “5202213”]
    [BlackEloChange “2”]

    1. e4 {[%clk 1:30:56]} e5 {[%clk 1:30:52]} 2. Nf3 {[%clk 1:30:47]} Nc6 {[%clk
    1:31:16]} 3. d4 {[%clk 1:30:06]} exd4 {[%clk 1:31:40]} 4. Nxd4 {[%clk 1:30:31]}
    Nf6 {[%clk 1:31:47]} 5. Nxc6 {[%clk 1:29:29]} bxc6 {[%clk 1:32:11]} 6. Qe2 {[%clk
    1:28:27]} Rb8 {[%clk 1:32:00]} 7. e5 {[%clk 1:25:35]} Nd5 {[%clk 1:32:20]} 8. c4
    {[%clk 1:25:15]} Bb4+ {[%clk 1:31:18]} 9. Nd2 {[%clk 1:23:59]} Nf4 {[%clk
    1:10:11]} 10. Qe3 {[%clk 1:19:22]} Ng6 {[%clk 1:05:21]} 11. a3 {[%clk 1:04:41]}
    Be7 {[%clk 1:01:51]} 12. Nf3 {[%clk 0:51:00]} c5 {[%clk 0:51:34]} 13. h4 {[%clk
    0:47:05]} Rb6 {[%clk 0:45:24]} 14. h5 {[%clk 0:38:13]} Nf8 {[%clk 0:44:37]} 15.
    Qc3 {[%clk 0:38:37]} f6 {[%clk 0:36:44]} 16. h6 {[%clk 0:28:10]} g6 {[%clk
    0:36:49]} 17. Be3 {[%clk 0:22:11]} Ne6 {[%clk 0:36:30]} 18. Bd3 {[%clk 0:11:27]}
    fxe5 {[%clk 0:36:45]} 19. Qxe5 {[%clk 0:11:51]} O-O {[%clk 0:34:36]} 20. Rd1
    {[%clk 0:08:49]} Bb7 {[%clk 0:30:16]} 21. Rh3 {[%clk 0:07:26]} Bd6 {[%clk
    0:24:25]} 22. Qc3 {[%clk 0:07:51]} Qf6 {[%clk 0:24:52]} 23. Qxf6 {[%clk 0:06:55]}
    Rxf6 {[%clk 0:25:19]} 24. b4 {[%clk 0:07:19]} cxb4 {[%clk 0:25:16]} 25. Bxb6
    {[%clk 0:06:38]} axb6 {[%clk 0:25:08]} 26. axb4 {[%clk 0:06:48]} Bxb4+ {[%clk
    0:19:44]} 27. Kf1 {[%clk 0:07:08]} Bd6 {[%clk 0:20:09]} 28. Rh4 {[%clk 0:03:41]}
    Nf4 {[%clk 0:19:07]} 29. Be2 {[%clk 0:03:45]} Rf5 {[%clk 0:11:57]} 30. Rd4 {[%clk
    0:03:16]} Kf7 {[%clk 0:08:47]} 31. Bd3 {[%clk 0:02:38]} Nxd3 {[%clk 0:05:41]} 32.
    Rxd3 {[%clk 0:03:02]} g5 {[%clk 0:05:14]} 33. Rg4 {[%clk 0:02:01]} Kf6 {[%clk
    0:04:58]} 34. Rgd4 {[%clk 0:01:58]} Bc6 {[%clk 0:05:01]} 35. Rxd6+ {[%clk
    0:00:41]} cxd6 {[%clk 0:05:28]} 36. Rxd6+ {[%clk 0:01:06]} Ke7 {[%clk 0:05:53]}
    37. Rd3 {[%clk 0:01:18]} Bxf3 {[%clk 0:02:22]} 38. gxf3 {[%clk 0:01:44]} Kd8
    {[%clk 0:02:26]} 39. Kg2 {[%clk 0:01:16]} Rf4 {[%clk 0:01:49]} 40. Rb3 {[%clk
    0:30:36]} Kc7 {[%clk 0:31:40]} 41. Re3 {[%clk 0:17:22]} Rh4 {[%clk 0:13:06]} 42.
    Re5 {[%clk 0:10:32]} Rxh6 {[%clk 0:13:31]} 43. Rxg5 {[%clk 0:10:57]} Rg6 {[%clk
    0:13:59]} 44. f4 {[%clk 0:11:20]} Kc6 {[%clk 0:08:08]} 45. Kf3 {[%clk 0:05:22]}
    Rxg5 {[%clk 0:05:36]} 46. fxg5 {[%clk 0:05:44]} d5 {[%clk 0:06:03]} 47. cxd5+
    {[%clk 0:00:34]} Kxd5 {[%clk 0:06:32]} 48. Kg4 {[%clk 0:00:35]} b5 {[%clk
    0:06:52]} 49. f4 {[%clk 0:00:58]} b4 {[%clk 0:07:18]} 50. f5 {[%clk 0:01:18]} b3
    {[%clk 0:07:45]} 0-1

    [Event “Baku Chess Olympiad | Open”]
    [Site “chess24.com”]
    [Date “2016.09.02”]
    [Round “1”]
    [White “Shankland, Samuel L”]
    [Black “Fernandez Lopez, Joan”]
    [Result “1-0”]
    [Board “3”]
    [WhiteID “2004887”]
    [WhiteElo “2679”]
    [WhiteTitle “GM”]
    [WhiteCountry “USA”]
    [WhiteFideId “2004887”]
    [WhiteEloChange “1”]
    [BlackID “6900348”]
    [BlackElo “2142”]
    [BlackCountry “AND”]
    [BlackFideId “6900348”]
    [BlackEloChange “-2”]

    1. e4 {[%clk 1:30:51]} c5 {[%clk 1:30:42]} 2. Nf3 {[%clk 1:31:14]} Nc6 {[%clk
    1:30:51]} 3. d4 {[%clk 1:31:39]} cxd4 {[%clk 1:30:46]} 4. Nxd4 {[%clk 1:32:04]}
    g6 {[%clk 1:30:28]} 5. c4 {[%clk 1:32:26]} Bg7 {[%clk 1:29:59]} 6. Be3 {[%clk
    1:32:48]} Nf6 {[%clk 1:29:47]} 7. Nc3 {[%clk 1:33:12]} d6 {[%clk 1:29:02]} 8. Be2
    {[%clk 1:33:36]} Nxd4 {[%clk 1:27:50]} 9. Bxd4 {[%clk 1:34:00]} O-O {[%clk
    1:27:52]} 10. O-O {[%clk 1:34:23]} a5 {[%clk 1:25:26]} 11. b3 {[%clk 1:25:34]}
    Bd7 {[%clk 1:22:41]} 12. Qd3 {[%clk 1:25:55]} Bc6 {[%clk 1:16:27]} 13. a3 {[%clk
    1:25:40]} Nd7 {[%clk 1:10:07]} 14. Bxg7 {[%clk 1:26:00]} Kxg7 {[%clk 1:10:27]}
    15. b4 {[%clk 1:26:23]} Qb6 {[%clk 1:03:00]} 16. c5 {[%clk 1:21:18]} Qc7 {[%clk
    0:42:46]} 17. cxd6 {[%clk 1:21:11]} exd6 {[%clk 0:30:25]} 18. Qd4+ {[%clk
    1:15:45]} Nf6 {[%clk 0:27:41]} 19. b5 {[%clk 1:16:02]} 1-0

    [Event “Baku Chess Olympiad | Open”]
    [Site “chess24.com”]
    [Date “2016.09.02”]
    [Round “1”]
    [White “Garcia Paolicchi, Raul”]
    [Black “Robson, Ray”]
    [Result “0-1”]
    [Board “4”]
    [WhiteID “6900020”]
    [WhiteElo “2153”]
    [WhiteTitle “FM”]
    [WhiteCountry “AND”]
    [WhiteFideId “6900020”]
    [WhiteEloChange “-2”]
    [BlackID “2023970”]
    [BlackElo “2674”]
    [BlackTitle “GM”]
    [BlackCountry “USA”]
    [BlackFideId “2023970”]
    [BlackEloChange “1”]

    1. d4 {[%clk 1:30:30]} Nf6 {[%clk 1:30:30]} 2. c4 {[%clk 1:30:30]} g6 {[%clk
    1:30:30]} 3. Nc3 {[%clk 1:30:30]} d5 {[%clk 1:30:30]} 4. cxd5 {[%clk 1:30:30]}
    Nxd5 {[%clk 1:30:38]} 5. e4 {[%clk 1:28:50]} Nxc3 {[%clk 1:30:55]} 6. bxc3 {[%clk
    1:29:13]} Bg7 {[%clk 1:31:04]} 7. Bg5 {[%clk 1:29:08]} c5 {[%clk 1:24:09]} 8. Rc1
    {[%clk 1:29:05]} O-O {[%clk 1:22:57]} 9. Nf3 {[%clk 1:27:56]} Bg4 {[%clk
    1:15:42]} 10. d5 {[%clk 1:26:52]} Qd6 {[%clk 1:09:39]} 11. Be2 {[%clk 1:23:58]}
    Nd7 {[%clk 0:56:26]} 12. Nd2 {[%clk 1:10:58]} Bxe2 {[%clk 0:52:43]} 13. Qxe2
    {[%clk 1:11:08]} e6 {[%clk 0:51:51]} 14. dxe6 {[%clk 0:57:18]} Qxe6 {[%clk
    0:51:45]} 15. Rc2 {[%clk 0:56:29]} c4 {[%clk 0:34:00]} 16. O-O {[%clk 0:53:04]}
    Nc5 {[%clk 0:26:20]} 17. Rb1 {[%clk 0:42:35]} h6 {[%clk 0:20:01]} 18. Bf4 {[%clk
    0:34:21]} g5 {[%clk 0:16:50]} 19. Be3 {[%clk 0:29:27]} Nxe4 {[%clk 0:16:06]} 20.
    Qxc4 {[%clk 0:28:17]} Qxc4 {[%clk 0:16:07]} 21. Nxc4 {[%clk 0:28:37]} b6 {[%clk
    0:10:01]} 22. Bd4 {[%clk 0:22:49]} Rac8 {[%clk 0:08:47]} 23. Re1 {[%clk 0:15:31]}
    Rxc4 {[%clk 0:07:02]} 24. Rxe4 {[%clk 0:15:37]} Rd8 {[%clk 0:06:27]} 25. Ree2
    {[%clk 0:12:42]} Bxd4 {[%clk 0:06:16]} 26. cxd4 {[%clk 0:13:04]} Rdxd4 {[%clk
    0:06:29]} 27. f3 {[%clk 0:13:15]} Rxc2 {[%clk 0:06:21]} 28. Rxc2 {[%clk 0:13:38]}
    h5 {[%clk 0:06:18]} 29. Kf2 {[%clk 0:13:04]} Kg7 {[%clk 0:03:04]} 30. Ke3 {[%clk
    0:09:57]} Ra4 {[%clk 0:03:27]} 31. Kd3 {[%clk 0:10:00]} h4 {[%clk 0:02:04]} 32.
    h3 {[%clk 0:09:14]} b5 {[%clk 0:01:20]} 33. Re2 {[%clk 0:09:12]} Kg6 {[%clk
    0:01:24]} 34. Kc3 {[%clk 0:08:23]} a5 {[%clk 0:01:26]} 35. Kb3 {[%clk 0:08:02]}
    Rb4+ {[%clk 0:01:29]} 36. Kc3 {[%clk 0:07:24]} Kf5 {[%clk 0:01:19]} 37. Kd3
    {[%clk 0:04:14]} Kf4 {[%clk 0:01:24]} 38. Rc2 {[%clk 0:04:17]} Rc4 {[%clk
    0:00:41]} 39. Rb2 {[%clk 0:03:43]} Rc5 {[%clk 0:30:43]} 40. Kd4 {[%clk 0:32:04]}
    Re5 {[%clk 0:00:49]} 41. Kd3 {[%clk 0:31:41]} Rd5+ {[%clk 0:25:33]} 42. Ke2
    {[%clk 0:30:30]} Kg3 {[%clk 0:23:38]} 43. Ke3 {[%clk 0:29:17]} b4 {[%clk
    0:23:08]} 44. Rc2 {[%clk 0:21:34]} f5 {[%clk 0:23:00]} 0-1
    [Event “Baku Chess Olympiad | Open”]
    [Site “chess24.com”]
    [Date “2016.09.03”]
    [Round “2”]
    [White “Greet, Andrew N”]
    [Black “Caruana, Fabiano”]
    [Result “0-1”]
    [Board “1”]
    [WhiteID “405817”]
    [WhiteElo “2455”]
    [WhiteTitle “IM”]
    [WhiteCountry “SCO”]
    [WhiteFideId “405817”]
    [WhiteEloChange “-1”]
    [BlackID “2020009”]
    [BlackElo “2808”]
    [BlackTitle “GM”]
    [BlackCountry “USA”]
    [BlackFideId “2020009”]
    [BlackEloChange “1”]

    1. e4 {[%clk 1:30:56]} e5 {[%clk 1:30:54]} 2. Nf3 {[%clk 1:31:06]} Nc6 {[%clk
    1:31:18]} 3. Nc3 {[%clk 1:30:57]} Nf6 {[%clk 1:30:51]} 4. Be2 {[%clk 1:30:57]} d5
    {[%clk 1:25:20]} 5. exd5 {[%clk 1:31:12]} Nxd5 {[%clk 1:25:45]} 6. O-O {[%clk
    1:31:16]} Nxc3 {[%clk 1:25:01]} 7. bxc3 {[%clk 1:31:37]} e4 {[%clk 1:19:57]} 8.
    Ne1 {[%clk 1:30:52]} Bd6 {[%clk 1:14:03]} 9. f3 {[%clk 1:12:12]} f5 {[%clk
    0:44:33]} 10. fxe4 {[%clk 1:09:09]} fxe4 {[%clk 0:44:56]} 11. d4 {[%clk 0:52:40]}
    Be6 {[%clk 0:43:37]} 12. Rb1 {[%clk 0:49:11]} Na5 {[%clk 0:35:04]} 13. g3 {[%clk
    0:38:18]} Qd7 {[%clk 0:29:47]} 14. Rb5 {[%clk 0:29:53]} Nc4 {[%clk 0:18:40]} 15.
    Rxb7 {[%clk 0:11:40]} Nb6 {[%clk 0:18:57]} 16. c4 {[%clk 0:12:00]} Qc6 {[%clk
    0:15:57]} 17. c5 {[%clk 0:10:13]} Qxb7 {[%clk 0:13:32]} 18. cxd6 {[%clk 0:10:24]}
    cxd6 {[%clk 0:13:41]} 19. Bb5+ {[%clk 0:09:46]} Bd7 {[%clk 0:13:16]} 20. Ng2
    {[%clk 0:07:59]} O-O-O {[%clk 0:08:21]} 21. Rf7 {[%clk 0:06:47]} Qd5 {[%clk
    0:08:13]} 22. Ba6+ {[%clk 0:06:44]} Kb8 {[%clk 0:08:38]} 23. Rxg7 {[%clk
    0:06:55]} Qxa2 {[%clk 0:08:26]} 24. Be2 {[%clk 0:05:09]} Ba4 {[%clk 0:07:06]} 25.
    Ne3 {[%clk 0:04:37]} Rc8 {[%clk 0:04:46]} 26. Qe1 {[%clk 0:02:43]} Bxc2 {[%clk
    0:04:24]} 27. Bg4 {[%clk 0:02:11]} Rc6 {[%clk 0:03:41]} 28. Nf5 {[%clk 0:01:07]}
    e3 {[%clk 0:02:23]} 29. Ne7 {[%clk 0:00:39]} Be4 {[%clk 0:01:14]} 30. Nxc6+
    {[%clk 0:01:01]} Bxc6 {[%clk 0:01:40]} 31. Qe2 {[%clk 0:00:38]} Qd5 {[%clk
    0:01:56]} 32. Bxe3 {[%clk 0:00:36]} Rf8 {[%clk 0:01:49]} 33. Bf4 {[%clk 0:00:52]}
    Rxf4 {[%clk 0:01:19]} 34. gxf4 {[%clk 0:00:58]} Qxd4+ {[%clk 0:01:44]} 35. Kf1
    {[%clk 0:00:41]} Qxg7 {[%clk 0:02:03]} 36. f5 {[%clk 0:00:44]} Nd5 {[%clk
    0:01:32]} 37. Bf3 {[%clk 0:00:43]} Qa1+ {[%clk 0:01:42]} 0-1

    [Event “Baku Chess Olympiad | Open”]
    [Site “chess24.com”]
    [Date “2016.09.03”]
    [Round “2”]
    [White “Nakamura, Hikaru”]
    [Black “Shaw, John”]
    [Result “1-0”]
    [Board “2”]
    [WhiteID “2016192”]
    [WhiteElo “2789”]
    [WhiteTitle “GM”]
    [WhiteCountry “USA”]
    [WhiteFideId “2016192”]
    [WhiteEloChange “1”]
    [BlackID “2400553”]
    [BlackElo “2454”]
    [BlackTitle “GM”]
    [BlackCountry “SCO”]
    [BlackFideId “2400553”]
    [BlackEloChange “-1”]

    1. e4 {[%clk 1:30:53]} d5 {[%clk 1:29:24]} 2. exd5 {[%clk 1:31:17]} Qxd5 {[%clk
    1:29:50]} 3. Nc3 {[%clk 1:31:42]} Qd8 {[%clk 1:30:13]} 4. d4 {[%clk 1:32:07]} Nf6
    {[%clk 1:30:23]} 5. Bc4 {[%clk 1:32:31]} a6 {[%clk 1:29:33]} 6. Bg5 {[%clk
    1:32:54]} h6 {[%clk 1:20:29]} 7. Bxf6 {[%clk 1:32:55]} exf6 {[%clk 1:20:37]} 8.
    Nf3 {[%clk 1:33:21]} Bb4 {[%clk 1:09:20]} 9. O-O {[%clk 1:31:15]} Bxc3 {[%clk
    1:09:30]} 10. bxc3 {[%clk 1:31:41]} O-O {[%clk 1:09:46]} 11. Re1 {[%clk 1:30:17]}
    Nc6 {[%clk 1:04:31]} 12. Nh4 {[%clk 1:26:27]} Na5 {[%clk 0:51:18]} 13. Bd3 {[%clk
    1:21:44]} Be6 {[%clk 0:42:32]} 14. Ng6 {[%clk 0:53:48]} Re8 {[%clk 0:37:58]} 15.
    Qh5 {[%clk 0:54:12]} c5 {[%clk 0:20:48]} 16. Nf4 {[%clk 0:52:14]} c4 {[%clk
    0:18:33]} 17. Be4 {[%clk 0:51:59]} Qc7 {[%clk 0:14:56]} 18. g3 {[%clk 0:51:08]}
    Rad8 {[%clk 0:12:23]} 19. Re3 {[%clk 0:48:11]} b6 {[%clk 0:06:38]} 20. Rae1
    {[%clk 0:48:23]} Qd6 {[%clk 0:05:04]} 21. Bd5 {[%clk 0:47:58]} 1-0

    [Event “Baku Chess Olympiad | Open”]
    [Site “chess24.com”]
    [Date “2016.09.03”]
    [Round “2”]
    [White “McNab, Colin A”]
    [Black “Shankland, Samuel L”]
    [Result “1/2-1/2”]
    [Board “3”]
    [WhiteID “2400030”]
    [WhiteElo “2434”]
    [WhiteTitle “GM”]
    [WhiteCountry “SCO”]
    [WhiteFideId “2400030”]
    [WhiteEloChange “3”]
    [BlackID “2004887”]
    [BlackElo “2679”]
    [BlackTitle “GM”]
    [BlackCountry “USA”]
    [BlackFideId “2004887”]
    [BlackEloChange “-3”]

    1. Nf3 {[%clk 1:30:53]} c5 {[%clk 1:30:43]} 2. c4 {[%clk 1:30:30]} Nf6 {[%clk
    1:30:53]} 3. g3 {[%clk 1:30:31]} Nc6 {[%clk 1:31:10]} 4. Bg2 {[%clk 1:30:31]} d5
    {[%clk 1:31:24]} 5. cxd5 {[%clk 1:29:40]} Nxd5 {[%clk 1:31:48]} 6. Nc3 {[%clk
    1:28:59]} Nc7 {[%clk 1:31:59]} 7. b3 {[%clk 1:26:55]} e5 {[%clk 1:31:10]} 8. Bb2
    {[%clk 1:26:55]} f6 {[%clk 1:31:18]} 9. Rc1 {[%clk 1:23:34]} Bg4 {[%clk 1:30:19]}
    10. d3 {[%clk 0:52:42]} Qd7 {[%clk 1:26:19]} 11. Na4 {[%clk 0:52:11]} b6 {[%clk
    1:23:54]} 12. a3 {[%clk 0:51:39]} O-O-O {[%clk 1:00:04]} 13. Qc2 {[%clk 0:45:17]}
    Nd5 {[%clk 0:53:40]} 14. b4 {[%clk 0:31:56]} cxb4 {[%clk 0:37:56]} 15. Qxc6+
    {[%clk 0:29:14]} Qxc6 {[%clk 0:38:24]} 16. Rxc6+ {[%clk 0:29:34]} Kb7 {[%clk
    0:38:52]} 17. Rc4 {[%clk 0:26:34]} Bxf3 {[%clk 0:36:12]} 18. Bxf3 {[%clk
    0:26:50]} b5 {[%clk 0:36:40]} 19. axb4 {[%clk 0:21:17]} bxa4 {[%clk 0:35:41]} 20.
    Kd2 {[%clk 0:08:06]} Ka6 {[%clk 0:31:59]} 21. Bxd5 {[%clk 0:07:46]} Rxd5 {[%clk
    0:32:13]} 22. Bc3 {[%clk 0:08:03]} Kb5 {[%clk 0:29:09]} 23. Rc7 {[%clk 0:05:45]}
    Rd6 {[%clk 0:29:35]} 24. Rc5+ {[%clk 0:05:04]} Kb6 {[%clk 0:27:51]} 25. Ra1
    {[%clk 0:04:54]} Kb7 {[%clk 0:27:22]} 26. Rxa4 {[%clk 0:03:59]} Rb6 {[%clk
    0:27:46]} 27. Rd5 {[%clk 0:03:21]} Bd6 {[%clk 0:27:26]} 28. b5 {[%clk 0:03:30]}
    Rd8 {[%clk 0:27:49]} 29. Rc4 {[%clk 0:02:16]} Be7 {[%clk 0:27:00]} 30. Rxd8
    {[%clk 0:02:18]} Bxd8 {[%clk 0:27:29]} 31. Ba5 {[%clk 0:02:06]} Rd6 {[%clk
    0:27:58]} 32. Bxd8 {[%clk 0:02:26]} Rxd8 {[%clk 0:28:28]} 33. Kc3 {[%clk
    0:02:22]} Kb6 {[%clk 0:27:17]} 34. Kb4 {[%clk 0:02:31]} Rd6 {[%clk 0:27:43]} 35.
    h4 {[%clk 0:02:11]} h5 {[%clk 0:28:01]} 36. g4 {[%clk 0:01:52]} hxg4 {[%clk
    0:24:56]} 37. Rxg4 {[%clk 0:02:16]} Rd5 {[%clk 0:25:19]} 38. Rxg7 {[%clk
    0:02:16]} Rd4+ {[%clk 0:25:46]} 39. Kc3 {[%clk 0:01:49]} Rxh4 {[%clk 0:26:11]}
    40. Rf7 {[%clk 0:30:53]} Rf4 {[%clk 0:56:16]} 41. f3 {[%clk 0:30:49]} Kxb5 {[%clk
    0:56:29]} 42. Rxa7 {[%clk 0:30:53]} Kc6 {[%clk 0:56:56]} 43. Rg7 {[%clk 0:28:57]}
    Kd6 {[%clk 0:56:46]} 44. Rg4 {[%clk 0:28:39]} Rf5 {[%clk 0:57:12]} 45. Ra4 {[%clk
    0:25:16]} Rh5 {[%clk 0:57:22]} 46. f4 {[%clk 0:20:32]} Rh2 {[%clk 0:55:49]} 47.
    Ra6+ {[%clk 0:13:08]} Ke7 {[%clk 0:56:10]} 48. fxe5 {[%clk 0:12:56]} fxe5 {[%clk
    0:56:36]} 49. e4 {[%clk 0:12:47]} Rh8 {[%clk 0:56:49]} 50. Kc4 {[%clk 0:12:43]}
    Rd8 {[%clk 0:57:07]} 51. Rh6 {[%clk 0:11:55]} 1/2-1/2

    [Event “Baku Chess Olympiad | Open”]
    [Site “chess24.com”]
    [Date “2016.09.03”]
    [Round “2”]
    [White “Robson, Ray”]
    [Black “Gourlay, Iain”]
    [Result “1-0”]
    [Board “4”]
    [WhiteID “2023970”]
    [WhiteElo “2674”]
    [WhiteTitle “GM”]
    [WhiteCountry “USA”]
    [WhiteFideId “2023970”]
    [WhiteEloChange “2”]
    [BlackID “2401533”]
    [BlackElo “2393”]
    [BlackTitle “FM”]
    [BlackCountry “SCO”]
    [BlackFideId “2401533”]
    [BlackEloChange “-3”]

    1. e4 {[%clk 1:30:56]} e5 {[%clk 1:30:47]} 2. Nf3 {[%clk 1:31:05]} Nc6 {[%clk
    1:31:03]} 3. Bb5 {[%clk 1:30:18]} a6 {[%clk 1:31:11]} 4. Ba4 {[%clk 1:30:24]} Nf6
    {[%clk 1:31:17]} 5. d3 {[%clk 1:27:45]} d6 {[%clk 1:30:39]} 6. c3 {[%clk
    1:25:44]} g6 {[%clk 1:28:22]} 7. O-O {[%clk 1:22:28]} Bg7 {[%clk 1:22:41]} 8.
    Nbd2 {[%clk 1:21:24]} O-O {[%clk 1:21:33]} 9. Re1 {[%clk 1:18:01]} Re8 {[%clk
    1:14:34]} 10. h3 {[%clk 1:02:54]} h6 {[%clk 0:58:35]} 11. d4 {[%clk 1:01:33]} b5
    {[%clk 0:53:31]} 12. Bc2 {[%clk 0:57:02]} exd4 {[%clk 0:39:44]} 13. cxd4 {[%clk
    0:56:51]} Nb4 {[%clk 0:38:56]} 14. Bb1 {[%clk 0:52:49]} c5 {[%clk 0:37:48]} 15.
    a3 {[%clk 0:40:26]} Nc6 {[%clk 0:37:04]} 16. d5 {[%clk 0:40:36]} Na5 {[%clk
    0:30:39]} 17. Nf1 {[%clk 0:35:24]} Ra7 {[%clk 0:24:24]} 18. Ng3 {[%clk 0:32:42]}
    Rae7 {[%clk 0:22:04]} 19. Bc2 {[%clk 0:29:03]} c4 {[%clk 0:13:59]} 20. Bf4 {[%clk
    0:24:20]} Nb3 {[%clk 0:07:07]} 21. Bxb3 {[%clk 0:22:18]} cxb3 {[%clk 0:07:32]}
    22. Qd3 {[%clk 0:20:57]} Bb7 {[%clk 0:02:47]} 23. Re2 {[%clk 0:17:37]} Qb6 {[%clk
    0:02:16]} 24. Rae1 {[%clk 0:16:36]} Nd7 {[%clk 0:00:56]} 25. Qxb3 {[%clk
    0:16:26]} Nc5 {[%clk 0:01:13]} 26. Qd1 {[%clk 0:11:13]} b4 {[%clk 0:01:18]} 27.
    axb4 {[%clk 0:11:21]} Nd7 {[%clk 0:00:32]} 28. Qd2 {[%clk 0:11:00]} Kh7 {[%clk
    0:00:37]} 29. Be3 {[%clk 0:10:49]} Qc7 {[%clk 0:00:34]} 30. Bd4 {[%clk 0:09:59]}
    Bxd4 {[%clk 0:00:33]} 31. Nxd4 {[%clk 0:10:22]} Qb6 {[%clk 0:00:34]} 32. Ngf5
    {[%clk 0:10:09]} 1-0
    [/pgn]

    From that point on, the United States team held a solid momentum to compete for placement in the tournament’s top three positions. The drama lasted, however, until the very end.

    [pgn]
    [Event “Baku Chess Olympiad | Open”]
    [Site “chess24.com”]
    [Date “2016.09.13”]
    [Round “11”]
    [White “Caruana, Fabiano”]
    [Black “Bareev, Evgeny”]
    [Result “1-0”]
    [Board “1”]
    [WhiteID “2020009”]
    [WhiteElo “2808”]
    [WhiteTitle “GM”]
    [WhiteCountry “USA”]
    [WhiteFideId “2020009”]
    [WhiteEloChange “3”]
    [BlackID “4100140”]
    [BlackElo “2675”]
    [BlackTitle “GM”]
    [BlackCountry “CAN”]
    [BlackFideId “4100140”]
    [BlackEloChange “-3”]

    1. e4 {[%clk 1:30:57]} c6 {[%clk 1:28:49]} 2. d4 {[%clk 1:31:21]} d5 {[%clk
    1:29:11]} 3. e5 {[%clk 1:31:45]} Bf5 {[%clk 1:29:38]} 4. Nf3 {[%clk 1:32:09]} e6
    {[%clk 1:30:07]} 5. Be2 {[%clk 1:32:33]} Nd7 {[%clk 1:30:29]} 6. O-O {[%clk
    1:32:47]} Bg6 {[%clk 1:30:50]} 7. a4 {[%clk 1:32:00]} Ne7 {[%clk 1:28:10]} 8. a5
    {[%clk 1:29:07]} a6 {[%clk 1:21:22]} 9. b4 {[%clk 1:21:30]} Nf5 {[%clk 1:13:07]}
    10. c3 {[%clk 1:21:54]} f6 {[%clk 1:13:31]} 11. Bf4 {[%clk 1:15:13]} fxe5 {[%clk
    1:11:52]} 12. dxe5 {[%clk 1:14:07]} Be7 {[%clk 1:08:40]} 13. g4 {[%clk 0:50:16]}
    Nh4 {[%clk 0:59:57]} 14. Nd4 {[%clk 0:50:41]} Bf7 {[%clk 1:00:23]} 15. Bg3 {[%clk
    0:51:08]} h5 {[%clk 0:59:52]} 16. gxh5 {[%clk 0:47:41]} Qc7 {[%clk 0:53:15]} 17.
    Bg4 {[%clk 0:46:23]} Rh6 {[%clk 0:47:21]} 18. f4 {[%clk 0:45:12]} c5 {[%clk
    0:46:37]} 19. bxc5 {[%clk 0:44:53]} Qxc5 {[%clk 0:41:07]} 20. Kh1 {[%clk
    0:38:10]} O-O-O {[%clk 0:40:47]} 21. Nd2 {[%clk 0:30:13]} Rdh8 {[%clk 0:39:26]}
    22. Qe1 {[%clk 0:29:18]} Bxh5 {[%clk 0:32:14]} 23. Bxe6 {[%clk 0:25:33]} Be8
    {[%clk 0:25:08]} 24. f5 {[%clk 0:24:33]} Bd8 {[%clk 0:25:10]} 25. Rf4 {[%clk
    0:17:53]} g5 {[%clk 0:23:45]} 26. Rf2 {[%clk 0:17:44]} Bc7 {[%clk 0:23:59]} 27.
    Qe3 {[%clk 0:13:46]} Kb8 {[%clk 0:22:25]} 28. f6 {[%clk 0:12:37]} Nf8 {[%clk
    0:21:33]} 29. Bg4 {[%clk 0:12:41]} Nhg6 {[%clk 0:20:46]} 30. N2b3 {[%clk
    0:12:23]} Qa7 {[%clk 0:21:06]} 31. f7 {[%clk 0:12:23]} 1-0

    [Event “Baku Chess Olympiad | Open”]
    [Site “chess24.com”]
    [Date “2016.09.13”]
    [Round “11”]
    [White “Kovalyov, Anton”]
    [Black “Nakamura, Hikaru”]
    [Result “1/2-1/2”]
    [Board “2”]
    [WhiteID “114987”]
    [WhiteElo “2617”]
    [WhiteTitle “GM”]
    [WhiteCountry “CAN”]
    [WhiteFideId “114987”]
    [WhiteEloChange “2”]
    [BlackID “2016192”]
    [BlackElo “2789”]
    [BlackTitle “GM”]
    [BlackCountry “USA”]
    [BlackFideId “2016192”]
    [BlackEloChange “-2”]

    1. c4 {[%clk 1:30:56]} c5 {[%clk 1:30:49]} 2. Nf3 {[%clk 1:30:58]} Nf6 {[%clk
    1:31:14]} 3. Nc3 {[%clk 1:29:57]} Nc6 {[%clk 1:31:20]} 4. g3 {[%clk 1:29:41]} d5
    {[%clk 1:29:21]} 5. d4 {[%clk 1:29:10]} e6 {[%clk 1:29:32]} 6. cxd5 {[%clk
    1:29:20]} Nxd5 {[%clk 1:29:55]} 7. Bg2 {[%clk 1:29:34]} cxd4 {[%clk 1:29:56]} 8.
    Nxd4 {[%clk 1:29:53]} Nxc3 {[%clk 1:30:20]} 9. bxc3 {[%clk 1:30:17]} Nxd4 {[%clk
    1:30:46]} 10. Qxd4 {[%clk 1:30:39]} Qxd4 {[%clk 1:31:12]} 11. cxd4 {[%clk
    1:31:01]} Bd6 {[%clk 1:31:40]} 12. O-O {[%clk 1:22:45]} Rb8 {[%clk 1:31:32]} 13.
    Bb2 {[%clk 1:19:22]} b6 {[%clk 1:24:58]} 14. Rfc1 {[%clk 1:18:02]} Kd7 {[%clk
    1:10:31]} 15. Bc6+ {[%clk 1:16:16]} Kd8 {[%clk 1:09:33]} 16. e4 {[%clk 1:03:55]}
    f6 {[%clk 1:03:09]} 17. Kg2 {[%clk 0:46:05]} Bb7 {[%clk 1:01:28]} 18. Bxb7 {[%clk
    0:41:59]} Rxb7 {[%clk 0:59:58]} 19. f4 {[%clk 0:41:55]} Kd7 {[%clk 0:57:06]} 20.
    Kf3 {[%clk 0:42:04]} b5 {[%clk 0:56:06]} 21. e5 {[%clk 0:37:16]} Be7 {[%clk
    0:55:56]} 22. Rc2 {[%clk 0:29:48]} b4 {[%clk 0:53:36]} 23. Rac1 {[%clk 0:28:01]}
    b3 {[%clk 0:45:36]} 24. axb3 {[%clk 0:28:13]} Rxb3+ {[%clk 0:45:57]} 25. Ke2
    {[%clk 0:28:37]} Rhb8 {[%clk 0:46:09]} 26. Ba1 {[%clk 0:25:23]} Ra3 {[%clk
    0:42:49]} 27. d5 {[%clk 0:21:01]} exd5 {[%clk 0:20:45]} 28. f5 {[%clk 0:21:17]}
    Bd8 {[%clk 0:20:03]} 29. e6+ {[%clk 0:18:07]} Ke8 {[%clk 0:20:25]} 30. Bd4 {[%clk
    0:17:51]} Ra4 {[%clk 0:20:48]} 31. Bf2 {[%clk 0:12:18]} g6 {[%clk 0:20:03]} 32.
    Rd1 {[%clk 0:11:17]} Rb5 {[%clk 0:16:16]} 33. Rd4 {[%clk 0:08:18]} Rc4 {[%clk
    0:11:34]} 34. Rdxc4 {[%clk 0:07:55]} dxc4 {[%clk 0:11:55]} 35. fxg6 {[%clk
    0:08:08]} hxg6 {[%clk 0:12:21]} 36. Bxa7 {[%clk 0:08:19]} Bb6 {[%clk 0:12:20]}
    37. Bxb6 {[%clk 0:08:32]} Rxb6 {[%clk 0:12:46]} 38. Rxc4 {[%clk 0:08:44]} Rxe6+
    {[%clk 0:12:39]} 1/2-1/2

    [Event “Baku Chess Olympiad | Open”]
    [Site “chess24.com”]
    [Date “2016.09.13”]
    [Round “11”]
    [White “So, Wesley”]
    [Black “Lesiege, Alexandre”]
    [Result “1-0”]
    [Board “3”]
    [WhiteID “5202213”]
    [WhiteElo “2782”]
    [WhiteTitle “GM”]
    [WhiteCountry “USA”]
    [WhiteFideId “5202213”]
    [WhiteEloChange “2”]
    [BlackID “2600170”]
    [BlackElo “2497”]
    [BlackTitle “GM”]
    [BlackCountry “CAN”]
    [BlackFideId “2600170”]
    [BlackEloChange “-2”]

    1. c4 {[%clk 1:30:57]} c5 {[%clk 1:29:34]} 2. Nf3 {[%clk 1:31:20]} Nc6 {[%clk
    1:28:12]} 3. Nc3 {[%clk 1:31:13]} g6 {[%clk 1:25:42]} 4. e3 {[%clk 1:31:33]} Nf6
    {[%clk 1:26:05]} 5. d4 {[%clk 1:31:59]} cxd4 {[%clk 1:26:31]} 6. exd4 {[%clk
    1:32:26]} d5 {[%clk 1:26:41]} 7. Bg5 {[%clk 1:32:43]} Be6 {[%clk 1:26:35]} 8.
    Bxf6 {[%clk 1:32:24]} exf6 {[%clk 1:27:00]} 9. h3 {[%clk 1:32:50]} Bb4 {[%clk
    1:21:50]} 10. c5 {[%clk 1:33:14]} O-O {[%clk 1:19:16]} 11. Rc1 {[%clk 1:28:39]}
    b6 {[%clk 0:53:43]} 12. Bb5 {[%clk 1:20:17]} Na5 {[%clk 0:40:00]} 13. a3 {[%clk
    1:17:42]} Bxc3+ {[%clk 0:40:13]} 14. Rxc3 {[%clk 1:18:10]} Nc4 {[%clk 0:33:01]}
    15. b4 {[%clk 1:18:34]} a5 {[%clk 0:27:02]} 16. O-O {[%clk 1:18:56]} axb4 {[%clk
    0:26:57]} 17. axb4 {[%clk 1:19:10]} Qb8 {[%clk 0:21:32]} 18. Bxc4 {[%clk
    1:01:10]} dxc4 {[%clk 0:21:52]} 19. Nd2 {[%clk 1:01:38]} bxc5 {[%clk 0:19:35]}
    20. bxc5 {[%clk 1:02:06]} Qb4 {[%clk 0:13:52]} 21. Qf3 {[%clk 0:59:31]} Bd5
    {[%clk 0:06:00]} 22. Qxd5 {[%clk 0:59:50]} Qxc3 {[%clk 0:06:26]} 23. Ne4 {[%clk
    1:00:19]} Qd3 {[%clk 0:06:34]} 24. Nxf6+ {[%clk 1:00:43]} Kh8 {[%clk 0:06:26]}
    25. Nd7 {[%clk 1:01:06]} Rfe8 {[%clk 0:05:36]} 26. Ne5 {[%clk 1:00:35]} Qf5
    {[%clk 0:05:07]} 27. Qxc4 {[%clk 1:01:02]} Kg7 {[%clk 0:05:06]} 28. Qc3 {[%clk
    0:57:37]} Ra2 {[%clk 0:03:31]} 29. Nd3 {[%clk 0:58:00]} Qf6 {[%clk 0:03:10]} 30.
    Nb4 {[%clk 0:57:44]} Rae2 {[%clk 0:02:45]} 31. Nd5 {[%clk 0:57:52]} Qg5 {[%clk
    0:02:54]} 32. Nc7 {[%clk 0:57:49]} R8e3 {[%clk 0:02:53]} 33. Qc1 {[%clk 0:57:30]}
    h6 {[%clk 0:01:53]} 34. d5 {[%clk 0:57:03]} Qe5 {[%clk 0:00:58]} 35. fxe3 {[%clk
    0:56:41]} Qg3 {[%clk 0:00:33]} 36. Qa1+ {[%clk 0:57:01]} 1-0

    [Event “Baku Chess Olympiad | Open”]
    [Site “chess24.com”]
    [Date “2016.09.13”]
    [Round “11”]
    [White “Hansen, Eric”]
    [Black “Shankland, Samuel L”]
    [Result “1-0”]
    [Board “4”]
    [WhiteID “2606771”]
    [WhiteElo “2582”]
    [WhiteTitle “GM”]
    [WhiteCountry “CAN”]
    [WhiteFideId “2606771”]
    [WhiteEloChange “6”]
    [BlackID “2004887”]
    [BlackElo “2679”]
    [BlackTitle “GM”]
    [BlackCountry “USA”]
    [BlackFideId “2004887”]
    [BlackEloChange “-6”]

    1. e4 {[%clk 1:30:55]} e5 {[%clk 1:30:50]} 2. Nf3 {[%clk 1:31:11]} Nc6 {[%clk
    1:31:14]} 3. Bb5 {[%clk 1:31:33]} Nf6 {[%clk 1:31:39]} 4. d3 {[%clk 1:29:23]} Bc5
    {[%clk 1:31:31]} 5. c3 {[%clk 1:29:06]} O-O {[%clk 1:31:52]} 6. O-O {[%clk
    1:28:55]} d6 {[%clk 1:32:19]} 7. h3 {[%clk 1:28:59]} Ne7 {[%clk 1:32:21]} 8. d4
    {[%clk 1:27:22]} Bb6 {[%clk 1:32:47]} 9. Bd3 {[%clk 1:27:41]} Ng6 {[%clk
    1:33:09]} 10. Re1 {[%clk 1:27:07]} Re8 {[%clk 1:33:29]} 11. Nbd2 {[%clk 1:25:15]}
    c6 {[%clk 1:33:27]} 12. Nf1 {[%clk 1:24:47]} d5 {[%clk 1:33:34]} 13. Bg5 {[%clk
    1:24:04]} dxe4 {[%clk 1:33:59]} 14. Rxe4 {[%clk 1:24:07]} h6 {[%clk 1:34:24]} 15.
    Bxf6 {[%clk 1:23:16]} Qxf6 {[%clk 1:34:50]} 16. Re1 {[%clk 1:19:09]} Bf5 {[%clk
    1:35:15]} 17. Bxf5 {[%clk 1:19:11]} Qxf5 {[%clk 1:35:40]} 18. Ng3 {[%clk
    1:19:35]} Qf6 {[%clk 1:36:06]} 19. Nh5 {[%clk 1:18:05]} Qf5 {[%clk 1:36:32]} 20.
    Ng3 {[%clk 0:51:48]} Qf6 {[%clk 1:36:54]} 21. Nh5 {[%clk 0:52:02]} Qf5 {[%clk
    1:37:18]} 22. g4 {[%clk 0:50:59]} Qc8 {[%clk 1:37:32]} 23. Nxe5 {[%clk 0:47:41]}
    Nxe5 {[%clk 1:37:57]} 24. dxe5 {[%clk 0:48:04]} Qc7 {[%clk 1:38:06]} 25. Qe2
    {[%clk 0:46:10]} Rad8 {[%clk 1:29:45]} 26. Nf4 {[%clk 0:40:50]} Rd7 {[%clk
    1:13:58]} 27. Kg2 {[%clk 0:39:56]} Kh8 {[%clk 0:51:48]} 28. Rac1 {[%clk 0:30:49]}
    a6 {[%clk 0:45:31]} 29. Rc2 {[%clk 0:28:00]} Qd8 {[%clk 0:45:03]} 30. Qf3 {[%clk
    0:24:52]} Bc7 {[%clk 0:44:31]} 31. Rce2 {[%clk 0:25:15]} Rd2 {[%clk 0:39:18]} 32.
    Rxd2 {[%clk 0:20:39]} Qxd2 {[%clk 0:39:47]} 33. Re2 {[%clk 0:19:03]} Qd7 {[%clk
    0:39:16]} 34. e6 {[%clk 0:16:33]} fxe6 {[%clk 0:36:53]} 35. Nxe6 {[%clk 0:15:16]}
    Bd6 {[%clk 0:37:05]} 36. Qf5 {[%clk 0:14:33]} Re7 {[%clk 0:34:52]} 37. f4 {[%clk
    0:10:08]} Qe8 {[%clk 0:33:16]} 38. Kf3 {[%clk 0:07:02]} Kg8 {[%clk 0:32:28]} 39.
    Qd3 {[%clk 0:06:20]} Bb8 {[%clk 0:31:34]} 40. f5 {[%clk 0:35:08]} Rd7 {[%clk
    1:01:40]} 41. Qe4 {[%clk 0:19:56]} Qe7 {[%clk 0:59:12]} 42. Nc5 {[%clk 0:19:52]}
    1-0
    [/pgn]

    It was readily apparent that the United States team outplayed their Canadian counterparts, but was not able to pull off a complete win in that final round. Once the American games were completed, attention focused to the Ukrainian team who was competing to break a virtual tie. Despite a strong performance by the Ukraine team, it was not enough to overcome their deficit and defeat the Americans. With the tiebreaker over, the United States left Baku with chess gold!

    [pgn]
    [Event “Baku Chess Olympiad | Open”]
    [Site “chess24.com”]
    [Date “2016.09.13”]
    [Round “11”]
    [White “Eljanov, Pavel”]
    [Black “Beliavsky, Alexander G”]
    [Result “1-0”]
    [Board “1”]
    [WhiteID “14102951”]
    [WhiteElo “2739”]
    [WhiteTitle “GM”]
    [WhiteCountry “UKR”]
    [WhiteFideId “14102951”]
    [WhiteEloChange “3”]
    [BlackID “14602377”]
    [BlackElo “2602”]
    [BlackTitle “GM”]
    [BlackCountry “SLO”]
    [BlackFideId “14602377”]
    [BlackEloChange “-3”]

    1. Nf3 {[%clk 1:30:57]} Nf6 {[%clk 1:30:08]} 2. g3 {[%clk 1:31:02]} d5 {[%clk
    1:29:46]} 3. Bg2 {[%clk 1:31:23]} c6 {[%clk 1:29:45]} 4. c4 {[%clk 1:30:57]} Bf5
    {[%clk 1:23:28]} 5. Qb3 {[%clk 1:28:18]} Qb6 {[%clk 1:20:20]} 6. d3 {[%clk
    1:27:42]} e6 {[%clk 1:18:12]} 7. cxd5 {[%clk 1:09:25]} Qxb3 {[%clk 1:16:50]} 8.
    axb3 {[%clk 1:09:49]} exd5 {[%clk 1:16:56]} 9. Bd2 {[%clk 1:07:00]} Na6 {[%clk
    1:13:52]} 10. Na3 {[%clk 1:03:16]} Be7 {[%clk 1:09:37]} 11. Nc2 {[%clk 1:02:20]}
    O-O {[%clk 1:09:01]} 12. Nfd4 {[%clk 1:01:23]} Bd7 {[%clk 1:08:59]} 13. b4 {[%clk
    1:01:45]} Nc7 {[%clk 1:06:39]} 14. Nb3 {[%clk 0:59:23]} Rfd8 {[%clk 1:03:43]} 15.
    Nc5 {[%clk 0:54:54]} Bc8 {[%clk 1:03:19]} 16. h3 {[%clk 0:32:33]} Nd7 {[%clk
    1:02:16]} 17. Nb3 {[%clk 0:29:41]} Nf8 {[%clk 1:00:29]} 18. g4 {[%clk 0:25:34]}
    Nb5 {[%clk 0:58:38]} 19. f4 {[%clk 0:18:30]} f5 {[%clk 0:46:24]} 20. g5 {[%clk
    0:18:26]} d4 {[%clk 0:44:38]} 21. O-O {[%clk 0:10:16]} Be6 {[%clk 0:40:01]} 22.
    Nc5 {[%clk 0:10:15]} Bxc5 {[%clk 0:40:07]} 23. bxc5 {[%clk 0:10:40]} Bd5 {[%clk
    0:40:30]} 24. Ne1 {[%clk 0:06:18]} Bxg2 {[%clk 0:40:08]} 25. Kxg2 {[%clk
    0:06:45]} Ne6 {[%clk 0:17:56]} 26. b4 {[%clk 0:07:11]} a5 {[%clk 0:17:31]} 27.
    Rxa5 {[%clk 0:07:31]} Rxa5 {[%clk 0:17:57]} 28. bxa5 {[%clk 0:07:58]} Nxc5 {[%clk
    0:18:25]} 29. Nf3 {[%clk 0:08:20]} Nb3 {[%clk 0:15:03]} 30. Rb1 {[%clk 0:07:51]}
    Nxd2 {[%clk 0:15:04]} 31. Nxd2 {[%clk 0:08:15]} Re8 {[%clk 0:15:07]} 32. Kf1
    {[%clk 0:08:42]} Kf7 {[%clk 0:10:37]} 33. Nc4 {[%clk 0:03:56]} Ke6 {[%clk
    0:10:38]} 34. Kf2 {[%clk 0:03:59]} Kd5 {[%clk 0:10:30]} 35. Kf3 {[%clk 0:04:08]}
    Kc5 {[%clk 0:09:00]} 36. Ne5 {[%clk 0:03:19]} Ra8 {[%clk 0:08:11]} 37. Nd7+
    {[%clk 0:03:31]} Kd6 {[%clk 0:08:32]} 38. Nb6 {[%clk 0:03:57]} Re8 {[%clk
    0:08:56]} 39. Nc4+ {[%clk 0:04:22]} Kc5 {[%clk 0:09:22]} 40. Rb2 {[%clk 0:32:23]}
    Re7 {[%clk 0:33:50]} 41. Ne5 {[%clk 0:30:02]} Nd6 {[%clk 0:29:34]} 42. h4 {[%clk
    0:20:08]} Nf7 {[%clk 0:27:56]} 43. Nc4 {[%clk 0:20:29]} Nd6 {[%clk 0:27:53]} 44.
    Ne5 {[%clk 0:20:48]} Nf7 {[%clk 0:28:17]} 45. Rc2+ {[%clk 0:21:10]} Kd6 {[%clk
    0:26:18]} 46. Nc4+ {[%clk 0:21:12]} Kc7 {[%clk 0:25:44]} 47. Kf2 {[%clk 0:17:53]}
    Re8 {[%clk 0:21:10]} 48. Nd2 {[%clk 0:13:23]} Nd8 {[%clk 0:20:09]} 49. Rc5 {[%clk
    0:13:26]} g6 {[%clk 0:17:15]} 50. Nb3 {[%clk 0:12:51]} Ne6 {[%clk 0:17:08]} 51.
    Re5 {[%clk 0:13:13]} Kd7 {[%clk 0:17:29]} 52. Kg3 {[%clk 0:11:21]} Rb8 {[%clk
    0:15:42]} 53. h5 {[%clk 0:09:06]} Kd6 {[%clk 0:12:51]} 54. Nd2 {[%clk 0:08:52]}
    Ke7 {[%clk 0:12:38]} 55. Kf3 {[%clk 0:05:36]} Rd8 {[%clk 0:12:19]} 56. Nc4 {[%clk
    0:05:40]} Ra8 {[%clk 0:10:44]} 57. Kg3 {[%clk 0:05:59]} Ra6 {[%clk 0:09:45]} 58.
    Nd2 {[%clk 0:06:01]} Ra8 {[%clk 0:09:51]} 59. Kf2 {[%clk 0:03:58]} Rd8 {[%clk
    0:08:43]} 60. Kf3 {[%clk 0:03:21]} Ra8 {[%clk 0:08:55]} 61. Nc4 {[%clk 0:03:42]}
    Ra6 {[%clk 0:06:30]} 62. Nb6 {[%clk 0:04:06]} Kd6 {[%clk 0:06:53]} 63. Kg3 {[%clk
    0:04:31]} Ke7 {[%clk 0:06:18]} 64. Kf2 {[%clk 0:04:25]} Kd6 {[%clk 0:06:44]} 65.
    e3 {[%clk 0:04:45]} dxe3+ {[%clk 0:06:14]} 66. Kxe3 {[%clk 0:05:11]} Nc7 {[%clk
    0:05:33]} 67. Nc8+ {[%clk 0:04:24]} Kd7 {[%clk 0:05:38]} 68. Nb6+ {[%clk
    0:04:24]} Kd6 {[%clk 0:05:38]} 69. Nc4+ {[%clk 0:01:39]} Kd7 {[%clk 0:06:32]} 70.
    Kf3 {[%clk 0:01:50]} Ne6 {[%clk 0:06:32]} 71. hxg6 {[%clk 0:01:50]} hxg6 {[%clk
    0:06:32]} 72. Re1 {[%clk 0:01:50]} Nd4+ {[%clk 0:06:32]} 73. Kf2 {[%clk 0:01:50]}
    c5 {[%clk 0:06:32]} 74. Rh1 {[%clk 0:01:50]} b5 {[%clk 0:02:09]} 75. axb6 {[%clk
    0:01:38]} Ra2+ {[%clk 0:02:36]} 76. Kg3 {[%clk 0:02:01]} Ne2+ {[%clk 0:03:00]}
    77. Kh4 {[%clk 0:02:22]} Nxf4 {[%clk 0:01:33]} 78. b7 {[%clk 0:02:25]} 1-0

    [Event “Baku Chess Olympiad | Open”]
    [Site “chess24.com”]
    [Date “2016.09.13”]
    [Round “11”]
    [White “Lenic, Luka”]
    [Black “Ponomariov, Ruslan”]
    [Result “1/2-1/2”]
    [Board “2”]
    [WhiteID “14603853”]
    [WhiteElo “2622”]
    [WhiteTitle “GM”]
    [WhiteCountry “SLO”]
    [WhiteFideId “14603853”]
    [WhiteEloChange “1”]
    [BlackID “14103320”]
    [BlackElo “2709”]
    [BlackTitle “GM”]
    [BlackCountry “UKR”]
    [BlackFideId “14103320”]
    [BlackEloChange “-1”]

    1. d4 {[%clk 1:30:55]} Nf6 {[%clk 1:30:54]} 2. c4 {[%clk 1:31:18]} e6 {[%clk
    1:31:13]} 3. Nc3 {[%clk 1:31:42]} Bb4 {[%clk 1:31:31]} 4. Qc2 {[%clk 1:32:07]} c5
    {[%clk 1:31:27]} 5. dxc5 {[%clk 1:31:26]} O-O {[%clk 1:31:50]} 6. Nf3 {[%clk
    1:30:23]} Na6 {[%clk 1:29:57]} 7. g3 {[%clk 1:29:50]} Nxc5 {[%clk 1:29:30]} 8.
    Bg2 {[%clk 1:30:15]} b6 {[%clk 1:28:33]} 9. O-O {[%clk 1:30:32]} Bb7 {[%clk
    1:28:45]} 10. Nb5 {[%clk 1:30:44]} Be4 {[%clk 1:18:24]} 11. Qd1 {[%clk 1:30:58]}
    Nb7 {[%clk 1:18:44]} 12. a3 {[%clk 1:30:55]} Be7 {[%clk 1:11:37]} 13. Bf4 {[%clk
    1:27:50]} a6 {[%clk 1:02:22]} 14. Nc3 {[%clk 1:26:27]} Bc6 {[%clk 1:01:14]} 15.
    Rc1 {[%clk 1:20:45]} Na5 {[%clk 0:53:33]} 16. Nb1 {[%clk 1:10:12]} b5 {[%clk
    0:44:24]} 17. c5 {[%clk 1:07:21]} Rc8 {[%clk 0:42:15]} 18. Nbd2 {[%clk 0:59:24]}
    Nb7 {[%clk 0:35:25]} 19. b4 {[%clk 0:58:48]} d6 {[%clk 0:34:34]} 20. cxd6 {[%clk
    0:58:12]} Nxd6 {[%clk 0:33:56]} 21. Be5 {[%clk 0:55:39]} Qb6 {[%clk 0:27:42]} 22.
    Qb3 {[%clk 0:52:28]} Nde4 {[%clk 0:23:42]} 23. Nxe4 {[%clk 0:44:33]} Bxe4 {[%clk
    0:23:02]} 24. Qb2 {[%clk 0:44:50]} Qb7 {[%clk 0:19:25]} 25. Rfd1 {[%clk 0:44:36]}
    h6 {[%clk 0:19:21]} 26. h3 {[%clk 0:37:28]} Bd5 {[%clk 0:17:37]} 27. Ne1 {[%clk
    0:30:28]} Bxg2 {[%clk 0:17:43]} 28. Nxg2 {[%clk 0:30:54]} Rxc1 {[%clk 0:16:20]}
    29. Rxc1 {[%clk 0:31:11]} Rc8 {[%clk 0:16:39]} 30. Rxc8+ {[%clk 0:31:26]} Qxc8
    {[%clk 0:17:07]} 31. Nf4 {[%clk 0:29:59]} 1/2-1/2

    [Event “Baku Chess Olympiad | Open”]
    [Site “chess24.com”]
    [Date “2016.09.13”]
    [Round “11”]
    [White “Korobov, Anton”]
    [Black “Borisek, Jure”]
    [Result “1-0”]
    [Board “3”]
    [WhiteID “14105730”]
    [WhiteElo “2675”]
    [WhiteTitle “GM”]
    [WhiteCountry “UKR”]
    [WhiteFideId “14105730”]
    [WhiteEloChange “3”]
    [BlackID “14603152”]
    [BlackElo “2558”]
    [BlackTitle “GM”]
    [BlackCountry “SLO”]
    [BlackFideId “14603152”]
    [BlackEloChange “-3”]

    1. d4 {[%clk 1:30:55]} Nf6 {[%clk 1:30:49]} 2. c4 {[%clk 1:31:15]} g6 {[%clk
    1:31:15]} 3. Nc3 {[%clk 1:31:34]} d5 {[%clk 1:31:42]} 4. cxd5 {[%clk 1:31:49]}
    Nxd5 {[%clk 1:32:09]} 5. e4 {[%clk 1:32:11]} Nxc3 {[%clk 1:32:36]} 6. bxc3 {[%clk
    1:32:33]} Bg7 {[%clk 1:33:02]} 7. Nf3 {[%clk 1:32:55]} c5 {[%clk 1:33:24]} 8. Be3
    {[%clk 1:33:18]} Qa5 {[%clk 1:33:16]} 9. Nd2 {[%clk 1:33:35]} Nd7 {[%clk
    1:29:34]} 10. Qc2 {[%clk 1:31:01]} O-O {[%clk 1:27:59]} 11. Be2 {[%clk 1:30:51]}
    e6 {[%clk 1:21:33]} 12. a4 {[%clk 1:23:07]} Qc7 {[%clk 1:20:16]} 13. Qa2 {[%clk
    1:19:13]} Nf6 {[%clk 1:11:53]} 14. O-O {[%clk 1:08:26]} Bd7 {[%clk 1:06:44]} 15.
    f3 {[%clk 1:05:18]} Rfc8 {[%clk 1:06:32]} 16. Nb3 {[%clk 1:01:19]} cxd4 {[%clk
    0:59:45]} 17. cxd4 {[%clk 1:01:00]} Qc2 {[%clk 1:00:10]} 18. Nc5 {[%clk 0:57:48]}
    Qxa2 {[%clk 0:59:22]} 19. Rxa2 {[%clk 0:58:15]} Bc6 {[%clk 0:58:48]} 20. Rc1
    {[%clk 0:52:29]} Nd7 {[%clk 0:44:07]} 21. Nb3 {[%clk 0:46:03]} a5 {[%clk
    0:44:29]} 22. Kf2 {[%clk 0:43:36]} Nb6 {[%clk 0:34:12]} 23. d5 {[%clk 0:39:19]}
    Nxd5 {[%clk 0:28:38]} 24. exd5 {[%clk 0:39:05]} Bxd5 {[%clk 0:29:04]} 25. Rxc8+
    {[%clk 0:39:30]} Rxc8 {[%clk 0:29:30]} 26. Bd1 {[%clk 0:39:56]} Bc3 {[%clk
    0:24:26]} 27. Bd2 {[%clk 0:34:24]} b6 {[%clk 0:20:11]} 28. Bxc3 {[%clk 0:31:24]}
    Rxc3 {[%clk 0:20:36]} 29. Rb2 {[%clk 0:31:49]} b5 {[%clk 0:17:11]} 30. Nxa5
    {[%clk 0:31:14]} bxa4 {[%clk 0:17:36]} 31. Bxa4 {[%clk 0:31:39]} Ra3 {[%clk
    0:16:13]} 32. Rb4 {[%clk 0:32:07]} Ra2+ {[%clk 0:14:19]} 33. Kg3 {[%clk 0:32:34]}
    Kg7 {[%clk 0:14:30]} 34. Nc4 {[%clk 0:32:13]} Bxc4 {[%clk 0:14:28]} 35. Rxc4
    {[%clk 0:32:40]} h6 {[%clk 0:14:02]} 36. Bc2 {[%clk 0:28:43]} Ra7 {[%clk
    0:14:11]} 37. h4 {[%clk 0:28:00]} Rb7 {[%clk 0:13:28]} 38. Kf4 {[%clk 0:24:17]}
    Rd7 {[%clk 0:13:33]} 39. g4 {[%clk 0:24:00]} Kf6 {[%clk 0:12:55]} 40. Rc5 {[%clk
    0:53:18]} Ra7 {[%clk 0:41:12]} 41. h5 {[%clk 0:50:53]} gxh5 {[%clk 0:38:05]} 42.
    Rxh5 {[%clk 0:48:27]} Kg7 {[%clk 0:38:13]} 43. Be4 {[%clk 0:48:50]} Rc7 {[%clk
    0:32:36]} 44. Ke5 {[%clk 0:46:09]} Ra7 {[%clk 0:30:52]} 45. g5 {[%clk 0:45:05]}
    Ra5+ {[%clk 0:29:12]} 46. Kf4 {[%clk 0:45:30]} 1-0

    [Event “Baku Chess Olympiad | Open”]
    [Site “chess24.com”]
    [Date “2016.09.13”]
    [Round “11”]
    [White “Sebenik, Matej”]
    [Black “Volokitin, Andrei”]
    [Result “*”]
    [Board “4”]
    [WhiteID “14602296”]
    [WhiteElo “2526”]
    [WhiteTitle “GM”]
    [WhiteCountry “SLO”]
    [WhiteFideId “14602296”]
    [BlackID “14107090”]
    [BlackElo “2647”]
    [BlackTitle “GM”]
    [BlackCountry “UKR”]
    [BlackFideId “14107090”]

    1. Nf3 {[%clk 1:30:53]} d5 {[%clk 1:29:43]} 2. d4 {[%clk 1:30:50]} Nf6 {[%clk
    1:30:04]} 3. c4 {[%clk 1:31:17]} e6 {[%clk 1:30:23]} 4. g3 {[%clk 1:31:39]} Bb4+
    {[%clk 1:30:44]} 5. Bd2 {[%clk 1:32:03]} Be7 {[%clk 1:31:07]} 6. Bg2 {[%clk
    1:32:28]} O-O {[%clk 1:31:32]} 7. O-O {[%clk 1:32:54]} c6 {[%clk 1:31:57]} 8. Qc2
    {[%clk 1:32:50]} b6 {[%clk 1:32:09]} 9. Bf4 {[%clk 1:32:20]} Nbd7 {[%clk
    1:23:22]} 10. Rd1 {[%clk 1:32:03]} Ba6 {[%clk 1:23:32]} 11. b3 {[%clk 1:32:27]}
    Rc8 {[%clk 1:20:04]} 12. Nc3 {[%clk 1:32:36]} Qe8 {[%clk 1:19:32]} 13. e4 {[%clk
    1:31:22]} dxc4 {[%clk 1:11:07]} 14. h3 {[%clk 1:29:31]} Bb4 {[%clk 0:50:04]} 15.
    Ne2 {[%clk 0:52:58]} cxb3 {[%clk 0:48:30]} 16. axb3 {[%clk 0:51:49]} Bxe2 {[%clk
    0:48:51]} 17. Qxe2 {[%clk 0:52:15]} a5 {[%clk 0:49:16]} 18. g4 {[%clk 0:51:13]}
    Qe7 {[%clk 0:41:09]} 19. Rac1 {[%clk 0:44:20]} Rfe8 {[%clk 0:34:18]} 20. g5
    {[%clk 0:23:17]} Nh5 {[%clk 0:31:53]} 21. Be3 {[%clk 0:23:44]} g6 {[%clk
    0:26:26]} 22. Ne5 {[%clk 0:23:54]} Nxe5 {[%clk 0:24:24]} 23. dxe5 {[%clk
    0:24:21]} Qc7 {[%clk 0:13:26]} 24. f4 {[%clk 0:21:05]} Red8 {[%clk 0:12:13]} 25.
    Bf3 {[%clk 0:20:29]} c5 {[%clk 0:06:08]} 26. Bxh5 {[%clk 0:17:44]} gxh5 {[%clk
    0:06:32]} 27. Kf2 {[%clk 0:11:24]} Qc6 {[%clk 0:04:22]} 28. Rxd8+ {[%clk
    0:04:56]} Rxd8 {[%clk 0:04:51]} 29. Rd1 {[%clk 0:05:18]} Rc8 {[%clk 0:03:18]} 30.
    Qa6 {[%clk 0:02:26]} Ra8 {[%clk 0:03:12]} 31. Qd3 {[%clk 0:02:42]} b5 {[%clk
    0:03:14]} 32. f5 {[%clk 0:00:41]} c4 {[%clk 0:03:40]} 33. bxc4 {[%clk 0:00:52]}
    Qxc4 {[%clk 0:03:03]} 34. Qxc4 {[%clk 0:00:35]} bxc4 {[%clk 0:03:29]} 35. Rc1
    {[%clk 0:00:56]} c3 {[%clk 0:03:29]} 36. Bd4 {[%clk 0:00:51]} a4 {[%clk 0:02:35]}
    37. Bxc3 {[%clk 0:00:45]} Bxc3 {[%clk 0:02:29]} 38. Rxc3 {[%clk 0:01:12]} a3
    {[%clk 0:02:56]} 39. Rc1 {[%clk 0:01:40]} a2 {[%clk 0:03:07]} 40. Ra1 {[%clk
    0:32:08]} Ra3 {[%clk 0:31:14]} 41. h4 {[%clk 0:25:55]} Kf8 {[%clk 0:29:21]} 42.
    Ke2 {[%clk 0:17:16]} Rh3 {[%clk 0:29:16]} *
    [/pgn]

    The United States Chess Team was:

    • Captain: IM John Donaldson
    • GM Fabiano Caruana
    • GM Hikaru Nakamura
    • GM Wesley So
    • GM Samuel Shankland
    • GM Ray Robson

    National Pride
    I am incredibly proud and feel blessed everyday to be able to play chess and to know that my country is starting to embrace the game on a grander scale. Now we can turn our attention to New York as the United States prepares to host the greatest event in chess: the World Chess Championship!

  • Baku Chess Olympiad is Underway!

    Baku Chess Olympiad is Underway!

    It seems like such a short time ago when chess headlines were adorned with stories of the Tromsø Chess Olympiad in 2014 where visa challenges, bathrooms, and [high food prices](http://www.thechessdrum.net/blog/2014/08/22/relections-on-tromso-olympiad/) were among the hottest topics leading up to China’s triumphant victory in the event. But here we are looking down the barrels of the 2016 Chess Olympiad in Baku, Azerbaijan, the home country of former World Champion Garry Kasparov.

    After a breathtaking opening ceremony on Thursday, main tournament play began Friday with my beloved United States team winning all 4 of their first matches against players from Andorra. Hikaru Nakamura, Wesley So, Sam Shankland, and Ray Robson each scored well-earned victory against their opponents to launch the team off to a powerful start in the Olympiad.


    US Champion Fabiano Caruana is leading the US Olympiad Team

    [pgn]
    [Event “Baku Chess Olympiad | Open”]
    [Site “chess24.com”]
    [Date “2016.09.02”]
    [Round “1”]
    [White “Nakamura, Hikaru”]
    [Black “Aloma Vidal, Robert”]
    [Result “1-0”]
    [Board “1”]
    [WhiteID “2016192”]
    [WhiteElo “2789”]
    [WhiteTitle “GM”]
    [WhiteCountry “USA”]
    [WhiteFideId “2016192”]
    [WhiteEloChange “1”]
    [BlackID “2260409”]
    [BlackElo “2482”]
    [BlackTitle “IM”]
    [BlackCountry “AND”]
    [BlackFideId “2260409”]
    [BlackEloChange “-1”]

    1. d4 {[%clk 1:30:54]} Nf6 {[%clk 1:30:43]} 2. Nf3 {[%clk 1:31:19]} e6 {[%clk
    1:29:54]} 3. g3 {[%clk 1:31:39]} b5 {[%clk 1:23:21]} 4. Bg5 {[%clk 1:30:10]} Bb7
    {[%clk 1:15:29]} 5. Nbd2 {[%clk 1:30:35]} c5 {[%clk 1:10:18]} 6. e4 {[%clk
    1:31:01]} cxd4 {[%clk 1:05:01]} 7. Bxb5 {[%clk 1:28:12]} Bb4 {[%clk 0:46:57]} 8.
    a3 {[%clk 1:20:23]} Bxd2+ {[%clk 0:45:52]} 9. Nxd2 {[%clk 1:16:08]} h6 {[%clk
    0:44:11]} 10. Bxf6 {[%clk 1:14:38]} Qxf6 {[%clk 0:43:57]} 11. O-O {[%clk
    1:15:03]} O-O {[%clk 0:43:38]} 12. Qe2 {[%clk 1:14:32]} Nc6 {[%clk 0:40:32]} 13.
    Nb3 {[%clk 1:11:53]} Rab8 {[%clk 0:35:20]} 14. Rad1 {[%clk 1:05:26]} d3 {[%clk
    0:24:49]} 15. cxd3 {[%clk 0:57:15]} Nd4 {[%clk 0:06:49]} 16. Nxd4 {[%clk
    0:56:54]} Qxd4 {[%clk 0:07:17]} 17. b4 {[%clk 0:49:13]} d5 {[%clk 0:06:36]} 18.
    e5 {[%clk 0:46:35]} a6 {[%clk 0:04:56]} 19. Ba4 {[%clk 0:46:49]} a5 {[%clk
    0:04:10]} 20. Rb1 {[%clk 0:47:14]} Ba6 {[%clk 0:03:24]} 21. b5 {[%clk 0:47:40]}
    Qxa4 {[%clk 0:03:13]} 22. bxa6 {[%clk 0:48:05]} Qxa3 {[%clk 0:02:14]} 23. d4
    {[%clk 0:47:53]} Qc3 {[%clk 0:00:56]} 24. a7 {[%clk 0:38:28]} Ra8 {[%clk
    0:00:49]} 25. Rb7 {[%clk 0:38:51]} Qxd4 {[%clk 0:00:38]} 26. Qe3 {[%clk 0:39:18]}
    Qc4 {[%clk 0:00:42]} 27. Qb6 {[%clk 0:38:25]} d4 {[%clk 0:00:33]} 28. Rd7 {[%clk
    0:34:07]} Qb4 {[%clk 0:00:37]} 29. Qxb4 {[%clk 0:33:50]} axb4 {[%clk 0:01:05]}
    30. Rb1 {[%clk 0:34:12]} d3 {[%clk 0:00:36]} 31. Rxb4 {[%clk 0:34:33]} Kh7 {[%clk
    0:00:35]} 32. Rbb7 {[%clk 0:30:08]} Kg6 {[%clk 0:00:44]} 33. Rxd3 {[%clk
    0:30:31]} Rfc8 {[%clk 0:00:38]} 34. Rdd7 {[%clk 0:30:55]} Rf8 {[%clk 0:00:52]}
    35. Rbc7 {[%clk 0:31:06]} h5 {[%clk 0:01:13]} 36. h4 {[%clk 0:31:23]} Rae8 {[%clk
    0:00:57]} 37. Rb7 {[%clk 0:31:36]} Ra8 {[%clk 0:00:58]} 38. Kf1 {[%clk 0:31:14]}
    Rac8 {[%clk 0:01:05]} 39. Ke2 {[%clk 0:31:32]} Ra8 {[%clk 0:00:54]} 40. Kd3
    {[%clk 0:59:47]} Rac8 {[%clk 0:31:18]} 41. Rbc7 {[%clk 0:59:37]} Ra8 {[%clk
    0:30:53]} 42. Kc4 {[%clk 1:00:00]} Rae8 {[%clk 0:31:11]} 43. Kb5 {[%clk 1:00:22]}
    Ra8 {[%clk 0:31:36]} 44. Ka6 {[%clk 1:00:37]} Rae8 {[%clk 0:31:35]} 45. Kb7
    {[%clk 1:00:52]} Ra8 {[%clk 0:31:59]} 46. f3 {[%clk 1:00:48]} 1-0

    [Event “Baku Chess Olympiad | Open”]
    [Site “chess24.com”]
    [Date “2016.09.02”]
    [Round “1”]
    [White “De La Riva Aguado, Oscar”]
    [Black “So, Wesley”]
    [Result “0-1”]
    [Board “2”]
    [WhiteID “6900224”]
    [WhiteElo “2503”]
    [WhiteTitle “GM”]
    [WhiteCountry “AND”]
    [WhiteFideId “6900224”]
    [WhiteEloChange “-2”]
    [BlackID “5202213”]
    [BlackElo “2782”]
    [BlackTitle “GM”]
    [BlackCountry “USA”]
    [BlackFideId “5202213”]
    [BlackEloChange “2”]

    1. e4 {[%clk 1:30:56]} e5 {[%clk 1:30:52]} 2. Nf3 {[%clk 1:30:47]} Nc6 {[%clk
    1:31:16]} 3. d4 {[%clk 1:30:06]} exd4 {[%clk 1:31:40]} 4. Nxd4 {[%clk 1:30:31]}
    Nf6 {[%clk 1:31:47]} 5. Nxc6 {[%clk 1:29:29]} bxc6 {[%clk 1:32:11]} 6. Qe2 {[%clk
    1:28:27]} Rb8 {[%clk 1:32:00]} 7. e5 {[%clk 1:25:35]} Nd5 {[%clk 1:32:20]} 8. c4
    {[%clk 1:25:15]} Bb4+ {[%clk 1:31:18]} 9. Nd2 {[%clk 1:23:59]} Nf4 {[%clk
    1:10:11]} 10. Qe3 {[%clk 1:19:22]} Ng6 {[%clk 1:05:21]} 11. a3 {[%clk 1:04:41]}
    Be7 {[%clk 1:01:51]} 12. Nf3 {[%clk 0:51:00]} c5 {[%clk 0:51:34]} 13. h4 {[%clk
    0:47:05]} Rb6 {[%clk 0:45:24]} 14. h5 {[%clk 0:38:13]} Nf8 {[%clk 0:44:37]} 15.
    Qc3 {[%clk 0:38:37]} f6 {[%clk 0:36:44]} 16. h6 {[%clk 0:28:10]} g6 {[%clk
    0:36:49]} 17. Be3 {[%clk 0:22:11]} Ne6 {[%clk 0:36:30]} 18. Bd3 {[%clk 0:11:27]}
    fxe5 {[%clk 0:36:45]} 19. Qxe5 {[%clk 0:11:51]} O-O {[%clk 0:34:36]} 20. Rd1
    {[%clk 0:08:49]} Bb7 {[%clk 0:30:16]} 21. Rh3 {[%clk 0:07:26]} Bd6 {[%clk
    0:24:25]} 22. Qc3 {[%clk 0:07:51]} Qf6 {[%clk 0:24:52]} 23. Qxf6 {[%clk 0:06:55]}
    Rxf6 {[%clk 0:25:19]} 24. b4 {[%clk 0:07:19]} cxb4 {[%clk 0:25:16]} 25. Bxb6
    {[%clk 0:06:38]} axb6 {[%clk 0:25:08]} 26. axb4 {[%clk 0:06:48]} Bxb4+ {[%clk
    0:19:44]} 27. Kf1 {[%clk 0:07:08]} Bd6 {[%clk 0:20:09]} 28. Rh4 {[%clk 0:03:41]}
    Nf4 {[%clk 0:19:07]} 29. Be2 {[%clk 0:03:45]} Rf5 {[%clk 0:11:57]} 30. Rd4 {[%clk
    0:03:16]} Kf7 {[%clk 0:08:47]} 31. Bd3 {[%clk 0:02:38]} Nxd3 {[%clk 0:05:41]} 32.
    Rxd3 {[%clk 0:03:02]} g5 {[%clk 0:05:14]} 33. Rg4 {[%clk 0:02:01]} Kf6 {[%clk
    0:04:58]} 34. Rgd4 {[%clk 0:01:58]} Bc6 {[%clk 0:05:01]} 35. Rxd6+ {[%clk
    0:00:41]} cxd6 {[%clk 0:05:28]} 36. Rxd6+ {[%clk 0:01:06]} Ke7 {[%clk 0:05:53]}
    37. Rd3 {[%clk 0:01:18]} Bxf3 {[%clk 0:02:22]} 38. gxf3 {[%clk 0:01:44]} Kd8
    {[%clk 0:02:26]} 39. Kg2 {[%clk 0:01:16]} Rf4 {[%clk 0:01:49]} 40. Rb3 {[%clk
    0:30:36]} Kc7 {[%clk 0:31:40]} 41. Re3 {[%clk 0:17:22]} Rh4 {[%clk 0:13:06]} 42.
    Re5 {[%clk 0:10:32]} Rxh6 {[%clk 0:13:31]} 43. Rxg5 {[%clk 0:10:57]} Rg6 {[%clk
    0:13:59]} 44. f4 {[%clk 0:11:20]} Kc6 {[%clk 0:08:08]} 45. Kf3 {[%clk 0:05:22]}
    Rxg5 {[%clk 0:05:36]} 46. fxg5 {[%clk 0:05:44]} d5 {[%clk 0:06:03]} 47. cxd5+
    {[%clk 0:00:34]} Kxd5 {[%clk 0:06:32]} 48. Kg4 {[%clk 0:00:35]} b5 {[%clk
    0:06:52]} 49. f4 {[%clk 0:00:58]} b4 {[%clk 0:07:18]} 50. f5 {[%clk 0:01:18]} b3
    {[%clk 0:07:45]} 0-1

    [Event “Baku Chess Olympiad | Open”]
    [Site “chess24.com”]
    [Date “2016.09.02”]
    [Round “1”]
    [White “Shankland, Samuel L”]
    [Black “Fernandez Lopez, Joan”]
    [Result “1-0”]
    [Board “3”]
    [WhiteID “2004887”]
    [WhiteElo “2679”]
    [WhiteTitle “GM”]
    [WhiteCountry “USA”]
    [WhiteFideId “2004887”]
    [WhiteEloChange “1”]
    [BlackID “6900348”]
    [BlackElo “2142”]
    [BlackCountry “AND”]
    [BlackFideId “6900348”]
    [BlackEloChange “-2”]

    1. e4 {[%clk 1:30:51]} c5 {[%clk 1:30:42]} 2. Nf3 {[%clk 1:31:14]} Nc6 {[%clk
    1:30:51]} 3. d4 {[%clk 1:31:39]} cxd4 {[%clk 1:30:46]} 4. Nxd4 {[%clk 1:32:04]}
    g6 {[%clk 1:30:28]} 5. c4 {[%clk 1:32:26]} Bg7 {[%clk 1:29:59]} 6. Be3 {[%clk
    1:32:48]} Nf6 {[%clk 1:29:47]} 7. Nc3 {[%clk 1:33:12]} d6 {[%clk 1:29:02]} 8. Be2
    {[%clk 1:33:36]} Nxd4 {[%clk 1:27:50]} 9. Bxd4 {[%clk 1:34:00]} O-O {[%clk
    1:27:52]} 10. O-O {[%clk 1:34:23]} a5 {[%clk 1:25:26]} 11. b3 {[%clk 1:25:34]}
    Bd7 {[%clk 1:22:41]} 12. Qd3 {[%clk 1:25:55]} Bc6 {[%clk 1:16:27]} 13. a3 {[%clk
    1:25:40]} Nd7 {[%clk 1:10:07]} 14. Bxg7 {[%clk 1:26:00]} Kxg7 {[%clk 1:10:27]}
    15. b4 {[%clk 1:26:23]} Qb6 {[%clk 1:03:00]} 16. c5 {[%clk 1:21:18]} Qc7 {[%clk
    0:42:46]} 17. cxd6 {[%clk 1:21:11]} exd6 {[%clk 0:30:25]} 18. Qd4+ {[%clk
    1:15:45]} Nf6 {[%clk 0:27:41]} 19. b5 {[%clk 1:16:02]} 1-0

    [Event “Baku Chess Olympiad | Open”]
    [Site “chess24.com”]
    [Date “2016.09.02”]
    [Round “1”]
    [White “Garcia Paolicchi, Raul”]
    [Black “Robson, Ray”]
    [Result “0-1”]
    [Board “4”]
    [WhiteID “6900020”]
    [WhiteElo “2153”]
    [WhiteTitle “FM”]
    [WhiteCountry “AND”]
    [WhiteFideId “6900020”]
    [WhiteEloChange “-2”]
    [BlackID “2023970”]
    [BlackElo “2674”]
    [BlackTitle “GM”]
    [BlackCountry “USA”]
    [BlackFideId “2023970”]
    [BlackEloChange “1”]

    1. d4 {[%clk 1:30:30]} Nf6 {[%clk 1:30:30]} 2. c4 {[%clk 1:30:30]} g6 {[%clk
    1:30:30]} 3. Nc3 {[%clk 1:30:30]} d5 {[%clk 1:30:30]} 4. cxd5 {[%clk 1:30:30]}
    Nxd5 {[%clk 1:30:38]} 5. e4 {[%clk 1:28:50]} Nxc3 {[%clk 1:30:55]} 6. bxc3 {[%clk
    1:29:13]} Bg7 {[%clk 1:31:04]} 7. Bg5 {[%clk 1:29:08]} c5 {[%clk 1:24:09]} 8. Rc1
    {[%clk 1:29:05]} O-O {[%clk 1:22:57]} 9. Nf3 {[%clk 1:27:56]} Bg4 {[%clk
    1:15:42]} 10. d5 {[%clk 1:26:52]} Qd6 {[%clk 1:09:39]} 11. Be2 {[%clk 1:23:58]}
    Nd7 {[%clk 0:56:26]} 12. Nd2 {[%clk 1:10:58]} Bxe2 {[%clk 0:52:43]} 13. Qxe2
    {[%clk 1:11:08]} e6 {[%clk 0:51:51]} 14. dxe6 {[%clk 0:57:18]} Qxe6 {[%clk
    0:51:45]} 15. Rc2 {[%clk 0:56:29]} c4 {[%clk 0:34:00]} 16. O-O {[%clk 0:53:04]}
    Nc5 {[%clk 0:26:20]} 17. Rb1 {[%clk 0:42:35]} h6 {[%clk 0:20:01]} 18. Bf4 {[%clk
    0:34:21]} g5 {[%clk 0:16:50]} 19. Be3 {[%clk 0:29:27]} Nxe4 {[%clk 0:16:06]} 20.
    Qxc4 {[%clk 0:28:17]} Qxc4 {[%clk 0:16:07]} 21. Nxc4 {[%clk 0:28:37]} b6 {[%clk
    0:10:01]} 22. Bd4 {[%clk 0:22:49]} Rac8 {[%clk 0:08:47]} 23. Re1 {[%clk 0:15:31]}
    Rxc4 {[%clk 0:07:02]} 24. Rxe4 {[%clk 0:15:37]} Rd8 {[%clk 0:06:27]} 25. Ree2
    {[%clk 0:12:42]} Bxd4 {[%clk 0:06:16]} 26. cxd4 {[%clk 0:13:04]} Rdxd4 {[%clk
    0:06:29]} 27. f3 {[%clk 0:13:15]} Rxc2 {[%clk 0:06:21]} 28. Rxc2 {[%clk 0:13:38]}
    h5 {[%clk 0:06:18]} 29. Kf2 {[%clk 0:13:04]} Kg7 {[%clk 0:03:04]} 30. Ke3 {[%clk
    0:09:57]} Ra4 {[%clk 0:03:27]} 31. Kd3 {[%clk 0:10:00]} h4 {[%clk 0:02:04]} 32.
    h3 {[%clk 0:09:14]} b5 {[%clk 0:01:20]} 33. Re2 {[%clk 0:09:12]} Kg6 {[%clk
    0:01:24]} 34. Kc3 {[%clk 0:08:23]} a5 {[%clk 0:01:26]} 35. Kb3 {[%clk 0:08:02]}
    Rb4+ {[%clk 0:01:29]} 36. Kc3 {[%clk 0:07:24]} Kf5 {[%clk 0:01:19]} 37. Kd3
    {[%clk 0:04:14]} Kf4 {[%clk 0:01:24]} 38. Rc2 {[%clk 0:04:17]} Rc4 {[%clk
    0:00:41]} 39. Rb2 {[%clk 0:03:43]} Rc5 {[%clk 0:30:43]} 40. Kd4 {[%clk 0:32:04]}
    Re5 {[%clk 0:00:49]} 41. Kd3 {[%clk 0:31:41]} Rd5+ {[%clk 0:25:33]} 42. Ke2
    {[%clk 0:30:30]} Kg3 {[%clk 0:23:38]} 43. Ke3 {[%clk 0:29:17]} b4 {[%clk
    0:23:08]} 44. Rc2 {[%clk 0:21:34]} f5 {[%clk 0:23:00]} 0-1
    [/pgn]

    In the second round, Sam Shankland was the only member of the United States team to not earn a win in the round against Scotland. Caruana, Nakamura, and Robson all earned wins and although it is still early in the event, I would say that the United States team is going to be a team to watch throughout the tournament!

    [pgn]
    [Event “Baku Chess Olympiad | Open”]
    [Site “chess24.com”]
    [Date “2016.09.03”]
    [Round “2”]
    [White “Greet, Andrew N”]
    [Black “Caruana, Fabiano”]
    [Result “0-1”]
    [Board “1”]
    [WhiteID “405817”]
    [WhiteElo “2455”]
    [WhiteTitle “IM”]
    [WhiteCountry “SCO”]
    [WhiteFideId “405817”]
    [WhiteEloChange “-1”]
    [BlackID “2020009”]
    [BlackElo “2808”]
    [BlackTitle “GM”]
    [BlackCountry “USA”]
    [BlackFideId “2020009”]
    [BlackEloChange “1”]

    1. e4 {[%clk 1:30:56]} e5 {[%clk 1:30:54]} 2. Nf3 {[%clk 1:31:06]} Nc6 {[%clk
    1:31:18]} 3. Nc3 {[%clk 1:30:57]} Nf6 {[%clk 1:30:51]} 4. Be2 {[%clk 1:30:57]} d5
    {[%clk 1:25:20]} 5. exd5 {[%clk 1:31:12]} Nxd5 {[%clk 1:25:45]} 6. O-O {[%clk
    1:31:16]} Nxc3 {[%clk 1:25:01]} 7. bxc3 {[%clk 1:31:37]} e4 {[%clk 1:19:57]} 8.
    Ne1 {[%clk 1:30:52]} Bd6 {[%clk 1:14:03]} 9. f3 {[%clk 1:12:12]} f5 {[%clk
    0:44:33]} 10. fxe4 {[%clk 1:09:09]} fxe4 {[%clk 0:44:56]} 11. d4 {[%clk 0:52:40]}
    Be6 {[%clk 0:43:37]} 12. Rb1 {[%clk 0:49:11]} Na5 {[%clk 0:35:04]} 13. g3 {[%clk
    0:38:18]} Qd7 {[%clk 0:29:47]} 14. Rb5 {[%clk 0:29:53]} Nc4 {[%clk 0:18:40]} 15.
    Rxb7 {[%clk 0:11:40]} Nb6 {[%clk 0:18:57]} 16. c4 {[%clk 0:12:00]} Qc6 {[%clk
    0:15:57]} 17. c5 {[%clk 0:10:13]} Qxb7 {[%clk 0:13:32]} 18. cxd6 {[%clk 0:10:24]}
    cxd6 {[%clk 0:13:41]} 19. Bb5+ {[%clk 0:09:46]} Bd7 {[%clk 0:13:16]} 20. Ng2
    {[%clk 0:07:59]} O-O-O {[%clk 0:08:21]} 21. Rf7 {[%clk 0:06:47]} Qd5 {[%clk
    0:08:13]} 22. Ba6+ {[%clk 0:06:44]} Kb8 {[%clk 0:08:38]} 23. Rxg7 {[%clk
    0:06:55]} Qxa2 {[%clk 0:08:26]} 24. Be2 {[%clk 0:05:09]} Ba4 {[%clk 0:07:06]} 25.
    Ne3 {[%clk 0:04:37]} Rc8 {[%clk 0:04:46]} 26. Qe1 {[%clk 0:02:43]} Bxc2 {[%clk
    0:04:24]} 27. Bg4 {[%clk 0:02:11]} Rc6 {[%clk 0:03:41]} 28. Nf5 {[%clk 0:01:07]}
    e3 {[%clk 0:02:23]} 29. Ne7 {[%clk 0:00:39]} Be4 {[%clk 0:01:14]} 30. Nxc6+
    {[%clk 0:01:01]} Bxc6 {[%clk 0:01:40]} 31. Qe2 {[%clk 0:00:38]} Qd5 {[%clk
    0:01:56]} 32. Bxe3 {[%clk 0:00:36]} Rf8 {[%clk 0:01:49]} 33. Bf4 {[%clk 0:00:52]}
    Rxf4 {[%clk 0:01:19]} 34. gxf4 {[%clk 0:00:58]} Qxd4+ {[%clk 0:01:44]} 35. Kf1
    {[%clk 0:00:41]} Qxg7 {[%clk 0:02:03]} 36. f5 {[%clk 0:00:44]} Nd5 {[%clk
    0:01:32]} 37. Bf3 {[%clk 0:00:43]} Qa1+ {[%clk 0:01:42]} 0-1

    [Event “Baku Chess Olympiad | Open”]
    [Site “chess24.com”]
    [Date “2016.09.03”]
    [Round “2”]
    [White “Nakamura, Hikaru”]
    [Black “Shaw, John”]
    [Result “1-0”]
    [Board “2”]
    [WhiteID “2016192”]
    [WhiteElo “2789”]
    [WhiteTitle “GM”]
    [WhiteCountry “USA”]
    [WhiteFideId “2016192”]
    [WhiteEloChange “1”]
    [BlackID “2400553”]
    [BlackElo “2454”]
    [BlackTitle “GM”]
    [BlackCountry “SCO”]
    [BlackFideId “2400553”]
    [BlackEloChange “-1”]

    1. e4 {[%clk 1:30:53]} d5 {[%clk 1:29:24]} 2. exd5 {[%clk 1:31:17]} Qxd5 {[%clk
    1:29:50]} 3. Nc3 {[%clk 1:31:42]} Qd8 {[%clk 1:30:13]} 4. d4 {[%clk 1:32:07]} Nf6
    {[%clk 1:30:23]} 5. Bc4 {[%clk 1:32:31]} a6 {[%clk 1:29:33]} 6. Bg5 {[%clk
    1:32:54]} h6 {[%clk 1:20:29]} 7. Bxf6 {[%clk 1:32:55]} exf6 {[%clk 1:20:37]} 8.
    Nf3 {[%clk 1:33:21]} Bb4 {[%clk 1:09:20]} 9. O-O {[%clk 1:31:15]} Bxc3 {[%clk
    1:09:30]} 10. bxc3 {[%clk 1:31:41]} O-O {[%clk 1:09:46]} 11. Re1 {[%clk 1:30:17]}
    Nc6 {[%clk 1:04:31]} 12. Nh4 {[%clk 1:26:27]} Na5 {[%clk 0:51:18]} 13. Bd3 {[%clk
    1:21:44]} Be6 {[%clk 0:42:32]} 14. Ng6 {[%clk 0:53:48]} Re8 {[%clk 0:37:58]} 15.
    Qh5 {[%clk 0:54:12]} c5 {[%clk 0:20:48]} 16. Nf4 {[%clk 0:52:14]} c4 {[%clk
    0:18:33]} 17. Be4 {[%clk 0:51:59]} Qc7 {[%clk 0:14:56]} 18. g3 {[%clk 0:51:08]}
    Rad8 {[%clk 0:12:23]} 19. Re3 {[%clk 0:48:11]} b6 {[%clk 0:06:38]} 20. Rae1
    {[%clk 0:48:23]} Qd6 {[%clk 0:05:04]} 21. Bd5 {[%clk 0:47:58]} 1-0

    [Event “Baku Chess Olympiad | Open”]
    [Site “chess24.com”]
    [Date “2016.09.03”]
    [Round “2”]
    [White “McNab, Colin A”]
    [Black “Shankland, Samuel L”]
    [Result “1/2-1/2”]
    [Board “3”]
    [WhiteID “2400030”]
    [WhiteElo “2434”]
    [WhiteTitle “GM”]
    [WhiteCountry “SCO”]
    [WhiteFideId “2400030”]
    [WhiteEloChange “3”]
    [BlackID “2004887”]
    [BlackElo “2679”]
    [BlackTitle “GM”]
    [BlackCountry “USA”]
    [BlackFideId “2004887”]
    [BlackEloChange “-3”]

    1. Nf3 {[%clk 1:30:53]} c5 {[%clk 1:30:43]} 2. c4 {[%clk 1:30:30]} Nf6 {[%clk
    1:30:53]} 3. g3 {[%clk 1:30:31]} Nc6 {[%clk 1:31:10]} 4. Bg2 {[%clk 1:30:31]} d5
    {[%clk 1:31:24]} 5. cxd5 {[%clk 1:29:40]} Nxd5 {[%clk 1:31:48]} 6. Nc3 {[%clk
    1:28:59]} Nc7 {[%clk 1:31:59]} 7. b3 {[%clk 1:26:55]} e5 {[%clk 1:31:10]} 8. Bb2
    {[%clk 1:26:55]} f6 {[%clk 1:31:18]} 9. Rc1 {[%clk 1:23:34]} Bg4 {[%clk 1:30:19]}
    10. d3 {[%clk 0:52:42]} Qd7 {[%clk 1:26:19]} 11. Na4 {[%clk 0:52:11]} b6 {[%clk
    1:23:54]} 12. a3 {[%clk 0:51:39]} O-O-O {[%clk 1:00:04]} 13. Qc2 {[%clk 0:45:17]}
    Nd5 {[%clk 0:53:40]} 14. b4 {[%clk 0:31:56]} cxb4 {[%clk 0:37:56]} 15. Qxc6+
    {[%clk 0:29:14]} Qxc6 {[%clk 0:38:24]} 16. Rxc6+ {[%clk 0:29:34]} Kb7 {[%clk
    0:38:52]} 17. Rc4 {[%clk 0:26:34]} Bxf3 {[%clk 0:36:12]} 18. Bxf3 {[%clk
    0:26:50]} b5 {[%clk 0:36:40]} 19. axb4 {[%clk 0:21:17]} bxa4 {[%clk 0:35:41]} 20.
    Kd2 {[%clk 0:08:06]} Ka6 {[%clk 0:31:59]} 21. Bxd5 {[%clk 0:07:46]} Rxd5 {[%clk
    0:32:13]} 22. Bc3 {[%clk 0:08:03]} Kb5 {[%clk 0:29:09]} 23. Rc7 {[%clk 0:05:45]}
    Rd6 {[%clk 0:29:35]} 24. Rc5+ {[%clk 0:05:04]} Kb6 {[%clk 0:27:51]} 25. Ra1
    {[%clk 0:04:54]} Kb7 {[%clk 0:27:22]} 26. Rxa4 {[%clk 0:03:59]} Rb6 {[%clk
    0:27:46]} 27. Rd5 {[%clk 0:03:21]} Bd6 {[%clk 0:27:26]} 28. b5 {[%clk 0:03:30]}
    Rd8 {[%clk 0:27:49]} 29. Rc4 {[%clk 0:02:16]} Be7 {[%clk 0:27:00]} 30. Rxd8
    {[%clk 0:02:18]} Bxd8 {[%clk 0:27:29]} 31. Ba5 {[%clk 0:02:06]} Rd6 {[%clk
    0:27:58]} 32. Bxd8 {[%clk 0:02:26]} Rxd8 {[%clk 0:28:28]} 33. Kc3 {[%clk
    0:02:22]} Kb6 {[%clk 0:27:17]} 34. Kb4 {[%clk 0:02:31]} Rd6 {[%clk 0:27:43]} 35.
    h4 {[%clk 0:02:11]} h5 {[%clk 0:28:01]} 36. g4 {[%clk 0:01:52]} hxg4 {[%clk
    0:24:56]} 37. Rxg4 {[%clk 0:02:16]} Rd5 {[%clk 0:25:19]} 38. Rxg7 {[%clk
    0:02:16]} Rd4+ {[%clk 0:25:46]} 39. Kc3 {[%clk 0:01:49]} Rxh4 {[%clk 0:26:11]}
    40. Rf7 {[%clk 0:30:53]} Rf4 {[%clk 0:56:16]} 41. f3 {[%clk 0:30:49]} Kxb5 {[%clk
    0:56:29]} 42. Rxa7 {[%clk 0:30:53]} Kc6 {[%clk 0:56:56]} 43. Rg7 {[%clk 0:28:57]}
    Kd6 {[%clk 0:56:46]} 44. Rg4 {[%clk 0:28:39]} Rf5 {[%clk 0:57:12]} 45. Ra4 {[%clk
    0:25:16]} Rh5 {[%clk 0:57:22]} 46. f4 {[%clk 0:20:32]} Rh2 {[%clk 0:55:49]} 47.
    Ra6+ {[%clk 0:13:08]} Ke7 {[%clk 0:56:10]} 48. fxe5 {[%clk 0:12:56]} fxe5 {[%clk
    0:56:36]} 49. e4 {[%clk 0:12:47]} Rh8 {[%clk 0:56:49]} 50. Kc4 {[%clk 0:12:43]}
    Rd8 {[%clk 0:57:07]} 51. Rh6 {[%clk 0:11:55]} 1/2-1/2

    [Event “Baku Chess Olympiad | Open”]
    [Site “chess24.com”]
    [Date “2016.09.03”]
    [Round “2”]
    [White “Robson, Ray”]
    [Black “Gourlay, Iain”]
    [Result “1-0”]
    [Board “4”]
    [WhiteID “2023970”]
    [WhiteElo “2674”]
    [WhiteTitle “GM”]
    [WhiteCountry “USA”]
    [WhiteFideId “2023970”]
    [WhiteEloChange “2”]
    [BlackID “2401533”]
    [BlackElo “2393”]
    [BlackTitle “FM”]
    [BlackCountry “SCO”]
    [BlackFideId “2401533”]
    [BlackEloChange “-3”]

    1. e4 {[%clk 1:30:56]} e5 {[%clk 1:30:47]} 2. Nf3 {[%clk 1:31:05]} Nc6 {[%clk
    1:31:03]} 3. Bb5 {[%clk 1:30:18]} a6 {[%clk 1:31:11]} 4. Ba4 {[%clk 1:30:24]} Nf6
    {[%clk 1:31:17]} 5. d3 {[%clk 1:27:45]} d6 {[%clk 1:30:39]} 6. c3 {[%clk
    1:25:44]} g6 {[%clk 1:28:22]} 7. O-O {[%clk 1:22:28]} Bg7 {[%clk 1:22:41]} 8.
    Nbd2 {[%clk 1:21:24]} O-O {[%clk 1:21:33]} 9. Re1 {[%clk 1:18:01]} Re8 {[%clk
    1:14:34]} 10. h3 {[%clk 1:02:54]} h6 {[%clk 0:58:35]} 11. d4 {[%clk 1:01:33]} b5
    {[%clk 0:53:31]} 12. Bc2 {[%clk 0:57:02]} exd4 {[%clk 0:39:44]} 13. cxd4 {[%clk
    0:56:51]} Nb4 {[%clk 0:38:56]} 14. Bb1 {[%clk 0:52:49]} c5 {[%clk 0:37:48]} 15.
    a3 {[%clk 0:40:26]} Nc6 {[%clk 0:37:04]} 16. d5 {[%clk 0:40:36]} Na5 {[%clk
    0:30:39]} 17. Nf1 {[%clk 0:35:24]} Ra7 {[%clk 0:24:24]} 18. Ng3 {[%clk 0:32:42]}
    Rae7 {[%clk 0:22:04]} 19. Bc2 {[%clk 0:29:03]} c4 {[%clk 0:13:59]} 20. Bf4 {[%clk
    0:24:20]} Nb3 {[%clk 0:07:07]} 21. Bxb3 {[%clk 0:22:18]} cxb3 {[%clk 0:07:32]}
    22. Qd3 {[%clk 0:20:57]} Bb7 {[%clk 0:02:47]} 23. Re2 {[%clk 0:17:37]} Qb6 {[%clk
    0:02:16]} 24. Rae1 {[%clk 0:16:36]} Nd7 {[%clk 0:00:56]} 25. Qxb3 {[%clk
    0:16:26]} Nc5 {[%clk 0:01:13]} 26. Qd1 {[%clk 0:11:13]} b4 {[%clk 0:01:18]} 27.
    axb4 {[%clk 0:11:21]} Nd7 {[%clk 0:00:32]} 28. Qd2 {[%clk 0:11:00]} Kh7 {[%clk
    0:00:37]} 29. Be3 {[%clk 0:10:49]} Qc7 {[%clk 0:00:34]} 30. Bd4 {[%clk 0:09:59]}
    Bxd4 {[%clk 0:00:33]} 31. Nxd4 {[%clk 0:10:22]} Qb6 {[%clk 0:00:34]} 32. Ngf5
    {[%clk 0:10:09]} 1-0
    [/pgn]


    The National Gymnastics Arena – the Baku Olympiad venue.

    This year’s Olympiad is being held in the National Gymnastics Arena in Baku, Azerbaijan. The country has increasingly positioned itself throughout the past few years as a place of intense international sport and competition. Known to the chess community as the birth home of Garry Kasparov, the 42d Chess Olympiad’s host nation continues to impress both players and fans alike.

    Watch the Baku Chess Olympiad live on [Chessbomb](http://www.chessbomb.com), [Chess.com](http://www.chess.com), and [Chess24](http://www.chess24.com).

  • Austin Wins Annual Shootout

    Austin Wins Annual Shootout

    Each year the cities of Austin and San Antonio send their best and brightest chess players to compete in an annual shootout to determine which city is the best of South Texas. As with everything else in Texas, this shootout is quite a big deal. Preparations begin early each year and culminate with the penultimate event in August. This year, San Antonio lost to Austin 26-24 points, which means that San Antonio only lost by a one-game outcome!

    After the first round, San Antonio faced an incredible 7.5-17.5 point standing with three draws and two losses on the top five boards. However, the lopsided round results were not enough to keep the San Antonio team from bowing out early. The Alamo City came roaring back in the second round to bring itself within 2 points of its northern neighbor, but it was not enough to overcome the earlier deficit and bring the victory home.

    Maybe next year…

    Some noteworthy moments:

    • Jose Silva (SA) went 2-0 through the match.
    • The highest rated player was IM Miguel Paz (2465).
  • 2016 Sinquefield Cup: So Wins It All 

    2016 Sinquefield Cup: So Wins It All 

    The Sinquefield Cup is always an amazing event and has come to solidify its place as one of the most prestigious chess tournaments in the world. Every year, the best chess players from around the world converge on the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis to compete in the round robin tournament. The Sinquefield Cup is also memorable for Fabiano Caruana’s incredible run in 2014, which I built a commemorative wall piece to celebrate the tournament. After some scheduling changes due to the upcoming Baku Olympian, this year’s event included Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, Veselin Topalov, Levon Aronian, Fabiano Caruana, Hikaru Nakamura, Anish Giri, Vishy Anand, Peter Svidler, and wildcard Ding Liren.

    World Champion Magnus Carlsen opted out of this year’s event so that he could focus on the upcoming World Chess Championship in New York.

    [pgn]
    [Event “4th Sinquefield Cup 2016”]
    [Site “Saint Louis”]
    [Date “2016.08.05”]
    [Round “1”]
    [White “Topalov, Veselin”]
    [Black “Svidler, Peter”]
    [Result “1-0”]
    [ECO “C88”]
    [WhiteElo “2761”]
    [BlackElo “2751”]
    [Annotator “”]
    [PlyCount “55”]
    [EventDate “2016.??.??”]
    [EventCountry “USA”]
    [SourceTitle “playchess.com”]
    [Source “ChessBase”]
    [TimeControl “40/7200:3600+30”]

    1. e4 {(4s)} e5 {(9s)} 2. Nf3 {(4s)} Nc6 {(6s)} 3. Bb5 {(8s)} a6 {(4s)} 4. Ba4
    {(4s)} Nf6 {(6s)} 5. O-O {(14s)} Be7 {(5s)} 6. Re1 {(6s)} b5 {(5s)} 7. Bb3 {
    (3s)} O-O {(7s)} 8. a4 {(7s)} b4 {(6s)} 9. d3 {(6s)} d6 {(45s)} 10. a5 {(18s)}
    Be6 {(442s)} 11. Bxe6 {(9s)} fxe6 {(4s)} 12. Nbd2 {(8s)} d5 {(946s)} 13. c3 {
    ( 106s)} Bd6 {(2085s)} 14. d4 {(275s)} bxc3 {(277s)} 15. bxc3 {(49s)} exd4 {
    (187s)} 16. cxd4 {(671s)} dxe4 {(95s)} 17. Nxe4 {(11s)} Bb4 {(5s)} 18. Bd2 {
    (715s)} Nxe4 {(24s)} 19. Rxe4 {(22s)} Qd5 {(7s)} 20. Bxb4 {(284s)} Qxe4 {(38s)}
    21. Bxf8 {(10s)} Rxf8 {(4s)} 22. Rc1 {(232s)} h6 {(917s)} 23. Qd2 {(752s)} Rb8
    {(612s)} 24. Qe3 {(202s)} Qd5 {(27s)} 25. h3 {[#] (502s)} Rb4 {(147s) A
    massive blindness that loses material and the game.} 26. Qc3 {(229s)} Nxd4 {
    (179s)} 27. Qxb4 {(12s)} Ne2+ {(188s)} 28. Kh1 {(28s)} ({Svidler resigned after
    } 28. Kh1 {understanding Topalov had seen the win too.} Nxc1 {and White wins
    the knight by force.} 29. Qb8+ Kh7 (29… Kf7 30. Qxc7+ {and the knight falls
    as well.}) 30. Qb1+ Nd3 31. Ne1 {and that is that.}) 1-0

    [Event “4th Sinquefield Cup 2016”]
    [Site “Saint Louis”]
    [Date “2016.08.05”]
    [Round “1”]
    [White “Giri, Anish”]
    [Black “Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime”]
    [Result “1/2-1/2”]
    [ECO “B90”]
    [WhiteElo “2769”]
    [BlackElo “2819”]
    [Annotator “”]
    [PlyCount “93”]
    [EventDate “2016.??.??”]
    [EventCountry “USA”]
    [SourceTitle “playchess.com”]
    [Source “ChessBase”]
    [TimeControl “40/7200:3600+30”]

    1. e4 {(3s)} c5 {(4s)} 2. Nf3 {(4s)} d6 {(3s)} 3. d4 {(4s)} cxd4 {(4s)} 4. Nxd4 {(3s)} Nf6 {(7s)} 5.
    Nc3 {(2s)} a6 {(6s)} 6. Be3 {(4s)} Ng4 {(6s)} 7. Bc1 {(3s)} Nf6 {(4s)} 8. f3 {(3s)} e5 {(6s)} 9. Nb3 {(4
    s)} Be6 {(32s)} 10. Be3 {(17s)} Be7 {(39s)} 11. Qd2 {(48s)} O-O {(9s)} 12. O-O-O {(4s)} Nbd7 {(18s)}
    13. g4 {(6s)} b5 {(4s)} 14. g5 {(4s)} b4 {(4s)} 15. gxf6 {(4s)} bxc3 {(5s)} 16. Qxc3 {(4s)} Nxf6 {(10
    s)} 17. Na5 {(2s)} Rc8 {(70s)} 18. Nc6 {(17s)} Qe8 {(8s)} 19. Nxe7+ {(5s)} Qxe7 {(8s)} 20. Qa5 {(34s)}
    Rc6 {(7s)} 21. Kb1 {(78s)} Rfc8 {(127s)} 22. Rd2 {(26s)} Nh5 {(340s)} 23. Rg1 {(60s)} Qh4 {(1386s)}
    24. Be2 {(1444s)} Nf4 {(29s)} 25. Bd1 {(229s)} f5 {(693s)} 26. exf5 {(1142s)} Bxf5 {(12s)} 27.
    Ka1 {(144s)} d5 {(1269s)} 28. c3 {(177s)} Rg6 {(13s)} 29. Rxg6 {(682s)} hxg6 {(12s)} 30. Bxf4 {(57
    s)} Qxf4 {(609s)} 31. Qxd5+ {(23s)} Kh7 {(15s)} 32. Bb3 {(733s)} a5 {(82s)} 33. a4 {(431s)} Re8 {(42
    s)} 34. Ka2 {(656s)} Be6 {(93s)} 35. Qc6 {(155s)} Bxb3+ {(242s)} 36. Kxb3 {(4s)} Rb8+ {(11s)} 37.
    Kc2 {(4s)} Rxb2+ {(4s)} 38. Kxb2 {(3s)} Qxd2+ {(8s)} 39. Kb3 {(10s)} Qxh2 {(254s)} 40. Qd5 {(0s)}
    Qe2 {(0s)} 41. Qxa5 {(287s)} Qd1+ {(148s)} 42. Kb2 {(248s)} Qd2+ {(12s)} 43. Kb3 {(36s)} Qd1+ {(5s)}
    44. Kb2 {(79s)} Qd2+ {(13s)} 45. Ka3 {(24s)} Qc1+ {(9s)} 46. Kb4 {(116s)} Qb1+ {(4s)} 47. Ka3 {(46
    s)} 1/2-1/2

    [Event “4th Sinquefield Cup 2016”]
    [Site “Saint Louis”]
    [Date “2016.08.05”]
    [Round “1”]
    [White “So, Wesley”]
    [Black “Nakamura, Hikaru”]
    [Result “1-0”]
    [ECO “E06”]
    [WhiteElo “2771”]
    [BlackElo “2791”]
    [Annotator “”]
    [PlyCount “75”]
    [EventDate “2016.??.??”]
    [EventCountry “USA”]
    [SourceTitle “playchess.com”]
    [Source “ChessBase”]
    [TimeControl “40/7200:3600+30”]

    1. d4 {(4s)} Nf6 {(7s)} 2. c4 {(7s)} e6 {(5s)} 3. Nf3 {(6s)} d5 {(7s)} 4. g3 {(3s)} Be7 {(5s)} 5. Bg2 {(
    15s)} O-O {(13s)} 6. O-O {(6s)} dxc4 {(3s)} 7. Ne5 {(6s)} Nc6 {(8s)} 8. Nxc6 {(7s)} bxc6 {(3s)} 9. Na3
    {(5s)} Bxa3 {(3s)} 10. bxa3 {(6s)} Ba6 {(4s)} 11. Qd2 {(6s)} Rb8 {(35s)} 12. Qa5 {(30s)} Qc8 {(12s)}
    13. a4 {(13s)} Rd8 {(62s)} 14. Ba3 {(7s)} Rxd4 {(46s)} 15. Rfb1 {(18s)} Rb6 {(114s)} 16. Bc5 {(9s)}
    Rd7 {(83s)} 17. Rd1 {(10s)} h6 {(788s)} 18. Rxd7 {(737s)} Nxd7 {(18s)} 19. Bxb6 {(3s)} cxb6 {(26s)}
    20. Qd2 {(11s)} c5 {(555s)} 21. Rd1 {(1100s)} Nf6 {(25s)} 22. Kf1 {(23s)} Kh7 {(1014s)} 23. Qc2+
    {(644s)} Kg8 {(25s)} 24. Qd2 {(645s)} Kh7 {(15s)} 25. Qd8 {(142s)} Qxd8 {(44s)} 26. Rxd8 {(5s)} c3 {(
    5s)} 27. Ke1 {(5s)} Bc4 {(537s)} 28. Kd1 {(317s)} Bxa2 {(295s)} 29. Kc2 {(7s)} Bc4 {(506s)} 30. e3
    {(763s)} b5 {(974s)} 31. Kxc3 {(165s)} a6 {(104s)} 32. Ra8 {(261s)} Nd5+ {(1060s)} 33. Bxd5 {(10s)}
    exd5 {(74s)} 34. a5 {(570s)} b4+ {(66s)} 35. Kd2 {(7s)} Bf1 {(119s)} 36. Rc8 {(225s)} c4 {(18s)} 37.
    Rb8 {(5s)} b3 {(28s)} 38. Kc3 {(26s)} 1-0

    [Event “4th Sinquefield Cup 2016”]
    [Site “Saint Louis”]
    [Date “2016.08.05”]
    [Round “1”]
    [White “Ding, Liren”]
    [Black “Aronian, Levon”]
    [Result “1/2-1/2”]
    [ECO “D37”]
    [WhiteElo “2755”]
    [BlackElo “2792”]
    [Annotator “”]
    [PlyCount “61”]
    [EventDate “2016.??.??”]
    [EventCountry “USA”]
    [SourceTitle “playchess.com”]
    [Source “ChessBase”]
    [TimeControl “40/7200:3600+30”]

    1. d4 {(5s)} Nf6 {(9s)} 2. c4 {(4s)} e6 {(10s)} 3. Nf3 {(7s)} d5 {(13s)} 4. Nc3 {(4s)} Nbd7 {(12s)} 5.
    Bg5 {(121s)} h6 {(33s)} 6. Bh4 {(24s)} Be7 {(7s)} 7. e3 {(149s)} O-O {(20s)} 8. Rc1 {(160s)} c5 {(12s)}
    9. dxc5 {(773s)} dxc4 {(108s)} 10. Bxc4 {(323s)} Nxc5 {(18s)} 11. O-O {(24s)} a6 {(5s)} 12. Nd4 {(
    1235s)} Nce4 {(29s)} 13. Nxe4 {(390s)} Nxe4 {(5s)} 14. Bxe7 {(4s)} Qxe7 {(5s)} 15. Qc2 {(76s)} Nf6
    {(22s)} 16. Bb3 {(95s)} Rb8 {(625s)} 17. e4 {(323s)} Rd8 {(292s)} 18. Rfd1 {(313s)} e5 {(66s)} 19.
    Nf5 {(47s)} Bxf5 {(23s)} 20. exf5 {(31s)} Rxd1+ {(261s)} 21. Rxd1 {(5s)} e4 {(374s)} 22. Qc3 {(120
    s)} Rd8 {(490s)} 23. Rxd8+ {(50s)} Qxd8 {(11s)} 24. h3 {(96s)} h5 {(185s)} 25. Qe5 {(820s)} b5 {(340
    s)} 26. g3 {(146s)} Qd7 {(261s)} 27. g4 {(277s)} hxg4 {(77s)} 28. hxg4 {(7s)} Nxg4 {(92s)} 29. Qxe4
    {(17s)} Nf6 {(23s)} 30. Qa8+ {(42s)} Kh7 {(33s)} 31. Qh1+ {(6 Qd5s)} 1/2-1/2

    [Event “4th Sinquefield Cup 2016”]
    [Site “Saint Louis”]
    [Date “2016.08.05”]
    [Round “1”]
    [White “Anand, Viswanathan”]
    [Black “Caruana, Fabiano”]
    [Result “1/2-1/2”]
    [ECO “C15”]
    [WhiteElo “2770”]
    [BlackElo “2807”]
    [Annotator “”]
    [PlyCount “89”]
    [EventDate “2016.??.??”]
    [EventCountry “USA”]
    [SourceTitle “playchess.com”]
    [Source “ChessBase”]
    [TimeControl “40/7200:3600+30”]

    1. e4 {(3s)} e6 {(5s)} 2. d4 {(27s)} d5 {(5s)} 3. Nc3 {(5s)} Bb4 {(6s)} 4. exd5
    {(176s)} exd5 {(11s)} 5. Bd3 {(7s)} Nf6 {(114s)} 6. Nge2 {(42s)} O-O {(37s)} 7.
    O-O {(66s)} c6 {(52s)} 8. Bg5 {(200s)} h6 {(189s)} 9. Bh4 {(50s)} Re8 {(54s)}
    10. f3 {(232s)} Nbd7 {(198s)} 11. Qd2 {(362s)} Nf8 {(381s)} 12. Rae1 {(314s)}
    Bd7 {(398s)} 13. a3 {(149s)} Be7 {(1010s)} 14. Bf2 {(685s)} Ng6 {(183s)} 15.
    Bg3 {( 196s)} Nh5 {(538s)} 16. Bxg6 {(57s)} fxg6 {(5s)} 17. Be5 {(19s)} Bh4 {
    (207s)} 18. Rd1 {(229s)} Bg5 {(949s)} 19. f4 {(384s)} Be7 {(231s)} 20. h3 {
    (190s)} Be6 {(482s)} 21. Kh2 {(249s)} Nf6 {(210s)} 22. Nc1 {(231s)} h5 {(419s)}
    23. Nd3 {(178s)} Bf5 {(6s)} 24. Ne2 {(321s)} Ne4 {(144s)} 25. Qe3 {(86s)} h4 {
    (9s)} 26. Rc1 {(343s)} Rc8 {(358s)} 27. c3 {(423s)} Qb6 {(174s)} 28. b4 {(248s)
    } Bf6 {(107s)} 29. Nc5 {(97s)} Nxc5 {(74s)} 30. bxc5 {(22s)} Qb2 {(69s)} 31.
    Ng1 {(63s)} b6 {(114s)} 32. Nf3 {( 259s)} bxc5 {(68s)} 33. dxc5 {(59s)} Be4 {
    (40s)} 34. Rce1 {(394s)} Re7 {(186s)} 35. Bxf6 {(103s)} gxf6 {(2s)} 36. Nxh4 {
    (39s)} Rce8 {(87s)} 37. Qg3 {(390s)} Rg7 {(2s)} 38. Ra1 {(33s)} g5 {(47s)} 39.
    fxg5 {(18s)} Rxg5 {(2s)} 40. Qf2 {(0s)} Qxc3 {(0s)} 41. Qxf6 {(268s)} Qg3+ {
    (425s)} 42. Kg1 {[#] (10s) Black chooses to force the draw in a cute but
    unavoidable windmill. Many hoped he would continue on with a less forcing move
    as it was felt there was no danger in playing on.} Qxg2+ {(278s)} 43. Nxg2 {
    (5s)} Rxg2+ {(3s)} 44. Kh1 {(7s)} Rf2+ {(3s)} 45. Kg1 {(7s)} 1/2-1/2

    [Event “4th Sinquefield Cup 2016”]
    [Site “Saint Louis”]
    [Date “2016.08.06”]
    [Round “2”]
    [White “Caruana, Fabiano”]
    [Black “Topalov, Veselin”]
    [Result “1/2-1/2”]
    [ECO “C84”]
    [WhiteElo “2807”]
    [BlackElo “2761”]
    [Annotator “Albert Silver”]
    [PlyCount “82”]
    [EventDate “2016.??.??”]
    [EventCountry “USA”]
    [SourceTitle “playchess.com”]
    [Source “ChessBase”]
    [TimeControl “40/7200:3600+30”]

    1. e4 {(3s)} e5 {(5s)} 2. Nf3 {(4s)} Nc6 {(4s)} 3. Bb5 {(4s)} a6 {(5s)} 4. Ba4
    {(8s)} Nf6 {(7s)} 5. O-O {(9s)} Be7 {(10s)} 6. d3 {(102s)} b5 {(26s)} 7. Bb3 {
    (4s)} d6 {(21s)} 8. a4 {(15s)} Bd7 {(44s)} 9. c3 {( 14s)} Na5 {(20s)} 10. Ba2 {
    (6s)} c5 {(63s)} 11. Bg5 {(90s)} O-O {(16s)} 12. axb5 {(332s)} axb5 {(5s)} 13.
    Na3 {(4s)} Qb8 {(708s)} 14. Nc2 {(145s)} h6 {(94s)} 15. Bh4 {(402s)} c4 {(203s)
    } 16. Nb4 {( 1387s)} Be6 {(198s)} 17. Re1 {(18s)} Qb7 {(464s)} 18. d4 {(522s)}
    Bg4 {(408s)} 19. Bb1 {(1794s)} Nb3 {(167s)} 20. Rxa8 {(6s)} Rxa8 {(13s)} 21.
    Ba2 $4 {(845s) A terrible blunder that should have cost the American the game.}
    Nxe4 {(1134s)} 22. Bxe7 {(675s)} {[%tqu “En”,”White just took the bishop with
    Bxe7. The knee-jerk reflex is to take it back, but Topalov’s instincts are
    impeccable here. What did Black play?”,””,””,”e4d2″,”(284s)”,10]} Ned2 $3 {
    (284s) This deadly move is winning. The king is now in dire straits.} 23. Bxb3
    {(61s)} Nxf3+ $3 {(17s) Black will not be distracted.} 24. gxf3 {(5s)} Bxf3 {
    (8s)} 25. Bxd6 {(68s)} ({Any attempt to save the queen leads to mate.} 25. Qd2
    $2 Qd7 {and mate cannot be stopped.}) 25… Bxd1 {(475s)} 26. Bxd1 {(4s)} exd4
    {(13s)} 27. cxd4 {(6s)} Qd7 {(144s)} 28. Bg3 {(79s)} Qxd4 $2 {(291s) The first
    in a series of mistakes now that will eventually allow Giri to build a
    fortress.} (28… Re8 $1 29. Rxe8+ Qxe8 30. Kf1 Qe4 31. Nc2 c3 32. bxc3 Qd3+
    33. Ke1 Qxc3+ {and the b-pawn is free to march forward.}) 29. Bf3 {( 18s)} Qd2
    {(318s)} 30. Rd1 {(294s)} Qxd1+ $2 {(159s)} (30… Qxb2 31. Bxa8 Qxb4 32. Be4
    Qe7 33. Re1 Qd7 {and the queen and two passed pawns should end it.}) 31. Bxd1 {
    (4s)} Ra1 {(6s)} 32. Kg2 {(3s)} Rxd1 {( 9s) Now things are really not easy and
    White manages to hold it with fortress themes in the end.} 33. Be5 {(4s)} f6 {
    (49s)} 34. Bc3 {(11s)} Kf7 {(26s)} 35. Nc2 {(51s)} g5 {(126s)} 36. h3 {(21s)}
    Kg6 {(134s)} 37. Na3 {(12s)} Rd5 {(11s)} 38. Kf3 {(51s)} f5 {(71s)} 39. Kg3 {
    (29s)} f4+ {(174s)} 40. Kg2 {(0s)} Kf5 {(0s)} 41. f3 {(383s)} h5 {(328s)}
    1/2-1/2

    [Event “4th Sinquefield Cup 2016”]
    [Site “Saint Louis”]
    [Date “2016.08.06”]
    [Round “2”]
    [White “Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime”]
    [Black “Anand, Viswanathan”]
    [Result “0-1”]
    [ECO “B10”]
    [WhiteElo “2819”]
    [BlackElo “2770”]
    [Annotator “”]
    [PlyCount “92”]
    [EventDate “2016.??.??”]
    [EventCountry “USA”]
    [SourceTitle “playchess.com”]
    [Source “ChessBase”]
    [TimeControl “40/7200:3600+30”]

    1. e4 {(4s)} c6 {(7s)} 2. Nf3 {(125s)} d5 {(10s)} 3. Nc3 {(3s)} Nf6 {(15s)} 4. e5 {(13s)} Ne4 {(8s)} 5.
    Ne2 {(383s)} Qb6 {(33s)} 6. d4 {(7s)} e6 {(10s)} 7. Nfg1 {(70s)} f6 {(13s)} 8. f3 {(8s)} Ng5 {(13s)} 9.
    exf6 {(8s)} gxf6 {(7s)} 10. f4 {(8s)} Ne4 {(15s)} 11. Ng3 {(24s)} Bd7 {(250s)} 12. Nxe4 {(625s)}
    dxe4 {(23s)} 13. c3 {(6s)} Na6 {(548s)} 14. Qh5+ {(360s)} Kd8 {(50s)} 15. Bc4 {(28s)} Kc7 {(1116s)}
    16. a4 {(462s)} c5 {(90s)} 17. Ne2 {(27s)} Rd8 {(306s)} 18. Be3 {(536s)} f5 {(393s)} 19. O-O {(209
    s)} Kb8 {(346s)} 20. Qf7 {(495s)} Nc7 {(452s)} 21. a5 {(312s)} Qc6 {(10s)} 22. Qf6 {(11s)} Bd6 {(7s)}
    23. dxc5 {(18s)} Bxc5 {(247s)} 24. Nd4 {(42s)} Qd6 {(81s)} 25. b4 {(213s)} Qe7 {(246s)} 26. Qh6 {(
    1161s)} Bd6 {(1414s)} 27. Rad1 {(68s)} Rhf8 {(49s)} 28. Bf2 {(73s)} Rf6 {(35s)} 29. Qh4 {(123s)}
    Nd5 {(282s)} 30. Nxe6 {(409s)} Bxe6 {(70s)} 31. Bxd5 {(11s)} e3 {(63s)} 32. Bxe3 {(16s)} Bxd5 {(9s)}
    33. Bxa7+ {(5s)} Kxa7 {(124s)} 34. Qf2+ {(726s)} Bc5 {(32s)} 35. Qxc5+ {(5s)} Qxc5+ {(12s)} 36.
    bxc5 {(1s)} Rd7 {(35s)} 37. Rfe1 {(69s)} h6 {(87s)} 38. Kf2 {(147s)} Kb8 {(144s)} 39. c4 {(166s)}
    Bc6 {(21s)} 40. Rxd7 {(0s)} Bxd7 {(0s)} 41. Rb1 {(31s)} Ra6 {(485s)} 42. Rb6 {(32s)} Rxa5 {(177s)}
    43. Rxh6 {(22s)} Rxc5 {(6s)} 44. h4 {(39s)} Rxc4 {(7s)} 45. g3 {(7s)} Kc7 {(83s)} 46. h5 {(19s)} b5
    {(85s)} 0-1

    [Event “4th Sinquefield Cup 2016”]
    [Site “Saint Louis”]
    [Date “2016.08.06”]
    [Round “2”]
    [White “Ding, Liren”]
    [Black “So, Wesley”]
    [Result “1/2-1/2”]
    [ECO “D37”]
    [WhiteElo “2755”]
    [BlackElo “2771”]
    [Annotator “Albert Silver”]
    [PlyCount “70”]
    [EventDate “2016.??.??”]
    [EventCountry “USA”]
    [SourceTitle “playchess.com”]
    [Source “ChessBase”]
    [TimeControl “40/7200:3600+30”]

    1. d4 {(3s)} Nf6 {(7s)} 2. c4 {(4s)} e6 {(5s)} 3. Nf3 {(4s)} d5 {(3s)} 4. Nc3 {
    (4s)} Nbd7 {(5s)} 5. Bg5 {(134s)} h6 {(6s)} 6. Bh4 {(3s)} Be7 {(7s)} 7. e3 {
    (4s)} O-O {(5s)} 8. Be2 {(2s)} dxc4 {(560s)} 9. Bxc4 {(57s)} c5 {(9s)} 10. O-O
    {(5s)} cxd4 {(34s)} 11. Nxd4 {(37s)} Nb6 {(398s)} 12. Bb3 {(1134s)} Nbd5 {
    ( 162s)} 13. Nxd5 {(263s)} Nxd5 {(4s)} 14. Bg3 {(3s)} Bf6 {(225s)} 15. Rc1 {
    (1459s)} Nb6 {(2446s)} 16. Qe2 {(1529s)} Bd7 {(366s)} 17. Nb5 {(5s)} a6 {(912s)
    } 18. Nd6 {(395s)} Bc6 {[#] (18s)} 19. Nxb7 $2 {(72s) Overdoing it and
    undercalculating.} Bxb7 {(18s)} 20. Bc7 {(4s)} Qe7 {(158s)} 21. Bxb6 {[#] (9s)}
    Bxg2 $1 {(4s) This fairly easy move to see was missed by the Chiense player
    and now leads him to some trouble.} 22. Kxg2 {(264s) Ding Liren spent nearly 5
    minutes staring at his position in disbelief} Qb7+ {( 5s)} 23. Qf3 {(14s)} Qxb6
    {(5s)} 24. Rc6 {(2s)} Qb7 {(163s)} 25. Rc2 {(116s)} Qxf3+ {(5s)} 26. Kxf3 {(3s)
    } Rfc8 {(8s)} 27. Rfc1 {(4s)} Rxc2 {(6s)} 28. Rxc2 {(3s)} Rb8 {(7s)} 29. Rc6 {
    (50s)} a5 {(62s)} 30. Rc5 {(23s)} Ra8 {(5s)} 31. Rb5 {(36s)} Ra7 {(470s)} 32.
    Bc2 {(193s)} Kf8 33. a4 {(5s)} Ke7 {( 27s)} 34. b4 {(6s)} Bc3 {(31s)} 35. bxa5
    {(27s)} Rxa5 1/2-1/2

    [Event “4th Sinquefield Cup 2016”]
    [Site “Saint Louis”]
    [Date “2016.08.06”]
    [Round “2”]
    [White “Aronian, Levon”]
    [Black “Svidler, Peter”]
    [Result “1-0”]
    [ECO “D10”]
    [WhiteElo “2792”]
    [BlackElo “2751”]
    [Annotator “Albert Silver”]
    [PlyCount “107”]
    [EventDate “2016.??.??”]
    [EventCountry “USA”]
    [SourceTitle “playchess.com”]
    [Source “ChessBase”]
    [TimeControl “40/7200:3600+30”]

    1. d4 {(14s)} d5 {(7s)} 2. c4 {(21s)} c6 {(2s)} 3. Nc3 {(11s)} Nf6 {(6s)} 4. e3
    {(11s)} a6 {(8s)} 5. Nf3 {(39s)} b5 {(6s)} 6. b3 {(41s)} Bg4 {(5s)} 7. Qd2 {
    (50s)} Nbd7 {(2165s)} 8. Ne5 {(14s)} Nxe5 {( 133s)} 9. dxe5 {(6s)} Nd7 {(3s)}
    10. cxd5 {(1510s)} cxd5 {(27s)} 11. Qxd5 {(689s)} e6 {(38s)} 12. Qd4 {(26s)} h5
    {(45s)} 13. Bd2 {(936s)} Qb8 {(1428s)} 14. Ne4 {(1023s)} Qxe5 {(186s)} 15. a4 {
    (307 s)} Bf5 {(180s)} 16. Ng3 {(96s)} Bc2 {(205s)} 17. axb5 {(765s)} h4 {(48s)}
    18. Ne2 {(665s)} Qxb5 {( 173s)} 19. Qc3 {(104s)} Bh7 {(259s)} 20. Nd4 {(83s)}
    Qb7 {(20s)} 21. h3 {(211s)} Be7 {(783s)} 22. Be2 {(28s)} O-O {(558s)} 23. Bf3 {
    (11s)} Be4 {(6s)} 24. Bxe4 {(83s)} Qxe4 {(4s)} 25. Qc6 {(51s)} Nc5 {(173s)} 26.
    Qxe4 {(7s)} Nxe4 {(4s)} 27. Nc6 {(8s)} Bc5 {(160s)} 28. Ra4 {(146s)} Nxd2 {
    (43s)} 29. Kxd2 {(5s)} Rfc8 {(2s)} 30. Na5 {(65s)} Be7 {(120s)} 31. Rc1 {(47s)}
    Rxc1 {(145s)} 32. Kxc1 {(3s)} Rc8+ {(12s)} 33. Rc4 {(55s)} Rxc4+ {(28s)} 34.
    Nxc4 {(4s)} g5 {(134s)} 35. Kd2 {[#] (9s)} f5 $2 {(38s) It is rather
    extraoridinary to see a player of Svidler’s calibre completely spurn
    developing his king and bringing it to play.} 36. Ne5 {(23s)} Bd6 {(20s)} 37.
    Nf3 {(7s)} Be7 {(0s)} 38. Ne5 {(4s)} Bd6 {(1s)} 39. Nf3 {(3s)} Be7 {(2s)} 40.
    Kd3 {(0s)} Kg7 {(0s)} 41. Ne5 {(135s)} Bb4 $2 {[#] (422s) And now White gets
    to play Kc4 with a free tempo.} 42. Kc4 {(189s)} a5 {(513s)} 43. Kb5 {(373 s)}
    Kf6 {(241s)} 44. Nc4 {(180s)} Be1 {(138s)} 45. f3 {(10s)} g4 {(32s)} 46. Nxa5 {
    (100s)} gxh3 {(23 s)} 47. gxh3 {(4s)} Ke5 {(4s)} 48. Nc4+ {(551s)} Kd5 {(4s)}
    49. Nb6+ {(10s)} Kd6 {(33s)} 50. Kc4 {( 23s)} Kc6 {(128s)} 51. Na4 {(64s)} Bf2
    {(5s)} 52. e4 {(119s)} fxe4 {(16s)} 53. fxe4 {(4s)} Kd6 {(3s)} 54. Nb2 {(5s)}
    1-0

    [Event “4th Sinquefield Cup 2016”]
    [Site “Saint Louis”]
    [Date “2016.08.06”]
    [Round “2”]
    [White “Nakamura, Hikaru”]
    [Black “Giri, Anish”]
    [Result “1-0”]
    [ECO “D44”]
    [WhiteElo “2791”]
    [BlackElo “2769”]
    [Annotator “”]
    [PlyCount “119”]
    [EventDate “2016.??.??”]
    [EventCountry “USA”]
    [SourceTitle “playchess.com”]
    [Source “ChessBase”]
    [TimeControl “40/7200:3600+30”]

    1. Nf3 {(4s)} d5 {(3s)} 2. d4 {(12s)} Nf6 {(4s)} 3. c4 {(5s)} e6 {(3s)} 4. Nc3 {(6s)} c6 {(8s)} 5. Bg5 {(36s)} dxc4 {(15s)} 6. a4 {(30s)} Bb4 {(194s)} 7. e4 {(19s)} Qa5 {(131s)} 8. Bd2 {(345s)} c5 {(143s)} 9. Bxc4 {(111s)} cxd4 {(233s)} 10. Nxd4 {(13s)} O-O {(8s)} 11. Nc2 {(433s)} Nc6 {(297s)} 12. Nxb4 {(315s)} Qxb4 {(25s)} 13. b3 {(3s)} Qe7 {(91s)} 14. O-O {(391s)} Rd8 {(50s)} 15. Re1 {(414s)} Ne5 {(251s)} 16. Bf1 {(497s)} Bd7 {(842s)} 17. Qe2 {(1120s)} Bc6 {(603s)} 18. Bg5 {(643s)} h6 {(137s)} 19. Bh4 {(31s)} Ng6 {(1252s)} 20. Bg3 {(46s)} Rd7 {(61s)} 21. f3 {(113s)} Rad8 {(557s)} 22. Qe3 {(19s)} a6 {(208s)} 23. Rab1 {(143s)} Qb4 {(50s)} 24. Rec1 {(40s)} e5 {(81s)} 25. Be1 {(133s)} Qe7 {(456s)} 26. Na2 {(36s)} Rd4 {(431s)} 27. Ba5 {(292s)} R8d7 {(27s)} 28. Bc3 {(203s)} Bxe4 {(7s)} 29. fxe4 {(10s)} Rxe4 {(2s)} 30. Qa7 {(89s)} b5 {(64s)} 31. Qxa6 {(322s)} Ng4 {(5s)} 32. h3 {(264s)} Qc5+ {(168s)} 33. Kh1 {(12s)} Nf2+ {(381s)} 34. Kh2 {(6s)} Qe3 {(206s)} 35. Re1 {(150s)} Qf4+ {(62s)} 36. g3 {(5s)} Qf5 {(27s)} 37. Bg2 {(246s)} Rh4 {(11s)} 38. Qa8+ {(491s)} Kh7 {(6s)} 39. Qf3 {(3s)} Rxh3+ {(62s)} 40. Kg1 {(0s)} Qxf3 {(0s)} 41. Bxf3 {(0s)} Nd3 {(47s)} 42. Re3 {(26s)} Rxg3+ {(278s)} 43. Kh2 {(35s)} Rxf3 {(40s)} 44. Rxf3 {(0s)} bxa4 {(97s)} 45. bxa4 {(0s)} e4 {(7s)} 46. Rf5 {(76s)} Nh4 {(385s)} 47. Rfb5 {(54s)} Nf4 {(10s)} 48. R5b4 {(907s)} Rd3 {(932s)} 49. Rxe4 {(8s)} g5 {(15s)} 50. Rxf4 {(753s)} gxf4 {(4s)} 51. Rf1 {(4s)} Nf3+ {(82s)} 52. Kh1 {(43s)} Kg6 {(814s)} 53. a5 {(11s)} Kf5 {(357s)} 54. a6 {(61s)} Ng5 {(13s)} 55. a7 {(222s)} Rh3+ {(4s)} 56. Kg1 {(7s)} Rg3+ {(3s)} 57. Kf2 {(5s)} Ne4+ {(7s)} 58. Ke1 {(10s)} Rg8 {(189s)} 59. Bd4 {(5s)} Kg4 {(394s)} 60. Be5 {(67s)} 1-0[Event “4th Sinquefield Cup 2016”]
    [Event “4th Sinquefield Cup 2016”]
    [Site “Saint Louis”]
    [Date “2016.08.07”]
    [Round “3”]
    [White “So, Wesley”]
    [Black “Aronian, Levon”]
    [Result “1/2-1/2”]
    [ECO “C54”]
    [WhiteElo “2771”]
    [BlackElo “2792”]
    [PlyCount “57”]
    [EventDate “2016.??.??”]
    [EventCountry “USA”]
    [SourceTitle “playchess.com”]
    [Source “ChessBase”]
    [TimeControl “40/7200:3600+30”]

    1. e4 {[%emt 0:00:07]} e5 {[%emt 0:00:09]} 2. Nf3 {[%emt 0:00:04]} Nc6 {
    [%emt 0:00:07]} 3. Bc4 {[%emt 0:00:03]} Bc5 {[%emt 0:00:12]} 4. c3 {[%emt 0:00:
    06]} Nf6 {[%emt 0:00:19]} 5. d3 {[%emt 0:00:04]} O-O {[%emt 0:00:27]} 6. O-O {
    [%emt 0:00:05]} h6 {[%emt 0:00:25]} 7. d4 {414} Bb6 {[%emt 0:00:08]} 8. dxe5 {
    531} Nxe4 {[%emt 0:00:05]} 9. Bd5 {[%emt 0:00:05]} Nxf2 {168} 10. Rxf2 {
    [%emt 0:00:08]} d6 {[%emt 0:00:07]} 11. exd6 {2043} Qxd6 {[%emt 0:00:28]} 12.
    Bb3 {[%emt 0:00:06]} Bxf2+ {66} 13. Kxf2 {[%emt 0:00:30]} Qf6 {[%emt 0:00:05]}
    14. Qd2 {531} g5 {184} 15. Kg1 {314} Bg4 {201} 16. Qf2 {[%emt 0:00:16]} Rfe8 {
    666} 17. Be3 {682} Bxf3 {578} 18. Nd2 {[%emt 0:00:20]} Rxe3 {[%emt 0:00:22]}
    19. Qxe3 {[%emt 0:00:05]} Bh5 {90} 20. Qh3 {906} Be2 {[%emt 0:00:58]} 21. Re1 {
    63} Re8 {75} 22. Bc4 {253} Qd8 {1129} 23. Qxh6 {301} Bxc4 {[%emt 0:00:26]} 24.
    Rxe8+ {[%emt 0:00:09]} Qxe8 {[%emt 0:00:03]} 25. Qxg5+ {[%emt 0:00:04]} Kf8 {
    [%emt 0:00:05]} 26. Qc5+ {[%emt 0:00:07]} Kg8 {[%emt 0:00:03]} 27. Qg5+ {
    [%emt 0:00:04]} Kf8 {[%emt 0:00:05]} 28. Qh6+ {[%emt 0:00:02]} Kg8 {[%emt 0:00:
    06]} 29. Qg5+ 1/2-1/2

    [Event “4th Sinquefield Cup 2016”]
    [Site “Saint Louis”]
    [Date “2016.08.07”]
    [Round “3”]
    [White “Giri, Anish”]
    [Black “Ding, Liren”]
    [Result “1/2-1/2”]
    [ECO “C84”]
    [WhiteElo “2769”]
    [BlackElo “2755”]
    [PlyCount “76”]
    [EventDate “2016.??.??”]
    [EventCountry “USA”]
    [SourceTitle “playchess.com”]
    [Source “ChessBase”]
    [TimeControl “40/7200:3600+30”]

    1. e4 {[%emt 0:00:02]} e5 {[%emt 0:00:07]} 2. Nf3 {[%emt 0:00:04]} Nc6 {
    [%emt 0:00:04]} 3. Bb5 {[%emt 0:00:10]} a6 {[%emt 0:00:05]} 4. Ba4 {[%emt 0:00:
    03]} Nf6 {[%emt 0:00:08]} 5. O-O {[%emt 0:00:23]} Be7 {[%emt 0:00:09]} 6. d3 {
    106} b5 {[%emt 0:00:30]} 7. Bb3 {[%emt 0:00:03]} d6 {[%emt 0:00:04]} 8. a3 {
    [%emt 0:00:03]} Na5 {[%emt 0:00:46]} 9. Ba2 {[%emt 0:00:08]} c5 {[%emt 0:00:06]
    } 10. Nc3 {[%emt 0:00:12]} Be6 {[%emt 0:00:08]} 11. Nh4 {[%emt 0:00:31]} O-O {
    [%emt 0:00:44]} 12. Nf5 {115} Rc8 {[%emt 0:00:09]} 13. Bg5 {349} Bxf5 {1064}
    14. exf5 {[%emt 0:00:56]} Ne8 {[%emt 0:00:20]} 15. Be3 {1011} Bg5 {151} 16. Bd5
    {[%emt 0:00:22]} Bxe3 {469} 17. fxe3 {[%emt 0:00:03]} Nf6 {[%emt 0:00:06]} 18.
    Qf3 {[%emt 0:00:33]} Re8 {710} 19. b3 {160} h6 {689} 20. Be4 {124} c4 {254} 21.
    dxc4 {391} Nxc4 {[%emt 0:00:04]} 22. bxc4 {117} Rxc4 {[%emt 0:00:27]} 23. Bc6 {
    [%emt 0:00:14]} Rxc3 {[%emt 0:00:27]} 24. Bxe8 {[%emt 0:00:03]} Qxe8 {[%emt 0:
    00:43]} 25. Qb7 {[%emt 0:00:17]} Ng4 {179} 26. f6 {545} Nxf6 {530} 27. Qxa6 {
    [%emt 0:00:48]} Qd7 {149} 28. Rab1 {544} Rc5 {430} 29. a4 {457} bxa4 {169} 30.
    Rb8+ {211} Kh7 {239} 31. Rxf6 {[%emt 0:00:28]} gxf6 {[%emt 0:00:08]} 32. Qa8 {
    [%emt 0:00:03]} Qc6 {243} 33. Rh8+ {[%emt 0:00:21]} Kg6 {[%emt 0:00:04]} 34.
    Qg8+ {423} Kf5 {[%emt 0:00:01]} 35. Qxf7 {[%emt 0:00:57]} Rxc2 {187} 36. Qh7+ {
    162} Ke6 {[%emt 0:00:05]} 37. Qg8+ {[%emt 0:00:07]} Kf5 {[%emt 0:00:04]} 38.
    Qh7+ {[%emt 0:00:27]} Ke6 {[%emt 0:00:01]} 1/2-1/2

    [Event “4th Sinquefield Cup 2016”]
    [Site “Saint Louis”]
    [Date “2016.08.07”]
    [Round “3”]
    [White “Anand, Viswanathan”]
    [Black “Nakamura, Hikaru”]
    [Result “1/2-1/2”]
    [ECO “B90”]
    [WhiteElo “2770”]
    [BlackElo “2791”]
    [PlyCount “59”]
    [EventDate “2016.??.??”]
    [EventCountry “USA”]
    [SourceTitle “playchess.com”]
    [Source “ChessBase”]
    [TimeControl “40/7200:3600+30”]

    1. e4 {[%emt 0:00:03]} c5 {[%emt 0:00:18]} 2. Nf3 {[%emt 0:00:09]} d6 {[%emt 0:
    00:03]} 3. d4 {[%emt 0:00:07]} cxd4 {[%emt 0:00:08]} 4. Nxd4 {[%emt 0:00:06]}
    Nf6 {[%emt 0:00:04]} 5. Nc3 {[%emt 0:00:07]} a6 {[%emt 0:00:05]} 6. h3 {
    [%emt 0:00:09]} e5 {[%emt 0:00:05]} 7. Nde2 {[%emt 0:00:09]} h5 {[%emt 0:00:08]
    } 8. Nd5 {[%emt 0:00:07]} Nxd5 {[%emt 0:00:09]} 9. Qxd5 {[%emt 0:00:11]} Nc6 {
    [%emt 0:00:05]} 10. Qd1 {[%emt 0:00:38]} Be6 {[%emt 0:00:10]} 11. Nc3 {[%emt 0:
    00:36]} Ne7 {[%emt 0:00:05]} 12. Bd3 {191} d5 {615} 13. exd5 {[%emt 0:00:25]}
    Nxd5 {[%emt 0:00:07]} 14. O-O {[%emt 0:00:07]} Nb4 {882} 15. Qe2 {1254} Qc7 {
    975} 16. f4 {662} Bc5+ {528} 17. Kh1 {113} Nxd3 {[%emt 0:00:08]} 18. cxd3 {
    [%emt 0:00:12]} Bd4 {[%emt 0:00:01]} 19. f5 {496} Bd7 {419} 20. f6 {158} g6 {
    [%emt 0:00:28]} 21. Nd5 {155} Qd6 {[%emt 0:00:12]} 22. Ne7 {[%emt 0:00:29]} Rd8
    {60} 23. a4 {963} Bc6 {584} 24. Be3 {443} Bxe3 {451} 25. Nxc6 {67} bxc6 {
    [%emt 0:00:09]} 26. Qxe3 {[%emt 0:00:07]} Qd4 {[%emt 0:00:02]} 27. Rae1 {257}
    Qxe3 {[%emt 0:00:08]} 28. Rxe3 {[%emt 0:00:06]} O-O {[%emt 0:00:06]} 29. Rxe5 {
    [%emt 0:00:24]} Rxd3 {[%emt 0:00:02]} 30. Rc5 {[%emt 0:00:13]} 1/2-1/2

    [Event “4th Sinquefield Cup 2016”]
    [Site “Saint Louis”]
    [Date “2016.08.07”]
    [Round “3”]
    [White “Topalov, Veselin”]
    [Black “Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime”]
    [Result “1/2-1/2”]
    [ECO “B90”]
    [WhiteElo “2761”]
    [BlackElo “2819”]
    [PlyCount “108”]
    [EventDate “2016.??.??”]
    [EventCountry “USA”]
    [SourceTitle “playchess.com”]
    [Source “ChessBase”]
    [TimeControl “40/7200:3600+30”]

    1. e4 {[%emt 0:00:04]} c5 {[%emt 0:00:02]} 2. Nf3 {[%emt 0:00:09]} d6 {[%emt 0:
    00:02]} 3. d4 {[%emt 0:00:06]} cxd4 {[%emt 0:00:03]} 4. Nxd4 {[%emt 0:00:07]}
    Nf6 {[%emt 0:00:02]} 5. Nc3 {[%emt 0:00:10]} a6 {[%emt 0:00:05]} 6. Be3 {
    [%emt 0:00:13]} Ng4 {[%emt 0:00:03]} 7. Bc1 {[%emt 0:00:07]} Nf6 {[%emt 0:00:
    03]} 8. f3 {[%emt 0:00:08]} e5 {[%emt 0:00:05]} 9. Nb3 {[%emt 0:00:11]} Be6 {
    [%emt 0:00:32]} 10. Be3 {[%emt 0:00:10]} Be7 {[%emt 0:00:03]} 11. Qd2 {[%emt 0:
    00:15]} O-O {[%emt 0:00:04]} 12. O-O-O {[%emt 0:00:08]} Nbd7 {[%emt 0:00:03]}
    13. g4 {[%emt 0:00:15]} b5 {[%emt 0:00:04]} 14. g5 {[%emt 0:00:21]} b4 {
    [%emt 0:00:03]} 15. gxf6 {[%emt 0:00:25]} bxc3 {[%emt 0:00:03]} 16. Qxc3 {
    [%emt 0:00:06]} Nxf6 {[%emt 0:00:04]} 17. Na5 {[%emt 0:00:07]} Rc8 {[%emt 0:00:
    02]} 18. Nc6 {[%emt 0:00:15]} Qe8 {[%emt 0:00:02]} 19. Nxe7+ {[%emt 0:00:11]}
    Qxe7 {[%emt 0:00:02]} 20. Qa5 {[%emt 0:00:13]} Rc6 {[%emt 0:00:03]} 21. Rg1 {
    102} Rfc8 {[%emt 0:00:28]} 22. Rg2 {[%emt 0:00:15]} Bh3 {165} 23. Rgd2 {
    [%emt 0:00:13]} Bxf1 {[%emt 0:00:06]} 24. Rxf1 {[%emt 0:00:04]} Qe6 {305} 25.
    Rff2 {[%emt 0:00:07]} h6 {517} 26. Kb1 {[%emt 0:00:22]} Qh3 {294} 27. Rd3 {342}
    Rxc2 {556} 28. Rxc2 {179} Qf1+ {[%emt 0:00:25]} 29. Bc1 {[%emt 0:00:05]} Qxd3 {
    [%emt 0:00:06]} 30. Qd2 {[%emt 0:00:04]} Qxc2+ {[%emt 0:00:06]} 31. Qxc2 {
    [%emt 0:00:07]} Rxc2 {[%emt 0:00:06]} 32. Kxc2 {[%emt 0:00:02]} Kf8 {1473} 33.
    Kb3 {[%emt 0:00:52]} Ke7 {[%emt 0:00:11]} 34. Kc4 {[%emt 0:00:54]} Ke6 {458}
    35. b4 {264} d5+ {163} 36. exd5+ {[%emt 0:00:07]} Nxd5 {[%emt 0:00:05]} 37. Bd2
    {486} f5 {711} 38. b5 {563} axb5+ {[%emt 0:00:18]} 39. Kxb5 {[%emt 0:00:11]}
    Kd6 {631} 40. a4 {[%emt 0:00:00]} g5 {[%emt 0:00:00]} 41. a5 {479} f4 {195} 42.
    Kc4 {842} Nc7 {[%emt 0:00:12]} 43. Bb4+ {111} Ke6 {261} 44. h3 {264} h5 {
    [%emt 0:00:50]} 45. Bc5 {316} e4 {400} 46. fxe4 {[%emt 0:00:09]} g4 {[%emt 0:
    00:04]} 47. hxg4 {121} hxg4 {[%emt 0:00:13]} 48. Kd3 {173} Na6 {[%emt 0:00:08]}
    49. Bd4 {142} Nb4+ {99} 50. Ke2 {[%emt 0:00:21]} Na6 {[%emt 0:00:12]} 51. Kf2 {
    67} Kd6 {[%emt 0:00:29]} 52. Kg2 {139} Ke6 {[%emt 0:00:07]} 53. Kf2 {[%emt 0:
    00:06]} Kd6 {[%emt 0:00:02]} 54. Kg2 {[%emt 0:00:06]} Ke6 {[%emt 0:00:03]}
    1/2-1/2

    [Event “4th Sinquefield Cup 2016”]
    [Site “Saint Louis”]
    [Date “2016.08.07”]
    [Round “3”]
    [White “Svidler, Peter”]
    [Black “Caruana, Fabiano”]
    [Result “1/2-1/2”]
    [ECO “A05”]
    [WhiteElo “2751”]
    [BlackElo “2807”]
    [PlyCount “82”]
    [EventDate “2016.??.??”]
    [EventCountry “USA”]
    [SourceTitle “playchess.com”]
    [Source “ChessBase”]
    [TimeControl “40/7200:3600+30”]

    1. Nf3 {[%emt 0:00:04]} Nf6 {[%emt 0:00:14]} 2. c4 {[%emt 0:00:07]} e6 {
    [%emt 0:00:14]} 3. Nc3 {77} d5 {[%emt 0:00:06]} 4. d4 {[%emt 0:00:05]} Be7 {
    [%emt 0:00:08]} 5. Bg5 {284} h6 {[%emt 0:00:36]} 6. Bh4 {[%emt 0:00:28]} O-O {
    [%emt 0:00:15]} 7. e3 {[%emt 0:00:08]} Ne4 {[%emt 0:00:21]} 8. Bxe7 {[%emt 0:
    00:33]} Qxe7 {[%emt 0:00:06]} 9. Rc1 {271} c6 {163} 10. Bd3 {92} Nxc3 {[%emt 0:
    00:07]} 11. Rxc3 {[%emt 0:00:04]} dxc4 {60} 12. Bxc4 {124} Nd7 {127} 13. O-O {
    73} b6 {338} 14. Bd3 {729} c5 {79} 15. Be4 {[%emt 0:00:58]} Rb8 {[%emt 0:00:18]
    } 16. Qa4 {[%emt 0:00:42]} Nf6 {591} 17. Bc6 {397} cxd4 {886} 18. Nxd4 {112} e5
    {248} 19. Nf3 {[%emt 0:00:14]} Rd8 {412} 20. h3 {798} a6 {452} 21. Rfc1 {370}
    b5 {1331} 22. Qa5 {479} Be6 {906} 23. Qxa6 {1192} Nd5 {491} 24. Bxd5 {73} Bxd5
    {[%emt 0:00:04]} 25. Rc7 {162} Qb4 {[%emt 0:00:41]} 26. Qa3 {403} Qxa3 {301}
    27. bxa3 {[%emt 0:00:09]} Bxf3 {[%emt 0:00:15]} 28. gxf3 {[%emt 0:00:02]} Ra8 {
    159} 29. R7c5 {277} Rxa3 {[%emt 0:00:47]} 30. Rxe5 {[%emt 0:00:58]} Rxa2 {87}
    31. Rxb5 {[%emt 0:00:02]} Rdd2 {[%emt 0:00:34]} 32. Rf1 {[%emt 0:00:02]} Rdb2 {
    149} 33. Re5 {203} Rb6 {[%emt 0:00:05]} 34. f4 {[%emt 0:00:20]} Rab2 {80} 35.
    Kg2 {[%emt 0:00:21]} g6 {[%emt 0:00:13]} 36. h4 {300} h5 {[%emt 0:00:01]} 37.
    f5 {159} Kg7 {[%emt 0:00:01]} 38. fxg6 {77} Rxg6+ {[%emt 0:00:07]} 39. Kh3 {
    [%emt 0:00:08]} Rf6 {[%emt 0:00:18]} 40. Rg1+ {[%emt 0:00:00]} Rg6 {[%emt 0:00:
    00]} 41. Rf1 {694} Rf6 {278} 1/2-1/2

    [Event “4th Sinquefield Cup 2016”]
    [Site “Saint Louis”]
    [Date “2016.08.08”]
    [Round “4”]
    [White “Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime”]
    [Black “Svidler, Peter”]
    [Result “1/2-1/2”]
    [ECO “C92”]
    [WhiteElo “2819”]
    [BlackElo “2751”]
    [PlyCount “69”]
    [EventDate “2016.??.??”]
    [EventCountry “USA”]
    [SourceTitle “playchess.com”]
    [Source “ChessBase”]
    [TimeControl “40/7200:3600+30”]

    1. e4 {(5s)} e5 {(8s)} 2. Nf3 {(3s)} Nc6 {(3s)} 3. Bb5 {(5s)} a6 {(7s)} 4. Ba4
    {(4s)} Nf6 {(5s)} 5. O-O {(23s)} Be7 {(3s)} 6. Re1 {(67s)} b5 {(5s)} 7. Bb3 {
    (2s)} d6 {(6s)} 8. c3 {(6s)} O-O {(5s)} 9. h3 {(3s)} Re8 {(9s)} 10. d4 {(9s)}
    Bb7 {(4s)} 11. Nbd2 {(14s)} Bf8 {(5s)} 12. d5 {(81s)} Nb8 {(26s)} 13. Nf1 {
    ( 24s)} Nbd7 {(4s)} 14. N3h2 {(7s)} c6 {(31s)} 15. dxc6 {(217s)} Bxc6 {(12s)}
    16. Bg5 {(110s)} Qc7 {( 16s)} 17. Qf3 {(1048s)} a5 {(18s)} 18. Rad1 {(241s)}
    Qb7 {(339s)} 19. Ng3 {(984s)} a4 {(60s)} 20. Bc2 {(6s)} b4 {(8s)} 21. Nf5 {
    (543s)} Re6 {(298s)} 22. Bxf6 {(186s)} Nxf6 {(155s)} 23. Ng4 {(7s)} Nxg4 {
    (395s)} 24. hxg4 {(7s)} g6 {(459s)} 25. Ne3 {(194s)} bxc3 {(11s)} 26. bxc3 {
    (21s)} Bh6 {(80s)} 27. Rb1 {(502s)} Qa7 {(208s)} 28. Rb4 {(73s)} Bg5 {(486s)}
    29. Qe2 {(35s)} Ree8 {(1313s)} 30. Qd3 {(210s)} Red8 {(478s)} 31. Nd5 {(233s)}
    Rab8 {(254s)} 32. Reb1 {(273s)} a3 {(1103s)} 33. Nb6 {(573 s)} Kg7 {(290s)} 34.
    g3 {(166s)} Rb7 {(349s)} 35. Kg2 {(610s)} 1/2-1/2

    [Event “4th Sinquefield Cup 2016”]
    [Site “Saint Louis”]
    [Date “2016.08.08”]
    [Round “4”]
    [White “Nakamura, Hikaru”]
    [Black “Topalov, Veselin”]
    [Result “1/2-1/2”]
    [ECO “D37”]
    [WhiteElo “2791”]
    [BlackElo “2761”]
    [PlyCount “83”]
    [EventDate “2016.??.??”]
    [EventCountry “USA”]
    [SourceTitle “playchess.com”]
    [Source “ChessBase”]
    [TimeControl “40/7200:3600+30”]

    1. d4 {(6s)} Nf6 {(9s)} 2. c4 {(3s)} e6 {(7s)} 3. Nf3 {(4s)} d5 {(11s)} 4. Nc3
    {(10s)} Be7 {(17s)} 5. Bf4 {(9s)} O-O {(18s)} 6. Qc2 {(5s)} c5 {(164s)} 7. dxc5
    {(23s)} Na6 {(11s)} 8. Rd1 {(17s)} Nxc5 {( 147s)} 9. cxd5 {(12s)} Nxd5 {(180s)}
    10. e4 {(2244s)} Nxf4 {(14s)} 11. Rxd8 {(5s)} Rxd8 {(7s)} 12. Ne5 {(673s)} Bf6
    {(329s)} 13. Nb5 {(146s)} b6 {(444s)} 14. b4 {(62s)} Bxe5 {(858s)} 15. bxc5 {
    (3s)} a6 {(223s)} 16. Nd6 {(72s)} bxc5 {(167s)} 17. Nc4 {(94s)} Bd4 {(166s)}
    18. g3 {(1s)} Ng6 {(67s)} 19. Be2 {(4s)} Bd7 {(691s)} 20. O-O {(9s)} Bb5 {
    (242s)} 21. Na5 {(281s)} Ne5 {(150s)} 22. Rd1 {(159s)} Rab8 {(891s)} 23. Kg2 {
    (50s)} Bxe2 {(175s)} 24. Qxe2 {(14s)} Rb5 {(24s)} 25. Nb3 {(47s)} h6 {(27s)}
    26. Rd2 {(427s)} Nc6 {(194s)} 27. Qc4 {(301s)} e5 {(103s)} 28. a4 {(199s)} Rb4
    {(87s)} 29. Qxa6 {( 49s)} Rxb3 {(232s)} 30. Qxc6 {(7s)} Ra3 {(60s)} 31. Qa6 {
    (181s)} Rb8 {(49s)} 32. a5 {(200s)} c4 {( 111s)} 33. Qxc4 {(390s)} Rxa5 {(5s)}
    34. Kh3 {(50s)} Rc5 {(53s)} 35. Qe2 {(20s)} Rcb5 {(37s)} 36. f4 {(40s)} Rb4 {
    (77s)} 37. Qd1 {(92s)} Rb1 {(107s)} 38. Qh5 {(125s)} R1b5 {(196s)} 39. Qe2 {
    (196s)} Rb4 40. Qd1 {(0s)} Rb1 {(0s)} 41. Qh5 {(297s)} R1b5 {(61s)} 42. Qd1 {
    (14s)} 1/2-1/2

    [Event “4th Sinquefield Cup 2016”]
    [Site “Saint Louis”]
    [Date “2016.08.08”]
    [Round “4”]
    [White “Aronian, Levon”]
    [Black “Caruana, Fabiano”]
    [Result “1/2-1/2”]
    [ECO “E10”]
    [WhiteElo “2792”]
    [BlackElo “2807”]
    [PlyCount “59”]
    [EventDate “2016.??.??”]
    [EventCountry “USA”]
    [SourceTitle “playchess.com”]
    [Source “ChessBase”]
    [TimeControl “40/7200:3600+30”]

    1. d4 {(5s)} Nf6 {(9s)} 2. c4 {(16s)} e6 {(7s)} 3. Nf3 {(10s)} c5 {(6s)} 4. e3
    {(47s)} a6 {(81s)} 5. Nc3 {(93s)} d5 {(21s)} 6. cxd5 {(6s)} exd5 {(10s)} 7. g3
    {(6s)} Nc6 {(263s)} 8. Bg2 {(35s)} Bd6 {(111 s)} 9. dxc5 {(327s)} Bxc5 {(17s)}
    10. O-O {(30s)} O-O {(16s)} 11. Nd4 {(768s)} Nxd4 {(338s)} 12. exd4 {(6s)} Ba7
    {(32s)} 13. Bg5 {(220s)} Be6 {(208s)} 14. Rc1 {(19s)} Rc8 {(534s)} 15. Bxf6 {
    (14s)} Qxf6 {(6s)} 16. Nxd5 {(4s)} Bxd5 {(4s)} 17. Bxd5 {(4s)} Rxc1 {(26s)} 18.
    Qxc1 {(3s)} b5 {(19s)} 19. Qc6 {(32s)} Bxd4 {(9s)} 20. Qxf6 {(8s)} Bxf6 {(4s)}
    21. b3 {(22s)} Rd8 {(6s)} 22. Rd1 {(13s)} Kf8 {(6 s)} 23. Kf1 {(14s)} a5 {(12s)
    } 24. Bf3 {(13s)} Rxd1+ {(5s)} 25. Bxd1 {(4s)} Ke7 {(6s)} 26. a4 {(7s)} bxa4 {
    (3s)} 27. bxa4 {(3s)} Bc3 {(8s)} 28. Bb3 {(5s)} Bb4 {(3s)} 29. Ke2 {(5s)} Kf8 {
    (3s)} 30. Bc4 {( 5s)} 1/2-1/2

    [Event “4th Sinquefield Cup 2016”]
    [Site “Saint Louis”]
    [Date “2016.08.08”]
    [Round “4”]
    [White “Ding, Liren”]
    [Black “Anand, Viswanathan”]
    [Result “1/2-1/2”]
    [ECO “A14”]
    [WhiteElo “2755”]
    [BlackElo “2770”]
    [PlyCount “72”]
    [EventDate “2016.??.??”]
    [EventCountry “USA”]
    [SourceTitle “playchess.com”]
    [Source “ChessBase”]
    [TimeControl “40/7200:3600+30”]

    1. c4 {(5s)} c5 {(8s)} 2. Nf3 {(26s)} Nc6 {(12s)} 3. Nc3 {(5s)} Nf6 {(7s)} 4.
    g3 {(8s)} d5 {(7s)} 5. cxd5 {(15s)} Nxd5 {(16s)} 6. Bg2 {(3s)} e6 {(35s)} 7.
    O-O {(126s)} Be7 {(125s)} 8. d4 {(6s)} O-O {(84 s)} 9. Nxd5 {(608s)} exd5 {
    (21s)} 10. dxc5 {(27s)} Bxc5 {(12s)} 11. Bg5 {(99s)} Qd7 {(19s)} 12. Rc1 {
    (144s)} Bb6 {(155s)} 13. Bd2 {(249s)} Qe7 {(137s)} 14. Bc3 {(550s)} Rd8 {(193s)
    } 15. e3 {(740s)} Bf5 {(90s)} 16. Re1 {(327s)} Be4 {(1088s)} 17. Re2 {(717s)}
    Rd7 {(788s)} 18. Rd2 {(54s)} Rad8 {( 531s)} 19. Qe2 {(152s)} Rd6 {(607s)} 20.
    Rcd1 {(228s)} h6 {(439s)} 21. h4 {(410s)} Qe6 {(613s)} 22. Nd4 {(600s)} Nxd4 {
    (351s)} 23. Bxd4 {(114s)} Ba5 {(21s)} 24. Bc3 {(238s)} Bxc3 {(24s)} 25. bxc3 {
    ( 2s)} Bxg2 {(11s)} 26. Kxg2 {(3s)} Rc8 {(128s)} 27. Qf3 {(30s)} Rxc3 {(20s)}
    28. Rxd5 {(3s)} Rxd5 {( 11s)} 29. Rxd5 {(8s)} Rc8 {(90s)} 30. Ra5 {(148s)} Qb6
    {(39s)} 31. Re5 {(21s)} Kf8 {(171s)} 32. Qf5 {(120s)} Re8 {(98s)} 33. Rxe8+ {
    (144s)} Kxe8 {(6s)} 34. Qe5+ {(10s)} Kf8 {(6s)} 35. Qb8+ {(4s)} Ke7 {(5s)} 36.
    Qe5+ {(4s)} Kf8 {(6s)} 1/2-1/2

    [Event “4th Sinquefield Cup 2016”]
    [Site “Saint Louis”]
    [Date “2016.08.08”]
    [Round “4”]
    [White “So, Wesley”]
    [Black “Giri, Anish”]
    [Result “1/2-1/2”]
    [ECO “D02”]
    [WhiteElo “2771”]
    [BlackElo “2769”]
    [PlyCount “88”]
    [EventDate “2016.??.??”]
    [EventCountry “USA”]
    [SourceTitle “playchess.com”]
    [Source “ChessBase”]
    [TimeControl “40/7200:3600+30”]

    1. Nf3 {(5s)} d5 {(4s)} 2. d4 {(5s)} Nf6 {(3s)} 3. c4 {(6s)} e6 {(3s)} 4. g3 {
    (5s)} Bb4+ {(6s)} 5. Bd2 {(5s)} Be7 {(3s)} 6. Bg2 {(8s)} O-O 7. O-O {(5s)} c6 {
    (12s)} 8. Qc2 {(5s)} Nbd7 {(10s)} 9. Rd1 {(16s)} b6 {(7s)} 10. b3 {(5s)} a5 {
    (19s)} 11. Bc3 {(455s)} Ne4 {(52s)} 12. Bb2 {(64s)} f5 {(16s)} 13. e3 {( 935s)}
    Ba6 {(221s)} 14. Ba3 {(517s)} Bxa3 {(808s)} 15. Nxa3 {(4s)} b5 {(8s)} 16. Rac1
    {(348s)} Qe7 {(307s)} 17. cxb5 {(311s)} cxb5 {(27s)} 18. Nb1 {(3s)} b4 {(205s)}
    19. Qb2 {(529s)} Rfc8 {(131s)} 20. Ne1 {(134s)} h5 {(316s)} 21. Rxc8+ {(475s)}
    Rxc8 {(16s)} 22. Rc1 {(2s)} Qd8 {(114s)} 23. Bf1 {(152s)} Bxf1 {(86s)} 24. Kxf1
    {(7s)} h4 {(17s)} 25. Rxc8 {(285s)} Qxc8 {(2s)} 26. Qc2 {(7s)} Qxc2 {( 409s)}
    27. Nxc2 {(4s)} hxg3 {(20s)} 28. hxg3 {(4s)} g5 {(192s)} 29. Ke2 {(162s)} Kf7 {
    (286s)} 30. a3 {(27s)} bxa3 {(32s)} 31. Nbxa3 {(7s)} Nc3+ {(151s)} 32. Kd2 {
    (6s)} Ne4+ {(5s)} 33. Ke2 {(4s)} Ndf6 {(225s)} 34. b4 {(326s)} a4 {(622s)} 35.
    Ne1 {(5s)} Ke7 {(63s)} 36. Nd3 {(193s)} Nd7 {(29s)} 37. Kd1 {(400s)} Nb6 {
    (385s)} 38. Kc2 {(28s)} Nc4 {(528s)} 39. Nxc4 {(603s)} dxc4 {(7s)} 40. Nb2 {
    (0s)} Nxf2 {(0s)} 41. Nxa4 {(0s)} Ne4 {(456s)} 42. Nb6 {(125s)} c3 {(701s)} 43.
    Na4 {(178s)} Nxg3 {( 10s)} 44. Kxc3 {(139s)} f4 {(149s)} 1/2-1/2

    [Event “4th Sinquefield Cup 2016”]
    [Site “Saint Louis”]
    [Date “2016.08.09”]
    [Round “5”]
    [White “Topalov, Veselin”]
    [Black “Ding, Liren”]
    [Result “1-0”]
    [ECO “C92”]
    [WhiteElo “2761”]
    [BlackElo “2755”]
    [PlyCount “131”]
    [EventDate “2016.??.??”]
    [EventCountry “USA”]
    [SourceTitle “playchess.com”]
    [Source “ChessBase”]
    [TimeControl “40/7200:3600+30”]

    1. e4 {(2s)} e5 {(5s)} 2. Nf3 {(5s)} Nc6 {(4s)} 3. Bb5 {(7s)} a6 {(4s)} 4. Ba4
    {(4s)} Nf6 {(5s)} 5. O-O {(5s)} Be7 {(5s)} 6. Re1 {(23s)} b5 {(7s)} 7. Bb3 {
    (5s)} d6 {(4s)} 8. c3 {(7s)} O-O {(6s)} 9. h3 {(10s)} Re8 {(4s)} 10. d4 {(16s)}
    Bb7 {(4s)} 11. Nbd2 {(15s)} Bf8 {(5s)} 12. a3 {(85s)} h6 {(7s)} 13. Bc2 {
    ( 174s)} Nb8 {(9s)} 14. b3 {(105s)} Nbd7 {(20s)} 15. Bb2 {(6s)} Rc8 {(739s)}
    16. a4 {(128s)} b4 {(140s)} 17. cxb4 {(169s)} exd4 {(20s)} 18. Bxd4 {(234s)} c5
    {(186s)} 19. bxc5 {(496s)} Nxc5 {(7s)} 20. Qb1 {(55s)} a5 {(672s)} 21. b4 {
    (507s)} axb4 {(648s)} 22. Qxb4 {(135s)} Ba8 {(623s)} 23. a5 {(338s)} d5 {(185s)
    } 24. Bxf6 {(66s)} Qxf6 {(6s)} 25. e5 {(41s)} Qa6 {(728s)} 26. Qg4 {(18s)} Ne6
    {(68s)} 27. Bf5 {(231s)} Rc5 {(357s)} 28. Bxe6 {(252s)} Rxe6 {(35s)} 29. Nb3 {
    (183s)} Rc4 {(58s)} 30. Nfd4 {( 153s)} Bb7 {(172s)} 31. Qf5 {(588s)} Re7 {
    (100s)} 32. e6 {(191s)} Bc8 {(166s)} 33. exf7+ {(76s)} Rxf7 {(3s)} 34. Qxd5 {
    (13s)} Bb7 {(128s)} 35. Qe6 {(86s)} Rb4 {(21s)} 36. Re3 {(346s)} Qa8 {(115s)}
    37. Rc1 {(281s)} Bd5 {(137s)} 38. Rc8 {(27s)} Bxe6 {(61s)} 39. Rxa8 {(6s)} Bc4
    {(12s)} 40. Rc8 {(0 s)} Kh7 {(0s)} 41. Rc3 {(940s)} Ba6 {(1175s)} 42. Rd8 {(9s)
    } Ra4 {(268s)} 43. Ne6 {(686s)} Bb4 {(191 s)} 44. Rc6 {(281s)} Bb5 {(88s)} 45.
    Rc1 {(213s)} Ra2 {(370s)} 46. f3 {(339s)} Ba4 {(123s)} 47. Nbd4 {(592s)} Bxa5 {
    (61s)} 48. Ra8 {(226s)} Bb6 {(308s)} 49. Kh1 {(76s)} Bb3 {(271s)} 50. Rb8 {
    (50 s)} Bxe6 {(26s)} 51. Rxb6 {(357s)} Bf5 {(841s)} 52. Rd6 {(65s)} Bg6 {(165s)
    } 53. Rd8 {(82s)} Bf5 {( 102s)} 54. Rd6 {(132s)} Bg6 {(4s)} 55. Rc8 {(14s)} Rb7
    {(91s)} 56. Rdd8 {(260s)} Bd3 {(157s)} 57. Ne6 {(326s)} Bf1 {(271s)} 58. Nf8+ {
    (559s)} Kg8 {(4s)} 59. Ng6+ {(16s)} Kh7 {(232s)} 60. Nf8+ {( 581s)} Kg8 {(1s)}
    61. Ne6+ {(172s)} Kh7 {(111s)} 62. Rh8+ {(22s)} Kg6 {(7s)} 63. Nf4+ {(5s)} Kg5
    {( 81s)} 64. Rhf8 {(32s)} Rbb2 {(435s)} 65. Rc7 {(49s)} g6 {(45s)} 66. g3 {
    (33s)} 1-0

    [Event “4th Sinquefield Cup 2016”]
    [Site “Saint Louis”]
    [Date “2016.08.09”]
    [Round “5”]
    [White “Anand, Viswanathan”]
    [Black “So, Wesley”]
    [Result “1/2-1/2”]
    [ECO “C50”]
    [WhiteElo “2770”]
    [BlackElo “2771”]
    [PlyCount “60”]
    [EventDate “2016.??.??”]
    [EventCountry “USA”]
    [SourceTitle “playchess.com”]
    [Source “ChessBase”]
    [TimeControl “40/7200:3600+30”]

    1. e4 {(4s)} e5 {(5s)} 2. Nf3 {(9s)} Nc6 {(6s)} 3. Bc4 {(10s)} Bc5 {(8s)} 4.
    O-O {(29s)} Nf6 {(5s)} 5. d3 {(6s)} O-O {(5s)} 6. c3 {(8s)} d5 {(4s)} 7. exd5 {
    (11s)} Nxd5 {(6s)} 8. a4 {(14s)} Nb6 {(12s)} 9. Bb5 {[#] (78s)} Ne7 $1 {
    (6s) This was first played by Norwegian GM Jon Hammer in May this year in the
    French Top 12 League.} 10. a5 {(86s)} c6 {(5s)} 11. axb6 {(78s)} cxb5 {(4s)}
    12. Rxa7 {(10s)} Rxa7 {( 6s)} 13. bxa7 {(7s)} Bxa7 {(3s)} 14. Nxe5 Bf5 {(10s)}
    15. Re1 {(965s)} (15. Be3 Bb8 16. d4 Ng6 17. Nxg6 hxg6 18. Nd2 Qd6 19. g3 Qd5
    20. Re1 Re8 21. Bf4 Rxe1+ 22. Qxe1 Bxf4 23. gxf4 b4 {1/2-1/2 (77) Milliet,S
    (2346)-Hammer,J (2689) Drancy 2016}) 15… Bb8 $1 {(17s) Anand said that this
    was more precise than what he himself had prepared in this line, and praised
    the idea of 15…Bb8! followed by …b4 and …Qd5.} 16. Na3 {(169s)} b4 {
    (417s)} 17. cxb4 {(31s)} Qd5 {(7s)} 18. Nec4 {(804s)} Bxd3 {(1016s)} 19. Rxe7 {
    (383s)} Bxc4 {( 6s)} 20. Qxd5 {(54s)} Bxd5 {(5s)} 21. Rd7 {(178s)} Bc6 {(63s)}
    22. Rd1 {(10s)} Ba4 {(300s)} 23. Rd3 {(38s)} Bc7 {(104s)} 24. b3 {(97s)} Bc6 {
    (5s)} 25. f3 {(84s)} Rd8 {(27s)} 26. Rxd8+ {(16s)} Bxd8 {(4s)} 27. b5 {(14s)}
    Bd7 {(40s)} 28. Kf2 {(57s)} Be7 {(14s)} 29. Ke2 {(17s)} Bxa3 {(4s)} 30. Bxa3 {
    (6s)} Bxb5+ 1/2-1/2

    [Event “4th Sinquefield Cup 2016”]
    [Site “Saint Louis”]
    [Date “2016.08.09”]
    [Round “5”]
    [White “Giri, Anish”]
    [Black “Aronian, Levon”]
    [Result “1/2-1/2”]
    [ECO “A29”]
    [WhiteElo “2769”]
    [BlackElo “2792”]
    [Annotator “”]
    [PlyCount “59”]
    [EventDate “2016.??.??”]
    [EventCountry “USA”]
    [SourceTitle “playchess.com”]
    [Source “ChessBase”]
    [TimeControl “40/7200:3600+30”]

    1. c4 {(2s)} Nf6 {(17s)} 2. Nc3 {(4s)} e5 {(11s)} 3. Nf3 {(5s)} Nc6 {(11s)} 4. g3 {(3s)} d5 {(75s)} 5.
    cxd5 {(10s)} Nxd5 {(3s)} 6. Bg2 {(6s)} Nb6 {(4s)} 7. O-O {(8s)} Be7 {(5s)} 8. Rb1 {(18s)} a5 {(16s)} 9.
    d3 {(8s)} O-O {(8s)} 10. Be3 {(14s)} Be6 {(5s)} 11. d4 {(23s)} exd4 {(53s)} 12. Nxd4 {(5s)} Nxd4 {(29
    s)} 13. Bxd4 {(6s)} c6 {(103s)} 14. f4 {(5s)} f5 {(427s)} 15. e4 {(44s)} Rf7 {(35s)} 16. Bh3 {(373s)}
    Bb4 {(1082s)} 17. Bxf5 {(1045s)} Bxf5 {(38s)} 18. exf5 {(3s)} Nc4 {(40s)} 19. Qd3 {(1380s)} c5 {(
    324s)} 20. Qxc4 {(210s)} Qxd4+ {(10s)} 21. Qxd4 {(3s)} cxd4 {(6s)} 22. Ne4 {(247s)} Re8 {(65s)} 23.
    a3 {(501s)} Rxe4 {(64s)} 24. axb4 {(2s)} axb4 {(23s)} 25. Rbe1 {(117s)} Rxe1 {(10s)} 26. Rxe1 {(2s)}
    Rxf5 {(6s)} 27. Rd1 {(84s)} Rc5 {(15s)} 28. Rxd4 {(39s)} Rc1+ {(3s)} 29. Kg2 {(28s)} Rc2+ {(4s)} 30.
    Kh3 {(18s)} 1/2-1/2

    [Event “4th Sinquefield Cup 2016”]
    [Site “Saint Louis”]
    [Date “2016.08.09”]
    [Round “5”]
    [White “Svidler, Peter”]
    [Black “Nakamura, Hikaru”]
    [Result “1/2-1/2”]
    [ECO “E63”]
    [WhiteElo “2751”]
    [BlackElo “2791”]
    [Annotator “”]
    [PlyCount “82”]
    [EventDate “2016.??.??”]
    [EventCountry “USA”]
    [SourceTitle “playchess.com”]
    [Source “ChessBase”]
    [TimeControl “40/7200:3600+30”]

    1. c4 {(5s)} Nf6 {(12s)} 2. Nc3 {(8s)} g6 {(5s)} 3. Nf3 {(202s)} Bg7 {(18s)} 4. g3 {(11s)} O-O {(27s)}
    5. Bg2 {(3s)} d6 {(5s)} 6. O-O {(179s)} Nc6 {(9s)} 7. d4 {(125s)} a6 {(10s)} 8. Re1 {(241s)} Rb8 {(20
    s)} 9. Rb1 {(296s)} b5 {(406s)} 10. cxb5 {(26s)} axb5 {(48s)} 11. b4 {(12s)} e6 {(79s)} 12. e4 {(826
    s)} Ne7 {(69s)} 13. Bf4 {(662s)} h6 {(323s)} 14. h3 {(304s)} Bb7 {(552s)} 15. g4 {(290s)} g5 {(95s)}
    16. Bg3 {(124s)} Ng6 {(5s)} 17. Nd2 {(329s)} Nd7 {(1295s)} 18. Nb3 {(95s)} Ba6 {(1318s)} 19. Na5
    {(227s)} Rb6 {(11s)} 20. a4 {(64s)} Nb8 {(308s)} 21. axb5 {(230s)} Bxb5 {(5s)} 22. Nxb5 {(9s)} Rxb5
    {(4s)} 23. Bf1 {(35s)} Rb6 {(8s)} 24. b5 {(34s)} c6 {(566s)} 25. Nc4 {(154s)} Rxb5 {(9s)} 26. Rxb5 {(
    17s)} cxb5 {(6s)} 27. Nxd6 {(4s)} b4 {(318s)} 28. e5 {(554s)} Nc6 {(11s)} 29. Bc4 {(503s)} Qb6 {(319
    s)} 30. d5 {(466s)} Bxe5 {(122s)} 31. Bxe5 {(227s)} Ncxe5 {(9s)} 32. dxe6 {(3s)} fxe6 {(5s)} 33.
    Bxe6+ {(9s)} Kh8 {(8s)} 34. Bf5 {(46s)} b3 {(782s)} 35. Qd5 {(215s)} b2 {(58s)} 36. Rb1 {(73s)} Qc7
    {(90s)} 37. Bxg6 {(105s)} Qc1+ {(22s)} 38. Kg2 {(86s)} Nxg6 {(3s)} 39. Qd4+ {(5s)} Kg8 {(22s)} 40.
    Qd5+ {(0s)} Kh8 {(0s)} 41. Qd4+ {(0s)} Kg8 {(0s)} 1/2-1/2

    [Event “4th Sinquefield Cup 2016”]
    [Site “Saint Louis”]
    [Date “2016.08.09”]
    [Round “5”]
    [White “Caruana, Fabiano”]
    [Black “Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime”]
    [Result “1/2-1/2”]
    [ECO “B54”]
    [WhiteElo “2807”]
    [BlackElo “2819”]
    [PlyCount “93”]
    [EventDate “2016.??.??”]
    [EventCountry “USA”]
    [SourceTitle “playchess.com”]
    [Source “ChessBase”]
    [TimeControl “40/7200:3600+30”]

    1. e4 {(3s)} c5 {(4s)} 2. Nf3 {(4s)} d6 {(3s)} 3. d4 {(5s)} cxd4 {(4s)} 4. Nxd4
    {(5s)} Nf6 {(5s)} 5. f3 {(6s)} Nc6 {(142s)} 6. Nc3 {(45s)} e5 {(16s)} 7. Nb3 {
    (5s)} Be7 {(28s)} 8. Be3 {(11s)} Be6 {(138s)} 9. Nd5 {(161s)} Bxd5 {(144s)} 10.
    exd5 {(5s)} Nb4 {(6s)} 11. c4 {(134s)} a5 {(134s)} 12. Be2 {(686s)} Na6 {(720s)
    } 13. Nd2 {(1066s)} O-O {(293s)} 14. Nb1 {(183s)} Nd7 {(240s)} 15. Qd2 {(159s)}
    f5 {( 204s)} 16. Nc3 {(62s)} Bh4+ {(1021s)} 17. g3 {(16s)} f4 {(5s)} 18. Bf2 {
    (52s)} Bg5 {(6s)} 19. Qc2 {( 354s)} Nac5 {(1002s)} 20. Kf1 {(1407s)} Qe8 {
    (320s)} 21. Re1 {(782s)} e4 {(206s)} 22. Bxc5 {(173s)} Nxc5 {(205s)} 23. Nxe4 {
    (46s)} Nxe4 {(11s)} 24. Bd3 {(28s)} fxg3 {(324s)} 25. Bxe4 {[#] (17s)} Qh5 $2 {
    ( 630s)} ({Black need to play} 25… g2+ {first} 26. Kxg2 {before playing} Qh5
    {after which he would be relatively fine.}) 26. Kg2 $1 {(260s)} gxh2 {(4s)} 27.
    Rxh2 {(15s)} Bh4 {(4s)} 28. Bxh7+ {(95s)} Kh8 {(5s)} 29. Be4 {(294s)} Rf4 {
    (59s)} 30. Kh1 {(320s) and now Black is in seriousn trouble.} Qe5 {(158s)} 31.
    Rg1 {(56s)} (31. c5 {was strongest here. The Bh4 is pinned and this would free
    the way for White’s central pawns.} dxc5 32. Qxc5 Rd8 33. Qb6 Rxd5 34. Qf2 $1 {
    The point is that after Rxd5 has been played, Black suddenly finds himself
    with the bishop on h4 attacked, and if the queen comes to its rescue, the rook
    is hanging on d5.} Rd6 35. Bg6 {and} Qxe1+ 36. Qxe1 {is forced due to the back
    rank threats.}) 31… g5 {(45s)} 32. Qc3 $2 {(366s)} ({Again} 32. c5 {would do
    the job.}) 32… Qxc3 {(12s)} 33. bxc3 {(3s)} Kg7 {(5s)} 34. Rb1 {(101s)} Rf7 {
    (176s)} 35. Rb6 {(77s)} Ra6 {(221s)} 36. Rhb2 $2 {(81s)} ({White really needed
    to keep the rooks on the board to avoid the increase in drawishness due to the
    opposite-colored bishops.} 36. Rb5) 36… Rxb6 {(7s)} 37. Rxb6 {(3s)} Bf2 {
    (102s)} 38. Rxd6 {(77s)} Rf6 $1 {(4s) White cannot avoid the exchange of the
    rooks and thus the dreaded opposite-colored bishop ending is inevitable.} 39.
    Rd8 {(17 s)} Rf8 {(4s)} 40. Rd6 {(0s)} Rf6 {(0s)} 41. Rd8 {(84s)} Rf8 {(0s)}
    42. Rxf8 {(3s)} Kxf8 {(0s)} 43. d6 {(16s)} Bc5 {(136s)} 44. d7 {(14s)} Ke7 {
    (4s)} 45. Bf5 {(16s)} Be3 {(50s)} 46. Kg2 {(7s)} Bd2 {(114s)} 47. Kf2 {(37s)}
    1/2-1/2

    [Event “4th Sinquefield Cup 2016”]
    [Site “Saint Louis”]
    [Date “2016.08.11”]
    [Round “6”]
    [White “Aronian, Levon”]
    [Black “Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime”]
    [Result “0-1”]
    [ECO “A04”]
    [WhiteElo “2792”]
    [BlackElo “2819”]
    [Annotator “”]
    [PlyCount “98”]
    [EventDate “2016.??.??”]
    [EventCountry “USA”]
    [SourceTitle “playchess.com”]
    [Source “ChessBase”]
    [TimeControl “40/7200:3600+30”]

    1. Nf3 {(13s)} c5 {(5s)} 2. c4 {(8s)} Nc6 {(3s)} 3. Nc3 {(8s)} e5 {(3s)} 4. g3 {(8s)} g6 {(11s)} 5. Bg2
    {(9s)} Bg7 {(4s)} 6. O-O {(9s)} Nge7 {(45s)} 7. a3 {(11s)} O-O {(114s)} 8. b4 {(128s)} d5 {(193s)} 9.
    cxd5 {(272s)} Nxd5 {(38s)} 10. Ng5 {(180s)} Nc7 {(298s)} 11. Nge4 {(112s)} c4 {(621s)} 12. d3 {(
    1375s)} cxd3 {(361s)} 13. Bg5 {(14s)} f6 {(146s)} 14. Be3 {(11s)} f5 {(527s)} 15. Bg5 {(824s)} Qd4
    {(837s)} 16. Be3 {(12s)} Qd8 {(5s)} 17. Bg5 {(4s)} Qd7 {(560s)} 18. Nc5 {(14s)} dxe2 {(15s)} 19.
    Nxe2 {(573s)} Qxd1 {(80s)} 20. Rfxd1 {(702s)} f4 {(218s)} 21. gxf4 {(185s)} h6 {(160s)} 22. b5 {(
    1335s)} Nxb5 {(88s)} 23. Rab1 {(57s)} Nxa3 {(201s)} 24. Rb3 {(56s)} hxg5 {(531s)} 25. Rxa3 {(124s)}
    exf4 {(296s)} 26. Bd5+ {(299s)} Kh7 {(147s)} 27. Ne4 {(26s)} Kh6 {(484s)} 28. Nd6 {(304s)} Bf6 {(
    28s)} 29. Bxc6 {(74s)} bxc6 {(75s)} 30. Nxc8 {(4s)} Raxc8 {(11s)} 31. Rd7 {(18s)} g4 {(112s)} 32.
    Nxf4 {(17s)} Rcd8 {(291s)} 33. Raxa7 {(97s)} Rxd7 {(7s)} 34. Rxd7 {(4s)} c5 {(6s)} 35. Ne6 {(276s)}
    Rc8 {(7s)} 36. Rc7 {(20s)} Rxc7 {(10s)} 37. Nxc7 {(1s)} c4 {(66s)} 38. Kf1 {(7s)} Kg5 {(115s)} 39.
    Nd5 {(3s)} Be5 {(33s)} 40. Ke2 {(0s)} Bxh2 {(0s)} 41. Ke3 {(426s)} Be5 {(159s)} 42. Nb4 {(333s)} Bd6
    {(137s)} 43. Nd5 {(116s)} Bc5+ {(6s)} 44. Ke2 {(3s)} Kf5 {(8s)} 45. Nc3 {(19s)} Ke5 {(38s)} 46. Nb5
    {(53s)} Bb4 {(41s)} 47. Ke3 {(24s)} g5 {(11s)} 48. Nc7 {(23s)} Bc5+ {(16s)} 49. Ke2 {(7s)} c3 {(42s)}
    0-1

    [Event “4th Sinquefield Cup 2016”]
    [Site “Saint Louis”]
    [Date “2016.08.11”]
    [Round “6”]
    [White “Giri, Anish”]
    [Black “Anand, Viswanathan”]
    [Result “1/2-1/2”]
    [ECO “A14”]
    [WhiteElo “2769”]
    [BlackElo “2770”]
    [Annotator “AS”]
    [PlyCount “81”]
    [EventDate “2016.??.??”]
    [EventCountry “USA”]
    [SourceTitle “playchess.com”]
    [Source “ChessBase”]
    [TimeControl “40/7200:3600+30”]

    1. c4 {(2s)} c5 {(11s)} 2. Nf3 {(71s)} Nf6 {(13s)} 3. Nc3 {(137s)} Nc6 {(15s)}
    4. g3 {(3s)} d5 {(15s)} 5. cxd5 {(16s)} Nxd5 {(8s)} 6. Bg2 {(2s)} e6 {(16s)} 7.
    O-O {(7s)} Be7 {(5s)} 8. d4 {(3s)} O-O {(10s)} 9. e4 {(2s)} Ndb4 {(71s)} 10.
    dxc5 {(8s)} Bxc5 {(30s)} 11. e5 {(3s)} Bb6 {(99s)} 12. a3 {(13s)} Nd5 {(133s)}
    13. Qe2 {(164s)} Bd7 {(834s)} 14. Rd1 {(661s)} Nxc3 {(593s)} 15. bxc3 {(12s)}
    Qc7 {(56s)} 16. a4 {(1450s)} Ne7 {(707s)} 17. Ng5 {(898s)} Bc6 {(909s)} 18. Ba3
    {(257s)} Bxg2 {(185s)} 19. Kxg2 {(76s)} Bc5 {(104s)} 20. Qe4 {(727s)} Ng6 {
    (189s)} 21. Bxc5 {(49s)} Qxc5 {(19s)} 22. Nf3 {(12 s)} b6 {(189s)} 23. Rd7 {
    (179s)} Qxc3 {(382s)} 24. Rad1 {(36s)} Rac8 {(190s)} 25. Rxa7 {[#] (156s)} Rc4
    $2 {(524s)} 26. Qb7 {(98s)} Rcc8 {(493s)} ({Upon playing …Rc4, Anand had
    planned on} 26… Nxe5 27. Nxe5 (27. Ra8 $1 {was the move Anand missed in his
    earlier analysis, but thankfully for his sanity, he caught his mistake in time,
    and avoided an immediate defeat.} g5 28. Rxf8+ Kxf8 29. Qb8+ {with a double
    attack on the king and the knight.} Kg7 30. Nxe5 {and it would be game over.})
    27… Qxe5 28. Rd7 {and he would actually be fine.}) 27. Re1 {(836s)} Rb8 {
    (309s)} 28. Qe4 {(54s)} Qc5 {(163s)} 29. Rb1 {(58s)} b5 {(499s)} 30. Ra5 {(31s)
    } Qc4 {(5s)} 31. Qxc4 {(209s)} bxc4 {(5s)} 32. Rxb8 {(27 s)} Rxb8 {(6s)} 33.
    Rc5 {(5s)} Rb4 {(5s)} 34. a5 {(20s)} Ra4 {(28s)} 35. Nd2 {(405s)} c3 {(23s)}
    36. Rc8+ {(14s)} Nf8 {(10s)} 37. Nb3 {(26s)} g5 {(123s)} 38. Rxc3 {(423s)} Ra3
    {(50s)} 39. Kf3 {(46s)} Ng6 {[#] (10s) That White stands better here, is
    unquestionable. This doesn’t mean it the win is just a matter of technique,
    but that the burden of holding is very much on Black’s shoulders.} 40. Rc8+ $2
    {(0s) After this though, there is nothing for White anymore.} Kg7 {(0s)} 41.
    Rc3 {(163s)} 1/2-1/2

    [Event “4th Sinquefield Cup 2016”]
    [Site “Saint Louis”]
    [Date “2016.08.11”]
    [Round “6”]
    [White “Ding, Liren”]
    [Black “Svidler, Peter”]
    [Result “1-0”]
    [ECO “D71”]
    [WhiteElo “2755”]
    [BlackElo “2751”]
    [Annotator “”]
    [PlyCount “117”]
    [EventDate “2016.??.??”]
    [EventCountry “USA”]
    [SourceTitle “playchess.com”]
    [Source “ChessBase”]
    [TimeControl “40/7200:3600+30”]

    1. d4 {(4s)} Nf6 {(7s)} 2. c4 {(8s)} g6 {(3s)} 3. g3 {(17s)} c5 {(389s)} 4. d5 {(113s)} Bg7 {(117s)} 5.
    Bg2 {(18s)} O-O {(15s)} 6. Nc3 {(4s)} d6 {(48s)} 7. Nh3 {(14s)} a6 {(224s)} 8. a4 {(292s)} e6 {(197s)}
    9. Nf4 {(23s)} exd5 {(55s)} 10. Nfxd5 {(6s)} Nxd5 {(6s)} 11. Nxd5 {(6s)} Nc6 {(84s)} 12. O-O {(8s)}
    Re8 {(190s)} 13. Ra2 {(895s)} Rb8 {(732s)} 14. b3 {(1150s)} b5 {(1046s)} 15. axb5 {(157s)} axb5 {(
    6s)} 16. cxb5 {(33s)} Nd4 {(433s)} 17. b6 {(51s)} Be6 {(40s)} 18. e3 {(457s)} Nb5 {(295s)} 19. Bd2
    {(6s)} Bxd5 {(122s)} 20. Bxd5 {(115s)} Qxb6 {(36s)} 21. Qf3 {(6s)} Re7 {(316s)} 22. Ba5 {(422s)} Qa7
    {(8s)} 23. Bd8 {(6s)} Rxd8 {(5s)} 24. Rxa7 {(5s)} Rxa7 {(5s)} 25. Bc4 {(211s)} Nc3 {(149s)} 26. Qc6
    {(183s)} d5 {(156s)} 27. Bd3 {(20s)} Ra3 {(274s)} 28. Qb6 {(431s)} Rc8 {(115s)} 29. Kg2 {(114s)} Bf8
    {(341s)} 30. Rc1 {(468s)} Na2 {(62s)} 31. Ra1 {(164s)} Bg7 {(457s)} 32. Rb1 {(132s)} Nb4 {(83s)} 33.
    Bb5 {(8s)} Bf8 {(308s)} 34. e4 {(485s)} Raa8 {(113s)} 35. Bf1 {(164s)} Rab8 {(199s)} 36. Qa7 {(140
    s)} Ra8 {(102s)} 37. Qb7 {(179s)} Rab8 {(18s)} 38. Qa7 {(71s)} Ra8 {(8s)} 39. Qd7 {(235s)} c4 {(136s)}
    40. bxc4 {(0s)} dxe4 {(0s)} 41. Qb7 {(1450s)} Nc6 {(588s)} 42. Re1 {(86s)} Rab8 {(95s)} 43. Qd7 {(
    37s)} Ne5 {(54s)} 44. Qd5 {(6s)} Rc5 {(42s)} 45. Qxe4 {(7s)} Rbc8 {(12s)} 46. Rc1 {(32s)} R8c7 {(113
    s)} 47. Be2 {(248s)} Rc8 {(92s)} 48. f4 {(220s)} Nd7 {(49s)} 49. Ra1 {(252s)} Nf6 {(910s)} 50. Qf3
    {(135s)} Re8 {(156s)} 51. Ra8 {(187s)} Re6 {(15s)} 52. Qd3 {(105s)} Kg7 {(44s)} 53. Bf3 {(30s)} Rd6
    {(177s)} 54. Qc3 {(40s)} h5 {(62s)} 55. h3 {(179s)} Kg8 {(386s)} 56. Qb4 {(393s)} Nd7 {(44s)} 57.
    Bd5 {(35s)} Rb6 {(60s)} 58. Qd2 {(108s)} Rc7 {(65s)} 59. f5 {(63s)} 1-0

    [Event “4th Sinquefield Cup 2016”]
    [Site “Saint Louis”]
    [Date “2016.08.11”]
    [Round “6”]
    [White “So, Wesley”]
    [Black “Topalov, Veselin”]
    [Result “1-0”]
    [ECO “A20”]
    [WhiteElo “2771”]
    [BlackElo “2761”]
    [Annotator “”]
    [PlyCount “81”]
    [EventDate “2016.??.??”]
    [EventCountry “USA”]
    [SourceTitle “playchess.com”]
    [Source “ChessBase”]
    [TimeControl “40/7200:3600+30”]

    1. c4 {(4s)} e5 {(28s)} 2. g3 {(6s)} Nf6 {(56s)} 3. Bg2 {(7s)} d5 {(8s)} 4. cxd5 {(4s)} Nxd5 {(4s)} 5.
    Nc3 {(6s)} Nb6 {(7s)} 6. Nf3 {(5s)} Nc6 {(8s)} 7. O-O {(6s)} Be7 {(10s)} 8. d3 {(6s)} O-O {(52s)} 9. a3
    {(4s)} Be6 {(82s)} 10. Be3 {(29s)} Nd5 {(58s)} 11. Nxd5 {(7s)} Bxd5 {(7s)} 12. Qa4 {(5s)} Re8 {(147s)}
    13. Rac1 {(39s)} a6 {(55s)} 14. Nd2 {(24s)} Bxg2 {(122s)} 15. Kxg2 {(5s)} Nd4 {(32s)} 16. Bxd4 {(6
    s)} exd4 {(11s)} 17. Qb3 {(4s)} Rb8 {(204s)} 18. e4 {(6s)} dxe3 {(288s)} 19. fxe3 {(5s)} Rf8 {(422s)}
    20. Ne4 {(232s)} Qd7 {(385s)} 21. Rf3 {(87s)} Rbd8 {(393s)} 22. d4 {(350s)} c6 {(54s)} 23. Rcf1 {(
    196s)} Qd5 {(124s)} 24. Qc2 {(584s)} g6 {(249s)} 25. g4 {(176s)} Rde8 {(363s)} 26. h3 {(275s)} Bd8
    {(110s)} 27. Nc3 {(74s)} Qe6 {(265s)} 28. Na4 {(193s)} b6 {(416s)} 29. Rc1 {(32s)} c5 {(434s)} 30.
    dxc5 {(5s)} b5 {(15s)} 31. Nc3 {(3s)} Qc6 {(28s)} 32. Qd2 {(635s)} Re5 {(365s)} 33. b4 {(147s)} Bg5
    {(299s)} 34. Rd1 {(233s)} Bxe3 {(239s)} 35. Qd7 {(786s)} Qa8 {(106s)} 36. Nd5 {(225s)} Bg5 {(222s)}
    37. c6 {(12s)} Bh4 {(498s)} 38. Rd2 {(523s)} Re1 {(313s)} 39. Rc2 {(559s)} Kg7 {(175s)} 40. Nb6 {(
    0s)} Qb8 {(0s)} 41. Qd4+ {(184s)} 1-0

    [Event “4th Sinquefield Cup 2016”]
    [Site “Saint Louis”]
    [Date “2016.08.11”]
    [Round “6”]
    [White “Nakamura, Hikaru”]
    [Black “Caruana, Fabiano”]
    [Result “1/2-1/2”]
    [ECO “A61”]
    [WhiteElo “2791”]
    [BlackElo “2807”]
    [Annotator “”]
    [PlyCount “117”]
    [EventDate “2016.??.??”]
    [EventCountry “USA”]
    [SourceTitle “playchess.com”]
    [Source “ChessBase”]
    [TimeControl “40/7200:3600+30”]

    1. d4 {(6s)} Nf6 {(5s)} 2. c4 {(5s)} e6 {(3s)} 3. Nf3 {(16s)} c5 {(5s)} 4. d5 {(21s)} d6 {(6s)} 5. Nc3
    {(7s)} exd5 {(4s)} 6. cxd5 {(7s)} g6 {(3s)} 7. Bf4 {(12s)} Bg7 {(14s)} 8. Qa4+ {(28s)} Bd7 {(5s)} 9.
    Qb3 {(11s)} b5 {(6s)} 10. Bxd6 {(11s)} Qb6 {(6s)} 11. Be5 {(14s)} O-O {(100s)} 12. e3 {(14s)} c4 {(6s)}
    13. Qd1 {(40s)} b4 {(6s)} 14. Nb1 {(28s)} Rc8 {(60s)} 15. Nbd2 {(34s)} Bb5 {(88s)} 16. a4 {(111s)}
    bxa3 {(45s)} 17. Rxa3 {(16s)} Bf8 {(42s)} 18. Bd4 {(562s)} Qb7 {(32s)} 19. Ra1 {(851s)} Nxd5 {(171
    s)} 20. Be2 {(7s)} Nc6 {(1098s)} 21. O-O {(17s)} Nxd4 {(64s)} 22. Nxd4 {(18s)} a6 {(62s)} 23. Bf3 {(
    945s)} Rd8 {(487s)} 24. Ne4 {(854s)} Qb6 {(91s)} 25. Nc3 {(130s)} Nxc3 {(6s)} 26. bxc3 {(3s)} Rac8
    {(72s)} 27. Qc2 {(86s)} Qf6 {(202s)} 28. Rfb1 {(144s)} Rc5 {(429s)} 29. Bd1 {(262s)} Bg7 {(324s)}
    30. Qe2 {(599s)} Qe7 {(284s)} 31. Rb2 {(17s)} Qe8 {(286s)} 32. Rba2 {(43s)} h5 {(195s)} 33. Ba4 {(
    376s)} Bxa4 {(194s)} 34. Rxa4 {(9s)} Bxd4 {(22s)} 35. cxd4 {(11s)} Rxd4 {(4s)} 36. exd4 {(185s)}
    Qxe2 {(9s)} 37. dxc5 {(2s)} c3 {(191s)} 38. Rc1 {(13s)} c2 {(586s)} 39. Rd4 {(212s)} Qb5 {(41s)} 40.
    Rd2 {(0s)} Qxc5 {(0s)} 41. Rdxc2 {(454s)} Qa3 {(38s)} 42. h4 {(336s)} a5 {(228s)} 43. g3 {(805s)} a4
    {(132s)} 44. Re1 {(43s)} Qb3 {(592s)} 45. Rce2 {(19s)} Qc3 {(381s)} 46. Re3 {(84s)} Qb2 {(31s)} 47.
    R1e2 {(85s)} Qb4 {(378s)} 48. Kh2 {(485s)} Kg7 {(115s)} 49. Rf3 {(460s)} g5 {(395s)} 50. hxg5 {(
    204s)} h4 {(35s)} 51. Ree3 {(140s)} hxg3+ {(37s)} 52. Kxg3 {(62s)} Kg6 {(60s)} 53. Kh2 {(328s)} Qc4
    {(101s)} 54. Rg3 {(21s)} Qf1 {(72s)} 55. Ref3 {(75s)} Qc4 {(82s)} 56. Rf6+ {(443s)} Kg7 {(5s)} 57.
    Rff3 {(2s)} Kg6 {(6s)} 58. Rf6+ {(4s)} Kg7 {(2s)} 59. Rff3 {(222s)} 1/2-1/2[Event “4th Sinquefield Cup 2016”]
    [Event “4th Sinquefield Cup 2016”]
    [Site “Saint Louis”]
    [Date “2016.08.12”]
    [Round “7”]
    [White “Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime”]
    [Black “Nakamura, Hikaru”]
    [Result “1/2-1/2”]
    [ECO “C67”]
    [WhiteElo “2819”]
    [BlackElo “2791”]
    [PlyCount “70”]
    [EventDate “2016.??.??”]
    [EventCountry “USA”]
    [SourceTitle “playchess.com”]
    [Source “ChessBase”]
    [TimeControl “40/7200:3600+30”]

    1. e4 {(4s)} e5 {(6s)} 2. Nf3 {(3s)} Nc6 {(6s)} 3. Bb5 {(2s)} Nf6 {(23s)} 4.
    O-O {(4s)} Nxe4 {(7s)} 5. d4 {(1s)} Nd6 {(7s)} 6. Bxc6 {(3s)} dxc6 {(6s)} 7.
    dxe5 {(3s)} Nf5 {(9s)} 8. Qxd8+ {(4s)} Kxd8 {(6s)} 9. h3 {(3s)} Ke8 {(17s)} 10.
    Nc3 {(4s)} h5 {(4s)} 11. Bf4 {(22s)} Be7 {(9s)} 12. Rad1 {(20s)} Be6 {(7 s)}
    13. Ng5 {(4s)} Rh6 {(10s)} 14. Rfe1 {(4s)} Bb4 {(16s)} 15. g4 {(18s)} hxg4 {
    (19s)} 16. hxg4 {(3s)} Ne7 {(7s)} 17. f3 {(6s)} Bxc3 {(23s)} 18. bxc3 {(3s)}
    Nd5 {(6s)} 19. Bd2 {(5s)} Nb6 {(6s)} 20. Nxe6 {(148s)} Rxe6 {(12s)} 21. Kf2 {
    (103s)} Rd8 {(459s)} 22. Bg5 {(10s)} Rxd1 {(1242s)} 23. Rxd1 {(8s)} Nd7 {(10s)}
    24. f4 {(5s)} f6 {(23s)} 25. exf6 {(25s)} gxf6 {(10s)} 26. Bh4 {(449s)} c5 {
    (900s)} 27. Kf3 {(427s)} Ra6 {(298s)} 28. Ke4 {(127s)} Nf8 {(54s)} 29. Kf5 {
    (1545s)} Kf7 {(30s)} 30. c4 {(132s)} Re6 {(304s)} 31. g5 {(1165s)} Ng6 {(23s)}
    32. Rd7+ {(32s)} Re7 {(10s)} 33. Rxe7+ {(4s)} Nxe7+ {(8s)} 34. Ke4 {(5s)} f5+ {
    (22s)} 35. Ke3 {(36s)} Ng6 {(326 Ke4s)} 1/2-1/2

    [Event “4th Sinquefield Cup 2016”]
    [Site “Saint Louis”]
    [Date “2016.08.12”]
    [Round “7”]
    [White “Anand, Viswanathan”]
    [Black “Aronian, Levon”]
    [Result “1/2-1/2”]
    [ECO “C54”]
    [WhiteElo “2770”]
    [BlackElo “2792”]
    [Annotator “”]
    [PlyCount “68”]
    [EventDate “2016.??.??”]
    [EventCountry “USA”]
    [SourceTitle “playchess.com”]
    [Source “ChessBase”]
    [TimeControl “40/7200:3600+30”]

    1. e4 {(5s)} e5 {(4s)} 2. Nf3 {(6s)} Nc6 {(7s)} 3. Bc4 {(9s)} Bc5 {(7s)} 4. c3 {(10s)} Nf6 {(5s)} 5. d3
    {(6s)} O-O {(6s)} 6. Nbd2 {(25s)} a6 {(93s)} 7. a4 {(187s)} d6 {(28s)} 8. O-O {(32s)} Ba7 {(195s)} 9.
    h3 {(83s)} Ne7 {(155s)} 10. Re1 {(138s)} Ng6 {(35s)} 11. Bb3 {(123s)} Re8 {(476s)} 12. d4 {(666s)}
    h6 {(400s)} 13. Bc2 {(177s)} c6 {(156s)} 14. Nf1 {(83s)} d5 {(508s)} 15. Nxe5 {(620s)} Nxe5 {(4s)}
    16. dxe5 {(10s)} Nxe4 {(3s)} 17. Bxe4 {(345s)} dxe4 {(16s)} 18. Qxd8 {(7s)} Rxd8 {(5s)} 19. Ng3 {(
    18s)} Bb8 {(945s)} 20. Be3 {(1149s)} Bxe5 {(5s)} 21. Nxe4 {(123s)} Bc7 {(30s)} 22. a5 {(43s)} Bf5 {(
    553s)} 23. Nc5 {(126s)} Rab8 {(20s)} 24. g4 {(354s)} Bc2 {(89s)} 25. Rac1 {(39s)} Bg6 {(337s)} 26.
    b4 {(270s)} Bd6 {(385s)} 27. Na4 {(111s)} f6 {(265s)} 28. Ba7 {(368s)} Ra8 {(48s)} 29. Bc5 {(34s)}
    Be5 {(141s)} 30. Nb6 {(218s)} Rab8 {(8s)} 31. Nc4 {(119s)} Bf4 {(208s)} 32. Be3 {(25s)} Bxe3 {(184
    s)} 33. Rxe3 {(14s)} b5 {(377s)} 34. axb6 {(481s)} Bf7 {(10s)} 1/2-1/2

    [Event “4th Sinquefield Cup 2016”]
    [Site “Saint Louis”]
    [Date “2016.08.12”]
    [Round “7”]
    [White “Svidler, Peter”]
    [Black “So, Wesley”]
    [Result “1/2-1/2”]
    [ECO “A20”]
    [WhiteElo “2751”]
    [BlackElo “2771”]
    [Annotator “”]
    [PlyCount “61”]
    [EventDate “2016.??.??”]
    [EventCountry “USA”]
    [SourceTitle “playchess.com”]
    [Source “ChessBase”]
    [TimeControl “40/7200:3600+30”]

    1. c4 {(3s)} e5 {(13s)} 2. g3 {(35s)} Nf6 {(6s)} 3. Bg2 {(7s)} d5 {(3s)} 4. cxd5 {(5s)} Nxd5 {(4s)} 5.
    Nf3 {(346s)} Nc6 {(6s)} 6. O-O {(6s)} Nb6 {(4s)} 7. Nc3 {(488s)} Be7 {(13s)} 8. a3 {(114s)} O-O {(17s)}
    9. b4 {(3s)} Be6 {(7s)} 10. d3 {(9s)} a5 {(70s)} 11. b5 {(10s)} Nd4 {(5s)} 12. Bb2 {(9s)} Nb3 {(57s)}
    13. Rb1 {(9s)} f6 {(4s)} 14. Nd2 {(22s)} Nxd2 {(6s)} 15. Qxd2 {(5s)} Nc4 {(6s)} 16. Qc1 {(437s)}
    Nxb2 {(5s)} 17. Qxb2 {(4s)} Rb8 {(5s)} 18. e3 {(806s)} f5 {(662s)} 19. Na4 {(737s)} Bd6 {(130s)} 20.
    b6 {(109s)} c6 {(44s)} 21. d4 {(10s)} Qe7 {(1038s)} 22. Nc5 {(333s)} exd4 {(163s)} 23. Nxe6 {(600s)}
    Qxe6 {(34s)} 24. exd4 {(2s)} f4 {(19s)} 25. d5 {(255s)} cxd5 {(8s)} 26. Qb3 {(68s)} Kh8 {(9s)} 27.
    Bxd5 {(64s)} Qf6 {(152s)} 28. Qb5 {(914s)} Bxa3 {(217s)} 29. Qxa5 {(34s)} Bb2 {(5s)} 30. Bf3 {(98s)}
    Ra8 {(479s)} 31. Qd5 {(174s)} 1/2-1/2

    [Event “4th Sinquefield Cup 2016”]
    [Site “Saint Louis”]
    [Date “2016.08.12”]
    [Round “7”]
    [White “Topalov, Veselin”]
    [Black “Giri, Anish”]
    [Result “1/2-1/2”]
    [ECO “A20”]
    [WhiteElo “2761”]
    [BlackElo “2769”]
    [Annotator “”]
    [PlyCount “90”]
    [EventDate “2016.??.??”]
    [EventCountry “USA”]
    [SourceTitle “playchess.com”]
    [Source “ChessBase”]
    [TimeControl “40/7200:3600+30”]

    1. c4 {(5s)} e5 {(2s)} 2. d3 {(13s)} Bb4+ {(271s)} 3. Nd2 {(23s)} Nf6 {(206s)} 4. Ngf3 {(27s)} Nc6 {(
    12s)} 5. a3 {(35s)} Bxd2+ {(8s)} 6. Qxd2 {(13s)} d5 {(342s)} 7. cxd5 {(64s)} Qxd5 {(20s)} 8. e4 {(75
    s)} Qd6 {(55s)} 9. h3 {(126s)} a5 {(271s)} 10. Be2 {(357s)} Nd7 {(111s)} 11. Qc2 {(427s)} Nc5 {(129s)}
    12. Be3 {(16s)} Ne6 {(26s)} 13. O-O {(354s)} O-O {(75s)} 14. b3 {(267s)} Rd8 {(92s)} 15. Rfc1 {(
    718s)} Bd7 {(170s)} 16. Qb2 {(67s)} Be8 {(770s)} 17. b4 {(389s)} axb4 {(183s)} 18. axb4 {(9s)} Rxa1
    {(11s)} 19. Qxa1 {(511s)} b5 {(818s)} 20. Qa3 {(1339s)} Qxb4 {(579s)} 21. Qxb4 {(33s)} Nxb4 {(1s)}
    22. Nxe5 {(32s)} f6 {(13s)} 23. Bg4 {(590s)} Nd4 {(60s)} 24. Bxd4 {(69s)} Rxd4 {(10s)} 25. Nf3 {(
    16s)} Nxd3 {(88s)} 26. Rxc7 {(90s)} Rd6 {(607s)} 27. Rb7 {(114s)} h5 {(102s)} 28. Bf5 {(658s)} g6 {(
    28s)} 29. e5 {(20s)} Nxe5 {(62s)} 30. Nxe5 {(5s)} gxf5 {(833s)} 31. Rb8 {(5s)} Kf8 {(5s)} 32. Ng6+
    {(9s)} Kf7 {(7s)} 33. Nf4 {(5s)} h4 {(52s)} 34. g3 {(33s)} Bc6 {(94s)} 35. gxh4 {(55s)} Rd4 {(14s)} 36.
    Rb6 {(144s)} Rc4 {(342s)} 37. h5 {(111s)} Kg7 {(1s)} 38. Kh2 {(101s)} b4 {(252s)} 39. Nd3 {(107s)}
    Rc3 {(278s)} 40. Nxb4 {(0s)} Be4 {(0s)} 41. Rd6 {(179s)} Rf3 {(490s)} 42. Nd5 {(63s)} Rxf2+ {(126s)}
    43. Kg3 {(16s)} Rf3+ {(29s)} 44. Kh4 {(10s)} Bxd5 {(17s)} 45. Rxd5 {(6s)} Kh6 {(13s)} 1/2-1/2

    [Event “4th Sinquefield Cup 2016”]
    [Site “Saint Louis”]
    [Date “2016.08.12”]
    [Round “7”]
    [White “Caruana, Fabiano”]
    [Black “Ding, Liren”]
    [Result “1/2-1/2”]
    [ECO “C92”]
    [WhiteElo “2807”]
    [BlackElo “2755”]
    [Annotator “”]
    [PlyCount “189”]
    [EventDate “2016.??.??”]
    [EventCountry “USA”]
    [SourceTitle “playchess.com”]
    [Source “ChessBase”]
    [TimeControl “40/7200:3600+30”]

    1. e4 {(3s)} e5 {(5s)} 2. Nf3 {(3s)} Nc6 {(4s)} 3. Bb5 {(5s)} a6 {(4s)} 4. Ba4 {(4s)} Nf6 {(4s)} 5. O-O
    {(6s)} Be7 {(3s)} 6. Re1 {(5s)} b5 {(4s)} 7. Bb3 {(3s)} d6 {(5s)} 8. c3 {(5s)} O-O {(5s)} 9. h3 {(3s)} Re8
    {(5s)} 10. d4 {(14s)} Bb7 {(5s)} 11. Nbd2 {(8s)} Bf8 {(4s)} 12. Bc2 {(22s)} h6 {(100s)} 13. d5 {(9s)}
    Nb8 {(173s)} 14. b3 {(18s)} c6 {(125s)} 15. c4 {(7s)} Nbd7 {(2s)} 16. Nf1 {(413s)} Qc7 {(508s)} 17.
    Be3 {(174s)} a5 {(654s)} 18. Rc1 {(732s)} Ba6 {(495s)} 19. cxb5 {(539s)} Bxb5 {(3s)} 20. Bd3 {(10s)}
    Qb7 {(5s)} 21. Bxb5 {(21s)} cxb5 22. Ng3 {(275s)} Rec8 {(57s)} 23. Qd3 {(135s)} h5 {(125s)} 24.
    Rc3 {(790s)} b4 {(156s)} 25. Rxc8 {(172s)} Rxc8 {(17s)} 26. Rc1 {(61s)} Rxc1+ {(204s)} 27. Bxc1 {(
    11s)} Nc5 {(11s)} 28. Qc4 {(400s)} g6 {(18s)} 29. Bg5 {(50s)} Nfd7 {(968s)} 30. Nd2 {(207s)} a4 {(
    762s)} 31. Kh2 {(1495s)} Qb6 {(336s)} 32. Ne2 {(559s)} axb3 {(356s)} 33. axb3 {(6s)} Qa5 {(2s)} 34.
    Ng1 {(98s)} Nb6 {(167s)} 35. Qe2 {(49s)} Nc8 {(356s)} 36. Ngf3 {(134s)} Be7 {(156s)} 37. Be3 {(265
    s)} Nb6 {(42s)} 38. Ne1 {(120s)} Nbd7 {(482s)} 39. Nc2 {(99s)} Qa6 {(4s)} 40. Qxa6 {(0s)} Nxa6 {(0s)}
    41. Kg1 {(395s)} Kf8 {(1228s)} 42. Kf1 {(104s)} Bd8 {(5s)} 43. Ke2 {(785s)} Bb6 {(8s)} 44. Bh6+ {(
    35s)} Ke7 {(174s)} 45. f3 {(6s)} Ndc5 {(524s)} 46. Be3 {(109s)} f5 {(316s)} 47. g4 {(243s)} hxg4 {(
    193s)} 48. hxg4 {(7s)} fxg4 {(99s)} 49. fxg4 {(5s)} Nd7 {(76s)} 50. Bg5+ {(215s)} Ke8 {(185s)} 51.
    Nc4 {(235s)} Bc7 {(226s)} 52. Be3 {(348s)} Ndc5 {(38s)} 53. Nd2 {(296s)} Ba5 {(5s)} 54. Ne1 {(290s)}
    Bb6 {(34s)} 55. Bxc5 {(266s)} Bxc5 {(673s)} 56. Nef3 {(192s)} Nc7 {(95s)} 57. Ng5 {(40s)} Ke7 {(
    269s)} 58. Kd3 {(6s)} Kf6 {(3s)} 59. Ndf3 {(38s)} Bf2 {(251s)} 60. Nh3 {(349s)} Bg3 {(33s)} 61.
    Nhg1 {(179s)} Na6 {(63s)} 62. g5+ {(52s)} Ke7 {(25s)} 63. Nd2 {(5s)} Kd7 {(297s)} 64. Kc4 {(5s)} Kc7
    {(3s)} 65. Kb5 {(7s)} Nc5 {(5s)} 66. Ngf3 {(14s)} Nd3 {(80s)} 67. Kc4 {(30s)} Nf2 {(6s)} 68. Kxb4 {(
    21s)} Bf4 {(4s)} 69. Kb5 {(366s)} Nh3 {(23s)} 70. b4 {(14s)} Nxg5 {(94s)} 71. Ka6 {(76s)} Nxf3 {(117
    s)} 72. Nxf3 {(3s)} g5 {(2s)} 73. b5 {(5s)} g4 {(4s)} 74. b6+ {(9s)} Kb8 {(21s)} 75. Nh4 {(14s)} g3 {(
    40s)} 76. Nf5 {(131s)} g2 {(20s)} 77. Ne7 {(3s)} g1=Q {(3s)} 78. Nc6+ {(4s)} Kc8 {(2s)} 79. b7+ {(4s)}
    Kd7 {(1s)} 80. b8=Q {(9s)} Qf1+ {(137s)} 81. Kb7 {(37s)} Qb5+ {(39s)} 82. Ka8 {(5s)} Qa4+ {(10s)}
    83. Qa7+ {(163s)} Qxa7+ {(3s)} 84. Nxa7 {(3s)} Kc7 {(175s)} 85. Nb5+ {(6s)} Kb6 {(4s)} 86. Nxd6 {(
    4s)} Kc5 {(2s)} 87. Nf5 {(109s)} Bg5 {(6s)} 88. Kb7 {(28s)} Kc4 {(6s)} 89. d6 {(36s)} Kd3 {(5s)} 90.
    Ng3 {(15s)} Ke3 {(19s)} 91. d7 {(46s)} Kf3 {(25s)} 92. Nh5 {(24s)} Kxe4 {(10s)} 93. Kc6 {(14s)} Kf3
    {(34s)} 94. Ng7 {(18s)} e4 {(6s)} 95. Nf5 {(16s)} 1/2-1/2
    [/pgn]

    After some thrilling games between the world’s elite players it was Wesley So, the former Webster University prodigy, who took a commanding lead early in the tournament and cruised to a solid victory with 5.5/9 pts.
    The Sinquefield Cup is part of the second Grand Chess Tour, which aims to promote professional chess around the world. The Grandmasters featured in the Sinquefield Cup are regular participants in the tour. For details and photos from the Sinquefield Cup, check out the detailed analysis on Chessbase.