Chess games of anish giri

It was one of the first annual tournaments focused on rapid games, which uniquely were hybrid with blindfold games. The same Amber Rapid that saw this game also featured a celebrated win for Ivanchuk over Karjakin, featuring a stunning opening novelty by Ivanchuk after which Karjakin quickly faltered. The same year they also played for the world championship, which Anand won as well.

Unlike Giri in the previous game, who quickly crushed Morozevich with tactical blows, this contest was an endurance battle that the computer considers pretty much even for the longest time. Kramnik finally errs with Qb6 but it's a very high-level blunder, missing not Black's next move but the move after that.

On move 41 even the silicon needs a few seconds to see the spectacular If Kramnik takes the queen, the recapture gxf3 leads to unavoidable checkmate on h1. It's hard to imagine being up two queens and losing, yet had Kramnik been in the mood to do just that, he could have ended the game with Bxf3 gxf3 Nor did the official FIDE rating lists for rapid and blitz.

Bortnyk is a speed demon who's achieved a bullet rating on Chess. According to the computer, Bortnyk is trapped in a forced checkmate after capturing the knight with For the next five moves, , Radjabov only has one move available each time to stay in the mating line, including the queen sac After some time forcing Radjabov to find the best continuation, Bortnyk eventually just lets a mate-in-one happen, but the alternative was to dump his queen just to delay the inevitable by a couple moves.

It's always nice when mate appears on the board without the loser having to throw pieces in the way just to extend the misery. It's perhaps the most famous game on the list, but a rapid game? Before World War I? Sort of. We'll explain momentarily. First, let's make sure it's clear which Lasker we're talking about. It's not the world champion from , Emanuel Lasker , but his very distant relative Edward Lasker, who was never close to world champion though he nearly became U.

In the following attacking example. Giri employs a historically slower and positional Catalan opening. GM Alexander Morozevich, his opponent, decides to keep the Catalan gambit pawn, and the position turns sharp. Giri sacrifices multiple pieces to put the king in a mating net—Giri's precision is memorable:. Giri learned to play chess at the age of six. By the age of 11, he was rated above and continued to grow stronger.

Giri won multiple junior events in Russia in and earned his first two grandmaster norms in In Giri earned his third grandmaster norm at the age of 14 years and roughly 7 months— he was the youngest grandmaster in the world at the time although his record has been broken multiple times since then. He won his first Dutch championship in the same year. In he participated in his first Tata Steel tournament and had a respectable score of 6.

Carlsen played a quiet opening, and Giri equalized both easily and early. A small tactical skirmish ensued between moves 14 and 18, and Giri emerged with a small edge. Carlsen made a mistake on move 19, and Giri did not let the opportunity go to waste by finding both Here is Giri's victory over Nakamura from this tournament, where Giri gives up his bishop pair to double Nakamura's f-pawns early and then outplays the American super grandmaster.

On move 24 Giri establishes a powerful centralized knight on e4, which Nakamura exchanges giving back the bishop pair but keeping his doubled and weak pawns. After the queens are exchanged on move 31, Giri cashes in on his structural advantage and wins the game in style with an exchange sacrifice on move 34—after which his strong bishop and advanced passed pawn are too much for Nakamura to handle.

Anish Giri at Tata Steel In his first participation in the FIDE Candidates Tournament in , Giri did well but also raised eyebrows by drawing all of his 14 games. It is difficult to criticize this performance against the world's best, and it certainly cemented the idea that he deserved to be a candidate. In the following year, Giri won the Reykjavik open which had a field of players. Obviously, Carlsen does not expect to make it to all at once, but that shows just how monumental his task is.

A bad performance, meanwhile, could effectively end Carlsen's latest quest before it begins. That would be a surprise too—less of one statistically, but perhaps more of one narratively—so it is also something to watch out for. The lofty goal wasn't the only storyline coming out of the World Championship, of course. A third countryman, GM Sergey Karjakin Now that controversy lords over the Karjakin-Dubov matchup that we'll see in Wijk aan Zee much more than whatever national kinship they still feel.

Carlsen's game with Karjakin will have its own intrigue as a rematch of the World Championship, of course, and never mind the rematch with Caruana. Carlsen could not outperform either of them in classical in those matches, and now they are two of his toughest opponents on the attempt at Carlsen also has to play against not one but two players who have intimate knowledge of his opening prep, having helped him in the World Championship: Dubov and GM Jorden van Foreest.

How his games with them start, and how they end, will be of note. Not to mention, did Dubov and Van Foreest learn anything about each other in the process? And, Van Foreest, where have we heard that name before? That's right, he won in Titled Tuesday a little bit ago.

No, wait, wasn't there a bigger event? Ah, yes: this one. The previous Tata Steel Chess Tournament in was a doozy. Citizens of the host country had to be thrilled that it ended in a tie between the two Dutch competitors, Van Foreest and GM Anish Giri , although disappointed that only one could be named champion after tiebreaks.

In only the second-ever tiebreak since the rule was implemented in , Giri fell to in such situations—after suffering the same fate against Carlsen in '18, which he might also want to avenge—as Van Foreest pulled off the armageddon upset.

Both players return this year. Not returning this year is Firouzja, who had his game interrupted in the final round in to make room for the tiebreaks. Giri, who multiple times came oh-so-close to being the first Dutch player to win this Dutch tournament since , only for the younger, lower-rated Van Foreest to beat him to it and beat him doing it, will want to reassert his dominance. Van Foreest, meanwhile, will look to back up his victory with another strong showing throughout the tourney.

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