Tata Steel Chess 2014 Interesting Games - Part II : Wijk aan Zee, Netherlands

[Event "Tata Steel"]
[Site "Wijk aan Zee NED"]
[Date "2014.01.21"]
[Round "8"]
[White "P Harikrishna"]
[Black "Hi Nakamura"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "B51"]
[WhiteElo "2706"]
[BlackElo "2789"]
[PlyCount "65"]
[EventDate "2014.01.11"]

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. Bb5+ Nd7 4. O-O a6 5. Bd3 Ngf6 6. c3 b5 7. Bc2 Bb7 8. Re1
e5 9. d4 Be7 10. Nbd2 O-O 11. Nf1 Re8 12. Ng3 Bf8 13. d5 g6 14. b3 Nb6 15. Rb1
c4 16. bxc4 Nxc4 17. a4 Qc7 18. axb5 axb5 19. Rxb5 Na3 20. Rb3 Nxc2 21. Qxc2
Nd7 22. Be3 Ba6 23. Ra3 Bb5 24. Rea1 Rxa3 25. Rxa3 Rb8 26. Ra7 Qc8 27. h3 Nb6
28. Qc1 Nc4 29. Bh6 Qc5 30. Nh5 Bg7 31. Bxg7 Qxa7 32. Qh6 f5 33. Ng5 1-0

[Event "Tata Steel"]
[Site "Wijk aan Zee NED"]
[Date "2014.01.21"]
[EventDate "2014.01.11"]
[Round "8"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "F Caruana"]
[Black "R Rapport"]
[ECO "C10"]
[WhiteElo "2782"]
[BlackElo "2691"]
[PlyCount "64"]

1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 dxe4 4. Nxe4 Nf6 5. Nxf6+ gxf6 6. Nf3 Nc6 7. Bf4
e5 8. Be3 Bg4 9. Bb5 Qd6 10. c3 e4 11. h3 exf3 12. hxg4 fxg2 13. Rg1 a6 14.
Bd3 Ne7 15. Qf3 O-O-O 16. Rxg2 Nd5 17. Be4 Kb8 18. Bd2 Nb6 19. Bxb7 Nc4 20.
Bf4 Qb6 21. Be4 Re8 22. Kf1 h5 23. gxh5 Bh6 24. b3 Nd2+ 25. Bxd2 Bxd2 26.
Rd1 Bg5 27. Bc6 Re6 28. d5 Re5 29. Rg4 a5 30. Ra4 Qc5 31. Rdd4 Rg8 32. Qd3
1-0

[Event "Tata Steel"]
[Site "Wijk aan Zee NED"]
[Date "2014.01.21"]
[Round "8"]
[White "Dominguez Perez, L."]
[Black "W So"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "C42"]
[WhiteElo "2754"]
[BlackElo "2719"]
[PlyCount "51"]
[EventDate "2014.01.11"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nf6 3. Nxe5 d6 4. Nf3 Nxe4 5. Nc3 Nxc3 6. dxc3 Be7 7. Be3 O-O
8. Qd2 b6 9. O-O-O Bb7 10. h4 Nd7 11. Bd3 Nf6 12. Bd4 c5 13. Bxf6 Bxf6 14. Qf4
d5 15. h5 Re8 16. g4 g6 17. hxg6 hxg6 18. g5 Bg7 19. Rh7 d4 20. Bc4 Qe7 21. Qh4
Bxf3 22. Rxg7+ Kxg7 23. Qh6+ Kg8 24. Qxg6+ Kh8 25. Qh6+ Kg8 26. g6 1-0

[Event "Tata Steel"]
[Site "Wijk aan Zee NED"]
[Date "2014.01.18"]
[Round "6"]
[White "L Aronian"]
[Black "W So"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "A15"]
[WhiteElo "2812"]
[BlackElo "2719"]
[PlyCount "71"]
[EventDate "2014.01.11"]

1. c4 Nf6 2. Nf3 g6 3. Nc3 d5 4. cxd5 Nxd5 5. e4 Nxc3 6. bxc3 Bg7 7. Be2 c5 8.
O-O Nc6 9. Qa4 Bd7 10. Qa3 Qa5 11. Rd1 O-O 12. Rb1 b6 13. d4 Qxa3 14. Bxa3 Bg4
15. dxc5 Bxc3 16. Ba6 Rab8 17. Rdc1 Bxf3 18. gxf3 Bd2 19. Rd1 Bc3 20. Kg2 bxc5
21. Bxc5 Bb4 22. Be3 Bd6 23. Rbc1 Nb4 24. Bc4 Rfc8 25. f4 Kf8 26. a3 Nc6 27.
Ba6 Bxa3 28. Rc4 Rd8 29. Ra1 Bb2 30. Raa4 Rd6 31. e5 Re6 32. Rc2 Nd8 33. Bxa7
Ra8 34. Bb5 Bxe5 35. fxe5 Rxe5 36. Be3 1-0

[Event "Tata Steel"]
[Site "Wijk aan Zee NED"]
[Date "2014.01.17"]
[Round "5"]
[White "R Rapport"]
[Black "Dominguez Perez, L."]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "A34"]
[WhiteElo "2691"]
[BlackElo "2754"]
[PlyCount "61"]
[EventDate "2014.01.11"]

1. c4 c5 2. Nc3 g6 3. g4 Bg7 4. Bg2 Nc6 5. d3 d6 6. g5 e6 7. h4 h5 8. Bxc6+
bxc6 9. f4 e5 10. fxe5 Bxe5 11. Nf3 Bxc3+ 12. bxc3 Ne7 13. Bf4 O-O 14. Nd2 d5
15. Qa4 Bg4 16. Rh2 Re8 17. Rb1 Qd7 18. Rf2 Qe6 19. Nb3 Bxe2 20. Kd2 Qg4 21.
Nxc5 Qxh4 22. Be3 Nf5 23. Rxf5 gxf5 24. g6 Rxe3 25. Kxe3 Re8+ 26. Kd2 Qf2 27.

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[bornon]

saw it all... amazing games, great commentary, in a word... thanks for your job king's ! :)

[ehsanmo]

Thank you for the great commentary KC. Your exited voice is quite exciting :)

[luiscasillas]

Harikrishna-Nakamura: I did feel that white looked much better in the position that you asked. Black's f8 bishop seems out of the game, while all of white's minor pieces can easily come to the queenside and cover c4, c5 and b2; plus white has play on the a file, and the extra pawn.

It took me about 30 seconds to spot Harikrishna's 30th move. But of course, that's because you gave us the huge benefit of telling us that there was a very powerful move to be found—it's much harder to find such moves if nobody's telling you they're there! Maybe you ought to lie once in a while—tell us to spend 10-20 seconds looking for a move that doesn't exist. Or even better, just lie half of the time!

[DrummerBoyJason]

Nh5! fantastic, Naka could have resigned right then.

[siquenoquenoquesi]

At the first game of Nakamura, something got wrong at some point, but anyway it surprised me his sicilian line structure, I liked it a lot. What is that sicilian line name?

[jpvallestero]

@27:12 Why not Rb4? I think Rb4 is stronger than b4. If axb4 then Ra8#

[TheFatbip]

I guessed the move and I am bad. (~1500)

[Mwuesse]

kg2 @ 44 mins I imagine is so white threatens RD7. If it was played straight away it would run into Ne5 double attacking f3 and white's rook