The 22nd Linares tournament takes place 22nd February - 10th March 2005. Round 1 Wednesday February 23rd 2005. Rest days March 1st and 7th 2005. The event is again a 7 player double round robin category 20 event (ave 2743).
XXII SuperGM Linares ESP (ESP), 23 ii-17 iii 2005 cat. XX (2743)
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1 Kasparov, Garry g RUS 2804 ** =. =. =. =. 1. 1. 4.0 2857
2 Anand, Viswanathan g IND 2786 =. ** 1. =. =. =. =. 3.5 2792
3 Topalov, Veselin g BUL 2757 =. 0. ** =. =. 1. 1. 3.5 2797
4 Kasimdzhanov, Rustam g UZB 2678 =. =. =. ** =. =. =. 3.0 2753
5 Leko, Peter g HUN 2749 =. =. =. =. ** =. =. 3.0 2742
6 Adams, Michael g ENG 2741 0. =. 0. =. =. ** 1. 2.5 2686
7 Vallejo Pons, Francisco g ESP 2686 0. =. 0. =. =. 0. ** 1.5 2559
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Round 7 (March 2, 2005)
Kasparov, Garry - Topalov, Veselin 1/2 21 C88 Ruy Lopez Closed
Adams, Michael - Anand, Viswanathan 1/2 28 B90 Sicilian Najdorf Variation
Vallejo Pons, Francisco - Leko, Peter 1/2 13 A33 English Symmetrical
Round 7 Topalov held a draw with black against Kasparov in only 21 moves. Photo © Jesús J. Boyero
Round 7
Report by Mark Crowther. Some additional on the spot info from Michiel Abeln who is now on the spot for the rest of the tournament providing reports and photos from tomorrow.
A very short day's play. Its was all over after around two and a half hours.
Garry Kasparov was held by Vesselin Topalov in a Ruy Lopez after only 21 moves, only three of which were out of theory. The Ruy Lopez is rarely played by Topalov as black, although one of its rare recent outings in his repertoire was last year at Linares against the same opponent. Kasparov gave a simultaneous the day before (the rest day) in a big department store so its possible he was a bit tired. Kasparov spent half an hour on 20. axb5 and had only one hour left for the rest of the game.
Vallejo Pons played for a draw and got one after only 13 moves with white against Peter Leko.
Michael Adams against Viswanathan Anand was the last to be a draw, after 28 moves when all of the interest had been taken out of the game. One surprising thing to see is that Ubilava is Anand´s second again. The last time that he had that role was about two years ago. Vishy had a comfortable position after 17...Be6 and around move 20 he invested half an hour to find a way to build up the pressure. In the post mortem he looked for example at 22... Nxe4 but failed to make it work. Ljubojevic said that Anand could have improved his game with 24...fxe6 instead of Qxe6, but this may well be a matter of taste.
Kasparov,G (2804) - Topalov,V (2757) [C88]
XXII SuperGM Linares ESP (7), 02.03.2005
1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.0-0 Be7 6.Re1 b5 7.Bb3 0-0 8.h3 Bb7 9.d3 d6 10.a3 Na5 11.Ba2 c5 12.Nbd2 Nc6 13.Nf1 Bc8 14.c3 Be6 15.Bxe6 fxe6 16.Ng3 Nd7 17.Be3 d5 18.exd5 exd5 19.a4 [19.b4 Kh8 20.Qb3 c4 21.dxc4 bxc4 22.Qa4 Qc8 23.Rad1 Nf6 24.Qc2 e4 25.Nd4 Ne5 26.Ndf5 Bd8 27.Bc5 Rg8 28.Rxd5 Nxd5 29.Qxe4 Qe6 30.Qxe5 Qxe5 31.Rxe5 Nxc3 32.Nd6 h6 33.Nxc4 Bf6 34.Rf5 Rge8 35.Nh5 Bd4 36.Nd6 Re1+ 37.Kh2 Bxc5 38.Rxc5 Nb5 39.Nxb5 axb5 40.Rxb5 Re2 41.f4 Re7 42.f5 Rxa3 43.Nf4 Kg8 44.Ng6 Re8 45.Rb7 Raa8 46.Ne7+ Kf8 47.Ng6+ Kg8 48.Ne7+ Kf8 49.Ng6+ 1/2-1/2 Shirov,A-Onischuk,A/New Delhi IND 2000/The Week in Chess 317] 19...Rb8 20.axb5 axb5 21.b3 Ra8
Kasparov had around an hour left for the rest of the game. 1/2-1/2
Vallejo Pons,F (2686) - Leko,P (2749) [A33]
XXII SuperGM Linares ESP (7), 02.03.2005
1.Nf3 c5 2.c4 Nc6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 e6 6.a3 Be7 7.g3 Qb6 8.e3 d5 [8...0-0 9.Bg2 has been played few times.] 9.cxd5 Nxd5 10.Nxd5 exd5 11.Qb3 0-0 12.Qxb6 axb6 13.Bg2
Vallejo seems happy to equalise with white. His 11th move Qb3 kills the game immediately. There is nothing for black to play on either. 1/2-1/2
Adams,Mi (2741) - Anand,V (2786) [B90]
XXII SuperGM Linares ESP (7), 02.03.2005
1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 a6 6.Be3 e6 7.Be2 Be7 8.0-0 0-0 9.a4 Nc6 10.f4 Qc7 11.Kh1 Re8 12.Bf3 Bf8 13.Qd2 Rb8 14.Qf2 [14.Rad1 Nd7 15.Qf2 (15.Nb3 b5 16.axb5 axb5 17.Qf2 b4 18.Ne2 Ra8 19.Ned4 Nxd4 20.Nxd4 Ra2 21.Ra1 Rxa1 22.Rxa1 Nc5 23.Qe2 Bb7 24.Bd2 e5 25.fxe5 Rxe5 26.Bxb4 Nxe4 27.Qf1 Qb6 28.c3 Nd2 29.Qd3 Nxf3 30.Nxf3 Re6 31.Rd1 Qc6 32.Qd2 Rg6 33.Qf2 h6 34.h3 Be7 35.Re1 Bd8 36.Re2 Bb6 37.Qh4 Rxg2 38.Rxg2 Qxf3 39.Qg4 Qxg4 40.hxg4 d5 41.Kh2 d4 42.Rd2 dxc3 43.bxc3 Bc8 44.Kg3 Be6 45.Bd6 g5 46.Be5 Kh7 47.Rb2 Bc5 48.Rb8 f6 49.Rb7+ Kg6 50.Bb8 Be3 51.Re7 Bf4+ 52.Bxf4 gxf4+ 53.Kxf4 Bf7 54.Rc7 Be6 55.c4 h5 56.gxh5+ Kxh5 57.c5 Kg6 58.c6 Bd5 59.Rc8 Kf7 60.c7 Ke7 61.Rh8 1-0 Karjakin,S-Van Wely,L/Panormo GRE 2002/The Week in Chess 413) 15...Nb4 16.e5 d5 17.Qg3 Nc5 18.f5 g6 19.f6 Nc6 20.Bf4 Qb6 21.Qh4 Qxb2 22.Bh6 Kh8 23.Bxf8 Rxf8 24.Nxc6 Qxc3 25.Nxb8 Qxe5 26.Qg3 Qxg3 27.hxg3 Nxa4 28.Rd4 Nc3 29.Rd3 Nb5 30.c4 dxc4 31.Rd2 e5 32.Rfd1 Nd4 33.Rb2 c3 34.Rb6 c2 35.Rc1 Rd8 36.Kh2 Nxf3+ 0-1 Ovetchkin,R-Sakaev,K/Krasnoyarsk RUS 2003/The Week in Chess 461] 14...e5 15.Nde2 exf4 16.Bb6 Qe7 17.Nxf4 Be6 (Black has a comfortable position) 18.Rad1 g6 19.Qd2 Ne5 20.Be2 Rbc8 21.Bf2 h6 22.h3 Rc6 (Anand tried to make 22... Nxe4 work in the post-mortem but didn't manage it)23.Bh4 g5 24.Nxe6 Qxe6 (24...fxe6!?) 25.Bg3 The position is level. 25...Nc4 26.Qd4 Bg7 27.Bxc4 Rxc4 28.Qxd6 Qxd6
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