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| FIDE World Championship 2005, San Luis, Argentina. Malcolm Pein of the Daily Telegraph on Round 14 Round 14 (October 14, 2005)
Topalov, Veselin - Polgar, Judit 1/2 18 E15 Queens Indian
Svidler, Peter - Anand, Viswanathan 1/2 19 C42 Petroff's Defence
Morozevich, Alexander - Adams, Michael 1/2 54 C77 Ruy Lopez Anderssen
Leko, Peter - Kasimdzhanov, Rustam 1-0 48 B42 Sicilian Paulsen
WCh-FIDE San Luis ARG (ARG), 28 ix-16 x 2005 cat. XX (2739)
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1 Topalov, Veselin g BUL 2788 ** == 1= 1= 1= 1= 1= 1= 10.0 2889
2 Anand, Viswanathan g IND 2788 == ** == 0= =1 01 1= 11 8.5 2811
3 Svidler, Peter g RUS 2738 0= == ** 11 1= == == 1= 8.5 2818
4 Morozevich, Alexander g RUS 2707 0= 1= 00 ** =1 =1 == == 7.0 2743
5 Leko, Peter g HUN 2763 0= =0 0= =0 ** =1 1= 1= 6.5 2706
6 Kasimdzhanov, Rustam g UZB 2670 0= 10 == =0 =0 ** == 01 5.5 2668
7 Adams, Michael g ENG 2719 0= 0= == == 0= == ** == 5.5 2661
8 Polgar, Judit g HUN 2735 0= 00 0= == 0= 10 == ** 4.5 2606
-----------------------------------------------------------------------  The Champion, Topalov after finishing the event. Compare and contrast with yesterday's photo at the start of round 13. Photo © http://www.wccsanluis.net Chess from Malcolm Pein Chess for Monday October 17th 2005 Veselin Topalov celebrated his victory at the 2005 Fide World Championship with a short draw against Judit Polgar as Peter Leko was the only winner in the fourteenth and final round. Topalov ended as the only unbeaten player on 10/14. His remarkable start of 6.5/7 gave him such an advantage over the field that seven draws in the second half of the eight player double round all play all easily sufficed and he takes home the first prize of $300,000, part of the $1,000,000 put up by the region of San Luis in Argentina. Vishy Anand and Peter Svidler shared second 1.5 points behind the winner on 8.5. They safeguarded their positions with a short draw in the last round. Topalov has shown himself to be the best player by far in 2005 and his continuous aggression over the board enabled him to defeat six of his seven rivals. Only Anand escaped but that was after the Indian had a huge slice of luck in their first individual game from round 2. Midway through his game against Alexander Morozevich I was very hopeful of reporting a first win for Michael Adams but the Russian just managed to engineer an escape despite being a bishop for two pawns down in the endgame. Luckily for Morozevich one of Adams' remaining two pawns was an h pawn promoting on h1, a light square and the England number one's remaining bishop was operating on dark squares. In such a circumstance the ending of bishop and h pawn v king is a draw despite the huge material superiority. Round fourteen results Leko 1-0 Kasimdzhanov, 48; Morozevich draw Adams, Ruy Lopez, 54; Svidler draw Anand, Petroff Defence, 19 Topalov draw Polgar, Queen,s Indian, 18; Final scores: 1 Topalov (Bulgaria) 10/14; 2-3 Anand (India), Svidler (Russia) 8.5; 4 Morozevich (Russia) 7; 5 Leko (Hungary) 6.5; 6-7 Kasimdzhanov (Uzbekistan), Adams (England) 5.5; 8 Polgar (Hungary) 4.5. Morozevich is outplayed and after 31... Nd5! Adams is winning material but the win was difficult note that 41... Nc3 42.Rxe5! Rxe5 43.Bd4 draws. 42... Bxf4 allows 43.Rxb2; perhaps 35... Ne2+ 36.Kf1 Nc3 37.Rd3 Nd5 was a better winning try; 36... Nxe2+ 37.Kf1 Ng3+ 38.Ke1 Rxc8 39.Rxd7 Nf5 40.Bc5 is less effective. 46... Ke6 47.g4 seems to hold as well. A Morozevich - M Adams FIDE WCh San Luis (14) 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.d3 d6 6.c3 g6 7.0-0 Bg7 8.Re1 0-0 9.Bg5 b5 10.Bc2 Bb7 11.Nbd2 Nb8 12.a4 Nbd7 13.b4 c5 14.Nb3 Qc7 15.Na5 Bc8 16.axb5 axb5 17.Bb3 Nb6 18.h3 c4 19.dxc4 bxc4 20.Bc2 Be6 21.Nd2 Nfd7 22.Nb1 Bf6 23.Be3 d5 24.Na3 Rac8 25.Qf3 Bg7 26.Rad1 f5 27.Nb5 Qb8 28.exf5 Bxf5 29.Bxf5 Rxf5 30.Qe2 d4! 31.cxd4 Nd5! 32.Nxc4 Qxb5 33.Nd6 Qxe2 34.Rxe2 Nc3 35.Nxc8 Rf8 36.dxe5 Nxd1 37.Ne7+ Kf7 38.Nc6 Nxe5 39.Nxe5+ Bxe5 40.Bc5 Re8 41.Kf1 Nb2 42.f4 Bc3 43.Rxe8 Kxe8 44.Ke2 Kd7 45.Ke3 Na4 46.Ke4 Nxc5+ 47.bxc5 Kc6 48.h4 Kxc5 Adams  Morozevich 49.f5 Kd6 50.fxg6 hxg6 51.h5 gxh5 52.g4 hxg4 53.Kf4 g3 54.Kxg3 draw |
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