Arctic Securities Chess Stars 2010 (Day 1)
Carlsen's Lucky Escape
IM Malcolm Pein - Monday 30th August 2010
Malcolm Pein reports on Magnus Carlsen's lucky escape against fellow countryman Jon Ludvig Hammer in a tournament featuring World Chess Champion Viswanathan Anand.
The world champion and the world number one met in the preliminaries of the Artic Securities Chess Stars 2010 at Kristiansund in Norway, a Rapid Chess tournament. Vishy Anand was white and attacked Magnus Carlsen's Sicilian Dragon but the game ended in perpetal check. Anand and Carlsen both defeated Judit Polgar and Jon Ludvig Hammer to reach 2.5/3 but Carlsen was very lucky against Hammer in a rare episode of mutual chess blindness.
Jon Ludvig Hammer
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Magnus Carlsen
Position after 38...Rh2
39.Rd2?? Rhxd2??
(39...Rc1+ wins trivially but now Carlsen grinds Hammer down)
40.Bxd2 Kf7 41.Bc3 Bxa4 42.Rb7+ Ke6 43.Rxg7 Bb5+ 44.Kg1 Be8 45.Rh7 Kf5 46.Rxh6 Kg5 47.Re6 Bxh5 48.Re5+ Kh6 49.f4 Kg6 50.f5+ Kf7 51.f6 Bg6 52.Re7+ Kf8 53.Rc7 Ke8 54.b4 Kd8 55.Rc5 Kd7 56.b5 Kd6 57.Bb4 Rb2 58.Ba3 Ra2 59.Rc3+ Ke6 60.b6 Ra1+ 61.Kf2 Be4 62.Be7 Bh1 63.Re3+ Kf7 64.Rb3 Bb7 65.Ke3 Ra5 66.Rc3 Rb5 67.Rc7 Bh1 68.Bd8+ Ke8 69.f7+ Kf8 70.Bf6 Bd5 71.Bd4 Bxf7 72.b7 Be8 73.Ba7 1-0
Jon Ludvig Hammer
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Magnus Carlsen
Final position after 73.Ba7
V Anand (2800) - M Carlsen (2826)
1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 g6 6.Be3 Bg7 7.f3 Nc6 8.Qd2 0-0 9.Bc4 Bd7 10.Bb3 Nxd4 11.Bxd4 b5 12.a4 b4 13.Nd5 Nxd5 14.Bxg7 Kxg7 15.exd5 a5 16.h4 e5 17.dxe6 Bxe6 18.0-0-0
(18.h5 Bxb3 19.hxg6 hxg6 20.Qh6+ Kf6= 21.Qf4+ Kg7)
18...Bxb3 19.cxb3 Re8 20.h5 Qf6 21.Kb1 gxh5 22.g4! h4! 23.g5 Qf5+ 24.Ka2 h3
(Black has sufficient activity to hold)
25.Rh2
(25.Qxd6!? Rac8 26.Qh6+ Kg8 27.Rxh3; 25.Qxd6 Rad8 26.Qh6+ Kg8 27.Rxd8 Rxd8 28.Qxh3 Qxh3 29.Rxh3 Rd5=)
25...Kg8 26.Rdh1 Rac8 27.Qxd6
(27.Rxh3 Qc2 28.Qxc2 Rxc2 29.Rxh7 Ree2)
27...Rc2 28.Rxc2 Qxc2 29.Rxh3 Re1 30.Qd8+ Kg7 31.Qf6+ Kg8 draw
