World Team Championships 2010 (5)
Explosive win for Nakamura
IM Malcolm Pein - Tuesday 12th January 2010
It isn't often that Boris Gelfand is so comprehensively beaten as he was by Hikaru Nakamura in Round 5 of the World Team Championships.
The start of the game Gelfand - Nakamura Round 5. | http://wtcc2009.tsf.org.tr
We not see Hikaru Nakamura's brand of explosive chess at the London Chess Classic in December but it did not take the US champion long to find his best form and in the fifth round of the World Team Championships he showed us why he is known as the 'H-Bomb'. Nakamura led the USA to victory over Israel defeating world number 6 Boris Gelfand in a brilliantly played King's Indian Defence. Nakamura scored another outstanding win in the same line over Alexander Belyavsky in August.
B Gelfand - H Nakamura
1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.e4 d6 5.Nf3 0-0 6.Be2 e5 7.0-0 Nc6 8.d5 Ne7 9.Nd2 Ne8 10.b4 f5 11.c5 Nf6 12.f3 f4 13.Nc4 g5 14.a4 Ng6 15.Ba3 Rf7 16.b5
(16.a5 h5 17.b5 dxc5 18.b6 g4 19.bxc7 Rxc7 20.Nb5 g3 21.Nxc7 Nxe4!! Belyavsky - Nakamura NH Amsterdam 2010)
16...dxc5 17.Bxc5 h5 18.a5 g4 19.b6 g3 20.Kh1
(20.Nb5 Nxe4 21.fxe4 Qh4 22.hxg3 fxg3 23.Rxf7 Qh2+ 24.Kf1 Qh1+ 25.Bg1! but 20...Nd7 is better)
20...Bf8 21.d6
21. Bxf8 Nxe4 22. Nxe4 Qh4 wins.
21...axb6 22.Bg1
(22.axb6 Rxa1 23.Qxa1 cxd6 24.Rd1 Rd7)
22...Nh4 23.Re1
(23.dxc7 Bh3!! 24.gxh3 g2#)
23...Nxg2!! 24.dxc7?
(24.Kxg2 Rg7
24...Nxe1!
Hikaru Nakamura
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Boris Gelfand
Position after 24...Nxe1
25.Qxe1
(25.hxg3 Qxd1 26.Rxd1 Nxf3 27.Nxb6 Rxc7 28.Nxa8 Rxc3 wins material)
25...g2+! 26.Kxg2 Rg7+ 27.Kh1 Bh3 28.Bf1 Qd3!!
Hikaru Nakamura
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Boris Gelfand
Position after 28...Qd3!! and if 29.Bxd3 Bg2 mate
29.Nxe5
(29.Bxh3 Qxf3+ 30.Bg2 Qxg2#)
29...Bxf1 30.Qxf1 Qxc3
(Not 30...Qxf1 31.Rxf1 bxa5 32.Nb5 and White is back in the game now Black is a rook up)
31.Rc1 Qxe5 32.c8Q Rxc8 33.Rxc8 Qe6 0-1
Hikaru Nakamura
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Boris Gelfand
Final position after 33...Qe6
Krisnan Sasikiran followed up his defeat of world number 7 Vugar Gashimov by winning against world number five Levon Aronian as India held Armenia 2-2. Leading scores: 1 Russia 8/10 (13), 2 USA 8/10 (12.5), 3 Armenia 7/10(12), 4 India 7/10 (11.5)
