This is in an event where +2 or +3 is often enough to win.Ī Ruy Lopez seemed to be going in Fabi’s direction, even arriving at positions that our esteemed GM annotator would call winning. Nepomniachtchi sits on an incredible +5 score, or 8/11. The position remained muddy for a few moves, but that's well within the calculation abilities of a Super GM and on move 35 Alireza resigned. Nepomniachtchi's pieces were pushed away by the wave of pawns, but only to arrive at better squares than they sat on before. Unfortunately for him, the king-side pawn storm had very little effect. In a fairly even position, Alireza lashed out with 16. e4 which now seems to be his go-to weapon. Nepomniachtchi played the Petroff against 1. The game itself went south for Alireza quickly. Alireza was having a disappointing tournament long before hyper-bullet games were involved, and the math just barely checks out for him to have gotten a perfectly reasonable amount of sleep anyway. Personally, I would agree that this sort of thing is sub-optimal, but it's not clear at all how much effect it had in the end. Many of the chess commentariat understandably questioned if this was the ideal pre-game evening/morning for a chess player playing in the biggest tournament of his life. The match continued for some 5 hours, with Naroditsky coming out on top 142–108. Around that time Alireza logged onto Lichess and began playing 30-second games with GM Daniel Naroditsky who was also in Madrid as a commentator. The discussion of this game begins some 14 hours before it started. We also have a selection of annotated games by GM Ulvi Bajarani and video recaps by WGM-elect Jesse February.Īlireza Firouzja - Ian Nepomniachtchi 0 - 1 Ian Nepomniachtchi extended his lead to an almost insurmountable 1.5 points with 3 rounds remaining by beating Alireza Firouzja, who prepared for the game in an unusual way.ĭaily, Lichess is providing a broadcast of the games played in real-time.
The eleventh round of the Candidates Tournament in Madrid has concluded.
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