[Event "EU-Cup 28th"] [Site "Eilat"] [Date "2012.10.11"] [Round "1.2"] [White "Giri, Anish"] [Black "Rodshtein, Maxim"] [Result "1-0"] [ECO "A50"] [WhiteElo "2730"] [BlackElo "2616"] [SetUp "1"] [FEN "8/R4pkp/1prp2p1/7n/8/4B1P1/P4PKP/8 b - - 0 29"] [PlyCount "16"] [EventDate "2012.10.11"] [EventType "team-swiss"] [EventRounds "7"] [EventCountry "ISR"] [SourceTitle "CBM 151"] [Source "ChessBase"] [SourceDate "2012.11.13"] [SourceVersion "1"] [SourceVersionDate "2012.11.13"] [SourceQuality "1"] [WhiteTeam "SHSM-64"] [BlackTeam "Beer Sheva"] [WhiteTeamCountry "RUS"] [BlackTeamCountry "ISR"] {[#]} 29... Nf6 30. Bd4 b5 31. Ra5 Rc4 32. Ba1 Rc1 33. Bb2 Rc5 34. a4 bxa4 35. Rxc5 dxc5 36. f4 a3 37. Ba1 1-0 [Event "Titled Tuesday"] [Site "Chess.com"] [Date "2020.07.14"] [Round "?"] [White "AnishOnYoutube"] [Black "Grischuk"] [Result "1-0"] [ECO "E97"] [WhiteElo "2881"] [BlackElo "3038"] [SetUp "1"] [FEN "8/8/3rkb1R/8/5P2/4B3/8/5K2 b - - 0 55"] [PlyCount "32"] [EventDate "2020.??.??"] [TimeControl "180+1"] [WhiteClock "0:00:04"] [BlackClock "0:00:02"] {[#]} 55... Kf5 {[%emt 0:00:01]} 56. Ke2 {[%emt 0:00:01]} Be7 {[%emt 0:00:02]} 57. Rh5+ {[%emt 0:00:02]} Kg6 {[%emt 0:00:01]} 58. Rb5 {[%emt 0:00:02]} Bf6 { [%emt 0:00:01]} 59. Kf3 {[%emt 0:00:01]} Rd7 {[%emt 0:00:02]} 60. Rb1 {[%emt 0: 00:02]} Rc7 {[%emt 0:00:01]} 61. Rb6 {[%emt 0:00:01]} Kf5 {[%emt 0:00:01]} 62. Rb5+ {[%emt 0:00:01]} Kg6 {[%emt 0:00:01]} 63. Kg4 {[%emt 0:00:00]} Rc4 { [%emt 0:00:01]} 64. Rb6 {[%emt 0:00:01]} Ra4 {[%emt 0:00:01]} 65. Bc5 {[%emt 0: 00:02]} Kf7 {[%emt 0:00:02]} 66. Kf5 {[%emt 0:00:01]} Bd8 {[%emt 0:00:01]} 67. Rb7+ {[%emt 0:00:01]} Ke8 {[%emt 0:00:01]} 68. Rh7 {[%emt 0:00:04]} Rc4 { [%emt 0:00:01]} 69. Bd6 {[%emt 0:00:05]} Ra4 {[%emt 0:00:02]} 70. Ke6 {[%emt 0: 00:01]} Re4+ {[%emt 0:00:01]} 71. Be5 {[%emt 0:00:01] AnishOnYoutube won on time} 1-0 [Event "Biel Suri Memorial"] [Site "Biel"] [Date "2014.07.16"] [Round "3"] [White "Giri, Anish"] [Black "Wojtaszek, Radoslaw"] [Result "1-0"] [ECO "B90"] [WhiteElo "2750"] [BlackElo "2733"] [SetUp "1"] [FEN "8/R7/6pk/3P1b2/7P/4rB2/5K2/8 b - - 0 61"] [PlyCount "46"] [EventDate "2014.07.14"] [EventType "tourn"] [EventRounds "10"] [EventCountry "SUI"] [EventCategory "19"] [SourceTitle "CBM 162"] [Source "ChessBase"] [SourceDate "2014.09.17"] [SourceVersion "1"] [SourceVersionDate "2014.09.17"] [SourceQuality "1"] 61... Rd3 62. Rf7 Rd4 63. Kg3 Bc2 64. Rf4 Rd2 65. Rb4 Bd1 66. Be4 g5 67. Rb6+ Kh5 68. Bg6+ Kh6 69. Be4+ Kh5 70. hxg5 Kxg5 71. Rg6+ Kh5 72. Kf4 Rf2+ 73. Ke5 Re2 74. Rc6 Ba4 75. Rc8 Kh6 76. Rc7 Be8 77. Rh7+ Kg5 78. Rg7+ Kh6 79. Rg3 Re1 80. d6 Kh5 81. Kf4 Kh6 82. Rg8 Ba4 83. Rg6+ Kh5 84. Re6 1-0 [Event "EU-chT (Men) 20th"] [Site "Reykjavik"] [Date "2015.11.17"] [Round "5.1"] [White "Giri, Anish"] [Black "Beliavsky, Alexander G"] [Result "1-0"] [ECO "C54"] [WhiteElo "2778"] [BlackElo "2622"] [SetUp "1"] [FEN "8/1Bn1k3/p6K/P1p3p1/2P3P1/1NP1b2P/8/8 b - - 0 63"] [PlyCount "106"] [EventDate "2015.11.13"] [EventType "team-swiss"] [EventRounds "9"] [EventCountry "ISL"] [SourceTitle "CBM 170"] [Source "ChessBase"] [SourceDate "2016.01.15"] [SourceVersion "1"] [SourceVersionDate "2016.01.15"] [SourceQuality "1"] [WhiteTeam "Netherlands"] [BlackTeam "Slovenia"] [WhiteTeamCountry "NED"] [BlackTeamCountry "SLO"] {[#]} 63... Kf6 64. Kh7 Kf7 65. Bc6 Kf6 66. Kg8 Kg6 67. Bd7 Kf6 68. Kh7 Kf7 69. Kh6 Kf6 70. Kh5 Ke7 71. Bc8 Kf6 72. Kh6 Kf7 73. Bb7 Kf6 74. Bc6 Kf7 75. Kh7 Kf6 76. Bd7 Kf7 77. Kh6 Kf6 78. Bc8 Kf7 79. Bb7 Kf6 80. Kh7 Kf7 81. Bg2 Kf6 82. Bc6 Kf7 83. Bb7 Kf6 84. Kh6 Kf7 85. Bc6 Kf6 86. Bd7 Kf7 87. Bf5 Kf6 88. Bc8 Kf7 89. Bb7 Kf6 90. Bg2 Kf7 91. Bf3 Kf6 92. Bb7 Kf7 93. h4 gxh4+ 94. Kh5 h3 95. Kh4 h2 96. Kg3 Bg1 97. Nd2 Kf6 98. Nf1 Kg5 99. Nd2 Kf6 100. Nf1 Kg5 101. Nxh2 Bxh2+ 102. Kxh2 Kxg4 103. Kg2 Kf4 104. Kf2 Ke5 105. Kf3 Kf5 106. Bc8+ Ke5 107. Ke3 Kd6 108. Ke4 Ne6 109. Bxa6 Ng5+ 110. Kf4 Nf7 111. Bb7 Kc7 112. Bd5 Nd6 113. Ke5 Nc8 114. Bf3 Na7 115. Kd5 Nc6 116. Kxc5 1-0 [Event "Olympiad-43"] [Site "Batumi"] [Date "2018.09.25"] [Round "2.1"] [White "Greet, Andrew"] [Black "Giri, Anish"] [Result "0-1"] [ECO "E17"] [WhiteElo "2441"] [BlackElo "2780"] [Annotator "Ganguly, Surya Sekhar "] [PlyCount "84"] [EventDate "2018.09.24"] [EventType "team-swiss"] [EventRounds "11"] [EventCountry "GEO"] [SourceTitle "CBM 187"] [Source "ChessBase"] [SourceDate "2018.12.11"] [SourceVersion "1"] [SourceVersionDate "2018.12.11"] [SourceQuality "1"] [WhiteTeam "Scotland"] [BlackTeam "Netherlands"] [WhiteTeamCountry "SCO"] [BlackTeamCountry "NED"] {[%evp 0,84,31,25,21,-16,0,-11,42,22,24,-12,-8,-4,1,4,19,-3,2,10,9,18,13,-4,-5, -3,-3,-12,-15,-13,-9,-16,-8,-24,12,-13,0,0,-25,-40,-34,-19,-22,-22,-43,-43,-1, -51,-51,-44,-52,-72,-103,-186,-206,-235,-203,-233,-226,-225,-230,-237,-255, -296,-311,-341,-332,-349,-408,-408,-439,-413,-415,-415,-449,-449,-441,-464, -447,-469,-450,-357,-364,-360,-397,-534,-440]} 1. d4 d5 2. c4 e6 3. Nf3 Nd7 { With his already huge opening repertoire Anish still managed to find something that he never played before as early as move 3! Judging by Andrew Greet's opening repertoire which is largely based on the Catalan probably Anish most likely just wanted to find a way to make sure that White doesn't get a normal Catalan that easily. It’s an old line played by many strong players and goes back all the way to when players like Lasker and Capablanca used it followed by many strong players. Nevertheless, it is not as common as other main moves here.} 4. Nbd2 {It paid off. Andrew after 15 min of thought decided to stick to a Catalan setup anyways but here Black will not have any issues with equality.} (4. Nc3 {most principled of course but then a player who plays mainly Catalan would be reluctant to test this while facing a somewhat better prepared player :)} Ngf6 {transposes to a completely different big line and at least it won’t be easy to get a normal Catalan setup here which was probably Anish's genius idea of playing 3...Nd7.}) (4. g3 {It is certain that Andrew didn't want to test Anish's preparation and thus started with Nbd2 before g3. There is nothing wrong with playing g3, just that it gets to some less analysed position rather quickly.} dxc4 {I guess this is what bothered White} 5. Bg2 {and now there are many fresh areas like 5...Rb8/Nb6/Bb4/c6 etc and it would be a tough call to predict what Anish had in mind}) 4... Ngf6 5. g3 { Finally the bishop has come to g2 but White is committed to Nbd2 and Black didn't even have to compromise anywhere. The opening problem is solved to start with} b6 6. Bg2 Bb7 7. O-O Be7 8. b3 O-O 9. Bb2 Re8 10. Rc1 c5 11. dxc5 { I don't understand the need for releasing the central tension so quickly. It just gives away the central battle rather too easily} (11. e3 {is a normal move with a not so complicated position :)}) 11... bxc5 12. Ne5 {Also, it didn't make much sense to volunteer to exchange the knight and lose a few tempi.} Nxe5 13. Bxe5 Qb6 14. e3 Rad8 {I am pretty much sure that Anish would not have played this move had he seen White's little trick here which only works with the rook on d8} 15. cxd5 exd5 16. Qc2 (16. b4 $1 {a sudden chance to nullify the centre and get a good square on d4. I actually like White after this move} Ba6 (16... cxb4 17. Bc7 {[%csl Rd8]}) (16... Qxb4 17. Rb1 {[%csl Rb7]}) (16... c4 17. a3) (16... Nd7 17. bxc5 Bxc5 18. Rb1 $14) 17. bxc5 Bxc5 18. Bxf6 gxf6 19. Nb3 {A random line by the computer but it would have never happened in the actual game}) 16... Ng4 $1 17. Bf4 $6 {The bishop definitely doesn't belong on this diagonal.} (17. Ba1 {was called for}) 17... h6 18. h3 ( 18. e4 {The engine says this but it’s understandable that one can get unhappy about playing Be3 after g5.} g5 19. Be3 d4 20. Nc4 Qg6 21. Bd2 Bf8 $36) 18... Nf6 19. e4 $6 (19. Be5 {it was not too late to get the bishop where it belongs}) 19... Nh5 $1 {I guess by now Anish has seen the brilliant idea} ( 19... dxe4 {leads to some forced lines which was not that clear} 20. Nxe4 Nxe4 21. Bxe4 Bd6 22. Bxb7 Bxf4 23. gxf4 Qxb7 24. Rfe1 {also better for Black but the game continuation is much stronger}) 20. Be3 d4 21. Nc4 Qg6 22. Bd2 Bh4 $3 {and here comes the 19th century move! Anish is a peaceful guy but today he decided to have the 'beast mode' on for a change ;-)} 23. Rce1 (23. Ba5 { It would be interesting to know what Anish saw here. With so many tempting possibilities it is not clear which one is best. I feel he probably would have just played Rd7 with his huge understanding which is also practically the best. However, the lines here are quite pretty after d3.} d3 $5 (23... Nf4 {looks super cool but doesn't work} 24. gxf4 Bxe4 25. Qxe4 Rxe4 26. f5 $1 $11 { spoils the show}) (23... Rd7 $1 {I think this is what he would have opted for eventually which in my opinion is most practical and strong enough.}) 24. Qd1 Rxe4 {just because it looks really tempting} (24... Rd4 25. Nd2 Bxg3 {also good enough}) 25. Bxd8 Nxg3 26. fxg3 (26. Bxh4 Ne2+ 27. Kh1 Qxg2+ 28. Kxg2 Rg4+ 29. Kh2 Rg2+ 30. Kh1 Rxf2# {wouldn't it feel nice to mate like this!}) 26... Re2 27. Qxe2 dxe2 28. Bxh4 exf1=Q+ 29. Rxf1 Bxg2 30. Kxg2 Qe4+ $1 31. Rf3 g5 32. Bxg5 hxg5 33. g4 {but the question is why get here and bother if it's a fortress or not when Black could simply play Rd7 without having to calculate too many lines :P}) 23... Nxg3 $1 {Crushing and brilliant.} 24. fxg3 Bxg3 25. Ba5 Rd7 {He surely would have played Rd7 in the other line too :)} 26. Qd3 (26. Rd1 Rxe4) 26... Bxe1 27. Rxe1 f5 $1 {cleanest} 28. Kh2 fxe4 29. Qg3 Qxg3+ 30. Kxg3 {Anish has excellent technique and with +5 evaluation he plays even better chess} Re6 31. Rc1 Bd5 32. Bf1 Rf7 33. Be2 Rg6+ 34. Kh4 Rg2 35. Bg4 Rxa2 {No rush} 36. Be1 Rf1 37. Ne5 Bxb3 {if the game goes for few more moves he would not leave the h3 pawn either} 38. Rxc5 Rxe1 39. Rc8+ Kh7 40. Bf5+ g6 41. Rc7+ Kg8 42. Bxg6 Rg2 {Good to see a nice attacking game by Anish for a change :)} 0-1 [Event "Tata Steel-A 80th"] [Site "Wijk aan Zee"] [Date "2018.01.14"] [Round "2"] [White "Giri, Anish"] [Black "Kramnik, Vladimir"] [Result "1-0"] [ECO "A13"] [WhiteElo "2752"] [BlackElo "2787"] [SetUp "1"] [FEN "8/4qkpp/1Q2pn2/n2p1pB1/3N4/2r3P1/4PP1P/R5K1 b - - 0 27"] [PlyCount "16"] [EventDate "2018.01.13"] [EventType "tourn"] [EventRounds "13"] [EventCountry "NED"] [EventCategory "20"] [SourceTitle "CBM 183"] [Source "ChessBase"] [SourceDate "2018.03.14"] [SourceVersion "1"] [SourceVersionDate "2018.03.14"] [SourceQuality "1"] 27... Nc4 28. Qb8 Nd7 29. Bxe7 Nxb8 30. Bb4 e5 31. Ra7+ Kg8 32. Bxc3 exd4 33. Bxd4 Nc6 34. Rxg7+ Kf8 35. Bf6 1-0 [Event "Beijing Sportaccord rap"] [Site "Beijing"] [Date "2012.12.14"] [Round "2"] [White "Giri, Anish"] [Black "Morozevich, Alexander"] [Result "1-0"] [ECO "E04"] [WhiteElo "2720"] [BlackElo "2748"] [PlyCount "49"] [EventDate "2012.12.14"] [EventType "swiss (rapid)"] [EventRounds "7"] [EventCountry "CHN"] [SourceTitle "EXT 2014"] [Source "ChessBase"] [SourceDate "2013.11.20"] [SourceVersion "1"] [SourceVersionDate "2013.11.20"] [SourceQuality "1"] {[%evp 0,49,25,21,19,-11,-11,-11,6,-19,-22,-21,45,35,40,28,65,44,27,10,3,15,5, -38,5,-10,13,-16,14,-39,-45,-49,-32,-110,-110,64,64,72,72,-5,30,14,309,309,389, 673,665,614,1032,1164,29995,29996]} 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nf3 d5 4. g3 dxc4 5. Bg2 b5 6. a4 c6 7. Ne5 Nd5 8. O-O a6 9. axb5 cxb5 10. b3 cxb3 11. Qxb3 Bb7 12. e4 Nf6 13. d5 Bd6 14. Nxf7 Kxf7 15. dxe6+ Ke8 16. e5 Bxg2 17. exf6 Qxf6 18. Kxg2 Qxa1 19. Bb2 Qa4 20. Qf3 Ra7 21. Rc1 Kd8 22. Bf6+ Be7 23. Qd5+ Nd7 24. Bd4 Rc7 25. Qa8+ 1-0 [Event "FIDE World Cup"] [Site "Baku"] [Date "2015.09.18"] [Round "3.2"] [White "Giri, Anish"] [Black "Leko, Peter"] [Result "1-0"] [ECO "E05"] [WhiteElo "2793"] [BlackElo "2707"] [SetUp "1"] [FEN "r4rk1/1p2bppp/p3pn2/6B1/P7/5NP1/1P2PPKP/2RR4 b - - 0 20"] [PlyCount "52"] [EventDate "2015.09.11"] [EventType "k.o."] [EventRounds "7"] [EventCountry "AZE"] [SourceTitle "CBM 169"] [Source "ChessBase"] [SourceDate "2015.11.10"] [SourceVersion "1"] [SourceVersionDate "2015.11.10"] [SourceQuality "1"] {[#]} 20... Rfc8 21. Ne5 h6 22. Bd2 Rd8 23. Nd3 Rdc8 24. f4 Kf8 25. Kf3 Nd7 26. Be3 Ke8 27. Bd4 Bf6 28. Bxf6 Nxf6 29. Ne5 Ke7 30. e4 Rxc1 31. Rxc1 Ne8 32. Nd3 a5 33. Rc5 Kd6 34. Rc3 Ra6 35. e5+ Ke7 36. Nc5 Rb6 37. Rd3 Rxb2 38. Rd7+ Kf8 39. Nxb7 Rb3+ 40. Kg4 Rb4 41. Nd8 Kg8 42. Re7 f5+ 43. Kh5 Kh7 44. Rxe8 Rb2 45. h3 Rh2 46. Kh4 1-0 [Event "Norway Chess 3rd"] [Site "Stavanger"] [Date "2015.06.24"] [Round "8"] [White "Giri, Anish"] [Black "Topalov, Veselin"] [Result "1-0"] [ECO "E11"] [WhiteElo "2773"] [BlackElo "2798"] [SetUp "1"] [FEN "r5k1/4bppp/1p2p3/p7/2N5/1P4P1/P3PPKP/2Rr4 w - - 0 27"] [PlyCount "59"] [EventDate "2015.06.16"] [EventType "tourn"] [EventRounds "9"] [EventCountry "NOR"] [EventCategory "22"] [SourceTitle "CBM 167"] [Source "ChessBase"] [SourceDate "2015.07.13"] [SourceVersion "1"] [SourceVersionDate "2015.07.13"] [SourceQuality "1"] {[#]} 27. Rxd1 b5 28. Ne5 Bf6 29. Nd7 a4 30. Rc1 axb3 31. axb3 Be7 32. Rc7 Rd8 33. Rb7 Bd6 34. g4 h5 35. gxh5 Kh7 36. b4 Bxb4 37. Ne5 Rd5 38. Nxf7 Rxh5 39. f4 Kg6 40. Ne5+ Kh7 41. Nf7 Kg6 42. Ne5+ Kh7 43. Nf3 Rf5 44. Ng5+ Kh6 45. Kf3 Bd2 46. e3 b4 47. Nxe6 Rh5 48. Nxg7 Rxh2 49. Nf5+ Kg6 50. Ne7+ Kf6 51. Nd5+ Ke6 52. Ke4 Rh3 53. Rb6+ Kd7 54. Kd3 Bc1 55. Rxb4 Kd6 56. Kd4 1-0