[Event "Candidates 2020"] [Site "Yekaterinburg, Russia"] [Date "2020.03.19"] [Round "3"] [White "Ding, Liren"] [Black "Caruana, Fabiano"] [Result "1-0"] [ECO "D17"] [WhiteElo "2805"] [BlackElo "2842"] [Annotator "Llewellyn,Alan"] [PlyCount "117"] [EventDate "2020.??.??"] {[%evp 0,117,18,23,19,13,27,30,32,18,10,20,18,29,32,32,14,34,21,12,85,55,68,55, 42,50,95,83,94,80,78,58,123,122,131,117,150,107,109,119,105,88,27,24,104,119, 141,144,160,144,135,144,98,86,86,88,96,113,113,113,135,152,155,154,161,167,187, 179,265,273,273,273,265,275,263,261,290,280,279,277,282,242,311,311,339,342, 337,331,331,331,331,353,416,378,500,494,487,533,545,545,581,580,578,582,618, 625,632,612,612,606,629,629,1300,1337,1337,839,1161,1221,1267,657]} 1. d4 d5 2. c4 c6 3. Nf3 Nf6 4. Nc3 dxc4 5. a4 Bf5 6. Ne5 e6 7. f3 $1 {prep but a good move } Bb4 8. Nxc4 O-O 9. Kf2 $3 {excellent preperation it has a good record does this move.} e5 $2 {Its obvious here Fabiano is out of his internal book and he finds a howler of move. 9...c5 is more normal reply.} 10. Nxe5 Bc2 $3 {the tactic is a good one except White can ignore the bishop and play on.} 11. Qd2 ( {typical lines go:-} 11. Qxc2 $2 Qxd4+ 12. Be3 (12. e3 Qxe5 $15) 12... Qxe5 13. Qd2 Qe7 $17) 11... c5 12. d5 $5 Bb3 13. e4 {now Black has given up 2 central pawns in the opening only for a dislodged King and the c5 pawn which he gives away soon later. It is positionally lost already the tactics Black has will only prolong the agony for Fabiana. One has to question whether Ding has had help from an intelligence source as Fabiana must be the best prepared of the players in Yerevan, for the candidates, and Ding has been in quarentine alone according to official sources. Anyway Ding goes on to win this which he deserves on tallent to do so.} Re8 14. Qf4 c4 15. Nxc4 Nbd7 16. Be3 Nf8 17. Bd4 Ng6 18. Qf5 Bxc4 19. Bxc4 Qc7 20. Be2 Bc5 21. Bxc5 Qxc5+ 22. Kf1 h6 23. Rd1 Qb6 24. Rd2 Qe3 25. Rc2 a6 26. Qh3 b5 27. Qg3 b4 28. Nd1 Qb3 29. Rd2 Qxa4 30. Qf2 Qd7 31. g3 Qh3+ 32. Kg1 a5 33. Qd4 Nh5 34. Nf2 Qd7 35. f4 Nhxf4 36. gxf4 Nxf4 37. Kf1 Qd6 38. Rg1 f6 39. Bb5 Re7 40. b3 Rf8 41. Rc2 Ne6 42. Qe3 Ng5 43. h4 Nf7 44. Rc6 Qb8 45. Qc5 Qd8 46. Rxf6 Kh8 47. Rf5 Rc7 48. Bc6 a4 49. bxa4 b3 50. Rg3 b2 51. Rb3 Nd6 52. Rxf8+ Qxf8 53. Rxb2 Qf4 54. Rb8+ Kh7 55. Qc2 Re7 56. e5+ Nf5 57. Qe4 Qc1+ 58. Kg2 g6 59. Rb3 1-0