[Event "FIDE Candidates 2024"]
[Site "Toronto, Canada"]
[Date "2024.04.10"]
[Round "6.1"]
[White "Nepomniachtchi, Ian"]
[Black "Caruana, Fabiano"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "C47"]
[WhiteElo "2758"]
[BlackElo "2803"]
[Annotator "Stockfish 16.1"]
[PlyCount "81"]
[EventDate "2024.??.??"]
{[%evp 14,81,8,4,7,10,17,18,13,6,10,11,13,16,9,10,14,9,15,10,8,7,8,8,5,5,10,7,
9,4,5,0,0,3,3,3,2,0,1,4,4,5,4,5,2,5,5,5,5,3,10,10,8,12,13,8,4,6,6,0,0,0,0,0,0,
0,0,1,0,0]} 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. d4 exd4 5. Nxd4 Bb4 6. Nxc6 bxc6
7. Bd3 d5 8. exd5 {The position is equal.} O-O 9. O-O Bg4 10. f3 Bh5 $1 11. Bg5
cxd5 12. Bxf6 Qxf6 13. Nxd5 Qxb2 14. Rb1 Bc5+ 15. Kh1 Qe5 $1 16. Re1 Qd6 $1 17.
Ne7+ Kh8 18. Qe2 Bg6 $6 {Inaccuracy. Rae8 was best.} (18... Rae8 $2 {18... Bg6
0.07 [#]} 19. Qe4 $2 ({Only move:} 19. Ng6+ $1 $18 {[%mdl 512]} Bxg6 (19...
fxg6 20. Qxe8) 20. Qxe8) 19... Qh6 20. Qh4 g5 21. Qh3 $1 Rxe7 22. Rxe7 Bxe7 23.
g4 Qe6 24. Qxh5 {[%csl Gd3][%CAl Rh5h7]} h6 25. h4 $1) 19. Nxg6+ hxg6 20. Qe5
$146 ({RR} 20. Qe4 Kg8 21. g3 Rab8 22. Kg2 Rxb1 23. Rxb1 Bb6 24. Re1 Rd8 25. h4
Kf8 26. Re2 Qc5 27. Kh3 Qd6 28. Bc4 Qd7+ 29. Qg4 Qxg4+ 30. fxg4 Rd4 31. Bb5 Rd8
32. g5 Bc5 33. Re4 Bd6 34. g4 Be7 {Paravyan,D (2586)-Sjugirov,S (2712) Almaty
KAZ 2022 1/2-1/2 (51)}) 20... Rab8 21. Qxd6 (21. Qe4 {keeps more tension.} Rxb1
22. Rxb1 Kg8 23. g3 Rd8 24. Re1) 21... Bxd6 22. g3 g5 23. Rxb8 Rxb8 $11 {
[%mdl 4096] Endgame KRB-KRB} 24. Re4 a5 25. Rg4 Be7 26. Rd4 Rd8 27. Re4 Bd6 28.
Ra4 Ra8 29. Rg4 Be7 $1 30. Rd4 Rd8 31. Ra4 Ra8 32. Be4 Ra7 33. Rd4 {Rd7 is the
strong threat.} c5 34. Rd1 a4 35. Rb1 {Rb8+ would kill now.} g6 36. a3 c4 37.
Rb7 Rxb7 38. Bxb7 Bxa3 39. Bc6 c3 40. Kg2 Kg7 41. Bxa4 {Precisão Chessbase:
Brancas 100% Pretas 100%. Precisão Lichess.org: Brancas 99% Pretas 99%.
Precisão Chess.com: Brancas 99.4% Pretas 99.5%.} 1/2-1/2
[Event "FIDE Candidates 2024"]
[Site "Toronto, Canada"]
[Date "2024.04.10"]
[Round "6.2"]
[White "Gukesh D"]
[Black "Nakamura, Hikaru"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "B27"]
[WhiteElo "2743"]
[BlackElo "2789"]
[Annotator "Stockfish 16.1"]
[PlyCount "80"]
[EventDate "2024.??.??"]
{[%evp 9,80,32,32,35,35,39,36,13,51,10,8,8,28,27,32,33,32,23,23,23,49,8,0,-10,
5,-23,-24,-27,-19,-35,-12,-11,0,-7,-7,-10,-1,-2,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-3,-1,-15,-11,
-16,-3,-7,-1,-2,-3,-4,-3,-5,0,-7,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]} 1. e4 c5 2.
Nf3 g6 3. c3 d5 4. e5 Bg4 5. Bb5+ ({RR} 5. d4 Nc6 6. Nbd2 e6 7. h3 Bxf3 8. Nxf3
cxd4 9. cxd4 Bb4+ 10. Bd2 Qb6 11. a3 Bxd2+ 12. Qxd2 Nge7 13. b4 Nf5 14. Rd1 Rc8
15. g4 Nfe7 16. Be2 h6 17. Kf1 g5 18. h4 Kd7 19. hxg5 hxg5 {Caruana,F (2786)
-Abdusattorov,N (2716) chess.com INT 2023 0-1 (86)}) 5... Nc6 6. Bxc6+ bxc6 7.
O-O ({RR} 7. d3 Bg7 8. Nbd2 Qb6 9. h3 Bf5 10. Qe2 Qa6 11. c4 Nh6 12. O-O O-O
13. Nb3 dxc4 14. dxc4 Rad8 15. Nxc5 Qb6 16. Be3 Qc7 17. Rfd1 Bc8 18. g4 f5 19.
g5 Nf7 20. Bf4 e6 21. b4 Rxd1+ {Shirov,A (2660)-Nilsen,J (2412) chess.com INT
2024 1-0 (51)}) 7... c4 $146 ({RR} 7... Nh6 8. d3 Bg7 9. Re1 Nf5 10. Nbd2 Nh4
11. Qa4 Nxf3+ 12. Nxf3 Qd7 13. Ng5 Bf5 14. d4 cxd4 15. cxd4 O-O 16. b3 f6 17.
Nf3 Be4 18. Nd2 fxe5 19. Nxe4 dxe4 20. dxe5 Bxe5 21. Rb1 Bd4 22. Be3 {Aronian,
L (2742)-Mamedov,R (2633) chess.com INT 2023 1/2-1/2 (38)}) ({RR} 7... Bg7 8.
Re1 Nh6 9. d3 O-O 10. Nbd2 f6 11. h3 Bh5 12. Qa4 Qc7 13. g4 Bxg4 14. hxg4 fxe5
15. Nh2 e4 16. Ndf1 exd3 17. Re6 Rac8 18. Bd2 Nf7 19. Rae1 Rfe8 20. c4 d4 21.
Qa3 Nd8 22. R6e4 {Shirov,A (2655)-Zhalmakhanov,R (2447) Villa Marina, Douglas,
Isle o 2023 [https://lichess.org/@/LinuxBrickie] 1-0}) ({RR} 7... Nh6 8. d3
Bxf3 9. Qxf3 Nf5 10. Nd2 h5 11. e6 fxe6 12. Re1 Qd6 13. Qe2 e5 14. Qxe5 Qxe5
15. Rxe5 Kd7 16. Nf3 e6 17. Re2 Bd6 18. Bg5 Rhf8 19. Rae1 Rae8 20. Bc1 a5 21.
Ng5 Ng7 22. g3 {Borisek,J (2570)-Gjuran,D (2291) Komenda SLO 2023 1/2-1/2 (39)}
) 8. d3 {White is slightly better.} cxd3 9. Qxd3 (9. Nbd2 $14) 9... Bxf3 $1 $11
10. Qxf3 Bg7 11. Qe2 Qc7 12. Re1 e6 13. b4 Ne7 14. Nd2 Nc8 15. c4 (15. a4 $14 {
is superior.}) 15... O-O 16. Bb2 a5 17. a3 axb4 18. axb4 Rxa1 19. Rxa1 dxc4 20.
Nxc4 {The position is equal.} Nb6 21. Nxb6 Qxb6 22. Bc3 Qb5 23. Qe4 Rd8 24. g3
Bf8 25. Kg2 Qb7 26. Rc1 Rd5 27. Be1 h5 28. Bc3 Be7 29. h4 Bf8 30. Ra1 Be7 31.
Rc1 Bf8 32. Ra1 Rb5 {[%CAl Rf8b4]} 33. Rc1 Rb6 34. Bd2 Ra6 35. Rc4 Rb6 36. Be3
Rxb4 37. Qxc6 Qxc6+ 38. Rxc6 {[#] Threatens to win with Rc8.} Rb8 39. Bc5 Bxc5
40. Rxc5 Kg7 {Precisão Chessbase: Brancas 88% Pretas 91%. Precisão Lichess.
org: Brancas 98% Pretas 98%. Precisão Chess.com: Brancas 98.0% Pretas 98.3%.}
1/2-1/2
[Event "FIDE Candidates 2024"]
[Site "Toronto, Canada"]
[Date "2024.04.10"]
[Round "6.3"]
[White "Vidit, Santosh Gujrathi"]
[Black "Firouzja, Alireza"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "B57"]
[WhiteElo "2727"]
[BlackElo "2760"]
[Annotator "Stockfish 16.1"]
[PlyCount "79"]
[EventDate "2024.??.??"]
{[%evp 14,79,54,48,82,56,56,27,24,24,119,111,138,73,329,325,345,324,350,348,
346,330,329,284,284,267,328,333,333,326,331,330,327,335,329,337,305,316,366,
366,371,369,366,357,370,363,430,419,420,412,457,461,448,448,440,410,507,500,
517,490,532,528,503,500,505,502,501,497]} 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4
Nf6 5. Nc3 Nc6 6. Bc4 Qb6 7. Nb3 e6 8. Bf4 (8. Be3 {is more complex.} Qc7 9. g4
) 8... Qd8 ({RR} 8... Ne5) 9. Qd2 $146 ({RR} 9. Qe2 a6 10. a4 Be7 11. Rd1 Qc7
12. O-O O-O 13. Bg5 Bd7 14. f4 h6 15. Bh4 Rac8 16. Bd3 Rfe8 17. g4 Nxe4 18.
Nxe4 Bxh4 19. Nxd6 Nd4 20. Bh7+ Kxh7 21. Rxd4 Qxc2 22. Qxc2+ Rxc2 23. Nxe8 Bxe8
{El Homsy,I-Guadalpi,D (2240) Paris 1992 0-1 (60)}) ({RR} 9. Be2 a6 10. a4 b6
11. Qd2 Be7 12. O-O-O Ne5 13. Bg3 Bb7 14. f4 Nc6 15. e5 dxe5 16. fxe5 Nd7 17.
Bf3 Bg5 18. Bf4 Bxf4 19. Qxf4 O-O 20. Rd6 Qc7 21. Bxc6 Bxc6 22. Rhd1 Nc5 23.
Nxc5 bxc5 {Ter-Sahakyan,S (2607)-Gelfand,B (2680) Riga 2021 1-0 (43)}) ({RR} 9.
Be2 a6 10. a4 b6 11. Qd2 Be7 12. O-O-O Ne5 13. Bg3 Bb7 14. f4 Nc6 15. e5 dxe5
16. fxe5 Nd7 17. Bf3 Bg5 18. Bf4 Bxf4 19. Qxf4 O-O 20. Rd6 Qc7 21. Bxc6 Bxc6
22. Rhd1 Nc5 23. Nxc5 bxc5 {Ter-Sahakyan,S (2607)-Gelfand,B (2680) http://www.
chessbomb.com 2021 1-0 (44)}) 9... a6 10. a3 b5 {White has an edge.} 11. Be2
Bb7 $6 {[#] Inaccuracy. Ne5 was best.} (11... Ne5 12. O-O-O Be7 13. g4 Nc4 14.
Bxc4 bxc4 15. Nd4 Bb7 16. f3 O-O $1 17. Be3 d5 18. g5) (11... Be7 $11) 12.
O-O-O $1 $16 Qb6 13. g4 ({Reject} 13. Bxd6 $6 O-O-O $11) 13... Qxf2 $2 {
Mistake. h6 was best.} (13... h6 {13...Ne5 0.66} 14. h4 Ne5 15. Be3 Qc7 16. f3
Nfd7 17. Kb1 h5 18. gxh5 Rxh5 19. Qe1 Nc4 20. Bc1) (13... Ne5 $16 {was
necessary.}) 14. e5 $18 (14. Bxd6 O-O-O $11) 14... Nd7 15. exd6 ({Weaker is}
15. Ne4 Qb6 $16) 15... Qb6 16. Be3 Qd8 17. Rhf1 Nce5 18. Qd4 Rc8 19. Qa7 Bc6 {
and the idea ...g6 leaves Black hopeful.} 20. Qxa6 Ra8 21. Ba7 g6 22. Bxb5 Bh6+
23. Kb1 Bxb5 24. Nxb5 {[#] Strongly threatening Nc7+.} O-O 25. Nc7 Nxg4 26.
Nxa8 Qxa8 27. Qe2 {Bd4 is the strong threat.} Qxa7 28. Qxg4 Bg7 29. Qc4 Qb7 30.
Qc7 Qb5 31. Rf4 Qe2 $6 {Inaccuracy. Qh5 was best.} (31... Qd3 $2 {31...h5 3.89}
) (31... Qh5 32. Rff1 Qe5 {[%csl Gg7][%CAl Re5b2]} 33. Nd4 Nc5 34. Qc6 Rd8 35.
c3 h5 36. Rfe1 Qxd6 37. Qxd6 Rxd6 38. Nf3) 32. Rd2 Qe5 {[%csl Gg7][%CAl Re5b2]}
33. Rfd4 Nf6 34. Qc5 Nd5 35. Ka2 {White is clearly winning.} Qf6 36. c3 Bh6 37.
Rxd5 exd5 38. Rxd5 Bf4 39. d7 Rd8 40. Nd4 {Precisão Chessbase: Brancas 88%
Pretas 57%. Precisão Lichess.org: Brancas 98% Pretas 92%. Precisão Chess.com:
Brancas 95.1% Pretas 88.8%..} 1-0
[Event "FIDE Candidates 2024"]
[Site "Toronto, Canada"]
[Date "2024.04.10"]
[Round "6.4"]
[White "Praggnanandhaa R"]
[Black "Abasov, Nijat"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "D32"]
[WhiteElo "2747"]
[BlackElo "2632"]
[Annotator "Stockfish 16.1"]
[PlyCount "89"]
[EventDate "2024.??.??"]
{[%evp 14,89,7,6,16,3,24,25,25,21,71,73,66,28,19,26,64,61,61,61,57,60,57,54,60,
56,83,95,78,85,96,52,51,41,44,39,35,45,26,25,99,91,95,88,83,62,67,62,148,152,
148,50,49,35,39,39,39,40,51,2,4,8,7,6,139,154,204,146,522,524,566,566,563,563,
552,544,558,556]} 1. d4 d5 2. Nf3 Nf6 3. c4 e6 4. Nc3 c5 5. e3 Nc6 6. a3 a6 7.
b3 {[%CAl Bb2b3,Bb3b4][%mdl 32]} cxd4 ({RR} 7... Be7 8. Bb2 O-O 9. Bd3 b6 10.
O-O cxd4 11. exd4 Bb7 12. Re1 Rc8) 8. exd4 Be7 9. c5 ({RR} 9. Bb2 O-O 10. Bd3
Qc7 11. O-O Bd7 12. Re1 Rfe8 13. c5 b6 14. cxb6 Qxb6 15. Na4) ({RR} 9. Bb2 O-O
10. Bd3 b6 11. O-O Bb7 12. Rc1 Rc8 13. Re1 dxc4 14. bxc4 Na5 15. Ne5 Bd6 16.
Re3 g6 17. f4 Nh5 18. Qg4 f5 19. Qg5 Bxe5 20. dxe5 Nxc4 21. Bxc4 Rxc4 22. Qh6
Nxf4 23. Rd1 Qe7 {Sukhareva,E (2111)-Kovalevskaya,E (2281) Sochi RUS 2023 0-1
(34)}) 9... b6 10. cxb6 Qxb6 {White has an edge.} ({RR} 10... Nd7 11. Bd3 a5
12. Nb5 ({RR} 12. O-O Ba6) 12... Qxb6 13. Bf4 O-O 14. O-O Na7 ({RR} 14... Ba6
15. Nc7 Bxd3 16. Nxa8) 15. Nc7 Rb8 16. b4 Bb7 ({RR} 16... axb4 17. axb4 Bxb4
18. Qc2 g6 19. Rfb1 Nc6 20. Na8 Qb7 21. Ba6 Qxa8 22. Bxc8) 17. bxa5 Qxa5 18.
Qe2 e5 ({RR} 18... Rbc8 19. Nxe6 ({RR} 19. Rfc1 Bc6 20. Na6 Bb5) 19... fxe6 20.
Qxe6+) 19. Bxe5 Nxe5 20. Qxe5 Nc6 21. Qf4 Rbc8 22. Nb5 Ba6 23. a4 Nb4 24. Bf5
Rcd8 25. Rfe1 {Gelfand,B (2680)-Kramnik,V (2710) Sanghi Nagar 1994 CBM 042
[Gurevich,M] 1-0 (42)}) 11. b4 ({RR} 11. Na4 Qa7 12. b4) 11... Ne4 $146 (11...
O-O $11) ({RR} 11... O-O 12. Bd3 Qc7 13. Ne2 Bd6 14. Bb2 Bd7 15. O-O Rfc8 16.
Qd2 Qb7 17. Ne5 Be8 18. Ng3 Ne7 19. Rfe1 Bb5 20. Bb1 a5 21. bxa5 Qc7 22. Qe3
Qxa5 23. h3 Be8 24. Bd3 Rab8 25. Re2 Qa4 26. Qd2 {Savon,V (2435)-Fakhretdinov,
R (2350) Orel 1996 1/2-1/2}) 12. Na4 $1 $16 {[%CAl Ra4b6]} Qb8 13. Be2 O-O 14.
O-O Bf6 15. Be3 Ne7 16. Nc5 Nc3 17. Qd2 Nxe2+ 18. Qxe2 Nf5 19. Rab1 e5 20. dxe5
Bxe5 21. Rfd1 d4 22. Bg5 $6 {Inaccuracy. Bxd4 was best.} (22. Bxd4 Nxd4 23.
Nxd4 Bxh2+ 24. Kh1 Bf4 25. Qf3 $1 h5 (25... Bg5 $16) 26. g3 Bg4 27. Qxf4 Qxf4
28. gxf4 Bxd1) (22. Bxd4 $16 Nxd4 23. Nxd4) 22... Bd6 $1 $14 23. g4 h6 24. Qe4
hxg5 25. gxf5 Ra7 $1 26. Rxd4 g4 $6 {Inaccuracy. Re7 was best.} (26... Re7 $1
27. Qd3 Bf4 28. h3 Rfe8 29. Kg2 Qa8 30. Rd1 Qc6 31. h4 Re5 32. Rd6 Qa8 33. Ne6
$2 {[%mdl 8192]} (33. Rd8 $14 g4 {[%mdl 64] Pin} 34. Ne6 gxf3+ 35. Kg1)) (26...
Re7 $1 $11 27. Qc6 Be5 28. Nxe5 Qxe5) 27. Ng5 $16 {Hoping for Rbd1.} Bxh2+ 28.
Kg2 Qe5 29. Rd5 Qxe4+ 30. Ngxe4 Bb8 $6 {Inaccuracy. Bf4 was best.} (30... Bf4
31. f3 gxf3+ 32. Kxf3 Bh6 33. Rbd1 Rc7 34. a4 Bb7 35. Rd7 Rxd7 36. Rxd7 Ba8 37.
Nxa6) (30... Bf4 $14) 31. f6 $1 {[%CAl Rf6g7] And now fxg7 would win.} Bf4 32.
Rbd1 $6 {Inaccuracy. Rh1 was best.} (32. Rh1 Rc7 33. Rdh5 {[%csl Gh1][%CAl
Rh5h8]} Bh6 34. Nc3 $1 Bb7+ 35. Nxb7 Rxc3 36. R1h4 Rc6 37. fxg7 Bxg7 38. Rxg4
Rb8) (32. Rh1 $16) 32... Rc7 $14 33. R1d4 Rc6 $1 34. Nd6 $36 {[%mdl 2048]
White is pushing.} g5 {White should prevent ...Be6.} 35. Nxc8 Rfxc8 {[#]} 36.
Rd8+ $6 {Inaccuracy. Ne4 was best.} (36. Ne4 $1) (36. Ne4 $1 $14 {should be
considered.}) 36... Rxd8 37. Rxd8+ $11 {[%mdl 4096] Endgame KRB-KRN} Kh7 38.
Ra8 Rxf6 $2 {Mistake. Rd6 was best.} (38... Rd6 39. Rxa6) (38... Rd6 $1 $11 {
remains equal.}) 39. Rxa6 $16 Rf5 (39... Kg7 $16 {was worth a try.}) 40. Nd7 {
Strongly threatening Ra5.} Kg7 $4 {Blunder. Bc1 was best.} (40... Bc1 {40...
Bd2 1.21} 41. Nf6+) (40... Bd2 $16) 41. Ra5 $18 {White is clearly winning.} Kg6
{[#]} 42. a4 $1 {[%CAl Ba3a4,Ba4a5,Ba5a6][%mdl 32]} g3 43. Rxf5 Kxf5 44. a5
gxf2 45. a6 {Precisão Chessbase: Brancas 81% Pretas 62%. Precisão Lichess.
org: Brancas 96% Pretas 90%. Precisão Chess.com: Brancas 96.3% Pretas 90,5%.}
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