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David Navara played fantastically at the World Cup this year, demonstrating to the fullest extent why he belongs with the world’s best chess players. His round 5 encounter with Alexander Grischuk was hard-fought as the first two regulation games were tensely drawn. Grischuk struck in game 1 of the rapid tiebreakers, busting out thorough preparation with the Caro-Kann against an interesting line chosen by Navara involving an early 4. Nd2!? and 5. Nb3. Grischuk emerged from the opening with a sizable initiative after 15. …d4! – temporarily sacrificing a pawn to rapidly develop a dangerous attack against white’s exposed king. Navara blundered an exchange with 23. h4? – a material advantage with Grischuk patiently nurtured to victory in 43 moves.
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TIME CONTROLS = 25 MIN + 10 SEC INC
NAVARA/GRISCHUK PGN:
[Event “FIDE World Cup 2011”]
[Site “Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia”]
[Date “2011.09.11”]
[Round “5.3”]
[White “GM_Navara”]
[Black “GM_Grischuk”]
[Result “0-1”]
[WhiteElo “2722”]
[BlackElo “2746”]
[Opening “Caro-Kann: advance variation”]
[ECO “B12”]
[NIC “CK.04”]
[TimeControl “1500+10”]
1. e4 c6 2. d4 d5 3. e5 Bf5 4. Nd2 e6 5. Nb3 Nd7 6. Nf3 a6 7. Be3 Rc8 8. c3
c5 9. dxc5 Bxc5 10. Nxc5 Nxc5 11. Be2 Ne7 12. Nh4 h6 13. Nxf5 Nxf5 14. Bxc5
Rxc5 15. Bd3 d4 16. Qa4+ b5 17. Qxa6 Rxe5+ 18. Kf1 O-O 19. Bxb5 dxc3 20.
bxc3 Qd2 21. Be2 Qxc3 22. Re1 Rd8 23. h4 Ng3+ 24. fxg3 Rf5+ 25. Kg1 Qxe1+
26. Kh2 Qa5 27. Qc4 Qc5 28. Qb3 Rf2 29. Bf3 Qc2 30. Qb6 Rf8 31. Be4 Qxa2 32.
Rd1 Rd2 33. Rf1 Qb2 34. Qc5 Rdd8 35. Qe7 Qd4 36. Bb1 Qd6 37. Qb7 Rb8 38. Qe4
f5 39. Qe3 Rb4 40. Kh3 Kh8 41. Ba2 Re4 42. Qf3 Qe5 43. Qa3 Rb8 {Black wins}
0-1
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