#agadmator Viswanathan Anand vs Alexander Grischuk
Tal Memorial (Rapid) (2018), Moscow RUS, rd 8, Mar-04
Sicilian Defense: Nezhmetdinov-Rossolimo Attack. Fianchetto Variation (B31)
1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 g6 4. Bc6 dc6 5. d3 Bg7 6. h3 Nf6 7. Nc3 O-O 8. Be3 b6 9. Qd2 e5 10. Bh6 Qd6 11. O-O-O a5 12. g4 a4 13. Kb1 Be6 14. Ne2 b5 15. Ng3 Rfd8 16. Bg7 Kg7 17. Qg5 Nd7 18. Nf5 Bf5 19. gf5 a3 20. b3 h6 21. Qg3 Kh7 22. Rhg1 Qf6 23. h4 gf5 24. Qh3 f4 25. Rg5 Qe6 26. Rf5 Rg8 27. Ng5 hg5 28. Rf7 Qf7 29. hg5 Kg7 30. Qh6
Coming into the final day of the Tal Memorial , Indian GM Vishwanathan Anand shared the lead along with Shakhriyar Mamedyarov with 4 points out of a possible. Two players: Kramnik and Grischuk were close behind on with 3.5/6.
But Anand won a way to keep his head and grab the title with some solid chess. A win against against Hikaru Nakamura in the sixth round had got Anand back in and he continued his good run on the final day with a vital win over Alexander Grischuk in the eighth round.
As luck would have it, Mamedyarov lost to Daniil Dubov in the 8th round as well and that is all that was needed to decide the title.
Anand had only one loss in the tournament – losing to Mamedyarov in the third round. But he also racked up four outright wins and that is big for a tournament in which the average rating was 2757.
The Candidates tournament is about to begin in a week, yet four of them are playing here: Kramnik, Karjakin, Mamedyarov and Grischuk. The win comes soon after Anand’s World Rapid title and will give his confidence another big boost.
The Tal Memorial Rapid is a 10-player single round-robin taking place in the Museum of Russian Impressionism in Moscow. The ten top players were competing for a $130,000 prize fund, with $25,000 for 1st place.
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