GM Anton Korobov and GM Vincent Keymer are nonetheless on good scores after two rounds on the 2024 TePe Sigeman Chess Match, and the 2 leaders will play one another on Monday. Whereas Keymer defeated GM Nils Grandelius, Korobov was too sturdy for GM Marc’Andria Maurizzi.
Just like the Frenchman, Ladies’s World Champion GM Ju Wenjun began with two losses as she went down in opposition to GM Peter Svidler. Additionally on the second day, there was one draw, within the sport between top-10 GMs Nodirbek Abdusattorov and Arjun Erigaisi.Â
The third spherical begins Monday, April 29, at 9 a.m. ET / 15:00 CEST / 18:30 IST.
Outcomes
Standings
It is a uncommon statistic for a robust chess match comparable to this one: six out of eight video games have ended decisively. Issues are more likely to relax a bit because the match progresses, however to this point we can not complain in regards to the outcomes or the video games in Malmo.
Keymer was the primary to achieve that good 2/2 rating thanks to a different glorious win, this time in opposition to the native participant. Grandelius performed a outstanding setup within the Semi-Slav with an early …a6 after which additionally …b6, a recent thought apparently talked about in his (very) not too long ago printed Chessable course.Â
“He is not solely making an attempt to win his sport, however he is additionally making an attempt to promote his course!” says Fressinet.
Grandelius is enjoying a line he recommends on @chessable apparently!https://t.co/fdqjyaaRHz pic.twitter.com/5rdwsCfBHV
— chess24 (@chess24com) April 28, 2024
Keymer had seemingly seen it as a result of he clearly was prepared. Each performed their first 20 (!) strikes in a short time.
Place after 20.Rd4.
After the sport, Keymer stated that his opponent had instructed him that he had the place after 20.Rd4 on his laptop computer 10 minutes earlier than the beginning of the sport: “I simply completed after 19.Rad1 once I noticed some 0.50, 0.20. I knew that if Black is completely exact, he’ll most likely equalize, but it surely regarded just like the sort of place the place Black takes the larger threat.”
It appears to be like like Grandelius forgot what the notes on his laptop computer stated about his twentieth transfer as a result of what he performed was not good. When one other inaccuracy adopted a number of strikes later, Keymer’s exercise and threats pressured Grandelius to surrender materials, and he remained below sturdy stress and shortly collapsed.
“He simply fell sufferer to making an attempt to recollect stuff,” stated Keymer. “I feel it is one of the vital harmful issues, you probably have an thought of what you may need checked however do not actually keep in mind, as a result of that often results in mixing up every little thing up fully. I do not suppose he would have gotten such a nasty place so shortly if he did not have some motifs in his head that had been working in a single very particular second however right here probably not.”
I feel it is one of the vital harmful issues, you probably have an thought of what you may need checked however do not actually keep in mind, as a result of that often results in mixing up every little thing up fully.
—Vincent Keymer
GM Dejan Bojkov analyzes the Sport of the Day under.Â
A number of hours later, Korobov joined Keymer within the lead together with his win in opposition to Maurizzi, his fourth in as many video games in opposition to the younger Frenchman (the latest being in Wijk aan Zee this yr). Additionally for Maurizzi, plainly one thing went mistaken within the preparation as a result of he did not get a lot out of the opening (an Open Catalan), and his new transfer wasn’t higher than what had been performed earlier than.
Korobov ended up with an additional pawn and in addition three pawns on the queenside versus one, one thing that is simply very robust to defend in opposition to. As quickly because the pawns began rolling, the sport appeared determined, though Maurizzi fought like a lion for a lot of extra strikes.
The story of Svidler’s win, which he confirmed within the reside broadcast of the match, began on transfer one. He did not wish to play his normal Grunfeld and hoped to tempt his opponent right into a Pirc, so in opposition to 1.d4 he performed 1…d6. He quickly regretted not beginning with 1…g6 as he realized the actual line he wished to play may extra simply be averted after 1…d6, particularly with 2.g3, which Ju did!
Because it went, she bought a slight edge and confirmed ambition by leaving her e-pawn on its beginning sq. and executing a knight maneuver supposed to place stress on Black’s queenside. “The benefit of my opponent is that she performs strong traces, however she performs for the win,” stated Svidler.
The sport rotated fully on transfer 14, when the Chinese language GM made the odd choice of taking her queen again to d1, one thing that resembles panic after seemingly lacking Black’s thirteenth transfer. Svidler bought a big positional benefit; though he took his time to money the total level, he was all the time in management.
“I feel a fairly good sport, however I used to be clearly helped tremendously by the selection of going 14.Qd1. That is by no means the fitting selection,” he stated.
Absolutely the high conflict of the spherical between Abdusattorov and Arjun ended up being the least fascinating. The primary takeaway from this sport is that Abdusattorov once more regarded considerably shaky (24…c5! would have been nice for Arjun) and clearly must heat up a bit of. On Monday he performs Svidler, who stated: “Having not began notably nicely, I’m fairly positive he needs to get again on monitor, and I current a pleasant, juicy goal.”
The Tepe Sigeman Chess Match takes place April 27-Could 3, 2024, on the Elite Plaza Resort in Malmo, Sweden. The gamers compete in an eight-player single round-robin. The time management is 90 minutes for 40 strikes, with 30 extra minutes for the remainder of the sport and a 30-second increment per transfer.
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