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Round 4
Anand, Viswanathan - Vallejo Pons, Francisco (1-0) Queen Gambit accepted is coming as a pleasant surprise for me. Paco was experimenting recently with Dutch but his last game against Topalov in Tromso was rather disappointing. Wojtasek is one of the greatest experts in this opening. His preference is 3. e4, so Anand's reaction was more than predictable, but the next move already is a rare guest in Top level chess, although in my opinion it is quite playable... See morePonomariov, Ruslan - Aronian, Levon (½-½) 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. g3 This move order is to prevent the queen Indian Defence - Aronian's main weapon against 1.d4... See more
Round 2
Aronian, Levon - Ponomariov, Ruslan (1-0) Ponomariov wanted to avoid 3.f3 system Anti Grunfeld which Anand used as his main weapon in his WCC match against Gelfand. I thought he had enough KID torturing yesterday, but I was surprised to see that he wanted to repeat it all again... See moreVallejo Pons, Francisco - Anand, Viswanathan (0-1) Paco makes his final mistake. (Of course not 26. Ke2 Ne4) (but after 26. f3 I don't see how black will win the endgame 26... f6 27. Ke2 a6 28. Rd2)... See more
Round 1
Anand, Viswanathan - Ponomariov, Ruslan (1-0) The courage of Ponomariov to play KID at such level wasn't rewarded. Anand won a game in a typical positional style without giving any counterchances... See moreVallejo Pons, Francisco - Aronian, Levon (½-½) In this game from the first round Paco decided to challenge Aronian with the sharp system in Nimzo-Indian defence with 4. Nf3 and 5. Bg5. Aronian'a experience in that line was much higher - considering that he used to play like that with white pieces not so long ago... See more
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