Round 4
Wesley
So started the day off right by delivering yet another loss to Baadur
Jobava. The Georgian, who lost all his games yesterday, must be getting
impatient wanting to score any points. He had the perfect opportunity to
do so in this game, as he could have made a draw but instead lost the
thread of the position and lost. Just as in his game against Jobava
yesterday, Levon Aronian met his opponent’s fork with a bishop
sacrifice. This time his victim was Viswanathan Anand, who found himself
in a mating net in the endgame. Anish Giri’s birthday celebration
continued as he received a nice gift from Ivanchuk who went astray with
his queen and resigned a move later. As Giri himself described,
sometimes ambitious players start inventing things that the position
simply doesn’t offer. Vladimir Kramnik won a pawn against his country
man, but Ian Nepomniachtchi played actively and found enough counter
play to draw the game. Magnus Carlsen and Maxime Vachier-Lagrave met
once against since their playoff in Paris, but the game ended in a draw
after the Frenchman failed to utilize his opening advantage.
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