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At Baden-Baden GRENKE Chess Classic 2013, Germany
10th round - 17 February 2013
GM Daniel Fridman (GER,2667) ½-½ GM Fabiano Caruana (ITA,2757)
GM Michael Adams (ENG,2725) ½-½ GM Georg Meier (GER,2640)
GM Arkadij Naiditsch (GER,2716) 0-1 GM Viswanathan Anand (IND,2780)
Viswanathan Anand lifted GRENKE Chess Classic title with last-round black-pieces win over German Arkadij Naiditsch, with 6.5/10 points and a 2808 performance ... Fridman holding co-leader after 9th round Caruana helped Anand but still Anand produced back-to-back wins for this long waited title ... Before this reasonably successful tournament for Anand was Wijk aan Zee 2011, where he finished sole second position behind Nakamura.
In this game Anand went for the Sicilian ... Anand take full advantage of mid-game mistake from Naiditsch ... He shocked Naiditsch with his variation, who resigned after 49 moves ... Other two games ended in a draw.
Final Standing
1. Viswanathan Anand (IND) 6½ pts
2. Fabiano Caruana (ITA) 6 pts
3. Michael Adams (ENG) 5 pts
4. Georg Meier (GER) 5 pts
5. Arkadij Naiditsch (GER) 4 pts
6. Daniel Fridman (GER) 3½ pts
Viswanathan Anand - “After Wijk aan Zee 2011 basically I went over a cliff and the next five tournaments were pretty awful”. Wijk aan Zee this year also went well until the last round, with the champion commenting, “I was hoping I wouldn’t do a Wang Hao today!”
“After Bilbao 2011 my big problem was getting interesting positions where I had chances. This year the new problem has been exploiting those chances – against Fridman here, Hou Yifan in Wijk aan Zee or last year against Nakamura and Adams at the London Chess Classic I’ve been gifting people half points. If it wasn’t for that my results would be much better. Still, it’s a hundred times better to have the second problem! I need to work on my technique.”
At Baden-Baden GRENKE Chess Classic 2013, Germany
10th round - 17 February 2013
GM Daniel Fridman (GER,2667) ½-½ GM Fabiano Caruana (ITA,2757)
GM Michael Adams (ENG,2725) ½-½ GM Georg Meier (GER,2640)
GM Arkadij Naiditsch (GER,2716) 0-1 GM Viswanathan Anand (IND,2780)
Viswanathan Anand lifted GRENKE Chess Classic title with last-round black-pieces win over German Arkadij Naiditsch, with 6.5/10 points and a 2808 performance ... Fridman holding co-leader after 9th round Caruana helped Anand but still Anand produced back-to-back wins for this long waited title ... Before this reasonably successful tournament for Anand was Wijk aan Zee 2011, where he finished sole second position behind Nakamura.
In this game Anand went for the Sicilian ... Anand take full advantage of mid-game mistake from Naiditsch ... He shocked Naiditsch with his variation, who resigned after 49 moves ... Other two games ended in a draw.
Final Standing
1. Viswanathan Anand (IND) 6½ pts
2. Fabiano Caruana (ITA) 6 pts
3. Michael Adams (ENG) 5 pts
4. Georg Meier (GER) 5 pts
5. Arkadij Naiditsch (GER) 4 pts
6. Daniel Fridman (GER) 3½ pts
Viswanathan Anand - “After Wijk aan Zee 2011 basically I went over a cliff and the next five tournaments were pretty awful”. Wijk aan Zee this year also went well until the last round, with the champion commenting, “I was hoping I wouldn’t do a Wang Hao today!”
“After Bilbao 2011 my big problem was getting interesting positions where I had chances. This year the new problem has been exploiting those chances – against Fridman here, Hou Yifan in Wijk aan Zee or last year against Nakamura and Adams at the London Chess Classic I’ve been gifting people half points. If it wasn’t for that my results would be much better. Still, it’s a hundred times better to have the second problem! I need to work on my technique.”
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