Shirov och Aronian visar sitt remiparti från idag (Marshallangreppet). Foto: Anna BurtasovoiDet har varit lite gny över den höga remiprocenten i Tal Memorial i Moskva, men det är trots allt gott ställt med underhållningen. Hikaru Nakamura håller på att etablera sig i den yppersta världseliten och går till verket full av optimism. När han mötte Vladimir Kramnik i fjärde ronden förstod väl ingen vad som försiggick, inte ens de båda inblandade. Här är partiet. (Samtliga partier finns genomspelbara på länk under Aktuella partier i högerspalten.) Kramnik har kommenterat det vilda partiet på ryska Chess Pro. Det finns en översättning till engelska på en av mina nya favorithemsidor, Chess in Translation (Länk i högerspalten under Andra schacklänkar). Därifrån citerar jag ett stycke:
The win was more likely for him than for me, but at a certain point, perhaps, I was even already better. The position became much sharper, and he had little time. I became encouraged and it seemed to me that he was in some danger, but on the other hand, I couldn’t find anything clear. The position, of course, was unbelievably complex to play even if you had a lot of time, while he was short on time. Therefore it ended in perpetual check, but it can’t be ruled out that he had chances to win. I’d missed something or other and the position became very dangerous, but I found the resource c4 – at the very least it’s an interesting human move, although, perhaps, the computer doesn’t approve. But in the game after c4 Nakamura began to get agitated, he thought for a long time and, clearly, he didn’t find anything concrete. And after that he lost the edge he’d had. And then there was such… To be honest, I was already thinking about playing for a win, given he had little time left, but I couldn’t see how. Then again, a time advantage isn’t so significant against Nakamura as after all he thinks quickly. But, nevertheless, it already began to seem to me that I was about to find something. His king was beginning to run, it turned out, surprisingly, that for the first time in the game his king was worse than mine. But I couldn’t see anything significant.Nakamura har twittrat om detta komplicerade parti:
Insane game against Kramnik today. Gotta love how we both didn't know what was going on and Rybka is like, "haha, you stupid idiots!"Alexander Gristjuk ersätter avhoppade Magnus Carlsen i VM-cykeln, så Tal Memorial är strängt taget Gristjuks första turnering som VM-kandidat. Som tidigare nämnts är Levon Aronian topprankad i Moskva och han delar ledningen med en annan VM-kandidat, Sjachrijar Mamedjarov.
Ställningen efter rond 6 (tre ronder återstår):
Aronian och Mamedjarov 4 (av 6); Karjakin, Gristjuk, Nakamura och Wang 3,5; Kramnik 3; Gelfand 2; Shirov och Eljanov 1,5 poäng.
Morgondagens rond:
Kramnik-Mamedjarov
Eljanov-Karjakin
Gristjuk-Shirov
Aronian-Nakamura
Wang-Gelfand
