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Viswanathan
Anand vs. Viktor Bologan
White had built up pressure on the kingside,
and now he saw the time to be ripe for a combination:
1.Nf6! Re5 2.g6! fg 3.Nd7 Be7 4.Nxe5 de 5.Qf7
h6 6.Qe8+ 1-0
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Peter Leko vs. Sergey Volkov
Black is in trouble. Volkov desperately decided
to unbalance material, and played: 1..Bxg4
2.hg Qh4+ 3.Rh3 Rh1+ 4.Kxh1 Qxh3+ 5.Kg1 Qxg4+
6.Qg2 Qxf4, netting a few pawns for the bishop.
However, Leko continued 7.Qg5! Qf8 8.Rxe6
and his active pieces were enough to win quite
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Vladislav
Nevednichy vs. Jeroen Piket
White needed to win this game, but now he
is already a pawn down. This was still hardly
a reason for panicking as Nevednichy did:
1.Re1?? Rxc4 2.bc Qa5 0-1 |
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Emir
Dizdarevic vs. Boris Gelfand
1..Bd8 0-1 The bishop will zig-zag to c3. |
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Veselin
Topalov vs. Andrei Kharlov
Game of the tournament? White started on a
long, ingenious combination: 1.d5!! Rxc7 2.d6
Rc6 3.de Qxe7 4.Bb5 Rb6 5.Bxd7 Nxd7 6.Qd2
e5 7.Be3 Nc5 8.b4 Ne4 9.Qc2 Rxb4 10.a3 Rd4
11.Bxd4 ed 12.Re1 (the point!) d3 13.Qc4!
Nd6 14.Qxd3 and realised his material and
positional advantage easily.
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Pavel
Tregubov vs. Rustam Kasimdzhanov
White needed to win. This he did despite being
two pawns down, thanks to the hopeless position
of the black king: 1..Rxg6 2.Rf8+ Rxf8, 3.Rxf8+
Kh7 4.Bg8+ Kh8 5.Bb3+ Kh7 6.Bc2 h5 7.Rd8 1-0.
White will mop up the black queenside pawns
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