Verslag 8e ronde door Yochanan Afek
In Ramada hotel in Jerusalem tension is rising up as the battle on the 23 qualification tickets to the world cup games approaches its decisive moments. Yesterday in the eighth round former European champion Russian Jan Nepomniachtchi took a sole lead with 6.5 points after beating Englishman David Howell whilst all other seven leaders had settled for a draw.
A large group of 13 grandmasters are just half a point behind the leader.
Once again Israeli juniors were the local heroes of the round. Following his sensational round 7 victory on the Armenian GM Hrant Melkumyan, young Ohad Kraus (rated 2190) obtained a winning position once again against a strong grandmaster. It was Robin van Kampen this time who being a pawn down for practically nothing he rushed to offer a draw which was accepted. One would think it was due to the huge rating gap between the two, however Kraus, an orthodox believer explained that it was a fasting day yesterday and he actually hadn’t eaten anything since the day before. His overloaded dinner plate after the round showed indeed that he was pretty hungry. Robin on this part said later: “The draw offer was definitely my best move in this game”…
Another victim of a blitzing attack was a famous Slovenian senior GM. His opponent is a young Dutch GM:
David Klein – Alexander Beliavsky [C41] (partij staat onder de stand hier beneden, Redactie)
EICC 2015 , 04.03.2015
1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 exd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 Be7 6.g3 d5 7.e5 Ng4 8.Bg2 0–0 9.0–0 c5 10.Ndb5 d4 11.Nd5 Nc6 12.f4 Nh6 13.h3 Nf5 14.Kh2 a6 15.Nbc7 Ra7 16.Qe1 b5 17.Qe4 d3 18.cxd3 Nfd4 19.f5 Rxc7? [19…Bxf5 20.Rxf5 Nxf5 21.Qxf5 Rxc7 22.Nxc7 Qxc7=] 20.f6! gxf6?? [20…Bxf6 21.exf6 Re8 22.Qf4 Rd7=] 21.exf6 Bd6 22.Qh4! 1–0
Uitslagen ronde 8
| 1 | GM | Nepomniachtchi Ian | RUS | 2714 | 1 – 0 | GM | Howell David W L | ENG | 2663 |
| 2 | GM | Nisipeanu Liviu-Dieter | GER | 2654 | ½ – ½ | GM | Korobov Anton | UKR | 2687 |
| 3 | GM | Sargissian Gabriel | ARM | 2668 | ½ – ½ | GM | Volokitin Andrei | UKR | 2646 |
| 4 | GM | Popov Ivan | RUS | 2639 | ½ – ½ | GM | Motylev Alexander | RUS | 2665 |
| 5 | GM | Bartel Mateusz | POL | 2631 | ½ – ½ | GM | Eljanov Pavel | UKR | 2727 |
| .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | – | .. | .. | .. | .. |
| 35 | Kraus Ohad | ISR | 2190 | ½ – ½ | GM | Van Kampen Robin | NED | 2626 | |
| 40 | GM | Klein David | NED | 2505 | 1 – 0 | GM | Beliavsky Alexander G | SLO | 2623 |
| 58 | GM | Bok Benjamin | NED | 2587 | 1 – 0 | IM | Usmanov Vasily | RUS | 2414 |
| 73 | IM | Ducarmon Quinten | NED | 2482 | 1 – 0 | Zisman Philip | ISR | 2238 | |
| 111 | Henseler Jorgen | NED | 2123 | 1 – 0 | Landa Alex | ISR | 1905 |
Stand na ronde 8
| 1 | GM | Nepomniachtchi Ian | RUS | 2714 | 6.5 |
| 2 | GM | Korobov Anton | UKR | 2687 | 6 |
| 3 | GM | Najer Evgeniy | RUS | 2634 | 6 |
| 4 | GM | Navara David | CZE | 2735 | 6 |
| 5 | GM | Motylev Alexander | RUS | 2665 | 6 |
| 6 | GM | Volokitin Andrei | UKR | 2646 | 6 |
| 7 | GM | Sargissian Gabriel | ARM | 2668 | 6 |
| 8 | GM | Smirin Ilia | ISR | 2650 | 6 |
| 9 | Iljiushenok Ilia | RUS | 2450 | 6 | |
| 10 | GM | Bartel Mateusz | POL | 2631 | 6 |
| .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
| 52 | GM | Van Kampen Robin | NED | 2626 | 5 |
| 58 | GM | Klein David | NED | 2505 | 5 |
| 103 | IM | Ducarmon Quinten | NED | 2482 | 4.5 |
| 113 | GM | Bok Benjamin | NED | 2587 | 4.5 |
| 207 | Henseler Jorgen | NED | 2123 | 3 |
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[Event “16th ch-EUR Indiv 2015”]
[Site “Jerusalem ISR”]
[Date “2015.03.04”]
[Round “8.40”]
[White “Klein, David”]
[Black “Beliavsky, Alexander G”]
[Result “1-0”]
[ECO “C41”]
[WhiteElo “2505”]
[BlackElo “2623”]
[PlyCount “43”]
[EventDate “2015.02.24”]
1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 exd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 Be7 6. g3 d5 7. e5 Ng4 8. Bg2
O-O 9. O-O c5 10. Ndb5 d4 11. Nd5 Nc6 12. f4 Nh6 13. h3 Nf5 14. Kh2 a6 15. Nbc7
Ra7 16. Qe1 b5 17. Qe4 d3 18. cxd3 Nfd4 19. f5 Rxc7 20. f6 gxf6 21. exf6 Bd6
22. Qh4 1-0
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[Event “16th ch-EUR Indiv 2015”]
[Site “Jerusalem ISR”]
[Date “2015.03.04”]
[Round “8.35”]
[White “Kraus, Ohad”]
[Black “Van Kampen, Robin”]
[Result “1/2-1/2”]
[ECO “A50”]
[WhiteElo “2190”]
[BlackElo “2626”]
[PlyCount “58”]
[EventDate “2015.02.24”]
1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 b6 3. Nc3 Bb7 4. f3 d5 5. Bg5 e6 6. e3 Be7 7. Bd3 O-O 8. Nge2
Nbd7 9. Qd2 dxc4 10. Bxc4 c5 11. Rd1 Rc8 12. Bb3 h6 13. Bf4 cxd4 14. exd4 a6
15. d5 e5 16. Bxh6 Ne8 17. Be3 Nd6 18. O-O Nc5 19. Kh1 b5 20. Bxc5 Rxc5 21. Ne4
Nxe4 22. fxe4 Bg5 23. Qd3 Qd6 24. Qg3 Bf6 25. Nd4 Bc8 26. Nf5 Bxf5 27. Rxf5
Rfc8 28. Rdf1 Rc1 29. Bd1 Rb1 1/2-1/2
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[Event “16th ch-EUR Indiv 2015”]
[Site “Jerusalem ISR”]
[Date “2015.03.04”]
[Round “8.58”]
[White “Bok, Benjamin”]
[Black “Usmanov, Vasily”]
[Result “1-0”]
[ECO “C05”]
[WhiteElo “2587”]
[BlackElo “2414”]
[PlyCount “124”]
[EventDate “2015.02.24”]
1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nd2 Nf6 4. e5 Nfd7 5. f4 c5 6. c3 Nc6 7. Ndf3 Qb6 8. g3 a5
9. Ne2 a4 10. a3 Be7 11. Bh3 cxd4 12. cxd4 Qb3 13. Qxb3 axb3 14. Nd2 Nb4 15.
Kf2 b6 16. Nxb3 Nc2 17. Rb1 Ba6 18. Bd2 Bc4 19. Na1 Nxa1 20. Rxa1 Nb8 21. Rhc1
Kd7 22. f5 Nc6 23. Be3 Bxe2 24. Kxe2 Na5 25. Rc2 Rhc8 26. Rac1 Rc4 27. Rxc4
Nxc4 28. Rc2 Nxe3 29. Kxe3 Ra4 30. Kd3 h5 31. Rc3 g5 32. fxg6 fxg6 33. b4 g5
34. Kd2 Ra8 35. Bf1 Rf8 36. Bb5+ Kd8 37. Ke2 g4 38. Ba6 Kd7 39. Bb5+ Kd8 40.
Ba6 Kd7 41. Bd3 Rc8 42. Bb5+ Kd8 43. Rxc8+ Kxc8 44. Be8 h4 45. Bh5 hxg3 46.
hxg3 Kd7 47. Bxg4 b5 48. Kd3 Bg5 49. Bd1 Bc1 50. a4 bxa4 51. Bxa4+ Kc7 52. Be8
Bg5 53. b5 Bd8 54. g4 Kc8 55. Bf7 Kd7 56. Bg8 Bh4 57. b6 Kc6 58. Bxe6 Kxb6 59.
Bxd5 Kb5 60. Ba8 Bd8 61. Ke4 Kc4 62. d5 Kc5 1-0
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