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Оглавление: Обзор Второго этапа Гранда Чесса Туры 2021 ва Париже
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[Event "GCT Paris Blitz 2021"]
[Site "Paris"]
[Date "2021.06.21"]
[Round "1"]
[White "Caruana, Fabiano"]
[Black "So, Wesley"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "C67"]
[WhiteElo "2820"]
[BlackElo "2770"]
[Annotator "ChessBase"]
[PlyCount "28"]
[EventDate "2021.06.21"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "FRA"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]
[TimeControl "300+2"]

1. e4 {[%emt 0:00:01]} e5 {[%emt 0:00:01]} 2. Nf3 {[%emt 0:00:02]} Nc6 {
[%emt 0:00:01]} 3. Bb5 {[%emt 0:00:01]} Nf6 {[%emt 0:00:02]} 4. O-O {[%emt 0:
00:02]} Nxe4 {[%emt 0:00:01]} 5. d4 {[%emt 0:00:01]} Nd6 {[%emt 0:00:02]} 6.
dxe5 {[%emt 0:00:06]} Nxb5 {[%emt 0:00:01]} 7. a4 {[%emt 0:00:01]} Nbd4 {
[%emt 0:00:03]} 8. Nxd4 {[%emt 0:00:01]} d5 {[%emt 0:00:08]} 9. exd6 {[%emt 0:
00:02]} Nxd4 {[%emt 0:00:01]} 10. Qxd4 {[%emt 0:00:01]} Qxd6 {[%emt 0:00:02]}
11. Qe4+ {[%emt 0:00:01]} Qe6 {[%emt 0:00:01]} 12. Qd4 {[%emt 0:00:01]} Qd6 {
[%emt 0:00:01]} 13. Qe4+ {[%emt 0:00:00]} Qe6 {[%emt 0:00:01]} 14. Qd4 {
[%emt 0:00:01]} Qd6 {[%emt 0:00:01]} 1/2-1/2

[Event "GCT Paris Blitz 2021"]
[Site "Paris"]
[Date "2021.06.21"]
[Round "1"]
[White "Nepomniachtchi, Ian"]
[Black "Rapport, Richard"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "B45"]
[WhiteElo "2792"]
[BlackElo "2763"]
[Annotator "TA"]
[PlyCount "72"]
[EventDate "2021.06.21"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "FRA"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

{[%evp 23,72,37,48,41,40,41,43,49,47,45,37,46,47,47,44,39,71,38,38,35,47,46,48,
47,78,79,67,62,89,77,81,78,46,77,78,79,79,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]} 1. e4
c5 2. Nf3 e6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 Nc6 6. Ndb5 Bb4 7. a3 Bxc3+ 8. Nxc3
d5 9. exd5 exd5 10. Bd3 O-O 11. O-O Bg4 12. f3 Bh5 13. Bg5 {B45: Sicilian Four
Knights.} Qb6+ 14. Kh1 {And now Bxf6 would win.} Ne4 15. Nxe4 {White is
slightly better.} dxe4 16. Bxe4 Qxb2 17. Qb1 {has lost popularity (17.Rb1).}
Qb6 18. Qxb6 axb6 19. Rfb1 Bg6 {[#]} 20. Bxc6 $146 ({Predecessor:} 20. Bxg6
hxg6 21. Rxb6 Rfe8 {1/2-1/2 (21) Brackmann,H (2003)-Byway,P (2098) England 2016
}) 20... bxc6 21. Rxb6 h6 22. Be7 Rfe8 23. Bb4 Rac8 24. a4 c5 25. Bc3 Re3 26.
Bd2 Re2 27. Bf4 {Strongly threatening a5.} Rce8 {[#] ( -> ...Re1+)} 28. Bg3 {
Threatens to win with a5.} Rxc2 29. a5 {a6 is the strong threat.} Ree2 30. a6 (
{White should try} 30. Rb3 $16) 30... Ra2 $11 {The position is equal.} 31. Rxa2
Rxa2 {KRB-KRB} 32. Kg1 Bd3 33. Rc6 Ra1+ 34. Kf2 Ra2+ 35. Kg1 Ra1+ 36. Kf2 Ra2+
{Weighted Error Value: White=0.06/Black=0.03} 1/2-1/2

[Event "GCT Paris Blitz 2021"]
[Site "Paris"]
[Date "2021.06.21"]
[Round "1"]
[White "Radjabov, Teimour"]
[Black "Firouzja, Alireza"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "D24"]
[WhiteElo "2765"]
[BlackElo "2759"]
[Annotator "TA"]
[PlyCount "114"]
[EventDate "2021.06.21"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "FRA"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

{[%evp 9,114,18,49,34,38,38,33,34,39,38,50,48,50,58,77,16,87,35,154,109,206,49,
46,47,49,47,43,45,58,0,122,123,247,-166,-145,-133,-129,-280,-22,-34,-29,-52,0,
-80,-74,-69,-75,-62,0,0,0,-14,-11,-56,-36,-58,-74,-125,-125,-172,-125,-124,
-123,-366,-350,-410,-166,-390,-262,-261,-266,-267,-165,-175,-175,-523,-287,
-287,-287,-253,123,47,118,118,299,-289,-289,-289,-289,-289,-289,-289,-289,-288,
-287,-279,-279,-552,-547,-29970,-29971,-6230,-1131,-5169,-5169,-6095,-858]} 1.
d4 d5 2. Nf3 Nf6 3. c4 e6 4. Nc3 dxc4 5. e4 b5 6. e5 {D24: Queen's Gambit
Accepted: 3 Nf3 Nf6 4 Nc3.} Nd5 7. Nxb5 Nb6 8. Nc3 {White is slightly better.}
Be7 $5 {[%mdl 4] An interesting side line.} 9. Be2 Nc6 10. O-O Bb7 $5 {[%mdl 4]
Exploring less charted territory.} 11. Be3 Qd7 12. Rc1 {[#]} (12. Qb1 $16)
12... g5 $146 (12... O-O $11) ({Predecessor:} 12... Nb4 13. a3 N4d5 14. Nxd5
Bxd5 15. Nd2 Rb8 16. Nxc4 Nxc4 17. Bxc4 Rxb2 18. Bxd5 exd5 {0-1 (63) Bok,B 
(2624)-Tatarinov,D (2320) chess.com INT 2020}) 13. Bxg5 (13. Nxg5 $16 Nxd4 14.
Qxd4 Qxd4 15. Bxd4 Bxg5 16. f4) 13... Rg8 (13... Nxd4 $14 14. Bxe7 (14. Qxd4
Qxd4 15. Nxd4 Bxg5 $11) (14. Nxd4 Bxg5 15. f4 Bh6 $11) 14... Nxf3+ 15. Bxf3
Qxd1 16. Bxd1 (16. Rcxd1 Bxf3 17. gxf3 Rg8+ 18. Kh1 Kxe7 $11) 16... Kxe7) 14.
Bxe7 Nxe7 (14... Qxe7 $16 15. d5 Rd8) 15. Ne1 $2 (15. b3 $18) 15... O-O-O $14
16. Bf3 Qxd4 17. Bxb7+ Kxb7 18. Qf3+ Nc6 {[%cal Be7c6,Bc6d4,Bd4f3][%mdl 32]}
19. Nc2 (19. Qxf7 $14 Nd5 20. Kh1) 19... Qd3 (19... Qxe5 $11 20. Nb4 Qc5 21.
Nxc6 Qxc6) 20. Ne3 $1 $16 Nd5 (20... Qd4 $16 {might work better.}) 21. Ne4 $4 {
[%mdl 8192]} (21. Rcd1 $1 $18 {[%cal Rd1d3]} Qg6 22. Ncxd5 (22. Nexd5 Nxe5 23.
Qh3 exd5 $11) 22... exd5 23. Rxd5 Rxd5 24. Qxd5) 21... Nd4 $36 {[%mdl 2048]
Black is in control.} 22. Nc5+ Kb6 23. Qxd5 {[#]} exd5 $2 (23... Qxf1+ $3 $19 {
[%mdl 512]} 24. Kxf1 exd5 25. Na4+ Ka5) 24. Nxd3 $11 cxd3 25. Rcd1 Nf3+ $1 26.
Kh1 Nxe5 27. f4 {[#]} d4 $1 28. Nf5 Ng4 (28... Nc4 $15 29. Rxd3 c5) 29. Rxd3 c5
30. h3 Nf6 31. Rc1 {Black should prevent Rb3+.} Ne4 32. Kh2 a5 $1 33. a3 (33.
g4 $142) 33... a4 $17 34. b3 axb3 35. Rxb3+ Kc7 36. a4 $2 (36. Rc4 $17) 36...
d3 $19 37. Ne3 Rd4 (37... d2 $142 38. Ra1 Rb8) 38. a5 $2 (38. Rcb1 Nd6 39. Rc3)
38... Ra8 39. Rcb1 {intending Rb7+.} Ra7 {And now ...Nd2 would win.} ({Not} 
39... Rxa5 40. Rb7+ Kc8 41. Rb8+ Kd7 42. R1b7+ Ke6 43. Re8+ Kf6 44. Rb6+ Rd6
45. Rb7 $15) 40. a6 Nd6 41. Rc3 c4 42. Rb4 $2 (42. Rd1) 42... d2 43. Nxc4 d1=Q
44. Ne5+ {[#]} Kd8 $2 {[#]} (44... Rc4 $1 $19 {[%cal Rc4c3]} 45. Nxc4 Kd8) 45.
Nc6+ ({Better is} 45. Rxd4 $1 $16 Qxd4 46. Nc6+ {[%mdl 64] Double Attack} Kd7
47. Nxd4) 45... Kd7 ({Black should play} 45... Kc7 $14 46. Rxd4 Qa1 47. Nxa7+
Qxc3 48. Rxd6 Qb3) 46. Rxd4 $16 Qa1 (46... Qxd4 $16 {was worth a try.} 47. Nxd4
Rxa6) 47. Rdd3 $4 {[%mdl 8192]} (47. Nxa7 $18 {was the only winning move.} Qxc3
48. Nb5 Qxd4 49. Nxd4) 47... Rxa6 $19 48. Nb8+ Ke6 {Threatens to win with ...
Ne4.} 49. Nxa6 Qxa6 50. Re3+ Kf6 51. Rc5 Nf5 52. Ree5 Nd4 {Hoping for ...Qf1.}
53. Rh5 $2 (53. Rc7 {is a better defense.}) 53... Qe2 54. Kg3 Qe3+ 55. Kg4 Ne6
(55... Qf2 $142 56. Rhf5+ Kg7 57. Rg5+ Kf8 58. Rc8+ Ke7) 56. Rcf5+ Kg7 57. g3
Qe1 {A wild game.  Weighted Error Value: White=0.97/Black=0.69} (57... Qe2+
$142 58. Kh4 Nd4 59. Rfg5+ Kf8) 0-1

[Event "GCT Paris Blitz 2021"]
[Site "Paris"]
[Date "2021.06.21"]
[Round "1"]
[White "Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime"]
[Black "Kramnik, Vladimir"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "A39"]
[WhiteElo "2760"]
[BlackElo "2797"]
[Annotator "TA"]
[PlyCount "195"]
[EventDate "2021.06.21"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "FRA"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

{[%evp 22,195,38,35,34,33,41,25,37,25,37,23,42,41,44,50,37,17,17,18,16,18,21,
25,94,109,144,154,164,158,167,170,296,219,219,219,185,207,204,208,200,200,181,
157,139,36,36,36,36,36,36,29,36,29,36,29,29,19,58,36,36,36,43,29,29,8,11,0,0,0,
8,8,29,29,29,29,29,29,29,29,29,29,29,29,29,29,29,29,29,29,29,29,29,29,29,29,29,
8,29,29,29,29,29,29,29,29,29,14,29,0,5,0,29,29,29,29,29,5,29,29,29,29,29,29,29,
7,29,7,29,29,29,29,29,29,29,0,7,7,29,29,29,29,29,29,29,29,29,29,29,29,29,29,29,
29,29,29,29,8,29,29,29,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]} 1. c4 c5 2. g3 g6 3. Bg2
Bg7 4. Nf3 Nc6 5. Nc3 d6 6. O-O Bf5 7. b3 Nf6 8. Bb2 O-O 9. d4 cxd4 10. Nxd4
Nxd4 11. Qxd4 Ne4 12. Qe3 Nxc3 {A39: Symmetrical English vs ...g6: 4 Bg2 Bg7 5
Nf3 Nf6 6 0-0 0-0 7 d4.} 13. Bxc3 Bxc3 14. Qxc3 Qc7 {White has an edge.} 15. a4
$5 {[%mdl 4] A promising side line.} a5 {[#]} 16. Rad1 $146 {[%cal Ba1d1,Bd1d5,
Bd5b5,Bb5b6,Bb6d6][%mdl 32]} ({Predecessor:} 16. h4 h5 17. Rad1 Rac8 18. Rd5 b6
19. Bf3 e6 20. Rb5 {1/2-1/2 (39) Skembris,S (2473)-Tzouganakis,P (2185)
Paleochora 2014}) 16... Rac8 17. h4 b6 18. h5 $36 {[%mdl 2048] White has good
play.} gxh5 19. Rd5 e6 20. Rb5 d5 {[%cal Rd5c4]} 21. Rc1 dxc4 22. bxc4 Qd7 (
22... Qd6 $11) 23. Rxb6 $16 Qxa4 {[#]} 24. c5 $1 {[%cal Bc4c5,Bc5c6,Bc6c7]
[%mdl 32]} h4 {[#]} 25. c6 $1 hxg3 26. Qxg3+ Kh8 (26... Qg4 {was necessary.}
27. c7 Qxg3 28. fxg3 e5) 27. c7 Qd4 28. Rd6 Qb2 29. Qc3+ Qxc3 30. Rxc3 e5 31.
Bb7 Rce8 32. f3 Kg7 33. Ra6 (33. Rd5 $16) 33... Bc8 $1 $14 {[%cal Rc8b7]} 34.
Bxc8 Rxc8 35. Rxa5 {[%mdl 4096] Endgame KRR-KRR} f6 36. Rc6 Rf7 37. Rac5 Rd7
38. Kf2 Kf7 39. Kg3 Kg6 40. Kg4 h5+ 41. Kh4 Re7 42. e4 Rd7 43. Kg3 Rh7 44. Rxe5
Rcxc7 45. Ra6 h4+ 46. Kh3 Rcf7 47. Rf5 Rh5 48. Rf4 Rf8 49. Rg4+ Rg5 50. Kxh4 {
Hoping for Rxg5+.} Rxg4+ 51. Kxg4 $11 {Strongly threatening e5. KR-KR} Re8 52.
Kf4 Re7 53. Ke3 Kf7 54. f4 Rb7 55. Kf3 Rb4 56. Ra7+ Kf8 57. Rc7 Ra4 58. Ke3 Rb4
59. Kd3 Ra4 60. Rc4 Ra1 61. Kd4 Rf1 62. f5 Rd1+ 63. Kc5 Ke7 64. Kc6 Rd6+ 65.
Kb7 Rd1 66. Rc6 Rd7+ 67. Kb6 Rd1 68. Re6+ Kf7 69. Kc7 (69. Kc5 {looks sharper.}
Rc1+ 70. Kd4 Rd1+ 71. Kc4 Rf1 72. Ra6) 69... Rd4 70. Kc6 Ra4 71. Kc5 Ra5+ 72.
Kb4 Ra8 73. Kb5 (73. Kc4 {keeps more tension.} Rb8 74. Ra6 Rb1 75. Kd3 Rb4 76.
Ra3) 73... Ra1 (73... Rc8 {with more complications.} 74. Rc6 Re8 75. Rc4 Re5+
76. Kb4 Kg7) 74. Rc6 Re1 75. Rc7+ Kf8 76. Rc4 Ke7 77. Kc6 Re2 78. Kb7 Rb2+ 79.
Kc7 Re2 (79... Ra2 {seems wilder.} 80. Rd4 Ra5 81. Kc6 Re5 82. Ra4 Kf8) 80. Kc6
Re1 81. Ra4 Rc1+ 82. Kd5 Rd1+ 83. Kc5 Rc1+ 84. Kd4 Rd1+ 85. Ke3 Re1+ 86. Kf2
Rb1 87. Ra7+ Ke8 88. Kf3 Re1 89. Kg4 Rh1 90. Rb7 Kf8 91. e5 fxe5 {The position
is equal.} 92. Kg5 e4 93. Kg6 {Threatens to win with Rb8+.} (93. Kf4 {feels
hotter.} Re1 94. Rb8+ Kg7 95. Rb7+ Kf6 96. Rb6+) 93... Rg1+ 94. Kf6 {[%cal
Rb7b8]} Kg8 95. Rb8+ Kh7 96. Re8 Re1 97. Kf7 {aiming for f6.} e3 98. f6 {
[%mdl 32768] Black defended with fortune.  Weighted Error Value: White=0.10/
Black=0.10. Loss on time!?} 1-0

[Event "GCT Paris Blitz 2021"]
[Site "Paris"]
[Date "2021.06.21"]
[Round "1"]
[White "Svidler, Peter"]
[Black "Aronian, Levon"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "C78"]
[WhiteElo "2714"]
[BlackElo "2781"]
[Annotator "TA"]
[PlyCount "84"]
[EventDate "2021.06.21"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "FRA"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

{[%evp 12,84,55,43,44,31,38,27,22,37,27,25,27,14,13,19,54,38,40,40,43,37,52,45,
43,42,43,34,43,1,-2,-36,4,2,50,-78,-81,-75,-89,-90,-94,-130,-46,-36,-56,-40,
-56,-54,-25,-58,-58,-65,-64,-240,-247,-725,-33,-38,-34,-222,-216,-217,-132,
-138,-88,-178,-168,-181,-179,-203,-111,-98,-80,-706,-699]} 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6
3. Bb5 a6 4. Ba4 Nf6 5. O-O b5 6. Bb3 Bc5 7. a4 Rb8 {C78: Ruy Lopez:
Archangelsk and Möller Defences.} ({Don't blunder} 7... Nxe4 $2 8. axb5 Nxf2 9.
Qe2 $18 (9. Rxf2 Bxf2+ 10. Kxf2 Nd4 $16)) 8. Nxe5 Nxe5 9. d4 Bxd4 {White has
an edge.} 10. Qxd4 d6 11. Bf4 c5 12. Qe3 {next Bxe5 is good for White.} c4 13.
Ba2 O-O 14. Nc3 b4 15. Ne2 {[#]} Qc7 $146 ({Predecessor:} 15... Be6 16. f3 b3
17. Bb1 h6 18. Qd4 Nc6 19. Qc3 Rb7 20. cxb3 Rxb3 21. Qc1 Qb6+ {1/2-1/2 (74)
Kulaots,K (2579)-Narayanan,S (2532) Stockholm 2018}) 16. Rad1 Re8 17. Qd4 Rb6
18. f3 Be6 19. Be3 Rc6 20. Qa7 Qa5 21. c3 Nd3 {aiming for ...b3.} 22. cxb4 Qxa4
{[#]} 23. Bb1 (23. Nd4 $1 $14 {keeps the upper hand.} Rcc8 24. Nxe6 Qxa2 25.
Nd4) 23... Nxb2 $17 24. Rc1 Qxb4 25. Nd4 Rcc8 26. Qxa6 c3 (26... Bd7 $17 27.
Bf2 d5) 27. Qb5 Qa3 28. Nxe6 fxe6 29. Bc2 {Threatens to win with Ra1.} Nc4 30.
Bd4 e5 31. Bf2 Qb2 $36 {[%mdl 2048] Black fights for an advantage.} 32. Qb3 (
32. Qa6 $15) 32... d5 $19 {...Nd2 is the strong threat.} 33. exd5 $2 (33. Qa4
Na3 34. Bd3) 33... Qxb3 $2 (33... Nd2 $19 34. Qa4 Ra8) 34. Bxb3 $15 Nd2 ({
But not} 34... Nxd5 35. Rfd1 $14) 35. Ba2 (35. Ba4 $15) 35... Nxf1 36. Kxf1 e4
37. d6+ Kf8 38. Bb6 (38. Bd4 $17 Red8 39. Rxc3) 38... Rc6 $19 39. Ba5 exf3 40.
d7 {[#] Threatening mate with Bb4+.} Nxd7 ({Black should try} 40... fxg2+ $1
$19 41. Kg1 Nxd7) 41. Bb4+ $17 {[#]} Re7 $1 42. Re1 $2 {[%mdl 8192]} (42. gxf3
$17 Ke8 43. Bxe7 Kxe7 44. Bb1) 42... Nc5 {Weighted Error Value: White=0.57/
Black=0.34} 0-1

[Event "GCT Paris Blitz 2021"]
[Site "Paris"]
[Date "2021.06.21"]
[Round "2"]
[White "Kramnik, Vladimir"]
[Black "Svidler, Peter"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "B86"]
[WhiteElo "2797"]
[BlackElo "2714"]
[Annotator "TA"]
[PlyCount "47"]
[EventDate "2021.06.21"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "FRA"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

{[%evp 12,47,11,0,9,18,15,18,32,32,72,52,112,112,110,60,53,48,73,51,89,94,302,
283,297,281,292,299,307,0,0,0,0,0,567,570,965,916]} 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4
cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 a6 6. Bc4 e6 7. Be3 (7. Bb3 Nbd7 8. Be3 Nc5 9. f3 h5
10. Qd2 b5 11. O-O-O Bd7 12. Kb1 Qc7 13. a3 Qb7 14. Rhe1 Be7 15. Bg5 b4 16.
axb4 Qxb4 17. e5 dxe5 18. Rxe5 {1/2-1/2 (115) Kramnik,V (2753)-Svidler,P (2723)
chess24.com INT 2020}) 7... Qc7 {B86: Sicilian Scheveningen/Najdorf: 6 Bc4,
without early ...b5.} 8. Bb3 Nbd7 9. f3 h5 {[#] The position is equal.} 10. a3
$5 $146 {[%mdl 8] New and interesting.} ({Predecessor:} 10. Qe2 Nc5 11. O-O-O
Be7 12. Rhe1 b5 13. Bg5 b4 14. Nb1 Nxb3+ 15. axb3 Bb7 16. Nd2 {1/2-1/2 (29)
Markgraf,A (2483)-Blohberger,F (2434) Germany 2020}) 10... Ne5 11. Qe2 Bd7 (
11... Ned7 $14) 12. f4 $16 Neg4 13. O-O-O Nxe3 14. Qxe3 g6 15. Kb1 Bh6 16. Qf3
Rc8 $2 (16... O-O-O $16) 17. f5 $1 $18 {[%cal Rf5e6]} gxf5 18. exf5 e5 {[#]}
19. Ne6 {[%mdl 512]} Qc6 {[#]} (19... Qb6 20. Nd5) 20. Nd5 $2 Nxd5 $11 21. Bxd5
Qxc2+ 22. Ka1 Rg8 $2 {[%mdl 8192]} (22... Bc6 $1 $11 {and Black is okay.}) 23.
Qxh5 $18 Bc6 {[#] aiming for ...Bxd5.} 24. Nd4 $1 {[%mdl 512] Weighted Error
Value: White=0.28/Black=0.87} 1-0

[Event "GCT Paris Blitz 2021"]
[Site "Paris"]
[Date "2021.06.21"]
[Round "2"]
[White "Nepomniachtchi, Ian"]
[Black "Caruana, Fabiano"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "C50"]
[WhiteElo "2792"]
[BlackElo "2820"]
[Annotator "TA"]
[PlyCount "127"]
[EventDate "2021.06.21"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "FRA"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

{[%evp 12,127,1,5,12,0,25,25,28,26,27,21,18,0,15,15,17,17,19,17,17,4,5,-1,29,
11,11,12,43,38,38,45,64,18,12,19,14,22,64,17,16,19,64,66,92,92,92,92,92,84,92,
84,84,73,77,55,104,108,103,87,92,38,46,31,31,25,31,31,39,39,39,0,39,39,54,0,0,
0,54,54,101,54,54,0,0,0,13,13,54,0,54,54,54,0,0,0,7,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,467,452,
378,377,339,258,496,493,3152,2713,29966,29963]} 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Nf6
4. d3 h6 5. Nc3 Bc5 6. h3 d6 {6...a6 deserves study.} 7. Na4 Bb6 {C50:
Hungarian Defence and Giuoco Pianissimo.} 8. a3 Be6 9. Bxe6 fxe6 {White has an
edge.} 10. b4 $5 {[%mdl 4] A promising side line.} O-O 11. O-O Qe8 {[#]} 12. c4
$146 ({Predecessor:} 12. c3 Nh5 13. Nxb6 axb6 14. g3 Rf6 15. Be3 Qg6 16. Nh4
Qf7 17. Ng2 b5 18. Qe2 {0-1 (35) Benda,H (2334)-Diermair,A (2488) Austria 2017}
) 12... Nd4 13. Nxb6 Nxf3+ 14. Qxf3 axb6 15. Qe2 Qg6 16. Ra2 Nh5 17. Qg4 Kh7
18. Qxg6+ Kxg6 19. a4 Nf6 20. Be3 Nd7 21. Rfa1 Nb8 22. a5 bxa5 23. Rxa5 Rxa5
24. Rxa5 $11 {[%mdl 4096] Endgame KRB-KRN} Na6 25. b5 Nb4 26. Ra3 c5 27. Bd2
Nc2 28. Ra7 Rf7 29. f3 Rd7 30. Kf2 Kf6 31. Ra2 Nd4 32. Bc3 d5 33. Ra8 dxc4 34.
dxc4 b6 35. Ra6 Rb7 36. Ke3 ({White should try} 36. h4 $16) 36... g5 37. Kd3 h5
38. Be1 h4 39. Bf2 Kf7 40. Be3 Kf6 41. Bd2 Nb3 {[#] aiming for ...Rd7+.} (41...
Rd7 $5 {[%cal Rd4f3]} 42. Kc3 Ne2+ 43. Kc2 Nd4+ 44. Kc3 Ne2+ 45. Kc2 Nd4+ 46.
Kc3 $11) 42. Bc3 Nd4 43. Ra8 (43. Kd2 $14) 43... Rd7 44. Ke3 Rb7 ({Black
should play} 44... Nc2+ $11 45. Ke2 Nd4+ 46. Kf2 Nc2) 45. Kf2 Nb3 46. Ra3 Nd4
47. Bd2 (47. Ra2 $14) 47... Rd7 {And now ...Nc2! would win.} 48. Bc1 Rd8 49.
Ra6 Rb8 50. Ra7 (50. Be3 $14) 50... Kg6 (50... Rd8 $11) 51. Be3 Kf6 52. g3 (52.
Ra2 $14) 52... Kg6 53. Ra6 Rb7 54. Ra8 Rf7 55. Bxd4 ({Much worse is} 55. Rg8+
Kh7 $17) 55... cxd4 56. gxh4 gxh4 {KR-KR} 57. Rb8 Rc7 58. Rxb6 {Black must now
prevent Rc6.} Rxc4 {[%mdl 8192]} (58... Kf7 $11 {and Black has nothing to
worry.}) 59. Rxe6+ $18 Kf7 60. Rxe5 Rc2+ 61. Kf1 Rc3 $2 (61... Rh2 62. Rd5 Rxh3
) 62. Ke2 Rc2+ (62... Rb3 $142 63. Kd2 Kg6) 63. Kd3 {[%mdl 64] [#] Double
Attack} Rc3+ 64. Kxd4 {Weighted Error Value: White=0.13/Black=0.43} 1-0

[Event "GCT Paris Blitz 2021"]
[Site "Paris"]
[Date "2021.06.21"]
[Round "2"]
[White "So, Wesley"]
[Black "Radjabov, Teimour"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "C11"]
[WhiteElo "2770"]
[BlackElo "2765"]
[Annotator "TA"]
[PlyCount "93"]
[EventDate "2021.06.21"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "FRA"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

{[%evp 20,93,0,3,5,22,22,31,23,19,20,17,23,26,27,27,27,27,25,22,26,29,31,-92,
-72,-83,-81,-136,0,0,0,-49,-6,-17,0,-342,57,38,36,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,-2,
62,-281,-8,-8,70,76,183,160,745,742,723,652,1381,1295,2116,1987,29975,11475,
29982,29983,29988,29989,29988,29988]} 1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. e5 Nfd7
5. f4 c5 6. Nf3 Nc6 7. Be3 cxd4 8. Nxd4 Qb6 9. Qd2 Qxb2 10. Rb1 Qa3 11. Bb5 $1
{And now Rb3 would win.} Nxd4 {C11: French: Classical System: 4 e5 and 4 Bg5
dxe4.} 12. Bxd4 (12. Qxd4 a6 $17) 12... a6 {The main line 12...a6 scores
better than 12...Bb4.} 13. Bxd7+ Bxd7 {White is slightly better.} 14. Rb3 Qe7
15. Rxb7 Rc8 16. O-O Qd8 17. Qe3 Rc4 18. Rfb1 $1 Be7 19. f5 Bg5 20. Qd3 {
Strongly threatening Ne4!} O-O {[#]} 21. R1b6 $146 (21. Ne4 $1 $14 {keeps the
upper hand.} Bc8 22. Bb6 $1 {[%mdl 512]} (22. Nxg5 Qxg5 23. R7b6 exf5 $15)
22... Be3+ 23. Qxe3) ({Predecessor:} 21. f6 gxf6 22. Ne4 Rxd4 23. Qxd4 fxe5 24.
Qxe5 dxe4 25. Rd1 Be3+ 26. Kh1 Qh4 27. Rbxd7 {1-0 (45) Muzychuk,A (2576)
-Goryachkina,A (2478) Monte Carlo 2017}) 21... Bc6 $36 {[%mdl 2048] Black is
in control.} 22. Ra7 exf5 23. Rbxa6 (23. Raxa6 $142 Qc8 24. Ra7) 23... Qc8 (
23... Qe8 $1 $17 24. Ra5 (24. Qxf5 Rxd4 25. Qxg5 Rc4 $17) 24... Qe6) 24. a4 $11
f4 25. Ne2 Bd7 {...Bf5 is the strong threat.} (25... f3 $5 26. gxf3 Qh3 $15)
26. c3 $1 Bf5 27. Qd2 {[%mdl 8192] [#]} (27. Qf3 $11 {and White has nothing to
worry.}) 27... Be4 $2 (27... f3 $1 $19 28. Nf4 Qb8 29. gxf3 Bc8) 28. e6 $1 $14
{Threatens to win with h4.} Rc7 $1 {[%cal Rc7a7]} 29. h4 (29. Rxc7 $5 {[%cal
Re6f7]} Qxa6 30. Nxf4 $14) 29... Bh6 {White must now prevent ...Rxa7.} ({
Avoid the trap} 29... Bxh4 $2 30. Qxf4 Rxa7 31. Rxa7 $18) 30. Rxc7 Qxc7 31. Ra7
Qb8 ({Don't go for} 31... f3 $2 32. Rxc7 Bxd2 33. gxf3 $18) 32. exf7+ Rxf7 33.
Rxf7 Kxf7 34. Qa2 Qc8 {Hoping for ...Qg4!} 35. Qb2 Kg6 (35... Qg4 $11 36. Qb7+
Kg6 37. Qc6+ Kh5 38. Qe8+ Kxh4 39. Bf2+ Kg5 40. Qe5+ Qf5) 36. Kf1 $2 {[%mdl
8192]} (36. Qb6+ $14 Kh5 37. Be5) 36... Kh5 $2 (36... Qg4 $19 37. Ke1 Qxh4+ 38.
Kd1 Bg5) 37. Ng1 $11 Bd3+ (37... Qc4+ $11 38. Qe2+ Qxe2+ 39. Kxe2 Bf5) 38. Kf2
$1 $14 Qg4 ({Don't blunder} 38... Kxh4 $2 39. Nf3+ Kh5 40. Ne5 $18) (38... Qc4
$16 {was called for.}) 39. Nf3 $18 Be4 $2 {[#]} (39... g5 $16) 40. Qe2 $1 g5
41. hxg5 Bxg5 42. a5 {[%cal Ba4a5,Ba5a6,Ba6a7][%mdl 32]} Bd8 43. a6 Kh6 44. a7
Qc8 45. Qa2 {White mates.} Qa8 46. Qa6+ Kh5 47. Qe6 {Weighted Error Value:
White=0.37/Black=0.83} 1-0

[Event "GCT Paris Blitz 2021"]
[Site "Paris"]
[Date "2021.06.21"]
[Round "2"]
[White "Rapport, Richard"]
[Black "Aronian, Levon"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "A09"]
[WhiteElo "2763"]
[BlackElo "2781"]
[Annotator "TA"]
[PlyCount "65"]
[EventDate "2021.06.21"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "FRA"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

{[%evp 9,65,-17,0,-5,0,-19,-19,-31,-30,-44,-33,-8,-13,-7,-7,-7,-6,-10,-8,-8,-8,
-11,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,2,8,18,14,8,8,8,8,8,10,7,13,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,11,0,13,0,11,0,
40,0]} 1. Nf3 d5 2. g3 g6 3. c4 dxc4 4. Na3 Bg7 5. Nxc4 Be6 6. Qc2 {A09: Réti
Opening: 1 Nf3 d5 2 c4.} c5 7. Bg2 Nc6 {[%cal Bb8c6,Bc6d4,Bd4e2][%mdl 32]
Strongly threatening ...Nb4.} 8. O-O {[#] The position is equal.} Nh6 $146 ({
Predecessor:} 8... Rc8 9. d3 Nh6 10. Nce5 Nxe5 11. Nxe5 Bxe5 12. Bxh6 Qd7 13.
Rad1 f6 14. b3 Kf7 {0-1 (40) Olafsson,F-Keres,P Bled/Zagreb/Belgrade 1959}) 9.
Ne3 Rc8 10. Qxc5 Nd4 11. Qxa7 {[#] And now Nxd4 would win.} Nxe2+ 12. Kh1 O-O
13. d4 Nf5 14. Nxf5 Bxf5 15. Qxb7 Nxc1 16. Raxc1 Rb8 17. Qa7 Rxb2 18. Ne5 Bxe5
19. dxe5 Be6 20. a4 Bd5 21. Rfd1 Bxg2+ 22. Kxg2 Qa8+ 23. Qxa8 Rxa8 $11 {
[%mdl 4096] Endgame KRR-KRR} 24. Rc4 {Black must now prevent Rd7.} Ra5 25. Re4
Ra2 26. Rdd4 Kg7 27. h4 h6 28. Rc4 g5 29. h5 Rd5 30. Rcd4 Rc5 31. Rc4 Rd5 32.
Rcd4 Rc5 33. Rc4 {Weighted Error Value: White=0.05/Black=0.03} 1/2-1/2

[Event "GCT Paris Blitz 2021"]
[Site "Paris"]
[Date "2021.06.21"]
[Round "2"]
[White "Firouzja, Alireza"]
[Black "Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "B46"]
[WhiteElo "2759"]
[BlackElo "2760"]
[Annotator "TA"]
[PlyCount "71"]
[EventDate "2021.06.21"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "FRA"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

{[%evp 13,71,77,75,75,76,69,79,80,79,70,100,108,100,88,112,107,172,161,169,153,
183,183,167,180,152,173,153,141,189,185,185,159,201,201,285,286,325,323,381,
372,361,301,440,428,464,476,476,451,516,500,683,551,799,713,964,960,928,905,
1101,1085]} 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 e6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 {[%cal Bb1c3,
Bc3e4,Be4d6][%mdl 32]} Nc6 6. Be2 a6 7. Nxc6 bxc6 8. e5 $1 {[%cal Re5f6] B46:
Sicilian: Taimanov: 5 Nc3 a6.} Nd5 9. Ne4 $1 Qc7 {[#]} 10. Nd6+ $1 {White is
better.} Bxd6 11. exd6 Qb6 12. c4 Nf6 13. O-O c5 {[#]} 14. Be3 $146 ({
Predecessor:} 14. Bf4 Bb7 15. Qb3 Qxb3 16. axb3 O-O 17. Be3 Rfc8 18. Ra5 Ne4
19. Rd1 Rc6 20. f3 Nxd6 21. Bxc5 {1-0 (34) Morozevich,A (2683)-Bocharov,D 
(2611) Sochi 2016}) 14... Ne4 (14... a5 $16 {might work better.}) 15. Bf3 $18
Bb7 {[#]} 16. b4 $1 Qxd6 17. Bxe4 Qxd1 18. Bxb7 ({Don't take} 18. Raxd1 $6 Bxe4
19. Bxc5 f6 $14) 18... Qa4 {White must now prevent ...Rb8.} 19. Bxa8 cxb4 20.
Rfd1 O-O 21. Bf3 Rc8 22. c5 a5 23. h3 f6 (23... h6 $142 24. Rd2 Rc7) 24. Rd2
Rc7 25. Rad1 h6 26. Bh5 Kf8 27. Bf4 Ra7 (27... e5 {was worth a try.}) 28. Bb8 {
White is clearly winning.} Rb7 29. Bd6+ Kg8 30. Be8 b3 31. axb3 Qxb3 32. Be7 a4
33. Bxd7 a3 34. c6 Ra7 35. Bc5 Ra5 {[#]} 36. Bxa3 $1 {[%mdl 576] Promotion. 
Weighted Error Value: White=0.08/Black=0.40} 1-0

[Event "GCT Paris Blitz 2021"]
[Site "Paris"]
[Date "2021.06.21"]
[Round "3"]
[White "Caruana, Fabiano"]
[Black "Rapport, Richard"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "B45"]
[WhiteElo "2820"]
[BlackElo "2763"]
[Annotator "TA"]
[PlyCount "148"]
[EventDate "2021.06.21"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "FRA"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

{[%evp 11,148,0,0,0,10,-2,0,5,12,0,0,0,0,-11,4,-10,18,12,26,23,23,39,50,0,0,-3,
50,-5,0,-5,0,0,10,12,41,29,80,80,79,57,55,53,63,37,97,80,97,94,181,171,183,143,
148,146,151,151,151,108,111,117,145,138,174,118,124,131,231,233,223,140,331,
200,200,200,200,200,200,199,219,112,111,111,112,112,112,106,106,74,81,81,81,81,
85,90,111,111,112,112,112,112,112,112,112,112,112,112,112,112,112,112,112,112,
112,112,112,0,112,112,4022,112,112,112,112,112,112,0,112,112,112,112,112,112,
112,0,112,112,112,112,112]} 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 e6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3
Nc6 6. a3 Be7 7. Nxc6 {B45: Sicilian Four Knights.} bxc6 8. e5 Nd5 9. Qg4 {
The position is equal.} Kf8 {[#]} 10. Bd2 $146 ({Predecessor:} 10. Ne4 h5 11.
Qg3 Bh4 12. Qf3 g6 13. Bd3 Kg7 14. Nd6 Qf8 15. g4 Be7 16. c4 {1-0 (31) Dibley,
S (1571)-Wang,O (1942) Cammeray 2011}) 10... h5 11. Qe4 Rb8 12. b3 f5 13. exf6
Bxf6 {...Qc7 is the strong threat.} 14. Qf3 Kg8 15. Rd1 Nxc3 16. Bxc3 d5 17.
Be2 e5 18. Qe3 Qb6 {[#]} (18... Qe8 $11) 19. Qd2 ({White should try} 19. Bd4 $1
$14 Qc7 20. Bxa7) 19... Bf5 20. O-O h4 21. h3 Kh7 22. Rfe1 {Black should
prevent Bg4.} Rhf8 23. Bb4 e4 (23... Rfe8 $11) 24. Bxf8 $16 Rxf8 25. Rf1 Bg6
26. Bg4 Be5 27. Kh1 Bf4 (27... a5 $14) 28. Qb4 $1 {[%cal Rb4f8]} Qd8 29. c4 {
Threatens to win with cxd5.} Qf6 (29... Bd6 $16 30. Qd2 Bc7) 30. cxd5 $18 Bd6
31. Qe1 cxd5 32. Rxd5 Qf4 {[%csl Gd6][%cal Rf4h2] [#]} 33. Rxd6 $1 Qxd6 34. b4
Qd3 35. f3 e3 36. Qxh4+ Kg8 37. Re1 (37. Be6+ $18 Bf7 38. Bxf7+ Rxf7 39. Rg1)
37... Re8 $16 38. f4 Qd2 (38... e2 $16 39. Kh2 Qxa3) 39. f5 $18 Bf7 40. f6 Qf2
$2 (40... gxf6 $16 41. Bf3 (41. Bf5 Re5 $16) 41... Kg7) 41. Qg5 {[%csl Gf6]
[%cal Rg5g7]} Qxf6 ({And not} 41... Qxe1+ 42. Kh2 Bg6 43. Qxg6 Qg1+ 44. Kxg1
Re7 45. fxe7 Kh8 46. e8=Q#) 42. Qxf6 gxf6 {[%mdl 4096] Endgame [#] KRB-KRB} 43.
Kh2 $1 Bc4 44. Kg3 Kg7 45. Kf4 (45. Be2 $18 Bd5 46. Rd1) 45... e2 $16 46. Kf3
Rd8 47. Kf2 Rd2 48. Bxe2 {And now Ke3 would win.} Ra2 49. Kf3 Rxa3+ 50. Kf4
Bxe2 51. Rxe2 {KR-KR} a5 52. bxa5 Rxa5 53. g4 Kg6 54. h4 Ra4+ 55. Re4 Ra7 56.
Rb4 Rc7 57. Ra4 Rb7 58. h5+ Kg7 59. Ra5 Re7 60. Kf5 Rc7 61. Rb5 Ra7 62. Rc5 Rb7
63. Ra5 Rc7 $1 64. Rd5 Re7 $2 {[%mdl 8192] [#]} (64... Ra7 $16 65. Rc5 Ra4 66.
Rc7+ Kh6) 65. Rd4 $2 (65. h6+ $1 $18 {and the rest is easy.} Kh7 66. Kxf6)
65... Re5+ 66. Kf4 Re7 67. Re4 (67. Kg3 {feels hotter.} Rc7 68. Rd6 Rc3+ 69.
Kh4 Rc4 70. Rd7+) 67... Ra7 68. Rd4 (68. Re6 $16) 68... Rb7 (68... Re7 $1 $11 {
keeps the balance.}) 69. Rd5 Re7 70. Kf5 {Black must now prevent h6+!} Ra7 71.
Ke6 {White threatens Rd7+ and mate.} Ra4 72. Kf5 Ra7 $1 73. Rb5 Rc7 74. Ra5 Rb7
{Weighted Error Value: White=0.15/Black=0.15} 1/2-1/2

[Event "GCT Paris Blitz 2021"]
[Site "Paris"]
[Date "2021.06.21"]
[Round "3"]
[White "Aronian, Levon"]
[Black "Kramnik, Vladimir"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "D02"]
[WhiteElo "2781"]
[BlackElo "2797"]
[Annotator "TA"]
[PlyCount "112"]
[EventDate "2021.06.21"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "FRA"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

{[%evp 9,112,3,6,14,8,-1,0,0,-2,-14,-8,-7,0,0,0,0,0,0,-16,-62,-52,-51,-41,-69,
0,-24,-25,-67,-76,-66,-66,-79,-69,-73,-65,-66,-76,-73,-80,-84,-28,-39,-22,-28,
-32,-35,-8,-8,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,5,6,0,1,0,0,0,3,0,0,-45,-46,-45,-56,
-46,-47,-54,-52,-49,-16,-17,0,-50,0,-14,0,-24,-25,-39,-8,-8,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,
0,0,0,0]} 1. d4 Nf6 2. Nf3 e6 3. Bf4 d5 4. e3 Bd6 5. Nbd2 O-O 6. Bd3 {D02: 1
d4 d5 2 Nf3 sidelines, including 2...Nf6 3 g3 and 2...Nf6 3 Bf4.} b6 7. Ne5 c5
$1 {[%mdl 4] is now more promising than 7...Bb7.} 8. c3 Qc7 {[#]} 9. Bg5 $146 (
{Predecessor:} 9. h4 Ba6 10. Bxa6 Nxa6 11. h5 Nd7 12. Ndf3 f6 13. Nd3 cxd4 14.
Nxd4 e5 15. Ne6 {1-0 (56) Firouzja,A (2749)-Duda,J (2743) Wijk aan Zee 2021})
9... Bxe5 10. dxe5 Qxe5 11. Nf3 {[%cal Rf3e5]} Qd6 12. Bxf6 gxf6 13. Nh4 {
next Qh5 is good for White.} Qe5 14. Qg4+ Qg5 15. Qh3 f5 (15... Qg7 {keeps
more tension.} 16. Rg1 Ba6 17. Bc2 Nc6 18. g4 Kh8) 16. Be2 e5 ({Better is} 
16... Ba6 $15) 17. f4 exf4 18. O-O fxe3 19. Nxf5 Nc6 {[%cal Bb8c6,Bc6e7,Be7g8]
[%mdl 32]} 20. Rf3 {[#]} Kh8 $1 21. Raf1 $1 Ne7 22. Qh6 Qxh6 23. Nxh6 Be6 {
Threatens to win with ...Kg7.} 24. Rxe3 {[#] White wants to play Nxf7+!} Ng8 (
24... Ng6 $1 $17) 25. Ng4 d4 26. cxd4 cxd4 27. Rd3 Bc4 {...Rfe8 is the strong
threat.} 28. Rd2 Bxe2 29. Rxe2 Rae8 30. Rd2 f5 31. Nf2 Rd8 32. Rfd1 Rfe8 33.
Kf1 Nf6 34. Rxd4 Rxd4 35. Rxd4 $11 {[%mdl 4096] Endgame KRN-KRN} Kg7 36. Nd3
Rc8 37. Rf4 Nd5 38. Rd4 Nf6 39. Ra4 a5 {[%cal Ba7a5,Ba5b4][%mdl 32]} 40. b4 Rc4
41. Ra3 axb4 42. Ra7+ Kh6 43. Ke2 Re4+ 44. Kd2 Rd4 45. Ke3 Re4+ 46. Kd2 $1 Rd4
47. Ke3 Rc4 48. Kd2 Ne4+ 49. Ke3 Nc5 {And now ...Rc3 would win.} 50. Nf4 $1 {
The position is equal.} Re4+ (50... b3 {is interesting.} 51. axb3 Nxb3 52. Rd7
Re4+ 53. Kf3 Rd4) 51. Kf3 Ne6 (51... b3 {with more complications.} 52. axb3
Nxb3 53. g3 Nd2+ 54. Kf2 Rb4) 52. Nxe6 Rxe6 53. Ra4 Re4 54. Ra6 Re6 55. Ra4 Re4
56. Ra6 Re6 {Weighted Error Value: White=0.05/Black=0.07} 1/2-1/2

[Event "GCT Paris Blitz 2021"]
[Site "Paris"]
[Date "2021.06.21"]
[Round "3"]
[White "Radjabov, Teimour"]
[Black "Nepomniachtchi, Ian"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "D38"]
[WhiteElo "2765"]
[BlackElo "2792"]
[Annotator "TA"]
[PlyCount "110"]
[EventDate "2021.06.21"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "FRA"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

{[%evp 16,110,29,20,19,0,13,4,0,13,21,0,0,0,0,-2,-6,-19,-8,-14,-12,-14,-13,-12,
0,-8,-1,-19,-8,-39,-14,-52,-56,-45,-55,-72,-81,-90,-90,-85,-81,-62,-15,-20,-9,
-156,-145,-214,-208,-205,-200,-216,-209,-203,-202,-185,-194,-183,-180,-174,
-129,-341,-360,-342,-224,-222,-123,-106,-121,-104,-41,-181,-162,-249,-162,-302,
-265,-323,-344,-310,-183,-161,-150,-487,-471,-540,-553,-444,-500,-656,-627,
-1732,-1645,-8010,-6935,-29988,-29989]} 1. Nf3 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 d5 4. d4 Bb4
5. Bg5 h6 6. Bxf6 Qxf6 7. e3 O-O 8. Rc1 dxc4 9. Bxc4 c5 {D38: Queen's Gambit
Declined: Ragozin Defence (4 Nf3 Bb4).} 10. a3 (10. O-O {seems wilder.} cxd4
11. Nxd4 Bd7 12. Ne4 Qe5 13. Qd3) 10... cxd4 11. Nxd4 {[#]} Bxc3+ $146 {
The position is equal.} ({Predecessor:} 11... Ba5 12. O-O Bb6 13. Na4 Bd8 14.
Bb5 Be7 15. Qf3 Qxf3 16. Nxf3 Rd8 17. Ne5 Bf6 {0-1 (37) Arduman,C (2336)
-Gaprindashvili,V (2475) Izmir 2003}) 12. Rxc3 Bd7 13. O-O Nc6 14. Bb5 {
[%cal Rb5c6]} Rfd8 15. Bxc6 Bxc6 16. Qe2 Bd5 17. Rfc1 e5 18. Nf3 Bc6 $40 {
[%mdl 128] Black attacks.} 19. Rc5 Rd5 20. Rxd5 Bxd5 21. e4 Bc6 22. Qe3 Rd8 23.
Ne1 Rd4 24. f3 $1 Qd6 25. b4 a6 26. Qc3 h5 27. Qe3 h4 28. h3 f6 29. Kh2 Kh7 30.
Qb3 (30. Nc2 $11 {remains equal.}) 30... Rd2 31. Qe3 (31. Qf7 $17 {was worth a
try.}) 31... Qd4 $1 $19 {[%cal Rd4e3]} 32. Nc2 Qd3 33. Qxd3 Rxd3 {[%mdl 4096]
Endgame KRB-KRN} 34. Ra1 Ba4 35. Ne1 Rd2 36. Kg1 Kg6 37. Rc1 Bb5 38. Rc2 $2 (
38. f4 $17 {is a better defense.}) 38... Rd1 39. Kf2 Ra1 40. Rc3 Ra2+ (40...
Kg5 $19 {...Kf4 is the strong threat.} 41. Nd3 Ra2+ 42. Kg1 Bxd3 43. Rxd3 b5)
41. Kg1 $17 Kg5 42. Nc2 Kf4 (42... g6 $17 43. Ne3 Bc6) 43. Kh2 {[#]} (43. Ne3
$15) 43... Be2 $1 $19 44. Ne1 (44. b5 {was the only defense.}) 44... g6 45. Nc2
{[#]} (45. Nd3+ $142 Bxd3 46. Rxd3) 45... f5 $1 46. exf5 gxf5 47. a4 e4 ({
But not} 47... Rxa4 48. Ne3 $19) (47... Bd1 $142 48. Na3 e4 49. fxe4 fxe4) 48.
fxe4 fxe4 {And now ...Bd3 would win.} 49. Nd4 $2 (49. Rc7 $17 {is a better
chance.}) 49... Bf1 50. Kg1 Bxg2 51. b5 Bf3 52. Nc2 Rxa4 53. Kf2 axb5 54. Ne3
Ra2+ 55. Ke1 Re2+ {[%mdl 64] Double Attack.  Weighted Error Value: White=0.72/
Black=0.13} 0-1

[Event "GCT Paris Blitz 2021"]
[Site "Paris"]
[Date "2021.06.21"]
[Round "3"]
[White "Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime"]
[Black "So, Wesley"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "E14"]
[WhiteElo "2760"]
[BlackElo "2770"]
[Annotator "TA"]
[PlyCount "124"]
[EventDate "2021.06.21"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "FRA"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

{[%evp 22,124,9,0,0,0,0,-15,-15,-16,0,0,61,2,9,-13,83,86,83,77,83,82,131,111,
111,118,119,125,138,138,142,120,137,138,147,143,161,162,161,145,159,152,167,
150,137,133,190,183,216,202,243,246,239,238,207,226,216,192,208,200,242,223,
251,237,297,314,296,218,228,195,214,176,184,184,184,184,184,165,210,184,198,
198,293,0,0,0,0,-173,-172,-570,-516,-6279,-6279,-6279,-5509,-29993,-29994,
-29994,-29995,-29995,-29978,-29978,-29979,-29975,-29976]} 1. Nf3 d5 2. e3 Nf6
3. c4 e6 4. b3 Be7 5. Bb2 O-O 6. d4 c5 7. Bd3 cxd4 8. exd4 b6 9. O-O Bb7 10.
Nc3 Nbd7 11. Re1 Rc8 12. Rc1 Re8 {E14: Queen's Indian: Classical Variation (4
e3).} 13. Qe2 Nf8 14. Ne5 Ng6 {The position is equal.} 15. g3 {[#]} Bf8 $146 ({
Predecessor:} 15... Bb4 16. a3 Bxc3 17. Bxc3 Rc7 18. c5 Ne4 19. Nxg6 hxg6 20.
b4 e5 21. dxe5 bxc5 22. bxc5 Rxc5 {0-1 (29) Siegel,N (2240)-Goldin,A (2590)
Philadelphia 1998}) 16. Red1 Qe7 (16... dxc4 $11 17. Bxc4 Qd6) 17. h4 ({
White should play} 17. c5 $1 $14) 17... dxc4 $11 18. bxc4 (18. Bxc4 {keeps
more tension.} Qd6 19. Re1 Qb8 20. Bb5 Re7 21. h5) 18... Nxe5 (18... Ba8 $11)
19. dxe5 $16 Nd7 20. Nb5 Nc5 21. Nd6 $40 {[%mdl 128] White goes for the king.}
Ba8 22. Bb1 Qc7 23. Nxe8 Rxe8 24. f3 Na4 25. Bd4 {[#] Threatens to win with
Qc2!} Nc5 26. Kg2 g6 27. h5 Bh6 28. Rc3 Bg7 29. hxg6 hxg6 30. Qe3 Rd8 31. Rcc1
Rc8 32. Kf2 Nd7 {[%cal Rg7e5]} 33. Re1 Nc5 (33... Qc6 $16 {was worth a try.})
34. Bxc5 $18 bxc5 35. f4 Qa5 36. Re2 Rd8 37. Be4 Bxe4 38. Qxe4 Rd4 39. Qf3 Bh6
40. Kg2 Kg7 41. Rb1 Qd8 42. Rb7 Rxc4 43. Rxa7 Rb4 44. a4 Rb1 45. Rf2 c4 46. Kh2
{And now f5! would win.} Qd4 47. Rc7 Rb3 48. Qg2 c3 49. a5 Ra3 50. Rc2 {
aiming for Qb7.} Ra1 {intending ...Bxf4.} 51. R7xc3 Bxf4 (51... Rxa5 {might
work better.} 52. Rc7 Ra7) 52. Rc4 $2 (52. gxf4 $18 {Intending Qg5! and mate.}
Qxf4+ 53. Rg3 Rxa5 54. Qf3 Qxe5 55. Rd2) 52... Bxg3+ $1 $11 53. Qxg3 Qd1 {
[%csl Ga1][%cal Rd1h1]} 54. Qg2 (54. Qh4 $11 {and White stays safe.} Qh1+ 55.
Kg3 Ra3+ 56. R4c3 Rxc3+ 57. Rxc3 Qe1+ {[%mdl 64] Double Attack} 58. Kg4 Qxc3
59. Qf6+ Kg8 60. Qd8+ Kg7 61. Qf6+ Kg8 62. Qd8+ Kg7 63. Qf6+) 54... Qh5+ $19
55. Kg3 $2 (55. Qh3 {nothing else works.} Rh1+ {[%mdl 64] Skewer, Deflection}
56. Kxh1 Qxh3+ 57. Kg1) 55... Qxe5+ 56. Kf2 (56. Kh4 $142 Ra3 57. R4c3 (57. Qg4
$2 {is a self mate.} Qe1+ 58. Kg5 f6+ 59. Kf4 e5#) 57... Rxc3 58. Rxc3 Qxc3 59.
a6 Qc4+ {[%mdl 64] Double Attack} 60. Kh3 Qxa6 61. Qb2+ f6 62. Kg4) 56... Qe1+
57. Kf3 Ra3+ 58. Kg4 f5+ {Black mates.} 59. Kg5 Rg3+ {[%mdl 64] [#] Double
Attack} 60. Rg4 Rxg4+ 61. Qxg4 fxg4 62. Rc7+ Kf8 {Weighted Error Value:
White=0.63/Black=0.17} 0-1

[Event "GCT Paris Blitz 2021"]
[Site "Paris"]
[Date "2021.06.21"]
[Round "3"]
[White "Svidler, Peter"]
[Black "Firouzja, Alireza"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "B30"]
[WhiteElo "2714"]
[BlackElo "2759"]
[Annotator "TA"]
[PlyCount "96"]
[EventDate "2021.06.21"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "FRA"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

{[%evp 16,96,22,33,33,31,25,30,25,20,37,20,27,0,41,7,41,39,37,29,35,26,77,74,
76,83,106,86,97,102,120,100,102,113,124,31,58,31,31,67,64,20,112,85,91,37,44,
30,83,81,75,29,21,21,21,0,22,5,27,27,27,16,16,16,19,21,21,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,
0,0,0,0,0,0]} 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 e6 4. O-O Nge7 5. Re1 a6 6. Bf1 d5 7.
exd5 Nxd5 8. d4 Nf6 9. Be3 cxd4 {B30: Sicilian: 2...Nc6 3 Bb5, lines without ..
.g6.} 10. Nxd4 Bd7 11. c4 Be7 {White has an edge.} 12. Nc3 O-O 13. a3 Qc7 14.
h3 Rad8 {[#]} 15. Qe2 $146 ({Predecessor:} 15. Nf3 Bd6 16. b4 Ne5 17. Nd2 Ng6
18. Qc2 Bh2+ 19. Kh1 Bf4 20. Nde4 Nxe4 21. Nxe4 {1/2-1/2 (42) Giri,A (2790)
-Topalov,V (2754) Stavanger 2016}) 15... e5 16. Nxc6 Bxc6 17. Rad1 e4 18. Bd4
Rfe8 (18... Rxd4 $11 19. Rxd4 Bc5) 19. Qe3 $16 Qc8 20. b4 {[%cal Bb2b4,Bb4b5]
[%mdl 32]} Qf5 21. b5 $1 {[%cal Rb5c6]} axb5 22. cxb5 Bd7 23. a4 Bb4 24. Bxf6
gxf6 25. Rd4 (25. Rd5 $16 Re5 26. g4 $1) 25... Bc5 $14 26. Qg3+ Qg6 27. Qxg6+
hxg6 28. Rdxe4 (28. Rc4 {is more complex.} Bd6 29. Nxe4 Kf8 30. Rd1 Be5 31. Nc5
) 28... Bb4 29. Rxe8+ Bxe8 {[#]} 30. Re3 (30. Rd1 $1 $16 Rxd1 31. Nxd1) 30...
Kg7 31. g3 f5 (31... b6 $11 {keeps the balance.}) 32. Bg2 $16 Bc5 33. Re2 ({
Much weaker is} 33. Bxb7 Bxe3 34. fxe3 Rd3 $11) (33. Re5 $5 {[%cal Re5c5]} Bd4
34. Rd5 Rxd5 35. Nxd5 $16) 33... b6 34. Nd5 Bd7 35. Nf4 Bc8 36. Bc6 Rd4 37. Re8
Be6 38. Nxe6+ fxe6 {The position is equal.} 39. Rxe6 $11 {[%mdl 4096] Endgame
KRB-KRB} Rd1+ 40. Kg2 Rd2 41. Be8 Rxf2+ 42. Kh1 Rf1+ 43. Kg2 Rf2+ 44. Kh1 g5
45. Rg6+ Kf8 46. Bd7 Rf1+ 47. Kg2 Rf2+ 48. Kh1 Rf1+ {Weighted Error Value:
White=0.15/Black=0.13} 1/2-1/2

[Event "GCT Paris Blitz 2021"]
[Site "Paris"]
[Date "2021.06.21"]
[Round "4"]
[White "Caruana, Fabiano"]
[Black "Radjabov, Teimour"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "E61"]
[WhiteElo "2820"]
[BlackElo "2765"]
[Annotator "TA"]
[PlyCount "89"]
[EventDate "2021.06.21"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "FRA"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

{[%evp 16,89,21,27,23,2,59,48,52,44,52,12,37,30,35,-43,20,18,107,81,78,0,154,
158,158,131,349,326,570,541,510,369,603,607,604,586,589,541,525,397,399,387,
556,135,184,177,162,-139,0,-877,-838,-1066,-1068,-1049,-1047,-1025,-1025,-1021,
-1028,-990,-942,-928,-589,-564,-406,-1354,-1336,-1632,-1616,-3967,-1147,-12801,
-134,-6179,-6179,-1771]} 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. Nf3 Bg7 4. e3 O-O 5. Be2 d6 6.
O-O Nbd7 7. Nc3 e5 8. Qc2 {The main line 8.Qc2 scores better than 8.b4.} Re8 9.
Rd1 Qe7 {E61: King's Indian: Early deviations for White, including Smyslov
System.} 10. b4 e4 (10... c6 $11) 11. Nd2 $14 Nf8 {White is slightly better.}
12. Bb2 Bf5 13. h3 h5 {[#]} 14. Nb3 $146 ({Predecessor:} 14. a4 N8h7 15. b5 h4
16. a5 g5 17. Nf1 Qd7 18. Nh2 g4 19. hxg4 Nxg4 20. Nd5 Ng5 21. Nf4 Nf6 {
1/2-1/2 (21) Kosanovic,G (2320)-Mendonca,L (2350) Novi Sad 2019}) 14... g5 15.
d5 (15. Nd2 $14) 15... Bg6 (15... g4 $15) 16. c5 $11 N8d7 (16... g4 $11) 17.
Nb5 Rec8 18. Na5 ({Better is} 18. c6 $16 bxc6 19. N5d4 (19. Qxc6 g4 $11) (19.
dxc6 Ne5 $11)) 18... a6 $2 {[#]} ({Black should try} 18... Ne5 $1 $11) 19. c6
$1 $16 bxc6 20. Nxc6 Qe8 (20... Qf8 $16 {was called for.}) 21. Nba7 $18 {
[%mdl 64] Discovered Attack} g4 $2 (21... Rcb8 22. Nxb8 {[%mdl 64] Discovered
Attack} Qxb8) 22. Nxc8 Rxc8 23. hxg4 hxg4 $2 (23... Nxg4 24. Bxg7 Kxg7 25. Bxa6
Ra8 26. Qc3+ Kh7) 24. Bxa6 Ra8 25. Bb7 g3 26. fxg3 Ng4 27. Bxg7 Kxg7 28. Qc3+
Ndf6 (28... f6 $142 29. Bxa8 Qxa8) 29. Kf1 $2 (29. Rf1 $18 Ra3 30. Qxa3) 29...
Qh8 $16 {( -> ...Qh1+)} 30. Ke2 (30. Bxa8 $2 {gets mated.} Qh1+ 31. Ke2 Qxg2+
32. Ke1 Qf2#) 30... Qh2 31. Rd2 $2 {[#]} (31. Kd2 $18 Qxg2+ 32. Kc1) 31... Bh5
$40 {[%mdl 128] Black has some attack.} 32. Kd1 $2 {[%mdl 8192] [#]} (32. Bxa8
$11 Ne5+ 33. Kf1) 32... Ra3 $3 {[%mdl 512]} 33. Qxa3 (33. Qd4 Nxe3+) 33...
Nxe3+ {[%mdl 64] Discovered Attack (Double check)} 34. Kc1 Qg1+ 35. Kb2 Nc4+ {
[%mdl 64] Double Attack} 36. Kc3 Qe3+ {[%mdl 64] Double Attack} 37. Kxc4 Qxa3
38. Nd4 Bg6 39. Nb3 Nd7 40. Kb5 (40. Re1 $142 Ne5+ 41. Kc3) 40... e3 $19 41.
Rd4 Ne5 42. Re1 Bf5 (42... Qa7 $142 43. Rxe3 Qxb7+ 44. Ka5 Qa7+ 45. Kb5 Qb6+
46. Ka4 Bc2) 43. Rxe3 Bd7+ 44. Bc6 {and if Bxd7 works, White does fine.} Bc8 {
[%csl Ga3][%cal Rc8a6]} 45. Na5 {Weighted Error Value: White=0.93/Black=0.55}
0-1

[Event "GCT Paris Blitz 2021"]
[Site "Paris"]
[Date "2021.06.21"]
[Round "4"]
[White "Nepomniachtchi, Ian"]
[Black "Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "A49"]
[WhiteElo "2792"]
[BlackElo "2760"]
[Annotator "TA"]
[PlyCount "108"]
[EventDate "2021.06.21"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "FRA"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

{[%evp 20,108,23,7,16,0,0,1,0,-13,24,-11,10,0,-7,-14,0,0,4,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,
0,0,0,1,0,2,0,39,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,-50,-50,-50,-50,-50,-50,-88,-88,-87,
-50,-50,-50,-57,-50,-50,-50,-50,0,0,0,0,0,-64,-36,-36,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,
0,0,0,0,0]} 1. b3 Nf6 2. Bb2 g6 3. g3 Bg7 4. Bg2 O-O 5. c4 d6 6. d4 e5 7. dxe5
Ng4 8. Nf3 Nxe5 9. Nxe5 dxe5 10. O-O c6 11. Nc3 Qe7 {A49: 1 d4 Nf6 2 Nf3 g6 3
g3: Anti-King's Indian systems.} 12. Qc1 Na6 13. Rd1 {[#]} Bf5 $146 ({
Predecessor:} 13... Rd8 14. Rxd8+ Qxd8 15. Qe3 Qe7 16. Rd1 Bf5 17. h3 h5 18.
Kh2 Nb4 19. Qc1 Rd8 20. a3 Na6 21. Rxd8+ Qxd8 22. b4 Nc7 23. Na4 Ne8 24. c5 {
1/2-1/2 (24) Flohr,S-Borisenko,G Moscow 1955}) 14. Na4 Rfd8 15. Qc3 Bg4 16. Bf3
Bxf3 17. exf3 Nc7 18. Qe3 b6 19. Re1 {[%cal Rb2e5]} Re8 20. Rad1 Rad8 21. Qe4
c5 22. Nc3 Rxd1 23. Rxd1 Ne6 $1 24. Nd5 Qd8 25. Re1 Nd4 26. Kg2 Re6 27. Qd3 h5
28. h4 (28. Bxd4 $5 cxd4 29. f4 $11) 28... Nc6 29. Qe3 e4 30. Bxg7 exf3+ 31.
Qxf3 Rxe1 32. Bc3 Nd4 33. Qf6 Re8 34. Bxd4 cxd4 35. Qxd4 $11 {[%mdl 4096]
Endgame KQR-KQN} Re6 36. a4 $1 a5 37. Kh2 Qd6 38. Kg2 f6 39. Qd3 Kf7 40. Qf3
Qc6 41. Qf4 Kg7 42. Qb8 Rd6 43. Kh2 {[#] Hoping for Ne7.} Rd7 44. Qe8 {
Strongly threatening Ne7.} ({Don't go for} 44. Qxb6 $2 Qxb6 45. Nxb6 Rd3 $19)
44... Qd6 45. Qc8 (45. Nf4 $11 f5 46. Ne6+ Kf6 47. Nf4) 45... Rf7 (45... Rd8 $5
{[%cal Rd8c8]} 46. Qb7+ Rd7 $15) 46. Kg2 Qe5 47. Nf4 $1 {The position is equal.
} Qe4+ 48. Kh2 Re7 49. Nd5 Qf3 50. Nxe7 Qxf2+ 51. Kh3 Qf1+ 52. Kh2 {[#]
Threatening mate with Qg8+.} Qf2+ 53. Kh3 {Qg8+ would kill now.} Qf1+ 54. Kh2 {
White threatens Qg8+ and mate.} Qf2+ {Weighted Error Value: White=0.09/Black=0.
06} 1/2-1/2

[Event "GCT Paris Blitz 2021"]
[Site "Paris"]
[Date "2021.06.21"]
[Round "4"]
[White "So, Wesley"]
[Black "Svidler, Peter"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "A34"]
[WhiteElo "2770"]
[BlackElo "2714"]
[Annotator "TA"]
[PlyCount "59"]
[EventDate "2021.06.21"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "FRA"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

{[%evp 12,59,0,0,0,0,16,19,40,28,43,42,50,41,38,38,82,66,115,53,39,-10,14,0,0,
0,0,0,0,-122,-125,-128,-139,-118,-117,-117,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]} 1. Nf3
Nf6 2. c4 c5 3. Nc3 d5 4. cxd5 Nxd5 5. e4 Nb4 6. Bc4 Nd3+ 7. Ke2 Nf4+ {A34:
Symmetrical English: 2 Nc3, lines with ...d5.} 8. Kf1 {Hoping for d4.} Ne6 9.
h4 h5 {[#]} 10. b4 $146 {Black must now prevent bxc5.} ({Predecessor:} 10. d3
Nc6 11. Be3 g6 12. Ng5 Bg7 13. Nxe6 Bxe6 14. Bxc5 O-O 15. Nd5 Rc8 16. Ba3 {
0-1 (73) Sindarov,J (2383)-Gopal,G (2580) Pardubice 2017}) 10... g6 11. bxc5 {
d4 is the strong threat.} Bg7 {[#] And now ...Bxc3 would win.} 12. Bxe6 Bxe6
13. d4 Nc6 {[%cal Rc6d4]} 14. Be3 Qa5 15. Ne2 (15. Rc1 $16) 15... Bc4 $14 16.
Kg1 Rd8 17. Ng3 Nxd4 18. Nxd4 Bxd4 19. Bxd4 e5 $1 20. Qc1 Rxd4 $17 21. c6 bxc6
22. Qg5 Qc7 23. Qf6 O-O ({Better is} 23... Rf8 $17 24. f4 Qd6 25. Qxd6 Rxd6 26.
fxe5 Rd4) 24. Nxh5 $11 {The position is equal.} gxh5 25. Qg5+ {[%mdl 64] [#]
Double Attack} Kh7 26. Qxh5+ Kg8 27. Qg5+ Kh7 $1 {Strongly threatening ...f6.}
28. Qf5+ Kh8 {aiming for ...f6.} (28... Kg7 $5 29. Qg5+ $8 Kh7 30. Qh5+ Kg8 31.
Qg5+ Kh7 $11) 29. Qh5+ Kg8 {Threatens to win with ...f6.} 30. Qg5+ {Weighted
Error Value: White=0.13/Black=0.13} 1/2-1/2

[Event "GCT Paris Blitz 2021"]
[Site "Paris"]
[Date "2021.06.21"]
[Round "4"]
[White "Rapport, Richard"]
[Black "Kramnik, Vladimir"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "A46"]
[WhiteElo "2763"]
[BlackElo "2797"]
[Annotator "TA"]
[PlyCount "84"]
[EventDate "2021.06.21"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "FRA"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

{[%evp 9,84,12,18,0,25,0,0,-27,-5,-9,-10,-16,-11,-10,-14,-7,-16,-7,-5,-6,8,-15,
0,0,37,6,12,15,18,10,34,29,27,-139,18,23,31,23,28,0,37,42,30,32,36,16,11,7,55,
72,69,11,9,4,17,0,0,0,0,-46,-45,-75,-81,-86,-57,-62,-44,-106,-62,-60,-63,-59,
-66,-66,-80,-164,0]} 1. Nf3 Nf6 2. g3 b5 3. d4 e6 4. Bg5 Bb7 5. Nbd2 {[%cal
Bb1d2,Bd2b3,Bb3a5][%mdl 32]} Be7 6. e3 {A46: 1 d4 Nf6 2 Nf3 e6: Torre, London
and Colle Systems.} a6 {[#]} 7. Nb3 $146 ({Predecessor:} 7. a4 b4 8. Bd3 d5 9.
O-O Nbd7 10. Nb3 c5 11. dxc5 Nxc5 12. Nxc5 Bxc5 13. c3 bxc3 14. bxc3 {0-1 (36)
Melkumyan,H (2633)-Esipenko,A (2564) Riadh 2017}) 7... d6 8. Na5 {The position
is equal.} Be4 9. Bd3 Bxd3 10. cxd3 c5 11. Qd2 O-O 12. Rc1 Qb6 13. O-O Nbd7 {
[%cal Bb8d7,Bd7f6,Bf6d5][%mdl 32]} 14. Rc2 Bd8 15. Bxf6 Nxf6 16. Nb3 {[%cal
Rd4c5]} Qb7 17. Qe2 (17. Kg2 $5 {[%cal Rd4c5]}) 17... cxd4 18. Nfxd4 Bb6 19.
Rfc1 Nd5 {Threatening ...Nb4.} 20. Nc6 f5 21. Qf3 $2 {[#]} (21. a3 $11) 21...
Qd7 $2 (21... Nb4 $1 $17 {[%mdl 512]} 22. Rd2 Nxa2) 22. a3 $11 Kh8 23. Nb4 Ne7
24. Nc6 Ng6 25. d4 e5 26. dxe5 dxe5 27. Rd2 Qf7 28. Qd5 Qxd5 29. Rxd5 f4 30.
Rc3 (30. Nxe5 $14 Nxe5 31. Rxe5) 30... fxe3 31. fxe3 Rac8 32. Rd6 Rf6 33. Rxf6
gxf6 34. Kg2 {[#]} Bxe3 $1 35. Kf3 (35. Nb4 Rxc3) 35... Bg1 36. h4 Kg7 37. h5
Nf8 38. Kg2 ({White should play} 38. Ke4 $15) 38... Bb6 39. Nd2 $1 Ne6 40. Ne4
Rc7 41. Nd6 {And now Nd8! would win.} Kf8 42. Nf5 (42. Ne4 $17 {is the only
way for White.}) 42... Kf7 $2 {[%mdl 32768] Weighted Error Value: White=0.23/
Black=0.16. Sensor Board Error (Ke4/e5)?} ({Better is} 42... Ng7 $19 43. Nd6
Nxh5) 1-0

[Event "GCT Paris Blitz 2021"]
[Site "Paris"]
[Date "2021.06.21"]
[Round "4"]
[White "Firouzja, Alireza"]
[Black "Aronian, Levon"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "D00"]
[WhiteElo "2759"]
[BlackElo "2781"]
[Annotator "TA"]
[PlyCount "113"]
[EventDate "2021.06.21"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "FRA"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

{[%evp 9,113,-2,14,11,11,-14,0,-45,0,0,0,0,0,-21,-16,-59,-44,-49,0,-21,-20,-17,
0,-14,-16,-14,0,-50,0,0,66,55,38,61,55,32,430,425,423,420,638,309,306,306,308,
282,489,485,481,480,474,451,434,459,473,472,470,464,454,439,463,388,387,381,
367,345,481,480,479,480,470,470,414,333,325,325,319,311,304,288,308,295,291,
286,430,418,373,367,362,360,347,347,377,350,589,589,589,589,366,422,593,499,
589,589,29974,29968]} 1. d4 Nf6 2. Bg5 d5 3. e3 c5 4. Bxf6 gxf6 5. dxc5 e6 6.
c4 {D00: 1 d4 d5: Unusual lines.} dxc4 7. Nd2 $1 {[%mdl 4] is currently
scoring better than 7.Qxd8+.} (7. Qc2 {seems wilder.} Bxc5 8. Bxc4 Nd7 9. Nf3
a6 10. O-O) 7... Nd7 (7... c3 $5 8. bxc3 Bxc5 $11) 8. Ngf3 {The position is
equal.} Nxc5 {[#]} (8... c3 $5 9. bxc3 Nxc5 $11) 9. Bxc4 $146 ({Predecessor:} 
9. Nxc4 Qxd1+ 10. Rxd1 Bd7 11. Nd6+ Ke7 12. b4 Na4 13. Nxb7 Rb8 14. Nc5 Nxc5
15. bxc5 {1/2-1/2 (102) Djordjevic,V (2350)-Yeletsky,I (2448) Lichess.org INT
2021}) 9... Bg7 10. O-O O-O 11. Qc2 Bd7 12. a4 f5 13. Nd4 a5 14. b3 Rc8 15.
Rac1 f4 16. N2f3 fxe3 17. fxe3 Qf6 18. Ne2 Qb2 19. Qd1 Rfd8 (19... Bh6 $11 20.
Kh1 Qg7) 20. Nfd4 {Strongly threatening Rc2.} Ne4 {Black wants to play ...Qd2.}
21. Rc2 Qa3 22. Nf4 {aiming for Nh5.} e5 $2 {[%mdl 8192] [#] Black cannot hold
the game after this.} (22... Kh8 $14) 23. Bxf7+ $1 $18 {[%mdl 576] Remove
Defender} Kxf7 24. Nfe6+ Kg8 {[#]} (24... Nf6 $142 25. Qg4 (25. Nxd8+ Rxd8 26.
Qh5+ {[%mdl 64] Double Attack} Kg8 $14) 25... Bh8) 25. Nxd8 (25. Qg4 $142 $1 {
[%csl Ge6][%cal Rg4g7]} Qe7 26. Nf5) 25... exd4 ({Don't play} 25... Rxd8 26.
Ne6 $1 $18 {[%mdl 512]}) 26. Rxc8 Bxc8 {[#]} 27. Qh5 $1 {[%cal Rh5d5]
Intending Qd5+ and mate.} Nd6 $2 (27... Bf6) 28. Qd5+ {[%mdl 64] Double Attack}
Kh8 {[#]} 29. Qxd6 $3 {[%mdl 576] Remove Defender, Decoy} Qxd6 30. Nf7+ {
[%mdl 64] Double Attack} Kg8 31. Nxd6 {[%mdl 4096] Endgame KRN-KB} Be6 32. exd4
Bxd4+ 33. Kh1 b6 34. Nc4 Kg7 35. Rd1 Bc5 {[#]} 36. Nxb6 $1 Bxb3 37. Rb1 Be6 38.
Rb5 Bb4 39. Nd5 Bd2 40. Ne7 Bc4 41. Rc5 Bb3 42. Nc6 Bxa4 43. Nxa5 Be3 44. Re5
Bb6 45. Nc4 Bd8 46. Nd6 Bb6 (46... Kf6 $142 47. Rc5 Ke6) 47. Re6 {Nf5+ is the
strong threat.} Bc5 48. Ne4 Bf8 49. h3 Bb3 50. Rb6 Bd5 51. Ng3 Bc4 $2 (51...
Kg8 52. Nf5 Be4) 52. Nf5+ Kg8 53. Kh2 Bd3 54. g4 Bc5 (54... h5 {was worth a
try.} 55. Kg3 hxg4 56. hxg4 Bxf5 57. gxf5 Kf7) 55. Rc6 Bf2 56. Kg2 Be4+ 57.
Kxf2 {Weighted Error Value: White=0.16/Black=0.57} 1-0

[Event "GCT Paris Blitz 2021"]
[Site "Paris"]
[Date "2021.06.21"]
[Round "5"]
[White "Kramnik, Vladimir"]
[Black "Firouzja, Alireza"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "B90"]
[WhiteElo "2797"]
[BlackElo "2759"]
[Annotator "TA"]
[PlyCount "84"]
[EventDate "2021.06.21"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "FRA"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

{[%evp 18,84,15,0,33,11,29,23,24,11,23,-2,1,0,-2,-8,-2,0,-2,-43,7,1,7,-24,-17,
-56,-52,-116,-107,-104,-78,-201,-191,-181,-185,-181,-177,-207,-221,-270,-272,
-268,-189,-224,-224,-346,-330,-397,-403,-403,-401,-393,-391,-385,-381,-465,
-462,-442,-444,-502,-496,-585,-578,-873,-881,-857,-836,-1259,-1239]} 1. e4 c5
2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 a6 6. a4 g6 7. Be2 Bg7 8. O-O O-O 9.
Be3 Nc6 10. Qd2 Bd7 {B90: Sicilian Najdorf: Unusual White 6th moves, 6 Be3 Ng4
and 6 Be3 e5.} 11. Rfd1 {11.Rfd1 scores better than 11.f3.} Rc8 12. f3 Re8 {
White has an edge.} 13. Bf1 Ne5 {[#]} 14. b3 $146 ({Predecessor:} 14. Nd5 Nxd5
15. exd5 Rc5 16. Ne6 {Geller,E (2590)-Barczay,L (2465) Novi Sad 1978}) 14...
Qa5 15. Nce2 Qxd2 16. Bxd2 d5 17. exd5 Nxd5 18. c4 Nf6 (18... Nxc4 $5 19. bxc4
Rxc4 $11 {[%mdl 64] Double Attack}) 19. a5 Nd3 20. Bc3 Nc5 {[%cal Bd3c5,Bc5a4,
Ba4b2][%mdl 32]} 21. b4 Na4 22. c5 (22. Nb3 $15) 22... Nd5 $17 23. Bd2 Nb2 24.
Rdb1 {This costs White the game.} (24. Rdc1 $17 {was the only chance.}) 24...
Nc4 $19 25. Ra2 e5 $36 {[%mdl 2048] Black is in control.} 26. Nb3 Bf5 27. Rd1
Nxd2 28. Raxd2 Nxb4 29. Ng3 Be6 30. Rb1 f5 31. Nc1 {[#]} (31. Rd6 {might work
better.}) 31... Bh6 $1 32. Rd6 (32. Rdb2 Be3+) 32... Be3+ {[%mdl 64] Double
Attack} 33. Kh1 Bxc5 34. Rxe6 Rxe6 35. Bc4 Kf7 36. Nce2 Be7 {Black is clearly
winning.} 37. Bxe6+ Kxe6 38. h3 Rc2 39. Re1 {intending Nd4+.} Kf7 40. Nc1 Bh4
41. Nce2 f4 42. Rb1 Bxg3 {Weighted Error Value: White=0.50/Black=0.08} 0-1

[Event "GCT Paris Blitz 2021"]
[Site "Paris"]
[Date "2021.06.21"]
[Round "5"]
[White "Aronian, Levon"]
[Black "So, Wesley"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "C54"]
[WhiteElo "2781"]
[BlackElo "2770"]
[Annotator "TA"]
[PlyCount "55"]
[EventDate "2021.06.21"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "FRA"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

{[%evp 16,55,22,11,17,8,11,11,22,20,45,51,19,51,64,59,85,76,86,82,82,12,34,36,
81,89,74,80,69,29,101,89,143,141,129,128,159,170,572,573,588,584]} 1. e4 e5 2.
Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Bc5 4. d3 Nf6 5. O-O h6 6. c3 d6 7. Re1 O-O 8. Nbd2 Bb6 9. Bb3
a5 {C54: Giuoco Piano: 4 c3 Nf6, main lines with 5 d4 and 5 d3.} 10. Nf1 Be6
11. Bc2 {[#]} d5 $146 {The position is equal.} ({Predecessor:} 11... Ne7 12.
Ne3 Ng4 13. d4 Nxe3 14. Bxe3 Ng6 15. d5 Bg4 16. h3 Bd7 17. Qd2 Bxe3 18. fxe3 {
1-0 (52) Hoffmann,P (2346)-Schmid,R (2241) Germany 2012}) 12. exd5 Qxd5 13. Bb3
Qd6 14. Bxe6 Qxe6 15. d4 $1 Rad8 16. Qc2 Nd7 {[#]} 17. Bf4 $1 {[%mdl 64] Pin}
f6 {[#]} (17... Qf6 18. Bxe5) 18. a3 Qg4 19. Be3 exd4 20. cxd4 Rfe8 21. Rad1
Ne7 22. d5 {Black must now prevent Bxb6.} Kh8 (22... Qg6 $1 $11 23. Qc1 Qf7)
23. d6 $36 {[%mdl 2048] Black is under strong pressure.} cxd6 ({Better is} 
23... Nc6) 24. Rxd6 $16 Nc8 25. Rd2 Qh5 {[#]} 26. Red1 $1 Ne5 (26... Bxe3 {
is a better chance.} 27. Nxe3 Ncb6) 27. Rxd8 $18 Nxf3+ 28. gxf3 {Weighted
Error Value: White=0.07/Black=0.55} 1-0

[Event "GCT Paris Blitz 2021"]
[Site "Paris"]
[Date "2021.06.21"]
[Round "5"]
[White "Radjabov, Teimour"]
[Black "Rapport, Richard"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "A50"]
[WhiteElo "2765"]
[BlackElo "2763"]
[Annotator "TA"]
[PlyCount "81"]
[EventDate "2021.06.21"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "FRA"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

{[%evp 21,81,19,29,21,32,16,18,18,24,16,15,8,29,14,0,-10,-8,0,0,-19,-32,-42,
-42,-50,-45,-48,-47,-82,-86,-88,-67,-66,-75,-69,-89,-81,-64,-72,-10,-8,0,0,0,0,
0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]} 1. Nf3 Nf6 2. c4 b6 3. g3 Bb7 4. d4 g6 5.
Bg2 Bg7 6. Nc3 Ne4 7. Nxe4 Bxe4 8. O-O O-O 9. Be3 d6 10. Qd2 Nd7 11. Rac1 c5
12. Rfd1 {A50: Queen's Fianchetto Defence (1 d4 Nf6 2 c4 b6).} Re8 13. Bh6 {[#]
} Nf6 $146 ({Predecessor:} 13... Bh8 14. Qf4 Bxf3 15. Bxf3 Rb8 16. e3 Qc7 17.
Qh4 b5 18. cxb5 Rxb5 19. b3 Qb6 20. dxc5 Rxc5 21. Rxc5 Qxc5 {0-1 (45) Yoo,C 
(2455)-Mitrabha,G (2467) Chess.com INT 2021}) 14. Bxg7 Kxg7 15. Qc3 Qc7 16. b3
Qb7 17. d5 b5 18. Nd2 Bxg2 19. Kxg2 b4 20. Qf3 a5 21. e4 a4 22. Qf4 axb3 23.
axb3 e5 24. dxe6 Rxe6 25. f3 Ra2 26. Ra1 Qa7 27. Rxa2 Qxa2 28. Qe3 {[#]} Qc2 $1
{[%cal Rc2d1]} 29. Rf1 d5 ({Black should try} 29... Nd7 $17) 30. Rf2 $1 $11 {
The position is equal.} Qc3 (30... d4 {feels hotter.} 31. Qg5 Nd7 32. f4 Re8
33. e5 Qa2) 31. Qxc5 dxe4 32. Nxe4 Rxe4 33. fxe4 Nxe4 {[%mdl 64] [#] Double
Attack} 34. Rxf7+ {[%mdl 64] Decoy} Kxf7 35. Qd5+ Kg7 {Hoping for ...Qd2+.} 36.
Qxe4 Qxb3 37. Qe7+ Kg8 38. Qe8+ Kg7 39. Qe7+ Kg8 40. Qe8+ Kg7 41. Qe7+ {
Weighted Error Value: White=0.05/Black=0.08} 1/2-1/2

[Event "GCT Paris Blitz 2021"]
[Site "Paris"]
[Date "2021.06.21"]
[Round "5"]
[White "Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime"]
[Black "Caruana, Fabiano"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "C78"]
[WhiteElo "2760"]
[BlackElo "2820"]
[Annotator "TA"]
[PlyCount "99"]
[EventDate "2021.06.21"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "FRA"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

{[%evp 19,99,18,32,5,32,19,17,-33,8,-31,-18,-28,14,10,10,18,33,0,8,-1,0,-8,0,0,
0,0,0,-7,-12,-21,-23,-21,0,0,24,0,0,-9,-8,-7,0,-16,-25,-17,-15,-33,-18,-23,33,
45,38,-27,201,41,49,47,257,95,367,118,577,589,649,521,643,629,29994,29995,
29998,29985,29995,2904,1680,602,29994,29995,29995,29990,29992,29993,29993,
29994]} 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4. Ba4 Nf6 5. O-O Bc5 6. c3 b5 7. Bb3 d6
8. a4 Bg4 9. h3 Bh5 10. d3 O-O 11. Nbd2 $5 {[%mdl 4] A promising side line.
C78: Ruy Lopez: Archangelsk and Möller Defences.} b4 12. Re1 Rb8 13. Bc2 {
[#] The position is equal.} Re8 $146 ({Predecessor:} 13... d5 14. Nf1 bxc3 15.
bxc3 d4 16. Bd2 dxc3 17. Bxc3 Bb4 18. Bxb4 Rxb4 19. Rb1 Bxf3 20. Qxf3 {0-1 (62)
Gil Espla,J (2000)-Mangiavacchi,L (1900) Barcelona 1998}) 14. Nf1 d5 15. Ng3
Bg6 16. a5 bxc3 17. bxc3 Na7 18. Ba4 c6 19. Qc2 dxe4 20. dxe4 Nb5 21. Bg5 h6
22. Bh4 Qe7 23. Rad1 Qe6 24. Re2 Na3 25. Qd3 Nb5 26. Rb2 Qe7 27. Rbd2 Qe6 28.
Kh2 Nh5 29. Nxh5 Bxh5 30. g4 Bg6 31. Bg3 f6 32. Nh4 Bf7 33. Nf5 Kh7 (33... Bf8
$11) 34. Qf3 $1 $14 Rb7 35. Bc2 (35. h4 $14) 35... Na3 $2 {[#]} (35... Rf8 $11)
36. Bd3 $2 (36. Rd6 $1 $18 {[%cal Rd6e6][%mdl 512]} Bxd6 37. Rxd6 Nxc2 38. Rxe6
Rxe6 39. Qd3) 36... Nb5 37. Be2 Rc7 $2 (37... Rf8 $14) 38. h4 $2 (38. c4 $18)
38... Qb3 $2 {[%mdl 8192] [#]} (38... Bg6 $16 {was necessary.}) 39. Rd7 $2 (39.
g5 $1 $18 {is the precise move to win. And now Nxg7! would win.} fxg5 40. hxg5
hxg5 41. Kg2) 39... Rec8 $2 {[%mdl 8192]} (39... Rxd7 $16 40. Rxd7 Qe6) 40. g5
$18 Nxc3 41. R7d3 Bb4 {[#]} 42. Nxg7 $1 {[%mdl 576] Remove Defender, Decoy}
Kxg7 (42... Rf8 43. Rc1) 43. Qxf6+ {[%mdl 64] Double Attack} Kf8 44. Bxe5 Qe6
45. Qg7+ (45. Rd8+ $142 Rxd8 46. Rxd8+ Qe8 47. Qxh6+ Ke7 48. Bf6+ Ke6 49. Bg4#)
45... Ke8 46. Bxc7 (46. Qh8+ $142 Bf8 47. Bxc3) 46... Be7 47. Qh8+ {White
mates.} Bg8 48. Qxc3 Rxc7 49. Bh5+ Kf8 50. Rf3+ {Weighted Error Value: White=0.
43/Black=0.78} 1-0

[Event "GCT Paris Blitz 2021"]
[Site "Paris"]
[Date "2021.06.21"]
[Round "5"]
[White "Svidler, Peter"]
[Black "Nepomniachtchi, Ian"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "A13"]
[WhiteElo "2714"]
[BlackElo "2792"]
[Annotator "TA"]
[PlyCount "92"]
[EventDate "2021.06.21"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "FRA"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

{[%evp 14,92,40,30,40,-4,41,9,44,54,57,26,28,22,16,31,45,35,39,32,56,53,56,56,
112,109,120,118,112,112,112,118,102,51,38,50,59,49,76,76,72,11,25,-17,15,15,12,
12,12,13,21,13,13,17,49,20,20,14,27,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,
0]} 1. c4 e6 2. g3 Nf6 3. Bg2 d5 4. Nf3 dxc4 5. Qa4+ Nbd7 6. Qxc4 a6 7. Qc2 c5
8. Nc3 $1 {[%mdl 4] outshines the older 8.0-0.} Qc7 {A13: English Opening: 1...
e6.} 9. d4 b6 10. Bf4 Bd6 11. Bxd6 Qxd6 12. O-O Bb7 13. Rfd1 O-O 14. e4 {
[#] aiming for e5.} cxd4 15. Nxd4 Qc7 16. Rac1 Rac8 17. f4 {[#]} Rfd8 $146 ({
Predecessor:} 17... Qb8 18. e5 Nd5 19. Bxd5 Bxd5 20. Nf5 exf5 21. Rxd5 Qa7 22.
Qxf5 b5+ 23. Kh1 Nb6 {1-0 (94) Vidit,S (2687)-Batchuluun,T (2525) Chengdu 2017}
) 18. e5 {Black must now prevent Bxb7.} Ng4 (18... Ne8 $1 $14) 19. Bxb7 $16
Qxb7 20. Qe2 h5 21. h3 Nh6 22. Qxh5 Nc5 23. Qf3 (23. Qh4 $16) 23... Qxf3 $14
24. Nxf3 Nf5 {Black wants to play ...Nd3.} 25. Ne2 Ne3 26. Rxd8+ Rxd8 27. b4 (
27. Ned4 $16) 27... Ne4 $11 28. g4 b5 (28... Rd3 {is more complex.} 29. Nfd4
Nd5 30. Rc8+ Kh7 31. f5 exf5 32. gxf5 Rxh3 33. e6 fxe6 34. Nxe6 Rf3) 29. Ned4 {
[#] Hoping for Re1.} Nd5 30. f5 exf5 31. gxf5 Nxb4 32. Rc7 Nd5 33. Ra7 Nf4 34.
Rxa6 Nxh3+ 35. Kh2 Nf4 36. e6 fxe6 {The position is equal.} 37. Nxe6 Nxe6 38.
Rxe6 {[%mdl 4096] Endgame KRN-KRN} Nd2 (38... Nd6 {keeps more tension.} 39. f6
gxf6 40. Rxf6 Ne4 41. Ra6 Rd3) 39. Kg2 Nxf3 40. Kxf3 {KR-KR} Ra8 41. Rb6 Rxa2
42. Rxb5 Ra6 43. Kf4 g6 44. fxg6 Rxg6 45. Rg5 Kh7 46. Rxg6 Kxg6 {Weighted
Error Value: White=0.11/Black=0.09} 1/2-1/2

[Event "GCT Paris Blitz 2021"]
[Site "Paris"]
[Date "2021.06.21"]
[Round "6"]
[White "Caruana, Fabiano"]
[Black "Svidler, Peter"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "B84"]
[WhiteElo "2820"]
[BlackElo "2714"]
[Annotator "TA"]
[PlyCount "70"]
[EventDate "2021.06.21"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "FRA"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

{[%evp 16,70,27,24,37,32,58,-32,-33,-31,-25,-34,-31,-44,-41,-45,-45,-77,-75,
-103,-33,-45,-28,-73,-75,-79,-74,-81,-76,-64,-41,-60,-52,-55,-60,-55,-27,-43,
-19,-19,-19,-19,-19,-24,-24,-59,-59,-72,-72,-72,-47,-72,0,-72,0,-72,0]} 1. e4 {
Novikov,I} c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 a6 6. Be2 e6 7. Be3 Be7
8. f4 Qc7 9. g4 d5 {has lost popularity (9...b5). B84: Sicilian Scheveningen:
6 Be2 a6, lines without early Be3.} 10. exd5 Bb4 {[#]} 11. Bf3 $146 (11. dxe6
$14 Bxc3+ 12. bxc3) ({Predecessor:} 11. dxe6 Bxc3+ 12. bxc3 Qxc3+ 13. Kf2 fxe6
14. Qd3 Qc7 15. Bf3 O-O 16. Qb3 {1/2-1/2 (16) Yemelin,V (2515)-Novikov,I (2590)
Novgorod 1995 EXT 2000 [Novikov,I]}) 11... Nxd5 {Black is slightly better.} 12.
Bxd5 {[#] Strongly threatening Bf3.} Bxc3+ 13. bxc3 exd5 14. Qd3 O-O 15. O-O-O
Re8 16. Rde1 Nd7 {Threatens to win with ...Nc5.} 17. Nf5 Nc5 ({Black should try
} 17... Nf6 $17 18. Rhg1 Bxf5 19. gxf5 Rac8) 18. Qxd5 $15 Bxf5 19. Qxc5 Qxc5
20. Bxc5 Bxg4 21. Rhg1 {[#] Rxe8+ is the strong threat.} Rxe1+ 22. Rxe1 $17 {
[%mdl 4096] Endgame KRB-KRB} Bf3 23. Re7 Bc6 24. Bb6 f6 25. Kd2 h5 26. Ke3 Kh7
(26... Bb5 {is more complex.} 27. f5 Rc8 28. Kd2 Bc6 29. c4 Bg2) 27. f5 Re8 28.
Rxe8 Bxe8 $11 {KB-KB} 29. h4 Bd7 30. Kf4 Ba4 31. a3 Bxc2 32. Bc5 Bd3 33. Bd6
Bc2 34. Bc5 Bd3 35. Bd6 Bc2 {Weighted Error Value: White=0.15/Black=0.14} ({
Better is} 35... Bb5 $17) 1/2-1/2

[Event "GCT Paris Blitz 2021"]
[Site "Paris"]
[Date "2021.06.21"]
[Round "6"]
[White "Nepomniachtchi, Ian"]
[Black "Aronian, Levon"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "A13"]
[WhiteElo "2792"]
[BlackElo "2781"]
[Annotator "TA"]
[PlyCount "123"]
[EventDate "2021.06.21"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "FRA"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

{[%evp 9,123,12,12,9,9,9,12,7,16,8,14,0,0,0,6,0,0,0,13,6,10,7,2,4,4,4,12,-23,
-8,0,0,-5,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,18,6,8,17,26,21,35,41,37,25,31,28,22,3,9,0,0,0,8,
7,42,41,135,147,141,134,145,149,284,323,341,340,319,333,318,285,920,910,843,
777,1615,1538,1278,1915,1505,1627,12834,12834,12837,12838,12838,12839,12839,
12839,12841,12842,12842,12843,12843,12843,12844,12844,12845,12845,12845,12845,
12845,12846,12847,12847,12847,12847,12848,12847]} 1. c4 Nf6 2. Nf3 e6 3. g3 d5
4. Bg2 (4. d4 Be7 5. Bg2 O-O 6. Nc3 Nbd7 7. b3 dxc4 8. bxc4 c5 9. O-O cxd4 10.
Nxd4 Ne5 11. Rb1 Nxc4 12. Bxb7 Bxb7 13. Rxb7 {1/2-1/2 (13) Nepomniachtchi,I 
(2773)-Aronian,L (2772) Kolkata 2019}) 4... dxc4 5. Qa4+ Bd7 6. Qxc4 {A13:
English Opening: 1...e6.} c5 7. Ne5 Qc8 8. Qd3 {The position is equal. 8.Qd3
scores better than 8.0-0.} Bc6 9. Nxc6 Nxc6 10. Nc3 Be7 11. O-O O-O {[#]} 12.
b3 $146 ({Predecessor:} 12. Qc4 Qd7 13. Qa4 Rac8 14. d3 Rfd8 15. Bd2 Nd5 16.
Rfd1 b6 17. Rac1 Bf6 18. a3 {1/2-1/2 (27) Sebenik,M (2498)-Karacsonyi,G (2292)
Chess.com INT 2020}) 12... Rd8 13. Qb1 Nd5 14. Nxd5 exd5 15. Bb2 Qe6 16. e3 Bf6
17. Rc1 {White wants to play Bxf6.} b6 18. a3 a5 19. Bxf6 Qxf6 20. Qd3 g6 21.
Rab1 Rac8 22. Qb5 (22. Bxd5 Ne7 $15) 22... Ne7 23. b4 axb4 24. axb4 c4 25. d3 {
[%cal Rd3c4]} cxd3 26. Qxd3 Rxc1+ 27. Rxc1 Qb2 28. Rb1 Qe5 29. Qb5 Qe6 30. Rd1
Kg7 31. h4 h5 32. Rd4 Qc6 33. Qd3 Qc1+ 34. Kh2 Qb2 35. Rf4 Rd6 36. e4 {[%cal
Re4d5]} d4 {[#] White now steadily converts the win.} (36... Rf6 $14) 37. Qf3
$1 $16 Qa2 {Hoping for ...Nc6.} ({Not} 37... f6 $2 38. e5 $18) 38. e5 $36 {
[%mdl 2048] Keeping Black busy.} Rd8 39. Rf6 {e6! is the strong threat.} Nf5 (
39... Ng8 $16 {keeps fighting.}) 40. Bh3 $18 ({And not} 40. Rxb6 d3 $11) 40...
Qd5 41. Qf4 Nh6 {[#]} 42. e6 $1 {[%cal Re6f7]} ({Inferior is} 42. Rxb6 d3 $11)
42... fxe6 43. Rxe6 {White wants to mate with Qf6+.} Rf8 (43... Ng8 44. Qc7+
Rd7 45. Qxb6 Ne7) 44. Re7+ {White is clearly winning.} Rf7 {[#]} 45. Be6 $1 {
[%mdl 512]} Ng4+ (45... Qxe6 46. Rxe6) 46. Kg1 Qxe6 47. Rxe6 Rxf4 48. gxf4 {
[%mdl 4096] Endgame KR-KN} Nh6 49. Rxb6 Nf5 50. b5 Kf7 51. Rc6 d3 52. Rc3 Nd4
53. Rxd3 Nxb5 54. f5 gxf5 55. Rd5 {[%mdl 64] Double Attack} Nc3 56. Rxf5+ Kg6
57. Re5 Na4 58. Kg2 Nb2 59. Kf3 Nc4 60. Rc5 Nd2+ 61. Kf4 Nb3 62. Rd5 {Weighted
Error Value: White=0.02/Black=0.13} 1-0

[Event "GCT Paris Blitz 2021"]
[Site "Paris"]
[Date "2021.06.21"]
[Round "6"]
[White "So, Wesley"]
[Black "Kramnik, Vladimir"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "C54"]
[WhiteElo "2770"]
[BlackElo "2797"]
[Annotator "TA"]
[PlyCount "79"]
[EventDate "2021.06.21"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "FRA"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

{[%evp 10,79,29,16,15,13,8,13,32,9,20,3,6,6,10,-30,12,18,21,18,19,13,6,19,27,5,
18,-20,-20,-24,-24,-20,-27,-77,0,0,0,0,14,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,
0,0,0,5,6,5,5,6,7,26,0,8,0,56,0]} 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Bc5 4. c3 Nf6 5.
d3 d6 6. Bg5 a6 {C54: Giuoco Piano: 4 c3 Nf6, main lines with 5 d4 and 5 d3.}
7. Nbd2 {7.a4 deserves study.} Ba7 8. a4 O-O {The position is equal.} 9. h3 {
[#]} Kh8 $146 ({Predecessor:} 9... Be6 10. O-O Bxc4 11. Nxc4 h6 12. Bh4 Ne7 13.
Bxf6 gxf6 14. Nh4 Kh7 15. Qh5 Qd7 {1-0 (42) Nguyen Thi Thu,Q-Nguyen,T Ho Chi
Minh City 2005}) 10. Bh4 Ne7 11. Bg3 Ng6 12. Bh2 Qe7 13. O-O $1 Be6 14. Bxe6
Qxe6 15. Re1 Nd7 16. d4 f5 17. dxe5 Ndxe5 18. Nd4 Bxd4 19. cxd4 Nd3 {[%mdl 64]
Double Attack} 20. Re3 fxe4 {...d5 is the strong threat.} ({Wrong is} 20...
Nxb2 $2 21. Qc2 $18) 21. f3 {[#]} d5 ({Inferior is} 21... Nxb2 22. Qc2 $16) (
21... Qd5 $1 $17 {[%cal Rd5d4]} 22. Nxe4 Nxb2) 22. fxe4 $11 dxe4 23. Nxe4 Nf2
24. Qe2 Rae8 {And now ...Nf4 would win.} 25. Re1 $1 Nxe4 26. Rxe4 Qxe4 27. Qxe4
Rxe4 28. Rxe4 {[%mdl 4096] Endgame KRB-KRN} c6 29. Bd6 Rd8 30. Bc7 Rc8 31. Bd6
Kg8 32. Re3 Kf7 33. Kf2 Rd8 34. Bc5 Re8 35. Rb3 b5 36. Rf3+ Ke6 37. Re3+ Kd7
38. Rf3 Ke6 39. Re3+ Kd7 40. Rf3 {Weighted Error Value: White=0.08/Black=0.06}
(40. axb5 $1 $14 axb5 41. Ra3) 1/2-1/2

[Event "GCT Paris Blitz 2021"]
[Site "Paris"]
[Date "2021.06.21"]
[Round "6"]
[White "Radjabov, Teimour"]
[Black "Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "A30"]
[WhiteElo "2765"]
[BlackElo "2760"]
[Annotator "TA"]
[PlyCount "86"]
[EventDate "2021.06.21"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "FRA"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

{[%evp 9,86,0,0,-23,-2,5,28,8,75,61,55,55,81,0,0,0,34,27,53,76,112,-41,150,145,
163,165,158,158,172,106,115,95,93,93,143,46,46,47,59,59,54,60,56,49,63,62,74,
74,74,74,75,75,75,56,56,56,68,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]} 1.
Nf3 c5 2. b3 Nf6 3. Bb2 Nc6 4. c4 d5 5. cxd5 Nxd5 6. a3 {A30: Symmetrical
English: Double Fianchetto and Hedgehog.} Bg4 7. e3 e6 8. Be2 {[#] White has
an edge.} Be7 $146 (8... Nf6 $11 {keeps the balance.}) ({Predecessor:} 8... Nf6
9. O-O Be7 10. h3 Bh5 11. d3 O-O 12. Nbd2 Rc8 13. Rc1 b6 14. Qc2 Nd5 {1/2-1/2 
(45) Rodriguez Lopez,R (2320)-Szabo,B (2350) Budapest 2011}) 9. Bxg7 $16 Rg8
10. Bb2 Bf6 11. Nc3 (11. Qc1 $16) 11... Nxc3 $1 $11 12. dxc3 Qc7 13. Qd3 Bf5
14. e4 Bg6 15. O-O $2 (15. Rd1 $16) 15... Bh5 $2 (15... Qf4 $1 $15 {stays
ahead.}) 16. Rad1 $16 Rd8 {[#]} 17. Qe3 Qb6 18. Rxd8+ Bxd8 19. b4 ({White
should play} 19. Nd2 $18 Bxe2 20. Qxe2) 19... cxb4 20. Qxb6 Bxb6 21. cxb4 Bg6
22. Bd3 (22. b5 $16 Na5 23. Nd2) 22... Bh5 $14 {[#] White must now prevent ...
Bxf3.} 23. Ne5 Nxe5 24. Bxe5 Ke7 25. Rc1 Rd8 $1 {[%cal Rd8d3]} 26. Rc3 f6 27.
Bf4 e5 28. Be3 Bxe3 29. fxe3 $16 {[%mdl 4096] Endgame KRB-KRB} Bg6 30. Kf2 Rd6
31. g4 Rc6 32. Rxc6 bxc6 $14 {KB-KB} 33. h4 (33. Ke2 $14) 33... h6 $11 {
The position is equal.} 34. Ke2 Kd6 35. Kd2 Bf7 36. Kc3 Be6 37. Be2 Kc7 38. a4
{[%cal Ba3a4,Ba4a5][%mdl 32]} Kb6 39. a5+ Kc7 40. Kc2 Kd6 41. Kc3 Kc7 42. Kc2
Kd6 43. Kc3 Kc7 {Blacks defense is rewarded with a draw.  Weighted Error Value:
White=0.18/Black=0.17} 1/2-1/2

[Event "GCT Paris Blitz 2021"]
[Site "Paris"]
[Date "2021.06.21"]
[Round "6"]
[White "Rapport, Richard"]
[Black "Firouzja, Alireza"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "A31"]
[WhiteElo "2763"]
[BlackElo "2759"]
[Annotator "TA"]
[PlyCount "130"]
[EventDate "2021.06.21"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "FRA"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

{[%evp 13,130,22,23,28,25,25,10,0,2,-33,-33,-69,-64,-75,-56,-62,-46,-64,-62,
-60,-25,-47,-18,-19,-19,-19,-18,-25,-25,-32,-22,-31,-16,-46,-45,-79,-84,-69,
-31,-120,-104,-104,-72,-80,-42,-41,-32,-38,-37,-50,-33,-78,-31,-45,-21,-35,-21,
-35,-35,-42,-36,-42,-5,-5,-9,-52,0,0,0,-14,-7,-58,-61,-54,-24,-108,-120,-108,
-94,-131,-55,-158,-154,-170,-130,-309,-164,-232,-229,-353,-352,-291,-47,-258,
-229,-347,-349,-795,-592,-651,-395,-29975,-29976,-6786,-1137,-6444,-5197,
-29980,-29981,-29994,-29992,-29992,-29993,-29996,-29967,-29992,-29993,-29997,
-29998]} 1. Nf3 c5 2. c4 Nc6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. g3 d6 6. Bg2 Bd7 7. Nc3
g6 8. Nxc6 {A31: Symmetrical English: 2 Nf3 Nf6 3 d4.} bxc6 9. e4 Bg7 {[#]} 10.
Qe2 $146 {The position is equal.} ({Predecessor:} 10. c5 dxc5 11. O-O Be6 12.
e5 Nd5 13. Na4 Bxe5 14. Nxc5 Bf5 15. Bh6 Qd6 16. Rc1 g5 17. Bxg5 Rg8 18. Qa4
Rxg5 19. Nb7 Qd7 20. Nc5 Qd6 {1/2-1/2 (20) Lerner,K (2575)-Baklan,V (2571)
Ordzhonikidze 2000}) 10... Bg4 11. Qd3 Nd7 12. b3 Ne5 13. Qe3 Qa5 14. Bd2 Qc5
15. Qxc5 dxc5 16. O-O Rd8 (16... O-O-O {looks sharper.} 17. Bg5 Nd3 18. Na4 Rd7
19. Be3 Be2) 17. Be3 {[#]} Nxc4 $1 18. bxc4 {Black must now prevent Rac1.} Bxc3
19. Rab1 Bd4 20. e5 O-O $36 {[%mdl 2048] Black has good play.} 21. Bh6 Bxe5 22.
Bxf8 Kxf8 23. h3 Bf5 24. Rfd1 Bd4 $1 25. Rbc1 Rb8 26. Rd2 ({Better is} 26. g4
$15 Be6 27. Rc2) 26... Rb6 27. g4 Be6 28. Bf3 Ra6 29. Kg2 Kg7 30. Be2 Ra4 31.
Rdc2 Rb4 32. Bf3 Rb6 33. Re2 Ra6 34. Rec2 Bf6 35. Rb1 Be5 36. Rb7 Bd6 37. Be4
h5 38. gxh5 gxh5 39. Bf3 Ra3 (39... Kg6 $15) 40. Rb3 $11 Ra4 41. Be2 h4 42.
Rbc3 (42. Re3 $11) 42... Be5 43. Rb3 Bd4 44. Rb7 (44. Bd3 $11 {keeps the
balance.}) 44... Bf5 $1 $17 {[%cal Rf5c2]} 45. Rd2 Kf6 46. Rc7 e6 (46... Bc3
$17 47. Rd1 Rxa2) 47. Bf3 (47. Bd3 $15) 47... Rxc4 48. Rxa7 Rc3 49. Re2 $2 (49.
Rc7 $17) 49... e5 (49... c4 $142 50. Ra8 Bd3) 50. Ra6 (50. Rc7 {keeps fighting.
}) 50... e4 51. Bxe4 (51. Rxc6+ $142 Kg5 52. Rxe4) 51... Bxh3+ $19 52. Kg1 {[#]
} Bg4 $2 (52... Rc1+ $1 $19 53. Kh2 Bg4) 53. Re1 $2 {[#]} (53. Rxc6+ $15 Kg5
54. Rc2 Rg3+ 55. Kh2 Rh3+ 56. Kg1) 53... Kg5 $1 54. Rxc6 (54. Ra8 $142) 54...
f5 55. Bg2 (55. Bd5 Rc2 56. Rf1) 55... Rc2 {[%mdl 64] Double Attack} 56. Rf1
Be2 57. Kh1 $2 (57. Rb1 $19) 57... Bxf1 58. Bxf1 Rxf2 {[%mdl 4096] Endgame
KRB-KRB} (58... Rc1 $142 59. Kg1 h3) 59. Bc4 h3 60. Rc8 Rc2 {Black mates.} 61.
Bb3 Re2 62. Rg8+ Kh4 63. a4 Be5 64. a5 h2 65. Bc4 Re1+ {Weighted Error Value:
White=0.73/Black=0.34} 0-1

[Event "GCT Paris Blitz 2021"]
[Site "Paris"]
[Date "2021.06.21"]
[Round "7"]
[White "Kramnik, Vladimir"]
[Black "Nepomniachtchi, Ian"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "A13"]
[WhiteElo "2797"]
[BlackElo "2792"]
[Annotator "TA"]
[PlyCount "127"]
[EventDate "2021.06.21"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "FRA"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

{[%evp 9,127,10,13,13,13,7,14,8,8,10,16,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,15,13,14,8,50,1,
4,-8,-7,-3,-5,-7,-2,-7,-5,-2,-6,-2,-2,-4,0,-4,0,-15,-14,-21,-21,-29,-29,-29,
-31,-29,-25,-58,-56,-65,-58,-150,-128,-145,-98,-115,-92,-92,-92,-92,-93,-127,
-66,-114,-95,-106,-58,-69,-58,-58,-58,-58,-68,-65,-65,-65,-65,-66,-65,-131,
-112,-117,-115,-86,-54,-171,-204,-181,-177,-164,-157,-245,-122,-515,-492,-665,
-663,-535,-237,-240,-167,-561,-552,-29976,-82,-29981,-29982,-29982,-29983,
-29983,-29984,-29982]} 1. c4 Nf6 2. g3 e6 3. Bg2 d5 4. Nf3 dxc4 5. Qa4+ Bd7 6.
Qxc4 {A13: English Opening: 1...e6.} c5 7. Ne5 Qc8 8. O-O {The position is
equal.} Nc6 9. Nxd7 Qxd7 10. Nc3 Rc8 11. Qa4 Be7 12. d3 O-O 13. Bd2 Rfd8 14.
Rfd1 b6 15. Rac1 {[#]} Nd5 $1 $146 {[%mdl 8] A top novelty.} ({Predecessor:} 
15... h6 16. Be1 Rc7 17. e3 Nb4 18. Nb5 a6 19. Bxb4 axb5 20. Qc2 Ra7 21. Be1
Rxa2 {1/2-1/2 (28) Artemiev,V (2671)-Riazantsev,A (2671) St Petersburg 2015})
16. Nxd5 exd5 17. e3 Bf8 18. Bc3 d4 19. exd4 Nxd4 20. Qxd7 Rxd7 21. Bh3 Ne2+
22. Kf1 Nxc1 23. Bxd7 Rd8 24. Rxc1 Rxd7 $11 {[%mdl 4096] Endgame KRB-KRB} 25.
Ke2 f5 26. a4 Kf7 27. Bd2 Ke6 28. Rc4 Kd5 29. Bc3 g6 30. h3 a6 31. Bd2 b5 32.
axb5 axb5 33. Rc2 Ra7 34. Be3 (34. Rc1 $15) 34... Ra4 35. Kd1 Bd6 36. Re2 f4
37. gxf4 Bxf4 38. Kc2 Bd6 39. Bg5 Be5 (39... Bf4 $17 40. Bf6 Ra1) 40. f3 Ra1
41. Bc1 Ra7 42. f4 $1 Bd6 43. Re8 Rf7 44. Rh8 Re7 45. Kd1 Bc7 46. Bd2 Kd4 47.
Kc2 b4 48. Rc8 (48. b3 $15) 48... b3+ 49. Kxb3 Kxd3 50. Bc3 c4+ 51. Ka4 (51.
Kb4 $15) 51... Bxf4 $19 52. Rd8+ Ke3 53. Kb5 {[#]} Re4 54. Bd2+ (54. Rg8 $17)
54... Kf3 (54... Ke2 $19 {has better winning chances.} 55. Bxf4 Rxf4) 55. Bc3 {
[%mdl 8192]} (55. Bxf4 $17 {was the crucial defense.} Kxf4 56. Rc8) 55... h5
56. Bd4 g5 57. Kc5 g4 (57... Kg3 $142 58. Kd5 Re1) 58. hxg4 hxg4 {aiming for ..
.g3.} 59. Rf8 $2 (59. Kd5) 59... g3 {...Rxd4! is the strong threat.} 60. Kd5 {
[#]} g2 $2 (60... Rxd4+ $1 {[%mdl 512] mates} 61. Kxd4 g2 62. Rg8 Bg3 63. Rf8+
Ke2 64. Re8+ Kd2 65. Kd5 g1=Q 66. Re7 Kd3 67. Ke6 Qb6+ 68. Kf7 Qxb2 69. Kg6 c3
70. Rd7+ Kc4 71. Re7 c2 72. Re6 Qb5 73. Re4+ Kd3 74. Rg4 Qe8+ 75. Kf6 Be5+ 76.
Kf5 c1=Q 77. Rb4 Qh5+ 78. Ke6 Qc6+ 79. Ke7 Qhe8#) 61. Rg8 $2 {[%mdl 8192] [#]}
(61. Bg1 $17) 61... Rxd4+ $1 {[%mdl 576] Promotion. Black mates.} 62. Kxd4 Bg3
63. Rf8+ Ke2 64. Re8+ {Weighted Error Value: White=0.46/Black=0.25} 0-1

[Event "GCT Paris Blitz 2021"]
[Site "Paris"]
[Date "2021.06.21"]
[Round "7"]
[White "Aronian, Levon"]
[Black "Caruana, Fabiano"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "D02"]
[WhiteElo "2781"]
[BlackElo "2820"]
[Annotator "TA"]
[PlyCount "110"]
[EventDate "2021.06.21"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "FRA"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

{[%evp 9,110,5,5,2,18,6,8,0,3,0,0,0,0,0,0,-5,2,0,0,0,0,0,-2,-16,0,-17,0,0,0,
-42,-56,-92,-102,-134,-123,-133,-132,-132,-127,-126,-125,-128,-118,-154,-142,
-143,-98,-157,-129,-111,-97,-98,-89,-95,-87,-89,4,10,30,13,45,14,14,14,14,14,
14,14,16,17,19,5,125,127,208,207,184,0,0,0,0,-380,-418,-1348,-1348,-1339,-1279,
-758,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]} 1. d4 Nf6 2. Nf3 d5 3. Bf4 e6 4. e3 Bd6 5.
Nbd2 O-O 6. Bd3 {D02: 1 d4 d5 2 Nf3 sidelines, including 2...Nf6 3 g3 and 2...
Nf6 3 Bf4.} c5 7. c3 Bxf4 8. exf4 b6 9. Qe2 a5 10. O-O Ba6 11. Bxa6 Nxa6 {
[%cal Bb8a6,Ba6b4,Bb4c6,Bc6b4,Bb4c2][%mdl 32]} 12. Ne5 Qd6 {[#]} 13. h4 $146 ({
Predecessor:} 13. Ndf3 Ne4 14. g3 f6 15. Ng4 Nb8 16. Rad1 Nc6 17. dxc5 Qxc5 18.
Ne3 Rad8 19. f5 {1/2-1/2 (59) Sadhwani,R (2545)-Jianu,V (2532) Chess.com INT
2021}) 13... cxd4 14. cxd4 Rfc8 15. Rfc1 Nb4 16. Ndf3 Nc6 17. Qb5 {[#]} Qb4 $1
18. Qxb4 Nxb4 19. Rc3 Ne4 20. Rb3 b5 $36 {[%mdl 2048] Black is in control.} 21.
a3 Nc2 22. Rd1 b4 23. a4 Rc7 24. h5 Rac8 25. g3 f6 26. Ng4 Kf7 27. Kg2 Rc4 28.
Rbd3 (28. h6 $142) 28... Nd6 29. h6 Nf5 30. hxg7 h5 ({But not} 30... Nxg7 $6
31. Nh6+ Ke8 32. Ng8 $11) 31. Ngh2 Kxg7 32. Nf1 Kf7 (32... b3 $1 $17 33. Rxb3
Rxa4) 33. N1d2 $11 Rxd4 (33... R4c7 {looks sharper.} 34. Nb3 Nd6 35. R1d2 Nc4
36. Rxc2 Ne3+) 34. Nxd4 Ncxd4 35. Nf3 (35. Nf1 $5 {[%cal Rd3d4]}) 35... Nxf3
36. Kxf3 {[%mdl 4096] Endgame KRR-KRN} Nd6 37. Re1 Rc2 38. Re2 $1 {[%cal Re2c2]
} Rc1 39. Kg2 Nf5 40. Rdd2 {White wants to play Rc2.} Rc4 (40... Rb1 $11 {
remains equal.}) 41. Rc2 $1 $16 Ke7 (41... Nd6 $16) 42. Rxc4 $18 dxc4 {[#]
KR-KN} 43. Re4 $2 (43. Rc2 $1 $18 {[%cal Rc2c4]}) 43... Nd6 $11 {[%cal Rd6e4]}
44. Rd4 b3 45. Kf3 $2 {[%mdl 8192]} (45. Kh3 $11) 45... c3 $1 $19 {[%cal Rc3c2]
Threatens to win with ...c2.} 46. bxc3 (46. Rd3 $142 c2 47. Rc3) 46... b2 47.
Rd1 {[#]} Nc4 $1 48. Ke4 Nd2+ $2 49. Kd3 $1 $11 {[%cal Rd3d2] The position is
equal.} b1=Q+ 50. Rxb1 Nxb1 {KN-KP} 51. Kc2 $1 {[%cal Rc2b1]} Na3+ 52. Kb3 Nb1
{White must now prevent ...Nd2+.} 53. Kc2 Na3+ 54. Kb3 Nb1 {...Nd2+ is the
strong threat.} 55. Kc2 Na3+ {What a bad dream for Black.  Weighted Error
Value: White=0.31/Black=0.22} 1/2-1/2

[Event "GCT Paris Blitz 2021"]
[Site "Paris"]
[Date "2021.06.21"]
[Round "7"]
[White "Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime"]
[Black "Rapport, Richard"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "C02"]
[WhiteElo "2760"]
[BlackElo "2763"]
[Annotator "TA"]
[PlyCount "118"]
[EventDate "2021.06.21"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "FRA"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

{[%evp 14,118,0,0,0,0,25,0,0,0,24,0,0,-10,33,35,46,18,155,53,68,40,72,57,79,43,
44,43,43,43,43,44,43,46,44,44,45,45,48,0,43,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,-157,-142,-165,
-70,-212,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,
0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]} 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 e6 3. c3 d5 4. e5 Nc6 5. d4
Qb6 6. Be2 cxd4 7. cxd4 Nge7 8. Na3 Bd7 {C02: French: Advance Variation.} 9.
O-O Nb4 10. h4 {[#]} Rc8 $146 ({Predecessor:} 10... a6 11. Bf4 Nc8 12. Qd2 Na7
13. Rfc1 h6 14. Rc3 Be7 15. h5 Ba4 16. b3 Bd7 {1-0 (43) Shirov,A (2699)-Roiz,M
(2605) Sochi 2007}) 11. h5 h6 12. Bf4 a6 13. Qd2 Nec6 14. Rfc1 Be7 15. Be3 Kd8
{[#]} (15... Na7 $11) 16. Rc3 (16. Nc4 $1 $16 {[%cal Rc4b6][%mdl 512]} dxc4 17.
d5) 16... Na7 $14 17. Nc2 Nxc2 18. Qxc2 Bb5 19. Rc1 {[%cal Rc3c8]} Kd7 20.
Bxb5+ axb5 21. Rxc8 Rxc8 22. Qh7 {Threatens to win with Rxc8.} Rxc1+ 23. Bxc1
Bf8 24. g4 {Black must now prevent Bxh6!} Nc6 25. Be3 Qd8 26. Qg8 Qe8 (26...
Ke8 {keeps more tension.} 27. Kg2 Ne7 28. Qh7 Qa5 29. Qd3 Nc6) 27. g5 Ne7 $1 {
[%cal Re7g8]} 28. gxh6 Nxg8 29. h7 Ne7 {...Ng6! is the strong threat.} 30. h8=Q
Nf5 31. Kg2 Be7 32. Qh7 $2 ({White must play} 32. Qxe8+ $11 Kxe8 33. Bf4) 32...
Qc8 $17 {Hoping for ...Qc2.} 33. Bg5 {[#]} Qc2 (33... b4 $1 $19 34. h6 gxh6)
34. Qg8 {[#]} (34. Qh8 $1 $15) 34... Qe4 $2 ({Better is} 34... f6 $1 $19 {
[%cal Rf6g5]} 35. exf6 gxf6) 35. Bxe7 $11 {Intending Qd8+ and mate.The
position is equal.} Kxe7 36. Qc8 Nh4+ 37. Kh3 Qxf3+ 38. Kxh4 Qxf2+ {[%mdl 4096]
Endgame KQ-KQ} 39. Kh3 Qf3+ 40. Kh4 Qe4+ 41. Kg3 Qe3+ (41... Qxd4 {looks
sharper.} 42. Qxb7+ Ke8 43. Qb8+ Ke7 44. Qb7+) 42. Kg2 Qe2+ (42... Qxd4 {
feels hotter.} 43. Qc7+ Ke8 44. Qc8+ Ke7) 43. Kg3 Qd3+ (43... Qxh5 {looks
sharper.} 44. Qc7+ Ke8 45. Qc8+ Ke7) 44. Kg2 Qe4+ (44... Qxd4 {is interesting.}
45. Qc7+ Ke8 46. Qc8+ Ke7) 45. Kg3 Qe1+ 46. Kg2 Qd2+ (46... b4 {looks sharper.}
47. Qxb7+ Kf8 48. Qb8+ Ke7 49. Qb7+) 47. Kf3 Qd3+ (47... b6 {is interesting.}
48. Qc7+ Ke8 49. Qb8+ Ke7 50. Qd6+ Ke8) 48. Kg2 Qe4+ (48... Qxd4 {feels hotter.
} 49. Qc7+ Ke8 50. Qc8+ Ke7) 49. Kg3 Qe3+ (49... Qxd4 {looks sharper.} 50.
Qxb7+ Ke8 51. Qb8+ Ke7 52. Qb7+) 50. Kg2 Qg5+ (50... g5 {keeps more tension.}
51. Qc5+ Ke8 52. Qc8+ Ke7 53. Qc5+) 51. Kf2 Qh4+ (51... Qxh5 {with more
complications.} 52. Qc7+ Ke8 53. Qc8+ Ke7) 52. Kf1 Qf4+ (52... Qxh5 {is more
complex.} 53. Qxb7+ Kf8 54. Qa8+ Ke7 55. Qb7+) 53. Ke1 Qe3+ 54. Kf1 Qf3+ 55.
Kg1 Qd1+ 56. Kg2 Qg4+ 57. Kf1 Qf4+ 58. Kg2 Qd2+ 59. Kg3 Qe3+ {Weighted Error
Value: White=0.17/Black=0.16} 1/2-1/2

[Event "GCT Paris Blitz 2021"]
[Site "Paris"]
[Date "2021.06.21"]
[Round "7"]
[White "Firouzja, Alireza"]
[Black "So, Wesley"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "D00"]
[WhiteElo "2759"]
[BlackElo "2770"]
[Annotator "TA"]
[PlyCount "64"]
[EventDate "2021.06.21"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "FRA"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

{[%evp 9,64,6,7,8,0,0,0,0,0,0,26,21,26,16,37,-1,27,6,23,16,17,-13,41,37,29,10,
18,-40,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,-18,-14,-14,0,0,-6,-48,-43,-160,-154,-143,-153,-665,-656,
-668,-667,-642,-640,-1115,-1036,-5010,-4986]} 1. d4 Nf6 2. Bg5 d5 3. e3 c5 4.
Bxf6 gxf6 5. dxc5 Nc6 6. Bb5 {D00: 1 d4 d5: Unusual lines.} e6 7. c4 dxc4 8.
Nd2 {The position is equal.} Bxc5 9. Ngf3 c3 $5 {[%mdl 4] A promising side
line.} 10. bxc3 O-O 11. O-O {[#]} f5 $146 ({Predecessor:} 11... Be7 12. Qa4 Bd7
13. Rfd1 Kh8 14. Nd4 Qc7 15. Nxc6 Bxc6 16. Bxc6 Qxc6 17. Qxc6 bxc6 {0-1 (43)
Sorokin,A (2524)-Paravyan,D (2634) Khanty-Mansiysk 2018}) 12. Nd4 Bd7 13. Rb1
Rc8 14. Qh5 Qf6 15. Rfd1 Qg6 (15... Rfd8 $11) 16. Qe2 $14 Rfd8 17. N2f3 (17.
Bxc6 {is interesting.} Bxc6 18. Nxc6 bxc6 19. Nf3 Qf6 20. Rxd8+ Rxd8 21. Qc4)
17... Qf6 18. e4 (18. Nxc6 $11 Bxc6 19. Bxc6 Rxd1+ 20. Qxd1 bxc6 21. Qd7) 18...
Bb6 19. exf5 Nxd4 20. cxd4 Qxf5 21. Bd3 Qf6 22. Qe4 h6 23. Qg4+ (23. Qxb7 $2
Bc6 $19) 23... Qg7 24. Qh4 Ba4 25. Re1 {Hoping for Re4.} Bxd4 26. Re4 (26. Rb4
$15 Bf6 {[%mdl 64] Discovered Attack} 27. Qh3) 26... Bf6 $17 27. Qh3 Rxd3 28.
Rg4 $2 {[#] Loses the game.} (28. Rxa4 $17 Rdc3 29. Rf1) 28... Bg5 $1 $19 {
Black is clearly winning.} 29. Rxa4 {[#]} Qb2 $3 {[%mdl 512]} 30. Rf1 (30. Re1
Rc1) 30... Rc1 31. g4 Rxf1+ 32. Kxf1 Qb5 {Weighted Error Value: White=0.82/
Black=0.09} 0-1

[Event "GCT Paris Blitz 2021"]
[Site "Paris"]
[Date "2021.06.21"]
[Round "7"]
[White "Svidler, Peter"]
[Black "Radjabov, Teimour"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "A01"]
[WhiteElo "2714"]
[BlackElo "2765"]
[Annotator "TA"]
[PlyCount "81"]
[EventDate "2021.06.21"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "FRA"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

{[%evp 9,81,18,28,28,216,42,73,62,97,90,131,104,103,106,110,112,104,108,105,
100,110,109,114,111,288,290,280,237,325,319,325,318,342,352,345,337,347,341,
364,354,417,417,480,474,472,468,578,562,559,570,556,544,612,591,638,654,781,
781,782,804,1043,1046,999,1018,1066,1000,1159,1093,1066,1043,1000,969,1291,
1180]} 1. b3 b6 2. e4 Bb7 3. Nc3 e6 4. Qe2 Nc6 {[#]} 5. Bb2 $146 ({Predecessor:
} 5. Nf3 g6 6. Bb2 Bg7 7. g3 Nge7 8. Bg2 O-O 9. O-O d5 10. d4 Nxd4 11. Nxd4
Bxd4 {0-1 (40) Harikrishna,P (2727)-Nepomniachtchi,I (2714) Beijing 2014}) 5...
Bc5 6. O-O-O {A01: Nimzowitsch-Larsen Opening.} Qe7 $2 (6... a5 $11 {and Black
has nothing to worry.}) 7. Kb1 $2 (7. Nb5 $18 O-O-O 8. Bxg7) 7... Nf6 8. Nb5 {
White is better.} O-O 9. d4 Bb4 10. d5 exd5 11. exd5 Qxe2 12. Bxe2 Ne7 13. Bxf6
gxf6 14. Nxc7 Rac8 {[#]} 15. Bf3 $1 d6 {[#]} 16. Nb5 {[%cal Bc7b5,Bb5d4,Bd4c2,
Bc2e3][%mdl 32]} Rc5 $2 (16... a6 $16) 17. c4 $18 ({Not} 17. Nxd6 Bxd5 18. c4
Rc6 $16) ({Weaker is} 17. Nxa7 Nxd5 18. Bxd5 Bxd5 $14) 17... Rd8 18. a3 Ba5 19.
Ne2 a6 20. Nbd4 Rcc8 21. b4 Bxb4 22. axb4 Rxc4 23. Nc2 Rdc8 24. Rd2 a5 25. bxa5
bxa5 26. Ne3 {White is clearly winning.} Rb4+ 27. Rb2 Ba6 28. Rxb4 axb4 29. Nd4
Ng6 30. Rc1 Ra8 31. Be4 Nf4 32. Rc6 Bb7 33. Rxd6 Re8 34. f3 h5 35. Rxf6 Nd3 36.
Nef5 Nc5 37. Nd6 Rd8 38. Nxb7 Nxb7 39. Nf5 Nc5 40. Rc6 Na4 41. Kc2 {Weighted
Error Value: White=0.12/Black=0.51} 1-0

[Event "GCT Paris Blitz 2021"]
[Site "Paris"]
[Date "2021.06.21"]
[Round "8"]
[White "Caruana, Fabiano"]
[Black "Kramnik, Vladimir"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "E54"]
[WhiteElo "2820"]
[BlackElo "2797"]
[Annotator "TA"]
[PlyCount "165"]
[EventDate "2021.06.21"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "FRA"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

{[%evp 18,165,12,13,18,2,22,-43,22,18,21,17,29,5,27,0,0,-22,-10,-8,0,-19,10,0,
7,-11,-12,-6,0,-11,-11,-15,-16,-16,0,-19,0,-66,-9,-9,7,7,6,7,4,10,8,3,5,7,19,
13,30,10,10,13,13,3,5,6,16,12,28,8,12,9,9,9,8,0,7,0,0,-10,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,
0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,6,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,
0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]} 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3.
Nc3 Bb4 4. e3 O-O 5. Bd3 d5 6. Nf3 dxc4 7. Bxc4 c5 8. O-O b6 9. a3 Bxc3 $1 {
9...Bxc3 scores better than 9...cxd4.} 10. bxc3 Bb7 {E54: Nimzo-Indian:
Rubinstein: Main Line: 7...dxc4 8 Bxc4.} 11. Bb2 Qc7 12. Rc1 {[#]} (12. Qe2 $11
) 12... Rd8 $146 ({Better is} 12... Ng4 $1 $15 13. g3 Qc6) ({Predecessor:} 
12... Ng4 13. g3 Qc6 14. Be2 c4 15. h3 Nf6 16. a4 Nbd7 17. Kh2 Ne4 18. Ba3 Rfd8
{0-1 (52) Vuckovic,B (2626)-Wirig,A (2480) Aix les Bains 2011}) 13. Re1 Nc6 {
[%cal Bb8c6,Bc6e7,Be7g6,Bg6f4][%mdl 32]} 14. Bf1 Ne7 15. h3 Rac8 16. Bd3 Be4
17. Bxe4 Nxe4 18. c4 Ng6 19. Qd3 Nf6 20. Red1 e5 {[#] Strongly threatening ...
e4.} 21. Qf5 {[%cal Rd4e5]} exd4 22. exd4 Qf4 23. Qxf4 Nxf4 24. Kf1 cxd4 25.
Nxd4 h5 26. f3 Kh7 27. Kf2 (27. h4 $11) 27... Rd7 (27... h4 $15) 28. h4 Rcd8
29. g3 Ng6 30. c5 bxc5 31. Rxc5 Ne7 32. Re1 Rb8 33. Ba1 Ned5 34. Rd1 Rbb7 35.
Nf5 {White wants to play Nxg7!} Rbc7 36. Rdc1 Rb7 37. Ra5 Kg6 38. Nd4 Ne7 39.
Rg5+ Kh7 40. Re1 Rd5 {The position is equal.} 41. Rge5 Ng6 42. Rxd5 Nxd5 43.
Nf5 f6 44. Bd4 Nge7 45. Nd6 Rd7 46. Bc5 Nc6 47. Rd1 Nc3 48. Rc1 Na4 49. Ne4 Ne5
{[#] And now ...Nd3+ would win.} 50. Ke2 Nd3 51. Rc4 {[%cal Rc4a4]} Naxc5 52.
Nxc5 Nxc5 53. Rxc5 $11 {[%mdl 4096] Endgame KR-KR} Kg6 54. Ra5 Rb7 55. Ke3 Rb3+
56. Ke4 Rb7 57. Kf4 Rc7 58. Ke3 Rc3+ 59. Ke4 Rc7 60. Kd4 Rb7 61. Ke4 Rc7 62.
Ke3 Rb7 63. g4 hxg4 64. fxg4 Rb3+ 65. Kf4 Rb7 66. h5+ Kh6 67. Kf5 Re7 68. Kf4
g6 69. hxg6 Kxg6 70. Ra6 Kf7 (70... Rc7 {keeps more tension.} 71. Ra4 Rc3 72.
Rxa7 Rc4+ 73. Kg3 f5) 71. Kg3 Kg6 72. Kf3 Kg5 73. Ra5+ Kg6 74. Kf4 Rc7 75. Ra6
$1 Rc4+ 76. Kg3 Rc7 77. a4 Rb7 78. Ra5 Rc7 79. Ra6 Rb7 80. Kf4 Rb4+ 81. Kf3 Rb7
82. Kf4 Rb4+ 83. Kf3 {A rather calm draw.  Weighted Error Value: White=0.11/
Black=0.08} 1/2-1/2

[Event "GCT Paris Blitz 2021"]
[Site "Paris"]
[Date "2021.06.21"]
[Round "8"]
[White "Nepomniachtchi, Ian"]
[Black "Firouzja, Alireza"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "B22"]
[WhiteElo "2792"]
[BlackElo "2759"]
[Annotator "TA"]
[PlyCount "130"]
[EventDate "2021.06.21"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "FRA"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

{[%evp 14,130,49,35,173,130,125,140,140,139,125,111,120,102,123,123,133,89,81,
71,113,133,154,160,228,209,208,215,309,326,287,245,244,-366,-377,-370,-366,
-365,-370,-356,-370,-359,-360,-330,-332,-393,-260,-240,-229,-230,578,575,584,
577,552,537,515,496,699,686,711,627,626,618,591,568,622,634,665,655,614,348,
360,360,360,358,322,62,62,62,504,198,270,64,115,28,12,-572,-575,-723,-431,-769,
-13,-394,-304,-29976,-29977,-29982,-29983,-29983,-29984,-29986,-5385,-29990,
-29991,-29991,-29964,-29993,-29985,-29989,-29990,-29990,-29991,-29995,-29996,
-29996,-29997,-29997,-663]} 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. c3 Nf6 4. e5 Nd5 5. d4 cxd4
6. Bc4 Nb6 7. Bb3 g6 8. Ng5 {[%csl Gg5][%cal Rb3f7]} Nxe5 {B22: Sicilian: 2 c3.
} (8... d5 $14) 9. Qxd4 f6 {[#]} 10. Qxe5 {[%csl Gg5][%cal Rb3f7][%mdl 512]} d5
{[#] White is clearly better.} 11. Qe2 $146 ({Predecessor:} 11. Qg3 fxg5 12.
Qe5 Rg8 13. Bxg5 Bg7 14. Qe2 Kf7 15. Qf3+ Bf6 16. Bxf6 exf6 17. O-O {1-0 (31)
Vajda,S (2270)-Veneteanu,I (2225) Bucharest 1998}) 11... fxg5 12. Bxg5 Bg7 13.
O-O Qd6 14. Na3 Bd7 15. Rad1 e6 16. Nb5 $36 {[%mdl 2048] White has strong
initiative.} Bxb5 17. Qxb5+ Qd7 18. Qb4 {Strongly threatening Bxd5!} h6 (18...
Bf8 $16 19. Qg4 Bc5) 19. Bh4 $18 g5 20. Bg3 Qe7 (20... Bf8 $142 21. Qg4 Bc5)
21. Bd6 Qd7 22. Rfe1 {Hoping for Rxd5.} O-O-O 23. Rxe6 {[%mdl 8192]} Qxe6 $19
24. Qc5+ Kd7 25. Qc7+ Ke8 26. Qxg7 Rg8 27. Qxb7 {Threatens to win with Bc5.}
Rxd6 28. Qxa7 Kf8 29. a4 Nd7 30. Bxd5 {[#]} Kg7 $1 {[%mdl 512]} 31. c4 {[#]}
Qf6 $4 {[%mdl 8192]} (31... Re8 $1 $19 {[%mdl 512] and life is good for Black.}
32. h4 (32. f3 Qe2) 32... Qg4 {[%mdl 64] Double Attack}) 32. c5 $18 Re8 33.
cxd6 Qxd6 34. g3 Re7 35. Bf3 Qe6 (35... Ne5 $142 36. Qa8 Qc5) 36. Qd4+ Ne5 37.
Bg2 Rd7 38. Bd5 Qf6 {...Nf3+! is the strong threat.} 39. Qe4 Re7 40. Kg2 h5 41.
a5 h4 42. a6 h3+ 43. Kg1 ({Weaker is} 43. Kxh3 Qxf2 44. a7 (44. Re1 $2 g4+ 45.
Qxg4+ Nxg4 $17) 44... g4+ 45. Qxg4+ Nxg4 $17) 43... Qxa6 44. Qf5 {[%mdl 64]
Double Attack} Qh6 45. Bb3 $2 (45. b4 $18) 45... Qh5 $1 $14 {[%cal Rh5d1]} 46.
Kh1 Ng4 $2 {[%mdl 8192]} (46... Qe2 $14) 47. Rf1 $2 (47. Qc5 Re8 48. Qc7+ Kf8
49. Qd6+ Kg7 50. Qd7+ Kh8 51. Qf5) 47... Nf6 (47... Nh6 $142 48. Qd5 Qg6) 48.
Qd3 $2 (48. Bd1 $18 Qg6 49. Qxh3) 48... Qe8 (48... g4 $1 $14) 49. f3 ({White
should try} 49. Bc4 $16) 49... Re3 $1 $11 {[%cal Re3d3]} 50. Qf5 {[%mdl 8192]}
(50. Qc2 $11 {and White is okay.}) 50... Rxb3 $19 51. Qxg5+ Kf7 {( -> ...Qe2!)}
52. Qh4 {[#]} (52. Qh6 $142 Qe6 53. Ra1) 52... Qe6 $2 (52... Qc8 $1 $19 {
And now ...Rxf3! would win.} 53. Qd4 Qc2 54. Qa7+ Kg6) 53. Qd4 $2 {[%mdl 8192]}
(53. g4 $1 $11 {and White stays safe.}) 53... Qe2 {[%csl Gh3][%cal Re2g2]} 54.
Qf2 (54. Qa7+ $19 Kg6 55. Qf2 Qxb2 56. Qxb2 Rxb2 57. g4) 54... Qb5 55. Rb1 Qd5
56. Rf1 Ng4 57. Qe2 Ne5 (57... Re3 $142 58. Qc2 Rxf3 59. Rxf3+ Qxf3+ 60. Kg1
Qe3+ 61. Kf1 {[#]} Nxh2+ $1 {[%mdl 576] Deflection} 62. Qxh2 Qc1+ 63. Ke2 Qc2+
64. Kf3 Qxh2 65. g4 Qxb2 66. Kf4 h2 67. g5 Qd4+ 68. Kg3 h1=Q 69. g6+ Kg8 70. g7
Qdh4#) 58. Qe4 Qxe4 {Black mates.} 59. fxe4+ {[%mdl 4096] Endgame KRN-KR} Ke6
60. Rf2 Ng4 61. Re2 Rd3 62. Re1 Rd2 {[%mdl 64] Double Attack} 63. Rb1 Rxh2+ 64.
Kg1 Rg2+ {[%mdl 64] Double Attack} 65. Kf1 Ne3+ {Weighted Error Value: White=0.
41/Black=0.57} 0-1

[Event "GCT Paris Blitz 2021"]
[Site "Paris"]
[Date "2021.06.21"]
[Round "8"]
[White "Radjabov, Teimour"]
[Black "Aronian, Levon"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "E20"]
[WhiteElo "2765"]
[BlackElo "2781"]
[Annotator "TA"]
[PlyCount "58"]
[EventDate "2021.06.21"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "FRA"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

{[%evp 15,58,-21,-9,-50,-45,-66,-74,-92,-92,-105,-47,-58,97,-35,-54,-41,-44,
-33,-41,-63,-60,-102,-60,-62,-54,-56,0,-1,-2,-230,-231,-193,-186,-273,-270,
-319,-170,-455,-440,-637,-635,-594,-572,-1642,-1550]} 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nf3
d5 4. Nc3 Bb4 5. g3 O-O 6. Bg2 dxc4 7. O-O Nc6 8. a3 Be7 9. e4 {E20:
Nimzo-Indian: 4 g3 and 4 f3.} a6 10. Bf4 b5 {[#]} 11. Qd2 $146 {Black is
better.} ({Predecessor:} 11. Qc2 Bb7 12. Rad1 Na5 13. Rfe1 Nb3 14. h4 Re8 15.
Ng5 g6 16. d5 exd5 17. e5 {1-0 (34) Buhmann,R (2597)-Parligras,M (2589)
Germany 2014}) 11... Na5 12. Rad1 c5 (12... Nb3 $17 13. Qc2 Bb7) 13. Qc2 Qb6 $2
(13... Bb7 $15 {keeps the upper hand.}) 14. d5 ({White should play} 14. dxc5
$16 Qxc5 15. e5) 14... Bb7 $15 15. d6 Bd8 16. e5 Nd7 17. Rfe1 Nb3 18. Be3 Rc8
19. Ne4 $1 h6 20. g4 f5 (20... Bc6 $15) 21. exf6 $1 $11 Nxf6 ({Worse is} 21...
Bxf6 22. g5 $18) 22. Ne5 $2 {[#] Now White is beyond hope.} (22. Nxf6+ $11 Bxf6
23. g5 Bxf3 24. Bxf3) 22... Bxe4 $1 $19 23. Bxe4 Nd4 $36 {[%mdl 2048] Black is
in control.} 24. Qb1 (24. d7 $142 Rb8 25. Bxd4 cxd4 26. Ng6) 24... Qxd6 25. Bg2
Bc7 ({Don't do} 25... Qxe5 26. Bxd4 Qg5 27. Bc3 $19) (25... Ba5 $142 26. Bd2
Bxd2 27. Rxd2 Nd5) 26. f4 $2 (26. Bxh6 {is the only way for White.} Qe7 27. Ng6
) 26... Nd5 {Black is clearly winning.} 27. Qg6 (27. Qe4 $142) 27... Nxf4 28.
Bxf4 Rxf4 29. g5 {[#]} Ne2+ $1 {[%mdl 512] Weighted Error Value: White=0.84/
Black=0.25} 0-1

[Event "GCT Paris Blitz 2021"]
[Site "Paris"]
[Date "2021.06.21"]
[Round "8"]
[White "Rapport, Richard"]
[Black "So, Wesley"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "A09"]
[WhiteElo "2763"]
[BlackElo "2770"]
[Annotator "TA"]
[PlyCount "70"]
[EventDate "2021.06.21"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "FRA"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

{[%evp 9,70,-4,-16,-12,-20,-12,0,0,-2,-8,-4,0,-3,-20,0,0,0,0,0,0,15,9,26,15,4,
-8,-15,-8,-8,-22,14,0,0,0,0,-12,-12,-12,-12,-12,0,-18,-3,-6,0,0,0,0,0,-7,-12,
-44,0,-10,0,-16,0,0,0,-19,0,0,0]} 1. Nf3 d5 2. g3 g6 3. c4 dxc4 4. Na3 Bg7 5.
Nxc4 Nc6 6. d3 {A09: Réti Opening: 1 Nf3 d5 2 c4.} e5 7. Bd2 Nge7 8. h4 h6 9.
Bc3 {[%cal Rc4e5]} f6 10. Qb3 a5 11. a4 Be6 12. Bh3 Bxh3 13. Rxh3 {[#]} b6 $146
({Predecessor:} 13... Qc8 14. Rh1 h5 15. d4 exd4 16. Nxd4 Nxd4 17. Bxd4 Nc6 18.
Bc3 Qe6 19. O-O-O b6 {1-0 (67) Banusz,T (2631)-Parkhov,Y (2424) Tornelo INT
2021}) 14. O-O-O Qd5 15. e4 Qe6 16. Rhh1 h5 17. Nxa5 Qxb3 18. Nxb3 Rxa4 19. Kc2
Kf7 (19... Nb4+ {feels hotter.} 20. Bxb4 Rxb4 21. Ra1 f5 22. Ra8+ Kd7) 20. Ra1
Rha8 21. Rxa4 Rxa4 22. Rd1 Nc8 23. d4 {With the idea dxe5.} Nd6 24. dxe5 fxe5
25. Nbd2 Bf6 ({Not} 25... Nxe4 $2 26. Nxe4 Ke7 27. b4 $18) 26. b3 Ra2+ 27. Kb1
Ra8 28. Rc1 Nb5 29. Nc4 Ke6 30. Ne3 (30. Bb2 $5 {[%cal Rc4b6]} Ncd4 31. Nxd4+
exd4 32. Kc2 $11) 30... Ne7 31. Bb2 {The position is equal.} Rd8 32. Rc4 Ra8
33. Rc1 Rd8 34. Rc4 Ra8 35. Rc1 Rd8 {A rather calm draw.  Weighted Error Value:
White=0.04/Black=0.07} 1/2-1/2

[Event "GCT Paris Blitz 2021"]
[Site "Paris"]
[Date "2021.06.21"]
[Round "8"]
[White "Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime"]
[Black "Svidler, Peter"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "A10"]
[WhiteElo "2760"]
[BlackElo "2714"]
[Annotator "TA"]
[PlyCount "122"]
[EventDate "2021.06.21"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "FRA"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

{[%evp 9,122,3,-3,7,24,-37,-21,-23,-10,-22,-18,-30,-18,-21,-24,-16,0,-16,-16,
-14,-19,-20,-21,-26,0,-30,0,0,0,0,6,7,10,7,36,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,-4,-16,0,0,72,0,0,
0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,-105,-80,-722,-713,
-720,-703,-672,-626,-490,-402,-29946,-29940,-29948,-29950,-29949,-29952,-29953,
-29953,-29954,-29953,-29951,-29949,-29957,-29962,-29962,-29963,-29961,-29963,
-29964,-29964,-29958,-29964,-29954,-29950,-9992,-5795,-29991,-29992]} 1. c4 g6
2. e4 e5 3. d4 Nf6 4. dxe5 Nxe4 5. Bd3 Nc5 6. Nf3 {A10: English Opening:
Unusual Replies for Black.} d6 7. Bc2 ({White should try} 7. Be2 $11) 7... Nc6
$15 8. exd6 {The position is equal.} Qxd6 9. Qe2+ Qe7 10. Be3 $1 {[#]} Bg4 $146
({Predecessor:} 10... Nb4 11. Na3 Bg4 12. Rd1 Nxc2+ 13. Nxc2 Bxf3 14. Qxf3 Bg7
15. Qd5 Ne6 16. Qxb7 O-O {1-0 (44) Murey,J (2500)-Jansa,V (2475) Thessaloniki
1984}) 11. Nc3 {And now Nd5 would win.} Bxf3 12. Qxf3 {Nd5 is the strong
threat.} Nd4 13. Qd1 O-O-O {aiming for ...Bh6.} 14. Nd5 Nxc2+ 15. Qxc2 Qe4 {
[%cal Re4c2]} 16. O-O-O c6 (16... Qxg2 {feels hotter.} 17. Bd4 Rg8 18. Rhe1 Bd6
19. b4 Ne6) 17. Nc3 (17. Nb4 {seems wilder.} Qxc2+ 18. Kxc2 Be7 19. b3 Rxd1 20.
Rxd1 Re8 21. Nd3) 17... Qxc2+ (17... Qxc4 {keeps more tension.} 18. Rxd8+ Kxd8
19. Rd1+ Kc8 20. b3 Qe6) 18. Kxc2 Rxd1 19. Rxd1 a6 20. b4 Ne6 21. a3 b5 22. c5
Be7 23. a4 Rd8 24. Ra1 Kb7 25. axb5 axb5 26. Ne4 Ra8 27. Rd1 {Black must now
prevent Rd7+.} Rd8 (27... Kc7 $11 {remains equal.}) 28. Nd6+ (28. Rxd8 $16 Nxd8
29. Bg5 Bxg5 30. Nxg5) 28... Bxd6 $11 29. cxd6 {[%mdl 4096] Endgame KRB-KRN} ({
Much worse is} 29. Rxd6 Rxd6 30. cxd6 Kc8 $17) 29... Ra8 30. Kb3 Kc8 31. Bc5
Kd7 32. Re1 Ra6 33. g3 h5 34. h4 f5 35. f3 Ra8 36. Rg1 Ra4 37. Rc1 Ra8 38. Re1
Ra6 39. Kb2 Ra8 40. Rg1 Ra4 41. Rc1 Nxc5 42. bxc5 {KR-KR} f4 43. gxf4 (43. g4
$1 $11 {was the only way to keep the balance.}) 43... Rxf4 $17 44. Kb3 $2 {
[%mdl 8192] This move loses the game for White.} (44. Rg1 $17) 44... Rxh4 $19
45. Rg1 Rc4 46. Rg5 h4 47. f4 h3 {( -> ...h2)} 48. Rxg6 {[#]} (48. Re5 $19)
48... Rxc5 49. Rh6 Rf5 50. Rxh3 Rxf4 51. Rd3 Rf6 52. Kb4 Rxd6 53. Rh3 Rd4+ 54.
Kc5 Rc4+ 55. Kb6 b4 56. Rd3+ Ke6 57. Ka5 c5 58. Ka4 Ke5 59. Kb3 Rd4 60. Rh3 Re4
61. Rd3 c4+ {[%mdl 64] Double Attack.  Weighted Error Value: White=0.37/
Black=0.06} 0-1

[Event "GCT Paris Blitz 2021"]
[Site "Paris"]
[Date "2021.06.21"]
[Round "9"]
[White "Kramnik, Vladimir"]
[Black "Radjabov, Teimour"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "C02"]
[WhiteElo "2797"]
[BlackElo "2765"]
[Annotator "TA"]
[PlyCount "56"]
[EventDate "2021.06.21"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "FRA"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

{[%evp 16,56,42,33,56,26,97,102,107,102,129,106,134,43,217,209,231,210,188,182,
425,375,532,516,514,473,487,106,123,97,103,-178,-8,-109,93,-91,-88,-88,0,-186,
-166,-329,-302]} 1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. e5 c5 4. c3 Nc6 5. Nf3 Qb6 6. Be2 Bd7 7.
O-O Nh6 {is the new trend.} 8. Bxh6 gxh6 9. Qd2 a6 $5 {[%mdl 4] An interesting
side line. C02: French: Advance Variation.} 10. Na3 Rg8 (10... cxd4 $11 {
keeps the balance.} 11. cxd4 Bg7) 11. Nc2 $16 {[#]} h5 $146 {White is better.}
({Predecessor:} 11... cxd4 12. cxd4 O-O-O 13. b4 Ne7 14. a4 Kb8 15. Rfb1 Rc8
16. Ne3 Ng6 17. a5 Qd8 {1-0 (27) Shirov,A (2647)-Bychkov,V (2303) Chess.com
INT 2020}) 12. Rab1 a5 13. Rfd1 Be7 14. c4 (14. dxc5 $16 Bxc5 15. Ncd4) 14...
dxc4 $2 (14... O-O-O $14) 15. dxc5 $18 {[%mdl 64] Discovered Attack} ({Weaker
is} 15. Bxc4 O-O-O $14) 15... Qc7 16. Na3 ({Less strong is} 16. Bxc4 Bxc5 17.
Qe2 O-O-O $14) 16... Bxc5 17. Nxc4 Rd8 $2 (17... O-O-O 18. Nd6+ Bxd6) 18. Rbc1
Rg7 (18... Bc8 $142) 19. Qh6 Kf8 20. Ng5 Kg8 21. Bd3 $2 (21. Nd6 $18 {and
White stays clearly on top.} b6 22. Nde4) 21... Nxe5 $16 22. Bxh7+ Kf8 23. Ne4
{[%mdl 8192] [#]} (23. Ne3 $16 {keeps the pressure on.} Bc6 24. Be4 (24. Rxc5
Rxd1+ 25. Nxd1 Qd8 $11) 24... Rxd1+ 25. Rxd1) 23... Nxc4 $2 (23... Nf3+ $1 $19
24. Kf1 Nxh2+ 25. Ke2 Ng4 26. Qxh5 Be7 27. Nxa5 Qe5 28. Qxe5 Nxe5) 24. b3 {[#]}
(24. Bg6 $1 $11 {remains equal.}) 24... Bc6 $2 25. bxc4 $2 (25. Nxc5 $16 {
is forced if you want to stay better.} Rxd1+ 26. Rxd1) 25... Ba3 26. Rb1 Be7 (
26... Rxd1+ $17 27. Rxd1 Qe5) 27. Rxd8+ $2 (27. Ng3 $1 $11 Bg5 28. Qxh5) 27...
Qxd8 $19 28. Re1 $2 (28. Ng3 Bg5 29. Qxh5) 28... Qd4 {Quite a comeback for
Black.  Weighted Error Value: White=1.02/Black=0.75} 0-1

[Event "GCT Paris Blitz 2021"]
[Site "Paris"]
[Date "2021.06.21"]
[Round "9"]
[White "Aronian, Levon"]
[Black "Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "A62"]
[WhiteElo "2781"]
[BlackElo "2760"]
[Annotator "TA"]
[PlyCount "86"]
[EventDate "2021.06.21"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "FRA"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

{[%evp 16,86,27,16,87,86,83,91,80,70,86,85,84,82,87,54,64,49,42,40,37,37,49,15,
27,11,22,0,0,0,0,0,18,15,28,49,49,0,0,-37,-7,-178,-173,-217,-212,-194,-204,
-202,-201,-200,-121,-109,-122,-119,-109,-113,-114,-134,-125,-117,-127,-143,
-131,-322,-341,-306,-305,-314,-314,-558,-498,-29981,-29982]} 1. d4 Nf6 2. Nf3
g6 3. c4 Bg7 4. g3 O-O 5. Bg2 c5 6. d5 e6 7. Nc3 exd5 8. cxd5 d6 9. O-O Bf5 {
[#] A62: Modern Benoni: Fianchetto Variation without early ...Nbd7.} (9... Re8
$11 {keeps the balance.}) 10. Nd2 $1 $16 Na6 $5 {[%mdl 4] An interesting side
line.} 11. e4 Bg4 {White is better.} 12. f3 Bd7 13. Nc4 Ne8 {[#]} 14. a4 $1 Nb4
{[#]} 15. Re1 $146 ({Predecessor:} 15. Bf4 Qe7 16. Qd2 a6 17. Kh1 Rb8 18. Nb6
Qd8 19. a5 Bb5 20. Nxb5 axb5 21. Bh3 {0-1 (41) Borsuk,K (2413)-Dubov,D (2702)
Chess.com INT 2020}) 15... a6 16. a5 Bb5 17. Bf1 Bxc4 18. Bxc4 Nf6 19. Kg2 Nd7
20. f4 Re8 21. Ra3 b5 22. axb6 $1 Nxb6 23. Bf1 Qd7 24. Be3 Qb7 25. Bf2 Re7 26.
Be2 Rae8 27. Bf3 Nc4 28. Rb3 {[#]} (28. e5 $1 $11 {and White has nothing to
worry.}) 28... Nxb2 $1 $19 {[%mdl 512]} 29. Qd2 (29. Qe2 N2d3) 29... N2d3 30.
Reb1 Nxf2 31. Qxf2 a5 32. e5 {next Ne4 is good for White.} dxe5 {Strongly
threatening ...c4.} 33. d6 {[#]} e4 $1 34. dxe7 exf3+ 35. Qxf3 Qxe7 36. R3b2
Qd7 37. Rd1 Bd4 38. Re2 a4 39. Rxe8+ $2 (39. f5 $17 {keeps fighting.}) 39...
Qxe8 40. Ne4 Qc6 41. Nd2 {intending Qxc6.} Qe6 42. Kf1 $2 (42. Kh1) 42... a3 {
Threatens to win with ...Nc2.} 43. Qxa3 (43. Nb3 $19 a2 44. Nxd4 cxd4 45. Kf2)
43... Qh3+ {[%mdl 64] Double Attack.  Weighted Error Value: White=0.52/Black=0.
10} 0-1

[Event "GCT Paris Blitz 2021"]
[Site "Paris"]
[Date "2021.06.21"]
[Round "9"]
[White "So, Wesley"]
[Black "Nepomniachtchi, Ian"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "D38"]
[WhiteElo "2770"]
[BlackElo "2792"]
[Annotator "TA"]
[PlyCount "75"]
[EventDate "2021.06.21"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "FRA"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

{[%evp 12,75,10,13,6,13,14,0,8,0,7,12,15,0,0,0,12,12,5,25,12,12,14,24,8,4,21,
15,12,6,6,5,4,5,15,15,15,15,15,15,15,15,15,15,16,16,16,12,14,2,2,0,0,0,0,0,6,0,
0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]} 1. d4 e6 2. c4 Nf6 3. Nf3 d5 4. Nc3 Bb4 5. Qa4+ Nc6 6. e3 O-O
7. Bd2 dxc4 {D38: Queen's Gambit Declined: Ragozin Defence (4 Nf3 Bb4).} 8.
Bxc4 Bd6 9. Qc2 {9.Qc2 is better than 9.Nb5.} e5 10. dxe5 Nxe5 11. Nxe5 Bxe5
12. f4 Bxc3 13. Bxc3 Ng4 14. Bd4 c5 15. Bxc5 {[#] And now Rd1 would win.} Re8
$1 16. O-O {With the idea Rfd1.} Nxe3 17. Bxe3 Rxe3 18. Rfe1 {The position is
equal.} Rxe1+ (18... Qd4 {looks sharper.} 19. Qf2 Rxe1+ 20. Rxe1 Qxf2+ 21. Kxf2
Kf8) 19. Rxe1 Qd4+ 20. Qf2 Qxf2+ 21. Kxf2 $11 {[%cal Re1e8][%mdl 4096] Endgame
KRB-KRB} Kf8 {[#]} 22. Bd5 $146 ({Predecessor:} 22. Rc1 Bf5 23. Bb3 Rc8 24.
Rxc8+ Bxc8 25. Ke3 Ke7 26. Kd4 b6 27. Bd5 f6 28. g3 Kd6 29. a3 h6 30. b4 Bd7 {
1/2-1/2 (30) Abasov,N (2632)-Anand,V (2765) Douglas 2019}) 22... Bd7 23. Re3
Rc8 24. Bxb7 Rb8 25. Rb3 Ba4 {[#]} 26. Ra3 Rxb7 27. Rxa4 Rxb2+ {KR-KR} 28. Kf3
Rb7 29. g4 g6 30. h4 Kg7 31. Ra6 h5 32. gxh5 gxh5 33. Ra5 Kg6 34. a4 Rb3+ 35.
Ke4 Rb4+ 36. Kf3 Rb3+ 37. Ke4 Rb4+ 38. Kf3 {A rather calm draw.  Weighted
Error Value: White=0.03/Black=0.02} 1/2-1/2

[Event "GCT Paris Blitz 2021"]
[Site "Paris"]
[Date "2021.06.21"]
[Round "9"]
[White "Firouzja, Alireza"]
[Black "Caruana, Fabiano"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "C54"]
[WhiteElo "2759"]
[BlackElo "2820"]
[Annotator "TA"]
[PlyCount "80"]
[EventDate "2021.06.21"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "FRA"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

{[%evp 14,80,25,7,20,6,16,13,6,2,16,11,13,-10,-7,-31,-23,-54,-33,-67,-72,-74,
-24,-18,-18,-47,-43,-44,-20,-12,-6,-10,-8,-39,-41,-281,-282,-285,-296,-322,
-321,-376,-372,-519,-368,-528,-509,-515,-516,-501,-368,-563,-546,-548,-545,
-576,-577,-550,-478,-677,-693,-825,-808,-800,-768,-795,-742,-748,-733]} 1. e4
e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Nf6 4. d3 h6 5. c3 Bc5 6. Nbd2 d6 7. O-O O-O 8. h3 Bb6 {
C54: Giuoco Piano: 4 c3 Nf6, main lines with 5 d4 and 5 d3.} 9. Bb3 Ne7 10. Re1
Ng6 {The position is equal.} 11. Nf1 Re8 12. Ng3 Be6 13. Bc2 d5 14. exd5 Bxd5
15. Ne4 {[#]} Qe7 $146 ({Predecessor:} 15... Nxe4 16. dxe4 Bc6 17. Be3 Bxe3 18.
Rxe3 Qe7 19. g3 {1/2-1/2 (19) Torralba Brosa,M (1852)-Sumit,K (1975) Montcada
2017}) 16. Nh2 Rad8 {White must now prevent ...Bxe4.} 17. Qf3 Nxe4 18. dxe4 Be6
19. Ng4 Qh4 20. Ne3 Nf4 21. Nf5 Qh5 $36 {[%mdl 2048] Black fights for an
advantage.} 22. Qxh5 Nxh5 {[%cal Bf4h5,Bh5f4,Bf4h3,Bh3f2][%mdl 32]} 23. Bb3 Nf4
24. g3 $2 {Now White is beyond hope.} ({White should try} 24. Be3 $15) 24...
Nxh3+ $19 {[%mdl 64] Double Attack} 25. Kg2 Nxf2 ({Stronger than} 25... Bxf2
26. Re2 $16) 26. Re2 Ng4 27. Kf3 h5 28. Bg5 f6 29. Bd2 (29. Bxe6+ $142 Rxe6 30.
Rd2) 29... Bxb3 30. axb3 Rd3+ 31. Kg2 Kf7 32. Rh1 (32. Nh4 {was worth a try.})
32... g6 {Black is clearly winning.} 33. Nh4 {[#]} Nf2 $1 34. Rf1 {[#]} (34.
Ra1 Nxe4) 34... Nxe4 {[%mdl 512]} 35. Be1 Re3 36. Rc2 (36. Rxe3 $142 Bxe3 37.
Kf3 Nd2+ 38. Bxd2 Bxd2 39. Ke2) 36... Rd8 37. Nf3 Ke6 38. c4 Rxb3 39. Nh4 Bd4
40. Re2 Rxb2 {Weighted Error Value: White=0.43/Black=0.18} 0-1

[Event "GCT Paris Blitz 2021"]
[Site "Paris"]
[Date "2021.06.21"]
[Round "9"]
[White "Svidler, Peter"]
[Black "Rapport, Richard"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "B89"]
[WhiteElo "2714"]
[BlackElo "2763"]
[Annotator "TA"]
[PlyCount "111"]
[EventDate "2021.06.21"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "FRA"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

{[%evp 19,111,-6,0,-18,0,-9,-7,-29,0,-26,-14,0,0,-2,0,-29,0,-10,0,0,0,-16,-11,
-20,0,-6,0,0,0,0,0,-4,0,-4,-12,-6,-2,-21,0,-32,-43,-65,-7,-16,-13,-17,0,-118,0,
0,5,13,277,272,282,266,273,276,307,279,248,175,466,466,557,554,554,553,553,553,
520,496,652,569,644,633,617,610,603,602,573,562,535,517,676,469,672,656,618,
582,727,694,669,654]} 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 e6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 Nc6 6.
a3 d6 7. Be3 Be7 8. Bc4 O-O 9. Qe2 $5 {[%mdl 4] Exploring less charted
territory.} a6 10. O-O-O Qc7 11. Bb3 {B89: Sicilian: Velimirovic Attack.} Na5
12. Kb1 b5 13. g4 {[#] The position is equal.} Nxb3 $146 ({Predecessor:} 13...
Bb7 14. f3 Rfc8 15. g5 Nd7 16. h4 Nc4 17. Bc1 Ndb6 18. g6 hxg6 19. h5 g5 {
0-1 (38) Oswald,G-Formanek,E (2375) Manchester 1981}) 14. cxb3 b4 15. axb4 Qb7
16. f3 Bd7 17. g5 Ne8 18. h4 Nc7 19. h5 Qxb4 20. g6 Bf6 21. gxh7+ Kh8 $1 22.
Qd2 Rab8 23. h6 {hxg7+ is the strong threat.} g6 24. Bg5 Be5 25. f4 Bxd4 26.
Qxd4+ Qxd4 27. Rxd4 d5 28. Be7 Rfc8 29. f5 ({But not} 29. exd5 exd5 30. Ka2 (
30. Nxd5 $2 Nxd5 31. Rxd5 Bc6 $19 {[%mdl 64] Skewer}) 30... Ne8 $17) 29... exf5
30. exd5 Nb5 ({Better is} 30... Rxb3 $15 31. Rc4 Kxh7) 31. Nxb5 axb5 32. d6
Kxh7 33. Re1 (33. Bg5 $11 {remains equal.}) 33... Re8 (33... Kxh6 $17 {Hoping
for ...g5.} 34. Rh4+ Kg7) 34. Rc1 $11 Rbc8 35. Rc7 $1 {[%cal Rc7d7]} Be6 {
[%mdl 8192] [#] This move loses the game for Black.} (35... Rcd8 $1 $11 {
and Black is okay.}) 36. d7 $1 $18 {[%mdl 512]} Bxd7 37. Rcxd7 ({Less strong is
} 37. Rdxd7 Rxc7 38. Rxc7 Kxh6 $16) 37... Kxh6 38. Bb4 g5 39. Rxf7 Kg6 40. Rdd7
f4 $2 (40... Rg8 {was called for.} 41. Rfe7 f4) 41. Rg7+ {White is clearly
winning.} Kh6 42. Rh7+ Kg6 {[#]} 43. Rdg7+ $1 Kf5 44. Rh5 Ke4 45. Rgxg5 f3 {
and the idea ...f2 leaves Black hopeful.} 46. Rf5 Red8 47. Re5+ Kf4 48. Rhf5+
Kg4 49. Rg5+ Kf4 {intending ...Rd1+.} 50. Bc5 {[%csl Ge5][%cal Rc5e3]} Rd1+ 51.
Kc2 Rd7 52. Ref5+ Ke4 53. b4 Rdd8 54. Rf7 Re8 55. Rg4+ Kd5 56. Rxf3 {Weighted
Error Value: White=0.16/Black=0.35} 1-0

[Event "GCT Paris Blitz 2021"]
[Site "Paris"]
[Date "2021.06.22"]
[Round "10"]
[White "Aronian, Levon"]
[Black "Svidler, Peter"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "A17"]
[WhiteElo "2781"]
[BlackElo "2714"]
[Annotator "TA"]
[PlyCount "91"]
[EventDate "2021.06.21"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "FRA"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

{[%evp 9,91,7,7,8,18,5,10,3,2,-3,0,0,0,2,0,8,8,0,23,0,0,0,0,-16,-16,-27,-17,
-22,0,0,13,19,18,22,9,18,16,0,63,27,30,34,79,0,30,40,45,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,
0,0,0,0,0,0,10,10,10,0,0,1,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,-145]} 1. Nf3 d5 2. e3 Nf6
3. c4 e6 4. Nc3 dxc4 5. Bxc4 a6 6. O-O {A17: English Opening: 1...Nf6 with ...
Bb4.} b5 7. Be2 Bb7 8. b3 Be7 9. Bb2 O-O 10. Rc1 c5 11. a4 b4 12. Nb1 Nbd7 13.
d3 {[#]} Nd5 $146 ({Predecessor:} 13... a5 14. e4 Nb6 15. Nbd2 Rc8 16. Ne5 Nfd7
17. Nxd7 Nxd7 18. Nc4 Nb8 19. e5 Bd5 {1-0 (51) Lysyj,I (2630)-Fakhrutdinov,T 
(2460) Yaroslavl 2018}) 14. Ne5 Nxe5 15. Bxe5 Rc8 16. Qc2 Bf6 17. Qb2 a5 18.
Rc2 Bxe5 19. Qxe5 Qc7 20. Qxc7 Rxc7 21. Rfc1 Rfc8 $1 22. Bf1 Ba6 23. d4 c4 (
23... cxd4 $1 $11 24. Rxc7 Rxc7 25. Rxc7 Nxc7) 24. Bxc4 Nb6 25. Nd2 Bxc4 26.
Nxc4 (26. bxc4 $16 e5 27. dxe5) 26... Nxa4 {Hoping for ...Nb6!} 27. Ra1 Nb6 {
[%cal Rb6c4]} 28. Nxb6 (28. Rxa5 {seems wilder.} f6 29. Ra1 Nxc4 30. Rac1 e5
31. f3) 28... Rxc2 {The position is equal.} 29. Nxc8 Rxc8 $14 {[%mdl 4096]
Endgame KR-KR} 30. Kf1 g6 31. Rxa5 {Black must now prevent Rb5.} Rc3 32. g4
Rxb3 33. Rb5 h6 34. h4 Rb2 35. Kg2 Kg7 36. g5 hxg5 37. hxg5 b3 38. Rb8 Rb1 39.
Kf3 Rg1 40. Rxb3 {Rb5 is the strong threat.} (40. Kf4 {keeps more tension.} Rg2
41. f3 b2 42. e4 Rf2 43. Rb7) 40... Rxg5 41. Rb7 Rf5+ 42. Ke2 Ra5 43. Kf3 Rf5+
44. Ke2 Ra5 45. Kf3 Rf5+ 46. Ke4 {Weighted Error Value: White=0.06/Black=0.06}
(46. Kg2 $11) 1/2-1/2

[Event "GCT Paris Blitz 2021"]
[Site "Paris"]
[Date "2021.06.22"]
[Round "10"]
[White "So, Wesley"]
[Black "Caruana, Fabiano"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "E53"]
[WhiteElo "2770"]
[BlackElo "2820"]
[Annotator "TA"]
[PlyCount "146"]
[EventDate "2021.06.21"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "FRA"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

{[%evp 12,146,6,0,0,2,0,4,0,4,29,25,43,15,40,24,57,18,60,0,0,0,81,88,91,93,83,
80,85,80,87,89,75,89,87,67,67,68,76,63,70,70,95,94,94,94,94,94,90,93,107,96,92,
91,118,88,88,100,120,88,95,95,115,14,140,140,146,146,146,146,149,152,316,149,
152,139,139,31,183,174,317,317,635,625,546,439,395,388,1327,1298,1271,1239,
1203,989,876,749,3343,2184,1085,1074,29953,1083,1076,100,1076,100,100,100,100,
0,0,0,1061,1006,999,932,825,0,0,0,24,24,32,0,24,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]} 1. d4
Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. e3 O-O 5. Bd3 c5 6. Nf3 d5 7. cxd5 exd5 {E53:
Nimzo-Indian: Rubinstein: Main Line (4...0-0 5 Nf3 d5 6 Bd3 c5 7 0-0).} 8. dxc5
Nbd7 9. Bd2 Nxc5 10. Be2 {[#]} Bg4 $146 ({Predecessor:} 10... Bf5 11. a3 Bxc3
12. Bxc3 Nfe4 13. Bd4 Ne6 14. O-O Nxd4 15. Qxd4 Qd6 16. Rfd1 Rfd8 {1/2-1/2 (68)
Duda,J (2743)-Caruana,F (2823) Chess.com INT 2020}) 11. a3 Bxf3 12. gxf3 Bxc3
13. Bxc3 Ne6 14. O-O Rc8 15. Qa4 (15. Bb4 $14) 15... d4 $1 $11 {[%cal Rd4c3]}
16. Rad1 {[%cal Rc3d4]} Qb6 (16... b5 $11 17. Qxb5 (17. Bxb5 Qd5 $15) 17... Rb8
) 17. Bxd4 $16 (17. exd4 Nf4 $17) 17... Nxd4 18. Qxd4 Qxd4 19. Rxd4 ({Much
weaker is} 19. exd4 $6 Rc2 $11) 19... Rc2 20. Bd3 {[%cal Rd3c2]} Rxb2 21. Rc1
g6 22. Rc7 Kg7 23. Kg2 a6 24. a4 Ne8 25. Re7 Nf6 26. Bc4 b5 {[#]} 27. Rb7 $1
Rb4 28. axb5 axb5 29. Rxb5 Rxb5 30. Bxb5 {[%mdl 4096] Endgame KRB-KRN} Rc8 31.
Ra4 Rc5 {And now ...Rg5+ would win.} 32. Bc4 g5 33. h3 h6 34. Ba2 Rc7 35. Ra5
Ng8 36. h4 gxh4 37. Kh3 (37. Ra4 $16) 37... Ne7 (37... Rc2 $1 $11 {keeps the
balance.}) 38. Kxh4 Rc1 39. Kg3 Rc7 40. f4 Rc3 41. Ra7 Kf6 (41... Kf8 $16 {
was called for.} 42. Kf3 Rc5) 42. Ra6+ (42. Kg2 $18 {has better winning
chances.}) 42... Kg7 43. Kg4 Rc2 44. Ra7 (44. Kf3 $16) 44... Kf6 $2 (44... Rxf2
$14 45. e4 (45. Rxe7 Rxa2 46. e4 Rg2+ 47. Kh4 Rg1 $11) 45... Kf8) 45. Kf3 $18
Rc3 (45... Kg7 {was necessary.} 46. e4 (46. Rxe7 Rxa2 47. Kg3 Kf6 $16) 46... h5
) 46. Kg2 Rc8 $2 (46... h5 47. e4 Rc2 48. e5+ Kg7) 47. e4 Re8 48. e5+ Kg7 49.
Bb3 Rb8 $2 (49... f5 50. Rb7 Kf8) 50. Rxe7 Rxb3 {KR-KR} 51. f5 $1 Kg8 52. f3 h5
53. Kg3 $1 h4+ 54. Kxh4 Rxf3 55. Kg5 Ra3 56. Re8+ (56. Rb7 $142 Ra6 57. Rb8+
Kh7 58. Rc8 Rb6 59. Rd8 Ra6 60. Rc8 Rb6 61. Rd8) 56... Kg7 57. f6+ Kh7 {[#]}
58. Rf8 $2 (58. Re7 $1 $18 {and the rest is easy.} Kg8 59. Rd7) 58... Ra7 $16
59. Kf5 Rb7 60. Re8 ({Better is} 60. Ra8 $16) 60... Rb1 $11 61. Rf8 Rf1+ $2 {
[%mdl 8192]} (61... Rb7 $11) 62. Ke4 Re1+ {[#]} 63. Kf4 $1 Rf1+ 64. Ke4 $2 ({
White has to play} 64. Kg5 $18 Rg1+ 65. Kh4 Rh1+ 66. Kg4) 64... Re1+ $1 65. Kd5
(65. Kd3 {keeps more tension.} Kg6 66. Rg8+ Kf5 67. Rf8 Rd1+ 68. Ke3) 65... Kg6
(65... Rd1+ {seems wilder.} 66. Kc6 Kg6 67. Rg8+ Kf5 68. Rf8 Kxe5 69. Rxf7 Ke6)
66. Kd6 Ra1 67. Rd8 Kf5 68. Ke7 Kxe5 {The position is equal.} 69. Kxf7 Ra6 $1
70. Re8+ Kf5 71. Kg7 Rxf6 72. Rf8 Rxf8 73. Kxf8 Ke5 {Weighted Error Value:
White=0.38/Black=0.51} 1/2-1/2

[Event "GCT Paris Blitz 2021"]
[Site "Paris"]
[Date "2021.06.22"]
[Round "10"]
[White "Rapport, Richard"]
[Black "Nepomniachtchi, Ian"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "D38"]
[WhiteElo "2763"]
[BlackElo "2792"]
[Annotator "TA"]
[PlyCount "65"]
[EventDate "2021.06.21"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "FRA"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

{[%evp 14,65,12,22,16,10,13,13,18,16,10,12,10,10,16,0,0,0,0,0,0,-20,-11,-8,-4,
-6,-4,-4,-4,-8,-12,-12,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]} 1. Nf3 d5
2. d4 Nf6 3. c4 e6 4. Nc3 Bb4 5. Bg5 h6 6. Bxf6 Qxf6 7. Qa4+ Nc6 8. e3 {
The position is equal.} O-O {D38: Queen's Gambit Declined: Ragozin Defence (4
Nf3 Bb4).} 9. Rc1 Rd8 10. Be2 dxc4 11. Bxc4 Bxc3+ 12. bxc3 Bd7 13. Be2 {[#]}
Be8 $146 {[#] And now ...Nxd4 would win.} ({Predecessor:} 13... e5 14. Qc2 Bf5
15. Qb2 e4 16. Nd2 Na5 17. O-O c5 18. Rfd1 Rac8 19. Nf1 Bg6 {1-0 (47) Ding,L 
(2805)-Giri,A (2779) Saint Louis 2019}) 14. Qb3 Na5 15. Qa3 b6 16. O-O c5 17.
dxc5 Qe7 $1 18. Nd4 Qxc5 19. Qxc5 bxc5 20. Nb3 Nxb3 21. axb3 Rd2 22. Bc4 Rb8
23. Ra1 Bb5 24. Rxa7 Bxc4 25. bxc4 $11 {[%mdl 4096] Endgame KRR-KRR} Rb3 26.
Rc7 Rxc3 27. Rxc5 Rdc2 28. g3 Rxc4 29. Rxc4 Rxc4 30. Kh1 Kh7 31. Kg1 Kg8 32.
Kh1 Kh7 33. Kg1 {Not much happened in this game.  Weighted Error Value:
White=0.02/Black=0.01} 1/2-1/2

[Event "GCT Paris Blitz 2021"]
[Site "Paris"]
[Date "2021.06.22"]
[Round "10"]
[White "Firouzja, Alireza"]
[Black "Radjabov, Teimour"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "C28"]
[WhiteElo "2759"]
[BlackElo "2765"]
[Annotator "TA"]
[PlyCount "197"]
[EventDate "2021.06.21"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "FRA"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

{[%evp 11,197,13,16,16,17,0,8,0,15,5,19,24,24,22,30,-29,10,8,7,-37,30,24,22,0,
1,0,42,0,37,0,0,0,0,0,0,-15,0,-15,-5,-16,0,0,0,-17,0,0,0,-28,0,0,0,0,0,-2,0,0,
0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,-62,-46,-76,-57,-82,-112,-398,155,160,161,152,176,122,172,
119,148,111,174,184,233,224,227,126,181,114,295,300,312,300,440,320,457,441,
471,465,496,462,648,610,581,562,650,645,747,747,831,762,804,781,757,743,1028,
1028,1000,981,926,893,2114,2096,1925,1793,1641,1612,5887,5820,5813,5820,5813,
5813,5813,5813,5805,5805,5805,0,3863,3856,5595,5567,5485,5460,5037,4358,1881,
1247,1707,1656,2772,2483,3643,1069,5983,1737,1567,1435,29969,29970,29973,29974,
29974,29975,29977,29978,29979,29979,29979,29980,29980,29981,29980,29981,29982,
29983,29985,29985,29985,29986,29986,29986,29988,29987,29989,29990]} 1. e4 e5 2.
Nc3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Nf6 4. d3 Na5 5. Nge2 Nxc4 6. dxc4 d6 7. Ng3 {C28: Vienna Game:
2...Nf6 3 Bc4 Nc6.} Be7 8. h3 Be6 9. b3 {The position is equal.} c6 10. O-O O-O
11. Qf3 {[#]} Re8 $146 ({Predecessor:} 11... g6 12. Rd1 Ne8 13. Bh6 Ng7 14. c5
Qc7 15. cxd6 Bxd6 16. Rd3 f6 17. Rad1 Be7 {1-0 (71) Ponkratov,P (2604)
-Melkumyan,H (2622) Berlin 2015}) 12. Rd1 Qc7 13. Rd3 ({White should try} 13.
a4) 13... Rad8 14. Bg5 h6 15. Be3 a6 (15... b5 $1 $15 16. cxb5 d5) 16. a4 $11
Nd7 17. Nh5 Bf8 18. Rad1 Kh7 19. Ng3 (19. Nd5 $5 cxd5 20. cxd5 $11) 19... a5
20. Nf5 {[%cal Rf5d6]} (20. Nd5 $5 cxd5 21. cxd5 $11 (21. exd5 e4 $17)) 20...
Nc5 $1 {[%cal Rc5d3]} 21. R3d2 g6 22. Ng3 b6 23. Nf1 Bg7 24. Nh2 Qe7 25. Nf1
Rf8 26. Ng3 Bf6 27. Rb1 Bg7 28. Rbd1 Kh8 29. Nce2 Kg8 30. Nc1 Kh7 31. Nd3 Nd7
32. Nf1 f5 33. exf5 gxf5 34. Qxc6 {aiming for Ne1.} f4 35. Bxb6 {[%mdl 64]
Double Attack} Rc8 {[%cal Rc8c6]} 36. Qb5 {Black must now prevent Ne1.} Rb8 $1
{[%cal Rb8b6]} 37. c5 e4 $1 38. Ne1 (38. Nxf4 $11 Rxf4 39. Rxd6) 38... dxc5 $15
39. Rxd7 Bxd7 40. Rxd7 Qe6 41. Qxc5 {[%mdl 8192]} (41. Rc7 $17 Rxb6 42. Qxa5)
41... Rxb6 $2 (41... Qxd7 $19 42. Bxa5 Bd4) 42. Qxf8 $16 {[%csl Gf8][%cal
Rd7g7]} (42. Qxa5 Qxd7 43. Qxb6 Bc3 $19) 42... Qxd7 43. Qxf4 Qe6 44. Ne3 (44.
Nd2 $18) 44... Rd6 {[#]} 45. g4 (45. g3 $1 $18) 45... Rd7 46. N1g2 Rf7 (46...
Rd2 $16 47. Kf1 Qa6+ 48. Nc4 Rxc2) 47. Nf5 $18 Be5 48. Qe3 Bc7 49. Ngh4 (49.
Qe2 $18) 49... Bb6 (49... Rd7 $16 50. Nd4 Qe5) 50. Qf4 (50. Qe2 $18) 50... e3
$2 (50... Rd7 $16 {was worth a try.}) 51. fxe3 Rd7 52. Nf3 Qc6 (52... Bc7 $142
53. N3d4 Bxf4 54. Nxe6 Rd1+ 55. Kf2 Be5) 53. c4 Qe6 (53... Rd1+ {was necessary.
} 54. Kf2 Bc7) 54. Kg2 Bc7 {[#]} 55. N3d4 $1 {[%mdl 512]} Qf6 (55... Bxf4 56.
Nxe6) 56. Qe4 Qe5 (56... Rd8 $142 57. Ne7+ Kh8) 57. Qxe5 Bxe5 {[%mdl 4096]
Endgame KRB-KNN} 58. Kf3 Kg6 59. Ke4 Bb8 60. c5 Rb7 61. Nb5 h5 62. c6 Rh7 63.
gxh5+ Rxh5 64. Ne7+ (64. c7 Bxc7 65. Nxc7 Rxf5 $11) 64... Kf7 65. Nd5 ({
Weaker is} 65. c7 Bxc7 66. Nf5 (66. Nxc7 Kxe7 67. Nd5+ Kd6 $11) 66... Bd8 $11)
65... Rh4+ 66. Kd3 Ke6 {[#]} 67. c7 $1 Bxc7 68. Ndxc7+ Ke5 69. Nd4 Rxh3 70.
Ncb5 Kd5 71. Na3 Kc5 72. Nc4 Kb4 73. Ne5 Kc5 74. Nec6 Kb6 75. Ne5 Kc5 76. Ng6
Rh1 77. Nf4 Rh8 78. Ke4 Re8+ 79. Nfe6+ Kd6 80. Kd3 Rh8 81. Ng5 Kc5 82. Ne4+ Kb4
83. Nd2 Rh3 84. Nc6+ Kc5 85. Nxa5 Kb4 86. Nc6+ {White mates.} Kc5 87. Nd4 Kb4
88. Nc2+ Kc5 89. b4+ Kd5 90. Ne4 Rh1 91. Nc3+ Kc6 92. Nd4+ Kd6 93. a5 {[%cal
Ba4a5,Ba5a6,Ba6a7][%mdl 32]} Ra1 94. Kc4 Re1 95. a6 Kc7 96. b5 Ra1 97. e4 Kd6
98. Nc2 Rc1 {[#]} 99. a7 $1 {Weighted Error Value: White=0.29/Black=0.37} 1-0

[Event "GCT Paris Blitz 2021"]
[Site "Paris"]
[Date "2021.06.22"]
[Round "10"]
[White "Kramnik, Vladimir"]
[Black "Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "B86"]
[BlackElo "2760"]
[Annotator "TA"]
[PlyCount "72"]
[EventDate "2021.06.21"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "FRA"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

{[%evp 17,72,0,0,0,0,0,0,-5,27,0,50,56,53,22,15,35,13,-1,6,25,35,51,82,-38,42,
-58,16,1,-4,-114,-121,-115,-108,-225,-233,-202,-219,-207,-209,-242,-243,-236,
-243,-479,-483,-458,-455,-800,-793,-783,-782,-11933,-6299,-6616,-5625,-2089,
-1776]} 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 a6 6. Bc4 e6 7. Be3
Be7 8. Bb3 b5 9. a3 {is more profitable than 9.f3 at the moment.} O-O 10. f3 {
B86: Sicilian Scheveningen/Najdorf: 6 Bc4, without early ...b5.} Bb7 11. Qe2
Nc6 12. O-O-O {The position is equal.} Rc8 {[#]} 13. Kb1 $146 ({Predecessor:} 
13. g4 Na5 14. Kb1 Nc4 15. Bxc4 Rxc4 16. h4 d5 17. e5 Nd7 18. Bc1 Qb6 19. Qe3
Nxe5 {0-1 (29) Koniahli,M (1875)-Patrascu,C (2033) Al Ain 2013}) 13... Nxd4 14.
Bxd4 Qa5 15. Qe1 Qc7 16. h4 Bc6 17. h5 a5 {[%cal Ba6a5,Ba5a4][%mdl 32]} 18. e5
{Hoping for h6.} dxe5 19. Bxe5 Qb7 20. Ne2 ({White has to play} 20. h6 $16 g6
21. Qh4) 20... Nd7 ({Black should try} 20... h6 $15) 21. Bd4 (21. Bd6 $14 Bxd6
22. Rxd6) 21... e5 (21... h6 $15) 22. Ng3 {Threatens to win with Bc3.} a4 23.
Nf5 Bf6 $36 {[%mdl 2048] White is under strong pressure.} 24. Bxf7+ Rxf7 25.
Bc3 (25. Nd6 $17 Qb8 26. Nxf7 Kxf7 27. Bc3) 25... Be7 $19 26. Nxe7+ Rxe7 27. h6
g6 28. Rd6 Nb6 29. Qg3 {[#]} Be8 30. Rhd1 $2 (30. Qg5 Nc4 31. Rd3) 30... Nc4 {
Black is clearly winning.} 31. Rd8 {[#]} Nxa3+ $1 {[%mdl 512]} 32. Kc1 {[#]} (
32. bxa3 $142 Rxc3 33. Qh4) 32... b4 $1 {[%cal Bb5b4,Bb4c3,Bc3b2][%mdl 32]} 33.
Rxc8 Qxc8 34. Qg5 bxc3 35. Qxe7 cxb2+ 36. Kd2 Qd7+ {Weighted Error Value:
White=0.76/Black=0.12} 0-1

[Event "GCT Paris Blitz 2021"]
[Site "Paris"]
[Date "2021.06.22"]
[Round "11"]
[White "Caruana, Fabiano"]
[Black "Nepomniachtchi, Ian"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "D38"]
[WhiteElo "2820"]
[BlackElo "2792"]
[Annotator "TA"]
[PlyCount "89"]
[EventDate "2021.06.21"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "FRA"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

{[%evp 10,89,15,9,46,0,-1,1,12,12,25,16,16,0,13,10,18,29,45,54,37,39,41,39,28,
11,23,8,26,16,19,-5,0,0,-4,-4,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,12,8,116,121,120,0,129,17,16,13,
12,12,18,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,8,0,0,0]} 1. d4 Nf6 2. Nf3
e6 3. c4 d5 4. Nc3 Bb4 5. Qb3 c5 6. dxc5 Nc6 {aiming for ...d4. D38: Queen's
Gambit Declined: Ragozin Defence (4 Nf3 Bb4).} 7. e3 O-O 8. Be2 dxc4 9. Qxc4
Qe7 10. a3 Bxc5 11. O-O {[#]} a6 $146 ({Predecessor:} 11... a5 12. e4 Ng4 13.
Bf4 f6 14. Rac1 Ba7 15. Nb5 Bb8 16. Bxb8 Rxb8 {1-0 (45) Jerez Perez,A (2434)
-Glavina,P (2458) Sanxenxo 2004}) 12. b4 Ba7 13. Bb2 Bd7 14. Qh4 h6 15. Rfd1
Rad8 16. b5 axb5 17. Nxb5 Bc5 18. Rac1 {Threatens to win with Bxf6.} e5 19. h3
Bf5 20. g4 Bg6 21. g5 hxg5 22. Qxg5 {[%cal Rf3e5]} ({Don't play} 22. Nxg5 Ne4
$1 $15) 22... Rxd1+ 23. Rxd1 {[%cal Rb2e5]} Qe6 {Strongly threatening ...Ne4.}
24. Nxe5 Nxe5 25. Bxe5 Ne4 26. Qf4 Re8 27. Bd4 {[%cal Rd4c5]} Bxd4 (27... Qxh3
$11 28. Bxc5 Nxc5) 28. Rxd4 $16 {Nc7 is the strong threat.} Qxh3 {[#]} 29. Bg4
({White must play} 29. Nc7 $1 $16 {[%cal Rc7e8]} Rf8 30. Rxe4 Bxe4 31. Qxe4)
29... Qh6 {[#]} (29... Qh4 $11) 30. Qxh6 (30. Nc7 $1 $16 Rb8 31. Rxe4 Bxe4 32.
Qxe4) 30... gxh6 $11 {The position is equal.} 31. Bf3 Re5 32. a4 Kg7 33. Nd6
Nxd6 34. Rxd6 {[%mdl 4096] Endgame KRB-KRB} Ra5 (34... Be4 {seems wilder.} 35.
Bxe4 Rxe4 36. Rb6 Rg4+ 37. Kf1 Rxa4 38. Rxb7 h5) 35. Rd4 (35. Bd1 {feels
hotter.} Be4 36. Kh2 Bc6 37. Rd4 Kf6 38. Rf4+) 35... b5 36. axb5 Rxb5 37. Rd5
Rxd5 38. Bxd5 {KB-KB} Kf6 39. f4 Kg7 40. Kf2 Bb1 41. Kg3 f6 42. Bg2 Bc2 43. Bh1
Bb1 44. Bg2 Bc2 45. Bh1 {Weighted Error Value: White=0.17/Black=0.17} 1/2-1/2

[Event "GCT Paris Blitz 2021"]
[Site "Paris"]
[Date "2021.06.22"]
[Round "11"]
[White "Aronian, Levon"]
[Black "Rapport, Richard"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "D00"]
[WhiteElo "2781"]
[BlackElo "2763"]
[Annotator "TA"]
[PlyCount "99"]
[EventDate "2021.06.21"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "FRA"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

{[%evp 9,99,0,40,40,43,36,33,23,41,12,6,0,53,39,54,37,49,27,58,15,42,0,38,32,
43,33,39,37,60,60,64,64,67,68,68,63,78,19,24,27,59,52,68,64,67,73,68,70,213,
221,418,426,426,416,394,387,402,304,541,529,506,496,865,865,904,1016,924,890,
1555,1336,2619,2671,12797,6129,6618,9439,6195,5517,29975,29977,29975,29976,
29974,29976,29974,29973,29981,29983,29983,29984,29992,29993]} 1. d4 Nf6 2. Nf3
g6 3. Nc3 d5 4. Bf4 c6 5. e3 Bg4 6. h3 {D00: 1 d4 d5: Unusual lines.} Bxf3 7.
Qxf3 Nbd7 {[#]} 8. g4 $146 {White is slightly better.} ({Predecessor:} 8. Bd3
Qb6 9. O-O-O e6 10. g4 Bb4 11. Ne2 Qa5 12. Kb1 Be7 13. h4 c5 14. c3 {1-0 (93)
Alekseenko,K (2696)-Matinian,N (2475) Chess.com INT 2020}) 8... e6 9. Bd3 Bb4
10. O-O h5 (10... O-O $11) 11. g5 $14 Ng8 12. Ne2 Ne7 13. c4 Ba5 14. Qg3 Rc8
15. b4 Bc7 16. Bxc7 Rxc7 17. c5 Nf5 18. Bxf5 h4 19. Qd6 {[#] Strongly
threatening Bg4.} gxf5 20. Kh1 Nf8 21. Qxd8+ Kxd8 22. f4 Kd7 23. b5 (23. Kg2
$16) 23... b6 24. a4 {[%cal Ba2a4,Ba4a5,Ba5b6][%mdl 32]} Ng6 25. Kg2 Rb8 26.
Rfb1 Ne7 27. Kf3 Kc8 28. Nc3 Kd7 {[#] This move loses the game for Black.} (
28... bxc5 $14 29. dxc5 cxb5) 29. a5 $1 $18 bxc5 $2 (29... Nc8 30. bxc6+ Rxc6)
30. b6 axb6 31. axb6 Rcb7 32. dxc5 e5 33. Ra7 exf4 $2 (33... Ng6 34. Ne2 Kc8)
34. exf4 Kc8 35. Rba1 Kd7 (35... d4 $142 36. Ne2 Rxa7 37. Rxa7 Rb7 38. Ra8+ Rb8
) 36. Ne2 Nc8 37. Rxb7+ Rxb7 {[%mdl 4096] Endgame KRN-KRN} 38. Nd4 Ne7 39. Ra8
Ng6 40. Ra7 Kc8 41. Rxb7 Kxb7 42. Nxf5 {KN-KN} Ka6 43. Nd6 d4 44. f5 {White
mates.} Ne5+ 45. Ke4 d3 46. Ke3 d2 47. Ke2 Nf3 48. g6 fxg6 49. fxg6 Ng1+ 50.
Kxd2 {Weighted Error Value: White=0.09/Black=0.48} 1-0

[Event "GCT Paris Blitz 2021"]
[Site "Paris"]
[Date "2021.06.22"]
[Round "11"]
[White "Radjabov, Teimour"]
[Black "So, Wesley"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "C67"]
[WhiteElo "2765"]
[BlackElo "2770"]
[Annotator "TA"]
[PlyCount "29"]
[EventDate "2021.06.21"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "FRA"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

{[%evp 27,29,0,0,0]} 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 Nf6 4. O-O Nxe4 5. d4 Nd6 6.
dxe5 Nxb5 7. a4 Nbd4 8. Nxd4 Nxd4 9. Qxd4 d5 10. exd6 Qxd6 11. Qe4+ Qe6 12. Qd4
Qd6 13. Qe4+ Qe6 14. Qd4 Qd6 {[#]} 15. Qe4+ $146 {A rather calm draw. C67: Ruy
Lopez: Berlin Defence: 4 0-0 Nxe4.} ({Predecessor:} 15. Qe3+ Be7 16. Nc3 c6 17.
Ne4 Qg6 18. Nc5 Qd6 19. Re1 b6 20. Ne4 Qe5 21. a5 bxa5 22. Rxa5 Qc7 23. Rg5 Kf8
24. Rxg7 h6 25. Qd4 Be6 26. Rg6 fxg6 27. Qxh8+ {1-0 (25) Abdusattorov,N (2627)
-Nakamura,H (2736) Chess.com INT 2021}) 1/2-1/2

[Event "GCT Paris Blitz 2021"]
[Site "Paris"]
[Date "2021.06.22"]
[Round "11"]
[White "Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime"]
[Black "Firouzja, Alireza"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "B22"]
[WhiteElo "2760"]
[BlackElo "2759"]
[Annotator "TA"]
[PlyCount "145"]
[EventDate "2021.06.21"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "FRA"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

{[%evp 16,145,38,38,39,0,0,1,0,-16,-16,-20,-19,-20,-18,-114,-106,-101,-145,
-117,-92,-109,-87,-167,0,0,142,142,126,71,96,100,216,211,218,136,132,134,161,
138,246,246,246,246,246,246,246,246,246,246,246,246,246,246,245,245,227,215,
208,207,207,208,208,208,208,208,208,208,208,208,208,208,208,185,189,184,186,
147,191,140,147,149,185,160,235,126,387,387,373,383,346,296,12835,12835,12836,
12836,12837,12837,12837,12837,12837,12837,12840,12840,12841,12841,12842,12843,
12849,12850,12850,12850,27999,27999,27999,27999,27999,27998,27999,27999,27999,
27995,27996,27996,27999,27999,27996,27996,27997,27996,27997,27997]} 1. e4 c5 2.
Nf3 Nc6 3. c3 Nf6 4. e5 Nd5 5. Bc4 Nb6 6. Bb3 c4 7. Bc2 d5 {7...d6 is a
critical line.} 8. exd6 Qxd6 9. O-O g6 {B22: Sicilian: 2 c3.} 10. a4 $5 {
[%mdl 4] Exploring less charted territory.} Bg7 11. a5 Nd5 {[#] The position
is equal.} 12. d3 $146 ({Predecessor:} 12. a6 b5 13. Na3 Rb8 14. d3 cxd3 15.
Bxd3 Bxa6 16. Qe2 Qc5 17. Nc2 Bc8 18. Ncd4 Nxd4 19. cxd4 {0-1 (49) Sanal,V 
(2571)-Zhigalko,S (2572) Chess.com INT 2021}) 12... cxd3 13. Bxd3 O-O 14. Be4
Rd8 15. Na3 (15. Qa4 $11) 15... Nxc3 $1 $17 {[%mdl 64] Double Attack,
Discovered Attack} 16. Qxd6 Ne2+ 17. Kh1 Rxd6 18. Nb5 Rd8 19. a6 (19. Bg5 $17)
19... Rb8 $2 (19... f5 $19 20. axb7 Bxb7 21. Bxc6 Bxc6) 20. Be3 $11 Ned4 (20...
Bf5 $11 {remains equal.} 21. Bxc6 bxc6 22. Nxa7 Be4) 21. Nbxd4 $16 Nxd4 22. Bf4
(22. Rfd1 $142) 22... e5 23. Nxe5 Bf5 (23... f5 $16 {was necessary.}) 24. Bxf5
$18 Nxf5 25. Nc4 b5 26. Bxb8 Rxb8 27. Na5 {aiming for Nc6.} Bxb2 (27... Rb6 $16
) 28. Nc6 Rb6 29. Nxa7 Bxa1 30. Rxa1 {[%mdl 4096] Endgame KRN-KRN} Nd6 {[#]}
31. Nc6 {[%mdl 512]} Rxc6 {KRN-KR} 32. a7 Rc8 {...Ra8 is the strong threat.}
33. a8=Q Rxa8 34. Rxa8+ {KR-KN} Kg7 35. Rd8 Nc4 36. Rd5 Na3 37. Kg1 Kf6 38. Kf1
Ke6 39. Rd3 Nc4 40. Rd8 h5 41. Rb8 Nd6 42. Ke2 Kd5 43. Kd3 Kc5 44. f3 Kd5 45.
Ra8 Ke5 46. Ra1 Kd5 47. Re1 (47. g3 $18) 47... Nc4 48. Re7 Kd6 49. Ra7 Ne5+ (
49... Kd5 $16 50. Kc3 Nd6) 50. Kc3 ({Better is} 50. Ke4 $18) 50... Ke6 $2 {
[%mdl 8192] Loses the game.} (50... g5 $16 51. Ra8 h4) 51. Rb7 Nc4 52. Rxb5 Ne3
53. g3 h4 $2 (53... Nf5 54. Ra5 Nd6) 54. gxh4 Nf5 55. h5 gxh5 56. Kd3 Kf6 57.
Ra5 Kg6 58. Ke4 Nd6+ 59. Kf4 f6 60. Rc5 Ne8 61. Rc1 Ng7 62. Rg1+ Kf7 {[#]} 63.
Rxg7+ $1 {[%mdl 512]} Kxg7 {KPP-KPP} 64. Kf5 {White mates.} h4 65. Kg4 Kg6 66.
Kxh4 {KPP-KP} Kf5 67. Kg3 Kg5 68. h4+ Kf5 69. Kg2 Ke5 70. h5 Kf5 {[#]} 71. f4
$1 Ke6 72. Kf3 ({Weaker is} 72. h6 Kf7 $11) 72... f5 73. Ke3 {Weighted Error
Value: White=0.17/Black=0.29} ({Inferior is} 73. h6 Kf6 $11) 1-0

[Event "GCT Paris Blitz 2021"]
[Site "Paris"]
[Date "2021.06.22"]
[Round "11"]
[White "Svidler, Peter"]
[Black "Kramnik, Vladimir"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "A37"]
[WhiteElo "2714"]
[BlackElo "2753"]
[Annotator "TA"]
[PlyCount "100"]
[EventDate "2021.06.21"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "FRA"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

{[%evp 11,100,-1,12,8,8,8,11,0,0,-4,0,-8,0,-3,8,-4,8,-8,8,10,36,36,22,18,20,20,
55,54,58,4,27,0,0,0,2,0,0,0,0,0,14,4,4,8,10,9,4,0,28,4,21,0,0,0,0,0,152,0,10,6,
2,0,0,0,0,-11,0,0,0,0,0,0,206,212,211,100,1397,1008,6821,5089,29975,29974,
29976,29976,29976,29978,29978,29974,29984,29984,29986]} 1. c4 c5 2. g3 g6 3.
Bg2 Bg7 4. Nc3 Nc6 5. Nf3 d6 6. O-O Bf5 {6...Bf5 is the recent fashion.} 7. d3
{A37: Symmetrical English vs ...g6: 4 Bg2 Bg7 5 Nf3.} Qd7 8. Bd2 Nf6 9. Rb1 {
The position is equal.} Bh3 10. a3 Bxg2 11. Kxg2 O-O 12. b4 b6 13. h3 Rac8 {[#]
} 14. e4 $146 ({Predecessor:} 14. Qb3 e6 15. Rfc1 h6 16. Nb5 Ne8 17. Bc3 e5 18.
Ba1 f5 19. e3 Qf7 20. Rc2 {0-1 (39) Loew,G (2206)-Brueggemann,J (2304) Germany
2015}) 14... Ne8 15. b5 Nd8 16. a4 f5 17. Qe2 Bxc3 18. Bxc3 e5 19. exf5 $1 gxf5
20. Nd2 (20. a5 $14) 20... f4 21. Qg4+ Qxg4 22. hxg4 Ne6 23. f3 fxg3 24. Kxg3
Nf4 25. Ne4 Nf6 (25... Nxd3 $6 26. Rbd1 $16) 26. Bd2 d5 27. Nxf6+ Rxf6 28. Bxf4
exf4+ $11 {[%mdl 4096] Endgame KRR-KRR} 29. Kh4 Rd8 30. Rbe1 Kf7 31. Re5 dxc4
32. dxc4 Rd2 {( -> ...Rh2+)} 33. g5 Re6 {[#]} ({Black should play} 33... Rh2+
$11 34. Kg4 h5+ 35. gxh6 Rg2+ 36. Kh5 Rh2+ 37. Kg5 Rg2+ 38. Kh5 Rh2+ 39. Kg5
Rg2+ 40. Kh5) 34. Rfe1 ({White has to play} 34. Rxe6 $1 $16 Kxe6 35. Kg4) 34...
Rxe5 35. Rxe5 {KR-KR} Rd4 $1 36. Kh5 Rxc4 37. Kh6 Rc1 {[%cal Rc1h1]} (37...
Rxa4 38. Kxh7 Ra2 39. Rf5+ Ke6 40. Rxf4 $18) 38. Rf5+ $1 Ke6 39. Rxf4 c4 {
...c3 is the strong threat.} 40. Kxh7 c3 41. Rc4 {Threatens to win with g6.} c2
$2 (41... Kd5 $1 $11 42. Rc8 Kd4) 42. Kg6 $18 Kd5 43. Rc8 {aiming for Kf5.} Kd4
$2 {[%mdl 8192] [#] A mistake that costs the game.} (43... Ke5 $16 44. Rc6 Kf4)
44. f4 $1 Kd3 45. f5 Rf1 46. f6 {White mates.} c1=Q 47. Rxc1 Rxc1 48. f7 Rc8
49. Kf6 Ke4 50. g6 Kd5 {Weighted Error Value: White=0.12/Black=0.30} 1-0

[Event "GCT Paris Blitz 2021"]
[Site "Paris"]
[Date "2021.06.22"]
[Round "12"]
[White "Nepomniachtchi, Ian"]
[Black "Radjabov, Teimour"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "A08"]
[WhiteElo "2792"]
[BlackElo "2765"]
[Annotator "TA"]
[PlyCount "132"]
[EventDate "2021.06.21"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "FRA"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

{[%evp 15,132,-7,-19,-22,-26,-20,0,-9,-27,-21,0,-3,0,0,63,-2,28,18,22,29,33,30,
33,10,0,0,42,42,41,42,42,42,42,42,42,0,42,42,42,42,42,42,42,42,42,42,73,57,57,
60,65,64,65,63,64,55,60,0,64,64,65,42,52,43,57,40,56,21,57,20,20,20,20,20,20,
20,22,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,-7,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,8,8,8,8,8,-8,-8,-8,-8,
-8,-8,-8,-8,-8,0,0,0]} 1. b3 d5 2. Bb2 c5 3. d3 Nc6 4. Nf3 Nf6 5. Nbd2 d4 6. g3
e5 7. Bg2 Bd6 8. O-O O-O 9. c3 {A08: King's Indian Attack.} Re8 10. Rc1 h6 {[#]
} 11. a3 $146 ({Predecessor:} 11. Nc4 Bc7 12. Nfd2 Bg4 13. Bxc6 bxc6 14. f3 Bh3
15. Rf2 Nd5 16. Ne4 Bb6 17. g4 {1/2-1/2 (65) Ipatov,A (2613)-Najer,E (2653)
Dubai 2014}) 11... Bg4 12. Re1 Qd7 13. Nc4 Bf8 14. b4 $1 cxb4 (14... Bxf3 $11
15. Bxf3 dxc3 16. Bxc3 cxb4 17. axb4 Nd5 18. Bxd5 Qxd5) 15. axb4 (15. cxb4 $14
Bxf3 16. Bxf3) 15... dxc3 (15... Bxf3 $5 16. Bxf3 dxc3 17. Bxc3 Nd5 $11) 16.
Bxc3 {[%cal Rf3e5]} e4 17. Nfe5 Nxe5 18. Nxe5 Qf5 19. f3 (19. Nxg4 {keeps more
tension.} Nxg4 20. Bd4 e3 21. f3 Nf2 22. Qa4) 19... Rxe5 20. dxe4 Qe6 (20...
Nxe4 {is interesting.} 21. fxe4 Rxe4 22. Rf1 Qg5 23. Bd2 Qd5) 21. Bxe5 Qxe5 22.
fxg4 Bxb4 23. Rf1 Bc5+ 24. Kh1 {And now Rf5 would win.} Nxg4 25. Qb3 ({Much
weaker is} 25. Qd5 Qxd5 26. exd5 Nf2+ 27. Rxf2 Bxf2 $15) (25. Qd7 $5 {[%cal
Rd7g4]} Nf2+ {[#]} 26. Rxf2 $1 Bxf2 27. Rf1 $14) 25... Nf2+ {[#]} (25... Qh5 {
with more complications.} 26. h3 Nf2+ 27. Kh2 Ng4+ 28. Kh1) 26. Rxf2 $1 Bxf2
27. Rf1 Bc5 28. Qxf7+ Kh8 29. Qxb7 Re8 30. Bf3 a5 31. Qc6 Bb4 32. Rd1 Qe6 33.
Qb5 Qe5 34. Rd5 Qb8 35. Qd7 Qc8 36. Qb5 Qb8 $1 37. Qa4 Re5 38. Rd3 Kh7 39. Kg2
Qe8 40. Qb3 (40. Qd1 {seems wilder.} Qe6 41. Rd8 h5 42. Qa1 Qe7 43. Ra8) 40...
h5 41. Rd5 g6 42. Qd3 Rxd5 {The position is equal.} 43. exd5 Qe5 44. Be4 Qf6
45. Qb5 Kg7 46. Qd7+ (46. Bc2 {looks sharper.} h4 47. Qd7+ Be7 48. gxh4 Qxh4
49. Kf3) 46... Qe7 47. Qxe7+ Bxe7 $11 {[%mdl 4096] Endgame KB-KB} 48. Bc2 Kf6
49. Kf3 g5 50. h4 gxh4 51. gxh4 Ke5 52. Kg3 Kxd5 53. Bg6 a4 {[%cal Ba5a4,Ba4a3]
[%mdl 32]} 54. Bxh5 a3 55. Bf7+ Ke4 56. h5 Ke3 57. h6 Bf6 58. Bc4 a2 59. Bxa2
Kxe2 60. h7 (60. Kg4 {is more complex.} Bb2 61. h7 Ke3 62. Kf5 Bc3 63. Ke6)
60... Ba1 61. h8=N (61. Bc4+ {feels hotter.} Ke3 62. Be6 Bb2 63. Kg2 Be5 64.
Kf1) 61... Be5+ 62. Kg4 Bxh8 63. Bc4+ Ke3 64. Bd3 Be5 65. Kf5 Kd2 66. Kxe5 Kxd3
{Weighted Error Value: White=0.09/Black=0.08} 1/2-1/2

[Event "GCT Paris Blitz 2021"]
[Site "Paris"]
[Date "2021.06.22"]
[Round "12"]
[White "So, Wesley"]
[Black "Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "A33"]
[WhiteElo "2770"]
[BlackElo "2760"]
[Annotator "TA"]
[PlyCount "121"]
[EventDate "2021.06.21"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "FRA"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

{[%evp 20,121,34,33,26,37,41,28,42,48,64,0,0,0,0,0,0,-80,2,0,0,0,88,89,107,107,
133,134,145,147,137,133,221,212,204,188,290,292,275,295,273,266,286,15,18,17,
52,8,8,13,13,7,25,4,65,78,83,85,77,50,62,58,69,29,30,29,33,39,347,365,380,371,
365,333,445,423,522,468,455,451,552,529,1686,704,1677,1326,1063,868,879,859,
775,673,1241,1438,12833,2184,12842,12843,12843,12843,12844,12843,12842,12843]} 
1. Nf3 c5 2. c4 Nf6 3. Nc3 Nc6 4. d4 cxd4 5. Nxd4 e6 6. a3 Bc5 7. Nb3 Be7 8. e4
O-O 9. Be2 b6 10. O-O Bb7 11. Be3 Rc8 {A33: Symmetrical English: 2 Nf3 Nf6 3
d4 cxd4 4 Nxd4 e6 5 Nc3 Nc6.} 12. f4 d6 13. Rc1 {was the old line (13.Bf3).}
Qc7 {White has an edge.} 14. Bf3 Rfd8 {[#]} 15. Nd5 $146 ({Predecessor:} 15.
Qe2 Qb8 16. Rfd1 Bf8 17. Bf2 Ne7 18. Nd2 Ng6 19. g3 Qa8 20. Re1 d5 21. cxd5
exd5 {1-0 (44) Andersson,U (2541)-Steel,H (2175) Gibraltar 2007}) 15... exd5
$11 16. cxd5 Qd7 {Hoping for ...Na5.} 17. dxc6 Bxc6 18. Qd4 (18. Nd2 $11 {
keeps the balance.}) 18... d5 (18... Qb7 $1 $17) 19. e5 Ne4 20. Rfd1 Qe6 (20...
Nc5 $11 21. Nxc5 Bxc5 22. Rxc5 bxc5 23. Qxc5 a6) 21. h3 f5 22. Qd3 $1 Bb7 23.
Nd4 Qf7 24. Rxc8 $1 Rxc8 25. g4 g6 (25... fxg4 $16 26. Bxg4 (26. hxg4 Nc5 $16)
26... Qg6) 26. gxf5 $1 $18 gxf5 27. Kh2 $1 Kh8 (27... Kf8 {was necessary.} 28.
Rg1 Bc5) 28. Rg1 Rg8 {[#]} 29. Rxg8+ Kxg8 30. Qb5 Bc5 {[#]} 31. b4 $2 (31. e6
$1 $18 {[%cal Re6f7]} Qe7 32. Qd7) 31... Bxd4 $11 32. Bxd4 Kf8 33. Qe2 Qg6 {
next ...Qg3+ is good for Black.} 34. Qe1 Qh6 35. Qc1 Qg7 {( -> ...Qg3+)} 36.
Qg1 (36. Bxe4 {looks sharper.} dxe4 37. Be3 Qd7 38. a4 Qc6 39. Qa3) 36... Qxg1+
(36... Qh6 $11 37. Qe3 Ba6) 37. Kxg1 {[%mdl 4096] Endgame KBB-KBN} Bc6 38. Be2
Ba4 39. Kg2 Ke7 40. Bd3 Ke6 41. Kf3 Nd2+ $1 42. Kg3 Nc4 43. Kh4 {And now Kg5
would win.} Be8 $2 {[%mdl 8192] Black cannot hold the game after this.} ({
Black should try} 43... Nxa3 $14 44. Kg5 Bc2) 44. Kg5 $18 Bg6 45. a4 {[%cal
Ba3a4,Ba4a5][%mdl 32]} Nd2 {Strongly threatening ...Nf3+.} 46. Kh6 Nf3 47. Bf2
{White is clearly winning.} Nd2 48. h4 Ne4 49. Be3 Nc3 50. a5 Na2 51. h5 (51.
axb6 $142 axb6 52. Bd2) 51... Be8 52. axb6 axb6 53. Kg5 h6+ 54. Kxh6 Nxb4 55.
Be2 b5 56. Kg7 Bxh5 57. Bxh5 Nc2 58. Bf7+ Kd7 59. e6+ Kd6 {[#]} 60. Bc5+ $1 {
[%mdl 576] Deflection, Promotion} Kxc5 61. e7 {Weighted Error Value: White=0.
21/Black=0.44} 1-0

[Event "GCT Paris Blitz 2021"]
[Site "Paris"]
[Date "2021.06.22"]
[Round "12"]
[White "Rapport, Richard"]
[Black "Caruana, Fabiano"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "C00"]
[WhiteElo "2763"]
[BlackElo "2820"]
[Annotator "TA"]
[PlyCount "123"]
[EventDate "2021.06.21"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "FRA"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

{[%evp 17,123,-12,38,16,22,21,51,32,48,59,53,53,46,46,46,46,52,47,44,45,100,
108,106,95,77,84,89,22,81,42,104,87,106,55,83,23,121,113,202,125,192,188,969,
912,698,0,0,-58,0,0,0,0,0,-64,-52,-58,0,-59,-21,-21,-21,-21,-21,-21,-21,-16,8,
-34,0,-25,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,54,54,58,0,0,0,0,-182,-175,-170,-136,-68,
-64,-125,-123,-119,-122,-125,-40,-76,29976,29977,29974,11364]} 1. Nf3 d5 2. g3
c5 3. Bg2 Nf6 4. O-O e6 5. d3 Nc6 6. Nbd2 Be7 7. e4 O-O 8. Re1 Qc7 9. c3 b5 10.
exd5 {C00: French: Unusual White 2nd moves.} exd5 11. Nb3 {[#]} Be6 $146 ({
Predecessor:} 11... h6 12. Bf4 Qb6 13. Ne5 Nxe5 14. Bxe5 Be6 15. d4 c4 16. Nc5
Rfe8 17. Bxf6 Bxf6 {1-0 (47) Nakamura,H (3135)-Roberson,P (2640) Chess.com INT
2020}) 12. Be3 {White is slightly better.} Nd7 13. Ng5 Bxg5 14. Bxg5 Rfe8 15.
d4 c4 16. Nc5 Nxc5 17. dxc5 Qd7 18. b4 d4 (18... a5 $14) 19. a4 $16 a6 {[#]}
20. Qf3 {[%cal Rf3c6]} Rac8 21. axb5 axb5 22. h4 (22. Bd2 $16) 22... d3 (22...
dxc3 $1 $11 23. Qxc3 Bg4) 23. Ra6 {[%cal Ra6c6]} h6 24. Bd2 $36 {[%cal Ra6c6]
[%mdl 2048] White is in control.} ({Don't play} 24. Rxc6 $6 hxg5 25. Rd6 Qe7
$11) 24... Ne7 25. Rd6 ({White should play} 25. Qb7 $16) 25... Qa7 $1 $14 26.
h5 (26. Qh5 $16) 26... Qa2 (26... Rcd8 $1 $11 {keeps the balance.}) 27. Qf4 $16
Rcd8 (27... Nf5 $16 {is a better defense.}) 28. Bf3 Rf8 (28... Rxd6 $16 {
keeps fighting.} 29. cxd6 Nf5) 29. g4 $18 Nd5 $2 (29... Qa7 30. Rxd8 Rxd8) 30.
Bxd5 Bxd5 31. Kh2 $2 ({Only move:} 31. g5 $18 Qa7 32. gxh6) 31... Qa8 32. Kg3 (
32. g5 $11 hxg5 33. Qxg5) 32... Be6 ({Black should try} 32... Rxd6 $15 33. cxd6
Qc6) 33. f3 Rxd6 34. cxd6 Rd8 35. Be3 (35. g5 $11 Qa6 36. gxh6 Qxd6 37. hxg7
Qxf4+ 38. Kxf4) 35... Qc6 36. Bc5 Ra8 (36... Re8 $1 $15) 37. Qe5 (37. Re5 $11)
37... Qd5 (37... Bd7 {keeps more tension.} 38. Bd4 f6 39. Qc5 Re8 40. Qxc6 Bxc6
41. Rxe8+ Bxe8 42. Be3 Kf7) 38. Qxd5 Bxd5 $11 {[%mdl 4096] Endgame KRB-KRB} 39.
f4 Bc6 40. f5 $1 f6 41. Kf4 Re8 42. Ra1 Rd8 43. Ra2 Kf7 44. Ra7+ Rd7 {Strongly
threatening ...Rxa7.} 45. Ra6 Bb7 46. Ra2 Rd8 47. Ra7 Rd7 48. Ra1 Rd8 (48...
Bc6 {is interesting.} 49. Ke3 Bd5 50. Ra6 Rb7 51. Ra1 Rd7) 49. Kg3 Bc6 50. Kf2
Rd7 (50... Ke8 $1 $11) 51. Ra6 $1 $14 {[%cal Ra6c6]} Be4 52. Ke3 (52. Rb6 $14)
52... Bg2 $1 $11 53. Ra2 Bd5 54. Kd2 $2 (54. Ra1 $11) 54... Bf3 $19 55. Ra5
Bxg4 56. Rxb5 Bxf5 57. Ra5 (57. Be3 $15 Ke6 58. Rc5) 57... Bg4 $17 58. b5 {
[%cal Bb4b5,Bb5b6][%mdl 32]} Bxh5 59. Ke3 Bg4 (59... Ke6 $17 {Threatens to win
with ...f5.} 60. b6 f5) 60. b6 $1 $15 {Hoping for Ra7.} Bh3 $2 {[%mdl 8192] [#]
} (60... Rd8 $17 61. Ra7+ Bd7) 61. Ra7 Ke6 62. Rxd7 {What a fight!  Weighted
Error Value: White=0.29/Black=0.36} 1-0

[Event "GCT Paris Blitz 2021"]
[Site "Paris"]
[Date "2021.06.22"]
[Round "12"]
[White "Firouzja, Alireza"]
[Black "Svidler, Peter"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "C28"]
[WhiteElo "2759"]
[BlackElo "2714"]
[Annotator "TA"]
[PlyCount "69"]
[EventDate "2021.06.21"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "FRA"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

{[%evp 18,69,8,0,6,16,7,0,19,0,33,26,50,32,44,36,36,43,85,74,75,57,100,101,133,
135,139,133,133,133,136,145,150,139,174,181,210,210,260,255,257,268,405,400,
449,441,450,451,520,503,509,507,506,508]} 1. e4 e5 2. Nc3 Nf6 3. Bc4 Nc6 4. d3
Bb4 5. Nf3 d5 6. exd5 Nxd5 7. O-O Bxc3 8. bxc3 O-O 9. Re1 Bg4 10. Bd2 Re8 {
C28: Vienna Game: 2...Nf6 3 Bc4 Nc6.} 11. h3 Bh5 12. Qe2 $5 {[%mdl 4] Leaves
trodden paths.} Qd6 {The position is equal.} 13. Rab1 Nb6 14. Bb3 {[#]} Qf6
$146 ({Predecessor:} 14... h6 15. Qe4 Qf6 16. Nh2 Rad8 17. Ng4 Qg6 18. Qxg6
Bxg6 19. Be3 Nd5 20. Bd2 Nb6 {0-1 (56) Cook,N (1319)-Blom,L (1400) IECG email
2005}) 15. g4 Bg6 16. Ng5 h6 17. Ne4 $36 {[%mdl 2048] White is pushing.} Bxe4
18. Qxe4 Nd7 19. Bd5 Qd6 {Threatens to win with ...Nf6. Black is on the road
to losing.} 20. Qc4 ({Weaker is} 20. Rxb7 {[#]} Nf6 $1 $17) 20... Nd8 21. Bxb7
Nxb7 22. Rxb7 Rec8 23. Be3 Nb6 24. Qe4 Nd5 25. c4 Nc3 26. Qf3 e4 27. Qf5 ({
Don't do} 27. dxe4 $6 Qc6 $16) 27... exd3 28. cxd3 Re8 29. Rb3 Nxa2 (29... Na4
$142 30. d4 Qe6 31. Qxe6 fxe6) 30. Qa5 $18 {[%mdl 64] [#] Double Attack} f5 31.
Qxa2 {White is clearly winning.} fxg4 32. c5 Qd5 33. Rb2 Qxa2 34. Rxa2 gxh3 35.
Rea1 {Weighted Error Value: White=0.04/Black=0.25} 1-0

[Event "GCT Paris Blitz 2021"]
[Site "Paris"]
[Date "2021.06.22"]
[Round "12"]
[White "Kramnik, Vladimir"]
[Black "Aronian, Levon"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "C54"]
[WhiteElo "2753"]
[BlackElo "2781"]
[Annotator "TA"]
[PlyCount "126"]
[EventDate "2021.06.21"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "FRA"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

{[%evp 12,126,29,18,23,9,18,17,9,10,20,13,20,0,8,0,6,0,36,0,21,19,43,45,60,15,
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-29991,-29992]} 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Bc5 4. c3 Nf6 5. d3 d6 6. O-O O-O 7.
h3 {7.Re1 is becoming the main line.} a5 {C54: Giuoco Piano: 4 c3 Nf6, main
lines with 5 d4 and 5 d3.} 8. Re1 Be6 9. Bb5 Ne7 {The position is equal.} 10.
d4 Bb6 11. Nbd2 c6 {[#]} 12. Bd3 $146 ({Predecessor:} 12. Bf1 Ng6 13. b3 h6 14.
Ba3 Re8 15. dxe5 dxe5 16. Nc4 Bxc4 17. Bxc4 Ba7 18. Qxd8 Raxd8 {1-0 (58)
Fressinet,L (2655)-Mihajlov,S (2363) Chess.com INT 2019}) 12... Ng6 13. Nf1
exd4 14. Nxd4 Qc7 15. Be3 Rae8 16. f4 {And now f5 would win.} Bc8 17. Ng3 Nd7
18. Bc2 Nc5 19. Qh5 d5 {[%cal Rd5e4]} 20. e5 f6 $1 {[%cal Rf6e5]} 21. exf6 Rxf6
22. Kh1 Bd7 23. Bd2 Ref8 $2 (23... Ne6 $11) 24. Nf3 $1 $18 {[%cal Rf3g5]
Strongly threatening Ng5.} Qd6 25. Ne5 Be8 26. Ng4 $40 {[%mdl 128] White goes
for the king.} Re6 {intending ...Ne4.} 27. Nf5 Qd7 {Hoping for ...Ne4.} 28.
Rxe6 Nxe6 29. Re1 Bc7 ({But not} 29... Nexf4 $2 30. Bxf4 Bc5 31. Be5 $18) 30.
Nh4 $2 (30. g3 $18) 30... Bxf4 31. Nxg6 hxg6 32. Bxg6 Bxg6 33. Qxg6 Bg3 $2 {
[%mdl 8192]} 34. Rd1 $2 ({White has to play} 34. Nh6+ $1 $18 Kh8 35. Qxg3 gxh6
36. Bxh6) 34... Bf4 35. Bxf4 (35. Re1 {is more complex.}) 35... Nxf4 36. Qg5 (
36. Qc2 {seems wilder.} Qe7 37. Qd2 Nh5 38. Kg1 Ng3 39. Re1) 36... Qd8 37. Qxd8
Rxd8 $11 {[%mdl 4096] Endgame KRN-KRN} 38. Re1 Rd7 39. Re3 d4 40. cxd4 Rxd4 41.
Re7 b5 42. Kh2 {[#]} (42. b3 $15) 42... Rd2 $1 $19 {[%cal Rd2g2]} 43. Kg3 Nh5+
({Don't take} 43... Nxg2 44. Ne5 $17) (43... Ne2+ $17 44. Kf3 Nd4+ 45. Kf4 Rxb2
) 44. Kh4 $11 Nf6 45. Nxf6+ gxf6 {KR-KR} 46. g4 (46. Ra7 $1 $11 {and White is
okay.}) 46... Rxb2 $19 47. Kh5 Kf8 $2 ({Black should play} 47... Rxa2 $19 {
White must now prevent ...Kf8.} 48. Kg6 Kf8) 48. Ra7 $2 {[%mdl 8192]} (48. Re6
$15) 48... Rxa2 49. Kg6 Ke8 $2 (49... b4 $19 50. h4 b3) 50. h4 Rg2 (50... b4 $5
{[%cal Rb4b3]} 51. h5 Kd8 $17) 51. Kf5 b4 52. h5 $2 (52. Rxa5 $11 {and White
stays safe.} Ke7 53. Ra7+ Kd6 54. h5) 52... b3 53. Rxa5 $2 (53. h6 $19 Rh2 54.
h7) 53... b2 54. Ra8+ {[#]} Kd7 $1 55. Rb8 Kc7 56. Rb3 c5 {aiming for ...c4.}
57. h6 c4 58. Rb4 c3 59. Kxf6 {[#]} Rxg4 $1 {[%mdl 576] Promotion. Black mates.
} 60. Rxg4 b1=Q 61. Rc4+ Kd6 62. Rxc3 Qb2 63. h7 Qxc3+ {Black used his chance.
Weighted Error Value: White=0.68/Black=0.41} 0-1

[Event "GCT Paris Blitz 2021"]
[Site "Paris"]
[Date "2021.06.22"]
[Round "13"]
[White "Aronian, Levon"]
[Black "Firouzja, Alireza"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "B13"]
[WhiteElo "2781"]
[BlackElo "2759"]
[Annotator "TA"]
[PlyCount "276"]
[EventDate "2021.06.21"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "FRA"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

{[%evp 9,276,14,16,14,10,10,14,0,30,17,35,34,36,33,33,33,29,-34,-36,-37,-43,
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-28000,-28000,-28000,-28000,-28000,-28000,-28000,-28000,-28000,-28000,-28000,
-28000,-28000,-28000,-28000,-28000,-28000,-28000,-28000,-28000,-28000,-28000,
-28000,-28000,-28000,-28000,-28000,-28000,-28000,-28000,-28000,-28000,-28000,
-28000,-28000,-28000,-28000,-28000,-28000,-28000,-28000,-28000,-28000,-28000,
-28000,-28000,-28000,-28000,-28000,-28000,-28000,-28000,-28000,-28000,-28000,
-28000,-28000,-28000,-28000,-28000,-28000,-28000]} 1. d4 Nf6 2. Nf3 d5 3. Bf4
c5 4. e3 cxd4 (4... Nc6 5. Nbd2 Bg4 6. h3 Bxf3 7. Nxf3 e6 8. Be2 Bd6 9. dxc5
Bxf4 10. exf4 Qa5+ 11. c3 Qxc5 12. Bd3 O-O 13. O-O Qd6 14. g3 Rfe8 15. Re1 e5
16. fxe5 Nxe5 17. Nxe5 Rxe5 18. Rxe5 Qxe5 {1/2-1/2 (44) Aronian,L (2781)
-Firouzja,A (2759) chess24.com INT 2021}) 5. exd4 Bf5 6. Nbd2 {B13: Caro-Kann:
Exchange Variation and Panov-Botvinnik Attack.} e6 7. c3 Be7 8. Qb3 {The
position is equal.} Qc8 (8... Nh5 $5 {[%cal Rh5f4]} 9. Be3 (9. Qxb7 Nxf4 10.
Bb5+ Nd7 $11) 9... Qc7 $14) 9. Nh4 {[#]} Bg4 $146 ({Predecessor:} 9... O-O 10.
Nxf5 exf5 11. Be2 Re8 12. Nf1 Nc6 13. Ne3 Bf8 14. O-O Ne7 15. Bg5 Ne4 16. Bxe7
Bxe7 17. Qxd5 {1-0 (56) Woltmann,M-Chunga,J (1982) ICCF email 2012}) 10. h3 Bh5
11. g4 Bg6 12. Nxg6 hxg6 13. g5 (13. Qd1 $11) 13... Nh5 $15 14. Be3 Nc6 15.
O-O-O Qc7 16. Kb1 a6 17. c4 dxc4 18. Nxc4 {Threatens to win with Nb6.} O-O 19.
d5 exd5 20. Nb6 Rad8 21. Nxd5 Qe5 {White must now prevent ...Qe4+.} 22. Rg1 Nb4
23. Nxb4 ({White should play} 23. Nxe7+ $16 Qxe7 24. Bg2) 23... Rxd1+ $14 24.
Qxd1 Bxb4 25. Qc2 Nf4 26. a3 Be7 $36 {[%mdl 2048] Black is more active.} 27.
Rg4 Nd5 28. Bc1 Rd8 29. Bg2 Bf8 30. h4 b6 31. Bf3 Ne7 32. Be4 Nf5 33. Bxf5 Qxf5
(33... gxf5 {seems wilder.} 34. Ra4 Qe6 35. Qc4 Qxc4 36. Rxc4 Bc5) 34. Qxf5
gxf5 $11 {[%mdl 4096] Endgame KRB-KRB} 35. Ra4 Bc5 36. Be3 (36. Rxa6 {feels
hotter.} Bxf2 37. h5 Bd4 38. a4 Bc5 39. Kc2) 36... Bxe3 37. fxe3 {KR-KR} a5 38.
Kc2 g6 39. e4 fxe4 40. Rxe4 Kg7 41. Kc3 Rd5 42. b4 axb4+ 43. Kxb4 Rf5 44. a4 f6
45. Re7+ Kf8 46. Re6 {[%mdl 8192]} (46. gxf6 $11 Rf4+ 47. Ka3) 46... fxg5 47.
hxg5 Rxg5 48. Rxb6 Rg1 49. a5 Kg7 50. a6 Ra1 51. Kb5 g5 52. Rc6 Rb1+ 53. Ka5 $4
{[%mdl 8192]} (53. Kc5 Ra1 54. Kb6) 53... Ra1+ 54. Kb6 $1 Ra4 55. a7 g4 56. Rc4
$4 {[%mdl 8192]} Rxc4 {Mate.} 57. a8=Q {[#] KQ-KR} Rf4 $1 58. Kc5 Kg6 59. Qg8+
Kh5 60. Qh7+ Kg5 61. Kd5 Rf5+ 62. Ke4 Rf4+ 63. Ke5 Rf3 64. Qh8 Rf1 65. Qd8+ Kh5
66. Ke4 Rf3 67. Qh8+ {[#]} Kg5 $1 68. Qh1 Rf4+ 69. Ke5 Rf5+ 70. Ke6 Rf6+ 71.
Ke7 Rf3 72. Qc1+ Kh4 73. Ke6 Kg3 74. Ke5 Kh3 75. Qh6+ Kg3 76. Ke4 Rf2 77. Qd6+
Kh3 78. Ke3 Rf3+ 79. Ke2 Kg2 80. Qh6 Rf2+ 81. Ke3 Rf3+ 82. Ke4 Kg3 83. Qh1 Rf4+
84. Ke5 Rf3 85. Qg1+ Kh3 86. Ke4 Rf8 87. Qh1+ Kg3 88. Qe1+ Kh3 89. Qh1+ Kg3 90.
Qh6 Rf3 91. Qd6+ Kh3 92. Qd1 Kg3 93. Qh1 Rf4+ 94. Ke3 Rf3+ 95. Ke2 Rf2+ 96. Ke1
Rf3 97. Qh6 Rf5 98. Qd6+ Kh3 99. Qg6 Rf3 100. Qh5+ Kg3 101. Qh7 Rf6 102. Qc7+
Kh3 103. Ke2 Rf3 104. Qc5 Kg3 105. Qd4 Kh3 106. Qg1 Rf5 107. Qe3+ Rf3 108. Qg5
Kg3 109. Ke1 Kh3 110. Qh6+ Kg3 111. Qh5 Rf8 112. Qc5 Rf3 113. Qc7+ Kh3 114. Qe5
Kg2 115. Ke2 Kh3 116. Qa1 Kg3 117. Qa4 Kh3 118. Qd7 Kg3 119. Qh7 Rf2+ 120. Ke3
Rf3+ 121. Ke4 Rf4+ 122. Ke5 Rf3 123. Qh1 Rf8 124. Qe1+ Kh3 {( -> ...Re8+)} 125.
Qg1 Rf3 126. Ke4 Rf8 127. Qh1+ Kg3 128. Qe1+ Kh3 129. Qd2 Rf3 130. Qd6 Kg2 131.
Qd1 Kh3 132. Qg1 Rf8 133. Ke3 Rf3+ 134. Ke2 Rf8 135. Qc5 Rf3 136. Qg5 Kg3 137.
Qe5+ Kh3 138. Qd6 Rf5 {[%mdl 32768] Never resign too early!  Weighted Error
Value: White=0.21/Black=0.15. An unexpected result.} 1/2-1/2

[Event "GCT Paris Blitz 2021"]
[Site "Paris"]
[Date "2021.06.22"]
[Round "13"]
[White "Radjabov, Teimour"]
[Black "Caruana, Fabiano"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "A49"]
[WhiteElo "2765"]
[BlackElo "2820"]
[Annotator "TA"]
[PlyCount "87"]
[EventDate "2021.06.21"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "FRA"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

{[%evp 16,87,40,42,48,61,64,39,50,33,43,43,70,67,79,70,74,54,61,36,48,0,0,0,0,
-28,0,-51,-58,-44,50,-57,-58,-133,-135,-136,-28,-18,234,227,325,16,37,37,45,
-111,-105,-233,-232,-237,-220,-466,120,140,503,499,463,463,458,456,456,456,958,
0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]} 1. Nf3 Nf6 2. b3 g6 3. Bb2 Bg7 4. g3 O-O 5. Bg2 d6 6.
d4 e5 7. dxe5 Ng4 8. O-O Nc6 9. c4 a5 $5 {[%mdl 4] A promising side line. A49:
1 d4 Nf6 2 Nf3 g6 3 g3: Anti-King's Indian systems.} 10. Nc3 Ngxe5 11. Qd2 Re8
{White is slightly better.} 12. Rad1 {[#]} Nxf3+ $146 ({Predecessor:} 12... a4
13. Nxe5 Nxe5 14. c5 axb3 15. axb3 Be6 16. Qc2 Qb8 17. cxd6 cxd6 18. Rd2 Ra6
19. Nd5 Bxd5 20. Bxd5 Rc8 21. Qe4 Re8 {1-0 (45) Tologontegin,S (2398)
-Nugumanov,B (2413) Cheliabinsk 2018}) 13. Bxf3 Nd4 14. Bg2 Bg4 {[%cal Rg4e2]}
15. f3 Bd7 16. e3 Nf5 17. Rfe1 a4 18. f4 axb3 $1 19. axb3 c6 20. Kh1 h5 21. c5
({White should play} 21. e4 $11 Nd4 22. Qf2 Nxb3 23. Rxd6) 21... d5 $15 22. e4
{[#]} Nd4 (22... d4 $1 $15 23. exf5 dxc3 24. Bxc3 Bxf5) 23. exd5 (23. Nxd5 $1
$14 Nxb3 24. Qb4 cxd5 25. Bxg7) 23... Nxb3 24. Qf2 (24. Rxe8+ $1 $15 Qxe8 25.
Qf2) 24... Rxe1+ $17 25. Rxe1 Bd4 (25... Qa5 $1 $17 26. dxc6 bxc6) 26. Qe2 $11
Qa5 $2 {[%mdl 8192]} (26... Bxc5 $2 27. Qc4 $18) (26... h4 $11 {and Black has
nothing to worry.} 27. Qd1 hxg3) 27. Qc4 $18 Bf2 (27... Bxc3 $142 28. Bxc3 Qa4)
28. Rd1 $2 (28. Qxb3 Bxe1 29. Ne4 (29. Qxb7 $2 Bc8 $19) 29... Bf5 $16) (28. Re2
$18) 28... Nxc5 29. dxc6 bxc6 ({But not} 29... Bxc6 $6 30. Bxc6 bxc6 31. Qe2
$18) 30. h3 (30. Qe2 $14 {keeps the upper hand.} Bg4 31. Bf3 (31. Qxf2 Bxd1 32.
Nxd1 Nd3 $11)) 30... Rb8 $17 ({Avoid the trap} 30... Bxg3 $2 31. Nd5 $1 $18 {
[%mdl 512]} (31. Ne4 Nxe4 32. Qd4 Nf2+ 33. Kg1 Nxh3+ 34. Bxh3 Qa7 $16)) 31. Qe2
(31. Ba1 $17 {might work better.} Bf5 32. Kh2) 31... Bxg3 $19 32. Ba1 Bxf4 {
Strongly threatening ...Re8.} 33. Qe7 $2 (33. Ne4 {was the only chance.} Nxe4
34. Qxe4) 33... Bh6 $2 {[#]} ({Black should try} 33... Re8 $19 34. Qh4 Be5) 34.
Nd5 $16 {[%mdl 512]} cxd5 $4 {[%mdl 8192]} (34... Bg7 $16 {is tougher.} 35.
Nf6+ {[%mdl 64] Double Attack} Kh8) 35. Qe5 $18 {[%csl Ga1][%cal Re5h8][%mdl
64] Double Attack} Kh7 36. Qxb8 {[%csl Ga1][%cal Rb8h8]} Bg7 37. Bxg7 Kxg7 38.
Qe5+ {[%mdl 64] Double Attack} f6 (38... Kh7 $142 39. Rxd5 Bxh3) 39. Qxd5 $2 (
39. Qe7+ $18 Kh6 40. Qxf6) 39... Qc3 $36 {[%mdl 2048] Black is more active.The
position is equal.} 40. Qd6 Bf5 41. Qe7+ Kh6 42. h4 {Qf8+ is the strong threat.
} Ne6 43. Qd6 Qe3 44. Qb8 {[%cal Rb8h8][%mdl 32768] Weighted Error Value:
White=0.62/Black=0.67. Loss on time!?} 0-1

[Event "GCT Paris Blitz 2021"]
[Site "Paris"]
[Date "2021.06.22"]
[Round "13"]
[White "Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime"]
[Black "Nepomniachtchi, Ian"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "C13"]
[WhiteElo "2760"]
[BlackElo "2792"]
[Annotator "TA"]
[PlyCount "141"]
[EventDate "2021.06.21"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "FRA"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

{[%evp 14,141,36,42,39,13,0,15,10,3,35,0,0,0,0,0,8,10,2,-18,-7,-12,0,0,0,0,0,0,
0,0,20,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,17,0,0,0,0,-12,0,0,0,0,0,-8,-8,-8,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,-8,-8,
-8,-8,-8,-8,-8,-8,-8,-8,-8,-8,-8,-8,-8,0,0,0,0,0,-8,-8,-8,-8,-8,-8,-8,-8,-8,-8,
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-29970,-29970,-29974,-29975,-29974,-29974,-29970,-29970,-29982,-29983,-29981,
-7717,-29986]} 1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Bg5 dxe4 5. Nxe4 Be7 6. Bxf6
gxf6 7. Nf3 f5 8. Nc3 a6 {C13: French: Classical System: 4 Bg5 Be7,
Alekhine-Chatard Attack.} 9. g3 b5 10. Bg2 Bb7 {The position is equal.} 11. O-O
Bf6 12. Re1 O-O 13. Ne2 c5 $1 14. c3 {[#]} Nd7 $146 ({Predecessor:} 14... cxd4
15. Nexd4 Nd7 16. a4 Qb6 17. Nxf5 Rad8 18. Nh6+ Kh8 19. Qc1 Bg7 20. Ng4 f5 {
1-0 (57) Mohammad Fahad,R (2319)-Erigaisi,A (2559) Chess.com INT 2020}) 15. Nf4
cxd4 16. cxd4 Nb6 17. Nh5 Ra7 18. Nxf6+ Qxf6 19. Ne5 Bxg2 20. Kxg2 Rc7 21. Rc1
Rfc8 22. Rxc7 (22. Rc5 {keeps more tension.} Qe7 23. Qh5 Nd7 24. Rxc7 Rxc7 25.
Nd3) 22... Rxc7 23. Qd2 Qd8 24. Rc1 f6 {...Rxc1 is the strong threat.} 25. Rxc7
Qxc7 26. Nd3 Qd6 (26... Qc6+ {is more complex.} 27. f3 Qc4 28. Nc5 Qxa2 29. Qf4
Nd5) 27. Qf4 (27. Nc5 {with more complications.} e5 28. Qd3 Qd5+ 29. Qf3 Qxd4
30. Nxa6 Qd7 31. Nc5) 27... Qxf4 28. Nxf4 $11 {[%mdl 4096] Endgame KN-KN} Kf7
29. Kf1 e5 30. dxe5 fxe5 31. Nd3 Kf6 32. Nc5 a5 33. Ke2 e4 34. Nb3 Nc4 35. Nd4
Nxb2 36. Nxb5 Nc4 37. Nd4 Ke5 38. Nc6+ Kd5 39. Ne7+ Ke6 40. Nc6 a4 41. Kd1 f4
42. gxf4 Kf5 43. Ke2 Kxf4 44. Nd4 h5 45. Ne6+ Ke5 46. Nc5 a3 {With the idea ...
Kd4.} 47. Nb3 Kf4 48. Nc5 h4 49. h3 Ke5 50. f3 $1 exf3+ 51. Kxf3 Kd4 52. Ne6+
Kc3 53. Nc7 Nd6 {Strongly threatening ...Kb2.} 54. Nd5+ Kb2 55. Nb4 Nb5 {
Threatens to win with ...Nc3.} 56. Ke3 Nc3 57. Kd3 Nd1 {Hoping for ...Nf2+.}
58. Ke2 Nc3+ {[%mdl 64] Double Attack} 59. Kd3 Na4 60. Kd4 Nb6 61. Kc5 Nd7+ 62.
Kd6 Nf6 63. Ke5 {[#]} Ng4+ $1 64. Kf4 $2 {[%mdl 8192] Now White is beyond hope.
} ({Don't go for} 64. hxg4 $2 h3 $19) (64. Kd4 $11) (64. Kd4 Kb1) 64... Nf2 65.
Kg5 Nxh3+ 66. Kxh4 Nf2 67. Kg3 Nd1 68. Kf3 Nc3 69. Ke3 Nxa2 70. Nc6 Nc3 (70...
Nc1 $142 71. Nb4 Kc3 72. Nd5+ Kb3 73. Nf4 a2 74. Nh5 a1=Q 75. Ke4 {[#]} Nd3 $1
{[%mdl 512]} 76. Kf5 Qe5+ 77. Kg6 Nf4+ 78. Nxf4 Qxf4 79. Kh7 Kc4 80. Kg7 Qg5+
81. Kf8 Kd5 82. Ke8 Qg7 83. Kd8 Kd6 84. Ke8 Qg8#) 71. Kd4 {Weighted Error
Value: White=0.02/Black=0.02} 0-1

[Event "GCT Paris Blitz 2021"]
[Site "Paris"]
[Date "2021.06.22"]
[Round "13"]
[White "Kramnik, Vladimir"]
[Black "Rapport, Richard"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "B45"]
[WhiteElo "2753"]
[BlackElo "2763"]
[Annotator "TA"]
[PlyCount "93"]
[EventDate "2021.06.21"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "FRA"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

{[%evp 23,93,17,18,10,15,9,18,4,12,12,12,12,11,9,14,13,14,14,13,13,13,14,20,6,
15,11,11,11,16,0,23,24,68,68,98,98,89,89,100,100,100,100,100,100,100,100,114,
103,103,103,115,120,129,70,74,38,38,38,39,0,45,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]} 1. e4 c5
2. Nf3 e6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 Nc6 6. Ndb5 Bb4 7. a3 Bxc3+ 8. Nxc3 d5
9. Bd3 dxe4 10. Nxe4 Nxe4 11. Bxe4 Qxd1+ 12. Kxd1 Bd7 13. Re1 {B45: Sicilian
Four Knights.} O-O-O 14. Be3 {[#]} Nd4 $146 ({Predecessor:} 14... e5 15. Kc1 b6
16. a4 h6 17. g3 f5 18. Bg2 Kb7 19. a5 e4 20. a6+ Kc8 {1-0 (35) Ordonez Torres,
M (2067)-Scarsi,A (1668) Lichess.org INT 2021}) 15. Bd3 Bc6 16. f3 Nb3 17. Rb1
Bb5 18. Bxa7 Rxd3+ 19. cxd3 Bxd3 {[#]} 20. Re3 $1 Bxb1 21. Rc3+ Kd7 {Strongly
threatening ...Rc8.} 22. Rxb3 $11 {[%mdl 4096] Endgame KRB-KRB} Kc6 23. Ke2 Ba2
24. Rc3+ Kd7 25. b3 Rc8 26. Bc5 (26. Kd2 {keeps more tension.} Bb1 27. Rxc8
Kxc8 28. a4 e5 29. b4) 26... Rc6 27. Kd2 b6 28. Bf8 {[#] Hoping for Rxc6.} Rxc3
29. Kxc3 $14 {Threatens to win with Kb2. KB-KB} Bb1 30. Bxg7 Kc6 31. a4 Kd5 32.
Bd4 Kc6 33. Bf6 Kd5 34. g4 e5 35. Kd2 e4 36. Bd8 Kc6 37. f4 e3+ 38. Kc3 (38.
Kxe3 $16 Bc2 39. b4) 38... Be4 39. Bh4 Bf3 40. g5 Bd1 41. f5 Bg4 42. g6 hxg6 {
The position is equal.} 43. fxg6 fxg6 44. b4 Bd1 45. a5 bxa5 46. bxa5 Kb5 47.
Kd3 {Weighted Error Value: White=0.07/Black=0.06} 1/2-1/2

[Event "GCT Paris Blitz 2021"]
[Site "Paris"]
[Date "2021.06.22"]
[Round "13"]
[White "Svidler, Peter"]
[Black "So, Wesley"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "A20"]
[WhiteElo "2714"]
[BlackElo "2770"]
[Annotator "TA"]
[PlyCount "84"]
[EventDate "2021.06.21"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "FRA"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

{[%evp 9,84,18,29,27,31,25,20,29,31,13,26,16,25,34,47,26,44,23,48,8,60,17,29,
16,7,7,45,56,51,40,40,49,58,51,58,-73,-73,-62,45,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,
0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]} 1. c4 e5 2. g3 Nf6 3. Bg2 c6 4.
Nf3 e4 5. Nd4 Qb6 6. Nb3 {A20: English Opening: 1...e5.} a5 {[#] White must
now prevent ...a4.} 7. d3 a4 8. N3d2 Bc5 9. O-O e3 10. fxe3 Bxe3+ 11. Kh1 Ng4
12. Nc3 O-O 13. Nde4 d5 14. cxd5 Bxc1 (14... Rd8 $11) 15. Qxc1 $14 Ne3 16. Rf3
{[#]} Nxd5 $146 ({Predecessor:} 16... Nxg2 17. Kxg2 Qd8 18. Qg5 f6 19. Nxf6+
Rxf6 20. Ne4 Nd7 21. Raf1 Kh8 22. Nxf6 Nxf6 {1/2-1/2 (36) So,W (2776)-Caruana,
F (2818) Saint Louis 2019}) 17. Qd2 Nd7 18. Nxd5 cxd5 19. Nc3 Nf6 20. Raf1 {
[#] Hoping for Rxf6!} Be6 {next ...d4 is good for Black.} 21. Rxf6 gxf6 22.
Nxd5 (22. Rxf6 $14 {keeps the upper hand.} Qd4 23. Rf4) 22... Bxd5 $17 23. Bxd5
{Threatens to win with Qh6.} Kh8 ({Black should try} 23... Qa5 $1 $15 24. Qxa5
Rxa5) 24. Be4 {Qh6! is the strong threat.} Rg8 {The position is equal.} 25. Qh6
{[%csl Ge4][%cal Rh6h7]} Rg7 26. Qxf6 Qxf6 27. Rxf6 $11 {[%mdl 4096] Endgame
KRR-KRB} Ra6 28. Rf4 Rb6 29. Bf3 Rxb2 30. Rxa4 Rg6 31. Ra7 Ra6 32. Rxb7 Rxb7
33. Bxb7 Rxa2 {KR-KB} 34. Bf3 Kg7 35. Kg2 Kf6 36. Kf2 Ke5 37. Ke3 Ra3 38. Be4
h6 39. Bf3 f5 40. Bg2 Rb3 41. Bf3 Ra3 42. Bg2 Rb3 {Weighted Error Value:
White=0.10/Black=0.10} 1/2-1/2

[Event "GCT Paris Blitz 2021"]
[Site "Paris"]
[Date "2021.06.22"]
[Round "14"]
[White "Caruana, Fabiano"]
[Black "Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "A05"]
[WhiteElo "2820"]
[BlackElo "2760"]
[Annotator "TA"]
[PlyCount "111"]
[EventDate "2021.06.21"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "FRA"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

{[%evp 9,111,8,14,10,5,6,18,13,17,14,13,1,15,0,0,10,8,1,25,0,1,0,10,0,0,-30,
-29,-38,-18,-37,-47,-46,-43,-47,-13,-20,-15,-27,-15,-18,-16,-25,-23,-31,0,0,0,
0,0,0,0,0,14,14,14,20,18,0,16,16,19,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,
0,0,0,0,0,-8,-8,-8,-8,-8,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]} 1. Nf3 Nf6 2. b3 g6 3. Bb2
Bg7 4. g3 b6 5. Bg2 Bb7 6. O-O {A05: Réti Opening: 1 Nf3 Nf6.} O-O 7. d4 c5 {
7...d5 is the fancy move.} 8. e3 d5 9. Qe2 Nbd7 10. Nbd2 {[#]} e6 $146 ({
Predecessor:} 10... Rc8 11. c4 dxc4 12. bxc4 e6 13. a4 Ne4 14. Nxe4 Bxe4 15.
Rfd1 Qe7 16. a5 Rfd8 {1/2-1/2 (56) Caruana,F (2820)-Nepomniachtchi,I (2792)
chess24.com INT 2021}) 11. c4 Qe7 12. Rfd1 Rfd8 13. Rac1 a5 14. dxc5 Nxc5 15.
Bd4 Nfe4 16. Bxg7 Kxg7 17. Nxe4 dxe4 18. Ne1 f5 19. Rxd8 Rxd8 20. Rd1 e5 21. h4
h5 22. Bf1 Kf6 23. Qc2 Rxd1 24. Qxd1 Qd7 25. Qc2 Qd6 26. Be2 f4 27. exf4 {
The position is equal.} exf4 28. gxf4 Qxf4 29. Qc3+ Qe5 30. Qe3 Bc8 31. Ng2 Kf7
32. Nf4 Be6 33. Kg2 Qf6 34. Qg3 Nd7 35. Nxe6 Kxe6 36. a3 Ne5 37. b4 axb4 38.
axb4 Qd8 39. c5 bxc5 40. bxc5 Qd5 41. Qe3 Nd7 42. f3 Nxc5 43. fxe4 Nxe4 44. Bd3
Ke5 45. Bc2 Qc4 46. Bd3 Qa2+ 47. Kf3 Qf7+ 48. Kg2 Qf4 49. Qxf4+ Kxf4 $11 {
[%mdl 4096] Endgame KB-KN} 50. Bb1 g5 51. Bxe4 Kxe4 52. hxg5 {[#] White
threatens g6 and mate.} Kf5 53. g6 Kxg6 54. Kh3 Kf7 (54... h4 $5) 55. Kh4 Ke7
56. Kxh5 {Weighted Error Value: White=0.04/Black=0.05} 1/2-1/2

[Event "GCT Paris Blitz 2021"]
[Site "Paris"]
[Date "2021.06.22"]
[Round "14"]
[White "Nepomniachtchi, Ian"]
[Black "Svidler, Peter"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "A38"]
[WhiteElo "2792"]
[BlackElo "2714"]
[Annotator "TA"]
[PlyCount "67"]
[EventDate "2021.06.21"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "FRA"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

{[%evp 18,67,50,48,56,15,58,55,59,53,90,86,77,86,79,20,61,59,61,66,56,57,62,58,
58,57,58,58,62,58,65,58,66,72,68,79,121,131,132,130,256,257,267,267,263,258,
958,965,958,941,708,654]} 1. c4 {Schwartzman,G} g6 2. Nf3 Bg7 3. g3 c5 4. Bg2
Nc6 5. Nc3 d6 6. O-O Bd7 7. e3 Nf6 8. d4 O-O 9. b3 a6 10. Bb2 Rb8 {A38:
Symmetrical English vs ...g6: 4 Bg2 Bg7 5 Nf3 Nf6.} 11. Qe2 Bg4 12. dxc5 dxc5 {
White is slightly better.} 13. h3 {[#]} Bd7 $146 ({Predecessor:} 13... Bf5 14.
Rfd1 Qc8 15. Kh2 Rd8 16. Nd5 Be4 17. Nxf6+ Bxf6 18. Bxf6 exf6 19. Ne1 Rxd1 20.
Rxd1 {1/2-1/2 (36) Schwartzman,G (2500)-Wojtkiewicz,A (2555) Wijk aan Zee 1994
CBM 040 [Schwartzman,G]}) 14. Rfd1 Qc7 15. Nd5 Nxd5 16. Bxg7 ({White should try
} 16. cxd5 $16 Ne5 17. Ne1) 16... Kxg7 17. cxd5 Ne5 18. Qb2 f6 19. Nxe5 Qxe5
20. Qxe5 fxe5 21. d6 $36 {[%mdl 2048] White is pushing.} e6 22. Rac1 Rfc8 23.
Rc3 b5 24. Rdc1 Rb6 25. Rxc5 Rxc5 26. Rxc5 $14 {[%mdl 4096] Endgame KRB-KRB}
Kf6 {[#]} 27. f4 $1 {[%cal Rf4e5]} exf4 {[#]} 28. e4 $1 {[%cal Re4e5] Strongly
threatening e5+.} ({Much worse is} 28. exf4 $6 Rxd6 29. Rc2 e5 $11) 28... fxg3
(28... e5 $16) 29. e5+ $18 Kf5 {With the idea ...Rb8.} 30. Rc7 Kxe5 31. Rxd7
Rxd6 $2 (31... g5 32. Rg7 (32. Rxh7 Rxd6 33. Ra7 Kf4 $18) 32... Rxd6 33. Rxg5+
{[%mdl 64] Double Attack} Kf4 34. Rg4+ Ke5 35. Rxg3 Rd2) 32. Rxd6 {White is
clearly winning.} Kxd6 33. b4 Kc7 34. Be4 {Weighted Error Value: White=0.07/
Black=0.22} 1-0

[Event "GCT Paris Blitz 2021"]
[Site "Paris"]
[Date "2021.06.22"]
[Round "14"]
[White "So, Wesley"]
[Black "Aronian, Levon"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "D38"]
[WhiteElo "2770"]
[BlackElo "2781"]
[Annotator "TA"]
[PlyCount "49"]
[EventDate "2021.06.21"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "FRA"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

{[%evp 12,49,21,8,12,14,14,14,25,14,14,21,29,0,0,0,0,-75,-69,-79,-22,-25,-24,
-31,-27,-15,-30,-16,36,25,129,144,876,869,1079,713,1064,1064,978,970]} 1. d4
Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nf3 d5 4. Nc3 Bb4 5. Qa4+ Nc6 6. e3 O-O 7. Bd2 dxc4 {D38:
Queen's Gambit Declined: Ragozin Defence (4 Nf3 Bb4).} 8. Bxc4 Bd6 9. Qc2 {
The main line 9.Qc2 scores better than 9.Nb5.} e5 {The position is equal.} 10.
dxe5 Nxe5 11. Nxe5 Bxe5 12. f4 (12. O-O-O Qe7 13. Kb1 Be6 14. Bxe6 Qxe6 15. f3
Rad8 16. e4 Rd7 17. Bc1 Rfd8 18. Rxd7 Qxd7 19. Ne2 c6 20. Be3 Bc7 21. Rc1 Bb6 {
1/2-1/2 (30) So,W (2770)-Aronian,L (2781) Bucharest 2021}) 12... Bxc3 13. Bxc3
Qe7 14. O-O-O (14. O-O $11) 14... Qxe3+ $17 15. Kb1 {[#]} Qxf4 $146 (15... Bg4
$17 16. Rde1 Qxf4) ({Predecessor:} 15... Qc5 16. Bd3 Bg4 17. Rde1 Rad8 18. h3
Be6 19. g4 Bxa2+ 20. Kc1 Qd6 21. Re3 Nd5 22. Bxh7+ Kh8 23. Rd3 Qh6 24. Be5 Nxf4
25. Rxd8 Rxd8 {0-1 (25) Kunin,V (2586)-Abasov,N (2561) Zuerich 2016}) 16. Bd3
$1 $11 Be6 17. Rhf1 Qh6 ({Avoid the trap} 17... Qxh2 $2 18. Rh1 $18) 18. Bxf6
gxf6 19. Qxc7 Bd5 (19... b6 $1 $11) 20. Bf5 $14 {[%mdl 1024] White has
compensation.} Bc6 {[#]} (20... Be6 $1 $11) 21. Rd3 $1 $36 {[%cal Rd3h3,Bd1d3,
Bd3g3,Bg3e3][%mdl 2080] Strongly threatening Rh3. White is in control.} Rfe8 $2
{[%mdl 8192] [#] This move loses the game for Black.} (21... Rae8 $16) 22. Rg3+
$1 $18 {White is clearly winning.} Kf8 23. Qd6+ Re7 24. Re1 {[%csl Ge1][%cal
Rd6e7]} Rae8 25. Rge3 {Weighted Error Value: White=0.11/Black=0.28} 1-0

[Event "GCT Paris Blitz 2021"]
[Site "Paris"]
[Date "2021.06.22"]
[Round "14"]
[White "Rapport, Richard"]
[Black "Radjabov, Teimour"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "A11"]
[WhiteElo "2763"]
[BlackElo "2765"]
[Annotator "TA"]
[PlyCount "117"]
[EventDate "2021.06.21"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "FRA"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

{[%evp 17,117,11,0,4,20,0,24,-37,55,9,4,7,0,2,0,0,0,-42,-35,-39,0,0,0,-51,-59,
-54,-62,-57,0,-17,0,0,0,0,0,-21,-9,-23,-21,-27,-27,-20,-14,-26,-26,-25,-25,-26,
-28,-27,-16,-13,-25,-18,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,2,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,-9,-61,
0,0,0,-2,0,-83,0,-3,0,-198,-198,-182,-167,-312,224,224,29995,29996,29996,29997,
29997,29998]} 1. g3 d5 2. Nf3 Nf6 3. Bg2 c6 4. O-O Bf5 5. c4 e6 6. cxd5 exd5 7.
d3 Be7 8. Nc3 O-O 9. Nd4 Bg6 10. e4 {A11: English Opening: 1...c6.} dxe4 11.
dxe4 Nbd7 {[%cal Bb8d7,Bd7b6,Bb6c4][%mdl 32]} 12. f4 {[#]} (12. Nf5 $11) 12...
Bh5 $146 ({Black should play} 12... Bc5 $15 13. Kh1 Qe8) ({Predecessor:} 12...
Bc5 13. Kh1 Bh5 14. Nf3 Re8 15. e5 Ng4 16. Ne4 Bg6 17. Nfg5 Ndxe5 18. Qxd8
Raxd8 19. fxe5 h6 20. Nxc5 {1-0 (20) Postny,E (2462)-Eden,J (2338) Chess.com
INT 2017}) 13. Qd2 Nb6 {[#] Threatens to win with ...Bc5.} 14. Kh1 Nc4 15. Qd3
c5 $36 {[%mdl 2048] Black fights for an advantage.} 16. Qxc4 cxd4 17. Nd5 (17.
Nb5 {seems wilder.} Rc8 18. Qd3 Qb6 19. h3 Rfd8 20. e5) 17... Nxd5 18. exd5 Rc8
19. Qxd4 Bc5 20. Qd3 ({White should try} 20. Qe5 $11 g6 21. f5) 20... Re8 $15 {
[#] ...Be2 is the strong threat.} 21. Bf3 {[%cal Rf3h5]} Bxf3+ 22. Qxf3 Qf6 (
22... Bd4 $15 23. Bd2 Rc2) 23. Rb1 Qf5 24. Bd2 Red8 25. Bc3 Rxd5 26. Rbe1 Rcd8
27. Re4 h5 28. Rfe1 f6 29. Kg2 Kh7 30. R4e2 Kg6 31. h3 Rd3 32. g4 Qd5 33. Qxd5
R8xd5 34. Rf1 b5 35. Rf3 Rxf3 36. Kxf3 $11 {[%mdl 4096] Endgame KRB-KRB} Rd3+
37. Kg2 hxg4 38. hxg4 Be3 39. f5+ Kf7 40. Kf3 Bb6+ 41. Kg2 Bc7 42. Re4 Bb6 43.
Bb4 a5 44. Re7+ Kg8 45. Re8+ Kh7 46. Be1 b4 47. Re6 Bc7 48. Re7 ({Better is} 
48. b3 $11) 48... Bf4 (48... Be5 $15 49. Ra7 Rd1) 49. b3 Kh6 50. Bf2 Be5 51.
Be1 (51. Kf1 $11 {remains equal.}) 51... Bf4 (51... Rd4 $17 52. Kf3 Rf4+ 53.
Ke2 Re4+ 54. Kd1 Rd4+ 55. Ke2 Re4+ 56. Kf1 Rf4+ 57. Ke2 Re4+) 52. Bf2 Be5 53.
Bh4 $2 (53. Be1 $11 {and White stays safe.}) 53... Rd2+ $19 54. Kf3 Rxa2 55.
Bf2 (55. g5+ $142 fxg5 56. Bxg5+ Kxg5 57. Rxe5) 55... Kh7 $4 {[%mdl 8192]} (
55... Rb2 $19 {and all is fine.} 56. Be3+ g5) 56. g5 $1 $18 {[%cal Rg5g6][%mdl
1024] White wants to mate with g6+. White has strong compensation.} Ra3 $2 (
56... Rxf2+ $18 57. Kxf2 Bd4+ 58. Kf3 fxg5) 57. g6+ {White mates.} Kh6 58. Be3+
Kh5 59. Rxg7 {[%cal Rg7h7] Weighted Error Value: White=0.23/Black=0.34} 1-0

[Event "GCT Paris Blitz 2021"]
[Site "Paris"]
[Date "2021.06.22"]
[Round "14"]
[White "Firouzja, Alireza"]
[Black "Kramnik, Vladimir"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "C27"]
[WhiteElo "2759"]
[BlackElo "2753"]
[Annotator "TA"]
[PlyCount "127"]
[EventDate "2021.06.21"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "FRA"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

{[%evp 9,127,-8,10,-4,0,-3,0,-14,0,0,0,0,0,-14,16,20,39,35,47,12,11,0,155,27,
41,0,0,0,0,0,18,-62,0,-33,-42,-20,0,0,0,0,33,28,39,39,40,54,47,29,158,0,0,0,0,
-205,-220,-261,-266,-296,-185,-1313,-1379,-1189,-714,-579,8,0,20,30,71,67,60,
61,67,67,70,70,66,70,70,85,29941,29941,29942,29942,12850,1091,29950,29950,
29952,29954,29953,29954,29959,29960,29961,29963,29965,29966,29966,29967,29966,
29968,29968,29969,29968,29970,29969,29971,29971,29973,29970,29974,29974,29975,
29974,29971,29980,29981,29982,29982]} 1. e4 e5 2. Nc3 Nf6 3. Bc4 Bc5 4. d3 d6
5. h3 Nc6 6. a3 {C27: Vienna Game: 2...Nf6 3 Bc4 Nxe4.} a6 7. Nge2 O-O 8. Ng3 {
The position is equal.} h6 9. O-O b5 10. Ba2 {[#]} Be6 $146 ({Predecessor:} 
10... Bb7 11. Kh2 Ne7 12. f4 exf4 13. Bxf4 Ng6 14. Bd2 Kh8 15. Nh5 Nxh5 16.
Qxh5 Qh4 17. Qxh4 Nxh4 {1-0 (58) Birkic,V (1499)-Andersen,B (1652) Sarpsborg
2003}) 11. Kh2 Bxa2 12. Rxa2 d5 13. exd5 Nxd5 14. Nce4 (14. Bxh6 $5 Nxc3 15.
Qg4 $14) 14... Bd6 {[#]} 15. Bxh6 $1 f5 $2 {[#]} (15... gxh6 $11 16. Qg4+ Kh7
17. Qf5+ (17. Nxd6 $2 Qxd6 18. Qe4+ Kh8 $19) 17... Kg8 18. Qg4+ Kh7 19. Qf5+ (
19. Nxd6 $2 Qxd6 20. Nf5 Qg6 $19) 19... Kg8 20. Qg4+) 16. Bg5 (16. Bxg7 $1 $16
{[%mdl 512]} Kxg7 17. Nxf5+ $1 {[%mdl 576] Remove Defender, Decoy} Rxf5 18.
Qg4+ {[%mdl 64] Double Attack} Rg5 19. Nxg5 (19. Qxg5+ Qxg5 20. Nxg5 e4+ 21. g3
exd3 $16)) 16... Qd7 {[#]} 17. c4 $1 Nf4 18. Nxd6 Qxd6 19. b4 Nd4 20. Kg1 (20.
f3 $11) 20... Qg6 ({Black should try} 20... Nde6 $15 21. Bxf4 exf4) 21. Bxf4 (
21. h4 {is interesting.} Rae8 22. Re1 Nfe6 23. Be3 f4 24. Bxd4 Nxd4 25. Ne4)
21... exf4 22. Qh5 Qxh5 23. Nxh5 f3 24. Nf4 Rae8 25. h4 bxc4 26. dxc4 Re4 27.
g3 Rd8 28. Kh2 Kf7 (28... Re2 $11 29. Raa1 (29. Nxe2 fxe2 30. Re1 Nf3+ {
[%mdl 64] Double Attack} 31. Kh3 Nxe1 $17) 29... Nc2) 29. Nh3 $2 ({Better is} 
29. Rd2 $16) 29... Ne6 $11 30. Ng1 Rd3 $36 {[%mdl 2048] Black is more active.}
31. c5 $2 {[#]} (31. Nh3 $11) 31... g5 $1 $19 32. Nh3 gxh4 33. Rg1 hxg3+ 34.
Rxg3 $2 (34. fxg3 Rb3 35. Rga1) 34... Rh4 35. a4 Nf4 36. b5 Rd8 $2 (36... Ne2
$19 37. Ra1 Nxg3 38. Kxg3 Rg4+ 39. Kh2 Rg2+ 40. Kh1 Rd4) 37. Ra3 Nxh3 (37...
axb5 {keeps more tension.} 38. axb5 Rd5 39. Rgxf3 Nxh3 40. Rxh3 Rxh3+ 41. Kxh3
Rxc5 42. Rb3 Kf6) 38. Rxh3 Rxh3+ 39. Kxh3 axb5 40. axb5 $11 {[%mdl 4096]
Endgame And now Ra7 would win. KR-KR} Rd5 41. Rc3 $1 ({Don't play} 41. Rxf3
Rxc5 42. Rb3 Kf6 $11) 41... Ke6 42. Kg3 Rd4 43. Rb3 {Strongly threatening b6.}
Kd7 $1 44. b6 $1 {[%cal Rb6b7]} cxb6 {[%mdl 8192]} (44... Kc8 $16) 45. cxb6 Kc8
46. Kxf3 Kb7 47. Rb5 (47. Kg3 $142 Rg4+ 48. Kf3) 47... f4 48. Kg4 {White mates.
} Ra4 49. f3 Rc4 50. Rf5 Kxb6 51. Rxf4 Rc1 52. Rd4 Kc5 53. Rd2 Rg1+ 54. Kf5 Rg8
55. f4 Rf8+ 56. Kg5 Rg8+ 57. Kh6 Rf8 {[#]} 58. Rf2 $1 Kd5 59. Kg7 Rf5 60. Kg6
Rf8 61. f5 Rg8+ 62. Kh7 Ra8 63. f6 Ke6 64. f7 {What a bad dream for Black. 
Weighted Error Value: White=0.32/Black=0.44} 1-0

[Event "GCT Paris Blitz 2021"]
[Site "Paris"]
[Date "2021.06.22"]
[Round "15"]
[White "Aronian, Levon"]
[Black "Nepomniachtchi, Ian"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "A47"]
[WhiteElo "2781"]
[BlackElo "2792"]
[Annotator "TA"]
[PlyCount "96"]
[EventDate "2021.06.21"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "FRA"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

{[%evp 9,96,38,84,75,82,70,70,88,128,128,262,268,259,173,268,258,272,249,421,
248,252,259,254,133,138,117,125,76,73,68,90,43,205,198,215,215,208,216,214,217,
217,216,214,214,214,205,202,208,215,133,136,115,112,112,109,109,179,189,251,0,
241,0,0,0,18,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,25,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]} 1. d4 Nf6 2.
Nf3 e6 3. Bf4 c5 4. e3 b6 5. Nc3 {[%cal Bb1c3,Bc3b5,Bb5d6,Bd6e4][%mdl 32]} cxd4
6. Nb5 {A47: 1 d4 Nf6 2 Nf3 b6: Torre, London and Colle Systems.} (6. Qxd4 Nc6
$11) 6... Nd5 7. Qxd4 ({Don't play} 7. Nfxd4 Nxf4 8. exf4 a6 $15) 7... Nc6 8.
Qa4 {White is slightly better.} Bb4+ 9. c3 Nxf4 (9... Bc5 $16 {keeps fighting.}
) 10. cxb4 $18 Nd5 11. Nd6+ {[#]} Kf8 $146 (11... Ke7 $142) ({Predecessor:} 
11... Ke7 12. b5 Kxd6 13. bxc6 Ke7 14. e4 Nf6 15. Bb5 Qc7 16. O-O d6 17. e5
dxe5 18. Rfe1 Rd8 19. Nxe5 Rd5 20. f4 Qd6 {1/2-1/2 (20) Perelshteyn,E (2485)
-Kovalyov,A (2612) Dearborn 2013}) 12. b5 Na5 13. Ne5 Qf6 $2 {[#]} (13... f6 {
was worth a try.}) 14. Qd4 (14. Qa3 $142 $1) 14... Ke7 15. Ne4 {[%cal Re4f6]} (
{Stronger than} 15. Nexf7 Qxd4 16. exd4 Rf8 $17) 15... Qh6 16. b4 (16. Qa4 $1
$18 {[%cal Ra4a3]} Nb7 17. Qa3+ d6 18. h4) 16... Nb7 $16 17. Rc1 f6 18. Nf3 f5
19. Nc3 $36 {[%mdl 2048] Black is under pressure.} Nxc3 20. Rxc3 {Strongly
threatening Rc7.} Qf6 $2 ({Better is} 20... Nd6 $14) 21. Ne5 $1 $18 Nd6 22. Rc7
{Nc6+ is the strong threat.} Ne8 {[#]} 23. Rxc8 {[%mdl 576] Remove Defender,
Decoy} Rxc8 24. Qxd7+ {[%mdl 64] Double Attack} Kf8 25. Qxc8 {Black must now
prevent Nd7+.} Qxe5 26. Bc4 $1 Qc3+ 27. Kd1 $1 g6 28. Qxe6 {[%csl Gc4][%cal
Re6f7]} Kg7 29. Ke2 {aiming for Rd1.} Nd6 30. Qxd6 {Threatens to win with Qe7+.
} Qxc4+ $16 {[%mdl 4096] Endgame KQR-KQR} 31. Qd3 Qg4+ 32. Kd2 {Hoping for
Qc3+.} Qxg2 (32... Qxb4+ $16 33. Qc3+ Qxc3+ 34. Kxc3 Rd8) 33. Qd4+ $18 Kh6 {[#]
} (33... Kf7 {might work better.}) 34. Qh4+ $1 ({Not} 34. Qxh8 Qxh1 35. Qf8+
Kh5 $11) 34... Kg7 {[#]} 35. Qd4+ $2 (35. Rc1 $1 $18 {[%cal Rc1c7] White wants
to mate with Rc7+.} Qd5+ 36. Qd4+ Qxd4+ 37. exd4) 35... Kh6 $11 36. Qxh8 (36.
Qf4+ {keeps more tension.} Kh5 37. Rc1 Qd5+ 38. Qd4 Rd8 39. Qxd5 Rxd5+ 40. Ke2)
36... Qxh1 {KQ-KQ} 37. Qe5 Qb1 38. Qf4+ Kg7 39. Qd4+ (39. a3 {seems wilder.}
Qa2+ 40. Ke1 Qxa3 41. Qd4+ Kh6 42. Qf4+) 39... Kh6 40. Qf4+ (40. Qh4+ {with
more complications.} Kg7 41. Qd4+) 40... Kg7 41. Qc4 (41. a3 {feels hotter.}
Qa2+ 42. Ke1 Qxa3 43. Qd4+ Kf7 44. Qd5+) 41... Kh6 42. a4 Qb2+ 43. Ke1 Qa1+ 44.
Ke2 Qxa4 45. Qh4+ Kg7 46. Qe7+ {The position is equal.} Kg8 47. Qe8+ Kg7 48.
Qe7+ Kg8 {Blacks defense is rewarded with a draw.  Weighted Error Value:
White=0.22/Black=0.25} 1/2-1/2

[Event "GCT Paris Blitz 2021"]
[Site "Paris"]
[Date "2021.06.22"]
[Round "15"]
[White "Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime"]
[Black "Radjabov, Teimour"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "D78"]
[WhiteElo "2760"]
[BlackElo "2765"]
[Annotator "TA"]
[PlyCount "75"]
[EventDate "2021.06.21"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "FRA"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

{[%evp 14,75,36,37,41,43,55,31,32,23,28,22,29,0,31,28,26,19,198,191,217,194,
200,226,312,312,260,175,185,189,340,306,304,287,274,259,394,241,432,420,431,
429,491,463,484,492,710,474,474,427,531,530,589,582,581,576,1168,1147,1081,859,
764,808,1430,605]} 1. c4 g6 2. Nc3 Bg7 3. d4 Nf6 4. g3 c6 5. Nf3 d5 6. Qb3 O-O
7. Bg2 e6 8. O-O b6 {D78: Fianchetto Grünfeld: 6 0-0 c6.} 9. Rd1 Bb7 10. Bf4
Nbd7 {White is slightly better.} 11. Rac1 Re8 12. a4 {[%cal Ba2a4,Ba4a5][%mdl
32] [#]} Rc8 $146 ({Predecessor:} 12... Ba6 13. cxd5 exd5 14. e3 Bc4 15. Qc2 a5
16. b3 Ba6 17. Ne5 Rc8 18. Ne2 Nxe5 19. Bxe5 {1-0 (45) Peng,X (2427)-Chu,W 
(2399) Tianjin 2018}) 13. Qa2 Qe7 14. a5 Ba8 15. b3 c5 $2 {Loses the game.} (
15... h6 $11) 16. Nb5 $1 $18 cxd4 {[#]} 17. Bd6 {[%cal Rd6e7]} ({Worse is} 17.
Nxa7 Rc5 $11) 17... Qd8 18. Nxa7 Ne4 19. Nxc8 Qxc8 20. cxd5 Nc3 21. dxe6 Rxe6 {
[#]} (21... fxe6 22. Qd2 Bxf3 23. Bxf3 bxa5) 22. Bb4 $1 bxa5 23. Bxc3 dxc3 24.
Qxa5 Re8 (24... Ra6 {keeps fighting.} 25. Qb5 c2) 25. e3 c2 $2 (25... Nc5 {
might work better.}) 26. Rd2 Be4 27. Nd4 {White is clearly winning.} Bxg2 28.
Kxg2 Qb7+ 29. Nf3 Re5 (29... Nf8 $142 30. Qd5 Qxd5 31. Rxd5 Rc8) 30. Qd8+ Nf8
31. Qd3 h5 32. Rdxc2 h4 33. gxh4 Ne6 34. Rc6 Rb5 {[#]} 35. Rxe6 $1 {[%mdl 64]
Deflection} fxe6 36. Qxg6 Rf5 37. Qxe6+ Rf7 38. Qc8+ {Weighted Error Value:
White=0.22/Black=0.58} 1-0

[Event "GCT Paris Blitz 2021"]
[Site "Paris"]
[Date "2021.06.22"]
[Round "15"]
[White "Firouzja, Alireza"]
[Black "Rapport, Richard"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "B45"]
[WhiteElo "2759"]
[BlackElo "2763"]
[Annotator "TA"]
[PlyCount "180"]
[EventDate "2021.06.21"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "FRA"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

{[%evp 17,180,52,52,51,42,42,27,32,42,45,43,51,23,35,25,39,40,40,50,33,41,0,44,
40,41,42,34,0,0,-411,-381,-416,-387,-461,-454,-442,-443,-452,-412,-421,-441,
-512,-467,-508,-500,-479,-473,-465,-433,-416,-188,-302,-216,-241,-241,-241,
-241,-290,-236,-272,-280,-265,-272,-236,-156,-341,-327,-1112,-785,-718,-671,
-1470,-1412,-920,0,-633,-629,-584,-586,-845,-844,-854,-748,-2233,-853,-846,
-828,-777,-769,-1040,-977,-785,-596,-2169,-2166,-2144,-1926,-1008,-1000,-1210,
-1067,-5093,-2233,-29983,-29981,-29981,-29982,-29987,-29980,-29978,-29978,
-29976,-29975,-29977,-29964,-29960,-29964,-29966,-29967,-29966,-29965,-29961,
-29961,-29967,-1927,-29961,-29965,-1582,0,-29965,-29965,-29967,-29964,-29966,
-29959,-5081,-1868,-1050,0,-159,-159,-144,0,0,0,0,0,-5628,-5628,-5498,-5367,
-29980,-29982,-29980,-29982,-29983,-29984,-29984,-29985,-29987,-29986,-29991,
-29987,-29987,-29988]} 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 e6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 Nc6 6.
Ndb5 Bb4 7. Bf4 Nxe4 8. Qf3 d5 9. Nc7+ Kf8 $1 10. Nxa8 {And now 0-0-0 would
win. B45: Sicilian Four Knights.} e5 11. Bd2 Nd4 12. Qd1 {Threatens to win
with Nxe4.White has an edge.} Qh4 {[%csl Ge4][%cal Rh4f2]} 13. g3 Qf6 {[%csl
Ge4][%cal Rf6f2]} 14. Nxe4 Nf3+ {[#]} 15. Qxf3 $1 Qxf3 16. Bxb4+ Kg8 17. Nd6
Qxh1 18. O-O-O Be6 19. Nc7 Qxh2 (19... Qf3 {keeps more tension.} 20. Nxe6 fxe6
21. Bh3 Qf6 22. f4 Qh6) 20. Nxd5 Bxd5 (20... Qxf2 $2 21. Ne4 $18) 21. Rxd5 Qxf2
{[#]} 22. Bc4 $146 (22. Rxe5 $5 {[%cal Re5e8]} Qxf1+ 23. Re1 Qxe1+ 24. Bxe1 $14
) ({Predecessor:} 22. Rxe5 Qxf1+ 23. Re1 Qxe1+ 24. Bxe1 h5 25. Bc3 b6 26. Kd2
f6 27. Ke3 Kf8 28. Kf3 Ke7 29. Nb5 Kd7 {1/2-1/2 (29) Brunori,V (2212)-Ploscaru,
S (2223) ICCF email 2018}) 22... Qe3+ (22... Qxg3 $6 23. b3 $16) 23. Rd2 $2 {
[%mdl 8192]} (23. Kd1 $11 {and White is okay.}) 23... Qe1+ $19 24. Rd1 Qxb4 25.
a3 Qc5 26. b4 Qe3+ 27. Kb2 g6 28. Nxf7 b5 29. Ba2 Kg7 30. Rd7 {intending Nxe5+.
} Rf8 31. Nxe5+ Kh8 32. Nf7+ {[#]} Rxf7 $1 33. Bxf7 {[%mdl 4096] Endgame KQ-KRB
} Kg7 (33... Qxg3 $142 {aiming for ...h5.} 34. Rxa7 h5) 34. Bc4+ (34. Bb3+ $142
Kh6 35. Rd3 Qe5+ 36. Kb1) 34... Kh6 35. Bd3 a6 ({Don't play} 35... Qxg3 36.
Rxa7 Qe5+ 37. Kb3 $17) 36. g4 Qf4 37. Kb3 Qxg4 38. Rd6 Qc8 39. a4 Qg8+ 40. Ka3
Qh8 {...Qa1+ is the strong threat.} 41. axb5 $2 (41. Rxa6 $17 {was the only
defense.} Qc3+ 42. Ka2) 41... axb5 42. Bxb5 $2 (42. Kb3) 42... Qc3+ 43. Ka4
Qxc2+ 44. Ka3 Qc3+ 45. Ka4 Qc2+ $2 (45... Qa1+ $19 46. Kb3 Qe5 {[%mdl 64]
Double Attack}) 46. Ka5 $2 {[%mdl 8192]} (46. Ka3 $11 Qc3+ 47. Ka4 Qa1+ 48. Kb3
) 46... Qc7+ 47. Rb6 Kg5 48. Bd3 Kf4 49. Ka6 g5 50. b5 g4 (50... Qd8 $142 51.
Be4 {[%mdl 64] Decoy} Kxe4 52. Re6+ Kf4) 51. Rc6 Qd7 52. Bf1 g3 53. Rc4+ Ke3
54. b6 Kf2 55. b7 Qd6+ 56. Ka7 Qa3+ 57. Kb6 Qb3+ 58. Kc7 Kxf1 {KQ-KR} 59. Rf4+
Ke2 60. Rg4 Kf3 61. Rg5 Qc3+ 62. Kb6 Qe3+ 63. Rc5 Qf4 64. Rc3+ Kg4 65. Rc8 Qb4+
66. Kc6 Qc4+ 67. Kd6 Qd4+ 68. Kc6 Qe4+ 69. Kb6 Qe3+ 70. Kc6 Qf3+ (70... Qh6+
$142 71. Kb5 Qg5+ 72. Rc5 Qg8 73. Rc8 Qg5+ 74. Rc5 Qd8 75. Rc8 Qd7+ 76. Kb6
Qe6+ 77. Kc7 Qf7+ 78. Kc6 Qg6+ 79. Kb5 Qg5+) 71. Kb6 Qf2+ 72. Kc6 Qf3+ 73. Kb6
Qb3+ 74. Kc6 Qc2+ ({Less strong is} 74... g2 75. b8=Q $17) 75. Kb6 Qb2+ 76. Kc6
Qc3+ 77. Kb6 Qb4+ $2 (77... Qf6+ $1 $19 78. Ka5 Qa1+ 79. Kb6 Qf6+ 80. Ka5 Qg5+
81. Ka4 Qf4+ 82. Kb5 Qf5+ 83. Kb6 Qf6+) 78. Kc6 $17 {[#]} g2 $1 {( -> ...Qe4+)}
79. b8=Q Qxb8 (79... Qc4+ $17 80. Kd6 Qd3+ 81. Ke7 Qe4+ 82. Kd7 Qf5+ 83. Kc7
Qe5+ 84. Kc6 Qe6+ 85. Kc7 Qf7+ 86. Kc6 Qf3+ 87. Kd7 Qd5+ 88. Kc7 Qc5+ 89. Kd7
Qf5+ 90. Kc6 Qg6+ 91. Kb5 Qb1+ 92. Kc6 Qc2+ 93. Kd7 Qf5+) 80. Rxb8 {KR-KPP} h5
81. Kd5 Kf3 (81... h4 {with more complications.} 82. Ke4 Kg3 83. Rg8+ Kh2 84.
Kf3 g1=Q) 82. Rb3+ $2 {[%mdl 8192]} (82. Rf8+ $11 Kg3 83. Rg8+ Kf2 84. Rf8+ Kg3
85. Rg8+ Kf2 86. Rf8+ Kg3) 82... Kf2 $19 83. Rb2+ {[#]} Kg3 $1 84. Rb3+ Kh2 {
Black mates.} 85. Rb2 Kh1 86. Ke4 h4 87. Rb3 g1=Q 88. Rb2 Qe1+ 89. Kf3 Qg3+ 90.
Ke4 {[#]} Qg2+ $1 {Weighted Error Value: White=1.24/Black=0.48} 0-1

[Event "GCT Paris Blitz 2021"]
[Site "Paris"]
[Date "2021.06.22"]
[Round "15"]
[White "Kramnik, Vladimir"]
[Black "So, Wesley"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "C54"]
[WhiteElo "2753"]
[BlackElo "2770"]
[Annotator "TA"]
[PlyCount "78"]
[EventDate "2021.06.21"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "FRA"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

{[%evp 12,78,33,4,21,22,20,18,18,27,44,25,22,-15,-6,-54,-75,-57,-53,-170,-163,
-146,-22,-92,-77,-99,-91,-114,-52,-60,-43,-43,-29,-85,-87,-68,-66,-108,-12,-97,
-78,-74,16,-65,-68,-111,-110,-109,-106,-141,0,0,0,-78,-42,-202,-197,-238,-244,
-260,36,0,33,-97,-99,-99,-95,-29991,-29992]} 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Nf6 4.
d3 Bc5 5. O-O d6 6. c3 h6 7. Re1 a6 {C54: Giuoco Piano: 4 c3 Nf6, main lines
with 5 d4 and 5 d3.} 8. a4 Ba7 9. Nbd2 g5 {The position is equal.} 10. b4 Nh7
$5 {[%mdl 4] Black wants to play ...g4. Exploring less charted territory.} 11.
Kh1 {[#]} O-O $146 ({Predecessor:} 11... g4 12. Ng1 h5 13. f4 exf4 14. d4 h4
15. Rf1 h3 16. gxh3 Ng5 17. Rxf4 g3 18. hxg3 Nxh3 19. Nxh3 Bxh3 20. Bxf7+ {
1-0 (30) Antipov,M (2584)-Burke,J (2538) Lichess.org INT 2020}) 12. b5 Na5 13.
d4 g4 14. Ng1 exd4 15. Bb2 (15. Qc2 $15) 15... Nxc4 16. Nxc4 Be6 ({Better is} 
16... dxc3 $17 17. Bxc3 Bxf2) 17. b6 cxb6 $17 ({Much worse is} 17... Bxc4 $6
18. bxa7 d3 19. Qxg4+ Qg5 20. Qd1 $11) 18. Nd2 dxc3 19. Bxc3 b5 (19... Rc8 $17
20. Ne2 d5) 20. f4 $1 $15 gxf3 21. Ndxf3 Rc8 22. Qd2 (22. Bb2 $11) 22... bxa4
$17 23. Rxa4 Ng5 24. Ba1 Kh7 (24... Bc5 $17 {White should prevent ...f6.} 25.
Qf4 f6) 25. Nd4 (25. Qd3 $1 $11 {keeps the balance.} Kg8 26. Rf1) 25... Bd7 26.
Ra3 Re8 (26... Bc5 $17 27. Rg3 Rg8) 27. Rg3 ({White should play} 27. h4 $11)
27... Rg8 $1 $15 ({Not} 27... Nxe4 $2 28. Rxe4 $1 Rxe4 29. Nf5 $1 $18 {[%mdl
512]}) 28. Qd3 Rg6 29. Ngf3 {[#]} Nxf3 30. Rxf3 Be8 (30... Bxd4 $17 31. Qxd4
Be6) 31. Ref1 Rc7 32. Qd2 (32. Rf5 $11) 32... Qg5 33. Qf2 ({White should try} 
33. Rf4 $1 $15) 33... Rc1 $19 {Hoping for ...Rxa1!} 34. Bb2 Rxf1+ 35. Qxf1 Qe7
$2 (35... Qe5 $19 36. Qd3 d5 37. exd5 Bb8) 36. Nf5 (36. Ne2 $5 {[%cal Re2f4]}
Rg4 37. Ng3 $14) 36... Qxe4 {[#] Threatens to win with ...Bb5.} 37. Nxd6 Rxd6
$17 38. Rxf7+ Kg6 39. h3 $2 {[%mdl 8192]} Bxf7 {Weighted Error Value: White=0.
67/Black=0.40} 0-1

[Event "GCT Paris Blitz 2021"]
[Site "Paris"]
[Date "2021.06.22"]
[Round "15"]
[White "Svidler, Peter"]
[Black "Caruana, Fabiano"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "B30"]
[WhiteElo "2714"]
[BlackElo "2820"]
[Annotator "TA"]
[PlyCount "125"]
[EventDate "2021.06.21"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "FRA"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

{[%evp 10,125,11,12,20,-35,52,19,138,139,150,140,193,200,196,208,279,249,255,
248,257,243,235,224,301,297,270,216,345,344,343,350,341,247,300,122,98,110,108,
52,61,0,0,-32,-11,-35,-20,-41,-4,-4,-4,-5,33,-5,-5,-45,-47,-38,-51,-52,-50,-52,
-52,-54,-61,-41,-25,-34,-23,-152,-145,-184,-127,-170,-177,-174,-170,-176,-167,
-193,-190,-196,-192,-205,-217,-231,-231,-243,-241,-285,-283,-304,-245,-261,
-258,-247,-252,-270,-106,-108,-108,-100,-100,-135,-108,-258,-200,-224,-159,
-216,0,-200,-214,-207,-225,-186,-185,-378]} 1. e4 c5 2. Nc3 Nc6 3. Bb5 Nd4 4.
Nf3 e6 5. O-O a6 6. Bd3 Nc6 {B30: Sicilian: 2...Nc6 3 Bb5, lines without ...g6.
} 7. Re1 (7. Be2 $11) 7... b5 $5 {[%mdl 4] Exploring less charted territory.} (
7... g5 $15 8. g3 d6) 8. Bf1 $14 {[#]} Qb6 $146 (8... Qc7 $11 {keeps the
balance.}) ({Predecessor:} 8... Bb7 9. d4 cxd4 10. Nxd4 d6 11. Nxc6 Bxc6 12. a4
bxa4 13. Nxa4 Nf6 14. Nc3 Qb6 {1/2-1/2 (39) Lahoche,D (2124)-Kirsch,L (2120)
Tornelo INT 2021}) 9. a4 $1 $16 {[%cal Ba2a4,Ba4a5][%mdl 32]} b4 {[#]} 10. Nd5
{[%cal Rd5b6][%mdl 512]} exd5 (10... Qa7 $16 {might work better.}) (10... Qd8
11. d4) 11. exd5+ $18 Nce7 12. d4 d6 13. a5 Qc7 14. dxc5 Qxc5 15. c4 $1 bxc3
16. bxc3 f6 17. Ba3 Qc7 18. Nd4 Kf7 (18... g6 $142 19. Qf3 Bd7) 19. Ne6 Qd7 20.
Rb1 Nh6 21. Rb6 Ng6 22. Nxf8 (22. Bd3 $18 {and White stays clearly on top.})
22... Rxf8 $16 23. Rxd6 Qg4 24. Qxg4 ({White should play} 24. f3 $16 Qg5 25.
Rc6) 24... Nxg4 $14 25. Rc6 ({White should try} 25. Rb6 $14 Rd8 26. c4) 25...
Rd8 $11 26. c4 {[%cal Bc3c4,Bc4c5][%mdl 32]} N4e5 27. Rb6 Bf5 28. d6 Nf4 {
next ...Rac8 is good for Black.} (28... Bd3 $5 {[%cal Rd3f1]} 29. c5 Bxf1 30.
Kxf1 Rdc8 $15) 29. c5 {[#]} Nh3+ $1 30. Kh1 $1 Nxf2+ 31. Kg1 Nfd3 32. Rd1 Rac8
33. c6 Rxc6 34. Rxc6 Nxc6 35. Bxd3 Bxd3 36. Rxd3 Nxa5 $15 {[%mdl 4096] Endgame
KRB-KRN} 37. Rc3 Rd7 38. Kf2 Ke6 39. Ke3 (39. g4 $11) 39... Rb7 $17 40. Kd4 Kd7
(40... Rb3 $19 41. Rxb3 Nxb3+ 42. Kc4 Nd2+ 43. Kd4 Kd7) 41. Re3 Nc6+ 42. Kc3
Rb5 43. Rg3 g6 44. Rh3 h5 45. Rf3 Ke6 46. Rd3 {intending d7.} Rd5 47. Rg3 Ne5
48. h3 g5 49. Kc2 Nc4 50. Bb4 Rb5 ({Don't play} 50... Nxd6 51. Re3+ Re5 52. Rf3
$19) 51. Rd3 {Black must now prevent d7.} Ne5 ({Less strong is} 51... Rxb4 52.
d7 $15) 52. d7 Nxd7 ({Stronger than} 52... Nxd3 53. d8=Q $11) 53. Rd6+ Kf5 $2 (
53... Ke5 $19 {has better winning chances. ...Nc5 is the strong threat.} 54.
Ba3 Ra5 $1) 54. Bc3 Ne5 55. Rxa6 Rd5 56. Ra4 h4 57. Rb4 (57. Ra6 $17) 57... Rd6
58. Ra4 Ng6 59. Bd2 (59. Ra5+ $17 {is a better defense.} Ke4 60. Bd2) 59... Ne5
60. Bc3 $1 Rc6 {Black is clearly better.} 61. Kd2 {[#]} Ng6 $1 62. Ra5+ {[#]}
Ke6 $1 63. Ra8 $2 {Weighted Error Value: White=0.20/Black=0.25} (63. Ba1) 0-1

[Event "GCT Paris Blitz 2021"]
[Site "Paris"]
[Date "2021.06.22"]
[Round "16"]
[White "Caruana, Fabiano"]
[Black "Aronian, Levon"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "E46"]
[WhiteElo "2820"]
[BlackElo "2781"]
[Annotator "TA"]
[PlyCount "155"]
[EventDate "2021.06.21"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "FRA"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

{[%evp 9,155,-4,8,12,6,5,14,0,0,0,0,0,-10,-4,30,8,5,0,16,0,0,-2,-2,0,0,-12,-11,
-10,-20,-16,-9,-10,-6,-8,0,0,0,-75,-68,-68,-68,-65,-29,-29,-37,-39,-42,-31,-35,
-50,-30,-43,0,-15,-14,-10,-12,-24,-26,-23,-32,-39,0,0,0,0,8,8,10,-87,8,0,0,0,
12,13,33,0,0,0,0,0,55,64,45,55,64,47,285,276,341,243,377,367,360,106,106,106,
106,99,108,78,79,60,60,58,74,53,53,59,100,100,106,100,100,98,118,8,106,106,164,
160,168,168,172,106,107,107,107,107,107,80,80,80,80,8,8,0,0,0,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8]
} 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. e3 O-O 5. Bd2 c5 6. a3 {E46: Nimzo-Indian:
Rubinstein: 4 e3 0-0 5 Ne2 without early Bd3.} Bxc3 7. Bxc3 Ne4 8. Rc1 b6 9.
Nf3 Bb7 10. Be2 Nxc3 11. Rxc3 {[#]} cxd4 $146 ({Predecessor:} 11... d6 12. O-O
{1/2-1/2 (12) Burmakin,V (2504)-Vorobiov,E (2561) Amantea 2018}) 12. exd4 d6
13. O-O Nd7 {[%cal Bb8d7,Bd7f6,Bf6d5][%mdl 32]} 14. Qd2 Nf6 {...Ne4 is the
strong threat.} 15. Qe3 b5 16. b3 Qa5 17. Qc1 (17. cxb5 $2 Nd5 $19) 17... bxc4
18. bxc4 Rac8 19. h3 {[#]} Nd5 $1 20. Rc2 Nb6 21. Nd2 Rc7 22. c5 Rfc8 {[%cal
Rd6c5]} 23. Nb3 (23. Qb2 $11 dxc5 24. Nb3) 23... Qa4 $17 24. Qe3 {[#]} Bd5 $1
25. Rb1 Nd7 26. Na1 Qa5 {[%cal Rd6c5]} 27. Bb5 Nf6 28. Bf1 dxc5 29. dxc5 Bc6 ({
Wrong is} 29... Rxc5 $2 30. Rxc5 Qd8 31. Rxc8 $18) 30. Rcc1 Rd7 31. Nb3 Qxa3
32. Ra1 Qb4 33. Na5 Bd5 34. c6 Rdc7 35. Ba6 Rd8 36. Rcb1 Qe7 37. Rb7 h6 38.
Qxa7 Ne8 39. Rab1 {[#]} (39. Bf1 $11 {remains equal.}) 39... Rdc8 (39... Bxg2
$1 $17 40. Kxg2 (40. Rxc7 Nxc7) 40... Qg5+ {[%mdl 64] Double Attack} 41. Kh2
Qxa5 42. Rxc7 Qxc7+ 43. Qxc7 Nxc7) 40. Qb6 Qg5 {[%csl Gd5][%cal Rg5g2]} 41. Bf1
Be4 (41... Qd8 {with more complications.} 42. g3 Ra8 43. Rb5 Be4 44. Bg2 Qd1+)
42. Rxc7 Rxc7 (42... Nxc7 {is more complex.} 43. Rb4 Bd5 44. Qa7 Qd8 45. Rb7
Qd6) 43. Re1 Bd5 44. Qb8 Qe7 45. Rb1 g5 (45... Kh7 $11) 46. Rb7 $14 {And now
Rxc7 would win.} Kg7 47. Qa7 h5 48. Qb6 g4 $2 (48... f5 $14) 49. hxg4 $18 h4
50. Qe3 Rxb7 (50... Nd6 $142) 51. cxb7 ({Not} 51. Nxb7 Kg8 $16) 51... Bxb7 {[#]
} 52. Nxb7 (52. Qa7 $1 $18 {is the precise move to win.}) 52... Qxb7 $16 53.
Qg5+ Kf8 54. Qxh4 Qe4 55. Qg5 Qd4 56. Be2 Qa1+ 57. Kh2 Qh8+ 58. Kg3 Qc3+ 59.
Bf3 Qc7+ 60. Kh3 Qc3 61. Qh4 Kg7 62. g5 Nd6 63. Qh6+ Kg8 64. g6 Qh8 (64... Qf6
$16) 65. gxf7+ Nxf7 66. Qxh8+ Kxh8 $18 {[%mdl 4096] Endgame KB-KN} 67. Bg4 ({
White should play} 67. Kh4 $18) 67... Kg7 $16 68. Kh4 Kf6 69. Bh5 {Strongly
threatening Bxf7.} Nd6 70. g4 e5 {[#]} 71. g5+ $1 Kg7 72. Kg4 ({Better is} 72.
Bd1 $16) 72... Kh7 $11 {The position is equal.} 73. Kg3 {Threatens to win with
Bf3.} Ne4+ 74. Kg4 Nxf2+ 75. Kf5 Kg7 76. Kxe5 Nh3 77. Kf5 Nxg5 78. Kxg5 {
Blacks defense is rewarded with a draw.  Weighted Error Value: White=0.18/
Black=0.21} 1/2-1/2

[Event "GCT Paris Blitz 2021"]
[Site "Paris"]
[Date "2021.06.22"]
[Round "16"]
[White "Nepomniachtchi, Ian"]
[Black "Kramnik, Vladimir"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "C67"]
[WhiteElo "2792"]
[BlackElo "2753"]
[Annotator "TA"]
[PlyCount "35"]
[EventDate "2021.06.21"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "FRA"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

{[%evp 9,35,21,16,-24,6,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,7,0,5,0,2,0,0,0,0,0]} 1. e4
e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 Nf6 4. O-O Nxe4 5. d4 Nd6 6. Ba4 {C67: Ruy Lopez: Berlin
Defence: 4 0-0 Nxe4.} e4 7. Ne5 {The position is equal.} g6 8. Nc3 Bg7 9. Re1
O-O 10. Nxe4 Nxe4 11. Rxe4 {[#]} Qe7 $146 {[#] Strongly threatening ...d6.} ({
Predecessor:} 11... Nxe5 12. dxe5 d6 13. exd6 Bf5 14. Rb4 a5 15. Rxb7 Qh4 16.
Bc6 cxd6 17. g3 Qc4 {1-0 (50) Shevchenko,K (2599)-Antipov,M (2609) Tornelo INT
2021}) 12. Re1 {And now Nxc6 would win.} Nxe5 13. dxe5 Bxe5 14. c3 {Hoping for
f4.} Qc5 15. Be3 Qe7 16. Bc1 {[#] Black must now prevent f4.} Qc5 17. Be3 Qe7
18. Bc1 {A rather calm draw.  Weighted Error Value: White=0.05/Black=0.02}
1/2-1/2

[Event "GCT Paris Blitz 2021"]
[Site "Paris"]
[Date "2021.06.22"]
[Round "16"]
[White "So, Wesley"]
[Black "Firouzja, Alireza"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "E49"]
[WhiteElo "2770"]
[BlackElo "2759"]
[Annotator "TA"]
[PlyCount "57"]
[EventDate "2021.06.21"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "FRA"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

{[%evp 13,57,4,12,22,19,11,16,20,13,-10,0,-10,20,16,0,0,0,0,6,-18,-22,-29,5,5,
5,11,15,-6,9,11,27,19,17,10,11,13,27,27,31,32,26,31,42,0,520,528]} 1. d4 Nf6 2.
c4 e6 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. e3 O-O 5. Bd3 d5 6. a3 Bxc3+ 7. bxc3 c6 8. Ne2 {8.Nf3 is
vanishing. E49: Nimzo-Indian: Rubinstein: 5 Bd3 d5 6 a3 Bxc3+ 7 bxc3.} b6 9.
cxd5 cxd5 10. f3 {The position is equal. 10.c4 is becoming the main line.} Ba6
11. e4 $5 {[%mdl 4] Leaves trodden paths.} Bxd3 12. Qxd3 Qc8 13. O-O Qa6 14.
Qc2 $5 {[%mdl 4] Exploring less charted territory.} Nc6 15. Bg5 {Threatens to
win with Bxf6.} Ne8 {[#]} 16. Bh4 $146 ({Predecessor:} 16. Bf4 Rc8 17. exd5
exd5 18. Rfe1 Qc4 19. Qa2 Nf6 20. Bg5 Qxa2 21. Rxa2 Nd7 22. Ng3 {1/2-1/2 (30)
Habermehl,T (2522)-Lukez,F (2549) ICCF corr 1999}) 16... Qc4 17. e5 f6 18. exf6
Nxf6 19. Qd2 Rae8 20. Rfe1 Nd7 21. Bg3 e5 22. dxe5 Ndxe5 23. Nf4 d4 24. Rac1 d3
25. Re4 Qc5+ 26. Kh1 {[#] aiming for Qa2+.} Qxa3 {Black wants to play ...Na5.}
27. Rce1 Qd6 28. h4 {[%mdl 1024] White has compensation.} Qh6 $2 {[%mdl 8192]}
(28... Qd7 $11 {and Black is okay.}) 29. Qa2+ {Weighted Error Value: White=0.
05/Black=0.45} 1-0

[Event "GCT Paris Blitz 2021"]
[Site "Paris"]
[Date "2021.06.22"]
[Round "16"]
[White "Radjabov, Teimour"]
[Black "Svidler, Peter"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "A35"]
[WhiteElo "2765"]
[BlackElo "2714"]
[Annotator "TA"]
[PlyCount "65"]
[EventDate "2021.06.21"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "FRA"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

{[%evp 14,65,42,46,74,62,79,74,60,53,55,3,56,31,27,39,34,42,40,47,70,60,52,47,
67,71,59,59,56,54,70,72,97,88,102,102,83,50,148,149,247,-30,84,87,142,103,109,
122,118,105,539,565,531,543]} 1. Nf3 c5 2. c4 Nc6 3. Nc3 g6 4. e3 Bg7 5. d4 d6
6. d5 Ne5 7. Nxe5 Bxe5 8. Bd3 Bg7 {A35: Symmetrical English: 2 Nc3 Nc6 3 Nf3.}
9. O-O Nf6 10. e4 O-O {White is better.} 11. h3 e6 12. Bf4 (12. Bg5 $14) 12...
exd5 {[#]} ({Black should play} 12... Nh5 $11 13. Be3 f5) 13. cxd5 $146 ({
Predecessor:} 13. exd5 a6 14. Qd2 Nh5 15. Bh2 Qc7 16. Ne4 Rd8 17. Rfe1 Nf6 18.
Nxd6 Rxd6 19. Qf4 {1-0 (53) Tsydypov,Z (2558)-Atabayev,S (2425) Lichess.org
INT 2020}) 13... a6 14. a4 Re8 15. Qd2 c4 16. Bc2 Qc7 17. Bh6 $36 {[%mdl 2048]
White is pushing.} Bxh6 18. Qxh6 Bd7 19. a5 b5 20. axb6 $1 Qxb6 21. Qd2 Reb8 (
21... Qxb2 $2 22. Rfb1 $18) 22. Kh2 Qc7 ({Not} 22... Qxb2 $2 23. Rfb1 $18) 23.
Ra2 Rb4 24. f4 Rab8 25. Bb1 Qb6 (25... Ne8 $14) 26. e5 $16 Ne8 {[#]} (26...
dxe5 $16 27. fxe5 Nh5) 27. Qe2 $2 (27. e6 $1 $18 fxe6 28. dxe6 Bxe6 29. f5 gxf5
30. Nd5) 27... Ng7 (27... Rxb2 $11 28. Qf3 Rxa2 29. Bxa2 Qc7) 28. Ne4 {Nf6+ is
the strong threat.} Bf5 ({Black should try} 28... Nh5) 29. Nf6+ ({Stronger than
} 29. exd6 Bxe4 30. Qxe4 Re8 $17) 29... Kh8 30. Bxf5 Nxf5 31. Nd7 Qd4 {[%mdl
8192] [#]} (31... Qe3 $16 32. Qxe3 Nxe3) 32. Nxb8 $18 Rxb8 33. exd6 {Weighted
Error Value: White=0.23/Black=0.59} 1-0

[Event "GCT Paris Blitz 2021"]
[Site "Paris"]
[Date "2021.06.22"]
[Round "16"]
[White "Rapport, Richard"]
[Black "Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "A16"]
[WhiteElo "2763"]
[BlackElo "2760"]
[Annotator "TA"]
[PlyCount "122"]
[EventDate "2021.06.21"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "FRA"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

{[%evp 14,122,37,18,17,9,50,51,67,64,67,66,77,78,81,83,89,81,112,107,148,144,
131,101,184,180,193,200,190,197,176,161,191,152,230,223,271,260,241,221,221,
222,273,152,165,151,261,117,120,116,127,120,141,132,135,119,126,124,169,169,
163,167,161,161,164,164,173,161,157,162,162,154,161,156,158,137,138,106,116,
109,112,103,122,85,80,64,74,14,14,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,11,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]
} 1. Nf3 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. Nc3 d5 4. cxd5 Nxd5 5. e4 Nxc3 6. dxc3 Qxd1+ 7. Kxd1
Nd7 8. Bf4 Nc5 {A16: English Opening: 1...Nf6 with ...d5.} 9. Nd2 Bg7 10. Be3
Ne6 {White is slightly better.} 11. Kc2 Bd7 12. Bc4 {[#]} b5 $146 ({
Predecessor:} 12... a6 13. Rhd1 O-O-O 14. f4 h6 15. g4 Rde8 16. h4 Nd8 17. Rg1
h5 18. g5 Rhf8 {1/2-1/2 (66) Kuchta,J (2215)-Rychtecky,P (2200) ICCF email 2004
}) 13. Bd5 c6 14. Bb3 a5 15. a4 Nd8 16. Rhd1 e6 17. Nf3 Nb7 18. e5 Bf8 (18...
h6 $16 {was called for.}) 19. Ng5 $18 {Nxf7! is the strong threat.} Bc5 {[#]}
20. Nxf7 $1 {[%mdl 512]} Rf8 21. Nd6+ Bxd6 22. exd6 b4 23. f3 c5 (23... e5 $16
{was worth a try.} 24. Bc4 Rf6 25. cxb4 axb4) 24. Bc4 Rf6 25. b3 Bc6 26. Rd2
Kd7 27. Re1 {Black must now prevent Bg5.} Re8 28. Ba6 (28. Bg5 $18 Rf5 29. Be7)
28... Rf5 29. Bf2 e5 (29... bxc3 $16 30. Rd3 (30. Kxc3 Nxd6 31. Bg3 Rd5 $16)
30... Nxd6) 30. Bxb7 (30. Bd3 $18) 30... Bxb7 $16 31. Bxc5 bxc3 32. Rde2 ({
Weaker is} 32. Kxc3 Rc8 $17) 32... e4 33. Ba3 Rh5 34. h3 Rhe5 35. Kxc3 e3 {
[#] intending ...Ba6.} 36. Bc1 $1 Kxd6 37. Rxe3 Rxe3+ 38. Bxe3 $18 {[%mdl 4096]
Endgame KRB-KRB} Kc6 {[#]} 39. Rc1 $1 Ba6 (39... Re6 40. Bf4) 40. Kd4+ Kb7 41.
Rc5 Rd8+ {[#]} 42. Ke4 $1 Rd3 43. Rxa5 Rxb3 44. Re5 Bf1 45. g4 Bxh3 46. Re7+
Kc6 47. Rxh7 Bf1 48. Rg7 Bd3+ 49. Kd4 Bb1 {Black wants to play ...Rd3+.} 50.
Bf4 (50. Re7 $16) 50... Rxf3 $11 {The position is equal.} 51. Ke5 Ra3 52. Ra7
Kb6 53. Ra8 Kb7 54. Ra5 {Strongly threatening Rb5+.} Bc2 55. Rb5+ Ka6 56. Rd5 (
56. Rc5 {with more complications.} Bxa4 57. Rd5 Bc2 58. Rd2 Rc3 59. Kf6) 56...
Rxa4 {Threatens to win with ...Re4+.} 57. Rd6+ Kb5 {And now ...Re4+ would win.}
58. Rd4 Rxd4 59. Kxd4 g5 60. Bxg5 Bd1 61. Bf4 $1 Bxg4 {Blacks defense is
rewarded with a draw.  Weighted Error Value: White=0.13/Black=0.12} 1/2-1/2

[Event "GCT Paris Blitz 2021"]
[Site "Paris"]
[Date "2021.06.22"]
[Round "17"]
[White "Aronian, Levon"]
[Black "Radjabov, Teimour"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "A54"]
[WhiteElo "2781"]
[BlackElo "2765"]
[Annotator "TA"]
[PlyCount "60"]
[EventDate "2021.06.21"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "FRA"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

{[%evp 15,60,3,15,0,0,0,42,8,10,0,0,0,0,0,0,-10,-16,-33,-57,-56,-45,-73,-58,
-112,-113,-126,-127,-138,-137,-191,-173,-290,-291,-290,-241,-296,-269,-347,
-350,-337,-329,-822,-789,-2080,-1397,-29992,-29986]} 1. d4 Nf6 2. Nf3 d6 3. g3
Nbd7 4. Bg2 e5 5. c4 c6 6. Nc3 e4 7. Ng5 d5 8. cxd5 cxd5 9. O-O {A54: Old
Indian Defence with Nf3, but without e4.} h6 10. Nh3 Nb6 11. f3 {White is
slightly better.} exf3 {[#]} 12. Rxf3 $146 ({Predecessor:} 12. exf3 Be7 13. Nf2
O-O 14. Nd3 Bf5 15. Ne5 Rc8 16. Be3 Nc4 17. Nxc4 dxc4 18. Qd2 {0-1 (42)
Bolkvadze,T (1611)-Naqopia,G (1680) Poti 2019}) 12... Be7 13. Nf4 O-O 14. a4 a5
15. Qb3 Bb4 16. Rf2 Bxc3 17. bxc3 Re8 18. Rb1 Ra6 {[%cal Ba8a6,Ba6c6,Bc6c8]
[%mdl 32]} 19. Nd3 (19. Qa2 $15) 19... Nc4 $17 {[%cal Bb6c4,Bc4d6,Bd6e4][%mdl
32]} 20. Qa2 Rc6 21. Rb5 Nd6 22. Rxd5 {[#]} (22. Bxd5 $17 Nxd5 23. Rxd5) 22...
Be6 $1 $19 {[%mdl 64] Pin} 23. c4 (23. Nc5 {was called for.} Nxd5 24. Bxd5 Rxc5
{[%mdl 64] Double Attack} 25. Bxe6 (25. dxc5 Ne4 $17 {[%mdl 64] Double Attack})
25... Rxe6 26. dxc5) 23... Bxd5 ({Weaker is} 23... Nxd5 24. cxd5 Rxc1+ 25. Nxc1
$11) 24. cxd5 Rc8 25. Bd2 Nde4 26. Rf5 Qb6 27. e3 Qa6 28. Ne5 {[#]} (28. Bf1
Qc4 29. Qxc4 Rxc4 30. Bxa5) 28... Qe2 29. Rxf6 gxf6 30. Qb2 Qd1+ {Weighted
Error Value: White=0.98/Black=0.30} 0-1

[Event "GCT Paris Blitz 2021"]
[Site "Paris"]
[Date "2021.06.22"]
[Round "17"]
[White "So, Wesley"]
[Black "Rapport, Richard"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "C67"]
[WhiteElo "2770"]
[BlackElo "2763"]
[Annotator "TA"]
[PlyCount "27"]
[EventDate "2021.06.21"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "FRA"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

{[%evp 23,27,0,1,0,0,0]} 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 Nf6 4. O-O Nxe4 5. d4 Nd6
6. dxe5 Nxb5 7. a4 Nbd4 8. Nxd4 d5 9. exd6 Nxd4 10. Qxd4 Qxd6 11. Qe4+ Qe6 12.
Qd4 Qd6 {[#]} 13. Qe4+ $146 {C67: Ruy Lopez: Berlin Defence: 4 0-0 Nxe4.} ({
Predecessor:} 13. Qe3+ Be7 14. Nc3 c6 15. Ne4 Qg6 16. Nc5 Qd6 17. Re1 b6 18.
Ne4 Qe5 19. a5 bxa5 20. Rxa5 Qc7 21. Rg5 Kf8 22. Rxg7 h6 23. Qd4 Be6 24. Rg6
fxg6 25. Qxh8+ {1-0 (25) Abdusattorov,N (2627)-Nakamura,H (2736) Chess.com INT
2021}) 13... Qe6 14. Qd4 {Not much happened in this game. Not enough moves}
1/2-1/2

[Event "GCT Paris Blitz 2021"]
[Site "Paris"]
[Date "2021.06.22"]
[Round "17"]
[White "Firouzja, Alireza"]
[Black "Nepomniachtchi, Ian"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "C11"]
[WhiteElo "2759"]
[BlackElo "2792"]
[Annotator "TA"]
[PlyCount "101"]
[EventDate "2021.06.21"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "FRA"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

{[%evp 16,101,14,12,12,3,10,14,2,8,14,17,28,25,29,25,27,21,31,40,80,87,93,84,
147,147,259,268,267,257,262,256,271,262,266,259,256,189,189,189,187,189,195,
194,189,194,188,199,249,249,233,218,208,176,195,195,183,121,124,119,112,102,
166,166,186,186,1866,1851,1851,1851,1851,1789,1525,1525,5422,3064,2849,1770,
29972,29973,29974,29975,29975,29975,29975,29976,29958,12836]} 1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5
3. Nc3 Nf6 4. e5 Nfd7 5. f4 c5 6. Nf3 Nc6 7. Be3 a6 8. a3 cxd4 9. Nxd4 Bc5 {
C11: French: Classical System: 4 e5 and 4 Bg5 dxe4.} 10. Be2 O-O 11. Qd2 Nxd4 {
The position is equal.} 12. Bxd4 b5 13. Bf3 {[#]} Qb6 $146 ({Predecessor:} 
13... Bb7 14. Ne2 Rc8 15. O-O Qb6 16. c3 a5 17. Bg4 Rc7 18. Kh1 Bxd4 19. Nxd4
b4 20. axb4 axb4 21. cxb4 {1-0 (36) Wierzbicka,W (1940)-Platek,M (1921) Krakow
2006}) 14. Ne2 {[%cal Bc3e2,Be2d4,Bd4f5,Bf5d6][%mdl 32]} a5 15. O-O Bxd4+ 16.
Nxd4 Nc5 17. Qe3 Bb7 18. f5 exf5 19. Nxf5 Rae8 (19... Na4 $142) 20. b4 $1 $16 {
[%cal Rb4c5,Bb2b4,Bb4a5][%mdl 32]} Na4 (20... axb4 $16 21. axb4 Nd7) 21. Qxb6
$18 Nxb6 22. Nd6 ({Don't do} 22. bxa5 $6 Nc4 $18) 22... Re7 23. bxa5 Nc4 24.
Nxb7 Rxb7 25. Bxd5 Rd7 26. Bc6 Rc7 27. Bxb5 Nxa5 28. c4 Rfc8 29. Rf4 g6 30. a4
Re7 31. Re4 Rc5 32. Rd1 Rcxe5 33. Rxe5 Rxe5 {[%mdl 4096] Endgame KRB-KRN} 34.
Rd5 Re2 35. c5 Rc2 {[#]} 36. h4 ({White should try} 36. Rd8+ $1 $18 Kg7 37. c6)
36... Kg7 $16 37. h5 gxh5 38. Rxh5 Nb7 (38... h6 $16) 39. c6 Na5 {[#]} 40.
Rxh7+ $3 {[%mdl 576] Decoy} Kxh7 $2 (40... Kf6 41. g4 Ke6) 41. Bd3+ $18 {
[%mdl 64] Double Attack} Kg7 42. Bxc2 {White threatens c7 and mate.} Nxc6 {
KB-KN} 43. Be4 Na5 44. Kf2 Nc4 45. Bd5 Nb6 46. Bb3 f5 47. a5 {[%cal Ba4a5,
Ba5a6][%mdl 32] White mates.} Nc8 48. Be6 Ne7 49. a6 Nc6 50. Bxf5 Kf6 51. Bd3 {
Weighted Error Value: White=0.05/Black=0.31} 1-0

[Event "GCT Paris Blitz 2021"]
[Site "Paris"]
[Date "2021.06.22"]
[Round "17"]
[White "Kramnik, Vladimir"]
[Black "Caruana, Fabiano"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "C54"]
[WhiteElo "2753"]
[BlackElo "2820"]
[Annotator "TA"]
[PlyCount "79"]
[EventDate "2021.06.21"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "FRA"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

{[%evp 12,79,26,8,24,10,25,10,9,17,19,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,-6,0,0,0,-7,-14,-20,-23,
-25,-18,-15,22,25,30,0,0,0,10,10,10,10,8,8,119,122,133,130,166,158,153,112,150,
119,159,139,145,128,155,144,231,229,302,281,316,313,358,258,351,330,2654,2430]
} 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Nf6 4. d3 h6 5. O-O Bc5 6. c3 d6 $1 {6...d6
scores better than 6...0-0.} 7. Re1 Bb6 {C54: Giuoco Piano: 4 c3 Nf6, main
lines with 5 d4 and 5 d3.} 8. a4 a5 9. Nbd2 O-O {The position is equal.} 10. h3
Ne7 11. d4 Nc6 {[%cal Re5d4]} 12. dxe5 Nxe5 13. Nxe5 dxe5 {[#]} 14. Bf1 $146 ({
Predecessor:} 14. Qe2 Qe7 15. Bb3 c6 16. Nc4 Bc7 17. Bc2 Be6 18. b3 Rfd8 19.
Ba3 Qe8 20. Red1 Rxd1+ 21. Rxd1 Bxc4 22. Qxc4 {1/2-1/2 (35) Xu,Y (2536)-Xiang,
Z (2409) Xingtai 2018}) 14... Be6 15. Qc2 Nd7 16. Nc4 Bc5 17. Rd1 Qh4 18. Be3
Bxe3 19. Nxe3 Nc5 {...Bb3 is the strong threat.} 20. Bc4 Rae8 21. Bxe6 Rxe6 22.
Rd5 Nxe4 23. Re1 Nd6 24. Rxa5 c6 25. Nf5 Nxf5 26. Qxf5 Rf6 (26... Qc4 $11) 27.
Qc2 $16 e4 {[#]} 28. Re5 ({Inferior is} 28. Rxe4 Rxf2 29. Qxf2 Qxe4 $11) 28...
e3 29. R1xe3 Rd6 30. Re8 Rd8 31. Rxf8+ Rxf8 {[%mdl 4096] Endgame KQR-KQR} 32.
Qe4 Qd8 33. g3 g6 34. Kg2 h5 (34... Qa8 $16 35. Kh2 b5) 35. b4 $18 Qd7 36. a5
Rd8 37. c4 Kg7 38. Qe7 Kg8 39. Qf6 {Strongly threatening Re7.} Qd4 $2 {[#]} (
39... Re8 40. Qf3 Rxe3 41. Qxe3 Kh7) 40. Re8+ $1 {[%mdl 33344] Double Attack. 
Weighted Error Value: White=0.09/Black=0.26. An unexpected result.} 1/2-1/2

[Event "GCT Paris Blitz 2021"]
[Site "Paris"]
[Date "2021.06.22"]
[Round "17"]
[White "Svidler, Peter"]
[Black "Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "B31"]
[WhiteElo "2714"]
[BlackElo "2760"]
[Annotator "TA"]
[PlyCount "138"]
[EventDate "2021.06.21"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "FRA"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

{[%evp 13,138,11,47,36,63,56,73,66,98,104,102,99,104,98,102,99,107,104,110,100,
126,118,115,110,122,114,121,118,135,134,135,128,133,127,140,131,137,133,156,
156,156,145,153,145,145,156,156,156,156,156,156,156,156,138,165,165,166,165,
165,165,165,142,150,135,135,135,135,135,135,135,135,135,135,135,135,135,135,
135,135,135,135,0,135,135,325,325,441,328,654,581,660,138,138,135,135,0,0,0,
135,135,135,83,135,83,135,135,135,135,135,135,135,135,135,135,135,0,0,0,0,0,0,
0,0,0,0,0,0]} 1. e4 c5 2. Nc3 Nc6 3. Bb5 Nd4 4. Nf3 g6 5. O-O Bg7 6. Nxd4 cxd4
7. Ne2 a6 8. Ba4 {[#] B31: Sicilian: 2...Nc6 3 Bb5 g6.} d3 $146 ({Predecessor:
} 8... e6 9. d3 Ne7 10. Bf4 b5 11. Bb3 d5 12. f3 e5 13. Bg5 f6 14. Bd2 Bb7 {
1/2-1/2 (30) Chigaev,M (2613)-Wei,Y (2733) Moscow 2019}) 9. cxd3 Nf6 10. f3 {
White is better.} O-O 11. d4 d5 12. d3 Bd7 13. Bb3 Bc6 14. Be3 Rc8 15. Qd2 e6
16. Rac1 Qb6 17. Rc3 a5 18. Rfc1 Ra8 19. a3 a4 20. Bd1 Rfe8 21. e5 Nd7 22. f4
f6 23. h4 h5 24. Kh2 f5 25. Ng1 Bf8 26. Nf3 Be7 27. Qf2 Nf8 28. R3c2 Rec8 29.
Bd2 Bd7 30. Rxc8 Rxc8 31. Rxc8 Bxc8 32. Bc3 ({Stronger than} 32. Bxa4 Qxb2 33.
Be3 Qxf2 $11) 32... Bd7 33. Kg3 Kf7 34. Qd2 Nh7 35. Kf2 Bc6 36. g3 Ke8 37. Ne1
{[%cal Bf3e1,Be1c2,Bc2b4][%mdl 32]} Nf8 38. Nc2 Nd7 39. Bb4 Bxb4 40. Qxb4 ({
Of course not} 40. Nxb4 $6 Qxd4+ 41. Kg2 Bb5 $11) 40... Qxb4 41. Nxb4 $16 {
[%mdl 4096] Endgame KBN-KBN} Bb5 42. Ke3 Nb8 43. Na2 Bc6 44. Kd2 Na6 45. Kc3 b5
46. Nb4 Nb8 47. Na2 Na6 48. Nc1 Ke7 $2 (48... Kd7 $16 49. Na2 Kd8) 49. b3 $1
$18 {[%cal Rb3a4]} axb3 50. Nxb3 Be8 $2 (50... b4+ 51. axb4 Ba4) 51. Nc5 Nb8
52. Nb7 $2 (52. Kb4 $18 {is the precise move to win. Black must now prevent
Ka5.} Bc6 53. Ka5) 52... Bc6 $16 53. Nd6 {And now Kb4 would win.} Na6 54. Nc8+
(54. Kb3 $16) 54... Kd8 $11 55. Nd6 Kc7 (55... Ke7 $11) 56. Bc2 Bd7 57. Kb2 (
57. Bb3 $142) 57... Kb6 {[#]} ({Better is} 57... b4) 58. Bd1 (58. Kb3 $142 $1)
58... Nb8 (58... b4 $142) 59. Kc3 Nc6 60. Nf7 Be8 {[#]} 61. Ng5 $1 {[%cal
Rg5e6]} Bd7 62. Nf3 Be8 63. Nd2 Na5 64. Nb3 (64. Bf3 $16) 64... Nxb3 $1 {
The position is equal.} 65. Bxb3 Ka5 66. Bd1 Bd7 67. Bc2 Be8 68. Bd1 Bd7 69.
Bc2 Be8 {White really could win this.  Weighted Error Value: White=0.24/
Black=0.23} 1/2-1/2

[Event "GCT Paris Blitz 2021"]
[Site "Paris"]
[Date "2021.06.22"]
[Round "18"]
[White "Caruana, Fabiano"]
[Black "Firouzja, Alireza"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "B30"]
[WhiteElo "2820"]
[BlackElo "2759"]
[Annotator "TA"]
[PlyCount "129"]
[EventDate "2021.06.21"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "FRA"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

{[%evp 9,129,8,25,14,16,0,20,0,0,-3,0,0,0,-8,-8,-20,-25,-30,-17,-41,-28,-40,58,
55,53,56,56,49,51,52,116,110,130,112,110,124,120,101,94,40,50,42,37,29,21,19,
127,127,127,109,121,91,116,88,101,91,120,115,111,119,120,120,120,103,239,239,
247,245,244,234,242,236,229,142,144,154,145,140,402,397,349,373,504,503,5147,
563,1776,544,523,501,515,501,769,704,1670,1403,1362,1250,4879,3975,29954,2002,
29962,29963,29994,29948,6199,5965,5422,5173,29969,29968,29976,29977,29976,
29978,29978,29979,29978,29980,29995,29996]} 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 e6 4.
Bxc6 bxc6 5. b3 d5 6. e5 {B30: Sicilian: 2...Nc6 3 Bb5, lines without ...g6.}
Ne7 7. d3 {[#]} Qc7 $146 ({Predecessor:} 7... Ng6 8. h4 h5 9. Bb2 Be7 10. c4 f6
11. g3 fxe5 12. Nxe5 Nxe5 13. Bxe5 Bf6 {1-0 (36) Rambaldi,F (2547)-Kuzubov,Y 
(2641) Douglas 2015}) 8. Qe2 {The position is equal.} Nf5 9. O-O Nd4 10. Nxd4
cxd4 11. Nd2 {[%cal Bb1d2,Bd2f3,Bf3h2,Bh2g4][%mdl 32]} c5 12. Nf3 h6 13. h4 Be7
14. Bf4 Bb7 15. Bg3 g5 (15... O-O $15) 16. h5 $14 O-O-O 17. Nh2 Kb8 18. Ng4 Rc8
19. f3 c4 (19... Ka8 $14) 20. Bf2 $16 cxd3 21. cxd3 Qc2 22. Qxc2 Rxc2 23. Bxd4
Ba6 24. Rfc1 ({White should try} 24. Rfd1 $16) 24... Bxd3 $14 25. Rxc2 Bxc2 26.
Rc1 Bf5 27. Bxa7+ Kb7 (27... Kxa7 $11 28. Rc7+ {[%mdl 64] Double Attack} Kb6
29. Rxe7 Bxg4 30. fxg4 Kc5) 28. Bd4 $16 Ba3 29. Rf1 Ka6 30. Ne3 Bd3 31. Rf2 Rc8
32. Ng4 Bf8 33. f4 gxf4 34. Rxf4 Be2 35. Kf2 Rc2 36. Kg3 Rd2 (36... Rc7 $16 {
was worth a try.}) 37. Be3 $18 Rd3 {[#] And now ...Bxg4 would win.} 38. Kf2 ({
Inferior is} 38. Rxf7 Bb4 $11) 38... Bd1 39. Rxf7 {Threatens to win with Nf6.}
Bxg4 40. Rxf8 Bxh5 41. Bxh6 {[%mdl 4096] Endgame KRB-KRB} Rc3 42. Rb8 Rc2+ 43.
Kg3 Bg6 $2 {[%mdl 8192] [#] This costs Black the game.} (43... Ka7 $16 44. Rf8
Rxa2) 44. Be3 $1 Be4 45. b4 Rc3 {...d4 is the strong threat.} 46. Kf4 {
Strongly threatening b5+.} Rc4 (46... Bxg2 $142 47. b5+ Ka5) 47. Rb6+ {[%mdl
64] Double Attack} Ka7 48. Rxe6+ (48. Rc6+ $142 Kb7 49. Rxc4) 48... Kb7 49. Bc5
Bb1+ 50. Kg5 d4 (50... Bxa2 $142 51. Rd6 Re4) 51. Rd6 d3 52. e6 Re4 53. Kf6
Bxa2 54. e7 Bc4 55. g4 (55. Rd4 $142 Re6+ 56. Kf7 Bb3 57. Rxd3 Bc4 58. Rd4 Bb3
59. e8=Q Re5+ 60. Kf8 Rxe8+ 61. Kxe8) 55... Re2 56. g5 Rf2+ 57. Kg6 Re2 58. Rd8
Bb5 59. Kf7 d2 60. g6 {White mates.} Ba4 61. g7 d1=Q 62. Rxd1 Bxd1 63. e8=Q
Bb3+ 64. Kf8 Rf2+ 65. Bxf2 {Weighted Error Value: White=0.21/Black=0.25} 1-0

[Event "GCT Paris Blitz 2021"]
[Site "Paris"]
[Date "2021.06.22"]
[Round "18"]
[White "Nepomniachtchi, Ian"]
[Black "So, Wesley"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "A12"]
[WhiteElo "2792"]
[BlackElo "2770"]
[Annotator "TA"]
[PlyCount "90"]
[EventDate "2021.06.21"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "FRA"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

{[%evp 9,90,5,8,7,7,-3,-1,-9,-8,-10,0,-7,8,4,15,2,19,8,26,0,0,0,0,-13,-9,-30,
-21,-6,-12,-37,-33,-78,-52,-76,-42,-97,-77,-85,0,-42,-16,-11,-20,-98,0,0,4,0,0,
0,0,-8,0,-13,0,-19,4,8,0,-17,0,-141,-108,-123,-125,-107,-125,-213,-208,-402,
-456,-473,-406,-700,-700,-663,-277,-1797,-1730,-6322,-5916,-6515,-6387]} 1. b3
d5 2. Bb2 Nf6 3. e3 Bf5 4. Nf3 e6 5. c4 c6 6. Nc3 {A12: English Opening: 1...
c6 with b3 by White.} Nbd7 7. d4 Ne4 $5 {[%mdl 4] [#] A promising side line.}
8. a3 $146 {The position is equal.} ({Predecessor:} 8. Nxe4 Bxe4 9. Nd2 Bg6 10.
Be2 Bd6 11. O-O O-O 12. Bf3 a5 13. g3 f5 14. Qc1 {1-0 (45) Dimitrov,R (2518)
-Papadopoulos,G (2354) Kavala 2018}) 8... Bd6 9. Bd3 Nxc3 10. Bxc3 Bxd3 11.
Qxd3 Qe7 12. O-O a5 13. e4 O-O 14. Bb2 dxe4 15. Qxe4 Nf6 16. Qh4 b5 17. Bc1
bxc4 18. bxc4 c5 19. a4 Rfc8 20. Be3 cxd4 21. Bxd4 Rab8 22. Bc3 (22. Qg5 $15)
22... Bb4 $17 23. Be5 Bd6 (23... Rb7 $17) 24. Rfd1 Bxe5 25. Nxe5 Qc7 26. Qg5 {
[#]} (26. Qd4 $1 $11) 26... Qc5 (26... Ne4 $1 $17 {[%cal Re4g5]} 27. Qf4 Nc3)
27. Qf4 $11 Rb7 28. h3 h6 29. Rd3 Rcb8 30. Kh2 Rb2 31. Rf3 {Nd3 is the strong
threat.} Qc7 32. Re1 Ra2 33. Qg3 {And now Rxf6 would win.} Kh7 $1 34. Qh4 Rbb2
{Strongly threatening ...Re2.} 35. Ree3 (35. Qd4 $1 $11) 35... Re2 ({Don't
blunder} 35... Rxa4 $2 36. Rxf6 gxf6 37. Qxf6 $18) 36. Qd4 {Threatens to win
with Qd3+.} Rxf2 37. Rxf2 Rxf2 38. c5 {[#]} (38. Re1 $17 {keeps fighting.} Ra2
39. Qd1) 38... Nd5 $1 $40 {[%cal Rd5e3][%mdl 128] White is in trouble.} 39. Rg3
(39. Re1 Rf4 40. Qd3+ g6 41. Qb5) 39... Rf4 40. Qb2 Rf5 41. Nf3 (41. Nc4 $142
Nf6 42. Nd6 Rxc5 43. Ne4) 41... Nf6 42. Qb6 Rxc5 (42... Qf4 $142 43. Qd6 e5)
43. Qb1+ (43. Qxc7 Rxc7 44. Nd2) 43... Kg8 {Black is clearly winning.} 44. Nd4
Nh5 {[%mdl 64] Pin} 45. Ne2 Nxg3 {Weighted Error Value: White=0.81/Black=0.19}
0-1

[Event "GCT Paris Blitz 2021"]
[Site "Paris"]
[Date "2021.06.22"]
[Round "18"]
[White "Radjabov, Teimour"]
[Black "Kramnik, Vladimir"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "A30"]
[WhiteElo "2765"]
[BlackElo "2753"]
[Annotator "TA"]
[PlyCount "142"]
[EventDate "2021.06.21"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "FRA"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

{[%evp 19,142,16,16,0,20,0,0,0,0,-16,20,13,14,15,24,10,37,28,34,12,14,13,23,0,
5,0,4,0,0,0,0,-18,-2,-17,-20,-23,-24,-20,-21,-35,-20,-51,-33,-39,-32,-32,-33,
-23,-22,-57,-54,-45,-50,-113,-111,-127,-127,-178,-138,-164,-156,-161,-164,-185,
-184,-200,-190,-227,-227,-181,-173,-206,-164,-181,-175,-171,-156,-170,-164,
-156,-168,-156,-131,-174,-187,-225,-239,-257,-246,-257,-257,-257,-125,-257,
-257,-257,-237,-12829,-12832,-12835,-12836,-12837,-12838,-12838,-12838,-12837,
-1383,-12839,0,-12836,-11141,-12838,-2322,-1425,0,-12838,-12838,-12838,-8512,
-12841,-12841,-12837,-3788,-12843,-12844]} 1. Nf3 Nf6 2. c4 c5 3. Nc3 e6 4. g3
b6 5. Bg2 Bb7 6. O-O Be7 7. d4 cxd4 8. Qxd4 O-O 9. b3 d6 10. Ba3 Na6 11. Rad1 {
[%cal Ra3d6] A30: Symmetrical English: Double Fianchetto and Hedgehog.} Nc5 12.
Bb2 a6 13. Rfe1 {The position is equal.} Rc8 14. e4 Qc7 {[#]} (14... b5 $5) 15.
e5 $146 {[%cal Re5d6]} ({Predecessor:} 15. Nd2 Qb8 16. b4 Ncd7 17. a3 Rfd8 18.
Bf1 Ne8 19. Qe3 Bf6 20. Rc1 Ba8 21. Ba1 Nc7 22. Nf3 h6 23. Red1 {1/2-1/2 (23)
Twardon,M-Cummings,D (2265) Jelenia Gora 1980}) 15... dxe5 16. Qxe5 h6 17. h4
Rfe8 18. Qxc7 Rxc7 19. Ne5 Rec8 20. Re2 Kf8 21. Red2 Bxg2 22. Kxg2 Ke8 23. f3
h5 24. Kh3 g6 25. Ne2 (25. g4 {is more complex.} Nfd7 26. Nxd7 Rxd7 27. Rxd7
Nxd7 28. Ne4) 25... Ncd7 26. Nd3 b5 27. cxb5 axb5 28. Nd4 Rb7 29. Re2 Nd5 30.
Ree1 b4 31. Rc1 Rbc7 (31... Ra8 {with more complications.} 32. Rc2 Rba7 33. Nc6
Rxa2 34. Nxe7 Kxe7 35. g4 R2a5) 32. Rxc7 Rxc7 33. Rc1 Rxc1 34. Bxc1 Nc3 35. Bd2
Nxa2 36. Nc6 (36. g4 $1 $15) 36... Nc5 $17 37. Nxc5 Bxc5 {[%mdl 4096] Endgame
KBN-KBN} 38. g4 (38. Ne5 $17 {was worth a try.}) 38... Nc3 39. Kg2 Nd5 40. Ne5
Bd6 41. Nd3 f5 42. gxh5 gxh5 43. f4 Kd7 44. Kf3 Kc6 45. Be1 Nc3 46. Ke3 Kd5 47.
Bd2 Be7 48. Be1 Na2 49. Bd2 Bxh4 {Hoping for ...Be7.} 50. Bxb4 Bf6 51. Ba5 h4
52. Kf3 Kd4 53. Nf2 {[#]} Nc1 $1 54. b4 Kc4 55. Nh3 Nb3 (55... Nd3 $19 {
has better winning chances.} 56. Kg2 Kb5) 56. Ke2 (56. Kg2 $17) 56... Nd4+ $19
57. Kf2 Nc6 58. Ng5 $2 (58. Kg2) 58... Bxg5 59. fxg5 {KB-KN} Ne5 60. Bc7 {[#]}
Ng6 $1 61. Bd6 e5 62. Kf3 Kd5 (62... e4+ $142 63. Ke3 h3) 63. Bb8 Kc4 64. Bd6
f4 65. Kg4 Kd5 (65... Kb5 $142 66. Kh3 e4) 66. Bb8 Kc4 (66... Kc6 $142 67. Ba7
e4) 67. Bd6 $1 Kb5 {Black is clearly winning.} 68. Bc5 e4 69. Bf2 e3 70. Be1
Kc4 71. Kf3 h3 {Weighted Error Value: White=0.31/Black=0.06} 0-1

[Event "GCT Paris Blitz 2021"]
[Site "Paris"]
[Date "2021.06.22"]
[Round "18"]
[White "Rapport, Richard"]
[Black "Svidler, Peter"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "A30"]
[WhiteElo "2763"]
[BlackElo "2714"]
[Annotator "TA"]
[PlyCount "100"]
[EventDate "2021.06.21"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "FRA"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

{[%evp 9,100,18,33,33,117,2,31,-13,0,1,0,11,7,8,33,33,40,37,39,45,55,51,56,60,
61,27,39,35,92,86,76,42,47,41,41,14,16,20,10,5,8,1,15,15,21,12,11,0,0,0,3,3,0,
0,0,11,10,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,
0,0]} 1. Nf3 c5 2. c4 Nc6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 e5 5. Nb5 Bb4+ 6. Bd2 {A30:
Symmetrical English: Double Fianchetto and Hedgehog.} a6 (6... Be7 $14) 7. N5c3
(7. Bxb4 $16 axb5 8. Bd6) 7... Nf6 8. g3 {White is slightly better.} d5 9. cxd5
Nxd5 10. Bg2 Be6 11. O-O O-O 12. Nxd5 Bxd5 {[#]} 13. Bg5 $1 Qxg5 14. Qxd5 {[#]}
Qe7 $146 ({Predecessor:} 14... Rad8 15. Qb3 Qe7 16. a3 Ba5 17. e3 e4 18. Qc4
Rfe8 19. b4 Bc7 20. Nc3 Be5 {1-0 (43) Iturrizaga Bonelli,E (2833)-Sjugirov,S 
(2834) Chess.com INT 2019}) 15. a3 $1 {[%cal Ra3b4]} Ba5 16. b4 Bb6 17. Nc3 Bd4
18. Rac1 Rac8 (18... Rad8 $14 19. Qc4 Bxc3 20. Rxc3 Nd4) 19. Na4 $16 Rfd8 20.
Qe4 g6 21. e3 Ba7 22. Rfd1 Rxd1+ {The position is equal.} 23. Rxd1 f5 24. Qc4+
Kg7 25. Qc3 Rc7 26. Qa1 Kh6 27. Nc3 Rd7 28. Bxc6 bxc6 29. Ne2 Rxd1+ 30. Qxd1 c5
31. Nc3 cxb4 32. Nd5 Qb7 33. Nxb4 Bc5 34. Nd3 Qd5 35. e4 fxe4 36. Qc1+ {
[%mdl 64] [#] Double Attack} e3 $1 37. Qxc5 exf2+ 38. Kxf2 Qxd3 39. Qxe5 Qxa3
$11 {[%mdl 4096] Endgame KQ-KQ} 40. Qf4+ Kg7 41. Qe5+ (41. Qd4+ {seems wilder.}
Kf7 42. Qc4+ Kf6 43. Qf4+ Kg7) 41... Kf7 42. Qd5+ Kf6 43. Qd4+ Ke6 44. Qe4+ Kd6
{White must now prevent ...Qc5+.} 45. Qd4+ Kc6 46. Qe4+ Kb6 47. Qe6+ Ka5 48.
Qd5+ Kb6 {...Qc5+ is the strong threat.} 49. Qe6+ Ka5 50. Qd5+ Kb6 {Weighted
Error Value: White=0.07/Black=0.08} 1/2-1/2

[Event "GCT Paris Blitz 2021"]
[Site "Paris"]
[Date "2021.06.22"]
[Round "18"]
[White "Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime"]
[Black "Aronian, Levon"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "C78"]
[WhiteElo "2760"]
[BlackElo "2781"]
[Annotator "TA"]
[PlyCount "62"]
[EventDate "2021.06.21"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "FRA"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

{[%evp 17,62,37,46,21,7,11,23,18,23,6,29,18,29,21,19,32,34,33,28,0,0,0,0,-265,
123,0,242,244,201,197,248,-358,-363,-473,-479,-763,-763,-768,-769,-749,-751,
-717,-695,-855,-851,-785,-778]} 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4. Ba4 Nf6 5. O-O
b5 6. Bb3 Bc5 7. c3 d6 8. a4 {[%cal Ba2a4,Ba4a5][%mdl 32]} Rb8 9. d4 Bb6 10. a5
{is now more promising than 10.axb5. C78: Ruy Lopez: Archangelsk and Möller
Defences.} Ba7 ({Wrong is} 10... Bxa5 $2 11. dxe5 (11. d5 Ne7 $18) 11... dxe5
12. Qxd8+ Kxd8 13. Bd5 $18 (13. Bxf7 Bb6 $16)) 11. h3 Bb7 12. Be3 {Strongly
threatening d5.White has an edge.} Nxe4 13. d5 Bxe3 14. dxc6 {[#] And now Qd5!
would win.} Nxf2 $1 15. Qe2 $36 {[%mdl 2048] White has good play.} Nxh3+ 16.
Kh1 Nf2+ 17. Rxf2 Bxf2 18. cxb7 Ba7 19. Bd5 {[#]} Qd7 $146 {Threatens to win
with ...c6.} ({Predecessor:} 19... O-O 20. b4 Qd7 21. Qe4 Kh8 22. Bc6 f5 23.
Qd5 Qe7 24. Nbd2 Rf6 25. Nf1 Rh6+ {1-0 (56) Kuybokarov,T (2549)-Urazayev,A 
(2429) Tornelo INT 2021}) 20. Qe4 $2 {[%mdl 8192] [#]} (20. Nd4 $1 $11 {
and White stays safe.} Bxd4 21. Qf3) 20... Kf8 $2 ({Black should play} 20... f5
$1 $19 {[%cal Rf5e4]} 21. Qh4 c6) 21. Ng5 (21. Nbd2 $16) 21... Qe7 (21... f5
$11 22. Qf3 Ke7) 22. Nxf7 $18 c6 23. Nxh8 Qf6 24. Ng6+ $4 {[%mdl 8192]} hxg6
$19 25. Nd2 (25. Bxc6 {is a self mate.} Ke7 26. Be8 Rxe8 27. b8=Q Rxb8 28. g3
Qf1+ 29. Kh2 Bg1+ 30. Kh1 Bf2+ 31. Kh2 Qg1+ 32. Kh3 Qxg3#) 25... Ke7 {( -> ...
Rh8+). Black is clearly winning.} ({Much less strong is} 25... cxd5 26. Qg4 $19
) 26. Nf3 (26. Be6 $142 d5 27. Qd3 Qxe6 28. Qh3) 26... cxd5 27. Qg4 Rh8+ 28.
Nh2 Qf4 29. Qxf4 exf4 30. Rf1 g5 31. Rf3 g4 {Weighted Error Value: White=0.80/
Black=0.43} 0-1

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