[Event "Goldmoney Asian Rapid Prelims 2021"]
[Site "Chess24"]
[Date "2021.06.24"]
[Round "1.1"]
[White "Adhiban, B.."]
[Black "Aronian, Levon"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "A09"]
[WhiteElo "2660"]
[BlackElo "2781"]
[Annotator "TA"]
[PlyCount "92"]
[EventDate "2021.06.26"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "NET"]
[Tiebreak "Koya+Number of black wins+Number of wins"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

{[%evp 9,92,-24,-18,-21,-10,-64,-69,-106,-97,-114,-125,-104,-94,-111,-71,-72,
-54,-82,-68,-52,-58,-89,-95,-170,-171,-171,-164,-164,-158,-155,-127,-125,-35,
-151,-148,-142,-71,-226,-217,-227,-225,-217,-218,-198,-191,-208,-204,-292,-303,
-275,-185,-175,-177,-170,-164,-177,-187,-183,-174,-179,-183,-197,-207,-204,
-204,-204,-202,-194,-212,-266,-247,-241,-186,-171,-166,-179,-194,-325,-316,
-455,-443,-836,-791,-5005,-4929]} 1. Nf3 d5 2. c4 d4 3. b4 c5 4. e3 Nf6 5. b5 {
[#]} Qc7 $146 ({Predecessor:} 5... Nbd7 6. exd4 cxd4 7. Nxd4 Nc5 8. Bb2 e5 9.
Nc2 Bg4 10. f3 Bf5 11. Ne3 Nd3+ 12. Bxd3 Bxd3 {1/2-1/2 (30) Brodda,W (2587)
-Bescos Anzano,M (2561) GER email 2018}) 6. exd4 {A09: Réti Opening: 1 Nf3 d5
2 c4.} cxd4 7. d3 (7. Qe2 $11) 7... e5 $15 8. Bg5 {Black is slightly better.}
Bb4+ 9. Nbd2 Nfd7 10. Be2 O-O 11. O-O Nc5 12. Nb3 Nbd7 (12... Na4 {is more
complex.} 13. a3 Bc3 14. Ra2 f6 15. Bc1 Ba5) 13. Rb1 {White wants to play
Nbxd4.} Nxb3 14. axb3 a6 15. Ra1 Nc5 16. Bh4 (16. Bd2 $17 Bxd2 17. Nxd2) 16...
f6 $19 17. Bg3 Qb6 18. bxa6 Rxa6 19. Rxa6 Qxa6 20. Ne1 Qa2 (20... Qb6 $17 21.
Nc2 Bc3) 21. Nc2 (21. f4 $15) 21... Bc3 $17 22. b4 Na4 ({Black should play} 
22... Nb3 {Hoping for ...Nd2.} 23. Qb1 Qa4) 23. Qb1 $2 {This costs White the
game.} (23. Bf3 $17) 23... Qxb1 $19 24. Rxb1 Bf5 25. f3 Nb2 26. Be1 Nxd3 ({
Resist} 26... Bxd3 27. Rxb2 Bxe2 28. Bxc3 $17) 27. Bxc3 {Strongly threatening
Bd2.} Nf4 28. Bd1 (28. Bf1 {was necessary.} Bxc2 29. Rc1) 28... dxc3 29. g3
Nh3+ 30. Kf1 Rd8 $1 {[%cal Rd8d2]} 31. Rc1 {[#]} Rxd1+ $1 {[%mdl 576] Remove
Defender, Deflection} 32. Rxd1 {And now Ne1 would win.} Bxc2 33. Rc1 Bd3+ 34.
Kg2 Ng5 {Threatens to win with ...c2.} ({Not} 34... Bxc4 35. Kxh3 b5 36. Rxc3
$16) 35. Rxc3 {[#]} Be2 36. f4 Ne4 37. Rc1 ({Of course not} 37. Re3 Bxc4 38.
fxe5 {[#]} Kf7 $1) 37... Kf7 38. fxe5 fxe5 39. Kg1 Ke6 40. Re1 Bd3 41. Re3 Bb1
42. Re1 Nc3 43. Kf2 (43. Re3 $142 Nd1 44. Re1) 43... Bd3 44. c5 (44. Ra1 {
was called for.} Bxc4 45. Rc1 Ne4+ 46. Ke3) 44... Nd5 {Black is clearly
winning.} 45. Rd1 (45. b5 $142 Bxb5 46. Ra1) 45... e4 46. Rd2 e3+ {[%mdl 64]
Double Attack.  Weighted Error Value: White=0.52/Black=0.13} 0-1

[Event "Goldmoney Asian Rapid Prelims 2021"]
[Site "Chess24"]
[Date "2021.06.24"]
[Round "1.2"]
[White "Ding, Liren"]
[Black "Artemiev, Vladislav"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "E01"]
[WhiteElo "2799"]
[BlackElo "2704"]
[Annotator "TA"]
[PlyCount "79"]
[EventDate "2021.06.26"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "NET"]
[Tiebreak "Koya+Number of black wins+Number of wins"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

{[%evp 9,79,40,37,35,30,31,34,30,32,23,24,33,47,39,53,52,53,56,62,60,60,62,65,
53,83,81,81,81,84,77,111,110,112,106,197,203,215,221,320,320,312,316,392,392,
589,587,595,481,592,595,589,581,581,581,655,549,800,800,1496,1420,1541,1437,
29981,29982,29982,29983,29983,29984,29984,29985,29985,29986]} 1. d4 d5 2. c4 e6
3. Nf3 Nf6 4. g3 h6 5. Bg2 Bd6 6. O-O {E01: Catalan: Early deviations.} O-O 7.
b3 $5 {[%mdl 4] [#] A promising side line.} b6 $146 ({Predecessor:} 7... c6 8.
Re1 Nbd7 9. Bb2 Ne4 10. Nbd2 Ndf6 11. Ne5 Bb4 12. Nxe4 Nxe4 13. Rf1 Nd2 {
1-0 (46) Dias,J (1844)-Da Silva,J (1830) Pocos de Caldas 2018}) 8. Nc3 {
White is slightly better.} Bb7 9. Bb2 Nbd7 10. Rc1 c5 11. cxd5 Nxd5 12. Nxd5
Bxd5 13. dxc5 Bxc5 14. b4 Be7 15. Nd4 {Black must now prevent Nc6.} Bxg2 ({Not
} 15... Bxb4 $2 16. Bxd5 exd5 17. Nc6 $18) 16. Kxg2 Bf6 {[#]} 17. Nc6 $1 {
White now steadily converts the win.} Qe8 {[#]} 18. Bxf6 Nxf6 19. Qd6 $36 {
[%mdl 2048] White is in control.} Kh7 20. Rfd1 Ne4 21. Qe5 f5 (21... Nf6 $16)
22. Nd4 $18 Rf6 {[#]} 23. Rc7 $1 {And now f3 would win.} Rc8 {[#]} (23... Kh8
$142 24. f3 Ng5) 24. Nxe6 $1 {[%mdl 512]} Rxc7 {[#]} 25. Ng5+ $1 {[%mdl 576]
Discovered Attack} Nxg5 (25... hxg5 26. Qxe8) 26. Qxe8 Rc2 (26... Re6 {was
called for.} 27. Qb5 Rf6) 27. Rd8 Ne6 28. Qg8+ Kg6 29. Re8 Rxe2 {and the idea .
..f4 leaves Black hopeful.} 30. Kf1 Re5 31. Re7 a6 32. h3 h5 33. h4 f4 34. gxf4
Re4 35. Qe8+ Kf5 36. Qxh5+ {White mates.} Kxf4 {[#]} 37. Rxg7 $3 {[%mdl 512]}
Rf5 38. Rg4+ Ke5 39. Qh8+ Kd5 40. Qa8+ {[%mdl 64] Double Attack.  Weighted
Error Value: White=0.03/Black=0.42} 1-0

[Event "Goldmoney Asian Rapid Prelims 2021"]
[Site "Chess24"]
[Date "2021.06.24"]
[Round "1.3"]
[White "Gukesh D"]
[Black "Dubov, Daniil"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "A43"]
[WhiteElo "2578"]
[BlackElo "2714"]
[Annotator "TA"]
[PlyCount "108"]
[EventDate "2021.06.26"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "NET"]
[Tiebreak "Koya+Number of black wins+Number of wins"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

{[%evp 9,108,45,60,46,68,47,53,47,48,39,44,55,53,63,88,93,100,73,80,73,103,72,
53,18,12,-33,-22,-25,-21,-23,-21,-22,-19,-21,0,0,95,87,188,191,174,185,181,175,
160,126,173,110,170,79,97,37,43,-56,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,-23,-21,-29,-27,
-50,-30,-87,-84,-101,-43,-56,-45,-44,-37,-49,-51,-56,-57,-65,-62,-264,-280,
-291,-277,-353,-359,-612,-550,-519,-441,-588,-566,-624,-594]} 1. d4 e6 2. c4 c5
3. d5 exd5 4. cxd5 d6 5. e4 g6 6. Nf3 {A43: Schmid Benoni.} a6 $5 {[%mdl 4] An
interesting side line.} 7. Bd3 Bg7 8. O-O {[#] White is slightly better.} Bg4
$146 ({Predecessor:} 8... Ne7 9. h3 O-O 10. Re1 Nd7 11. a4 f5 12. Nbd2 h6 13.
Ra3 Nf6 14. e5 dxe5 15. Nxe5 {1-0 (21) Jankovic,A (2477)-Zelcic,R (2514)
Cannes 2005}) 9. Nbd2 Nd7 10. h3 Bxf3 11. Nxf3 Ne5 12. Nxe5 Bxe5 13. Be3 b5 14.
a4 c4 15. Be2 Nf6 16. f4 Bxb2 17. Bd4 c3 (17... Bxa1 18. Qxa1 O-O 19. Bxf6 $18)
18. axb5 Bxa1 19. Qxa1 {[%mdl 64] Double Attack} O-O 20. Bf3 axb5 21. Qxc3 Nd7
22. e5 {White wants to play e6.} Qa5 (22... Ra4 $11 {keeps the balance.}) 23.
Qc6 $1 $16 {[%cal Rc6d7]} dxe5 (23... Nc5 $16 24. exd6 (24. Qxd6 Nb3 $15) 24...
Nb3) 24. fxe5 $18 Qa4 25. Rd1 Rad8 26. e6 fxe6 27. Qxe6+ Rf7 28. d6 (28. Bg4
$18) 28... Qc2 (28... Kf8 $16 {is a better defense.}) 29. Re1 (29. Bg4 $1 $18 {
has better winning chances.} Rdf8 30. Qd5) 29... Qf5 {[#]} 30. Qa2 (30. Qb3 $1
$16 Nf6 31. Re7) 30... Qf4 $14 31. Bf2 ({White should try} 31. Rd1 $14) 31...
Kg7 ({Much worse is} 31... Qxd6 32. Bd5 $11) (31... Nf6 $1 $15) 32. Bd5 Qxf2+
33. Qxf2 Rxf2 34. Kxf2 $11 {[%mdl 4096] Endgame KRB-KRN} Nc5 {White must now
prevent ...Nd3+.} 35. Re7+ Kf6 36. Rc7 Nd3+ 37. Ke3 Rxd6 38. Bb3 Ne5 39. Ke4
Nd7 40. Bd5 b4 41. Rc1 (41. h4 $11) 41... Kg5 $17 {...Nf6+ is the strong
threat.} 42. Bb3 Rd2 (42... Kh4 $17 43. Rc8 Kg3) 43. g3 $1 $15 Nf6+ 44. Ke3 Rb2
45. Be6 Nh5 46. g4 Ng3 {And now ...Re2+ would win.} 47. Kf3 Ne2 48. Rc5+ (48.
Rd1 $1 $15) 48... Kh4 $19 {Strongly threatening ...Nd4+.} 49. Ke3 {[#]} Ng1 $1
{aiming for ...Re2+.} ({Weaker is} 49... Kxh3 50. g5+ Kh2 51. Bg8 $15) 50. Kd3
Nxh3 {Hoping for ...Nf4+.} 51. Bg8 $2 (51. Rc4) 51... h6 {Black is clearly
winning.} 52. Ke3 Nf2 53. Be6 Nxg4+ 54. Kd3 h5 {Quite a comeback for Black. 
Weighted Error Value: White=0.31/Black=0.15} 0-1

[Event "Goldmoney Asian Rapid Prelims 2021"]
[Site "Chess24"]
[Date "2021.06.24"]
[Round "1.4"]
[White "Erigaisi Arjun"]
[Black "Duda, Jan-Krzysztof"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "E00"]
[WhiteElo "2567"]
[BlackElo "2729"]
[Annotator "TA"]
[PlyCount "66"]
[EventDate "2021.06.26"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "NET"]
[Tiebreak "Koya+Number of black wins+Number of wins"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

{[%evp 13,66,8,20,15,18,11,21,0,0,0,0,0,11,-8,13,0,23,11,28,29,25,29,25,3,16,
18,20,20,21,15,15,15,14,12,22,5,5,7,23,18,20,17,31,4,10,10,20,10,4,0,0,0,0,0,0]
} 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. g3 Bb4+ 4. Nd2 c5 5. a3 Bxd2+ 6. Qxd2 cxd4 7. Nf3 b6 {
7...d5 is more fashionable.} 8. b4 {E00: Catalan Bogo-Indian (3 g3 Bb4+).} Bb7
9. Qxd4 Nc6 {[%cal Bb8c6,Bc6e7,Be7f5][%mdl 32]} 10. Qc3 Rc8 11. Bg2 d5 12. O-O
O-O {[#]} 13. Bb2 $146 ({Predecessor:} 13. cxd5 Nxd5 14. Qb2 Nce7 15. Bd2 b5
16. Nd4 Qd7 17. Nb3 Nb6 18. Nc5 Rxc5 19. bxc5 Bxg2 {1-0 (109) Ilincic,Z (2520)
-Szabo,K (2371) Budapest 2004}) 13... Ne7 14. Ne5 Nf5 15. Qe1 Nd6 16. Rc1 dxc4
17. Bxb7 Nxb7 18. Rxc4 {[#] Threatens to win with Nc6.} Rxc4 19. Nxc4 Ne4 20.
f3 Ned6 21. Qc3 {[%csl Gb2][%cal Rc3g7]} f6 22. Rd1 {[#] aiming for Nxd6.} Qe7
{Strongly threatening ...Rc8.} 23. Nxd6 Nxd6 24. Qc6 Rd8 25. a4 Nf7 26. Rxd8+
Nxd8 27. Qc4 Kf7 28. a5 bxa5 {The position is equal.} 29. bxa5 Qb7 30. Bd4 Nc6
31. a6 Qb4 32. Qxb4 Nxb4 33. Bxa7 Nxa6 {A rather calm draw.  Weighted Error
Value: White=0.05/Black=0.05} 1/2-1/2

[Event "Goldmoney Asian Rapid Prelims 2021"]
[Site "Chess24"]
[Date "2021.06.24"]
[Round "1.5"]
[White "Vidit, Santosh Gujrathi"]
[Black "Giri, Anish"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "D45"]
[WhiteElo "2726"]
[BlackElo "2780"]
[Annotator "TA"]
[PlyCount "150"]
[EventDate "2021.06.26"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "NET"]
[Tiebreak "Koya+Number of black wins+Number of wins"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

{[%evp 15,150,9,15,13,51,50,47,51,52,36,37,45,54,13,18,20,27,27,41,34,44,10,63,
62,60,57,54,61,79,75,83,56,75,75,74,63,70,47,62,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,-15,-15,-18,-6,
-21,0,0,0,0,0,0,93,99,83,89,83,90,129,129,128,91,128,128,134,143,360,329,373,
373,373,370,352,344,453,439,441,452,422,412,802,711,1333,1404,12796,12798,
12802,12800,11412,7606,11412,10606,5595,4627,5083,5083,5072,5064,4950,4609,
29981,29982,29982,29948,12796,0,0,0,16,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,
0,0]} 1. d4 d5 2. c4 c6 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. e3 e6 5. Nf3 Nbd7 6. Qc2 Bd6 7. b3 O-O 8.
Be2 e5 9. cxd5 {[#] D45: Semi-Slav: 5 e3.} e4 $146 ({Predecessor:} 9... cxd5
10. Nb5 Bb4+ 11. Bd2 Bxd2+ 12. Nxd2 a6 13. dxe5 Nxe5 14. Nd4 Bg4 15. Bxg4 Nfxg4
16. O-O Rc8 17. Qf5 g6 18. Qf4 Qe7 19. N2f3 Nxf3+ 20. Qxf3 Nf6 {1/2-1/2 (39)
Mamedyarov,S (2770)-Carlsen,M (2847) chess24.com INT 2021}) 10. Nxe4 Nxe4 11.
Qxe4 {White is slightly better.} Nf6 12. Qc2 cxd5 13. O-O Ne4 14. Nd2 Bf5 {
Threatens to win with ...Bxh2+!} 15. Nxe4 Bxe4 16. Qd1 Rc8 17. Bf3 Qc7 18. g3
Qc2 (18... Qe7 $11) 19. Qxc2 $14 Rxc2 20. Bd1 {Strongly threatening f3.} Rc6
21. a3 Rfc8 22. Bd2 f5 23. Re1 a6 24. f3 Bd3 25. Kf2 g6 26. Ra2 Kg7 27. Ba5 (
27. Be2 $14 Bc2 28. Raa1) 27... Rc1 $11 28. Rd2 (28. a4 {keeps more tension.}
Bb1 29. Rb2 Ba3 30. Rbe2 Bd6 31. Bd2) 28... Bb1 29. Bb4 Bxb4 30. axb4 R1c3 31.
Ke2 Re8 32. Kf2 Bd3 33. Ra2 Rec8 34. Ra5 Bb5 35. Be2 Rc2 36. Kf1 $1 Rb2 (36...
b6 $11 {remains equal.} 37. Raa1 Rxe2 38. Rxe2 Rc2 {[%mdl 64] Pin}) 37. Bxb5
$16 axb5 {[%mdl 4096] Endgame KRR-KRR} 38. Re2 $36 {[%cal Re2b2][%mdl 2048]
White is in control.} ({But not} 38. Rxb5 $6 Rcc2 $11) 38... Rc1+ 39. Kf2 $1
Rcc2 40. Rxc2 Rxc2+ {KR-KR} 41. Kg1 Rc1+ 42. Kg2 Rc2+ {[#]} 43. Kf1 $1 Rc1+ $2
(43... Rxh2 $16 {was called for.} 44. Rxb5 Rb2 45. Rxb7+ Kf6 46. Rb6+ (46. Rxh7
Rxb3 47. Ke2 Rb2+ 48. Kd3 Rxb4 $16) 46... Kf7) 44. Ke2 $18 Rc2+ 45. Kd3 Rb2 46.
Rxb5 {[%mdl 64] Double Attack} Rxb3+ 47. Kd2 Rb2+ 48. Kc3 Rxh2 49. Rxb7+ Kf6
50. b5 {[%cal Bb4b5,Bb5b6,Bb6b7][%mdl 32]} Re2 (50... Ke6 $142 51. b6 Rh1) 51.
b6 Rxe3+ 52. Kb4 Rxf3 53. Rxh7 Rf1 54. b7 Rb1+ 55. Kc5 Kg5 56. Kxd5 Kg4 57. Ke5
Kxg3 58. d5 f4 59. d6 f3 60. Rg7 Kh3 61. d7 f2 62. d8=Q Re1+ {[#]} 63. Kd4 $2 (
63. Kf6 $1 $18 {Rh7+ would kill now.} f1=Q+ 64. Kxg6 Re6+ 65. Kh7 Qb1+ 66. Kg8)
63... Rd1+ $11 {The position is equal.} 64. Ke3 {Intending Qh8+ and mate.}
f1=N+ 65. Kf2 (65. Kf3 {seems wilder.} Nh2+ 66. Ke4 Rxd8 67. Rxg6 Nf1 68. Rd6)
65... Rxd8 66. Kxf1 {KR-KR} Rb8 67. Ke2 g5 68. Kf3 {[%cal Rg7h7]} (68. Kf2 {
is interesting.} Rf8+ 69. Kg1 g4 70. Rh7+ Kg3 71. Rg7) 68... g4+ 69. Kf4 {
Black must now prevent Rh7+.} (69. Kf2 {feels hotter.} Rf8+ 70. Kg1 g3 71. Rd7
Rb8 72. Re7) 69... Rf8+ $1 70. Ke5 g3 71. Kd6 (71. Kd5 {is more complex.} Rd8+
72. Kc6 Rh8 73. Rh7+ Rxh7 74. b8=Q) 71... Rb8 72. Kc7 Rxb7+ 73. Kxb7 g2 74. Kc6
Kh2 75. Rxg2+ Kxg2 {Black defended with fortune.  Weighted Error Value:
White=0.07/Black=0.44} 1/2-1/2

[Event "Goldmoney Asian Rapid Prelims 2021"]
[Site "Chess24"]
[Date "2021.06.24"]
[Round "1.6"]
[White "Firouzja, Alireza"]
[Black "Carlsen, Magnus"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "C30"]
[WhiteElo "2759"]
[BlackElo "2847"]
[Annotator "TA"]
[PlyCount "89"]
[EventDate "2021.06.26"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "NET"]
[Tiebreak "Koya+Number of black wins+Number of wins"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

{[%evp 11,89,-10,-7,-17,6,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,6,8,0,0,0,0,-8,0,-14,
-19,-21,-16,-31,-25,-16,-18,-51,-33,-33,-39,-116,-121,-118,-107,-155,-164,-243,
-192,-179,-112,-84,-125,-141,-156,-157,-105,-269,-99,-75,203,196,201,181,164,
187,164,53,66,0,231,220,768,653,964,975,29981,29982,29982,29983]} 1. e4 e5 2.
Nc3 Nf6 3. Bc4 Bc5 4. d3 d6 5. f4 Nc6 6. Nf3 a6 7. Bb3 $5 {[%mdl 4] An
interesting side line. C30: King's Gambit Declined.} h6 8. Qe2 Bg4 {[#]} 9.
fxe5 $146 {The position is equal.} ({Predecessor:} 9. Be3 Nd4 10. Qf2 Bxf3 11.
gxf3 Nh5 12. f5 Nf4 13. h4 Nxb3 14. axb3 Bxe3 15. Qg3 {0-1 (25) Detko,R (1618)
-Mazur,S (2040) Brezova pod Bradlom 2006}) 9... dxe5 10. Be3 Nd4 11. Qf2 Bxf3
12. gxf3 Nh5 13. O-O-O Nf4 14. Kb1 Nxb3 15. Bxc5 Nxc5 16. Qxc5 Qd6 17. Qxd6 (
17. Qf2 {is interesting.} O-O-O 18. Ne2 Nxe2 19. Qxe2 g6 20. Rhg1) 17... cxd6
18. d4 O-O-O 19. Rd2 Ne6 20. Ne2 Rhf8 21. d5 Ng5 22. Rd3 Nh3 23. Rc1 f5 24. c4
fxe4 25. fxe4 {[#]} Rf2 $1 26. Nc3 ({White should play} 26. Rxh3 $15 Rxe2 27.
c5) 26... Rxh2 $17 27. c5 Nf4 ({Resist} 27... dxc5 28. Na4 $11) 28. Rdd1 Kb8
29. c6 (29. Na4 {was called for.}) 29... Rc8 $19 30. Na4 Re2 ({Black should try
} 30... Ka7 $1 $19 31. cxb7 Kxb7 32. Rxc8 Kxc8 33. Rc1+ Kd8) 31. Nb6 $17 Rc7 ({
Inferior is} 31... Rxe4 32. Nxc8 Kxc8 33. cxb7+ Kxb7 34. Rc6 $16) 32. Nd7+ Ka7
33. Rc4 h5 (33... Nh3 $142 {Strongly threatening ...Nf2.} 34. Nc5 Nf2) 34. Rg1
$2 (34. a4 $17) 34... g6 $2 (34... h4 $19 {is more deadly.} 35. Rh1 h3) 35. a4
h4 $2 {[%mdl 8192]} (35... Nd3 $17 {keeps the pressure on. Hoping for ...bxc6.}
36. Rxg6 Rxb2+ 37. Ka1 Rd2) 36. b4 $1 $18 {[%cal Bb2b4,Bb4b5][%mdl 32]} b6 37.
b5 a5 {[#]} 38. Nxe5 $1 {[%mdl 512]} h3 {[#]} (38... Nh3 39. Rh1) 39. Rh1 $1
Nxd5 $1 $14 40. Nxg6 (40. exd5 $14 Rxe5 41. Rxh3) 40... Ne3 $2 (40... Rf7 $1
$11 {and Black stays safe.}) 41. Rc3 $18 Ng4 $2 (41... h2 42. Nf4 Rf2) 42. Nf4
Rxe4 {aiming for ...Nf2.} 43. Nd5 Nf2 44. Nxc7 Nxh1 45. Rxh3 {Weighted Error
Value: White=0.14/Black=0.48} 1-0

[Event "Goldmoney Asian Rapid Prelims 2021"]
[Site "Chess24"]
[Date "2021.06.24"]
[Round "1.7"]
[White "Hou, Yifan"]
[Black "Salem, A.R. Saleh"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "B15"]
[WhiteElo "2658"]
[BlackElo "2682"]
[Annotator "TA"]
[PlyCount "71"]
[EventDate "2021.06.26"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "NET"]
[Tiebreak "Koya+Number of black wins+Number of wins"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

{[%evp 14,71,24,19,20,38,59,38,45,8,13,0,0,-10,-4,-8,6,-6,4,14,5,0,10,0,6,13,
47,17,62,45,74,36,42,18,18,17,18,17,17,22,28,8,48,48,45,20,27,26,24,0,20,0,7,0,
35,0,14,5,3,0]} 1. e4 c6 2. Nc3 d5 3. d4 dxe4 4. Nxe4 Nf6 5. Nxf6+ exf6 6. c3
Bd6 7. Bd3 O-O 8. Qc2 Re8+ {B15: Caro-Kann: 3 Nc3: 3...g6 and 3...dxe4 4 Nxe4
Nf6 5 Nxf6+ exf6.} 9. Ne2 h5 10. Be3 Nd7 {[%cal Bb8d7,Bd7b6,Bb6d5,Bd5f4][%mdl
32] White is slightly better.} 11. Ng3 Nb6 12. O-O-O Nd5 13. Bd2 Nf4 14. Bxf4
Bxf4+ 15. Kb1 Qa5 {[#]} 16. d5 $146 ({Predecessor:} 16. Bh7+ Kf8 17. Bf5 Bxf5
18. Nxf5 g6 19. Nh4 Re6 20. Qb3 Re2 21. Rhf1 Rae8 22. Nf3 {0-1 (89) Abdumalik,
Z (2420)-Lenderman,A (2587) Saint Louis 2017}) 16... h4 17. Nf5 cxd5 ({But not
} 17... Qxd5 $6 {[#]} 18. Ne7+ $1 Rxe7 19. Bh7+ Kh8 20. Rxd5 $16) 18. g3 Bxf5
19. Bxf5 Bh6 20. Rd4 Re5 21. Rhd1 hxg3 22. hxg3 Rae8 23. Bd7 R8e7 24. Bg4 g6
25. Bf3 {[%cal Rf3d5]} Kg7 26. Rxd5 Qb6 27. a4 a5 28. Rd6 Qc5 29. R6d4 b5 30.
axb5 Qxb5 31. Rd5 Qb6 32. Rd6 Qc5 33. R6d5 Qb6 34. Rd6 Qa7 35. R6d4 Qb6 36. Rd6
{Weighted Error Value: White=0.11/Black=0.07} 1/2-1/2

[Event "Goldmoney Asian Rapid Prelims 2021"]
[Site "Chess24"]
[Date "2021.06.24"]
[Round "1.7"]
[White "HouYifan"]
[Black "Salem, A.R. Saleh"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "B15"]
[WhiteElo "2658"]
[BlackElo "2682"]
[Annotator "TA"]
[PlyCount "71"]
[EventDate "2021.06.26"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "NET"]
[Tiebreak "Koya+Number of black wins+Number of wins"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

{[%evp 14,71,35,37,34,46,32,41,37,8,27,0,0,-1,0,-10,-19,-12,8,12,17,9,8,5,5,0,
30,15,49,39,72,38,47,16,10,12,11,13,23,31,31,14,33,40,40,20,21,17,16,0,18,3,22,
0,17,0,19,2,23,0]} 1. e4 c6 2. Nc3 d5 3. d4 dxe4 4. Nxe4 Nf6 5. Nxf6+ exf6 6.
c3 Bd6 7. Bd3 O-O 8. Qc2 Re8+ {B15: Caro-Kann: 3 Nc3: 3...g6 and 3...dxe4 4
Nxe4 Nf6 5 Nxf6+ exf6.} 9. Ne2 h5 10. Be3 Nd7 {[%cal Bb8d7,Bd7b6,Bb6d5,Bd5f4]
[%mdl 32] White is slightly better.} 11. Ng3 Nb6 12. O-O-O Nd5 13. Bd2 Nf4 14.
Bxf4 Bxf4+ 15. Kb1 Qa5 {[#]} 16. d5 $146 ({Predecessor:} 16. Bh7+ Kf8 17. Bf5
Bxf5 18. Nxf5 g6 19. Nh4 Re6 20. Qb3 Re2 21. Rhf1 Rae8 22. Nf3 {0-1 (89)
Abdumalik,Z (2420)-Lenderman,A (2587) Saint Louis 2017}) 16... h4 17. Nf5 cxd5
({Don't play} 17... Qxd5 $6 {[#]} 18. Ne7+ $1 Rxe7 19. Bh7+ Kh8 20. Rxd5 $16)
18. g3 Bxf5 19. Bxf5 Bh6 20. Rd4 Re5 21. Rhd1 hxg3 22. hxg3 Rae8 23. Bd7 R8e7
24. Bg4 g6 25. Bf3 {[%cal Rf3d5]} Kg7 26. Rxd5 Qb6 27. a4 a5 28. Rd6 Qc5 29.
R6d4 b5 30. axb5 Qxb5 31. Rd5 Qb6 32. Rd6 Qc5 33. R6d5 Qb6 34. Rd6 Qa7 35. R6d4
Qb6 36. Rd6 {Weighted Error Value: White=0.10/Black=0.08} 1/2-1/2

[Event "Goldmoney Asian Rapid Prelims 2021"]
[Site "Chess24"]
[Date "2021.06.24"]
[Round "1.8"]
[White "So, Wesley"]
[Black "Svidler, Peter"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "D11"]
[WhiteElo "2770"]
[BlackElo "2714"]
[Annotator "TA"]
[PlyCount "73"]
[EventDate "2021.06.26"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "NET"]
[Tiebreak "Koya+Number of black wins+Number of wins"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

{[%evp 9,73,31,34,22,23,18,25,31,33,27,37,37,37,36,38,34,48,-10,-3,0,-2,-13,18,
18,22,15,20,8,11,8,20,18,19,-7,-4,-35,-12,-57,-63,-62,-58,-93,-49,-113,-91,
-125,-123,-125,-115,-127,-116,-128,-119,-179,-168,-223,-99,-218,0,0,0,-195,0,0,
0,-177]} 1. Nf3 d5 2. d4 Nf6 3. c4 c6 4. e3 a6 5. Bd3 Bg4 6. Nbd2 {D11: Slav
Defence: 3 Nf3 sidelines and 3...Nf6 4 e3 Bg4.} e6 7. O-O Be7 8. Qc2 {White
has an edge.} Nbd7 9. b3 Bh5 10. Bb2 Rc8 11. Rac1 O-O 12. Ne5 {[#]} c5 $146 ({
Predecessor:} 12... dxc4 13. Ndxc4 Bg6 14. Nxg6 hxg6 15. Rfd1 Qc7 16. Be2 Qb8
17. Bf3 Rfe8 18. a3 Bd8 {1/2-1/2 (84) Jackelen,T (2454)-Van Delft,M (2385)
Germany 2006}) 13. cxd5 ({White should play} 13. Ndf3 $14) 13... Nxe5 $11 14.
dxe5 Nxd5 15. a3 Bg6 16. Bxg6 hxg6 17. Rfd1 Qc7 18. Ne4 Qc6 19. Nd6 Rc7 20. e4
Nb6 21. a4 Nc8 {[%cal Rc8d6]} 22. Qc3 Rd8 23. Rd3 Bf8 24. Rcd1 Rcd7 {[%cal
Rc8d6]} 25. Nxc8 {And now Rxd7 would win.} Qxc8 (25... Rxd3 {feels hotter.} 26.
Rxd3 Rxc8 27. Re3 c4 28. h3 b5) 26. a5 (26. Qc4 $15) 26... c4 (26... Rxd3 {
seems wilder.} 27. Rxd3 c4 28. bxc4 Bb4 29. Qb3 Rxd3 30. Qxd3 Qc7) 27. bxc4 {
[#]} Bb4 $40 {[%mdl 640] Black has strong attack.} 28. Qb3 Rxd3 29. Rxd3 Rxd3
30. Qxd3 Qc7 31. h3 (31. Bc3 $17 Bxa5 32. g3) 31... Qxa5 $19 32. Qd7 (32. Kf1
$142) 32... Qa2 (32... Bf8 $19 {Strongly threatening ...Qe1+.} 33. Qxb7 Qe1+
34. Kh2 Qxf2) 33. Qd8+ (33. Bc3 $17) 33... Kh7 34. Qh4+ Kg8 35. Qd8+ Kh7 36.
Qh4+ Kg8 37. Qd8+ {Weighted Error Value: White=0.22/Black=0.23} 1/2-1/2

[Event "Goldmoney Asian Rapid Prelims 2021"]
[Site "Chess24"]
[Date "2021.06.24"]
[Round "2.1"]
[White "Aronian, Levon"]
[Black "Svidler, Peter"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "A46"]
[WhiteElo "2781"]
[BlackElo "2714"]
[Annotator "TA"]
[PlyCount "76"]
[EventDate "2021.06.26"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "NET"]
[Tiebreak "Koya+Number of black wins+Number of wins"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

{[%evp 9,76,9,2,-13,28,-4,13,16,21,0,0,-16,0,0,36,33,35,36,37,0,0,0,11,0,3,0,0,
0,29,35,39,34,56,56,56,52,56,31,43,29,37,25,33,8,22,19,22,22,16,8,8,8,10,0,0,0,
0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]} 1. Nf3 c5 2. c3 Nf6 3. d4 e6 4. Bf4 Nc6 5. e3 Nh5
6. Bg5 {A46: 1 d4 Nf6 2 Nf3 e6: Torre, London and Colle Systems.} Be7 {[#]} 7.
h4 $146 ({Predecessor:} 7. Bxe7 Qxe7 8. Bd3 d6 9. O-O g6 10. Nbd2 O-O 11. Re1
e5 12. dxe5 dxe5 13. Qc2 {1/2-1/2 (47) Nielsen,P (2639)-Carlstedt,J (2413)
Germany 2018}) 7... h6 8. Bxe7 Qxe7 9. g4 Nf6 10. Rg1 d5 11. Nbd2 e5 12. Nxe5
Nxe5 13. dxe5 Qxe5 14. Qa4+ Bd7 15. Bb5 a6 16. Bxd7+ Nxd7 17. O-O-O O-O-O 18.
g5 g6 19. Nf3 Qf5 20. Qg4 {Black must now prevent Qxf5.} Qxg4 21. Rxg4 hxg5 22.
hxg5 f5 23. gxf6 Nxf6 24. Rg2 Rh5 25. Rdg1 Ne4 26. Ng5 Nxg5 {The position is
equal.} 27. Rxg5 $11 {[%mdl 4096] Endgame KRR-KRR} Rf8 28. f4 d4 29. Rxh5 gxh5
{KR-KR} 30. Kd2 h4 31. Rh1 dxe3+ 32. Kxe3 Rh8 33. Kf3 Kd7 34. Kg4 Rg8+ 35. Kf5
Rf8+ 36. Kg4 Rg8+ 37. Kf5 Rf8+ 38. Kg4 Rg8+ {Weighted Error Value: White=0.08/
Black=0.06} 1/2-1/2

[Event "Goldmoney Asian Rapid Prelims 2021"]
[Site "Chess24"]
[Date "2021.06.24"]
[Round "2.2"]
[White "Salem, A.R. Saleh"]
[Black "So, Wesley"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "E25"]
[WhiteElo "2682"]
[BlackElo "2770"]
[Annotator "TA"]
[PlyCount "78"]
[EventDate "2021.06.26"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "NET"]
[Tiebreak "Koya+Number of black wins+Number of wins"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

{[%evp 18,78,20,7,9,10,12,16,12,14,17,0,12,-35,-16,-52,-45,-68,-75,-83,-18,-62,
-67,-94,-96,-221,-214,-202,-207,-205,-212,-264,-246,-285,0,0,-18,-45,0,-1,-5,
-8,-8,-96,0,-691,-639,-616,-600,-859,-882,-1805,-1861,-1750,-1916,-1893,-1844,
-1699,-1810,-1761,-1803,-1662,-1623]} 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. a3 Bxc3+
5. bxc3 c5 6. f3 d5 7. cxd5 Nxd5 8. dxc5 Qa5 9. e4 Nf6 10. Be3 O-O {E25:
Nimzo-Indian: Sämisch: 5...c5 6 f3 d5 7 cxd5.} 11. Kf2 Nfd7 12. a4 Nxc5 {
The position is equal.} 13. Qd6 Nxa4 14. Ne2 Bd7 {[#]} 15. h4 $146 (15. Nd4 {
looks sharper.} Rc8 16. c4 e5 17. Nb5 a6 18. Na7) ({Predecessor:} 15. Nd4 e5
16. Nf5 Bxf5 17. exf5 Nc6 18. Qa3 b5 19. Bxb5 Qxb5 20. Rhb1 Qd3 21. Qxa4 Rac8
22. Qe4 Qxc3 23. Ra2 Ne7 24. Rb7 {1/2-1/2 (24) Dolya,A (2379)-Kragten,J (2278)
ICCF email 2014}) 15... Rc8 16. h5 Qc7 17. Qd2 {With the idea h6.} h6 18. g4 f6
(18... Nc5 $1 $17 {[%cal Rc5b3] Threatens to win with ...Nb3.} 19. Rb1 Rd8) 19.
Rd1 b5 20. Bg2 Nb6 21. Bf4 (21. Bxh6 $17 {keeps fighting.} gxh6 22. Qxh6 Qc5+
23. Nd4) 21... e5 $19 22. Bxh6 gxh6 23. Qxh6 {Qg6+ is the strong threat.} Qc5+
24. Nd4 {intending Qg6+.} Qf8 $1 {[%cal Rf8h6]} (24... exd4 25. Qg6+ Kf8 26.
Qxf6+ Ke8 27. h6 $15) 25. Qg6+ Qg7 $2 (25... Kh8 $1 $19 26. Ne2 Nc4) 26. Nf5
$11 Bxf5 27. exf5 Nc6 28. f4 exf4 {Strongly threatening ...Rab8.} 29. Rhe1 Ne5
30. Rxe5 fxe5 (30... Qxg6 $17 31. hxg6 fxe5 32. Bxa8 Rxa8) 31. f6 $2 {[%mdl
8192]} (31. Qe6+ $11 Kh7 32. f6) 31... Qxg6 $19 {Black is clearly winning.} 32.
hxg6 Rd8 $1 {[%cal Rd8d1]} 33. Rh1 Rd2+ 34. Ke1 Rxg2 35. Rh7 Rxg4 36. Rg7+ Kf8
37. Rf7+ {[#]} Ke8 $1 38. Re7+ {[#]} Kd8 $1 39. g7 Nd7 {Weighted Error Value:
White=0.69/Black=0.23} 0-1

[Event "Goldmoney Asian Rapid Prelims 2021"]
[Site "Chess24"]
[Date "2021.06.24"]
[Round "2.3"]
[White "Carlsen, Magnus"]
[Black "Hou, Yifan"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "D27"]
[WhiteElo "2847"]
[BlackElo "2658"]
[Annotator "TA"]
[PlyCount "73"]
[EventDate "2021.06.26"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "NET"]
[Tiebreak "Koya+Number of black wins+Number of wins"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

{[%evp 19,73,8,24,34,25,29,65,63,63,58,73,72,66,39,38,39,29,9,33,31,29,30,44,
46,82,78,68,71,72,70,81,93,117,107,104,105,113,107,109,109,172,172,167,155,392,
312,312,312,420,420,420,420,420,420,411,384]} 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nf3 d5 4.
Nc3 c5 5. e3 dxc4 6. Bxc4 a6 7. O-O b5 8. Be2 Bb7 9. dxc5 Qxd1 10. Rxd1 Bxc5
11. Nd2 {D27: Queen's Gambit Accepted: Classical main line: 7 e4!? and 7 a4.}
Nbd7 12. Nb3 Bb6 13. a4 $1 {White is slightly better.} b4 {[#]} 14. a5 $1 Bd8 (
14... Bc7 15. Na2) 15. Na4 Bd5 {[#]} 16. Nbc5 $146 ({Predecessor:} 16. Nac5 Be7
17. Nxa6 Kd8 18. Rxd5 Nxd5 19. e4 Nc7 20. Nxc7 Kxc7 21. Bf4+ e5 22. Be3 {
1-0 (35) Bai,J (2585)-Wang,Y (2425) China 2017}) 16... Bxa5 17. Bd2 O-O 18.
Rdc1 Rfc8 19. Bxa6 Rc7 20. Bb5 {And now Nxd7 would win.} Nxc5 21. Nxc5 h6 22.
Na6 Rxc1+ 23. Rxc1 Bb7 24. Nc5 ({Don't go for} 24. Nxb4 $2 Nd5 $19) 24... Bd5
25. f3 b3 26. Bxa5 Rxa5 27. Ba4 Kf8 28. e4 Ba8 29. Bxb3 Ke7 {[#]} (29... Rb5
$16) 30. Ba4 $1 $18 Ra7 31. b4 {[%cal Bb2b4,Bb4b5,Bb5b6,Bb6b7][%mdl 32]} Ne8 $2
{This move loses the game for Black.} (31... Bb7 $16 32. Bb5 Bc8) 32. Bxe8 Kxe8
33. b5 Rc7 {[#]} 34. b6 $1 {[%cal Rb6c7] White is winning.} Rc8 {[#]} 35. Ra1
$1 Bc6 (35... Rb8 36. b7) 36. b7 Rb8 37. Ra6 {Weighted Error Value: White=0.05/
Black=0.24} 1-0

[Event "Goldmoney Asian Rapid Prelims 2021"]
[Site "Chess24"]
[Date "2021.06.24"]
[Round "2.4"]
[White "Giri, Anish"]
[Black "Firouzja, Alireza"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "B30"]
[WhiteElo "2780"]
[BlackElo "2759"]
[Annotator "TA"]
[PlyCount "59"]
[EventDate "2021.06.26"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "NET"]
[Tiebreak "Koya+Number of black wins+Number of wins"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

{[%evp 10,59,24,10,37,21,18,13,23,18,47,35,43,0,7,0,27,32,51,44,80,0,0,0,0,0,0,
0,54,-78,-67,-60,-31,-23,0,0,31,39,89,75,36,28,195,0,92,0,137,136,445,449,439,
426]} 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 e6 4. O-O Nge7 5. Re1 a6 6. Bf1 b6 {[#] B30:
Sicilian: 2...Nc6 3 Bb5, lines without ...g6.} 7. Nc3 $146 ({Predecessor:} 7.
d4 cxd4 8. Nxd4 Nxd4 9. Qxd4 Nc6 10. Qd2 Qc7 11. c4 Bd6 12. h3 Bb7 13. Nc3 Rd8
14. Qd1 {1-0 (42) Naiditsch,A (2626)-Anton Guijarro,D (2703) Biel 2020}) 7...
Bb7 8. d4 cxd4 {The position is equal.} 9. Nxd4 Ng6 {[#]} 10. Nf5 $1 d6 11. Nd5
Nce5 {[#]} (11... exf5 $6 12. exf5+ Nge5 13. Be3 $16) 12. f4 $1 exd5 (12...
Bxd5 13. exd5) 13. exd5 Qd7 14. Qd3 Bc8 {[#]} 15. g4 (15. Qc3 $1 $16) 15... h5
$11 16. fxe5 dxe5 17. Bh3 Bc5+ 18. Kh1 Kf8 ({Better is} 18... hxg4 $11 19. Bxg4
Kf8) 19. c4 (19. g5 $1 $14 {stays ahead.}) 19... hxg4 $17 20. Bxg4 Qc7 21. Qe4
Bxf5 22. Bxf5 Rh4 23. Qg2 Nf4 24. Bxf4 Rxf4 {[#]} 25. d6 $1 Qd8 {[#]} (25...
Qb8 $1 $11 {and Black stays safe.} 26. Rxe5 Bxd6) 26. Rad1 $1 $40 {[%mdl 128]
White has some attack.} Bd4 {[#]} ({Avoid the trap} 26... Rxf5 $2 27. Qh3 $18)
({Wrong is} 26... Rxc4 $2 27. Rxe5 Bxd6 28. Red5 $18) (26... Rb8 $11 {keeps
the balance.}) (26... Rb8 27. Re4) 27. d7 Rb8 {[#]} ({But not} 27... Rxf5 $2
28. Rxd4 g6 29. Rd6 $18) (27... g6 $1 $11 {remains equal.} 28. Be4 Rb8) 28. Rf1
$1 $16 {[%cal Rf1f4] Strongly threatening Rxf4.} Qf6 $2 {[%mdl 8192]} (28... g5
$16) 29. Rxf4 $18 exf4 30. Qd5 {Weighted Error Value: White=0.25/Black=0.51}
1-0

[Event "Goldmoney Asian Rapid Prelims 2021"]
[Site "Chess24"]
[Date "2021.06.24"]
[Round "2.5"]
[White "Duda, Jan-Krzysztof"]
[Black "Vidit, Santosh Gujrathi"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "A34"]
[WhiteElo "2729"]
[BlackElo "2726"]
[Annotator "TA"]
[PlyCount "147"]
[EventDate "2021.06.26"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "NET"]
[Tiebreak "Koya+Number of black wins+Number of wins"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

{[%evp 19,147,-19,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,23,26,51,37,20,0,-7,-8,-8,-7,-8,
-8,-8,-8,-8,-8,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,-35,0,-67,-68,-68,-70,-86,-29,-37,-29,-29,
-29,-29,-29,-29,-29,-29,-29,-29,-29,-29,-29,-37,-37,-37,-37,-37,-29,-29,-29,
-29,-29,-29,-29,-29,-29,-51,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,-28,-33,-35,-35,-35,
-12,-12,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]} 1. Nf3 Nf6 2.
c4 c5 3. Nc3 Nc6 4. g3 d5 5. cxd5 Nxd5 6. Bg2 Nc7 7. O-O e5 8. b3 Be7 9. Bb2
O-O 10. Rc1 f6 11. e3 {A34: Symmetrical English: 2 Nc3, lines with ...d5.} Bg4
12. h3 Bh5 {[#]} 13. d4 $146 ({Predecessor:} 13. g4 Bf7 14. Qe2 Qd7 15. Rfd1
Rac8 16. Ne4 b6 17. d4 exd4 18. exd4 cxd4 19. Rxc6 Qxc6 20. Nxd4 {1/2-1/2 (32)
Hickl,J (2608)-Sokolov,A (2593) Switzerland 2006}) 13... cxd4 14. exd4 Nxd4 15.
g4 Bf7 16. Nxd4 exd4 ({And not} 16... Qxd4 {[#]} 17. Nd5 $1 $16 {[%mdl 512]})
17. Ne2 d3 18. Nd4 Ne6 19. Nxe6 Bxe6 20. Bxb7 Rb8 21. Be4 d2 22. Rc2 Bb4 {
aiming for ...f5.} 23. a3 Bxb3 24. axb4 Rxb4 25. Bf3 Qd3 {[%mdl 64] [#] Pin} ({
Much worse is} 25... Bxc2 $6 26. Qxc2 Rf4 27. Qb3+ Kh8 28. Qe3 $16) 26. Qxd2
Qxf3 27. Rc3 (27. Qxb4 {leads to mate.} Bd5 28. Qxf8+ Kxf8 29. Ba3+ Kf7 30.
Rc7+ Kg6 31. Rxg7+ Kxg7 32. Bf8+ Kxf8 33. h4 Qh1#) 27... Qd5 $36 {[%cal Rd5d2]
[%mdl 2048] White is under pressure.} 28. Rd3 {[%mdl 64] Discovered Attack} Qb5
{Hoping for ...Bc4.} 29. Ba3 {[%mdl 64] Skewer} Bc4 30. Rd7 Bxf1 31. Bxb4 Bxh3
{( -> ...Qf1+)} (31... Re8 {with more complications.} 32. Rd5 Qa6 33. Rd8 Bb5
34. Qd5+ Kh8) 32. f3 ({White should play} 32. Rd3 $11 Bxg4 33. Bxf8 Kxf8 34.
Rc3) 32... Re8 $15 {Strongly threatening ...Qf1+.} 33. Qd5+ Qxd5 34. Rxd5 {
[%mdl 4096] Endgame KRB-KRB} g6 (34... Rb8 $17 35. Rd4 h6) 35. Kf2 f5 36. g5 f4
37. Ra5 Rb8 38. Bd6 Rb2+ 39. Ke1 Rb1+ 40. Kd2 Rb7 41. Bxf4 Bf1 42. Rc5 Kf7 43.
Be5 Ke6 44. f4 a6 45. Ke3 Bb5 46. Bc7 Kd7 47. Ba5 Bc6 48. Kd4 Kd6 49. f5 Re7 (
49... Rb1 $15 50. fxg6 hxg6) 50. Bb4 $11 {Re5+ would kill now.} Re4+ 51. Kc3
Re3+ 52. Kd2 Re4 53. Kc3 Re3+ 54. Kb2 {Rc3+ is the strong threat.} Re4 55. Ka3
gxf5 56. Rxf5+ Kc7 57. Ba5+ Kd7 58. Bb4 Re3+ 59. Kb2 Rg3 60. Rf7+ {The
position is equal.} Ke6 61. Rf6+ Kd5 62. Rd6+ Kc4 63. Rxc6+ Kxb4 64. Rxa6 Rxg5
{KR-KR} 65. Rh6 $1 Rg2+ 66. Kc1 Rg7 (66... Kc5 {feels hotter.} 67. Rxh7 Ra2 68.
Rh5+ Kb4 69. Rh4+ Kc3) 67. Kd2 Kc4 68. Ke3 Kd5 69. Kf4 Rf7+ (69... Kc5 {
looks sharper.} 70. Rh5+ Kd4 71. Rh4 Kc4 72. Rh6 Kd5) 70. Kg5 Ke5 71. Ra6 Rg7+
72. Kh6 Rg6+ 73. Rxg6 hxg6 74. Kxg6 {Weighted Error Value: White=0.05/Black=0.
06} 1/2-1/2

[Event "Goldmoney Asian Rapid Prelims 2021"]
[Site "Chess24"]
[Date "2021.06.24"]
[Round "2.6"]
[White "Dubov, Daniil"]
[Black "Erigaisi Arjun"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "A37"]
[WhiteElo "2714"]
[BlackElo "2567"]
[Annotator "TA"]
[PlyCount "106"]
[EventDate "2021.06.26"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "NET"]
[Tiebreak "Koya+Number of black wins+Number of wins"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

{[%evp 12,106,21,-19,0,-8,8,24,9,25,17,13,8,26,10,6,51,0,23,0,0,0,22,0,14,-42,
0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,53,0,-3,-7,-2,-93,-101,-145,-147,-684,-677,-671,-670,
-639,-597,-556,-547,-541,-538,-522,0,-2,0,-487,-402,-29972,-29973,-29971,
-29969,-29962,-29970,-29970,-29970,-29973,-29976,-29976,-29976,-29977,-29978,
-29978,-29979,-29979,-29980,-29980,-29981,-29981,-29981,-29981,-29982,-29982,
-29983,-29983,-29984,-29984,-29985,-29985,-29986,-29986,-29987]} 1. c4 c5 2. g3
Nc6 3. Bg2 g6 4. Nc3 Bg7 5. Nf3 e6 6. O-O Nge7 7. a3 d5 {is the legacy move (7.
..0-0). A37: Symmetrical English vs ...g6: 4 Bg2 Bg7 5 Nf3.} 8. b4 cxb4 9. axb4
Nxb4 {White has an edge.} 10. Ba3 Nbc6 {[%cal Bb4c6,Bc6a5,Ba5c4][%mdl 32] [#]}
11. d4 $146 ({Predecessor:} 11. cxd5 exd5 12. Qb3 O-O 13. e3 b6 14. d4 Be6 15.
Rac1 Na5 16. Qa2 Nc4 17. Ng5 Nxa3 18. Nxe6 fxe6 19. Qxa3 {1-0 (71) Costa
Trillo,V (1718)-Markoja,J (1827) ICCF email 2011}) 11... O-O 12. cxd5 exd5 13.
e3 a6 14. Rc1 ({White should play} 14. Qb3 $14) 14... Re8 15. Qb3 Na5 16. Qa2
Nc4 17. Bxe7 Rxe7 {[#]} 18. Ng5 (18. Nxd5 $1 $11 Qxd5 19. Rxc4) 18... Be6 (
18... Rd7 $5 {[%cal Rd8g5]} 19. Nge4 dxe4 20. Qxc4 b5 $11) 19. e4 Nb6 (19...
Bxd4 $2 20. exd5 Bh3 21. Nxh3 $18) 20. Nxe6 fxe6 21. exd5 exd5 22. Bxd5+ Kh8 $1
23. Bg2 Qxd4 24. Rfd1 Qg4 (24... Qb4 $11 25. Ne4 Rf8) 25. Ne4 Rxe4 $11 26. Bxe4
Qxe4 27. Qb3 (27. Rd6 $11 {remains equal.} Na4 28. Qd2) 27... Bd4 $17 {White
must now prevent ...Nd7.} 28. Qf7 {[#] Threatens to win with Rc7.} Nd5 29. Qxb7
$2 {[%mdl 8192]} (29. Re1 $17 Qf5 30. Qxf5 gxf5 31. Rcd1) 29... Rf8 $19 30. Rd2
{[#]} Rxf2 $1 {[%mdl 576] Decoy} 31. Rxf2 Bxf2+ 32. Kxf2 {[%mdl 4096] Endgame
KQR-KQN} Qe3+ 33. Kg2 {[#] White threatens Rc8+ and mate.} Qd2+ $1 ({Not} 33...
Qxc1 34. Qxd5 Qb2+ 35. Kg1 $15) 34. Kh3 {[%cal Rc1c8]} Qh6+ $2 (34... Qxc1 $19
35. Qb8+ Kg7 36. Qe5+ Kf8 37. Qxd5 Qf1+ 38. Kg4 h5+ 39. Kg5 Qb5 40. Qxb5 axb5)
35. Kg2 $11 {White wants to mate with Rc8+.} Qd2+ $2 {[%mdl 8192]} (35... Qxc1
$11 36. Qxd5 Qb2+ 37. Kg1 Qb6+ 38. Kg2 Qb2+ 39. Kg1 Qc1+ 40. Kg2 Qc2+ 41. Kg1
Qb1+ 42. Kg2 Qb2+) 36. Kh3 $1 $19 {[%cal Rc1c8] White is on the road to losing.
} Qxc1 37. Qxd5 {KQ-KQ} (37. Qxa6 $19 Qh6+ 38. Kg2 Qd2+ 39. Kg1) 37... Qf1+ {
Black mates.} 38. Kg4 Qf5+ 39. Qxf5 gxf5+ 40. Kxf5 {KPP-KPP} Kg7 41. g4 a5 {
[%cal Ba6a5,Ba5a4,Ba4a3][%mdl 32]} 42. Ke5 a4 43. Kd4 Kf6 44. h4 a3 45. Kc3 Ke5
46. h5 Kf4 47. Kb3 Kxg4 {KPP-KP} 48. h6 Kg5 49. Kxa3 Kxh6 50. Kb2 Kg5 51. Kc2
Kf4 52. Kd2 Kf3 53. Ke1 Kg2 {Weighted Error Value: White=0.32/Black=0.22} 0-1

[Event "Goldmoney Asian Rapid Prelims 2021"]
[Site "Chess24"]
[Date "2021.06.24"]
[Round "2.7"]
[White "Artemiev, Vladislav"]
[Black "Gukesh D"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "C49"]
[WhiteElo "2704"]
[BlackElo "2578"]
[Annotator "TA"]
[PlyCount "71"]
[EventDate "2021.06.26"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "NET"]
[Tiebreak "Koya+Number of black wins+Number of wins"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

{[%evp 21,71,36,33,43,29,0,2,0,0,1,8,7,10,12,31,30,68,27,55,30,37,26,54,57,47,
53,52,10,4,13,6,6,43,39,52,41,130,127,158,161,224,217,288,297,406,393,29966,
29961,29990,29991,29992,29993]} 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Bb5 Bb4 5.
O-O O-O 6. d3 Bxc3 7. bxc3 d6 8. Bg5 h6 9. Bh4 Qe7 10. Re1 Bg4 11. h3 Bh5 12.
g4 {C49: Four Knights: 4 Bb5 Bb4.} Bg6 13. Nd2 Nd8 {[%cal Bc6d8,Bd8e6,Be6f4]
[%mdl 32] [#]} 14. Qf3 $146 {The position is equal.} ({Predecessor:} 14. f4
exf4 15. d4 Ne6 16. Nf3 Bh7 17. e5 dxe5 18. Rxe5 Qa3 19. Qe1 Qb2 20. Bd3 Bxd3
21. cxd3 {0-1 (39) Dzhumaev,M (2552)-Filippov,A (2584) Tashkent 2009}) 14...
Ne6 15. Bxf6 gxf6 16. Nf1 c6 17. Bc4 b5 18. Bb3 Nf4 19. Ne3 Kg7 20. Kh2 Rh8 21.
Rg1 Kf8 22. Ng2 Nxg2 23. Rxg2 h5 24. Rag1 {[#] Black must now prevent gxh5.}
hxg4 25. Rxg4 Rh6 26. a4 a6 27. Ra1 {[%cal Bg1a1,Ba1a6,Ba6a7][%mdl 32]} bxa4
28. Bxa4 {And now Qe3 would win.} Kg7 (28... Rc8 $14) 29. Bxc6 $16 Rah8 30. Rg3
Qc7 (30... Qa7 $142 31. Qe3 Qxe3 32. fxe3 Kf8 33. Rxa6 f5 34. exf5 Bxf5) 31.
Rxa6 $18 Rh4 32. Bd5 Rf4 33. Qe3 {Ra7 is the strong threat.} Qxc3 $2 (33... Qc5
$18 34. d4 Qc7 35. Bxf7 Kxf7 36. dxe5 Rxe4) 34. Ra7 {White mates.} Kf8 {[#]}
35. Rxg6 $1 {[%mdl 512]} fxg6 (35... Qc8 36. Rxf7+) 36. Ra8+ {Weighted Error
Value: White=0.06/Black=0.48} 1-0

[Event "Goldmoney Asian Rapid Prelims 2021"]
[Site "Chess24"]
[Date "2021.06.24"]
[Round "2.8"]
[White "Adhiban, B.."]
[Black "Ding, Liren"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "A09"]
[WhiteElo "2660"]
[BlackElo "2799"]
[Annotator "TA"]
[PlyCount "70"]
[EventDate "2021.06.26"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "NET"]
[Tiebreak "Koya+Number of black wins+Number of wins"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

{[%evp 9,70,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,10,10,-75,-83,-104,-76,-62,-56,-45,-52,
-61,-74,-80,-18,-33,-14,-140,0,0,4,4,2,0,4,10,9,-46,-31,-96,-100,-87,-87,-295,
-295,-289,-286,-279,-276,-498,-350,-325,-343,-660,-978,-908,-774,-985,-971]} 1.
Nf3 d5 2. c4 d4 3. b4 c5 4. e3 Nf6 5. b5 Nbd7 6. exd4 {A09: Réti Opening: 1
Nf3 d5 2 c4.} cxd4 7. Nxd4 Nc5 8. Bb2 {The position is equal.} e5 {[#]} 9. Nb3
$146 ({Predecessor:} 9. Nc2 Bg4 10. f3 Bf5 11. Ne3 Nd3+ 12. Bxd3 Bxd3 13. Qb3
Bc5 14. Nc3 Rc8 15. Ba3 {1/2-1/2 (30) Brodda,W (2587)-Bescos Anzano,M (2561)
GER email 2018}) 9... Bf5 10. Nxc5 Bxc5 11. Be2 $1 Qd6 12. O-O h5 13. d4 (13.
Qb3 $11) 13... exd4 $17 14. Bd3 {[#]} Ng4 $1 {[%csl Gg4][%cal Rd6h2]} 15. g3
Bxd3 16. Qxd3 Ne5 17. Qf5 g6 18. Qe4 O-O (18... O-O-O $17 19. Nd2 f5) 19. Nd2
$11 Rfe8 20. Rfe1 {[#]} (20. Qxb7 $11 {keeps the balance.} Qb6 21. Qg2) 20...
Rad8 ({Better is} 20... Qd7 $1 $17 {aiming for ...Nxc4!} 21. Qd5 Qxd5 22. cxd5
Nd3 23. Rxe8+ Rxe8) 21. f4 f5 $36 {[%mdl 2048] Black is more active.} 22. fxe5
fxe4 23. exd6 d3+ 24. Kg2 e3 {[#] And now ...Bb4 would win.} 25. Nb3 (25. Bc3
$1 $11) 25... Bb4 $1 $15 {[%cal Rb4e1]} 26. c5 (26. Rg1 $15) 26... Bxe1 $17 27.
Rxe1 d2 28. Rb1 {This costs White the game.} (28. Nxd2 $17 exd2 29. Rd1) 28...
e2 $19 29. Nxd2 {Threatens to win with Re1.} e1=Q 30. Rxe1 Rxe1 31. Nc4 $2 (31.
Bc3) 31... Re2+ 32. Kh3 {next Bf6 is good for White.} Rc2 33. Na5 (33. Bf6 Rxc4
34. Bxd8 Rxc5 35. Bc7) 33... Rxb2 {Black is clearly winning.} 34. Nxb7 Rb8 35.
c6 Rxb5 {Weighted Error Value: White=0.72/Black=0.17} 0-1

[Event "Goldmoney Asian Rapid Prelims 2021"]
[Site "Chess24"]
[Date "2021.06.24"]
[Round "3.1"]
[White "Ding, Liren"]
[Black "Aronian, Levon"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "E04"]
[WhiteElo "2799"]
[BlackElo "2781"]
[Annotator "TA"]
[PlyCount "127"]
[EventDate "2021.06.26"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "NET"]
[Tiebreak "Koya+Number of black wins+Number of wins"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

{[%evp 15,127,6,13,11,27,4,4,3,3,4,4,10,0,0,0,0,0,4,6,-5,-4,-3,-6,-6,-7,-13,
-13,-11,-15,-16,-10,-10,-11,-16,-12,-16,-9,-10,-9,-9,-9,-12,-11,-12,-6,-8,-7,
-11,-5,-5,0,-8,-4,-18,-8,-8,-8,-8,-8,-8,-8,-8,-8,-8,-8,-8,-7,-8,0,-8,-7,-7,-7,
-7,-7,-7,-7,-7,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,
0,0,0,0]} 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. g3 d5 4. Bg2 dxc4 5. Nf3 c5 6. O-O Nc6 7. Qa4
Bd7 8. dxc5 Na5 9. Qa3 {E04: Open Catalan: 5 Nf3.} Rc8 10. b4 cxb3 $1 {The
position is equal.} 11. axb3 Rxc5 12. b4 Rb5 13. Nd4 {[#]} Rxb4 $146 ({
Predecessor:} 13... Bxb4 14. Qa2 Rb6 15. Nc2 Nc6 16. Nxb4 Nxb4 17. Qxa7 Nc6 18.
Bxc6 Bxc6 19. Be3 Rb2 {1/2-1/2 (78) Hausner,I (2445)-Sokolov,A (2550) Clichy
1991}) 14. Qxa5 Qxa5 ({But not} 14... Rxd4 15. Qxd8+ Kxd8 16. Rxa7 $14) 15.
Rxa5 Rxd4 16. Rxa7 {[#] And now Ra8+ would win.} Bc6 17. Be3 Rd7 18. Bxc6 bxc6
19. Ra6 Nd5 20. Rxc6 Nxe3 21. fxe3 Be7 22. Rc8+ Rd8 23. Rxd8+ Bxd8 $11 {
[%mdl 4096] Endgame KRB-KRN} 24. Rc1 Kd7 25. Nd2 Bg5 26. Kf2 Rb8 27. Nf3 Bf6
28. Rc4 h5 29. Ra4 Rb7 30. h3 g6 31. g4 hxg4 32. hxg4 Ke7 33. Rc4 Kf8 34. g5
Be7 35. e4 Rb5 36. e5 Ba3 37. Kg3 Ke8 38. Ra4 Bc5 39. Kf4 Rb3 40. Nd4 Rb1 41.
Nf3 Rb3 42. Nd4 Rb2 43. e3 Kd7 44. Rc4 Bb6 45. Ra4 Rf2+ 46. Ke4 Bxd4 (46... Bc7
{looks sharper.} 47. Ra8 Rh2 48. Ra7 Rb2 49. Kf4 Rb4) 47. exd4 {KR-KR} Rf5 (
47... Rf1 {keeps more tension.} 48. Ra7+ Kd8 49. Ra8+ Ke7 50. Ra7+ Kf8) 48. d5
exd5+ 49. Kxd5 Rxg5 50. Ra7+ Ke8 51. Kd6 $1 {[%cal Ra7a8] [#]} Kf8 52. e6 fxe6
53. Kxe6 Rf5 (53... Rg2 {is more complex.} 54. Rb7 Rf2 55. Rd7 Rf5 56. Rc7 Rf1)
54. Rb7 Kg8 55. Ra7 (55. Rc7 {seems wilder.} Rf1 56. Rd7 Rf4 57. Rb7 Rf1 58.
Rd7) 55... Rf8 56. Rb7 Kh8 57. Ra7 Rf4 58. Rb7 g5 59. Rb5 g4 60. Rg5 Kh7 {
aiming for ...Kh6.} 61. Ke5 Ra4 62. Kf5 Kh6 {( -> ...Ra5+)} 63. Rxg4 Rxg4 64.
Kxg4 {Not much happened in this game.  Weighted Error Value: White=0.02/
Black=0.01} 1/2-1/2

[Event "Goldmoney Asian Rapid Prelims 2021"]
[Site "Chess24"]
[Date "2021.06.24"]
[Round "3.2"]
[White "Gukesh D"]
[Black "Adhiban, B.."]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "A60"]
[WhiteElo "2578"]
[BlackElo "2660"]
[Annotator "TA"]
[PlyCount "62"]
[EventDate "2021.06.26"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "NET"]
[Tiebreak "Koya+Number of black wins+Number of wins"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

{[%evp 18,62,-4,-25,0,0,0,8,0,0,33,25,34,36,29,31,29,34,34,20,22,10,8,23,27,0,
0,0,0,0,33,39,84,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]} 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. Nc3 Bg7 4.
e4 d6 5. g3 c5 6. d5 O-O 7. Bg2 e6 8. Nge2 exd5 9. cxd5 Re8 {9...a6 is not
played anymore.} 10. O-O b5 {A60: Modern Benoni: Early Divergences.} 11. e5
Rxe5 {And now ...b4 would win.} 12. Bf4 Re8 {White must now prevent ...b4.} 13.
Nxb5 Ba6 14. Nec3 Nh5 15. Bxd6 {Qa4 is the strong threat.} Bxc3 {[%mdl 64] [#]
Pin} 16. Bc7 $1 Qd7 17. Nxc3 Bxf1 {[#]} 18. Qxf1 $146 ({Predecessor:} 18. Kxf1
Na6 19. d6 Nxc7 20. dxc7 Qxc7 21. Bxa8 Rxa8 22. Qf3 Re8 23. Rd1 Kg7 24. Kg2 {
1-0 (51) Sawatzki,J (2487)-Schartner,A (2342) ICCF corr 2001}) 18... Qxc7 19.
d6 $1 {[%cal Rd6c7]} Qxd6 20. Bxa8 Nc6 {[#]} 21. Nb5 $1 Qf6 22. Bxc6 Qxc6 23.
Nxa7 Qf6 24. Qb5 Rd8 25. a4 (25. Qe2 $16) 25... Qf3 $11 {The position is equal.
} 26. Re1 Nf4 27. gxf4 Qg4+ 28. Kf1 {Hoping for Re8+.} Qh3+ $1 {[%mdl 64]
Double Attack} 29. Kg1 {Strongly threatening Re8+.} Qg4+ {[%mdl 64] Double
Attack} 30. Kf1 {Threatens to win with Re8+.} Qh3+ $1 {[%mdl 64] Double Attack}
31. Kg1 {aiming for Re8+.} Qg4+ {[%mdl 64] Double Attack.  Weighted Error
Value: White=0.06/Black=0.08} 1/2-1/2

[Event "Goldmoney Asian Rapid Prelims 2021"]
[Site "Chess24"]
[Date "2021.06.24"]
[Round "3.3"]
[White "Erigaisi Arjun"]
[Black "Artemiev, Vladislav"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "D85"]
[WhiteElo "2567"]
[BlackElo "2704"]
[Annotator "TA"]
[PlyCount "92"]
[EventDate "2021.06.26"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "NET"]
[Tiebreak "Koya+Number of black wins+Number of wins"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

{[%evp 15,92,18,28,6,43,32,33,19,40,35,31,21,10,16,39,36,33,28,37,-17,-20,-16,
0,0,0,-9,-12,-7,-10,-8,-21,-13,-10,-13,-6,0,0,0,0,-69,-55,-269,-259,-250,-256,
-504,-512,-518,-447,-545,-535,-533,-520,-553,-520,-544,-534,-489,-378,-335,
-270,-670,-529,-667,-537,-709,-708,-964,-960,-942,-947,-864,-757,-29983,-642,
-619,-619,-606,-593]} 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. Nc3 d5 4. cxd5 Nxd5 5. e4 Nxc3 6.
bxc3 Bg7 7. Nf3 c5 8. Be3 Qa5 9. Nd2 {D85: Exchange Grünfeld: Unusual White
7th moves and lines with 7 Nf3.} Nd7 $1 {[%mdl 4] 9...Nd7 is a critical line.}
10. Qc2 O-O 11. Be2 {[#] White is slightly better.} Nb6 $1 $146 {[%mdl 8] A
top novelty.} ({Predecessor:} 11... cxd4 12. cxd4 Nb6 13. O-O Be6 14. Nb3 Qa4
15. Qc7 Bc4 16. Bxc4 Nxc4 17. Qxe7 b6 {1/2-1/2 (33) Thybo,J (2525)-Ragger,M 
(2696) Skopje 2019}) 12. O-O Qa4 13. Qb2 cxd4 14. cxd4 Be6 15. Bb5 Qa5 16. a4
Rac8 17. Qa3 (17. Rfe1 $14) 17... a6 18. Be2 Rc2 19. Rfd1 Re8 20. d5 Bd7 ({
Inferior is} 20... Bxa1 21. dxe6 Qxa4 22. Qxa4 $16 (22. Rxa1 Qxa3 23. Rxa3 Rd8
$16) (22. Qxa1 Qxa1 23. exf7+ Kxf7 $16)) 21. Rab1 Qxa4 22. Qxa4 Nxa4 23. Rxb7 {
[#]} Nc3 $1 24. Bd3 ({But not} 24. Rxd7 Nxd1 25. Bxd1 Rc1 $17) 24... Nxd1 25.
Bxc2 Nxe3 26. fxe3 Bb5 27. Bb3 (27. Kf2 $11) 27... Rc8 $15 28. Rxe7 $2 {
Loses the game.} (28. Kf2 $15) 28... Bh6 $19 29. Kf2 {Threatening d6.} Rc3 30.
Bd1 $2 (30. Bc4 Bxc4 31. Nxc4 Rxc4 32. d6 Rc2+ 33. Kf3) 30... Rd3 31. Nf3 {
White wants to play Be2.} Rxd1 32. h4 Bf8 33. Rb7 h5 34. Kg3 Bd3 35. Kf4 Bh6+
36. Ke5 Bg7+ 37. Kf4 {Now Rb8+ and White clings on.} f6 {...Bh6+ is the strong
threat.} 38. Nd4 $2 (38. Rb8+ Kh7 39. Rb7) 38... Rb1 39. Re7 Bf8 40. Rd7 Bh6+
41. Kf3 Rf1+ 42. Kg3 Bxe3 {( -> ...Bf4+)} 43. Ne6 g5 44. d6 Bf4+ (44... Bc4
$142 45. Rd8+ Kf7 46. Rc8 Bxe6 47. Rc7+ Kg6 48. Kh2 Bg1+ 49. Kh1 Bc5+ 50. Kh2
Bxd6+ {[%mdl 64] Double Attack} 51. g3 Bxc7 52. Kg2 {[#]} Bh3+ $1 {[%mdl 512]}
53. Kxh3 Rf2 54. hxg5 fxg5 55. e5 Bxe5 56. g4 Rh2#) 45. Nxf4 gxf4+ 46. Kh2 {
intending Rg7+!} Bb5 {Weighted Error Value: White=0.60/Black=0.15} 0-1

[Event "Goldmoney Asian Rapid Prelims 2021"]
[Site "Chess24"]
[Date "2021.06.24"]
[Round "3.4"]
[White "Vidit, Santosh Gujrathi"]
[Black "Dubov, Daniil"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "E34"]
[WhiteElo "2726"]
[BlackElo "2714"]
[Annotator "TA"]
[PlyCount "126"]
[EventDate "2021.06.26"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "NET"]
[Tiebreak "Koya+Number of black wins+Number of wins"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

{[%evp 10,126,19,14,17,16,34,20,43,37,46,45,66,60,51,45,59,53,61,64,74,66,83,
53,70,63,61,49,75,66,60,43,79,21,90,35,47,27,0,-64,0,0,42,-98,0,-247,-253,-233,
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-241,-300,-221,-221,-205,-208,-179,-184,-168,-236,-238,-229,-232,-344,-292,
-603,-300,-281,-303,-273,-281,-5401,-5102,-12799,-12799,-12794,-12798,-4802,
-4602,-2460,-2444,-12793,-7037,-5193,-5114,-6468,-5632,-5587,-2233,-5065,-1531]
} 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. Qc2 d5 5. cxd5 Qxd5 6. e3 O-O {E34:
Nimzo-Indian: Classical: 4...d5.} 7. Bd2 Bxc3 8. Bxc3 b6 $5 {[%mdl 4] The
position is equal. Exploring less charted territory.} 9. Be2 {[#]} Qd8 $146 (
9... Qxg2 $2 10. Bf3 $18) ({Predecessor:} 9... Ne4 10. Bf3 f5 11. Nh3 Bb7 12.
O-O Nd7 13. Bb4 c5 14. dxc5 Ndxc5 15. Bxc5 Qxc5 16. Qxc5 Nxc5 17. Bxb7 Nxb7 {
1/2-1/2 (63) Fridman,D (2604)-Fedoseev,V (2641) Riga 2014}) 10. Nf3 (10. b4 {
is more complex.} Bb7 11. Nf3 Qe7 12. O-O Rc8 13. Rfc1) 10... Ba6 11. O-O Bxe2
12. Qxe2 Qd5 13. Nd2 Nbd7 14. e4 Qb7 15. b4 Rfd8 16. f3 Nf8 17. Rfc1 Ng6 18.
Qe3 Rd7 19. a4 Rad8 20. Nb3 h5 21. Be1 (21. b5 $16) 21... h4 (21... c6 $11 {
remains equal.}) 22. Ra2 (22. b5 $16) 22... c6 $14 23. Rac2 e5 {[%cal Re5d4]}
24. Bc3 ({White should play} 24. Rxc6 $11 exd4 25. Qg5) 24... Nf4 (24... Qa6
$15 25. a5 Nh5) 25. b5 h3 26. gxh3 {[#]} (26. bxc6 $14 Qxc6 27. dxe5) 26...
N6h5 (26... a5 $1 $17 27. Ra2 (27. dxe5 N6h5 $17) 27... c5) 27. Kh1 $2 {
White is now going downhill.} (27. dxe5 $2 Rd1+ 28. Rxd1 Rxd1+ 29. Be1 Nd3 $19)
(27. bxc6 $1 $11 Qxc6 28. d5 Nxh3+ 29. Kh1) 27... exd4 $19 28. Nxd4 c5 29. Nf5
(29. Ne2 $142 Rd3 30. Qg1 Rxf3 31. Nxf4 Rxf4 32. Re2) 29... Rd1+ 30. Be1 g6 ({
Less strong is} 30... Nxh3 31. Rxd1 Rxd1 32. Qe2 $15 (32. Rd2 Rb1 $17)) 31. Ng3
R8d3 ({But not} 31... Nxh3 $2 32. Nxh5 Qe7 33. Rxd1 $18) 32. Qf2 Nxh3 33. Qf1 {
Hoping for Nxh5.} Rxc1 34. Rxc1 N5f4 {And now ...Ng5 would win.} 35. Ne2 Nxe2
36. Qxe2 Qd7 37. Bg3 Qd4 38. Rf1 $2 (38. Re1) 38... Rd2 39. Qe1 c4 {Strongly
threatening ...c3.} 40. e5 (40. Be5 $142 Qd3 41. Bf6) 40... Ng5 41. e6 Nxe6 42.
Qe5 {If White can now play Qxd4 this consolidates a bit.} Qxe5 (42... Qd3 $142
{[%cal Rd3f1]} 43. Kg1 c3) 43. Bxe5 {[%mdl 4096] Endgame intending Rc1. KRB-KRN
} Nc5 44. Ra1 Nd3 45. Bf6 Kh7 46. a5 Nf2+ 47. Kg1 Nh3+ 48. Kh1 (48. Kf1 $142)
48... g5 49. axb6 axb6 50. Rc1 (50. Ra4 $142) 50... Kg6 51. Bc3 {[#]} (51. Be5
Nf2+ 52. Kg1) 51... Rd5 (51... Rd1+ $142 $3 {[%mdl 512]} 52. Rxd1 Nf2+ {
[%mdl 64] Double Attack} 53. Kg2 Nxd1) 52. Bb4 Nf4 (52... Rxb5 53. Rxc4 Nf4 54.
h4 $17) 53. h4 Rd4 ({Don't do} 53... Rxb5 54. Rxc4 Nd3 55. Be7 $17) 54. hxg5 $2
(54. Bc3 Rd8 55. hxg5) 54... Nd3 {Black is clearly winning.} 55. Rb1 Nxb4 56.
Rxb4 Kxg5 {KR-KR} 57. Kg2 Kf4 58. Kf2 Ke5 59. Ke3 Rd3+ 60. Ke2 Kd4 61. Ra4 Re3+
62. Kf2 Re7 (62... Re5 $142 63. f4 Rxb5) 63. Ra8 Kc5 {Weighted Error Value:
White=0.89/Black=0.38} (63... c3 $142 64. Rc8 Kd3 65. Rd8+ Kc4) 0-1

[Event "Goldmoney Asian Rapid Prelims 2021"]
[Site "Chess24"]
[Date "2021.06.24"]
[Round "3.5"]
[White "Firouzja, Alireza"]
[Black "Duda, Jan-Krzysztof"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "A45"]
[WhiteElo "2759"]
[BlackElo "2729"]
[Annotator "TA"]
[PlyCount "142"]
[EventDate "2021.06.26"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "NET"]
[Tiebreak "Koya+Number of black wins+Number of wins"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

{[%evp 14,142,68,68,60,75,139,73,91,94,97,101,90,93,121,119,234,216,241,134,
143,141,136,135,161,158,156,137,158,148,133,130,146,142,158,96,91,87,99,98,90,
38,51,22,27,0,0,0,0,-16,-27,-27,-39,-20,-20,-25,-25,-16,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,
0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,-76,-66,-86,-86,-86,-86,-86,-86,-84,-84,-93,-77,-141,
-137,-150,-146,-139,-141,-151,-151,-151,-151,-151,-145,-151,-149,-151,-144,
-145,-117,-110,-103,-102,-62,-94,-62,-109,-98,-95,-101,-102,-102,-102,-110,
-226,-226,-233,-226,-437,-437]} 1. d4 Nf6 2. Bg5 Ne4 3. Bf4 c5 4. f3 Nf6 5.
dxc5 Qa5+ 6. Nc3 Qxc5 7. e4 d6 8. Qd2 g6 $1 {[%mdl 4] is recently more
successful than 8...a6. A45: Trompowsky Attack.} 9. O-O-O Nbd7 (9... Bg7 $142)
10. Nge2 (10. Be3 $142 Qa5 11. Kb1) 10... Bg7 {[#] White is better.} 11. Nd4
$146 ({Predecessor:} 11. Be3 Qa5 12. Kb1 a6 13. h4 h5 14. Nf4 b5 15. Nfd5 Qd8
16. Nxf6+ Bxf6 17. Nd5 {1-0 (41) Saraiba Rafuls,L (2024)-Delgado Alvarez,E 
(1681) Mayabeque 2018}) 11... a6 12. g4 b5 13. g5 {And now Nb3 would win.} Nh5
14. Be3 $36 {[%mdl 2048] White has strong initiative.} Qc7 (14... Bb7 $16 {
is a better defense.}) 15. Nd5 $18 Qb7 16. Nb3 (16. Qa5 $18 {Black must now
prevent Nc7+.} O-O 17. Nxe7+ Kh8 18. Bh3) 16... e6 $16 {[#]} 17. Na5 $1 Qb8 18.
Nf4 Qc7 19. Nxh5 gxh5 20. Nb3 Ne5 21. Qxd6 Qxd6 22. Rxd6 Nxf3 23. Be2 Ne5 24.
Rhd1 ({Worse is} 24. Bxh5 Nc4 $11) (24. Na5 $142 $1) 24... O-O 25. Bd4 ({
Much worse is} 25. Bxh5 $6 Nc4 $11) 25... h4 26. Nc5 b4 27. Rb6 (27. c4 $16)
27... a5 $14 28. Rb5 Rd8 29. Bh5 Nd3+ 30. Rxd3 Rxd4 31. Rf3 Ra7 32. Rb8 Rd8 33.
Nd3 Rf8 34. Rf4 Ba6 35. Rxf8+ Bxf8 36. Rxh4 Bd6 37. Be2 Rc7 38. h3 Bxd3 39.
Bxd3 $11 {[%mdl 4096] Endgame KRB-KRB} Rc5 40. Rg4 Kg7 41. b3 Be5 42. Kd1 Kg6
43. Ke2 Bc7 44. h4 Kh5 45. Kf3 Be5 46. Bc4 a4 47. Rg1 (47. Bd3 $11 {remains
equal.}) 47... Kxh4 $17 48. Rh1+ Kxg5 49. Rxh7 Kg6 50. Rh1 a3 51. Bd3 Kf6 52.
Kg4 Rc8 53. Rf1+ (53. Kf3 $142) 53... Ke7 54. Rh1 Kd6 55. Kf3 Rg8 56. Rf1 Kc5
57. Ke3 Rg7 58. Be2 Rh7 59. Kd3 Bc3 60. Bg4 Kd6 61. Bf3 Ke5 62. Rh1 {[#]} Rg7
$1 63. Ke3 Kd6 64. Kd3 Rg3 65. Ke2 Ke5 66. Kf2 Rg8 67. Ke3 Rd8 68. Rh5+ Kf6 69.
Rh1 {[#]} (69. Rh6+ $17 {keeps fighting.} Ke7 70. Rh2) 69... Bd2+ $1 $19 70.
Ke2 {Hoping for Rd1.} Bf4 {aiming for ...Rd2+.} 71. Rd1 $2 (71. Ke1 {was worth
a try.}) 71... Rc8 {What a bad dream for White.  Weighted Error Value: White=0.
12/Black=0.05} 0-1

[Event "Goldmoney Asian Rapid Prelims 2021"]
[Site "Chess24"]
[Date "2021.06.24"]
[Round "3.6"]
[White "Hou, Yifan"]
[Black "Giri, Anish"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "C78"]
[WhiteElo "2658"]
[BlackElo "2780"]
[Annotator "TA"]
[PlyCount "108"]
[EventDate "2021.06.26"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "NET"]
[Tiebreak "Koya+Number of black wins+Number of wins"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

{[%evp 16,108,44,-8,0,-5,-8,-19,-20,-8,0,-12,-9,-31,-24,-27,-25,-31,-25,-31,
-26,-77,-75,-77,-77,-77,-77,-74,-88,-51,-47,-104,-107,-110,-98,-95,-80,-154,
-158,-147,-152,-156,-147,-177,-164,-157,0,-161,-143,-174,-140,-161,-118,-109,
-107,-118,-89,-127,-89,-155,-153,-152,-152,-144,-156,-130,-29,-68,-13,-13,-13,
-13,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]} 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5
a6 4. Ba4 Nf6 5. O-O b5 6. Bb3 Bc5 7. c3 d6 8. d4 Bb6 9. h3 (9. a4 $14) 9...
Bb7 {C78: Ruy Lopez: Archangelsk and Möller Defences.} 10. Bg5 h6 11. Bxf6 Qxf6
12. Bd5 O-O {[%cal Re5d4]} 13. a4 Rab8 {[%cal Re5d4]} 14. axb5 axb5 {[%cal
Re5d4]} 15. Na3 exd4 16. Nxb5 {[%cal Rc3d4]} dxc3 17. Nxc3 {[#]} Nd4 $146 ({
Predecessor:} 17... Rfe8 18. Re1 Nd4 19. Re3 c6 20. Bc4 d5 21. Bf1 Nb5 22. e5
Nxc3 23. bxc3 Qe7 {0-1 (47) Rios Parra,J (2060)-Sierra Mejia,J (2173) Medellin
2018}) 18. Nxd4 (18. Bxb7 $11 {remains equal.} Rxb7 19. Nd5 Nxf3+ 20. Qxf3 Qxf3
21. gxf3) 18... Bxd4 $17 19. Bxb7 Rxb7 20. Nd5 Qe5 21. Ne7+ Qxe7 22. Qxd4 Rfb8
23. Ra6 (23. Rfb1 $15) 23... Rxb2 24. Rc6 R2b4 25. Qc3 Rb1 26. Qc2 (26. Rxb1
$142 Rxb1+ 27. Kh2) 26... Rxf1+ 27. Kxf1 {[%mdl 4096] Endgame KQR-KQR} Qf6 28.
Rc3 ({Wrong is} 28. Rxc7 $2 Rb2 $19) 28... Rb1+ 29. Ke2 Rb4 30. Kf1 Rb1+ 31.
Ke2 $1 g6 32. g3 Qd4 33. Kf3 c5 34. Rd3 Qf6+ 35. Kg2 Rb6 (35... Rb4 {with more
complications.} 36. Qd1 Rb2 37. Qf3 Qe6 38. Rd5 c4) 36. Qc4 Qe6 37. Qd5 (37.
Rd5 $142) 37... Qxd5 38. Rxd5 {KR-KR} f6 39. h4 Kf7 40. h5 {[#]} gxh5 (40... g5
$1 $17 {White must now prevent ...g4.} 41. Kf3 Ke6) 41. Rxh5 Rb4 (41... Kg6 $15
42. Rd5 c4) 42. Kf3 $11 {The position is equal.} Kg6 43. Rd5 Rd4 (43... Rb3+ {
feels hotter.} 44. Ke2 Rb6 45. Ke3 Kf7 46. Ke2 Rb2+) 44. Rxd4 cxd4 {KP-KP} 45.
Ke2 Kg5 {[#] ...Kg4 is the strong threat.} 46. f3 f5 47. f4+ Kf6 48. Kd3 fxe4+
49. Kxe4 h5 50. Kxd4 {KPP-KPP} Kf5 51. Kd5 h4 52. gxh4 {h5 would kill now.}
Kxf4 53. Kxd6 Kg4 54. h5 Kxh5 {Whites escaped into a draw.  Weighted Error
Value: White=0.12/Black=0.16} 1/2-1/2

[Event "Goldmoney Asian Rapid Prelims 2021"]
[Site "Chess24"]
[Date "2021.06.24"]
[Round "3.7"]
[White "So, Wesley"]
[Black "Carlsen, Magnus"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "C67"]
[WhiteElo "2770"]
[BlackElo "2847"]
[Annotator "TA"]
[PlyCount "53"]
[EventDate "2021.06.26"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "NET"]
[Tiebreak "Koya+Number of black wins+Number of wins"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

{[%evp 27,28,0,15]} 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+ Qe6 14. Qd4 Qd6 {[#]} {Predecessor:} 15. Qe3+ $146 {C67: Ruy
Lopez: Berlin Defence: 4 0-0 Nxe4.} 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 "Goldmoney Asian Rapid Prelims 2021"]
[Site "Chess24"]
[Date "2021.06.24"]
[Round "3.8"]
[White "Svidler, Peter"]
[Black "Salem, A.R. Saleh"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "A13"]
[WhiteElo "2714"]
[BlackElo "2682"]
[Annotator "TA"]
[PlyCount "88"]
[EventDate "2021.06.26"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "NET"]
[Tiebreak "Koya+Number of black wins+Number of wins"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

{[%evp 14,88,11,0,8,18,18,18,10,10,0,11,7,6,12,0,0,0,2,0,0,-28,0,-7,-15,-19,
-12,-19,-16,-50,0,-45,-40,-41,-22,-31,-47,-60,-58,-78,-72,-76,-72,-98,-109,
-134,-134,-125,-125,-186,-186,-187,-183,-202,-210,-225,-215,-205,-185,-231,
-242,-246,-244,-239,-241,-245,-221,-245,-233,-289,-300,-318,-318,-317,-317,
-29993,-29994]} 1. c4 e6 2. g3 d5 3. Bg2 Nf6 4. Nf3 d4 5. O-O c5 6. e3 Nc6 7.
exd4 cxd4 8. d3 Bd6 {A13: English Opening: 1...e6.} 9. Bg5 h6 10. Bxf6 Qxf6 {
The position is equal.} 11. Nbd2 Qe7 12. a3 a5 13. Re1 O-O 14. Ne4 Bc7 15. c5
Rd8 16. Rc1 Bd7 17. Nfd2 Ne5 {[#]} 18. Nc4 $146 ({Predecessor:} 18. Qe2 Bc6 19.
Nd6 Nd7 20. Nxb7 Bxb7 21. c6 Bxc6 22. Rxc6 Ra7 23. Rec1 Nf6 24. Qd1 {1/2-1/2 
(65) Chigaev,M (2542)-Alekseev,E (2626) Kolomna 2016}) 18... Nxc4 19. Rxc4 Bb5
20. Rc1 a4 21. Re2 Rab8 (21... f5 $5 {[%cal Rf5e4]} 22. Nd6 Bxd6 23. cxd6 Qxd6
$15) 22. b4 axb3 23. Qxb3 Bc6 24. Nd2 Ba5 25. Bxc6 bxc6 26. Qa4 Bxd2 {White is
on the road to losing.} 27. Rxd2 Rb5 {[%cal Bb8b5,Bb5a5,Ba5a4][%mdl 32]} 28.
Qc4 Rd5 29. Rdc2 Qa7 30. a4 Ra5 ({Don't play} 30... Rdxc5 $6 31. Qxd4 Rxc2 32.
Qxa7 $11) 31. Qb4 (31. Ra1 $17 {was worth a try.}) 31... Rxa4 $19 32. Qb6 Ra6
33. Qxa7 Rxa7 {[%mdl 4096] Endgame KRR-KRR} 34. Kf1 Ra5 35. Ke2 Re5+ 36. Kd2 g5
37. h3 Kg7 38. Rc4 Rd5 39. R1c2 Kf6 40. Rb4 Ra1 ({Weaker is} 40... Raxc5 41.
Rxc5 Rxc5 42. Rxd4 $17) 41. Ke2 h5 42. Rb6 g4 43. hxg4 hxg4 {( -> ...Re5+)} 44.
f3 $2 {[#]} (44. Rb4 $19) 44... Rh5 {[%cal Rh5h2] Weighted Error Value:
White=0.28/Black=0.04} 0-1

[Event "Goldmoney Asian Rapid Prelims 2021"]
[Site "Chess24"]
[Date "2021.06.24"]
[Round "4.1"]
[White "Aronian, Levon"]
[Black "Salem, A.R. Saleh"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "A13"]
[WhiteElo "2781"]
[BlackElo "2682"]
[Annotator "TA"]
[PlyCount "116"]
[EventDate "2021.06.26"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "NET"]
[Tiebreak "Koya+Number of black wins+Number of wins"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

{[%evp 9,116,16,28,2,6,-29,14,16,20,19,24,34,46,20,56,62,64,51,65,74,164,112,
120,29,20,11,8,5,10,27,32,14,25,21,14,18,39,-22,0,0,7,7,0,-41,-23,-12,-23,-45,
0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,-4,0,0,58,58,58,58,58,58,58,58,81,82,82,82,82,80,81,8,58,
58,58,58,58,58,58,58,58,58,58,58,58,58,58,58,58,47,47,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8]
} 1. c4 e6 2. g3 d5 3. Bg2 Nf6 4. Nf3 d4 5. d3 Bb4+ 6. Nbd2 {[#] A13: English
Opening: 1...e6.} a5 $146 ({Predecessor:} 6... O-O 7. a3 Bd6 8. Nxd4 Bxg3 9.
hxg3 Qxd4 10. Nf3 Qb6 11. Be3 c5 12. b4 Nbd7 13. bxc5 Nxc5 {1-0 (33) Sidhant,M
(2396)-Kumar,S (1928) Kankarbagh 2017}) 7. O-O O-O 8. Ne4 Nxe4 9. dxe4 Nc6 10.
e5 a4 11. Qc2 f6 12. exf6 gxf6 13. Bh6 Rf7 14. Rad1 Ra5 {[#]} (14... Rd7 $16)
15. e3 (15. Nxd4 $1 $18 {[%mdl 512]} Nxd4 {[#]} 16. Rxd4 $1 Qxd4 17. Rd1) 15...
e5 $16 16. Nh4 ({White should play} 16. a3 $16 Bc5 17. exd4 exd4 18. Nh4) 16...
Bg4 $11 17. Bf3 Qd7 18. Qe2 Bxf3 19. Qxf3 f5 20. exd4 exd4 21. a3 Be7 22. Rfe1
Rc5 23. Bf4 ({White should try} 23. Ng2 $14) 23... Rxc4 24. Qh5 d3 25. Nf3 Re4
26. Bh6 Qe6 27. Re3 Rxe3 28. Bxe3 Qg6 (28... Qb3 {seems wilder.} 29. Re1 Qxb2
30. Ng5 Bxg5 31. Bxg5 d2) 29. Qxg6+ hxg6 30. Rxd3 Bf6 31. b3 axb3 32. Rxb3 b6
33. a4 Rd7 34. h4 Rd1+ 35. Kg2 Ra1 ({Better is} 35... Kf7 $11) 36. Bf4 $14 Rxa4
37. Bxc7 Ra7 38. Bxb6 Rb7 {next ...Bd8 is good for Black.} 39. Nd2 Bd8 40. Bxd8
Rxb3 41. Nxb3 Nxd8 $16 {[%mdl 4096] Endgame KN-KN} 42. Nd4 Kg7 43. h5 (43. Kf3
$16) 43... Nf7 (43... f4 $5) 44. Kf3 Kf6 45. hxg6 Ne5+ 46. Ke3 {Hoping for g7!}
Nxg6 47. Ne2 Ne5 48. Nf4 Ng4+ 49. Ke2 Ne5 50. Nd5+ Ke6 51. Ne3 Kf6 52. Nd1 Ng6
53. Kf3 Kg5 {The position is equal.} 54. Nc3 Ne5+ 55. Ke3 {f4+ is the strong
threat.} Ng4+ 56. Ke2 Nxf2 57. Kxf2 {Intending Kf3 and mate.} f4 58. gxf4+ Kxf4
{Weighted Error Value: White=0.14/Black=0.10} 1/2-1/2

[Event "Goldmoney Asian Rapid Prelims 2021"]
[Site "Chess24"]
[Date "2021.06.24"]
[Round "4.2"]
[White "Carlsen, Magnus"]
[Black "Svidler, Peter"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "B90"]
[WhiteElo "2847"]
[BlackElo "2714"]
[Annotator "TA"]
[PlyCount "79"]
[EventDate "2021.06.26"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "NET"]
[Tiebreak "Koya+Number of black wins+Number of wins"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

{[%evp 9,79,22,31,0,-8,-6,0,0,18,0,9,0,39,0,38,37,45,41,36,36,44,29,35,35,65,
62,62,22,22,19,51,6,7,5,6,6,3,3,3,8,10,0,0,-9,0,0,0,0,10,0,36,41,110,104,368,
33,87,35,42,5,73,74,63,74,77,73,312,309,418,413,401,407]} 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3.
d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 a6 6. b3 {B90: Sicilian Najdorf: Unusual White 6th
moves, 6 Be3 Ng4 and 6 Be3 e5.} e5 7. Nde2 Be6 {[#]} 8. g3 $146 {The position
is equal.} ({Predecessor:} 8. f4 exf4 9. Nxf4 Nbd7 10. Nxe6 fxe6 11. Bc4 Qa5
12. Bd2 Qe5 13. O-O Nxe4 14. Nxe4 Qxe4 {1-0 (38) Fries Nielsen,J (2380)
-Schlegel,I (2027) Chess.com INT 2020}) 8... h5 9. h3 Nbd7 10. Bg2 Rc8 11. O-O
h4 {next ...hxg3 is good for Black.} 12. g4 Qc7 13. Be3 Be7 14. Nd5 Bxd5 15.
exd5 O-O (15... Qxc2 $2 16. Rc1 $18) 16. c4 b5 17. cxb5 axb5 18. a4 bxa4 19.
bxa4 Qa5 20. Bg5 Rc4 21. Bxh4 Ra8 22. Ng3 g6 23. Bg5 Rxa4 24. Rxa4 Qxa4 25.
Qxa4 Rxa4 26. Be3 Nc5 27. Rb1 Nfd7 28. g5 Ra3 29. h4 Ra4 30. Bh3 {Black must
now prevent Bxd7.} Kf8 ({Not} 30... Rxh4 $2 31. Bxd7 Nxd7 32. Rb7 $18) (30...
Nf8 $14) 31. h5 $16 gxh5 $2 {[%mdl 8192]} (31... Ra7 $16) 32. Nf5 $2 ({White
must play} 32. Bxc5 $18 dxc5 33. Bxd7) 32... Ra3 ({Better is} 32... Ra8 $14)
33. Kg2 (33. Bf1 $16) 33... Nb3 $14 34. Ng3 h4 {[#]} 35. Nf5 $1 $16 ({Much
weaker is} 35. Bxd7 hxg3 36. f4 exf4 $11) 35... Ndc5 36. Bg4 h3+ 37. Bxh3 Ne4
$2 {[#]} (37... Ra1 $16 38. Rb2 Ra8) 38. Bg4 $1 $18 ({Less strong is} 38. Bc1
Nc3 $16) 38... Bxg5 39. Bxg5 Nxg5 40. Bd1 {Weighted Error Value: White=0.21/
Black=0.36} 1-0

[Event "Goldmoney Asian Rapid Prelims 2021"]
[Site "Chess24"]
[Date "2021.06.24"]
[Round "4.3"]
[White "Giri, Anish"]
[Black "So, Wesley"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "C67"]
[WhiteElo "2780"]
[BlackElo "2770"]
[Annotator "TA"]
[PlyCount "57"]
[EventDate "2021.06.26"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "NET"]
[Tiebreak "Koya+Number of black wins+Number of wins"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

{[%evp 18,57,17,24,28,21,21,22,16,10,8,2,18,8,14,8,12,0,0,0,37,18,20,15,18,14,
11,5,421,429,435,431,429,427,553,538,681,479,1584,1336,1508,591]} 1. e4 e5 2.
Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 Nf6 4. O-O Nxe4 5. Re1 Nd6 6. Nxe5 Be7 7. Bf1 Nxe5 8. Rxe5 O-O
9. d4 Bf6 10. Re1 Re8 {C67: Ruy Lopez: Berlin Defence: 4 0-0 Nxe4.} 11. c3 Rxe1
12. Qxe1 Ne8 {The position is equal.} 13. Nd2 $5 {[%cal Bb1d2,Bd2b3,Bb3c5]
[%mdl 4] An interesting side line.} d5 14. Nb3 c6 15. Bf4 {[#]} g6 $146 ({
Predecessor:} 15... b6 16. Nd2 Bf5 17. h3 h6 18. Qe3 Bg5 19. g4 Bxf4 20. Qxf4
Bh7 21. Qe3 Nd6 22. Re1 Kf8 23. c4 dxc4 24. Nxc4 Nxc4 25. Bxc4 Qd6 {1/2-1/2 
(25) Gomila Marti,S (2363)-Camacho Dominguez,F (2324) ICCF email 2018}) 16. Qe3
Ng7 17. Re1 Bf5 18. Nc5 Qb6 19. b4 a5 20. a3 axb4 21. axb4 h5 22. h3 Re8 $2 {
[%mdl 8192] [#] Loses the game.} (22... Qa7 $11 {and Black stays safe.}) 23.
Qxe8+ $1 $18 {White is clearly winning.} Nxe8 24. Rxe8+ Kg7 {Black wants to
play ...Qa7.} 25. Bb8 Bxd4 26. cxd4 g5 27. Be5+ Kg6 (27... f6 $142 28. Re7+ {
[%mdl 64] Double Attack} Kg6 29. Rxb7 Qd8) 28. Rg8+ Kh6 29. Rb8 {Weighted
Error Value: White=0.15/Black=0.64} (29. h4 $142 gxh4 30. Bd3 {[%mdl 64]
Overworked Piece} Bxd3 31. Nd7) 1-0

[Event "Goldmoney Asian Rapid Prelims 2021"]
[Site "Chess24"]
[Date "2021.06.24"]
[Round "4.4"]
[White "Duda, Jan-Krzysztof"]
[Black "Hou, Yifan"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "E16"]
[WhiteElo "2729"]
[BlackElo "2658"]
[Annotator "TA"]
[PlyCount "93"]
[EventDate "2021.06.26"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "NET"]
[Tiebreak "Koya+Number of black wins+Number of wins"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

{[%evp 15,93,34,37,15,40,34,35,7,27,10,12,6,2,4,18,32,28,10,9,15,12,4,4,4,9,10,
19,19,21,23,20,18,22,20,12,21,58,41,97,81,83,66,56,43,110,108,144,142,141,150,
153,168,171,158,194,190,239,235,248,240,264,259,266,262,293,286,287,293,386,
346,362,353,412,419,416,410,630,612,563,549]} 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nf3 b6 4.
g3 Bb4+ 5. Bd2 a5 6. Bg2 Bb7 7. O-O O-O 8. Bf4 Be7 9. Qc2 {E16: Queen's Indian:
4 g3 Bb7 5 Bg2 Bb4+.} Be4 10. Qd2 $5 {[%mdl 4] An interesting side line.} Bb7
11. Nc3 {[#] White is slightly better.} Bb4 $146 ({Predecessor:} 11... Ne4 12.
Nxe4 Bxe4 13. d5 exd5 14. cxd5 d6 15. Nd4 Bxg2 16. Kxg2 Bf6 17. Rac1 Bxd4 18.
Qxd4 {1-0 (41) Lesovoi,E (2337)-Ufimtsev,E (2148) St Petersburg 2019}) 12. Qc2
Bxc3 13. Qxc3 d6 14. Rad1 Be4 15. Rfe1 Nbd7 16. Bf1 Qe7 17. Nd2 Bb7 18. e4 e5
19. Bg5 h6 20. Bxf6 Nxf6 21. dxe5 dxe5 22. c5 bxc5 23. f3 a4 24. Nc4 Rfe8 25.
Ne3 g6 26. Rc1 Nh7 (26... Nd7 $14) 27. Qxc5 Ng5 {Hoping for ...Qxc5.} 28. Qxe7
Rxe7 29. Kf2 Ne6 {[#] White now steadily converts the win.} (29... Kg7 $14) 30.
Ng4 $1 $16 Nd4 31. Rc5 (31. Nxh6+ $6 Kg7 $11) 31... Ne6 32. Rxe5 h5 33. Ne3 {
Black must now prevent Nd5.} Rd7 34. Bc4 Rd2+ 35. Re2 Rad8 36. Bxe6 fxe6 37.
Ra5 (37. Rxe6 Kf7 $11) 37... R8d4 38. Nc2 Rd6 39. Nb4 ({Don't do} 39. Rxa4 $6
Ba6 $18) 39... R2d4 40. a3 ({Not} 40. Rxa4 c5 $17) 40... Rc4 41. Ke3 ({But not
} 41. Rxa4 $6 c5 $18) 41... c5 {[#]} 42. Rc2 $1 Rxc2 43. Nxc2 Rb6 44. Rxc5 Rxb2
45. Kf4 Kf7 (45... Ba6 $142 46. Kg5 Kf7 47. Rc7+ Ke8) 46. Rc7+ $18 Ke8 47. Nb4
{Weighted Error Value: White=0.03/Black=0.19} 1-0

[Event "Goldmoney Asian Rapid Prelims 2021"]
[Site "Chess24"]
[Date "2021.06.24"]
[Round "4.5"]
[White "Dubov, Daniil"]
[Black "Firouzja, Alireza"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "D53"]
[WhiteElo "2714"]
[BlackElo "2759"]
[Annotator "TA"]
[PlyCount "90"]
[EventDate "2021.06.26"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "NET"]
[Tiebreak "Koya+Number of black wins+Number of wins"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

{[%evp 11,90,23,17,11,23,10,16,0,16,13,25,6,7,0,12,8,18,13,16,17,18,17,30,26,
31,28,26,26,32,34,34,33,27,44,26,11,7,12,28,25,23,23,31,20,68,60,73,35,42,40,
41,17,43,29,29,29,29,29,29,29,29,29,29,6,14,14,14,14,14,14,14,14,14,0,0,0,0,0,
0,0,0]} 1. c4 e6 2. Nf3 d5 3. d4 Nf6 4. Nc3 Nbd7 5. Bg5 h6 6. Bh4 Be7 7. cxd5 {
D53: Queen's Gambit Declined: 4 Bg5 Be7: Early deviations.} Nxd5 8. Bxe7 Qxe7
9. Rc1 Nxc3 10. Rxc3 c6 {[#]} 11. e3 $146 ({Predecessor:} 11. e4 e5 12. d5 Qb4
13. Qc2 cxd5 14. exd5 O-O 15. Bc4 e4 16. Nd2 Nf6 17. a3 {0-1 (71) Bukavshin,I 
(2648)-Inarkiev,E (2664) Sochi 2015}) 11... O-O 12. Be2 e5 13. O-O exd4 14.
Nxd4 Nf6 15. Bf3 Be6 16. Nxe6 Qxe6 17. Qb3 Qxb3 18. Rxb3 Rab8 19. Rd1 Rfe8 20.
h4 Kf8 21. Rd4 Rec8 $1 22. g4 Rc7 23. g5 hxg5 24. hxg5 Nd7 25. Bg4 Ne5 26. Be2
Rd7 27. Ra4 b6 28. f4 Ng6 29. Rd3 (29. Bg4 {is more complex.} Rc7 30. Rba3 a5
31. Rb3 c5 32. Kf2) 29... Rbd8 30. Rxd7 Rxd7 $14 {[%mdl 4096] Endgame KRB-KRN}
31. Kf2 Ne7 32. Bg4 Rd2+ 33. Kf3 f5 34. gxf6 gxf6 35. Be6 a5 36. b4 axb4 37.
Rxb4 b5 {The position is equal.} 38. a4 Nd5 39. Bxd5 Rxd5 40. axb5 cxb5 $11 {
KR-KR} 41. Ke4 $1 {[%cal Re4d5]} Rh5 42. Rb1 Ke7 43. f5 b4 44. Kd4 Rxf5 45.
Rxb4 Re5 {Weighted Error Value: White=0.05/Black=0.04} 1/2-1/2

[Event "Goldmoney Asian Rapid Prelims 2021"]
[Site "Chess24"]
[Date "2021.06.24"]
[Round "4.6"]
[White "Artemiev, Vladislav"]
[Black "Vidit, Santosh Gujrathi"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "A08"]
[WhiteElo "2704"]
[BlackElo "2726"]
[Annotator "TA"]
[PlyCount "142"]
[EventDate "2021.06.26"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "NET"]
[Tiebreak "Koya+Number of black wins+Number of wins"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

{[%evp 16,142,-31,-41,-22,-28,-23,-27,-21,-21,0,-26,0,-8,0,0,0,0,0,-10,-5,0,27,
33,37,14,14,14,14,14,14,14,31,46,35,28,73,75,66,9,59,77,64,68,67,0,0,0,0,0,0,
-35,-23,-19,0,0,0,0,0,0,275,277,264,289,273,271,335,331,326,323,329,297,289,
291,437,443,250,12,20,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,8,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,3,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,
0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]} 1. Nf3 Nf6 2. g3 c5 3. Bg2 Nc6 4.
O-O e5 5. d3 d5 6. Nbd2 Be7 7. e4 O-O 8. Re1 d4 9. Nc4 Qc7 {A08: King's Indian
Attack.} 10. a4 Ne8 11. Bd2 Be6 {[#] Black has an edge.} 12. b3 $146 ({
Predecessor:} 12. Ng5 Bxg5 13. Bxg5 Nd6 14. Nxd6 Qxd6 15. b3 b6 16. Qe2 a6 17.
Bd2 b5 18. axb5 axb5 19. Rxa8 Rxa8 {0-1 (38) Choo,M-Naranja,R Singapore 1969})
12... Rd8 13. Rf1 b6 14. Ng5 Bxg5 15. Bxg5 f6 16. Bd2 Nd6 17. f4 exf4 18. gxf4
f5 19. e5 Ne8 20. Rf3 Bd5 21. Rg3 Bxg2 22. Rxg2 Ne7 23. b4 cxb4 24. Bxb4 Rf7
25. Qf3 Qc6 26. Qxc6 Nxc6 27. Bd6 (27. Rb1 $14) 27... Nc7 28. Bxc7 Rxc7 29. Nd6
Ne7 30. Rb1 (30. Rf2 $14) 30... Nd5 $11 31. Nxf5 Nxf4 32. Rg4 $36 {[%mdl 2048]
White is pushing.} Ne6 33. Rg2 Rd5 34. Rf1 g6 ({Avoid the trap} 34... Rxe5 $2
35. Nh6+ Kh8 36. Nf7+ Rxf7 37. Rxf7 $18) 35. Nh6+ Kg7 36. Nf5+ Kh8 37. Nd6 Kg8
$2 {[%mdl 8192]} (37... Rdc5 $11) 38. Ne8 $18 Rxe5 39. Nxc7 Nxc7 {[%mdl 4096]
Endgame KRR-KRN} 40. Rgf2 {[#] Hoping for Rf8+.} Nd5 41. Rf8+ Kg7 42. R1f7+ Kh6
43. Rh8 Kg5 44. Rhxh7 Kg4 (44... a5 $142 45. Rf2 Nf4) 45. Kf2 Nf4 (45... Ne3
$142 46. Re7 Nd1+ 47. Kf1 Rf5+ 48. Ke1 Nc3 49. Rxa7 Re5+ 50. Kf1 Rf5+ 51. Kg2
Nd5 52. h3+ Kf4) 46. Rxf4+ $2 Kxf4 {KR-KR. The position is equal.} 47. Rh4+ Kf5
48. Rxd4 Rc5 $1 49. c4 Ra5 50. Ke3 Rxa4 51. Rf4+ Ke6 52. Re4+ Kf6 53. Kd4 Ra5
54. Re2 Rh5 55. Ra2 Rh7 56. Kc3 Ke6 57. d4 a5 {[#] And now ...Rh3+ would win.}
58. Rg2 Rh3+ 59. Kc2 Kd7 60. Rf2 a4 61. Rg2 a3 62. d5 g5 63. Rxg5 Rxh2+ 64. Kb3
a2 65. Rg7+ Kd6 66. Ra7 Kc5 67. Rxa2 Rxa2 68. Kxa2 b5 69. cxb5 Kxb5 70. Kb3 Kc5
71. d6 Kxd6 {Black escapes into a draw.  Weighted Error Value: White=0.16/
Black=0.19} 1/2-1/2

[Event "Goldmoney Asian Rapid Prelims 2021"]
[Site "Chess24"]
[Date "2021.06.24"]
[Round "4.7"]
[White "Adhiban, B.."]
[Black "Erigaisi Arjun"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "C43"]
[WhiteElo "2660"]
[BlackElo "2567"]
[Annotator "TA"]
[PlyCount "89"]
[EventDate "2021.06.26"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "NET"]
[Tiebreak "Koya+Number of black wins+Number of wins"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

{[%evp 12,89,0,1,-7,-13,-9,-6,-5,-33,-33,-27,-24,-26,0,-41,-27,-23,-35,-36,-33,
-23,-23,-29,-29,-33,-40,-27,-13,-77,0,-53,0,-18,0,-84,0,0,19,25,18,12,16,13,28,
6,208,166,195,125,125,71,71,50,50,50,50,52,56,56,56,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,
0,0,0,0,0,0]} 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nf6 3. d4 Nxe4 4. Bd3 d5 5. Nxe5 Nd7 6. Nc3 Nxe5
7. dxe5 Bb4 {C43: Petroff Defence: 3 d4.} 8. O-O Nxc3 9. bxc3 Bxc3 {[%mdl 64] 
[#] Double Attack} 10. Ba3 Bxa1 11. Qxa1 Be6 12. Rb1 {[#]} a6 $146 ({
Predecessor:} 12... Qc8 13. Qd4 c6 14. f4 g6 15. f5 gxf5 16. Qh4 Qd7 17. Bd6 h6
18. a4 d4 19. Qxd4 {1-0 (53) Jovic,D (2295)-Vitor,A (2170) Bratislava 1993})
13. Qc3 Ra7 14. Rxb7 {[%mdl 64] Remove Defender, Decoy} Rxb7 15. Qc6+ {[%mdl
64] Double Attack} Qd7 16. Qxb7 c5 17. Qxa6 {Bb5! is the strong threat.} O-O {
Threatens to win with ...Rc8.} 18. Bxc5 Rc8 19. Bd4 Bf5 20. Bb5 (20. c3 $11)
20... Qd8 (20... Qe6 $17 21. Qxe6 Bxe6) 21. c3 ({White should play} 21. h3 $1
$11) 21... Qg5 (21... Ra8 $1 $15 22. Qd6 Qxd6 23. exd6 Rb8) 22. Qb7 h5 23. Bf1
{[#]} (23. Qxd5 $2 Qc1+ 24. Bf1 Bd3 $19) (23. a4 $11 {keeps the balance.})
23... Qc1 (23... Qd8 $1 $17) 24. h3 $11 Re8 {And now ...Bd3 would win.} 25. Qb5
$36 {[%mdl 2048] White fights for an advantage.} Re6 26. a4 {Threatening a5.}
Rg6 $1 27. Kh2 ({Not} 27. Qxd5 $2 Bd3 $19) 27... Be4 $1 28. Qe2 {aiming for a5.
} Qf4+ $2 (28... Qa1 $11 {and Black is okay.}) 29. g3 $18 Qf5 30. Qe3 ({
White should try} 30. h4 $18) 30... Qd7 $16 31. a5 (31. Bb5 $142 Qd8 32. c4)
31... Qa4 32. a6 Rxa6 33. Bxa6 Qxa6 34. f3 Qa2+ 35. Kg1 Qb1+ 36. Kg2 (36. Kf2
$1 $14 Bd3 37. Qe1) 36... Qc2+ $11 {The position is equal.} 37. Kf1 Bd3+ 38.
Kg1 Qd1+ 39. Kh2 Be2 40. f4 Bf3 {[%csl Gf3][%cal Rd1h1]} 41. Qg1 Qe2+ 42. Qf2
Qd1 {[%csl Gf3][%cal Rd1h1]} 43. Qg1 Qe2+ 44. Qf2 Qd1 {[%csl Gf3][%cal Rd1h1]}
45. Qg1 {Weighted Error Value: White=0.17/Black=0.19} 1/2-1/2

[Event "Goldmoney Asian Rapid Prelims 2021"]
[Site "Chess24"]
[Date "2021.06.24"]
[Round "4.8"]
[White "Ding, Liren"]
[Black "Gukesh D"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "D31"]
[WhiteElo "2799"]
[BlackElo "2578"]
[Annotator "TA"]
[PlyCount "113"]
[EventDate "2021.06.26"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "NET"]
[Tiebreak "Koya+Number of black wins+Number of wins"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

{[%evp 14,113,16,-1,7,0,40,29,68,18,38,22,32,10,23,27,35,0,8,10,24,0,59,20,56,
66,76,47,36,44,68,70,75,70,104,100,120,117,120,130,177,172,215,213,226,268,264,
249,277,268,263,257,281,285,285,285,289,265,292,286,292,257,260,254,240,158,
158,158,192,160,186,185,161,147,370,369,362,280,450,446,368,340,835,658,532,0,
0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]} 1. c4 e6 2. Nc3 d5 3. d4 Be7 4. cxd5 exd5 5.
Bf4 c6 6. e3 Bf5 7. g4 Be6 8. h3 Nd7 {D31: Queen's Gambit Declined: Semi-Slav
without ...Nf6 (+ Marshall Gambit and Noteboom) and Exchange Variation lines
without ...Nf6.} 9. Nf3 Ngf6 (9... g5 $5 {[%cal Rg5f4]} 10. Bg3 h5 $11) 10. Bd3
{[#]} c5 $146 {White has an edge.} ({Predecessor:} 10... O-O 11. Ng5 c5 12.
Nxe6 fxe6 13. g5 Ne4 14. Bxe4 dxe4 15. d5 c4 16. Nxe4 Qa5+ {1-0 (40) Muzychuk,
M (2532)-Kashlinskaya,A (2462) Germany 2017}) 11. dxc5 Nxc5 12. Bb5+ Bd7 13.
O-O O-O 14. Rc1 Rc8 15. Qe2 Nce4 16. Nxe4 dxe4 17. Nd4 Nd5 ({Better is} 17...
h5 $11) 18. Be5 Bf6 19. Bxf6 Nxf6 20. Rfd1 Rxc1 21. Rxc1 h6 22. Bxd7 Qxd7 23.
Qb5 Qxb5 24. Nxb5 $14 {[%mdl 4096] Endgame KRN-KRN} a6 25. Nd6 Rd8 26. Nxb7 Rb8
27. Rc7 Nd5 28. Rd7 Nb4 {[#]} 29. a3 {[%cal Ra3b4]} Nd3 30. b4 {[%cal Bb2b4,
Bb4b5][%mdl 32]} Ne5 31. Rd8+ Rxd8 32. Nxd8 $18 {KN-KN} Nc4 33. a4 Nb6 34. b5
a5 35. Nb7 Nxa4 36. Nxa5 Kf8 37. Nc4 Ke7 38. h4 Ke6 39. b6 {Hoping for b7.} Nc5
40. Na5 Kd5 41. Kg2 Nd7 42. b7 Kc5 43. Kg3 Kb6 $2 (43... Kb5 $16 {was
necessary.}) 44. Nc4+ Kxb7 45. Kf4 Nc5 $2 (45... Nf8 46. Nd6+ (46. Kxe4 Kc7 $18
) 46... Kc6) 46. Nd6+ Kc6 47. Nxf7 Kd5 $2 (47... Nd3+ 48. Kxe4 Nxf2+ 49. Kf5
Kd7) 48. Kf5 Nd3 {[#]} 49. Nxh6 $2 gxh6 $11 {The position is equal.} 50. g5
hxg5 51. hxg5 {KN-K3P} Kd6 $1 52. Kf6 {Threatens to win with g6.} Ne5 53. g6
Nd7+ $1 54. Kf7 {aiming for g7.} Ne5+ 55. Kf6 $1 {Black must now prevent g7.}
Nd7+ $1 56. Kf7 {g7 is the strong threat.} Ne5+ 57. Kf6 {Black escapes into a
draw.  Weighted Error Value: White=0.19/Black=0.24} 1/2-1/2

[Event "Goldmoney Asian Rapid Prelims 2021"]
[Site "Chess24"]
[Date "2021.06.24"]
[Round "5.1"]
[White "Gukesh D"]
[Black "Aronian, Levon"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "D38"]
[WhiteElo "2578"]
[BlackElo "2781"]
[Annotator "TA"]
[PlyCount "138"]
[EventDate "2021.06.26"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "NET"]
[Tiebreak "Koya+Number of black wins+Number of wins"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

{[%evp 12,138,-4,0,0,-16,-24,-24,-4,-26,-18,-26,-27,-25,-29,-26,-26,-29,-36,
-36,-27,-73,0,-11,0,-23,0,-31,0,-104,-41,-47,0,-8,-13,-17,0,0,0,0,32,22,24,21,
60,55,63,49,49,49,50,50,50,58,77,42,45,35,83,62,179,185,164,110,156,110,104,0,
99,0,42,46,31,0,85,86,185,0,0,-244,-240,-258,-236,-237,-228,-365,-204,-213,
-159,-193,-180,-180,-167,-182,-187,-330,-172,-495,-493,-577,-542,-858,-853,
-1241,-1246,-1234,-1162,-1163,-1110,-1332,-1358,-1158,-633,-1172,-1131,-2406,
-2336,-29986,-29987,-29988,-29986,-29986,-29987,-29987,-29988,-29988,-29989,
-29989,-29990]} 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nf3 d5 4. Nc3 Bb4 5. Qa4+ Nc6 6. a3 Bxc3+
7. bxc3 Ne4 {D38: Queen's Gambit Declined: Ragozin Defence (4 Nf3 Bb4).} 8. Bf4
{is recently more successful than 8.Qc2.} Nxc3 9. Qc2 Ne4 {[#] Black has an
edge.} 10. h4 $146 ({Predecessor:} 10. e3 g5 11. Be5 f6 12. Bg3 h5 13. h4 Nxg3
14. fxg3 g4 15. Qg6+ Kf8 16. Ne5 {1/2-1/2 (40) Edouard,R (2640)-Santos Ruiz,M 
(2581) Los Cancajos 2020}) 10... Nd6 11. c5 Nc4 12. e3 b5 13. a4 b4 14. Bxc4
dxc4 15. Qxc4 a5 16. O-O-O Ba6 (16... O-O $17) 17. Qb3 $11 O-O 18. h5 h6 19. e4
Qe7 20. Qe3 (20. Rhe1 $11) 20... f6 (20... b3 $17 21. Rh3 (21. Qxb3 $2 Rfb8 $19
) 21... Kh7) 21. d5 $15 {[#]} e5 $1 22. Bg3 Nd8 {Hoping for ...Nb7.} 23. Kb2 $1
Nb7 24. Rc1 Qe8 25. Qb3 Kh7 26. Nd2 c6 27. f3 Rc8 28. Bf2 Rf7 29. g4 Rd7 30.
Rhd1 Be2 31. Re1 Ba6 32. d6 Nd8 33. Qc2 (33. f4 $5) 33... Ne6 34. Nb3 Nf4 {
next ...Nd3+ is good for Black.} 35. Rcd1 Qg8 ({Better is} 35... Ng2 $14) 36.
Be3 $1 $18 {[%cal Re3f4] Threatens to win with Bxf4.} (36. Nxa5 Ra8 $11) 36...
Ne6 37. Rd2 ({White should try} 37. Nxa5 $18 Ng5 38. Bxg5 hxg5 39. Re3) 37...
Ra8 38. Rf2 (38. Nxa5 $6 Bb5 $14) 38... Kh8 39. Rd2 (39. Nxa5 $6 Bb5 $11) (39.
f4 $1 $16) 39... Ng5 (39... Kh7 $11 {remains equal.}) 40. Rf2 (40. Bxg5 $16 {
And now Be3 would win.} fxg5 41. Nxa5) 40... Bc4 41. Nd2 Be6 42. Rh1 b3 (42...
Rb8 $11) 43. Qc3 $1 $16 (43. Nxb3 $2 Rb8 $19) 43... Rb7 (43... Nf7 $16) 44. f4
$2 (44. Bxg5 $18 {Black must now prevent Be3.} fxg5 45. Qxe5) 44... exf4 $11
45. Bxf4 {[#]} (45. Rxf4 $11 Rc8 46. Rhf1) 45... Rb4 $1 $19 ({Inferior is} 
45... Bxg4 46. e5 $11) 46. Bxg5 fxg5 ({Not} 46... hxg5 $2 47. h6 $18) 47. Ra1
Bxg4 48. e5 (48. Rg1 $142 Be6 49. Ra1) 48... Be6 ({Don't take} 48... Bxh5 49.
Qe3 $19) (48... Re8 $142 49. Qd3 Qe6) 49. Qd3 Qh7 50. Qg6 {[#]} Qxg6 $1 51.
hxg6 {White wants to play Rf7.} Kg8 52. Rf3 g4 $36 {[%mdl 2048] Black has
strong initiative.} 53. Rg3 (53. Rd3 $142) 53... Rf8 (53... Rab8 $142 54. Rd3
h5) 54. Rg2 $2 (54. Rd3 {nothing else works.}) 54... h5 55. Rh1 Rf5 56. Ka3 b2
57. Rb1 Rxe5 {( -> ...Re3+)} 58. Rg3 h4 59. Rd3 Bd7 60. Nb3 Ree4 61. Kxb2 h3
62. Rf1 h2 63. Rg3 Be6 64. Rd3 Re2+ {Black mates.} 65. Kc1 Rxb3 66. Rxb3 Bxb3
67. d7 Rc2+ {[%mdl 64] Double Attack} 68. Kb1 Rd2 69. Re1 {[#]} Be6 $1 {
[%mdl 64] Back Rank, Promotion. Black used his chance.  Weighted Error Value:
White=0.57/Black=0.25} 0-1

[Event "Goldmoney Asian Rapid Prelims 2021"]
[Site "Chess24"]
[Date "2021.06.24"]
[Round "5.2"]
[White "Erigaisi Arjun"]
[Black "Ding, Liren"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "E16"]
[WhiteElo "2567"]
[BlackElo "2799"]
[Annotator "TA"]
[PlyCount "94"]
[EventDate "2021.06.26"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "NET"]
[Tiebreak "Koya+Number of black wins+Number of wins"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

{[%evp 17,94,2,0,2,19,19,17,0,4,0,15,0,8,0,45,29,13,0,0,0,0,-12,-18,-20,0,-33,
10,6,16,-33,-9,-42,-37,-45,0,-37,-28,-39,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,9,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,
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. g3 Bb4+ 4.
Nd2 O-O 5. Bg2 d5 6. Ngf3 b6 7. O-O Bb7 8. a3 Be7 9. cxd5 exd5 10. b4 {E16:
Queen's Indian: 4 g3 Bb7 5 Bg2 Bb4+.} a5 11. b5 c6 {[#]} 12. Qa4 $5 $146 {
[%mdl 8] New and interesting.} ({Predecessor:} 12. bxc6 Nxc6 13. Bb2 b5 14. e3
a4 15. Qb1 Qb6 16. Rc1 Rfc8 17. Ne5 h6 18. Bc3 {1-0 (48) So,W (2780)-Vidit,S 
(2718) Chess.com INT 2018}) 12... cxb5 13. Qxb5 Ba6 14. Qb2 Nc6 15. Ne5 Rc8 16.
Ndf3 Ne4 17. Be3 f6 18. Nd3 Bc4 19. Nd2 (19. Bh3 {with more complications.} f5
20. Nfe5 b5 21. Bg2 Bf6 22. Rfc1) 19... Nxd2 20. Qxd2 a4 21. Nb2 Bb3 (21... Na5
$5 {[%cal Ra5b3]} 22. Qc2 Nb3 $11) 22. Qd3 Qd7 23. Bd2 Nd8 {[%cal Bc6d8,Bd8f7,
Bf7d6,Bd6e4][%mdl 32]} 24. Bc3 Nf7 25. Rfc1 b5 26. Qd2 Nd6 27. Bb4 Ne4 28. Qe1
{The position is equal.} Bxb4 29. Qxb4 Qd6 30. Nd3 Qxb4 31. Nxb4 f5 32. Kf1 Kf7
33. Ke1 Ke6 34. Bxe4 (34. Nd3 {feels hotter.} Rxc1+ 35. Rxc1 Bc4 36. h4 Kd6 37.
Ne5) 34... fxe4 35. Rxc8 Rxc8 $11 {[%mdl 4096] Endgame KRB-KRN} 36. Kd2 Rc4 37.
Ke3 g5 38. Rh1 h5 39. h4 g4 40. Ra1 Rc8 41. Kd2 Rf8 42. Ke3 Bc4 43. Rc1 Kd6 44.
Rc3 Rf7 45. Rc1 Rf8 46. Rc3 Rf7 47. Rc1 Rf8 {Weighted Error Value: White=0.06/
Black=0.07} 1/2-1/2

[Event "Goldmoney Asian Rapid Prelims 2021"]
[Site "Chess24"]
[Date "2021.06.24"]
[Round "5.3"]
[White "Vidit, Santosh Gujrathi"]
[Black "Adhiban, B.."]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "E97"]
[WhiteElo "2726"]
[BlackElo "2660"]
[Annotator "TA"]
[PlyCount "83"]
[EventDate "2021.06.26"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "NET"]
[Tiebreak "Koya+Number of black wins+Number of wins"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

{[%evp 20,83,57,15,46,36,36,32,27,0,24,13,35,34,27,6,1,17,14,-28,-24,-35,-38,
-31,-23,-70,-31,-39,-48,-65,-62,-121,-106,-125,-94,-188,-152,-258,-95,-96,-103,
-102,-87,-145,-65,-54,0,0,0,0,139,135,127,22,29,22,1085,1077,29981,29982,29995,
29985,29985,29986,29995,29995]} 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. Nc3 Bg7 4. e4 d6 5. Nf3
O-O 6. Be2 e5 7. O-O Nc6 8. d5 Ne7 9. b4 a5 10. bxa5 Rxa5 11. a4 Ra8 {[#] 11...
c5 is setting a new trend. E97: King's Indian: Classical Main Line (6...e5 7
0-0 Nc6): 8 Be3 and 8 d5 Ne7, not 9 Ne1.} 12. Ra3 $146 ({Predecessor:} 12. Ba3
b6 13. Nd2 Ne8 14. Nb5 f5 15. Bb4 Bh6 16. Bc3 Nf6 17. f4 Bxf4 18. Rxf4 exf4 19.
e5 dxe5 20. Bxe5 {1-0 (35) Werle,J (2412)-Dziuba,M (2471) Chalkidiki 2001})
12... Kh8 13. Re1 Nd7 {White is slightly better.} 14. h3 Ng8 15. Bg5 Bf6 16.
Be3 Bg7 17. Qc1 f5 18. exf5 gxf5 19. Bg5 Bf6 20. Nb5 Nc5 21. Be3 $1 Na6 22. Nh2
Ne7 (22... f4 $5 {[%cal Rf4e3]} 23. Bd2 Nh6 $15) 23. f4 Ng6 24. fxe5 dxe5 25.
Bh6 ({White should play} 25. Rd1 $15) 25... Rg8 $17 26. Kh1 Nc5 27. g4 (27. Bh5
$17) 27... Ne4 ({But not} 27... Rxa4 28. Rxa4 Nxa4 29. Qa3 $15) 28. Rf1 (28.
Bf1 $17 {keeps fighting.}) 28... Rxa4 $2 29. Rxa4 {aiming for Qe3.} Ng3+ {
[%mdl 64] Double Attack} 30. Kg2 Nxe2 31. Qe3 Nef4+ (31... Ngf4+ $1 $17 32. Kh1
fxg4 33. Bxf4 g3 $1) 32. Kh1 c6 (32... Nxd5 $1 $15 33. Qc5 Nb6) 33. dxc6 $11
bxc6 34. Nc3 Bg5 (34... c5 $11 35. Ra7 Qb6) 35. Bxg5 $16 Qxg5 36. Ra7 (36. Nf3
$16 Qf6 37. g5) 36... Qh6 $11 37. Ne2 $36 {[%mdl 2048] White is pushing.} fxg4
$2 {[%mdl 8192]} (37... Qxh3 $11 38. Qxh3 Nxh3) 38. Nxf4 $18 {[%mdl 64]
Overworked Piece} exf4 39. Qd4+ {White mates.} Rg7 40. Qd8+ {[%mdl 64] Double
Attack} Rg8 {[#]} 41. Qf6+ $1 {[%mdl 64] Double Attack} Rg7 42. Re1 {Quite a
comeback for White.  Weighted Error Value: White=0.21/Black=0.44} 1-0

[Event "Goldmoney Asian Rapid Prelims 2021"]
[Site "Chess24"]
[Date "2021.06.24"]
[Round "5.4"]
[White "Firouzja, Alireza"]
[Black "Artemiev, Vladislav"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "C50"]
[WhiteElo "2759"]
[BlackElo "2704"]
[Annotator "TA"]
[PlyCount "76"]
[EventDate "2021.06.26"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "NET"]
[Tiebreak "Koya+Number of black wins+Number of wins"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

{[%evp 10,76,18,16,25,18,25,25,49,13,27,27,29,21,21,16,20,16,52,51,39,0,0,0,0,
-9,0,0,0,0,0,-6,0,-110,-109,-225,-221,-815,-604,-790,-775,-728,-480,-467,-395,
-460,-457,-609,-608,-963,-955,-956,-948,-948,-942,-904,-897,-1116,-1118,-1106,
-1099,-1081,-1062,-12844,-12827,-12791,-6634,-6411,-5983]} 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6
3. Bc4 Bc5 4. d3 Nf6 5. Bg5 h6 6. Bh4 Be7 {C50: Hungarian Defence and Giuoco
Pianissimo.} 7. Bg3 d6 8. a4 a5 $5 {[%mdl 4] White has an edge. Exploring less
charted territory.} 9. Nbd2 {[%cal Bb1d2,Bd2f1,Bf1e3][%mdl 32]} O-O 10. c3 g6
11. h3 {[#]} Nh5 $146 ({Predecessor:} 11... Kg7 12. O-O Re8 13. Qb3 Rf8 14. Bh2
Nh7 15. d4 Bf6 16. dxe5 Nxe5 17. Nxe5 dxe5 {0-1 (38) Navara,D (2736)-Michalik,
P (2564) Prague 2018}) 12. Bh2 Bg5 13. Nf1 Be6 14. Bxe6 fxe6 15. Nxg5 Qxg5 16.
Ne3 Nf4 17. Bg3 Kg7 18. O-O Rf7 19. d4 Raf8 20. Qd2 Kh7 {Strongly threatening .
..exd4.} 21. Rad1 {[#]} (21. Bxf4 $11 {remains equal.} Qxf4 22. d5 exd5 23.
Qxd5) 21... exd4 $1 $17 {Black converts the advantage convincingly.} 22. cxd4 {
[#]} (22. Bxf4 $17 {was called for.} Rxf4 23. cxd4) 22... Nxd4 $1 $19 {[%mdl
512] White must now prevent ...Nxh3+!} 23. h4 (23. Kh2 Nfe2 24. Ng4) 23... Qh5
24. Kh2 Nfe2 {Hoping for ...Rf4!} 25. f3 Nxg3 26. Kxg3 Qe5+ 27. Kf2 {[#]} Rxf3+
$1 {[%mdl 576] Demolition. Black is clearly winning.} 28. gxf3 (28. Kg1 Rxf1+)
28... Nxf3 {[%mdl 64] Double Attack} 29. Ke2 Nxd2 {[%mdl 64] Discovered Attack}
30. Rxf8 Nxe4 31. Rf7+ Kg8 32. Rxc7 Qh5+ 33. Ke1 Qxh4+ 34. Ke2 Qh2+ 35. Kd3
Nf2+ {[%mdl 64] Double Attack} 36. Kc4 Nxd1 37. Rc8+ Kf7 {( -> ...Qe2+)} 38.
Rc7+ Ke8 {Weighted Error Value: White=0.90/Black=0.21} 0-1

[Event "Goldmoney Asian Rapid Prelims 2021"]
[Site "Chess24"]
[Date "2021.06.24"]
[Round "5.5"]
[White "Hou, Yifan"]
[Black "Dubov, Daniil"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "C42"]
[WhiteElo "2658"]
[BlackElo "2714"]
[Annotator "TA"]
[PlyCount "92"]
[EventDate "2021.06.26"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "NET"]
[Tiebreak "Koya+Number of black wins+Number of wins"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

{[%evp 9,92,0,0,-6,-6,-12,0,0,0,0,15,-8,-4,-26,52,50,37,-12,-11,-15,0,-3,0,0,0,
-9,-15,-37,-31,-32,-27,-21,-17,-16,-5,-16,-16,-8,-8,-10,-10,-16,-12,-29,-27,
-47,-41,-50,-16,-18,-16,-24,-24,-33,-22,-38,-23,-37,-24,-26,-26,-25,-34,-77,
-76,-162,-147,-444,-444,-444,-444,-546,-408,-360,-358,-353,-338,-362,-357,-374,
-372,-357,-357,-862,-854]} 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nf6 3. Nxe5 Nc6 4. Nf3 Nxe4 5. d3
Nf6 6. d4 {C42: Petroff Defence: 3 Nxe5 and unusual White 3rd moves.} d5 7. Bd3
Bd6 8. O-O {The position is equal.} O-O 9. c3 Ne4 10. c4 Nb4 {[#]} 11. Be2 $146
({Predecessor:} 11. cxd5 Nxd3 12. Qxd3 Bf5 13. Qb3 Qc8 14. Nc3 a5 15. Nb5 a4
16. Qc4 Ra6 17. Ne5 Rd8 18. f3 {1-0 (32) Helm,L-Nobis,M (2015) Germany 1998})
11... Bf5 (11... dxc4 $11 12. Bxc4 Bf5) 12. a3 Nc6 13. Nc3 dxc4 14. Bxc4 h6 15.
Bd3 Nxc3 16. bxc3 Qf6 17. Rb1 b6 18. Rb5 Bxd3 19. Qxd3 Rad8 20. a4 Rfe8 21. Be3
Ne7 22. h3 c5 23. a5 Nd5 24. axb6 axb6 25. Bd2 Nc7 26. Rbb1 b5 27. Rfe1 c4 28.
Qc2 Qg6 29. Qxg6 fxg6 30. Rxe8+ Rxe8 31. Kf1 Kf7 32. d5 Rb8 ({Much weaker is} 
32... Nxd5 33. Rxb5 Nf6 34. Be3 $11) (32... Ra8 {looks sharper.} 33. Nd4 Ra2
34. Be1 Ra5 35. Rd1 Ra3) 33. Nd4 Rb7 34. Be3 {With the idea Nc6.} Ke8 35. Nc6 {
White wants to play Na5.} Nxd5 36. Bd4 {[#]} Kd7 $1 {[%cal Rd7c6]} 37. Na5 (37.
Ne5+ $17 Bxe5 38. Bxe5) 37... Rb8 $19 {Strongly threatening ...Bc7.} 38. Ba7 $2
{[%mdl 8192] This costs White the game.} (38. Rd1 $17 {might work better.})
38... Nxc3 39. Rc1 {[#]} Ra8 40. Bd4 (40. Rxc3 Rxa7) 40... Na2 41. Nxc4 {
Threatens to win with Nb6+.} bxc4 42. Rxc4 Bf8 43. Be5 Ke6 44. f4 Nb4 45. Bxg7
Nd5 {White must now prevent ...Ne3+.} 46. Bxf8 $2 (46. Rc6+ Bd6 47. Be5 Ne3+
48. Kg1) 46... Ne3+ {[%mdl 64] Double Attack.  Weighted Error Value: White=0.
30/Black=0.11} 0-1

[Event "Goldmoney Asian Rapid Prelims 2021"]
[Site "Chess24"]
[Date "2021.06.24"]
[Round "5.6"]
[White "So, Wesley"]
[Black "Duda, Jan-Krzysztof"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "E53"]
[WhiteElo "2770"]
[BlackElo "2729"]
[Annotator "TA"]
[PlyCount "93"]
[EventDate "2021.06.26"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "NET"]
[Tiebreak "Koya+Number of black wins+Number of wins"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

{[%evp 18,93,2,0,0,0,0,-12,0,0,12,5,6,4,6,0,30,19,36,37,86,97,100,38,41,40,39,
34,63,16,22,22,123,119,201,198,193,205,274,258,460,453,484,502,472,472,588,52,
52,49,49,55,41,51,51,46,37,46,176,185,236,229,343,331,527,345,345,345,337,337,
337,337,337,333,6707,6049,29992,29993]} 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. e3 O-O
5. Bd3 d5 6. a3 Bxc3+ 7. bxc3 dxc4 8. Bxc4 c5 9. Nf3 Qc7 10. Be2 b6 {E53:
Nimzo-Indian: Rubinstein: Main Line (4...0-0 5 Nf3 d5 6 Bd3 c5 7 0-0).} 11. Bb2
Bb7 12. O-O Rd8 {The position is equal.} 13. Re1 Nbd7 {[#]} 14. c4 $146 ({
Predecessor:} 14. Nd2 e5 15. Qb1 Rac8 16. Rc1 Nf8 17. Qf5 Ng6 18. Qg5 Qe7 19.
Bc4 Kh8 20. Nf3 h6 {1-0 (65) Gligoric,S-Rejfir,J Sarajevo 1962}) 14... Rac8 15.
Bf1 cxd4 16. exd4 Ng4 17. g3 Qc6 18. Bg2 Ngf6 (18... Qxc4 $6 19. Nd2 $16) 19.
Rc1 Qd6 20. Qb3 ({White should play} 20. d5 $1 $16) 20... Be4 21. Bf1 h6 22. a4
Qb8 23. h4 Rc7 24. g4 {Hoping for g5.} Qa8 (24... Rcc8 $11) 25. Nd2 $16 {
Strongly threatening g5.} Bb7 (25... Bh7 $16) 26. g5 $18 hxg5 27. hxg5 Nh5 28.
d5 {Black must now prevent Qf3.} exd5 $2 (28... Re8 {keeps fighting.} 29. Qf3
g6) 29. Qh3 g6 {[#]} 30. Be2 $1 d4 31. Bxh5 gxh5 32. Re7 $2 (32. Bxd4 $18 Nf8
33. Bf6) 32... Re8 $1 $14 {[%cal Re8e7] [#]} 33. Rxf7 $40 {[%mdl 128] Black
needs to defend precisely.} Kxf7 34. Qxh5+ Kg8 $1 35. Qg6+ Kf8 36. Qd6+ {
[%mdl 64] Double Attack} Re7 {Threatens to win with ...Ne5.} 37. Qxc7 Kg8 {
A mistake that costs the game.} (37... Nc5 $1 $14 38. Qd6 Qc8 39. Qf6+ (39.
Qxd4 Qf5 $14) 39... Kg8) 38. Bxd4 $18 Rh7 (38... Qc8 {was worth a try.} 39.
Qxc8+ Bxc8) 39. f3 $1 {And now g6 would win.} Bxf3 {[#]} (39... Nf8 $142 40.
Qe5 Qc8) 40. g6 $1 {[%cal Rg6h7]} Rh1+ 41. Kf2 Qe8 {( -> ...Qe2+)} 42. Rxh1 {
[%csl Gd4][%cal Rh1h8]} ({Stronger than} 42. Kxf3 Rxc1 43. Qxa7 Qxg6 $17) 42...
Qe2+ 43. Kg3 {[%csl Gd4][%cal Rh1h8]} Bxh1 44. Qxd7 {[%csl Gd4][%cal Rd7g7]}
Qg2+ 45. Kh4 {[%csl Gd4][%cal Rd7g7]} Qh2+ $2 (45... Qxg6 46. Qd8+ Kf7) 46. Qh3
Qf4+ 47. Kh5 {Weighted Error Value: White=0.17/Black=0.47} 1-0

[Event "Goldmoney Asian Rapid Prelims 2021"]
[Site "Chess24"]
[Date "2021.06.24"]
[Round "5.7"]
[White "Svidler, Peter"]
[Black "Giri, Anish"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "C54"]
[WhiteElo "2714"]
[BlackElo "2780"]
[Annotator "TA"]
[PlyCount "58"]
[EventDate "2021.06.26"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "NET"]
[Tiebreak "Koya+Number of black wins+Number of wins"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

{[%evp 12,58,10,17,13,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,18,0,29,17,21,8,69,67,64,72,79,66,63,70,74,
66,72,64,201,159,132,143,169,175,304,300,331,308,313,270,386,334,591,586,856,
814,1080]} 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Nf6 4. d3 Bc5 5. O-O d6 6. c3 O-O 7. Re1
$1 {[%mdl 4] now scores much better than the old 7.Bb3.} a5 {[#] C54: Giuoco
Piano: 4 c3 Nf6, main lines with 5 d4 and 5 d3.} 8. b3 $146 ({Predecessor:} 8.
Bg5 h6 9. Bh4 g5 10. Bg3 Nh7 11. d4 Ba7 12. h3 h5 13. Nbd2 h4 14. Bh2 exd4 15.
Nxd4 Nxd4 16. cxd4 Bxd4 {1/2-1/2 (36) Carlsen,M (2847)-Aronian,L (2781)
chess24.com INT 2021}) 8... Bb6 9. h3 Ne7 {The position is equal.} 10. d4 Ng6
11. Nbd2 c6 12. Bf1 Bc7 13. Bb2 Re8 14. Qc2 d5 ({Better is} 14... Nh5 $11) 15.
exd5 $14 Nxd5 16. dxe5 Nxe5 17. c4 Nb4 18. Qc3 $36 {[%cal Rf3e5][%mdl 2048]
White has some pressure.} f6 19. a3 (19. Nxe5 $6 Bxe5 20. Qc1 Bf5 $15) 19...
Na6 20. Qc2 g6 {Loses the game.} (20... Nc5 $14) 21. Nxe5 Bxe5 22. Bxe5 fxe5
23. Qc3 Bf5 (23... Nc5 {was necessary.} 24. Re3 (24. Rxe5 Rxe5 25. Qxe5 Qxd2
$16) 24... Be6) 24. g4 $18 Bd7 25. Ne4 ({Don't play} 25. Rxe5 $6 Rxe5 26. Qxe5
Qc7 $18) 25... Qe7 26. g5 ({Resist} 26. Qxa5 $6 Red8 $18) 26... Kh8 (26... Bf5
$142 27. Nf6+ {[%mdl 64] Double Attack} (27. Qxa5 $2 Bxe4 28. Rxe4 Nc5 $19 {
[%mdl 64] Double Attack, Discovered Attack}) 27... Kf7) 27. Nf6 Nc5 $2 {[#]} (
27... Bf5 {is a better defense.} 28. h4 Nc5 29. Nxe8 Rxe8) 28. f4 Ne6 29. Rxe5
Qg7 {Weighted Error Value: White=0.06/Black=0.46} 1-0

[Event "Goldmoney Asian Rapid Prelims 2021"]
[Site "Chess24"]
[Date "2021.06.24"]
[Round "5.8"]
[White "Salem, A.R. Saleh"]
[Black "Carlsen, Magnus"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "E01"]
[WhiteElo "2682"]
[BlackElo "2847"]
[Annotator "TA"]
[PlyCount "62"]
[EventDate "2021.06.26"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "NET"]
[Tiebreak "Koya+Number of black wins+Number of wins"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

{[%evp 12,62,0,-17,-3,-14,0,-30,-25,-29,-25,-24,-14,-40,-31,-68,-54,-39,-54,
-80,-68,-123,-105,-129,-108,-206,-119,-130,-93,-233,-224,-158,-95,-75,-87,-89,
-21,-27,0,-110,-108,-274,-222,-377,-375,-369,-372,-492,-172,-162,-39,-502,-490]
} 1. d4 d5 2. c4 c6 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Nf3 e6 5. g3 Nbd7 6. Bg2 dxc4 7. a4 a5 {
E01: Catalan: Early deviations.} 8. O-O Bd6 {[#]} 9. b3 $146 ({Predecessor:} 9.
Qc2 O-O 10. Rd1 Qe7 11. Nd2 Nb6 12. Nce4 Nxe4 13. Nxe4 Bb4 14. Bf4 f6 15. Rac1
{1/2-1/2 (108) Carlsen,M (2690)-Vallejo Pons,F (2679) Monte Carlo 2007}) 9...
cxb3 {Black has an edge.} 10. Qxb3 O-O 11. Rd1 Qe7 12. Nh4 Nd5 13. Nb1 Bb4 14.
e4 N5b6 15. Nc3 e5 16. Ne2 ({Better is} 16. Nf5 $15 Qe6 17. d5 cxd5 18. Nxd5)
16... exd4 $17 17. Nf5 Qe6 18. Qb1 (18. Nexd4 $17 {is a better defense.} Qxb3
19. Nxb3) 18... Nc5 (18... c5 $19 19. Nf4 Qe8) 19. Nexd4 Qf6 20. Bf4 (20. Qc2
$17 {might work better.}) 20... Bxf5 $19 (20... Ncxa4 21. e5 $17) 21. Nxf5 Rfd8
(21... Nbxa4 $142 {Hoping for ...Nc3.} 22. Rd6 Qc3) 22. Rxd8+ $17 Qxd8 ({
But not} 22... Rxd8 $6 23. Bc7 $14) 23. Be5 Ne6 (23... Qd3 $17 24. Qxd3 (24.
Bxg7 Qxb1+ 25. Rxb1 Nbxa4 $17) 24... Nxd3 25. Bxg7 Nc5) 24. Qb3 $11 {And now
Bxg7! would win.} Qe8 25. Rc1 (25. Bd6 $1 $11 {was the only way to keep the
balance.}) 25... Rd8 $17 26. Qe3 $2 {[#]} (26. h4 $17) 26... Bd2 $1 $19 27. Qa3
(27. Qxb6 Bxc1 28. h3) 27... Bxc1 28. Qxc1 Qd7 29. Bf3 Qd2 $2 (29... Qd3 30.
Bg4 h5 31. Ne7+ Kf8 32. Ng6+ fxg6 33. Bxe6 Qf3 34. Qf4+ Qxf4 35. Bxf4 Nxa4) 30.
Qa1 {[%cal Re5g7] [#]} Ng5 (30... h5 $1 $19 {White must now prevent ...Qd3.}
31. Bxh5 g6) 31. Bf4 $2 {[%mdl 8192] [#]} Qe1+ $3 {[%mdl 512] Weighted Error
Value: White=0.68/Black=0.35} 0-1

[Event "Goldmoney Asian Rapid Prelims 2021"]
[Site "Chess24"]
[Date "2021.06.24"]
[Round "6.1"]
[White "Aronian, Levon"]
[Black "Carlsen, Magnus"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "B30"]
[WhiteElo "2781"]
[BlackElo "2847"]
[Annotator "TA"]
[PlyCount "131"]
[EventDate "2021.06.26"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "NET"]
[Tiebreak "Koya+Number of black wins+Number of wins"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

{[%evp 9,131,10,25,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,-17,-12,-29,-16,-25,-22,-32,-8,-22,0,0,0,0,
10,8,12,10,32,24,31,29,31,18,43,48,50,32,46,31,76,76,78,85,86,86,87,70,127,114,
132,133,139,77,77,77,142,121,174,58,64,53,235,237,289,139,187,208,391,173,487,
94,223,222,390,389,385,388,387,382,378,378,335,245,372,385,445,419,429,342,464,
469,452,457,510,499,496,495,487,485,453,450,816,808,808,808,789,789,779,768,
741,599,705,684,1771,1469,6621,8539,6322,4540,8649,4634,2931,2296]} 1. e4 c5 2.
Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 g6 4. Nc3 Bg7 5. d3 d6 6. e5 {B30: Sicilian: 2...Nc6 3 Bb5,
lines without ...g6.} dxe5 7. Bxc6+ bxc6 8. O-O {The position is equal.} c4 9.
Re1 {[#]} Qd6 $146 ({Predecessor:} 9... Bg4 10. h3 Bxf3 11. Qxf3 Rc8 12. dxc4
Qc7 13. Bg5 Nf6 14. Qe3 h6 15. Bh4 Nh5 {1/2-1/2 (41) Gasanov,E (2454)-Askarian,
K (2253) Kharkov 2002}) 10. Bg5 cxd3 11. cxd3 Bg4 12. Ne4 Qd5 13. Rc1 Nf6 14.
h3 Nxe4 (14... Bxf3 {with more complications.} 15. Qxf3 Nxe4 16. Qxe4 f6 17.
Be3 f5) 15. dxe4 Qxd1 16. Rexd1 Bd7 17. Ne1 f6 18. Be3 a5 19. Nd3 {[%mdl 1024]
White has compensation.} Be6 20. b3 Kf7 21. Nc5 Rhc8 22. Rc2 Rc7 23. Rdc1 Bc8
24. Na4 Bb7 25. Bb6 Rcc8 26. Nc5 Bh6 27. Rd1 ({But not} 27. Nxb7 $6 Bxc1 28.
Rxc1 Rcb8 $15) 27... Ba6 28. Bxa5 Bb5 (28... Be2 $14 29. Rxe2 Rxa5) 29. b4 $16
Rcb8 30. a4 Ba6 31. g3 (31. Nd7 $142 Rc8 32. Nc5) 31... Bc8 32. Kg2 f5 (32...
Bf8 $142) 33. Rc4 $36 {[%mdl 2048] And now Bc7 would win. White is on the roll.
} Ra7 (33... Ba6 $16 34. Nxa6 Rxa6) 34. Rd8 (34. Bd8 $18) 34... fxe4 $1 $14 35.
Rxe4 Bg7 $2 (35... Rxa5 $1 $14 36. Rxc8 (36. bxa5 Bxh3+ 37. Kxh3 Rxd8 $14)
36... Rxc8 37. bxa5 Bd2) 36. g4 $1 $18 h5 {[#]} 37. Rc4 (37. Bb6 $1 $18 {
[%mdl 512] is more deadly.} Raa8 (37... Rxb6 38. Rxc8) 38. Bc7 {[%mdl 64]
Double Attack}) 37... hxg4 38. hxg4 Bf6 $2 {[#]} (38... Bh6 39. Bb6 (39. Nd3
Bg7 $16) 39... Rxb6) 39. f3 (39. Bb6 $142 $1 {[%mdl 512]} Rxb6 (39... Raa8 40.
Bc7) 40. Rxc8) 39... Rba8 (39... e4 {is more resistant.} 40. Rxe4 e5) 40. Ne4
$2 (40. Bb6 $18) 40... Bb7 (40... Be6 $16 41. Rxa8 Rxa8 42. Rxc6 Bd7) 41. Rd7
c5 $2 (41... Ba6 42. Rxa7 Rxa7 43. Rxc6 Ra8) 42. Nxc5 Bc6 43. Rxa7 Rxa7 44. Bb6
Ra8 45. b5 Bd5 46. Rc2 Bg5 (46... e4 $142) 47. a5 {[%cal Ba4a5,Ba5a6,Ba6a7]
[%mdl 32]} Be3 48. Nd7 Bf4 49. Re2 Ke6 50. Nc5+ {White is clearly winning.} Kf7
51. Ne4 Rc8 52. a6 Rb8 53. Bg1 Rxb5 54. Nc3 Ra5 {Threatening ...Bc4.} 55. Nxd5
Rxd5 {[%mdl 4096] Endgame KRB-KRB} (55... Rxa6 $142 56. Bc5 Ra5 57. Nxf4 (57.
Bxe7 Rxd5 58. Bb4 Kf6 $11) 57... exf4 58. Rxe7+ Kf6) 56. Ra2 Rd8 57. a7 Ra8 58.
Rb2 e4 59. fxe4 Ke6 60. Kf3 Bd6 61. Rb7 Ke5 62. Bh2+ Kd4 63. Bxd6 exd6 64. Kf4
Rf8+ 65. Kg5 {Rb8 would kill now.} Ra8 66. Re7 {Weighted Error Value: White=0.
35/Black=0.40} 1-0

[Event "Goldmoney Asian Rapid Prelims 2021"]
[Site "Chess24"]
[Date "2021.06.24"]
[Round "6.2"]
[White "Giri, Anish"]
[Black "Salem, A.R. Saleh"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "B51"]
[WhiteElo "2780"]
[BlackElo "2682"]
[Annotator "TA"]
[PlyCount "82"]
[EventDate "2021.06.26"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "NET"]
[Tiebreak "Koya+Number of black wins+Number of wins"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

{[%evp 9,82,10,8,13,12,0,3,3,3,3,3,3,10,12,13,2,12,5,7,0,0,0,0,0,0,-12,0,0,0,0,
0,0,0,-31,-27,-23,-4,-4,-5,-29,0,-26,-9,-39,-7,-34,-21,-22,-7,-27,-24,-22,-24,
-16,-15,-91,0,0,0,-29,-15,-25,-15,-15,-14,-16,0,0,42,0,0,0,51,0,0]} 1. e4 c5 2.
Nf3 d6 3. Bb5+ Nd7 4. O-O a6 5. Bxd7+ Bxd7 6. a4 {B51: Sicilian: Moscow
Variation (3 Bb5+) without 3...Bd7.} Nf6 7. e5 dxe5 8. Nxe5 e6 {[#]} 9. d3 $146
({Predecessor:} 9. d4 Qc7 10. Nxd7 Qxd7 11. dxc5 Bxc5 12. Qxd7+ Kxd7 13. Nc3
Rac8 14. Rd1+ Ke7 15. Bg5 {1/2-1/2 (32) Gil Machina,R (1794)-Bueno Gauna,C 
(2160) Santa Clara 2017}) 9... Bd6 10. Bf4 Bxe5 11. Bxe5 Bc6 {[#] Hoping for ..
.Qd5!} 12. Qe2 O-O 13. a5 Nd5 14. Nd2 (14. Bg3 {is more complex.} Re8 15. f3
Rc8 16. Nd2 e5 17. Nc4) 14... f6 15. Bg3 e5 16. f3 Nc7 17. f4 exf4 18. Bxf4
Qd4+ 19. Qf2 {Strongly threatening Qxd4.} Ne6 20. Be3 Qg4 21. Qg3 (21. h3 {
seems wilder.} Qg6 22. Rae1 Rad8 23. Nf3 Qf5 24. Qg3) 21... Qxg3 22. hxg3 Rfe8
23. Rfe1 Rad8 24. Nc4 Kf7 25. Kf2 Rd5 26. b3 Red8 27. Re2 Rf5+ 28. Kg1 Nd4 29.
Bxd4 Rxd4 30. Rae1 Rg5 31. Rf2 Kg6 32. Re6 {[#]} (32. Re3 $11) 32... Bd5 (32...
Rdg4 $1 $17 33. Nd6 Rxg3) 33. Re7 $11 Bc6 34. Ne3 h5 ({Don't play} 34... Rxg3
$6 35. Nf5 $16) 35. Rf4 Rd7 ({Reject} 35... Rxg3 36. Rxd4 cxd4 37. Rxg7+ Kxg7
38. Nf5+ Kf7 39. Nxg3 $14) 36. Rxd7 Bxd7 {KRB-KRN} 37. Kf2 Re5 38. Nc4 Re7 39.
Ne3 Re5 (39... Bc6 $11) 40. Nc4 $14 Re7 41. Ne3 (41. Re4 $1 $14 Rxe4 42. dxe4)
41... Re5 {Weighted Error Value: White=0.13/Black=0.09} 1/2-1/2

[Event "Goldmoney Asian Rapid Prelims 2021"]
[Site "Chess24"]
[Date "2021.06.24"]
[Round "6.3"]
[White "Duda, Jan-Krzysztof"]
[Black "Svidler, Peter"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "A65"]
[WhiteElo "2729"]
[BlackElo "2714"]
[Annotator "TA"]
[PlyCount "142"]
[EventDate "2021.06.26"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "NET"]
[Tiebreak "Koya+Number of black wins+Number of wins"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

{[%evp 21,142,9,60,35,72,72,94,84,110,108,105,93,109,97,118,93,97,127,96,94,
104,100,169,170,160,86,54,72,88,66,46,70,58,62,82,27,34,43,39,48,46,11,14,0,8,
8,8,10,37,37,25,23,66,57,100,103,97,98,143,143,144,144,200,192,414,407,267,359,
303,289,263,182,248,143,143,0,0,0,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,90,8,
8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,0,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,0,8,0,8,0,8]} 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. f3 c5 4.
d5 Bg7 5. e4 d6 6. Nc3 O-O 7. Nge2 e6 8. Ng3 exd5 9. cxd5 a6 10. a4 h5 11. Be2
Nbd7 {11...h4 is a critical line.} (11... Nh7 $11) 12. Bg5 $14 {A65: Modern
Benoni: 6 e4.} Qe8 13. Qd2 Nh7 14. Bh6 {White is better.} h4 15. Bxg7 Kxg7 16.
Nf1 f5 17. exf5 {[#]} Ne5 $146 {With the idea ...h3.} ({Predecessor:} 17...
gxf5 18. f4 Ndf6 19. Ne3 Qg6 20. Nc4 Bd7 21. Nxd6 Qxg2 22. O-O-O Kh8 23. Qe3
Qg7 {1-0 (58) Terrieux,K (2372)-Maze,S (2594) Belfort 2012}) 18. Ne3 (18. Ne4
$6 Bxf5 19. Nxd6 Nd3+ 20. Kd1 Nf2+ 21. Ke1 Nd3+ 22. Kd1 Nf2+ 23. Ke1 Nd3+ 24.
Kd1 $11) 18... Bxf5 19. O-O g5 20. f4 gxf4 21. Rxf4 Qg6 (21... Bg6 $16 {
was worth a try.} 22. Rxf8 Nxf8) 22. Rxh4 $18 (22. Nxf5+ $6 Rxf5 23. Rxf5 Qxf5
$11) (22. Raf1 $6 Bd7 $16) 22... Ng5 23. Nxf5+ (23. Kh1 $142 $1) 23... Rxf5 $16
({Wrong is} 23... Qxf5 $2 24. Ne4 $1 $18 {[%mdl 512]} (24. Rf1 $2 Qxf1+ 25.
Bxf1 Ngf3+ 26. gxf3 Nxf3+ {[%mdl 64] Double Attack} 27. Kg2 Nxd2 $19)) 24. Kh1
Raf8 25. Rg1 Qf6 26. Qe3 Ng6 27. Rg4 Qe5 28. Ne4 (28. Qxe5+ $16 Nxe5 29. Rg3)
28... Nxe4 $11 29. Rxe4 Qxb2 30. Qg3 R8f6 31. Bd3 Qf2 $1 {[%cal Rf2g3] ...Qxg3
is the strong threat.} 32. Re7+ {[%mdl 64] Discovered Attack} Kf8 {Hoping for .
..Qxg3.} 33. Qxf2 ({Avoid the trap} 33. Rxb7 $2 Qxg3 34. Bxf5 Rxf5 $19) 33...
Rxf2 34. Rxb7 a5 35. Bxg6 Rxg6 $14 {[%mdl 4096] Endgame KRR-KRR} 36. Ra7 Rg4
37. Rxa5 c4 38. h3 Rd4 39. Ra7 c3 {[#]} 40. Rc7 $1 c2 41. a5 Rd1 (41... Ra4 $16
) 42. Kh2 $18 Rxg1 $2 (42... Rxd5 43. a6 Ra5) 43. Kxg1 {KR-KR} Rd2 {Strongly
threatening ...Rd1+.} 44. Kh2 Rxd5 45. Rxc2 Rxa5 46. h4 Ke7 (46... Ra7 {
was called for.} 47. g4 Kg7) 47. Rf2 ({White should try} 47. Re2+ $18 Kf6 48.
g4) 47... d5 $16 48. h5 (48. Rf4 $16) 48... d4 $11 49. g4 d3 50. h6 d2 $1 {
[%cal Rd2d1]} 51. Rxd2 Kf6 $1 52. Kg3 {Threatens to win with Rd7.} (52. h7 {
is more complex.} Kg7 53. Rd7+ Kh8 54. Rd6 Kxh7 55. Kg3) 52... Kg5 53. h7 Ra3+
54. Kg2 Ra8 55. Rd7 {aiming for Kf3.} Kg6 56. Kg3 Rh8 57. Kh4 Kh6 58. Ra7 Kg6
59. Rb7 {And now Re7 would win.} (59. Re7 {seems wilder.} Kf6 60. Rb7 Kg6 61.
Rb6+ Kxh7 62. Kg5) 59... Kh6 60. Rb5 ({White should play} 60. Rc7 $16) 60...
Kxh7 {The position is equal.} 61. Kh5 {Rb7+ would kill now.} Kg7+ 62. Kg5 {
White threatens Rb7+ and mate.} Ra8 63. Rb7+ Kg8 64. Rb6 Kg7 65. Rb7+ Kg8 66.
Kh5 Rc8 67. g5 $1 Rc6 68. Rb8+ Kg7 69. Rb7+ Kg8 70. Rb8+ Kg7 71. Rb7+ Kg8 {
Black defended with fortune.  Weighted Error Value: White=0.13/Black=0.18}
1/2-1/2

[Event "Goldmoney Asian Rapid Prelims 2021"]
[Site "Chess24"]
[Date "2021.06.24"]
[Round "6.4"]
[White "Dubov, Daniil"]
[Black "So, Wesley"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "D27"]
[WhiteElo "2714"]
[BlackElo "2770"]
[Annotator "TA"]
[PlyCount "62"]
[EventDate "2021.06.26"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "NET"]
[Tiebreak "Koya+Number of black wins+Number of wins"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

{[%evp 25,62,0,0,0,0,0,0,-7,0,-45,-41,-92,-84,-135,-136,-183,-48,-40,-40,-50,
-44,-45,-41,-31,-45,-25,-39,-58,0,-24,-12,-15,0,0,0,-25,0,0,0]} 1. d4 d5 2. c4
dxc4 3. Nf3 Nf6 4. e3 e6 5. Bxc4 a6 6. O-O c5 7. a4 Nc6 8. Qe2 cxd4 9. Rd1 Be7
10. exd4 O-O 11. Nc3 Nb4 12. Ne5 Bd7 13. Bg5 Bc6 14. Nxc6 {D27: Queen's Gambit
Accepted: Classical main line: 7 e4!? and 7 a4.} bxc6 15. a5 Qc7 16. Bh4 Rfd8 {
[#]} 17. Na4 $146 ({Predecessor:} 17. Bg3 Qa7 18. Be5 Nd7 19. Bf4 Nf6 20. Na4
Rxd4 21. Rxd4 Qxd4 22. Nb6 Re8 23. Be5 Qc5 24. Bxa6 {1/2-1/2 (26) Kozlov,V 
(2404)-Seelig,J (2323) ICCF email 2015}) 17... Qxa5 18. Bxe6 ({White should
play} 18. Nc5 $15 Qc7 19. Bg3) 18... fxe6 $17 19. Qxe6+ (19. Nc5 $142 Qb5 20.
Qxe6+ {[%mdl 64] Double Attack} Kf8 21. Re1) 19... Kf8 $1 {Threatens to win
with ...Nc2.} 20. Nc5 {[#]} Qc7 (20... Rxd4 $1 $19 {[%mdl 512]} 21. Nd7+ Rxd7
22. Qxd7 {[#]} Qxa1 $3 {[%mdl 512]} 23. Bxf6 Qxd1+ $3 {[%mdl 512]} 24. Qxd1
Bxf6 25. Qd6+ Be7) 21. Bxf6 $15 gxf6 ({Of course not} 21... Bxf6 $6 22. Qc4 $11
) 22. Ra3 $1 {[%cal Ra3g3] Rg3 is the strong threat.} Qc8 23. Qe3 {aiming for
Qh6+.} Qf5 24. Ne6+ {[%mdl 64] Double Attack} Kf7 $1 25. Nxd8+ Rxd8 26. Qe2 Bf8
(26... Bd6 $15) 27. Rf3 Qc2 28. Rd2 Qb1+ 29. Rd1 Qc2 30. Rd2 Qb1+ 31. Rd1 Qc2 {
Weighted Error Value: White=0.13/Black=0.15} 1/2-1/2

[Event "Goldmoney Asian Rapid Prelims 2021"]
[Site "Chess24"]
[Date "2021.06.24"]
[Round "6.5"]
[White "Artemiev, Vladislav"]
[Black "Hou, Yifan"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "D03"]
[WhiteElo "2704"]
[BlackElo "2658"]
[Annotator "TA"]
[PlyCount "63"]
[EventDate "2021.06.26"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "NET"]
[Tiebreak "Koya+Number of black wins+Number of wins"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

{[%evp 24,63,26,16,23,7,23,16,26,16,25,25,71,73,57,64,112,114,120,114,116,120,
115,106,218,222,191,84,247,185,427,421,407,416,408,394,451,274,1039,831,29982,
29983]} 1. d4 Nf6 2. Bg5 e6 3. Nd2 d5 4. e3 c5 5. c3 Nc6 6. Ngf3 Be7 7. Bd3 O-O
8. O-O b6 9. Ne5 Nxe5 10. dxe5 Nd7 11. Bxe7 Qxe7 12. f4 Bb7 13. Qh5 {[%csl Gd3]
[%cal Rh5h7] [#]} g6 {D03: 1 d4 d5 2 Nf3 Nf6 3 Bg5, including Torre Attack
with early ...d5.} 14. Qh6 f6 15. exf6 Nxf6 {The position is equal.} 16. Qg5 a5
17. Rae1 {[#]} Ba6 $146 ({Predecessor:} 17... Rf7 18. Rd1 Nd7 19. Qg3 c4 20.
Bc2 b5 21. Nf3 b4 22. h4 Rg7 23. Rf2 Rf8 {1/2-1/2 (46) Manarin,F (1987)
-Vahvaselkae,J (2032) ICCF email 2017}) 18. Bxa6 Rxa6 19. e4 {e5 is the strong
threat.} Qf7 20. f5 exf5 21. exf5 b5 22. fxg6 Qxg6 23. Qe5 Ra7 (23... Kh8 $16)
24. Re3 $18 ({Don't do} 24. Qd6 Raf7) 24... Rg7 {[%csl Gg7][%cal Rg6g2] [#]}
25. Rg3 (25. Rf2 $1 $18 {has better winning chances.}) 25... Qf7 $2 {Black
cannot hold the game after this.} (25... Qe8 $16 26. Rxg7+ Kxg7 27. Qc7+ Nd7)
26. Nb3 {[%cal Bd2b3,Bb3d4,Bd4f5][%mdl 32]} c4 $2 (26... Rxg3 {might work
better.} 27. Qxg3+ (27. hxg3 Qe8 $16) 27... Qg6) 27. Nd4 Rxg3 28. Qxg3+ ({
Weaker is} 28. hxg3 h6 $18) 28... Qg6 29. Qd6 {And now Nf5 would win.} Rf7 30.
Nf5 Qg5 $2 (30... Kh8 31. Qd8+ {[%mdl 64] Double Attack} Ng8) 31. Qe6 Kf8 32.
Nd6 {[%csl Gd6][%cal Re6f7][%mdl 64] Double Attack.  Weighted Error Value:
White=0.23/Black=0.87} 1-0

[Event "Goldmoney Asian Rapid Prelims 2021"]
[Site "Chess24"]
[Date "2021.06.24"]
[Round "6.6"]
[White "Adhiban, B.."]
[Black "Firouzja, Alireza"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "E26"]
[WhiteElo "2660"]
[BlackElo "2759"]
[Annotator "TA"]
[PlyCount "94"]
[EventDate "2021.06.26"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "NET"]
[Tiebreak "Koya+Number of black wins+Number of wins"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

{[%evp 14,94,0,0,4,-25,0,-12,-20,-27,-27,-29,0,-11,-4,-18,-10,-87,-75,-162,
-121,-126,-90,-89,-85,-68,-85,-72,-25,-171,-122,-284,-284,-286,-289,-266,-254,
-295,-296,-234,-36,-66,0,-304,-291,-285,-247,-215,-220,-303,-321,-332,-321,
-327,-322,-321,-295,-325,-308,-316,-298,-293,-233,-422,-396,-408,-399,-679,
-674,-672,-665,-1987,-1915,-2180,-2656,-1310,-5014,-5006,-4922,-29990,-29991,
-29991,-29992]} 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. e3 c5 5. a3 Bxc3+ 6. bxc3 b6
7. Bd3 Nc6 8. e4 d6 {E26: Nimzo-Indian: Sämisch: 5...c5 6 e3.} 9. Ne2 O-O 10.
Bg5 h6 {The position is equal.} 11. Bh4 e5 12. f3 Re8 13. O-O g5 14. Bf2 Nh5 {
[#]} 15. g3 $146 (15. d5 $11 Na5 16. Qc2) ({Predecessor:} 15. Ng3 Nf4 16. Nf5
Bxf5 17. exf5 Nxd3 18. Qxd3 Qf6 19. d5 Na5 20. Qe4 Kg7 21. h4 {1/2-1/2 (47) Li,
R (2391)-Bui,V (2485) Singapore 2006}) 15... Bh3 $17 16. f4 (16. d5 $17 {
was worth a try.} Qf6 17. Be3 Bxf1 18. Qxf1) 16... Bxf1 17. Qxf1 Nf6 18. fxg5
Ng4 19. d5 Na5 $36 {[%mdl 2048] Black is on the roll.} (19... Nxf2 20. Qxf2 Na5
21. gxh6 $11) 20. gxh6 Qg5 (20... Nb3 {is more complex.} 21. Rd1 Qg5 22. Qg2
Nd2 23. h7+ Kg7) 21. Rd1 (21. h3 $1 $11 {and White stays safe.} Nxf2 22. Qxf2)
21... Qxh6 {[%csl Gg4][%cal Rh6h2]} 22. h4 (22. h3 $17 Nxf2 23. Qxf2) 22... f5
$19 {And now ...fxe4 would win.} 23. Qh3 Nxf2 24. Kxf2 fxe4 25. Qg4+ Kh8 26.
Qxe4 Rf8+ $2 (26... Rg8 $1 $19 {Hoping for ...Rg7.} 27. Kg2 Raf8) 27. Kg2 $1
$15 Rf6 (27... Qg7 $1 $15) 28. Rf1 $2 {[%mdl 8192] Black converts the
advantage convincingly.} (28. Ng1 $1 $11 {and White is okay.}) 28... Rxf1 $19
29. Kxf1 Rf8+ 30. Kg2 {[#]} Nb3 $1 31. Ng1 Nd2 32. Qg4 {intending Nh3.} Rg8 33.
Qe6 {[#]} Qxe6 34. dxe6 {[%mdl 4096] Endgame KRN-KBN} e4 35. Be2 Rg6 36. Nh3 {
aiming for e7.} Rxe6 37. Nf4 Rf6 38. Kf2 $2 (38. Nd5 Re6 39. Nf4) 38... Nb1 $1
{[%csl LRa3,LRc3][%mdl 64] Double Attack} 39. Ke3 Nxc3 40. Bg4 $2 (40. Kd2 Nxe2
41. Kxe2) 40... b5 {[%mdl 64] Overworked Piece} 41. cxb5 d5 42. Bd7 d4+ 43. Kd2
c4 44. Bc6 e3+ 45. Kc2 {[#]} Ne2 $1 {[%mdl 512]} 46. Nd5 (46. b6 axb6) 46...
Rf2 47. Kd1 Nxg3 {Weighted Error Value: White=0.74/Black=0.14} 0-1

[Event "Goldmoney Asian Rapid Prelims 2021"]
[Site "Chess24"]
[Date "2021.06.24"]
[Round "6.7"]
[White "Ding, Liren"]
[Black "Vidit, Santosh Gujrathi"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "B14"]
[WhiteElo "2799"]
[BlackElo "2726"]
[Annotator "TA"]
[PlyCount "90"]
[EventDate "2021.06.26"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "NET"]
[Tiebreak "Koya+Number of black wins+Number of wins"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

{[%evp 23,90,25,39,21,26,18,39,11,24,12,20,8,17,0,9,0,0,0,14,18,14,22,16,25,15,
0,0,-7,0,-26,-33,-33,-33,-38,-43,-52,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,
0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]} 1. c4 c5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. e3 e6 4. d4 d5 5. cxd5 exd5 6.
Bb5 Nf6 7. O-O cxd4 8. exd4 Be7 9. Ne5 Bd7 10. Nc3 O-O 11. Re1 Rc8 12. Bg5 Be6
13. Rc1 {[#] B14: Caro-Kann: Panov-Botvinnik Attack with 5...e6 and 5...g6.}
Nd7 $146 ({Predecessor:} 13... Qb6 14. Bxc6 bxc6 15. Na4 Qb5 16. Nc5 Rc7 17.
Qe2 Qxe2 18. Rxe2 Bxc5 19. dxc5 Ne4 20. Be3 h6 {1/2-1/2 (58) Schmidt,W (2249)
-Wehrle,U (2134) Baden 2012}) 14. Bxe7 Nxe7 15. Bxd7 {White is slightly better.
} Bxd7 16. Qb3 Bc6 17. Qa3 a6 18. Nd1 f6 19. Nxc6 Nxc6 20. Ne3 Qd7 21. Rc5 Ne7
22. h3 Rxc5 23. dxc5 Rd8 24. Qd3 Qb5 25. Qc2 Rc8 26. Nf5 Nxf5 27. Qxf5 {
[%mdl 64] [#] Double Attack} Qxc5 $11 {[%mdl 4096] Endgame KQR-KQR} 28. b4 Qc6
29. Re7 Re8 ({Better is} 29... g6 $15 30. Qf4 Qc1+ 31. Qxc1 Rxc1+ 32. Kh2 Rc2)
30. Rxe8+ {The position is equal.} Qxe8 31. Qxd5+ {[%mdl 64] [#] Double Attack.
KQ-KQ} Qf7 32. Qd8+ Qf8 33. Qb6 Qe7 34. a4 Kf7 35. g3 Qe1+ 36. Kh2 Qe4 37. b5
axb5 38. axb5 Qf3 39. Qc5 g5 (39... Kg6 {is interesting.} 40. Qc2+ Qf5 41. Qe2
Qd5 42. Qe8+ Kh6) 40. b6 h5 (40... Kg6 {looks sharper.} 41. Qd4 h6 42. Qc5 Kf7
43. Qc4+ Kg7) 41. Qc7+ Kg6 42. Qc2+ Kg7 43. Qc7+ Kg6 44. Qc2+ Kg7 45. Qc7+ Kg6
{Weighted Error Value: White=0.05/Black=0.04} 1/2-1/2

[Event "Goldmoney Asian Rapid Prelims 2021"]
[Site "Chess24"]
[Date "2021.06.24"]
[Round "6.8"]
[White "Gukesh D"]
[Black "Erigaisi Arjun"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "D38"]
[WhiteElo "2578"]
[BlackElo "2567"]
[Annotator "TA"]
[PlyCount "127"]
[EventDate "2021.06.26"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "NET"]
[Tiebreak "Koya+Number of black wins+Number of wins"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

{[%evp 14,127,25,17,18,18,26,30,32,30,26,27,38,28,24,12,33,18,21,23,59,42,84,0,
0,0,15,18,16,0,17,23,18,25,16,31,31,29,25,30,29,0,79,75,120,86,74,76,81,55,61,
57,58,58,58,66,62,51,72,60,64,60,57,47,47,15,37,15,15,15,15,15,15,15,15,8,8,6,
15,8,8,4,15,15,15,15,15,15,15,15,15,15,15,0,15,0,15,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,
0,0,0,0,0,0]} 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nf3 d5 4. Nc3 Bb4 5. Bg5 h6 6. Qa4+ Nc6 7.
Bxf6 Qxf6 8. e3 O-O {D38: Queen's Gambit Declined: Ragozin Defence (4 Nf3 Bb4).
} 9. Be2 Bd7 {[#] And now ...Nxd4 would win.} 10. Qb3 dxc4 {White has an edge.}
11. Qxc4 Bd6 12. O-O e5 13. d5 Na5 14. Qd3 Qe7 {[#]} 15. Nd2 $146 ({
Predecessor:} 15. Qc2 a6 16. Ne4 b5 17. Rac1 Nb7 18. Nxd6 cxd6 19. b4 Rfc8 20.
Qb2 f5 21. Rxc8+ Rxc8 {1-0 (49) Bosiocic,M (2629)-Brkic,A (2572) Tuzla 2019})
15... f5 16. e4 f4 17. a3 {[#] aiming for b4.} c5 18. dxc6 (18. Nb5 $16) 18...
Nxc6 $11 19. Nd5 Qe6 20. Nf3 Rad8 21. Rfd1 Be8 22. Qb3 Kh8 23. Qxb7 Rb8 24. Qa6
{Hoping for b4.} Rxb2 25. Rac1 Nd4 26. Nxd4 exd4 27. Bf3 Qe5 (27... Bb5 $11 {
keeps the balance.} 28. Qxa7 Be2) 28. Qxa7 $16 Bg6 29. Qxd4 Qxd4 30. Rxd4 Bxa3
31. Rd3 Ra2 32. Rcd1 Bc5 33. R3d2 Rxd2 34. Rxd2 Bd6 35. h4 Bf7 36. Rc2 g5 37.
Rc6 Rd8 38. hxg5 hxg5 39. Bg4 Kg7 40. Kf1 (40. Nb6 {feels hotter.} Be5 41. Nd7
Bd4 42. Rd6 Ba1 43. Rd1) 40... Bxd5 {The position is equal.} 41. exd5 $11 {
[%mdl 4096] Endgame KRB-KRB} Kf6 42. Be6 Ke5 43. Rc2 Rb8 44. Ke2 Rb3 45. Rc8
Ke4 46. f3+ Kd4 47. Kf2 Ke5 48. Kg1 Rb1+ 49. Kh2 Rb8 50. Rc4 Rb7 51. Re4+ Kf6
52. Bh3 Re7 53. Rc4 Rc7 54. Re4 {Black must now prevent Re6+.} Re7 55. Ra4 Rh7
56. Kg1 Ke5 57. Be6 Bc5+ 58. Kf1 Rh1+ 59. Ke2 Rg1 60. Kd3 Rxg2 61. Kc4 Rc2+ 62.
Kb5 Rc3 63. Rc4 Rxc4 64. Kxc4 {Weighted Error Value: White=0.08/Black=0.07}
1/2-1/2

[Event "Goldmoney Asian Rapid Prelims 2021"]
[Site "Chess24"]
[Date "2021.06.24"]
[Round "7.1"]
[White "Erigaisi Arjun"]
[Black "Aronian, Levon"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "E04"]
[WhiteElo "2567"]
[BlackElo "2781"]
[Annotator "TA"]
[PlyCount "104"]
[EventDate "2021.06.26"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "NET"]
[Tiebreak "Koya+Number of black wins+Number of wins"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

{[%evp 23,104,17,18,10,22,19,16,27,26,25,16,0,0,0,2,0,17,12,3,5,15,12,57,57,57,
56,56,56,57,43,41,41,41,41,41,41,41,41,56,57,99,99,99,99,108,61,120,117,114,
116,116,15,13,0,0,0,0,-8,-8,-8,0,0,0,-8,-8,-751,-720,-879,-827,-1362,-1287,
-2344,-4710,-2024,-1988,-4610,-2246,-29976,-29974,-29980,-29980,-29980,-6115]} 
1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. g3 d5 4. Bg2 dxc4 5. Nf3 c5 6. O-O Nc6 7. dxc5 Qxd1 8.
Rxd1 Bxc5 9. Nbd2 c3 10. bxc3 O-O 11. Nb3 Be7 12. c4 Bd7 13. Bb2 {E04: Open
Catalan: 5 Nf3.} Rfc8 $5 {[%mdl 4] Leaves trodden paths.} 14. Bxf6 Bxf6 15.
Rxd7 {The position is equal.} Bxa1 16. Nxa1 Rd8 17. Rd2 Ne5 {...Nxf3+ is the
strong threat.} 18. Nb3 (18. Nxe5 $2 Rxd2 19. Nb3 Rxe2 $19) (18. Rxd8+ {
keeps more tension.} Rxd8 19. Ne1 Rd2 20. Nac2 b6 21. f4) 18... Nxc4 {[#]} 19.
Rd4 $146 ({Predecessor:} 19. Rc2 Rd1+ 20. Bf1 Rc8 21. Nbd2 b5 22. a4 Nb6 23.
Rxc8+ Nxc8 24. axb5 Nd6 25. e3 Nxb5 {1/2-1/2 (56) Nakamura,H (2736)
-Praggnanandhaa,R (2608) chess24.com INT 2021}) 19... Rxd4 20. Nfxd4 Nd6 21. f4
Rc8 22. e4 b6 23. e5 Nf5 24. Nc6 Kf8 25. Kf2 Ke8 26. Be4 Rc7 27. g4 Ne7 28.
Nbd4 Kd7 {[%cal Re7c6]} 29. Nxe7 Kxe7 30. Bc6 a6 31. Ke3 b5 32. h4 g6 33. Kd3
Rc8 34. Kc3 f6 {[#]} ({Black should try} 34... h5 $14) 35. Kb4 $1 $16 fxe5 36.
fxe5 Rf8 {[#]} 37. Kc5 ({Better is} 37. Bb7 $1 $16) 37... Rf2 $1 $11 38. Bb7
Rxa2 39. Bc8 Ra1 {Strongly threatening ...Rc1+.} 40. Bxe6 Rc1+ 41. Kd5 b4 {
aiming for ...b3!} 42. Bg8 a5 {[%cal Ba6a5,Ba5a4,Ba4a3][%mdl 32] Hoping for ...
a4.} 43. Bxh7 {Threatens to win with Nc6+.} a4 {And now ...a3 would win.} 44.
h5 $2 {[%mdl 8192] Loses the game.} ({But not} 44. Bxg6 $2 a3 $19) (44. Nc6+
$11 Kf8 45. e6 (45. Nxb4 Rb1 $15) (45. Bxg6 b3 $17) 45... Rxc6 46. Kxc6) 44...
gxh5 $19 45. Nf5+ Kd8 46. e6 a3 47. e7+ Kd7 48. Bg6 Re1 ({Not} 48... Rd1+ 49.
Kc5 $15) 49. e8=Q+ Rxe8 50. Bxe8+ Kxe8 {Black mates.} 51. Nd4 hxg4 52. Ke4 Kd7
{Weighted Error Value: White=0.80/Black=0.04} (52... a2 $142 53. Nb3 Ke7 54.
Kf4 Ke6 55. Kg3 Kd5 56. Kf2 g3+ 57. Kxg3 Kc4 58. Na1 Kc3 59. Kh2 Kb2 60. Kh3
Kxa1 61. Kg4 b3 62. Kg3 Kb2 63. Kh4 Kc3 64. Kh3 b2 65. Kg4 b1=Q 66. Kh4 Qg6 67.
Kh3 a1=Q 68. Kh2 Qag1+ 69. Kh3 Qh7#) 0-1

[Event "Goldmoney Asian Rapid Prelims 2021"]
[Site "Chess24"]
[Date "2021.06.24"]
[Round "7.2"]
[White "Vidit, Santosh Gujrathi"]
[Black "Gukesh D"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "D37"]
[WhiteElo "2726"]
[BlackElo "2578"]
[Annotator "TA"]
[PlyCount "74"]
[EventDate "2021.06.26"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "NET"]
[Tiebreak "Koya+Number of black wins+Number of wins"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

{[%evp 9,74,27,25,29,30,11,10,19,20,25,26,0,0,0,29,33,33,33,87,70,70,67,93,89,
127,94,154,147,144,158,162,81,85,78,111,122,114,103,110,89,93,39,93,76,101,0,0,
-20,-16,-22,0,0,0,0,14,0,0,-602,-602,-577,-448,-608,-603,-726,-740,-4917,-1705]
} 1. d4 d5 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 a6 4. cxd5 exd5 5. Nf3 Nf6 6. Bg5 {D37: Queen's
Gambit Declined: 5 Bf4.} Be6 7. Bxf6 Qxf6 8. Qb3 {The position is equal.} Ra7
$1 {The main line 8...Ra7 scores better than 8...b5.} 9. a3 Qd8 10. h4 h6 11.
Qc2 Bd6 12. e4 dxe4 13. Qxe4 {[#] Strongly threatening d5.} Kf8 $146 (13... Qe7
$14) ({Predecessor:} 13... Qe7 14. O-O-O Bb3 15. Qxe7+ Kxe7 16. Re1+ Kd8 17.
Bd3 Nd7 18. Bf5 g6 19. Bh3 a5 {0-1 (60) Vidit,S (2726)-Le,Q (2709) chess24.com
INT 2021}) 14. O-O-O Nd7 15. Ne5 Qe7 16. f4 Nf6 17. Qc2 c5 (17... c6 $142) 18.
dxc5 $1 $16 Bxe5 19. fxe5 Nd7 20. Qf2 (20. Ne4 $1 $18) 20... Ra8 21. Ne4 Nxe5
22. Nd6 h5 23. Be2 Rh6 24. Rhe1 Qc7 25. Kb1 (25. Qd4 $16 Nd7 26. b4) 25... Kg8
({Better is} 25... Rf6 $14 26. Qe3 Nd7) 26. Qe3 Nd7 27. Rc1 (27. b4 $16) 27...
b6 $1 $11 {[%cal Rd7c5]} 28. Bf3 Rb8 {[%cal Rd7c5]} 29. Ne4 Bf5 30. Ka1 {
And now c6! would win.} Re6 31. cxb6 Qe5 32. Qc3 {Hoping for b7.} Rexb6 33. Ng3
$2 {[%mdl 8192]} Qxg3 $19 {Black is clearly winning.} 34. Re2 Nf6 35. Qa5 Qf4
36. Rce1 Rb5 37. Qxa6 {[#]} Qd4 {Quite a comeback for Black.  Weighted Error
Value: White=0.67/Black=0.13} (37... Rxb2 $142 $3 {[%mdl 512]} 38. Rxb2 Rxb2
39. Qxf6 {[#]} Ra2+ $3 {[%mdl 576] Decoy, Zwischenzug} 40. Kxa2 Qc4+ 41. Ka1
gxf6 42. Re8+ Kg7) 0-1

[Event "Goldmoney Asian Rapid Prelims 2021"]
[Site "Chess24"]
[Date "2021.06.24"]
[Round "7.3"]
[White "Firouzja, Alireza"]
[Black "Ding, Liren"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "D02"]
[WhiteElo "2759"]
[BlackElo "2799"]
[Annotator "TA"]
[PlyCount "72"]
[EventDate "2021.06.26"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "NET"]
[Tiebreak "Koya+Number of black wins+Number of wins"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

{[%evp 9,72,8,13,7,17,14,16,5,10,19,12,5,7,7,20,15,6,14,7,0,0,4,8,0,4,0,0,0,21,
0,17,21,38,10,25,9,61,55,31,-6,0,-7,-5,-13,-12,-8,-12,-7,-7,-7,-7,-9,-9,-9,-9,
-81,-31,-766,-787,-760,-760,-736,-721,-29995,-29996]} 1. d4 Nf6 2. Nf3 d5 3.
Bf4 c5 4. e3 e6 5. Nbd2 Qb6 6. Rb1 {D02: 1 d4 d5 2 Nf3 sidelines, including 2..
.Nf6 3 g3 and 2...Nf6 3 Bf4.} Bd6 {is cutting edge theory.} 7. dxc5 Qxc5 8. b4
{The position is equal.} Qc7 9. Bxd6 Qxd6 10. c4 O-O 11. Be2 {[#]} b6 $146 ({
Predecessor:} 11... a5 12. b5 b6 13. cxd5 exd5 14. O-O Nbd7 15. Qa4 Bb7 16.
Rfd1 Rac8 17. Bf1 Rfe8 {1/2-1/2 (60) Aronian,L (2781)-Dominguez Perez,L (2758)
chess24.com INT 2021}) 12. cxd5 Nxd5 13. Nc4 Qe7 {...Nc3 is the strong threat.}
14. Qb3 Bb7 15. O-O Nd7 16. Nd4 a6 17. Rfd1 Rac8 18. a4 Rc7 19. Bf1 Rfc8 20. e4
Nf4 21. f3 h5 22. Rb2 h4 (22... Ng6 $11) 23. Rbd2 $1 $14 Ng6 24. Nc2 h3 $1 {
[%cal Rh3g2] With the idea ...hxg2.} 25. g3 {Threatens to win with Nd6.} Nde5
$36 {[%mdl 2048] Black is more active.} 26. N2a3 Qf6 27. Rf2 b5 28. axb5 axb5
29. Nxe5 Nxe5 30. Nxb5 Rc1 31. Rxc1 $1 ({Of course not} 31. Bxh3 Rxd1+ 32. Qxd1
Rd8 $17) 31... Rxc1 32. Nd6 (32. Qe3 $11 Rd1 33. Qf4) 32... Qe7 {[%mdl 1024]
Black has strong compensation.} 33. Rd2 {[%mdl 8192] [#] This move loses the
game for White.} (33. Nxb7 $15 Qxb7 34. Qe3) 33... Ba6 $1 $19 {[%csl Ga6][%cal
Rc1f1]} 34. b5 Qa7+ 35. Rf2 {[#]} Qb6 $1 36. Qa3 (36. Qb2 Nd3) 36... Rc2 {
Weighted Error Value: White=0.45/Black=0.07} 0-1

[Event "Goldmoney Asian Rapid Prelims 2021"]
[Site "Chess24"]
[Date "2021.06.24"]
[Round "7.4"]
[White "Hou, Yifan"]
[Black "Adhiban, B.."]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "C78"]
[WhiteElo "2658"]
[BlackElo "2660"]
[Annotator "TA"]
[PlyCount "109"]
[EventDate "2021.06.26"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "NET"]
[Tiebreak "Koya+Number of black wins+Number of wins"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

{[%evp 15,109,14,27,-11,26,-6,20,0,4,-10,-5,-12,0,-16,14,4,14,14,11,0,0,0,0,-3,
35,35,36,30,33,28,45,43,44,35,41,-63,0,-70,-62,-88,-24,-106,-93,-160,120,125,
119,116,116,105,202,41,55,67,106,108,251,258,251,246,583,571,601,577,539,448,
1698,1196,1614,1339,29970,693,657,645,727,720,695,667,1202,1212,1071,1021,976,
917,1312,1257,1258,1247,1677,1578,4141,4141,4141,4141,1720,1242]} 1. e4 e5 2.
Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4. Ba4 Nf6 5. O-O Bc5 6. c3 b5 7. Bb3 d6 8. d3 O-O {8...h6
is the hot move.} 9. Be3 {C78: Ruy Lopez: Archangelsk and Möller Defences.} Bb6
10. h3 Ne7 11. Nbd2 {The position is equal.} Ng6 {[#]} 12. d4 $146 ({
Predecessor:} 12. a4 Rb8 13. d4 Qe7 14. a5 exd4 15. cxd4 Ba7 16. e5 Ne8 17. Bg5
Qd7 18. Re1 {1-0 (53) Arakhamia Grant,K (2426)-Bhatia,K (2091) Birmingham 2005}
) 12... c5 13. Re1 Bb7 14. Bc2 h6 15. a4 Re8 16. d5 c4 17. b3 (17. Ra3 {
with more complications.} Nd7 18. b3 cxb3 19. Rxb3 Bxe3 20. Rxe3 Nc5 21. Rb2)
17... cxb3 18. Nxb3 Bxe3 19. Rxe3 Rb8 20. axb5 axb5 21. Nfd2 Nf4 22. Na5 Nd7
23. c4 bxc4 {[#]} 24. Ba4 $1 Rf8 ({Reject} 24... Qxa5 $6 25. Bxd7 Qc5 26. Bxe8
$16) (24... c3 25. Ndc4) 25. Bc6 (25. Bxd7 $14 Qxd7 26. Naxc4) 25... Bc8 ({
Weaker is} 25... Qg5 26. Rg3 $18) ({Better is} 25... Ba6 $1 $15) 26. Naxc4 (26.
Bxd7 $11 Bxd7 27. Naxc4) 26... Nc5 $15 27. Ra7 Ba6 (27... Rb4 $17 28. Ra8 Qg5)
28. Kh2 (28. Qf1 $11 {keeps the balance.}) 28... Rb4 $17 29. Qc2 {[#]} ({
White should try} 29. Rc3) 29... Qb8 $2 (29... Qf6 $1 $17 {keeps the pressure
on. Threatens to win with ...Rfb8.} 30. Qa2 Bxc4 31. Nxc4 h5) 30. Ra8 $16 Qc7
31. Rxf8+ Kxf8 {[#]} 32. Nxe5 $1 {[%mdl 512]} Qe7 {[#]} (32... f6 $16 {might
work better.} 33. Nec4 Kg8) 33. Nef3 $2 ({White has to play} 33. Nec4 $1 $18 {
Strongly threatening e5.} f6 34. e5 fxe5 35. g3 Bxc4 36. Nxc4) 33... Nfd3 $14
34. Qc3 Qf6 35. Qa3 {Rxd3! is the strong threat.} ({Don't play} 35. Qxf6 $6
gxf6 36. Nh4 Nxf2 $11) 35... Kg8 {[#] This move loses the game for Black.} (
35... g6 $16) 36. Rxd3 $1 $18 {[%mdl 576] Deflection} Nxd3 37. Qxa6 Nxf2 (37...
Ne5 38. Qc8+ Kh7) 38. Qe2 Nxe4 39. Nxe4 Qf4+ 40. Ng3 h5 (40... g6 $142 41. h4
h5 42. Qe8+ Kg7) 41. Qe8+ Kh7 42. h4 g6 43. Qe7 (43. Qf8 $142 f6 44. Qf7+ Kh8
45. Qxg6 Qg4 46. Qh6+ Kg8 47. Nxh5 Rf4 48. Nxf4) 43... Kg7 {White is clearly
winning.} 44. Qg5 Qxg5 45. hxg5 f6 46. Bd7 fxg5 47. Nxg5 Kf6 48. N3e4+ Ke5 49.
Be6 Kf4 50. g3+ Ke5 51. Kh3 Ra4 52. Nc3 Ra5 53. Nf3+ Kf6 54. Ne4+ {[%mdl 64]
Double Attack} Ke7 55. Nh4 {Weighted Error Value: White=0.40/Black=0.61} 1-0

[Event "Goldmoney Asian Rapid Prelims 2021"]
[Site "Chess24"]
[Date "2021.06.24"]
[Round "7.5"]
[White "So, Wesley"]
[Black "Artemiev, Vladislav"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "B24"]
[WhiteElo "2770"]
[BlackElo "2704"]
[Annotator "TA"]
[PlyCount "113"]
[EventDate "2021.06.26"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "NET"]
[Tiebreak "Koya+Number of black wins+Number of wins"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

{[%evp 15,113,23,23,22,66,0,0,0,12,10,14,4,21,17,29,22,26,26,52,42,20,28,41,40,
37,25,33,25,25,29,28,27,27,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,20,20,20,20,20,35,71,11,
18,15,31,15,76,73,360,353,452,435,221,196,473,459,452,447,452,446,414,392,369,
363,241,308,700,641,1169,1152,789,681,1605,1501,1506,1419,1376,1161,4133,2571,
29985,29986,29986,29987,29987,29988,29988,29989]} 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 e6 3. g3 Nc6
4. Bg2 Nf6 5. Nc3 d5 6. exd5 exd5 7. d4 cxd4 8. Nxd4 Bg4 9. f3 {B24: Closed
Sicilian: 3 g3 sidelines.} Be6 10. Be3 (10. Nxe6 $14 fxe6 11. O-O) 10... Bb4
$11 11. O-O {[#] The position is equal.} Bxc3 $146 ({Predecessor:} 11... O-O
12. Nce2 Re8 13. c3 Ba5 14. Qd2 Qd7 15. Nf4 Rac8 16. Rfe1 Ne5 17. Bf2 Ng6 18.
Nfxe6 fxe6 {1/2-1/2 (56) Balinas,R (2355)-Sveshnikov,E (2525) Manila 1982}) 12.
bxc3 O-O 13. Rb1 Qd7 14. Nxe6 Qxe6 15. Re1 Qd7 16. Bg5 Qf5 17. h4 h6 {[#]} 18.
g4 $1 Qd7 19. Bxf6 gxf6 20. c4 Rad8 21. cxd5 Qxd5 22. Qxd5 Rxd5 23. Rxb7 Rd2
24. f4 Nd4 25. Kf1 Nxc2 26. Re2 Rd1+ 27. Kf2 Nd4 28. Reb2 {Hoping for Rd7.} ({
Don't play} 28. Rxa7 Nxe2 29. Kxe2 Rfd8 $17) 28... Ne6 29. Bf3 Rc1 {White must
now prevent ...Nc5.} 30. Kg3 Rc3 31. R2b3 Rfc8 {...Nd4 is the strong threat.}
32. Rb8 ({But not} 32. Rxa7 $2 Nd4 $19) 32... Rxb8 33. Rxc3 {[%mdl 4096]
Endgame KRB-KRN} Nd4 34. Bd1 ({White should try} 34. Rc7 $16) 34... Rb1 35. Rd3
Ne6 36. Rd5 Kg7 (36... Rc1 $11) 37. f5 $1 $16 {[%cal Rf5e6]} Nc5 {[%mdl 8192]
Black cannot hold the game after this.} 38. Bc2 $18 ({Weaker is} 38. Rxc5 Rxd1
39. Ra5 Rd3+ 40. Kf4 Rd4+ 41. Kf3 h5 $16) 38... Rb5 39. Kf3 Ra5 (39... h5 {
might work better.} 40. gxh5 Ra5) 40. a4 $1 Kf8 $2 (40... Nb7 41. Ke4 Ra6) 41.
Ke3 $1 {[%cal Re3d4]} Nb7 42. Rxa5 Nxa5 {KB-KN} 43. Kd4 $1 {[%cal Rd4c5]} Ke7 {
[#]} 44. Kc5 Kd7 {[#]} 45. Kb5 {[%cal Rb5a5]} Nc6 {And now ...Nd4+ would win.}
46. Be4 Ne5 (46... Nb8 47. Bd5 Ke8) 47. Ka6 Nxg4 48. Kxa7 Kc7 49. Ka6 Nf2 50.
Bf3 Nd3 51. Kb5 Ne5 52. Be4 Ng4 53. a5 Nf2 54. Bf3 {White mates.} Nd3 55. a6
Ne5 {[#]} 56. a7 $1 Nxf3 57. a8=Q {Weighted Error Value: White=0.05/Black=0.59}
1-0

[Event "Goldmoney Asian Rapid Prelims 2021"]
[Site "Chess24"]
[Date "2021.06.24"]
[Round "7.6"]
[White "Svidler, Peter"]
[Black "Dubov, Daniil"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "B51"]
[WhiteElo "2714"]
[BlackElo "2714"]
[Annotator "TA"]
[PlyCount "187"]
[EventDate "2021.06.26"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "NET"]
[Tiebreak "Koya+Number of black wins+Number of wins"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

{[%evp 18,187,33,29,35,11,13,6,17,7,17,8,15,-10,0,-2,4,-23,-15,-25,-24,-25,-23,
-24,-18,-27,-33,-87,-91,-85,-80,-84,-80,-80,-89,-90,-77,-75,-82,-86,-84,-81,
-57,-81,-76,-80,-52,-52,-52,-59,-40,-47,-28,-25,-15,-38,0,-24,-23,-25,-12,-38,
-12,-33,-40,-43,-13,-32,-32,-43,-35,-39,-32,-33,-29,-40,-27,-79,-35,-39,-29,
-39,-39,-64,-39,-63,-52,-52,-52,-52,-52,-52,-25,-52,-52,-66,-52,-52,-52,-52,
-18,-18,-18,-21,-21,-21,-21,-23,0,-23,0,0,0,-15,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,
0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,
0,0,0,0]} 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 d6 4. O-O Bd7 5. c3 a6 6. Ba4 Nf6 7. Re1
b5 8. Bc2 Bg4 9. h3 Bxf3 10. Qxf3 g6 {B51: Sicilian: Moscow Variation (3 Bb5+)
without 3...Bd7.} 11. a4 Rb8 $1 12. axb5 axb5 13. d3 Bg7 14. Be3 O-O 15. d4
cxd4 16. cxd4 Nd7 {[#]} 17. e5 $146 ({Predecessor:} 17. Qd1 Nb6 18. b3 Qc7 19.
Na3 Nd7 20. Qd2 Qa5 21. Qxa5 Nxa5 22. Red1 {1/2-1/2 (22) Nowak,I (2072)-Kolar,
J (2078) LSS email 2012}) 17... Nb4 18. Be4 {Threatens to win with Bd2.} d5 19.
Bxd5 Nxe5 20. dxe5 Qxd5 21. Qxd5 Nxd5 22. Ba7 (22. Bc5 $15) 22... Rb7 $17 23.
Nc3 Nb4 24. Re4 {[#]} Nc6 {[%cal Rc6a7]} 25. Bc5 Bxe5 26. Ra6 Bxc3 27. Rxc6
Bxb2 28. Rxe7 Rxe7 29. Bxe7 {[%mdl 4096] Endgame KRB-KRB} Re8 (29... Ra8 {
looks sharper.} 30. g4 Bd4 31. Bb4 Ra2 32. Bc5 Bxc5 33. Rxc5 Rb2) 30. Rc7 Be5
31. Rd7 h5 (31... Rb8 {is interesting.} 32. Bb4 Rc8 33. Kf1 Rc4 34. Be1 Bc3)
32. g4 hxg4 33. hxg4 Rb8 34. Bb4 $1 Bg7 35. Bd6 $1 {[%cal Rd6b8]} Rb6 36. Bb4
Rb8 37. Bd6 $1 {[%cal Rd6b8]} Rc8 {Strongly threatening ...Rc1+.} 38. Rb7 Rd8
39. Bb4 Rd5 40. Rb8+ Kh7 41. Rb7 Rg5 (41... Rd4 {feels hotter.} 42. Rxb5 Rxg4+
43. Kf1 Rf4 44. Kg2 Rf5) 42. Kf1 (42. f3 {looks sharper.} Bd4+ 43. Kf1 Kg8 44.
Ke2 Bf6 45. Rd7) 42... Rxg4 43. Rxb5 Rc4 44. Bd2 Rc7 45. Bf4 Re7 46. Rc5 f6 47.
Rc7 (47. Bd2 $11) 47... Re6 48. Kg2 g5 49. Bd2 Kg6 50. Bc3 Bh6 51. Bd4 f5 52.
f3 Rd6 53. Be5 Rd2+ 54. Kf1 f4 55. Rc6+ Kh5 $1 56. Rb6 Rd3 57. Kg2 Bf8 58. Rb8
Bc5 59. Rb5 Rd2+ 60. Kh3 Rc2 61. Ra5 Rc1 62. Ra1 Rc2 63. Ra5 $1 Kg6 64. Ra6+ $1
{The position is equal.} Kf5 65. Ba1 {[%csl Ga1][%cal Ra6f6]} (65. Bd6 {
feels hotter.} Bg1 66. Ra5+ Kf6 67. Be5+ Ke6 68. Ba1) 65... Be7 66. Ra5+ Kg6 {
...Rf2 is the strong threat.} 67. Ra6+ Kf5 68. Ra5+ Ke6 69. Ra6+ Bd6 (69... Kd5
{with more complications.} 70. Ra5+ Kc4 71. Re5 Bd8 72. Re4+ Kc5) 70. Bf6 {
[%mdl 64] [#] Decoy} Kxf6 (70... g4+ {looks sharper.} 71. Kxg4 Rg2+ 72. Kh5 Rg3
73. Bg5 Rxf3 74. Kg4 Rf1) 71. Rxd6+ $11 {KR-KR} Kf5 (71... Ke5 {seems wilder.}
72. Rg6 Kf5 73. Ra6 Rc1 74. Ra5+ Kg6) 72. Rd5+ Kg6 73. Ra5 Rf2 74. Ra3 Kh5 75.
Rb3 Re2 76. Rb8 Rf2 77. Rb3 Kg6 (77... Rf1 $5 {[%cal Rf1g1]} 78. Kg2 Rd1 $15)
78. Rb6+ Kf5 79. Rb5+ Kf6 (79... Kg6 $5 {[%cal Rf2f3]} 80. Rxg5+ Kxg5 $11) 80.
Rb3 Re2 81. Ra3 Kf5 (81... Re1 $5 {[%cal Re1g1]} 82. Ra6+ Kf5 $15) 82. Ra5+ Re5
83. Ra3 Re1 {White must now prevent ...Rg1.} 84. Ra5+ $1 Kg6 {And now ...Rg1
would win.} 85. Kg2 Re2+ 86. Kh3 Re1 {Hoping for ...Rg1.} 87. Kg2 Kh5 88. Ra8
Re2+ 89. Kh3 Kg6 90. Rg8+ Kf6 91. Rf8+ Kg7 92. Ra8 Rf2 93. Kg4 Rg2+ 94. Kf5 {
Weighted Error Value: White=0.09/Black=0.09} 1/2-1/2

[Event "Goldmoney Asian Rapid Prelims 2021"]
[Site "Chess24"]
[Date "2021.06.24"]
[Round "7.7"]
[White "Salem, A.R. Saleh"]
[Black "Duda, Jan-Krzysztof"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "E54"]
[WhiteElo "2682"]
[BlackElo "2729"]
[Annotator "TA"]
[PlyCount "87"]
[EventDate "2021.06.26"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "NET"]
[Tiebreak "Koya+Number of black wins+Number of wins"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

{[%evp 15,87,10,16,0,22,-7,9,1,-4,-5,0,-16,47,43,43,42,40,39,40,27,44,41,52,43,
54,45,70,53,75,77,73,66,118,108,118,108,155,153,161,163,158,139,179,168,196,
189,220,223,214,211,239,237,269,269,269,258,266,259,295,295,306,297,366,349,
433,420,612,612,633,619,718,647,859,828]} 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. e3
c5 5. Bd3 O-O 6. Nf3 d5 7. O-O dxc4 8. Bxc4 Nc6 9. Bd3 {E54: Nimzo-Indian:
Rubinstein: Main Line: 7...dxc4 8 Bxc4.} h6 {[#]} 10. Bb1 $1 $146 {[%mdl 8] A
top novelty.} ({Predecessor:} 10. a3 Ba5 11. Ne4 cxd4 12. exd4 Bb6 13. Be3 Nxe4
14. Bxe4 Qd6 15. Qd2 f5 16. Bxc6 bxc6 {1/2-1/2 (54) Salem,A (2675)-Melkumyan,H
(2668) Moscow 2019}) 10... Qe7 11. Qc2 {The position is equal.} Rd8 {[%cal
Rc5d4]} 12. a3 cxd4 13. exd4 Bd6 ({Better is} 13... Ba5 $11) 14. Re1 $14 Qc7
15. Ne4 Nxe4 16. Qxe4 {[#] And now Qh7+ would win.} f5 17. Qe3 Ne7 18. Ba2 Nd5
19. Bxd5 exd5 20. Bd2 a5 21. Ne5 Bxe5 22. Qxe5 Qxe5 23. Rxe5 b6 {White leaves
nothing to chance now.} (23... Kf7 $14) 24. h4 Kf7 25. Rc1 Ra7 26. Rc6 Rb7 27.
f3 a4 28. Kf2 Kg8 29. Kg3 Kh7 30. h5 b5 31. Kf4 Rf7 32. Bb4 Kg8 33. Rc5 Rb7 34.
Ba5 ({Much less strong is} 34. Rexd5 $6 Rxd5 35. Rxd5 Rd7) 34... Rf8 35. Rcxd5
{aiming for Bb4.} Bd7 36. Rc5 Be8 37. Rxf5 Rxf5+ 38. Rxf5 $18 {[%mdl 4096]
Endgame KRB-KRB} ({Don't play} 38. Kxf5 Bxh5 39. d5 Be8 $18) 38... Rf7 39. d5
Rd7 40. Ke5 Bf7 (40... g6 $142) 41. d6 {White is clearly winning.} Kf8 42. Bc7
Ke8 43. Kd4 Bc4 44. Kc5 {Weighted Error Value: White=0.03/Black=0.29} 1-0

[Event "Goldmoney Asian Rapid Prelims 2021"]
[Site "Chess24"]
[Date "2021.06.24"]
[Round "7.8"]
[White "Carlsen, Magnus"]
[Black "Giri, Anish"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "C54"]
[WhiteElo "2847"]
[BlackElo "2780"]
[Annotator "TA"]
[PlyCount "73"]
[EventDate "2021.06.26"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "NET"]
[Tiebreak "Koya+Number of black wins+Number of wins"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

{[%evp 12,73,18,21,20,17,19,-21,-8,-21,-25,0,-10,-10,0,0,6,-8,-7,-46,2,0,0,0,
41,43,57,45,66,0,0,0,0,-28,-26,-25,-30,-547,-152,-170,-157,-585,-122,-122,-123,
-137,45,36,37,63,51,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]} 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Nf6
4. d3 Bc5 5. O-O d6 6. c3 O-O 7. Re1 $1 {[%mdl 4] now scores much better than
the old 7.Bb3.} a6 {C54: Giuoco Piano: 4 c3 Nf6, main lines with 5 d4 and 5 d3.
} 8. a4 Ba7 9. Nbd2 Ng4 10. Re2 Kh8 11. b4 {[%cal Bb2b4,Bb4b5][%mdl 32]} f5 12.
Bb3 {[#]} Bd7 $146 ({Predecessor:} 12... fxe4 13. Nxe4 d5 14. Ng3 Rxf3 15. gxf3
Nxh2 16. Bxd5 Qxd5 17. Kxh2 Qxf3 18. Qh1 Qf6 {1/2-1/2 (82) Broadway,D (2292)
-Malyshev,V (2178) ICCF email 2016}) 13. Ra2 Qe8 14. exf5 Bxf5 15. Nf1 Be6 16.
b5 Bxb3 17. Qxb3 Ne7 {[%cal Bc6e7,Be7g6,Bg6h4][%mdl 32]} 18. d4 Ng6 19. c4 e4
20. Ng3 exf3 $11 {[%mdl 64] Discovered Attack} 21. Rxe8 Raxe8 22. Qd1 Nh4 23.
h3 fxg2 24. Re2 {[%mdl 8192] [#]} (24. hxg4 $11 {and White is okay.} Re1+ 25.
Qxe1 Nf3+ {[%mdl 64] Double Attack} 26. Kxg2 Nxe1+ 27. Kf1) 24... Rxe2 $2 (
24... Nxf2 $1 $19 {[%mdl 512] and Black stays clearly on top.} 25. Rxe8 (25.
Rxf2 Bxd4 26. Nh1 gxh1=Q+ 27. Kxh1 Rxf2 $19) 25... Rxe8 26. Kxf2 Bxd4+ $1 {
[%mdl 576] Promotion} 27. Qxd4 g1=B+ {[%mdl 64] Deflection, Decoy} 28. Kxg1
Nf3+ {[%mdl 64] Double Attack} 29. Kg2 Nxd4) 25. Qxe2 $17 Nxf2 26. Be3 $2 {[#]}
(26. Kh2 $17) 26... Nxh3+ $2 (26... Nd3 $1 $19 {[%mdl 512] has better winning
chances.} 27. Ne4 (27. Qxd3 $2 Nf3+ 28. Kxg2 Ne1+ {[%mdl 64] Double Attack} 29.
Kg1 Nxd3 $19) 27... Rf1+ 28. Qxf1 gxf1=Q+ 29. Kxf1 Nf5) 27. Kh2 g1=Q+ {[%mdl
64] Decoy} 28. Bxg1 Nf3+ $2 (28... Nxg1 $17 29. Kxg1 Bxd4+ 30. Kh1 Be5 31. bxa6
bxa6) 29. Kh1 $14 {Strongly threatening Qe7!} Nhxg1 30. Qe7 {[%cal Re7f8]} Rg8
{...axb5 is the strong threat.} 31. Nf5 ({White should try} 31. Qxc7 $14 Bxd4
32. Qxb7 axb5 33. cxb5) 31... Nxd4 {The position is equal.} 32. Nh6 gxh6 33.
Qf6+ {[%mdl 64] Double Attack} Rg7 34. Qf8+ Rg8 35. Qf6+ Rg7 36. Qf8+ Rg8 37.
Qf6+ {White happily takes the draw.  Weighted Error Value: White=0.46/Black=0.
75} 1/2-1/2

[Event "Goldmoney Asian Rapid Prelims 2021"]
[Site "Chess24"]
[Date "2021.06.24"]
[Round "8.1"]
[White "Aronian, Levon"]
[Black "Giri, Anish"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteElo "2781"]
[BlackElo "2780"]
[Annotator "TA"]
[PlyCount "18"]
[EventDate "2021.06.26"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "NET"]
[Tiebreak "Koya+Number of black wins+Number of wins"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

{[%evp 17,18,0,29]} 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 a6 {[#]}
6. Be3 $146 ({Predecessor:} 6. Bc4 e6 7. Be3 b5 8. Bb3 Be7 9. a3 O-O 10. f3 Bb7
11. Qe2 Nbd7 12. O-O-O Rc8 13. Qe1 Ne5 14. Kb1 Nc4 15. g4 Qc7 16. Bxc4 Qxc4 17.
h4 Nd7 18. Bg5 f6 19. Bc1 Rfe8 20. g5 Bf8 21. gxf6 Nxf6 {1/2-1/2 (38) Kramnik,
V (2753)-Grischuk,A (2776) Lichess.org INT 2021}) 6... Ng4 7. Bc1 Nf6 8. Be3
Ng4 9. Bc1 $1 {[%mdl 4] 9.Bc1 is the modern continuation.} Nf6 1/2-1/2

[Event "Goldmoney Asian Rapid Prelims 2021"]
[Site "Chess24"]
[Date "2021.06.24"]
[Round "8.2"]
[White "Duda, Jan-Krzysztof"]
[Black "Carlsen, Magnus"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "D37"]
[WhiteElo "2729"]
[BlackElo "2847"]
[Annotator "TA"]
[PlyCount "76"]
[EventDate "2021.06.26"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "NET"]
[Tiebreak "Koya+Number of black wins+Number of wins"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

{[%evp 9,76,14,25,7,19,21,22,21,24,34,17,21,34,26,22,19,25,20,40,33,47,50,59,
52,60,50,59,22,17,20,37,13,10,10,14,25,22,19,25,14,18,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,
0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]} 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nf3 d5 4. Nc3 a6 5. c5
Nc6 6. h3 {D37: Queen's Gambit Declined: 5 Bf4.} Ne4 7. Bf4 Nxc3 8. bxc3 b6 9.
cxb6 cxb6 10. e3 Bd6 11. Bxd6 Qxd6 12. Bd3 Bd7 13. O-O {[#]} b5 $146 ({
Predecessor:} 13... O-O 14. Qb1 g6 15. Qxb6 Rfb8 16. Qc5 Qxc5 17. dxc5 Rc8 18.
e4 Ne7 19. Ne5 Bb5 20. exd5 Bxd3 21. Nxd3 Nxd5 {1/2-1/2 (80) Praggnanandhaa,R 
(2608)-Carlsen,M (2847) chess24.com INT 2021}) 14. a4 bxa4 15. Rxa4 a5 16. Qc2
h6 17. Rfa1 O-O 18. Bb5 Qc7 19. Qa2 Rfc8 20. Bxc6 (20. Ra3 {looks sharper.}
Rcb8 21. Ba4 Ra7 22. Qc2 Be8 23. Nd2) 20... Qxc6 21. Rxa5 Rxa5 22. Qxa5 Qxc3
23. Qxc3 Rxc3 $14 {[%mdl 4096] Endgame KRB-KRN} 24. Ra8+ Rc8 {The position is
equal.} 25. Rxc8+ (25. Ra7 {is interesting.} Be8 26. Ne5 h5 27. h4 Rc3 28. Ra8)
25... Bxc8 $11 {KB-KN} 26. g4 g5 27. Kg2 f6 28. Kg3 Ba6 29. Nd2 Kf7 30. f4 Be2
31. Nb3 Ke7 32. Kf2 Bd1 33. Nc5 Kd6 34. Kg3 Be2 35. Kf2 Bb5 36. Kg3 Be2 37. Kf2
Bb5 38. Kg3 Be2 {Weighted Error Value: White=0.04/Black=0.04} 1/2-1/2

[Event "Goldmoney Asian Rapid Prelims 2021"]
[Site "Chess24"]
[Date "2021.06.24"]
[Round "8.3"]
[White "Dubov, Daniil"]
[Black "Salem, A.R. Saleh"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "A34"]
[WhiteElo "2714"]
[BlackElo "2682"]
[Annotator "TA"]
[PlyCount "90"]
[EventDate "2021.06.26"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "NET"]
[Tiebreak "Koya+Number of black wins+Number of wins"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

{[%evp 9,90,3,4,-5,-12,8,22,15,20,26,18,20,27,23,35,24,32,30,19,9,2,0,27,44,29,
42,24,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,22,44,44,46,0,0,-7,-10,-499,-102,-102,-135,-182,-112,
-114,-110,-111,-114,-107,-113,-111,-109,-114,-110,-115,-110,-195,-165,-156,
-146,-159,-152,-424,-430,-385,-375,-460,-456,-446,-446,-429,-415,-612,-592,
-29985,-29984,-29987,-29988]} 1. c4 c5 2. Nf3 Nf6 3. Nc3 d5 4. cxd5 Nxd5 5.
Nxd5 Qxd5 6. b3 {A34: Symmetrical English: 2 Nc3, lines with ...d5.} e5 7. Bb2
{[#]} e4 $146 ({Predecessor:} 7... Nc6 8. e3 f6 9. d3 Bg4 10. Be2 O-O-O 11. O-O
Bxf3 12. Bxf3 Qxd3 13. Qxd3 Rxd3 {1-0 (28) Fotland,P (1317)-Hammond,G (1314)
IECG email 2000}) 8. Ne5 {The position is equal.} f6 9. Nc4 Nc6 10. Ne3 Qf7 11.
g3 Be6 12. Bg2 f5 13. O-O O-O-O 14. Qc2 Kb8 15. Nc4 h5 16. Ne5 Nxe5 17. Bxe5+
Ka8 18. f3 exf3 19. Rxf3 h4 20. Rd3 Be7 21. Rf1 hxg3 22. hxg3 Qh5 23. Rxd8+
Rxd8 24. Kf2 Bd5 25. Bxd5 Rxd5 26. Qc4 $2 {[%mdl 8192]} Rxd2 $2 (26... Rxe5 $19
{and Black stays clearly on top.} 27. Rh1 Qe8) 27. Ke1 Rd8 28. Bc7 {[#]} Rc8 (
28... Re8 $1 $19 29. Qd3 Bf6) 29. Qe6 $17 {[%cal Re6c8]} Qe8 30. Bd6 Bxd6 31.
Qxd6 {[%mdl 4096] Endgame KQR-KQR} g6 32. Rf3 a6 33. Rd3 Ka7 34. Qf4 Qh8 35.
Rd7 (35. Qc4 $17) 35... Qa1+ 36. Kf2 Rh8 {And now ...Rh1 would win.} 37. Qc4
Rh2+ ({Not} 37... Qxa2 38. Qxc5+ Ka8 39. Qd5 $11) 38. Ke3 $2 {[#]} (38. Kf3 $17
{was the only chance.} Qf1+ 39. Ke3 Qg1+ {[%mdl 64] Double Attack} 40. Kf4)
38... Qe5+ $1 $19 39. Kd2 Rg2 40. a4 Rxg3 41. Rd5 Qe3+ 42. Kc2 Rg2 43. Rd2 (43.
Qxc5+ $142 Qxc5+ 44. Rxc5) 43... f4 44. Kb1 f3 45. Rd7 Rg1+ {Weighted Error
Value: White=0.64/Black=0.22} 0-1

[Event "Goldmoney Asian Rapid Prelims 2021"]
[Site "Chess24"]
[Date "2021.06.24"]
[Round "8.4"]
[White "Artemiev, Vladislav"]
[Black "Svidler, Peter"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "A37"]
[WhiteElo "2704"]
[BlackElo "2714"]
[Annotator "TA"]
[PlyCount "73"]
[EventDate "2021.06.26"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "NET"]
[Tiebreak "Koya+Number of black wins+Number of wins"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

{[%evp 11,73,0,25,0,21,16,16,8,12,10,13,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,21,10,43,46,32,34,41,
33,41,31,37,25,24,2,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,-3,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,
0]} 1. c4 g6 2. Nc3 c5 3. g3 Bg7 4. Bg2 Nc6 5. Nf3 d6 6. O-O Bf5 7. h3 {
A37: Symmetrical English vs ...g6: 4 Bg2 Bg7 5 Nf3.} Qc8 8. Kh2 Nf6 9. b3 O-O
10. Bb2 {[#]} Ne4 $146 (10... e5 {seems wilder.} 11. d3 Qd8 12. Qd2 Rb8 13. Ng5
Bd7) ({Predecessor:} 10... Qc7 11. Nd5 Nxd5 12. Bxg7 Kxg7 13. cxd5 Na5 14. d3
b5 15. Rc1 Rac8 16. Nd2 Qb6 {0-1 (45) Sallaberry,A (1556)-Rodrigues,V (1756)
Goiania 2017}) 11. Rc1 Nxc3 12. Bxc3 e5 13. d3 h6 14. Nd2 Qd7 15. a3 a5 16. Rb1
Rab8 17. b4 axb4 18. axb4 cxb4 19. Bxb4 b5 20. Ba3 bxc4 21. Qa4 Ra8 {[%cal
Bb8a8,Ba8a4,Ba4d4][%mdl 32]} 22. Bxc6 (22. Qxc6 {is interesting.} Qxc6 23. Bxc6
Rxa3 24. Nxc4 Ra2 25. e4) 22... Rxa4 {The position is equal.} 23. Bxd7 Bxd7 24.
Nxc4 e4 25. Bxd6 Re8 26. Nb6 exd3 27. exd3 Rd4 28. Nxd7 Rxd6 29. Nc5 Rd5 30.
Rbc1 Rc8 31. Ne4 Rxc1 32. Rxc1 Rxd3 $11 {KRB-KRN} 33. Rc8+ Kh7 34. Rc7 Kg8 35.
Rc8+ Kh7 36. Rc7 Kg8 37. Rc8+ {Weighted Error Value: White=0.03/Black=0.04}
1/2-1/2

[Event "Goldmoney Asian Rapid Prelims 2021"]
[Site "Chess24"]
[Date "2021.06.24"]
[Round "8.5"]
[White "Adhiban, B.."]
[Black "So, Wesley"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "A13"]
[WhiteElo "2660"]
[BlackElo "2770"]
[Annotator "TA"]
[PlyCount "92"]
[EventDate "2021.06.26"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "NET"]
[Tiebreak "Koya+Number of black wins+Number of wins"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

{[%evp 13,92,0,0,-2,8,15,11,0,4,0,64,19,17,22,33,31,29,30,47,21,45,21,47,51,49,
38,22,0,12,-68,-68,-75,-64,-68,-65,-90,-83,-64,-85,-104,-68,-70,-63,-70,-67,
-64,-63,-63,-63,-63,-63,-63,-64,-64,-59,-81,-81,-81,-78,-81,-79,-107,-107,-107,
-107,-107,-64,-94,-84,-119,-94,-94,-94,-107,-107,-107,-107,-29970,-29972,
-29981,-29982]} 1. Nf3 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. e3 d5 4. b3 Be7 5. Bb2 O-O 6. Nc3 c5 7.
cxd5 Nxd5 {now supersedes 7...exd5.} 8. Qc2 {A13: English Opening: 1...e6.} Nc6
9. a3 b6 10. h4 {The position is equal.} f5 {[#]} 11. d4 $146 ({Predecessor:} 
11. Nxd5 exd5 12. Bb5 Bd7 13. h5 h6 14. Bxc6 Bxc6 15. Ne5 Be8 16. f4 Qc8 17.
O-O-O {0-1 (33) Keymer,V (2568)-Martirosyan,H (2622) Chess.com INT 2020}) 11...
Bb7 ({Black should play} 11... cxd4 $11 12. Nxd5 Qxd5) 12. Nxd5 exd5 13. dxc5
bxc5 14. Rd1 Kh8 15. Be2 Qd6 16. O-O Rad8 17. Rd2 h6 18. Rfd1 Qe6 19. Bb5 a6
20. Ba4 Qg6 {White should prevent ...d4.} 21. b4 (21. Rxd5 $2 Nd4 $1 $19 {
[%mdl 512]}) ({Better is} 21. Bxc6 $11 Qxc6 22. b4) 21... d4 $1 $15 ({Not} 
21... cxb4 22. h5 $16) 22. h5 $1 {[%cal Rh5g6]} (22. bxc5 $2 Ne5 $1 $19) 22...
Qg4 23. Nh2 $1 {[%cal Rh2g4]} ({Don't blunder} 23. bxc5 $2 {[#]} Nb4 $1 $19 {
[%mdl 512]}) 23... Qxh5 24. exd4 Nxd4 25. Bxd4 cxd4 26. Rxd4 Rxd4 (26... Rc8 {
keeps more tension.} 27. Qd2 Bd8 28. Rd3 Bb6 29. Rg3 Rcd8) 27. Rxd4 Qg5 {
[%csl Gb7][%cal Rg5g2]} 28. Bc6 {[#]} Qf6 $1 29. Rc4 Qa1+ 30. Nf1 $1 Bxc6 31.
Rxc6 Qxa3 32. Qc4 Qxb4 33. Qxa6 Kh7 34. Rc8 Rxc8 35. Qxc8 Qb1 36. g3 Bf6 37.
Qc6 Bd4 38. Kg2 Qa2 39. Qf3 Qe6 40. Nh2 Kg6 41. Qd3 Bf6 (41... Qe4+ {with more
complications.} 42. Qxe4 fxe4 43. f3 Kf5 44. fxe4+ Kxe4 45. Kh3 Bc5) 42. g4
Qe4+ 43. Qf3 Qxf3+ 44. Kxf3 Be5 45. gxf5+ $2 {[%mdl 8192]} (45. Nf1 $17) 45...
Kxf5 46. Ng4 Bf4 {Weighted Error Value: White=0.29/Black=0.09} 0-1

[Event "Goldmoney Asian Rapid Prelims 2021"]
[Site "Chess24"]
[Date "2021.06.24"]
[Round "8.6"]
[White "Ding, Liren"]
[Black "Hou, Yifan"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "A30"]
[WhiteElo "2799"]
[BlackElo "2658"]
[Annotator "TA"]
[PlyCount "104"]
[EventDate "2021.06.26"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "NET"]
[Tiebreak "Koya+Number of black wins+Number of wins"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

{[%evp 29,104,31,46,37,50,0,0,-11,-16,-45,-37,-43,-44,-45,-40,-52,-16,-14,-17,
-16,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,-18,-14,-17,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,-4,0,-4,-4,-4,-4,-4,0,0,0,-12,
-12,-12,-12,-12,0,-12,-12,-12,-12,-16,-19,-19,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,-8,0]} 
1. c4 e6 2. Nc3 c5 3. Nf3 Nf6 4. g3 b6 5. Bg2 Bb7 6. O-O Be7 7. d4 cxd4 8. Qxd4
d6 9. e4 O-O 10. b3 Nbd7 11. Bb2 a6 12. Rfe1 Qc7 13. Qd2 Rfe8 14. Nd4 Rad8 15.
Rad1 Bf8 16. h3 {[#] A30: Symmetrical English: Double Fianchetto and Hedgehog.}
Nc5 $146 ({Predecessor:} 16... Qb8 17. Re2 Qa8 18. Qe1 g6 19. Bc1 Bg7 20. f3
Qb8 21. g4 h6 22. Kh1 Rc8 23. Bb2 Ba8 {1/2-1/2 (40) Tosic,M (2399)-Zlatanovic,
Z (2126) Nis 2011}) 17. Qe2 d5 18. e5 Nfe4 19. Qc2 ({Wrong is} 19. Bxe4 $2 dxe4
20. Qe3 Nd3 $19) 19... Nxc3 ({Don't go for} 19... Qxe5 $2 20. b4 $18) 20. Qxc3
dxc4 21. Qxc4 Bxg2 22. Kxg2 Rd5 23. Nf3 {The position is equal.} Rxd1 24. Rxd1
{[#] b4 is the strong threat.} Rd8 25. Rxd8 Qxd8 26. Bd4 Qa8 27. Bxc5 Bxc5 28.
Qd3 h6 29. Kg1 (29. Qc4 {feels hotter.} Be7 30. Qd3 Qb7 31. Kh2 Qc6 32. Kg2)
29... Qd5 (29... a5 {looks sharper.} 30. Qd1 b5 31. Qc2 Bb6 32. Kg2 b4) 30.
Qxd5 exd5 $11 {[%mdl 4096] Endgame KB-KN} 31. Ne1 Kf8 32. Kg2 Ke7 33. f4 Ke6
34. Kf3 g5 35. Nc2 gxf4 36. gxf4 b5 37. Ne1 h5 38. Nd3 Bb6 39. Nb4 a5 {[%cal
Ra5b4]} 40. Nc2 f6 41. exf6 Kxf6 (41... b4 {is more complex.} 42. f7 Kxf7 43.
Ne1 Kg6 44. Ng2 Bg1) 42. Ne1 Kf5 43. Ng2 Bc5 44. Nh4+ Kf6 45. Ng2 a4 46. Ne1
axb3 47. axb3 Kf5 48. Ng2 Bb6 49. Nh4+ Kf6 50. Ng2 Kf5 51. Nh4+ Kf6 52. Ng2 Kf5
{Weighted Error Value: White=0.04/Black=0.04} 1/2-1/2

[Event "Goldmoney Asian Rapid Prelims 2021"]
[Site "Chess24"]
[Date "2021.06.24"]
[Round "8.7"]
[White "Gukesh D"]
[Black "Firouzja, Alireza"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "A58"]
[WhiteElo "2578"]
[BlackElo "2759"]
[Annotator "TA"]
[PlyCount "46"]
[EventDate "2021.06.26"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "NET"]
[Tiebreak "Koya+Number of black wins+Number of wins"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

{[%evp 9,46,32,58,56,51,47,58,45,44,-113,-121,-138,-151,-236,-238,-209,-202,
-207,-216,-252,-257,-301,-251,-328,-332,-343,-330,-342,-338,-321,-258,-489,
-490,-458,-463,-484,-492,-496,-489]} 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 c5 3. d5 b5 4. cxb5 a6 5.
bxa6 g6 6. Nc3 {A58: Benko/Volga Gambit: Lines with 5 bxa6.} Bg7 7. e4 {
Threatens to win with a7.} O-O 8. Nf3 {White is slightly better.} Qa5 {White
should prevent ...Nxe4.} 9. a7 $2 {[#]} (9. Nd2 $14 {keeps the upper hand.})
9... Nxe4 $1 $17 10. axb8=Q Rxb8 {[#]} 11. Bd3 $146 (11. Bd2 $2 Nxd2 12. Nxd2 (
12. Qxd2 $2 Rxb2 {[%mdl 64] Remove Defender} 13. Qxb2 Bxc3+ 14. Qd2 Bxd2+ 15.
Nxd2 Qc3 $19) 12... Rxb2 $19) (11. Qc2 $17 Nxc3 12. Bd2 {[%mdl 64] Pin}) ({
Predecessor:} 11. Qc2 Nxc3 12. Bd2 Qa4 13. b3 Qe4+ 14. Qxe4 Nxe4 15. Rc1 d6 16.
Bc4 Nxd2 17. Nxd2 {1/2-1/2 (38) Nenezic,M (2666)-Gschnitzer,A (2445) Chess.com
INT 2019}) 11... Nxc3 $19 ({Don't take} 11... Bxc3+ 12. Kf1 $17) 12. Qd2 {[#]}
Ra8 $1 13. O-O ({Not} 13. bxc3 $2 Bxc3 14. O-O Bxd2 $19) (13. d6 exd6) 13...
Nxd5 14. Qg5 e6 15. Rd1 Bb7 16. Qg3 Qa4 17. Re1 Nb4 18. Bb1 Bxf3 19. Qxf3 Nc2
$40 {[%mdl 128] Black wants a kill.} 20. Re4 $2 (20. Bxc2 {was the only
defense.} Qxc2 21. Qe2 Qxe2 22. Rxe2) 20... Nd4 {Black is clearly winning.} ({
Weaker is} 20... Nxa1 21. Rxa4 Rxa4 22. Qd1 $17) 21. Qd3 d5 22. Rg4 c4 23. Qf1
Nc2 {White got outplayed after the opening.  Weighted Error Value: White=0.50/
Black=0.06} 0-1

[Event "Goldmoney Asian Rapid Prelims 2021"]
[Site "Chess24"]
[Date "2021.06.24"]
[Round "8.8"]
[White "Erigaisi Arjun"]
[Black "Vidit, Santosh Gujrathi"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "B33"]
[WhiteElo "2567"]
[BlackElo "2726"]
[Annotator "TA"]
[PlyCount "129"]
[EventDate "2021.06.26"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "NET"]
[Tiebreak "Koya+Number of black wins+Number of wins"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

{[%evp 30,129,12,8,10,5,6,6,6,6,10,4,72,72,77,66,66,66,132,128,279,295,298,248,
547,636,463,232,779,732,684,369,364,354,306,274,257,242,235,225,265,237,852,0,
0,0,0,-86,-79,-79,-71,-79,0,0,763,763,763,763,763,756,748,748,749,690,660,656,
693,584,733,614,1334,1340,1340,1323,1272,1272,1272,1258,1251,1210,1231,1231,
1225,1225,1157,1124,1147,1118,29951,29955,6721,10116,29960,8691,29975,29976,
29976,29978,29979,29980,29981,29982]} 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 e6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6
5. Nc3 Nc6 6. Ndb5 d6 7. Bf4 e5 8. Bg5 a6 9. Na3 b5 10. Nd5 Be7 11. Bxf6 Bxf6
12. c3 Rb8 13. Nc2 Bg5 14. a4 bxa4 15. Ncb4 Nxb4 16. Nxb4 {16.cxb4 is the
modern continuation.} Bd7 {B33: Sicilian: Pelikan and Sveshnikov Variations.}
17. Bxa6 Qa5 18. Qxd6 Rb6 {The position is equal.} 19. Qd3 {White wants to
play 0-0.} Be6 {aiming for ...Be7.} 20. O-O {Strongly threatening Bc4.} Be7 (
20... O-O $11) 21. Bc4 $16 {And now Bxe6 would win.} Bxb4 22. cxb4 $40 {
[%mdl 128] White has some attack.} Qxb4 23. Bxe6 fxe6 ({Better is} 23... Rxe6
$14 24. Qc2 O-O) 24. Qf3 {[#]} Rf8 $146 (24... Rb7 $16) ({Predecessor:} 24...
Qb3 25. Qh5+ g6 26. Qh6 Rb7 27. Rac1 Rd7 28. Rc8+ Rd8 29. Rxd8+ Kxd8 30. Qg7 {
1-0 (29) Ehlvest,J (2600)-Ataman,A (2156) Kocaeli 2002}) 25. Qh5+ $18 {[%mdl
64] Double Attack} Rf7 26. Qxh7 Qxb2 $2 (26... Rd6 27. Kh1 Kf8) 27. Rac1 {
White wants to mate with Qg8+.} Rbb7 28. h4 (28. h3 $142 {Rc8+ is the strong
threat.} Ke7 29. Qh4+ Rf6 30. Rc8) 28... Qb6 $2 (28... Ke7 29. Qh5 Qd2 30. Qxe5
Rd7) 29. Rc8+ Ke7 30. Qh5 Rb8 31. Qg5+ Kd7 32. Rc4 a3 33. Qxe5 Ra8 34. Rc2 {
Hoping for Qh5.} a2 35. Qa1 Qb3 $2 (35... Qa5 36. f3 Ke8) 36. Rb2 $2 (36. Qd1+
$18 Ke8 37. Rc8+ $3 {[%mdl 576] Discovered Attack} Rxc8 38. Qxb3) 36... Qc4 $1
$11 37. Rd1+ Ke8 38. Rdd2 {[#]} (38. h5 $11 {keeps the balance.}) 38... Rfa7 $1
$17 {[%mdl 1024] Black has strong compensation.} 39. Rbc2 Qb3 {White must now
prevent ...Qb1+.} 40. Rc1 Rb7 (40... Kf8 $17) 41. Kh2 $11 Qb1 $2 {[%mdl 8192] 
[#] White stays focused until the end.} (41... Kf7 $11) 42. Rxb1 $1 $18 {
[%mdl 512]} Rxb1 {[#]} 43. Qxa2 $1 Rxa2 44. Rxa2 {[%mdl 4096] Endgame KR-KR}
Kf7 45. Kg3 Kf6 46. Ra5 Rb4 47. f3 Rb2 48. Ra1 g6 49. Rf1 e5 50. Rf2 Rb6 51.
Rd2 Kg7 52. Kg4 Kf6 53. g3 Ra6 54. Rd8 Ra3 55. Rd6+ Kf7 56. Rb6 Re3 57. Rb4 Kf6
58. f4 Re1 59. fxe5+ Kxe5 60. Kg5 Rg1 61. g4 Rg2 62. Rb6 {White mates.} Kxe4
63. Rxg6 Kf3 64. Rf6+ Kg3 65. h5 {Weighted Error Value: White=0.50/Black=0.37}
1-0

[Event "Goldmoney Asian Rapid Prelims 2021"]
[Site "Chess24"]
[Date "2021.06.24"]
[Round "9.1"]
[White "Vidit, Santosh Gujrathi"]
[Black "Aronian, Levon"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "C54"]
[WhiteElo "2726"]
[BlackElo "2781"]
[Annotator "TA"]
[PlyCount "64"]
[EventDate "2021.06.26"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "NET"]
[Tiebreak "Koya+Number of black wins+Number of wins"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

{[%evp 12,64,11,21,14,16,14,11,20,13,16,-23,10,0,0,0,15,8,50,14,20,13,4,0,0,0,
0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,2,0,0,-2,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]} 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3
Nc6 3. Bc4 Bc5 4. c3 Nf6 5. d3 d6 6. O-O O-O 7. Re1 $1 {[%mdl 4] outshines the
older 7.Bb3.} a5 {C54: Giuoco Piano: 4 c3 Nf6, main lines with 5 d4 and 5 d3.}
8. h3 Be6 9. Bb5 Ne7 10. d4 Bb6 {[#]} 11. Be3 $146 ({Predecessor:} 11. Nbd2 c6
12. Bd3 Ng6 13. Nf1 exd4 14. Nxd4 Qc7 15. Be3 Rae8 16. f4 Bc8 17. Ng3 {0-1 (63)
Kramnik,V (2753)-Aronian,L (2781) Paris 2021}) 11... exd4 12. Nxd4 c6 13. Bd3
Ng6 14. Nd2 Qc7 15. Nxe6 fxe6 {The position is equal.} 16. Qb3 Bxe3 17. Qxe6+
Kh8 18. Rxe3 d5 19. e5 {[#] Hoping for Bxg6.} Rae8 20. Qd6 Qxd6 21. exd6 {
Black should prevent Rae1.} Rxe3 22. fxe3 Ne5 23. Bc2 Rd8 24. e4 Rxd6 25. exd5
Rxd5 26. Rd1 g6 27. Kf2 Nd3+ (27... Rd7 {feels hotter.} 28. c4 Kg7 29. b3 Nf7
30. a3 Nd6) 28. Bxd3 Rxd3 29. Ke2 Rg3 30. Kf2 Rd3 31. Ke2 Rg3 32. Kf2 Rd3 {
A rather calm draw.  Weighted Error Value: White=0.04/Black=0.04} 1/2-1/2

[Event "Goldmoney Asian Rapid Prelims 2021"]
[Site "Chess24"]
[Date "2021.06.24"]
[Round "9.2"]
[White "Firouzja, Alireza"]
[Black "Erigaisi Arjun"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "C42"]
[WhiteElo "2759"]
[BlackElo "2567"]
[Annotator "TA"]
[PlyCount "68"]
[EventDate "2021.06.26"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "NET"]
[Tiebreak "Koya+Number of black wins+Number of wins"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

{[%evp 13,68,4,15,14,6,11,10,10,11,0,12,15,42,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,32,32,33,-56,
34,0,0,-11,-12,0,0,-31,58,66,50,60,47,51,60,49,43,37,57,12,43,35,34,0,0,0,27,0,
0,0,51]} 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nf6 3. Nxe5 d6 4. Nf3 Nxe4 5. Nc3 Nxc3 6. dxc3 Be7 7.
Be3 $1 {The main line 7.Be3 scores better than 7.Bf4.} O-O 8. Qd2 {C42:
Petroff Defence: 3 Nxe5 and unusual White 3rd moves.} Nd7 9. O-O-O c6 10. Kb1
d5 11. h4 Re8 12. Bd3 Bc5 13. Bg5 f6 $1 {[%cal Rf6g5]} 14. Bf4 {[#]} Bb6 $5
$146 {[%mdl 8] New and interesting.} ({Predecessor:} 14... Nf8 15. Nd4 Ng6 16.
h5 Ne5 17. f3 Bf8 18. g4 Nxd3 19. Qxd3 Qe7 20. a3 Bd7 {1/2-1/2 (41) Alekseenko,
K (2674)-Melkumyan,H (2650) Batumi 2019}) 15. Nd4 Nc5 16. f3 Nxd3 17. Qxd3 c5
18. Nb5 Be6 19. Nd6 (19. Rhe1 $14) 19... Re7 ({Better is} 19... Bc7 $1 $15 20.
Nxe8 Bxf4 21. Nxg7 Kxg7) 20. Nf5 Re8 21. g4 Qd7 22. c4 {[%cal Rc4d5]} Rad8 23.
Rhe1 (23. Nd6 $5 {[%cal Rc4d5]} dxc4 24. Qe2 $11) 23... dxc4 ({Black should
play} 23... Ba5 $15 24. c3 dxc4 25. Qxd7 Bxd7) 24. Qf1 $1 $14 Qa4 25. Rxd8 Bxd8
26. Nd6 Re7 {[#] And now ...c3! would win.} 27. Nxb7 $1 Bb6 {[#] aiming for ...
c3.} 28. Re4 $1 Qd7 29. Nd6 c3 (29... Bc7 $5 {[%cal Rc7d6]} 30. Nxc4 Bxf4 31.
Rxf4 h5 $11) 30. Qe1 cxb2 31. Nf5 Re8 32. Nd6 Re7 33. Nf5 Re8 34. Nd6 (34. h5
$11) 34... Re7 {Weighted Error Value: White=0.13/Black=0.14} 1/2-1/2

[Event "Goldmoney Asian Rapid Prelims 2021"]
[Site "Chess24"]
[Date "2021.06.24"]
[Round "9.3"]
[White "Hou, Yifan"]
[Black "Gukesh D"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "B33"]
[WhiteElo "2658"]
[BlackElo "2578"]
[Annotator "TA"]
[PlyCount "68"]
[EventDate "2021.06.26"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "NET"]
[Tiebreak "Koya+Number of black wins+Number of wins"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

{[%evp 24,68,33,8,6,4,17,12,12,-19,-15,-24,-22,-20,-16,-137,-138,-126,-120,
-240,-239,-247,-243,-523,-512,-475,-322,-1154,-1153,-1143,-1134,-1100,-1060,
-850,-774,-1168,-681,-671,-672,-636,-631,-605,-610,-29967,-29968,-2179,-2089]} 
1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 e5 6. Ndb5 d6 7. Bg5 a6 8.
Na3 b5 9. Nd5 Be7 10. Bxf6 Bxf6 11. c3 Bg5 {11...Rb8 is setting a new trend.}
12. Nc2 Rb8 13. a3 O-O {13...a5 is not played anymore. B33: Sicilian: Pelikan
and Sveshnikov Variations.} 14. Be2 Bb7 $5 {[%mdl 4] An interesting side line.}
15. Ncb4 Ne7 {[#] The position is equal.} 16. Nxe7+ $146 ({Predecessor:} 16.
O-O Kh8 17. Qd3 a5 18. Nxe7 axb4 19. Nd5 bxa3 20. Rxa3 Bxd5 21. Qxd5 b4 22. Ra7
bxc3 23. bxc3 {1-0 (98) Timofeev,A (2671)-Banikas,H (2582) Budva 2009}) 16...
Qxe7 17. Nd5 Qe6 18. h4 Bd8 19. c4 (19. g4 $11 {keeps the balance.}) 19... Qg6
$17 20. Bf3 bxc4 21. Rc1 (21. O-O $17 {keeps fighting.}) 21... Bxd5 $19 22.
Qxd5 {[#]} Rb5 $1 23. Qc6 $2 (23. Qd1) 23... Ba5+ 24. Kf1 Rxb2 25. Rxc4 $2 (25.
g3) 25... Qh6 {( -> ...Rb1+)} 26. Qd5 Bb6 27. Qd3 Rxf2+ 28. Ke1 Ra2 29. Rh3 Qf4
{aiming for ...Rb8.} 30. Rc2 Rxc2 31. Qxc2 Qe3+ {[%mdl 64] [#] Double Attack}
32. Be2 Qf2+ {[%mdl 64] Double Attack} 33. Kd1 Qg1+ 34. Kd2 Ba5+ {White did
not feel at home in the position after the opening.  Weighted Error Value:
White=1.26/Black=0.27} 0-1

[Event "Goldmoney Asian Rapid Prelims 2021"]
[Site "Chess24"]
[Date "2021.06.24"]
[Round "9.4"]
[White "So, Wesley"]
[Black "Ding, Liren"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "E32"]
[WhiteElo "2770"]
[BlackElo "2799"]
[Annotator "TA"]
[PlyCount "54"]
[EventDate "2021.06.26"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "NET"]
[Tiebreak "Koya+Number of black wins+Number of wins"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

{[%evp 13,54,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,-8,-5,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,
0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]} 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. Qc2 O-O 5. e4 d5 6. e5
Ne4 7. Bd3 c5 {The position is equal.} 8. Nf3 {E32: Nimzo-Indian: Classical (4
Qc2): 4...0-0.} cxd4 9. Nxd4 Nd7 10. Bf4 Qh4 11. g3 Qh5 12. O-O Bxc3 13. bxc3
g5 $1 {[%cal Rg5f4]} 14. cxd5 exd5 15. e6 (15. Be3 Nxe5 16. f3 Nc5 17. Bf5 Ne6
18. g4 Qh6 19. Rae1 Nxd4 20. Bxd4 Nc6 21. Bc5 Rd8 22. Be7 Nxe7 23. Rxe7 Bxf5
24. Qxf5 Qg6 25. Qxg6+ hxg6 26. f4 d4 27. fxg5 dxc3 28. Rfxf7 c2 29. Rg7+ Kh8
30. Rh7+ Kg8 31. Reg7+ Kf8 32. Rc7 Kg8 33. Rhg7+ Kh8 34. Rh7+ Kg8 35. Rhg7+ Kh8
36. Rh7+ Kg8 {1/2-1/2 (36) So,W (2770)-Ding,L (2791) chess24.com INT 2020})
15... gxf4 16. exd7 Bxd7 17. Bxe4 dxe4 18. Qxe4 {[%mdl 64] [#] Double Attack}
fxg3 19. fxg3 b6 20. Nf5 {Hoping for Ne7+.} Rae8 21. Qd5 Bxf5 ({Don't blunder} 
21... Re2 $2 {[#]} 22. Ne7+ $1 {[%mdl 512]} Rxe7 23. Qxh5 $18) 22. Rxf5 Qe2 23.
Raf1 {aiming for Rg5+.} Qe3+ 24. R1f2 {[%cal Rf5f7]} Qe1+ {[#]} 25. Rf1 $146 ({
Predecessor:} 25. Kg2 Qe4+ 26. Qxe4 Rxe4 27. Rg5+ Kh8 28. Rgf5 Kg8 29. Rg5+ Kh8
30. Rgf5 Kg8 {1/2-1/2 (30) So,W (2770)-Nakamura,H (2736) Lichess.org INT 2020})
25... Qe3+ 26. R1f2 {[%cal Rf5f7]} Qe1+ 27. Rf1 Qe3+ {An uneventful encounter.
Weighted Error Value: White=0.00/Black=0.00} 1/2-1/2

[Event "Goldmoney Asian Rapid Prelims 2021"]
[Site "Chess24"]
[Date "2021.06.24"]
[Round "9.5"]
[White "Svidler, Peter"]
[Black "Adhiban, B.."]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "C78"]
[WhiteElo "2714"]
[BlackElo "2660"]
[Annotator "TA"]
[PlyCount "61"]
[EventDate "2021.06.26"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "NET"]
[Tiebreak "Koya+Number of black wins+Number of wins"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

{[%evp 16,61,29,16,35,30,31,0,12,0,0,1,12,-8,0,0,17,0,30,43,35,26,52,43,37,56,
35,44,300,303,596,556,630,621,603,449,430,393,915,929,870,932,931,922,881,853,
29990,29991]} 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 {C78: Ruy Lopez: Archangelsk and Möller Defences.}
10. d3 Na5 11. Bc2 {[#] g4 is the strong threat.} b4 {The position is equal.}
12. Nbd2 Rb8 13. Re1 O-O 14. g4 {[#] Strongly threatening d4.} Nxg4 $146 (14...
bxc3 {seems wilder.} 15. bxc3 Bg6 16. Nf1 h6 17. Ng3 Re8) ({Predecessor:} 14...
Bg6 15. Nf1 Re8 16. Ng3 d5 17. Qe2 bxc3 18. bxc3 Nb3 19. Bxb3 Rxb3 20. Qc2 Rb8
{1-0 (39) Caruana,F (2828)-Kollars,D (2564) Chess.com INT 2019}) 15. hxg4 Bxg4
16. Kg2 f5 17. exf5 bxc3 18. bxc3 {Threatening d4.} Qf6 $1 19. d4 $1 {[%cal
Rd4c5]} Bxf5 20. Bxf5 (20. dxc5 Qg6+ 21. Kh1 Bxc2 $15) 20... Qxf5 21. Ne4 Nb3 {
[%mdl 8192] Loses the game.} 22. Rb1 $18 (22. Nh4 Qf7 $16) 22... Qg6+ $2 (22...
Qg4+ 23. Ng3 Qxf3+ 24. Qxf3 Rxf3 25. Kxf3 exd4) 23. Bg5 d5 24. Nxe5 ({Weaker is
} 24. Nxc5 e4 $16) (24. Rxb3 dxe4 25. Rxb8 Rxb8 $15) 24... Qf5 25. Rxb3 dxe4
26. Rxb8 ({Don't blunder} 26. dxc5 $2 Qxg5+ 27. Kf1 (27. Ng4 $2 Rbd8 $19) 27...
Rbd8 $19) 26... Qxf2+ $2 (26... Qxg5+ 27. Qg4 Qxg4+ 28. Nxg4 Rxb8 29. dxc5 Re8)
27. Kh3 {[#] Qb3+ would kill now.} Rxb8 28. Rf1 Qa2 29. dxc5 {Hoping for Qd7.}
Qe6+ 30. Qg4 Qxe5 31. Bf6 {[%csl Gf6][%cal Rg4g7] Weighted Error Value:
White=0.19/Black=0.98} 1-0

[Event "Goldmoney Asian Rapid Prelims 2021"]
[Site "Chess24"]
[Date "2021.06.24"]
[Round "9.6"]
[White "Salem, A.R. Saleh"]
[Black "Artemiev, Vladislav"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "D40"]
[WhiteElo "2682"]
[BlackElo "2704"]
[Annotator "TA"]
[PlyCount "74"]
[EventDate "2021.06.26"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "NET"]
[Tiebreak "Koya+Number of black wins+Number of wins"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

{[%evp 13,74,0,2,-28,0,5,21,11,13,13,13,20,17,8,13,5,0,0,38,-7,0,0,0,0,0,-114,
-83,-172,-164,-145,-73,-138,-135,-123,-135,-127,-138,-141,-144,-150,-139,-141,
-131,-148,-139,-143,-124,-198,-197,-208,-200,-210,-204,-266,-231,-355,-334,
-483,-438,-453,-440,-431,-438]} 1. d4 d5 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 c5 4. e3 Nf6 5. Nf3
Nc6 6. a3 a6 7. cxd5 exd5 8. Bd3 {D40: Queen's Gambit Declined: Semi-Tarrasch
with 5 e3.} Bg4 (8... c4 $5 {[%cal Rc4d3]} 9. Bb1 Be7 $11) 9. O-O {[#]} cxd4
$146 ({Predecessor:} 9... Bxf3 10. Qxf3 cxd4 11. exd4 Nxd4 12. Re1+ Be7 13. Qh3
Nb3 14. Rb1 Nxc1 15. Rbxc1 h6 {1-0 (31) Mohsen,K (2280)-El Ghazali,Y (2275)
Tanta 1997}) 10. exd4 {The position is equal.} Be7 11. Be3 O-O 12. h3 Bh5 13.
g4 Bg6 14. Ne5 Bxd3 15. Qxd3 h5 16. f3 Bd6 17. Bf4 Rc8 {Hoping for ...Nxd4!}
18. Rf2 Re8 {[%cal Rc6e5]} 19. Re1 (19. g5 $11 {remains equal.} Bxe5 20. Bxe5)
19... Qb6 20. g5 {[#]} (20. Rd1 $17 {was necessary.}) 20... Nd7 $1 $19 {
[%cal Rd6e5][%mdl 576] Pin} 21. Nxd5 {[#]} Qxd4 (21... Qa5 $142 $1 {[%cal
Ra5e1]} 22. Qe4 Ncxe5 23. dxe5 Bc5) 22. Qxd4 ({White should play} 22. Re4 Qxd3
23. Nxd3 Rxe4 24. fxe4) 22... Nxd4 $17 23. Nd3 Rxe1+ 24. Nxe1 {[#]} Rc5 $1 $36
{[%mdl 2048] Black is really pushing.} 25. Bxd6 Rxd5 {[%mdl 64] Double Attack}
26. Bf4 Ne6 27. Be3 Nxg5 28. Rd2 Rxd2 (28... Nxh3+ 29. Kg2 $16) 29. Bxd2 {
[%mdl 4096] Endgame KBN-KNN} Ne6 ({Stronger than} 29... Nxh3+ 30. Kg2 $16) 30.
Nd3 (30. f4 $17 {keeps fighting.}) 30... Kh7 $19 31. Kf2 Kg6 32. Bc3 Kf5 33.
Ke3 g5 34. Nf2 (34. Kf2 $142) 34... Nb6 35. Ne4 (35. Nd3 $142) 35... Nd5+ {
Black is clearly winning.} 36. Kf2 Nxc3 37. bxc3 Ke5 {Weighted Error Value:
White=0.37/Black=0.08} 0-1

[Event "Goldmoney Asian Rapid Prelims 2021"]
[Site "Chess24"]
[Date "2021.06.24"]
[Round "9.7"]
[White "Carlsen, Magnus"]
[Black "Dubov, Daniil"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "C65"]
[WhiteElo "2847"]
[BlackElo "2714"]
[Annotator "TA"]
[PlyCount "111"]
[EventDate "2021.06.26"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "NET"]
[Tiebreak "Koya+Number of black wins+Number of wins"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

{[%evp 9,111,20,27,16,23,8,7,0,0,0,0,0,0,6,48,44,51,45,45,39,53,39,35,10,10,22,
45,0,0,7,30,27,45,18,12,20,12,11,146,139,137,149,133,156,164,138,165,182,166,
166,177,179,225,208,218,218,212,209,207,133,129,141,133,139,135,129,93,79,85,
59,54,60,722,711,608,175,167,167,283,296,400,312,438,438,607,601,607,607,570,
481,574,542,2954,2424,1825,1100,2473,2354,2110,1904,1529,1453,29970,29971]} 1.
e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 Nf6 4. d3 Bc5 5. Bxc6 dxc6 6. Qe2 {C65: Ruy Lopez:
Berlin Defence (3...Nf6), unusual lines and 4 0-0 Bc5.} Qd6 {[#]} 7. a3 $146 (
7. O-O {is interesting.} O-O 8. Nbd2 Be6 9. b3 Nh5 10. Nc4) ({Predecessor:} 7.
Nbd2 Be6 8. O-O Nd7 9. Ng5 Nf8 10. Nxe6 Nxe6 11. Nc4 Qe7 12. c3 f6 13. b4 Bd6 {
0-1 (42) Ostrovskiy,A (2444)-McShane,L (2647) Germany 2017}) 7... a5 8. Be3 {
The position is equal.} Bxe3 9. Qxe3 O-O 10. Nbd2 Be6 11. Ng5 Bd7 12. Nc4 Qe7 {
Strongly threatening ...b5.} 13. Nf3 $1 Ng4 14. Qd2 a4 15. h3 b5 16. hxg4 bxc4
17. Qc3 Rfe8 {With the idea ...cxd3.} 18. Qxc4 Bxg4 19. Qxc6 Rab8 (19... Bxf3
$5 20. gxf3 Reb8 $14) 20. Rb1 Bd7 21. Qxc7 Rbc8 22. Qa7 {Black should prevent
Nxe5.} Rxc2 23. O-O Rec8 {[#]} (23... Qd6 $11 {keeps the balance.}) 24. Nxe5 $1
$16 {[%mdl 512]} R2c7 25. Qd4 Bb5 {...Rd8 is the strong threat.} 26. Rfd1 Rd8 {
[#]} 27. Qb6 {[%cal Rb6b5]} Qxe5 28. d4 Qe7 {White must now prevent ...Rb7.}
29. Qxb5 Qxe4 30. Qxa4 h5 31. Re1 Qf5 32. Rbc1 Rcd7 33. Rc5 Qg4 34. Qd1 Rxd4
35. Qxg4 hxg4 {[%mdl 4096] Endgame KRR-KRR} 36. Rec1 Kh7 37. b4 {[%cal Bb2b4,
Bb4b5,Bb5b6][%mdl 32]} Ra8 38. R5c3 Rd2 39. Rb3 {Threatens to win with b5.} Ra2
$1 40. b5 {Hoping for b6.} Re8 $2 {[%mdl 8192] Black cannot hold the game
after this.} (40... R8xa3 $14 41. Rb4 Ra7) 41. b6 $18 g3 42. Rxg3 $2 (42. b7)
42... Rb2 43. Rc7 {aiming for b7.} Rxb6 (43... Rb1+ {might work better.} 44.
Kh2 Rxb6 45. Rxf7 Rh6+ 46. Rh3 Rxh3+ 47. Kxh3 Ra8) 44. Rxf7 Re1+ 45. Kh2 Rh6+ (
45... Kh8 $142 46. Rgxg7 Rh1+ 47. Kg3 (47. Kxh1 Rh6+ 48. Kg1 Rh1+ 49. Kxh1 $11)
47... Rb3+ 48. f3 Rxa3) 46. Rh3 Ra1 47. Ra7 Ra2 48. f3 Rxh3+ 49. Kxh3 {KR-KR}
Kh6 50. g3 g6 51. Kg4 Rc2 52. a4 {[%cal Ba3a4,Ba4a5][%mdl 32]} Rc4+ 53. f4 Rc3
54. a5 Rc5 55. a6 g5 56. Ra8 {Weighted Error Value: White=0.28/Black=0.28} 1-0

[Event "Goldmoney Asian Rapid Prelims 2021"]
[Site "Chess24"]
[Date "2021.06.24"]
[Round "9.8"]
[White "Giri, Anish"]
[Black "Duda, Jan-Krzysztof"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "B90"]
[WhiteElo "2780"]
[BlackElo "2729"]
[Annotator "TA"]
[PlyCount "136"]
[EventDate "2021.06.26"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "NET"]
[Tiebreak "Koya+Number of black wins+Number of wins"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

{[%evp 18,136,15,15,32,39,37,41,33,27,41,41,41,41,41,41,41,41,41,40,29,31,62,
48,45,35,33,27,19,37,32,21,60,58,69,25,25,25,25,25,25,25,32,47,41,25,25,25,25,
5,25,25,58,25,25,25,25,32,54,25,41,0,25,25,25,25,25,3,7,7,8,7,22,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,
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 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 a6 6. a4 g6 7. Be2 Nc6
8. Be3 Bg7 9. O-O O-O 10. Qd2 Ng4 {B90: Sicilian Najdorf: Unusual White 6th
moves, 6 Be3 Ng4 and 6 Be3 e5.} 11. Bxg4 Bxg4 12. Nd5 Rc8 {White is slightly
better.} 13. a5 Bxd4 14. Bxd4 Nxd4 15. Qxd4 Be6 16. Ne3 Qc7 {[#]} 17. Ra4 $146
({Predecessor:} 17. c3 Qc5 18. Qd2 Qe5 19. Ra4 f5 20. exf5 gxf5 21. Re1 Qf6 22.
Rf4 Rc5 23. c4 {1-0 (41) Valerga,D (2470)-Gauci,J (2098) Turin 2006}) 17... Qc5
18. Qd2 Qb5 19. b3 Rc5 20. Rfa1 Qc6 21. Rd4 Rc8 22. c4 b5 {[%cal Rb5c4]} 23.
axb6 Qxb6 24. Rd3 Rb8 25. Nd5 Qd8 26. Rxa6 (26. h4 {keeps more tension.} Rc6
27. h5 Bxd5 28. exd5 Rcb6 29. Qc2) 26... Bxd5 27. exd5 Rxc4 $1 28. bxc4 Rb1+ {
[#]} 29. Qd1 $1 {[%cal Rd1b1]} Qb8 {[#]} 30. Ra1 $1 Rxd1+ 31. Rdxd1 $14 {
[%mdl 4096] Endgame KQ-KRR} Qb2 32. h3 Kg7 33. Re1 {Black should prevent Ra7.}
Qc3 34. Rac1 Qd2 35. Rcd1 Qc2 36. Rd4 Qc3 37. Rde4 Kf8 38. R1e3 Qc1+ 39. Re1
Qc2 40. g3 Qd3 41. R1e3 Qc2 42. Kg2 h6 {The position is equal.} 43. Rf4 g5 44.
Rfe4 Kg7 45. h4 Kg6 46. hxg5 hxg5 47. Rd4 Kf6 48. g4 Qc1 49. Rde4 Qc2 50. Kg3
Kg6 51. Re2 Qc3+ 52. Kg2 Qd3 53. R2e3 Qc2 54. Kg3 Qc1 55. Re1 Qc3+ 56. f3 Kf6
57. Rh1 Qc2 58. Rf1 (58. Rhe1 {with more complications.} Qc3) 58... Qd3 59. Kg2
Qd2+ 60. Rf2 Qd3 61. Rfe2 Qc3 62. Kg3 Qc1 63. Kg2 Qc3 64. f4 Qd3 65. R2e3 (65.
Rxe7 $2 gxf4 66. Kg1 Qd4+ 67. Kg2 Qxc4 $19) 65... Qc2+ 66. Re2 Qd3 67. R2e3 ({
Wrong is} 67. Rxe7 $2 gxf4 68. Kg1 Qd4+ 69. Kg2 Qxc4 $19) 67... Qc2+ 68. Re2
Qd3 {Weighted Error Value: White=0.05/Black=0.04} 1/2-1/2

[Event "Goldmoney Asian Rapid Prelims 2021"]
[Site "Chess24"]
[Date "2021.06.24"]
[Round "10.1"]
[White "Aronian, Levon"]
[Black "Duda, Jan-Krzysztof"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "D10"]
[WhiteElo "2781"]
[BlackElo "2729"]
[Annotator "TA"]
[PlyCount "73"]
[EventDate "2021.06.26"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "NET"]
[Tiebreak "Koya+Number of black wins+Number of wins"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

{[%evp 18,73,33,32,36,16,38,39,27,18,16,16,10,11,22,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,
0,0,0,5,5,0,0,0,0,0,2,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]} 1. d4 d5 2. c4 c6
3. cxd5 cxd5 4. Bf4 Nc6 5. e3 Nf6 6. Nc3 a6 7. Bd3 Bg4 8. Nge2 e6 9. O-O Be7
10. Rc1 O-O {D10: Slav Defence: 3 cxd5 (without early Nf3) and 3 Nc3.} 11. Na4
Nd7 12. a3 Rc8 {White is slightly better.} 13. Rc3 {[#]} b5 $146 {[#]The
position is equal.} ({Predecessor:} 13... Na5 14. f3 Bh5 15. Qc2 Rxc3 16. Qxc3
Nc4 17. b3 Nxa3 18. Rc1 Nb5 19. Qd2 Bg6 {1-0 (43) Grishchenko,S (2442)-Fargere,
F (2424) Minsk 2015}) 14. Qc2 $1 Bxe2 15. Bxe2 Na5 {[#]} 16. Rc1 $1 {[%cal
Rc3c8]} Nc4 17. b3 Bxa3 18. bxc4 {[%mdl 64] Discovered Attack} Bxc1 19. cxb5
axb5 20. Bxb5 {aiming for Bc7.} Ba3 21. Bc7 $1 {[%cal Rc7d8]} ({Don't blunder} 
21. Rxc8 $2 Qxc8 22. Qd3 {[#]} Qb7 $1 $19) 21... Rxc7 22. Rxc7 Nf6 23. g3 Bd6
24. Rc6 Qb8 25. Rb6 (25. Bd3 {keeps more tension.} g6 26. Nc3 Qb4 27. Nb5 Qe1+
28. Kg2) 25... Qc7 26. Qxc7 Bxc7 27. Rc6 Ba5 28. Nc5 g6 29. Ba6 Rb8 30. Rc8+
Rxc8 31. Bxc8 $11 {[%mdl 4096] Endgame KBN-KBN} Kf8 32. Nd7+ Nxd7 33. Bxd7 Ke7
34. Bb5 Kf8 35. Bd7 Ke7 36. Bb5 Kf8 37. Bd7 {Weighted Error Value: White=0.02/
Black=0.01} 1/2-1/2

[Event "Goldmoney Asian Rapid Prelims 2021"]
[Site "Chess24"]
[Date "2021.06.24"]
[Round "10.2"]
[White "Dubov, Daniil"]
[Black "Giri, Anish"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "A03"]
[WhiteElo "2714"]
[BlackElo "2780"]
[Annotator "TA"]
[PlyCount "62"]
[EventDate "2021.06.26"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "NET"]
[Tiebreak "Koya+Number of black wins+Number of wins"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

{[%evp 12,62,6,-16,-18,-16,-11,-13,-7,0,0,-16,-14,-79,-89,-92,-76,-78,-75,-77,
-75,-82,-91,-122,-121,-154,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,22,20,20,26,22,22,69,0,0,0,0,0,
0,-95,-88,-1388,-1340]} 1. f4 d5 2. Nf3 Nf6 3. g3 g6 4. Bg2 Bg7 5. O-O O-O 6.
d3 b6 7. c4 Bb7 {A03: Bird's Opening with 1...d5.} 8. Ne5 e6 9. Nc3 c5 {
The position is equal.} 10. e4 dxe4 11. dxe4 Nfd7 {[#]} 12. Nf3 $146 (12. Ng4
$11) ({Predecessor:} 12. Nxd7 Bd4+ 13. Kh1 Qxd7 14. Nb5 Nc6 15. e5 Na5 16. Nxd4
Bxg2+ 17. Kxg2 cxd4 18. b3 {1/2-1/2 (80) Gonzalez Acosta,B (2411)-Sieiro
Gonzalez,L (2402) Antiguo 1999}) 12... Bxc3 $17 13. bxc3 Bxe4 14. Qe2 Nf6 15.
Ne5 Bxg2 16. Qxg2 Nbd7 17. Nc6 Qc7 18. f5 Ne5 $2 ({Not} 18... gxf5 19. Bf4 $16)
({Better is} 18... Rae8 $17 {Threatens to win with ...Kg7.} 19. Bh6 exf5) 19.
Nxe5 $1 $11 Qxe5 {[%mdl 64] [#] Double Attack} 20. fxg6 hxg6 21. Bh6 Qxc3 22.
Rad1 Ng4 23. Rf3 Qe5 ({Don't go for} 23... Qxc4 $2 24. Bxf8 e5 {[#]} 25. h3 $1
$18) (23... Qh8 {seems wilder.} 24. Bxf8 Rxf8 25. Ra3 Ne5 26. Rxa7 Qh5) 24.
Bxf8 Rxf8 25. h3 Nf6 26. g4 g5 27. Kh1 ({White should play} 27. Qg3 $14 Qxg3+
28. Rxg3) 27... Kg7 28. Rdf1 Ne8 29. Qd2 {Strongly threatening Re1.} Nd6 30. h4
(30. Qd3 $11 {keeps the balance.}) 30... Ne4 31. Qe2 {[%mdl 8192]} (31. Qe1 $17
) 31... Ng3+ {[%mdl 64] Discovered Attack.  Weighted Error Value: White=0.43/
Black=0.11} 0-1

[Event "Goldmoney Asian Rapid Prelims 2021"]
[Site "Chess24"]
[Date "2021.06.24"]
[Round "10.3"]
[White "Artemiev, Vladislav"]
[Black "Carlsen, Magnus"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "A29"]
[WhiteElo "2704"]
[BlackElo "2847"]
[Annotator "TA"]
[PlyCount "74"]
[EventDate "2021.06.26"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "NET"]
[Tiebreak "Koya+Number of black wins+Number of wins"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

{[%evp 10,74,0,2,22,18,23,12,23,14,10,20,14,20,20,23,21,22,12,12,16,0,0,0,4,0,
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. c4 Nf6 2. Nc3 e5 3. Nf3 Nc6 4. g3 d5 5. cxd5 Nxd5 6. Bg2 Bc5 {[#] A29:
English Opening: Four Knights Variation with 4 g3.} 7. Nxe5 $1 {Hoping for Qa4.
} Nxc3 8. Bxc6+ bxc6 9. bxc3 Qd5 {[%cal Rd5h1]} 10. Nf3 Bh3 11. Qb3 Bg2 12.
Qxd5 cxd5 13. Rg1 {The position is equal.} Bxf3 14. exf3 d4 $1 {[#]} 15. cxd4
$146 ({Predecessor:} 15. Rb1 O-O-O 16. Rb5 Rhe8+ 17. Kd1 Bb6 18. cxd4 Bxd4 19.
Rf1 Re6 20. Bb2 Ra6 21. Bxd4 Rxd4 {1/2-1/2 (31) Ding,L (2811)-Radjabov,T (2758)
Khanty Mansiysk 2019}) 15... Bxd4 16. Rb1 O-O-O 17. Bb2 Rhe8+ 18. Kf1 Re6 {
[#] aiming for ...Rb6.} 19. Bxd4 Rxd4 $11 {[%mdl 4096] Endgame KRR-KRR} 20. Rb2
Rc4 21. Kg2 Rb6 $1 {[%cal Rb6b2]} 22. Rgb1 Ra4 23. f4 Kb7 24. Rxb6+ axb6 {KR-KR
} 25. Rb2 $1 c5 26. Kf3 Kc6 27. d3 b5 28. Ke3 f5 29. Kd2 b4 30. Rc2 Kd5 31. Ke3
Ra6 32. h4 h5 33. Kd2 g6 34. Ke3 Re6+ 35. Kd2 $1 Ra6 36. Ke3 Re6+ 37. Kd2 $1
Ra6 {Not much happened in this game.  Weighted Error Value: White=0.01/Black=0.
01} 1/2-1/2


[Event "Goldmoney Asian Rapid Prelims 2021"]
[Site "Chess24"]
[Date "2021.06.24"]
[Round "10.4"]
[White "Adhiban, B.."]
[Black "Salem, A.R. Saleh"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "A13"]
[WhiteElo "2660"]
[BlackElo "2682"]
[Annotator "TA"]
[PlyCount "73"]
[EventDate "2021.06.26"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "NET"]
[Tiebreak "Koya+Number of black wins+Number of wins"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

{[%evp 18,73,33,31,30,0,31,26,35,35,21,10,35,20,22,14,27,0,0,0,0,0,27,18,10,11,
19,13,12,0,0,0,12,0,0,0,4,19,15,4,4,4,8,17,170,146,296,289,350,334,338,327,323,
310,330,330,338,332]} 1. b3 d5 2. Bb2 c5 3. e3 Nf6 4. Nf3 e6 5. c4 Nc6 6. cxd5
exd5 7. d4 cxd4 8. Nxd4 Bd6 9. Be2 O-O 10. O-O Re8 {A13: English Opening: 1...
e6.} 11. Nd2 {[%cal Bb1d2,Bd2f3,Bf3d4][%mdl 32]} Nxd4 12. Bxd4 Bf5 {White has
an edge.} 13. Nf3 Ne4 14. Bb2 Re6 {[#]} 15. g3 $146 ({Predecessor:} 15. Rc1 Rg6
16. Kh1 Be6 17. Qd4 Rg4 18. Qd1 Rg6 19. Qd4 Rg4 20. Qd1 {1/2-1/2 (20) Elfert,A
(2140)-Gligoric,S (2480) Montreal 1998}) 15... Bh3 16. Re1 Bc5 {[#] ...Nxf2!
is the strong threat.} 17. Nd4 Qf6 18. Bf3 $1 Ree8 19. Rc1 Bb6 20. Qe2 Rac8 21.
Bg2 Bxg2 22. Kxg2 h5 23. Qf3 {Hoping for Nf5.} Bxd4 24. Bxd4 $40 {[%mdl 128]
White has some attack.} Qg6 25. h4 ({Reject} 25. Bxa7 Ra8 $15) 25... a5 26. Qe2
Rc6 27. Rxc6 bxc6 28. Rc1 Re6 $1 29. Qe1 Qf5 {next ...c5! is good for Black.}
30. f3 Nf6 {[#]} (30... Nd6 $1 $11 {and Black stays safe.}) 31. Qxa5 $18 Kh7 {
Loses the game.} (31... Qd3 $16) 32. Qc3 {White has a decisive advantage.} Kg8
33. Qc2 Qxc2+ 34. Rxc2 Nd7 35. b4 f6 36. a4 {[%cal Ba2a4,Ba4a5][%mdl 32]} Kf8
37. a5 {Weighted Error Value: White=0.04/Black=0.18} 1-0

[Event "Goldmoney Asian Rapid Prelims 2021"]
[Site "Chess24"]
[Date "2021.06.24"]
[Round "10.5"]
[White "Ding, Liren"]
[Black "Svidler, Peter"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "D70"]
[WhiteElo "2799"]
[BlackElo "2714"]
[Annotator "TA"]
[PlyCount "81"]
[EventDate "2021.06.26"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "NET"]
[Tiebreak "Koya+Number of black wins+Number of wins"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

{[%evp 18,81,10,17,11,40,29,0,23,12,29,0,-22,-2,-24,-47,63,63,69,75,72,64,70,
68,61,66,71,39,45,46,36,41,62,44,42,38,39,29,22,33,20,26,194,20,284,288,269,
262,234,243,256,259,400,362,476,464,656,662,768,713,1790,1577,4786,4710,5206,
5197]} 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. f3 d5 4. cxd5 Nxd5 5. e4 Nb6 6. Nc3 Bg7 7. Be3 Nc6
8. d5 Ne5 9. Bd4 O-O 10. f4 Ng4 {[%cal Be5g4,Bg4f6,Bf6h5][%mdl 32] D70:
Grünfeld: Unusual White 3rd moves (met by ...d5).} 11. Bxg7 Kxg7 12. Nf3 e6 {
The position is equal.} 13. Qd4+ Nf6 {[%cal Re6d5]} 14. O-O-O (14. dxe6 $142
Bxe6 15. Be2) 14... exd5 $11 15. e5 {[#]} Nh5 $146 ({Predecessor:} 15... Ng8
16. h4 Be6 17. Bd3 Nh6 18. h5 Qe7 19. hxg6 hxg6 20. Rxh6 Kxh6 21. f5 gxf5 22.
Qf4+ {1-0 (22) Jakab,A (2354)-Csaszar,G (2075) Budapest 2000}) 16. f5 {[%mdl
64] Decoy} Bxf5 (16... gxf5 $15 17. Kb1 Be6) 17. g4 $1 $14 {[%cal Rg4f5]} c5
18. Qg1 Bxg4 19. Qxg4 d4 {[#]} 20. Rg1 $1 {Threatens to win with Qxh5.} Kh8 21.
Ne4 Nd5 22. Qg5 ({Reject} 22. Nxc5 Rc8 $15) 22... Qxg5+ 23. Nfxg5 Ne3 24. Rd2
$36 {[%mdl 2048] White is pushing.} Rae8 25. Nd6 ({Of course not} 25. Nxc5 Rc8
$11) 25... Re7 26. Rf2 $1 {Hoping for Be2.} Kg7 27. Be2 {aiming for Bxh5.} f6 {
[#]} 28. Ngf7 fxe5 {Strongly threatening ...Nf4.} 29. Bxh5 e4 $2 (29... Rd7 $1
$11) 30. Bd1 $2 (30. Rf4 $18) 30... Rexf7 $4 {[%mdl 8192]} (30... Rd7 $1 $11 {
and Black has nothing to worry.}) 31. Nxf7 Rxf7 32. Rxf7+ Kxf7 33. Bc2 Nxc2 34.
Kxc2 $18 {[%mdl 4096] Endgame KR-KP} Kf6 (34... Ke6 $142 35. Rf1 Ke7) 35. Rf1+
Ke6 36. Rf8 {White is clearly winning.} h5 (36... a6 $142 37. Rh8 h5) 37. a4 {
[%cal Ba2a4,Ba4a5][%mdl 32]} g5 38. a5 Ke5 39. Rf7 e3 40. Rxb7 Ke4 41. Rxa7 {
Weighted Error Value: White=0.16/Black=0.43} 1-0

[Event "Goldmoney Asian Rapid Prelims 2021"]
[Site "Chess24"]
[Date "2021.06.24"]
[Round "10.6"]
[White "Gukesh D"]
[Black "So, Wesley"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "D39"]
[WhiteElo "2578"]
[BlackElo "2770"]
[Annotator "TA"]
[PlyCount "62"]
[EventDate "2021.06.26"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "NET"]
[Tiebreak "Koya+Number of black wins+Number of wins"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

{[%evp 15,62,26,22,27,17,19,19,16,25,20,26,17,31,26,20,20,25,20,23,17,22,22,17,
18,17,13,9,9,9,9,9,12,12,16,8,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]} 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6
3. Nf3 d5 4. Nc3 Bb4 5. Bg5 dxc4 6. e4 h6 7. Bxf6 Qxf6 8. Bxc4 c5 9. e5 {
D39: Queen's Gambit Declined: Ragozin Defence with 5 Bg5 dxc4.} Qd8 10. O-O
cxd4 11. Ne4 O-O 12. Qe2 Be7 13. Rfd1 Qa5 14. a3 {[%mdl 1024] White has
compensation.} ({Much worse is} 14. Nxd4 Qxe5 15. Nf3 Qa5 $15) (14. Rxd4 Nc6
$17) 14... Rd8 15. b4 Qb6 16. g4 Nd7 17. Rac1 $1 ({Of course not} 17. Rxd4 {[#]
} Nxe5 $1 18. Rxd8+ Qxd8 $17) 17... Qc7 {[#]The position is equal.} 18. Bxe6 $1
Qb6 19. Bf5 Nf8 {[#]} 20. Nc5 $146 ({Predecessor:} 20. Bxc8 Raxc8 21. Rxc8 Rxc8
22. Nxd4 Ng6 23. Ng3 Rd8 24. Ngf5 Bg5 25. Qe4 Bf4 26. h4 Bxe5 27. h5 Re8 28.
Kh1 Nf4 29. Re1 Qa6 30. Qf3 Qd3 31. Rxe5 Rxe5 {0-1 (31) Sokolov,I (2584)-Van
Foreest,L (2521) Amsterdam 2019}) 20... g6 {[#]} 21. Na4 $1 Qa6 22. Qxa6 bxa6
23. Bxc8 Raxc8 24. Rxc8 Rxc8 25. Rxd4 Ne6 26. Rd7 $36 {[%mdl 2048] White
fights for an advantage.} Rc1+ 27. Kg2 Nf4+ 28. Kg3 Ne2+ 29. Kg2 Nf4+ 30. Kg3
Ne2+ 31. Kg2 Nf4+ {A rather calm draw.  Weighted Error Value: White=0.01/
Black=0.01} 1/2-1/2

[Event "Goldmoney Asian Rapid Prelims 2021"]
[Site "Chess24"]
[Date "2021.06.24"]
[Round "10.7"]
[White "Erigaisi Arjun"]
[Black "Hou, Yifan"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "E21"]
[WhiteElo "2567"]
[BlackElo "2658"]
[Annotator "TA"]
[PlyCount "65"]
[EventDate "2021.06.26"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "NET"]
[Tiebreak "Koya+Number of black wins+Number of wins"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

{[%evp 15,65,20,29,23,28,26,35,43,105,84,87,89,165,156,177,189,296,289,291,302,
298,295,295,308,308,291,253,269,341,331,312,325,314,313,876,1006,1008,1004,996,
966,939,892,762,707,2666,2318,4946,2170,29957,11846,4878,4694]} 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4
e6 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. e3 O-O 5. Bd2 b6 6. Nf3 Bb7 7. Bd3 Bxc3 8. Bxc3 Ne4 9. Bxe4 {
E21: Nimzo-Indian: 4 Nf3.} Bxe4 10. d5 c5 {10...f6 is the modern continuation.}
11. Nd2 {[#] White is slightly better.} Bf5 $146 (11... Bg6 $14) ({Predecessor:
} 11... Bg6 12. h4 exd5 13. cxd5 d6 14. Qf3 Nd7 15. h5 Bd3 16. e4 c4 17. Qg3 f6
{0-1 (40) Artemiev,V (2709)-Andreikin,D (2725) Lichess.org INT 2021}) 12. e4
exd5 13. cxd5 ({Much worse is} 13. exf5 $6 Re8+ 14. Kf1 d4 $15) 13... Re8 (
13... Bxe4 $16 {was called for.} 14. Nxe4 Qe7) 14. Qf3 $18 Bg6 15. h4 $1 $36 {
[%cal Rh4h5][%mdl 2048] h5 is the strong threat. White is in control.} h5 (
15... Qe7 {keeps fighting.}) 16. g4 $1 Bxe4 17. Nxe4 Qe7 {[#]} 18. O-O-O $1
Qxe4 19. Qxe4 Rxe4 20. gxh5 f6 {[#]} 21. Rdg1 $1 Kh7 {[#]} 22. Rg6 $1 Na6 23.
Rhg1 Re7 24. h6 Nb4 $2 (24... Rf7 25. Rxg7+ (25. hxg7 Rg8 $18) 25... Rxg7 26.
Rxg7+ (26. hxg7 Rg8 $18) 26... Kxh6 27. Rxd7 Kg6) 25. Bxb4 cxb4 26. Rxg7+ Rxg7
27. hxg7 {[%mdl 4096] Endgame KR-KR} ({Not} 27. Rxg7+ Kxh6 28. Rxd7 Kg6 $18)
27... Kg8 28. h5 Rc8+ 29. Kd2 Rc5 30. h6 Rxd5+ 31. Ke3 {Intending h7+! and
mate.} Rh5 32. Rg6 Rh3+ 33. f3 {Black got outplayed after the opening. 
Weighted Error Value: White=0.02/Black=0.71} 1-0

[Event "Goldmoney Asian Rapid Prelims 2021"]
[Site "Chess24"]
[Date "2021.06.24"]
[Round "10.8"]
[White "Vidit, Santosh Gujrathi"]
[Black "Firouzja, Alireza"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "A90"]
[WhiteElo "2726"]
[BlackElo "2759"]
[Annotator "TA"]
[PlyCount "97"]
[EventDate "2021.06.26"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "NET"]
[Tiebreak "Koya+Number of black wins+Number of wins"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

{[%evp 16,97,18,5,15,18,22,10,20,0,21,24,29,13,13,0,13,10,21,8,31,-12,58,-18,
-16,-17,0,-33,-16,-37,-18,-11,-12,-11,-7,-24,-16,-25,0,0,0,0,8,-11,-5,-8,-8,
-11,-8,-13,-8,-8,-8,-8,-6,-8,-8,-8,-8,-36,-36,-43,-8,-8,0,-14,-14,-70,-8,-8,-8,
-8,-8,-8,-8,-8,-8,-8,-8,-8,-8,-8,-8,-8]} 1. d4 f5 2. g3 Nf6 3. Bg2 e6 4. Nf3 d5
5. c4 c6 6. O-O Bd6 7. b3 Qe7 8. Bb2 b6 9. Qc1 Bb7 {A90: Dutch Defence:
Miscellaneous and Modern Stonewall (with ...Bd6).} 10. Ba3 Bxa3 {was the old
line (10...Nbd7).} 11. Qxa3 Nbd7 12. Rc1 Qxa3 13. Nxa3 Ke7 {[#]} 14. e3 $146 ({
Predecessor:} 14. Nc2 Rac8 15. cxd5 cxd5 16. Nce1 Rxc1 17. Rxc1 Rc8 18. Rxc8
Bxc8 19. e3 {1/2-1/2 (19) Lechtynsky,J (2362)-Svoboda,S (2419) Czech Republic
2018}) 14... Rhc8 15. Rc2 a5 16. Rac1 Ne4 17. Nb1 a4 18. cxd5 (18. b4 {with
more complications.} dxc4 19. Rxc4 c5 20. bxc5 bxc5 21. Nfd2) 18... exd5 ({
Black should try} 18... axb3 $11 19. d6+ Nxd6 20. axb3 c5) 19. Nc3 (19. b4 $1
$14) 19... axb3 $11 20. axb3 Ra3 21. Nxe4 fxe4 22. Nd2 Rca8 23. f3 exf3 24.
Bxf3 Nf6 25. Kg2 g5 26. g4 h5 27. gxh5 g4 28. Be2 Rh8 29. Rf1 Rxh5 30. Rf4 Rg5
31. Bd3 c5 32. Rf5 Rxf5 33. Bxf5 c4 34. Kg3 b5 35. Bxg4 b4 36. bxc4 Rxe3+ 37.
Bf3 b3 38. Nxb3 dxc4 39. Nd2 {Hoping for Kf4.} c3 40. Kf2 Rd3 {[%mdl 64] [#]
Double Attack} 41. Ke2 Rxd2+ (41... Ba6 $15 42. Kd1 Re3) 42. Rxd2 {The
position is equal.} Bxf3+ 43. Kxf3 cxd2 $15 {[%mdl 4096] Endgame KN-KPP} 44.
Ke2 Ne4 45. h4 $1 Kf6 (45... Ke6 $5) 46. h5 Kg5 47. d5 Kxh5 48. d6 $1 {[%cal
Rd6d7]} Nxd6 {[#] ( -> ...Ne4)} 49. Kxd2 {Weighted Error Value: White=0.15/
Black=0.12} 1/2-1/2

[Event "Goldmoney Asian Rapid Prelims 2021"]
[Site "Chess24"]
[Date "2021.06.24"]
[Round "11.1"]
[White "Firouzja, Alireza"]
[Black "Aronian, Levon"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "C27"]
[WhiteElo "2759"]
[BlackElo "2781"]
[Annotator "TA"]
[PlyCount "60"]
[EventDate "2021.06.26"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "NET"]
[Tiebreak "Koya+Number of black wins+Number of wins"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

{[%evp 10,60,-8,-2,4,-4,-4,-13,-8,-35,-15,-9,-9,-21,-26,-21,-26,-24,-10,-24,
-14,-90,-79,-95,-81,-148,-147,-153,-147,-295,-296,-287,-212,-247,107,90,104,
-278,-266,-405,-418,-425,-433,-435,-415,-433,-430,-400,-395,-424,-405,-766,271]
} 1. e4 e5 2. Nc3 Nf6 3. Bc4 Nxe4 4. Qh5 Nd6 5. Bb3 Be7 6. Qxe5 O-O {C27:
Vienna Game: 2...Nf6 3 Bc4 Nxe4.} 7. d4 Nc6 8. Qf4 Na5 {The position is equal.}
9. Bd5 Ne8 10. Bf3 Bb4 {[#]} 11. d5 $146 ({Predecessor:} 11. a3 Bxc3+ 12. bxc3
d5 13. Ne2 c6 14. O-O Nc4 15. Ng3 Qf6 16. Be2 Qxf4 17. Bxf4 {1-0 (41) Firouzja,
A (2728)-Aronian,L (2773) Chess.com INT 2020}) 11... Bxc3+ 12. bxc3 b6 13. Ne2
Ba6 14. O-O Qf6 15. Qa4 (15. Qg3 $11) 15... Nd6 $17 16. Qxd7 Rae8 17. Be3 (17.
Qg4 $142) 17... Nac4 {And now ...Ne5 would win.} 18. Bd4 Ne5 19. Qh3 (19. Bxe5
$17 {only move.} Rxe5 20. Nd4 Bxf1 21. Rxf1) 19... Nxf3+ $19 20. gxf3 Qg5+ 21.
Kh1 {Hoping for Rg1.} Qxd5 $2 {[#]} ({Weaker is} 21... Bxe2 22. Rg1 $17) (21...
f6 $19 22. Rg1 Bc8 $1 23. Rxg5 Bxh3) 22. Rg1 $1 $16 f6 {[#]} (22... g6 23. Nf4)
23. Nf4 {[%mdl 8192] [#]} (23. Rxg7+ $1 $16 {[%mdl 512]} Kxg7 24. Rg1+ Kh8 25.
Nf4) 23... Qf5 $1 $19 {[%cal Rf5f4]} ({And not} 23... Qf7 24. Nh5 $14) 24. Qh6
(24. Qg3 {is a better defense.} Rf7 25. Rge1) 24... Rf7 25. Rg3 {intending Nh5.
} Qxc2 26. Nh5 {[%cal Rg3g7]} Nf5 {[%csl LRg3,LRh6][%mdl 64] Double Attack} 27.
Nxf6+ {[#]} Rxf6 $1 {[%mdl 512]} 28. Rxg7+ Nxg7 29. Qxf6 {[%csl Gd4][%cal
Rf6g7]} Qg6 30. Rg1 {[#]} (30. Qxg6 $142 hxg6 31. Kg2) 30... Qxg1+ $1 {[%mdl
32768] Weighted Error Value: White=0.61/Black=0.38. Loss on time!?} ({Stronger
than} 30... Qxf6 31. Bxf6 Kf7 32. Bxg7 $15) 0-1

[Event "Goldmoney Asian Rapid Prelims 2021"]
[Site "Chess24"]
[Date "2021.06.24"]
[Round "11.2"]
[White "Hou, Yifan"]
[Black "Vidit, Santosh Gujrathi"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "B33"]
[WhiteElo "2658"]
[BlackElo "2726"]
[Annotator "TA"]
[PlyCount "110"]
[EventDate "2021.06.26"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "NET"]
[Tiebreak "Koya+Number of black wins+Number of wins"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

{[%evp 22,110,33,3,8,0,27,6,20,13,10,0,0,-22,-13,-16,-29,-41,-15,-12,-10,-10,
-25,-29,-15,-81,-68,-68,-88,-68,-32,-43,-54,-208,-202,-195,-200,-197,-203,-247,
-232,-281,-211,-322,-288,-312,-296,-323,-289,-464,-439,-466,-450,-480,-475,
-479,-470,-450,-376,-386,-386,-384,-391,-979,-979,-974,-963,-955,-896,-1228,
-1122,-1026,0,-2210,-2191,-2189,-2189,-2009,-2026,-2028,-1785,-1600,-1512,
-29976,-29977,-29977,-5185,-29989,-29990,-29990,-29991]} 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 e6 3.
d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 Nc6 6. Ndb5 d6 7. Bf4 e5 8. Bg5 a6 9. Na3 b5 {
[%cal Bb7b5,Bb5b4][%mdl 32]} 10. Nd5 Be7 11. Bxf6 {11.c3 is the hot move.} Bxf6
12. c4 b4 {B33: Sicilian: Pelikan and Sveshnikov Variations.} 13. Nc2 O-O 14.
Be2 a5 {The position is equal.} 15. O-O Bg5 16. Bg4 Be6 17. h3 g6 18. Bxe6 fxe6
19. Nde3 {[#]} Kg7 $146 ({Predecessor:} 19... Qc7 20. Qd3 Nd8 21. a3 Bxe3 22.
Nxe3 bxa3 23. Qxa3 Rb8 24. Qxa5 Qxa5 25. Rxa5 Rxb2 26. Rb5 Rxb5 27. cxb5 {
1/2-1/2 (33) Alvarez Abejon,A (2084)-Cabanas Jimenez,A (2174) Madrid 2010}) 20.
Qd3 Rb8 21. Rad1 Be7 22. c5 dxc5 23. Qb3 (23. Qd7 $11 {keeps the balance.} Qc8
24. Qxc8 Rfxc8 25. Rd7) 23... Qc8 $17 24. Nc4 Qa6 25. Rd7 {next Nxe5! is good
for White.} Rbd8 26. Nxe5 c4 27. Qe3 {Black continues to play with
concentration.} ({Better is} 27. Qg3 $1 $15 Rxd7 28. Nxd7) 27... Rxd7 $19 28.
Nxd7 Rd8 29. Nc5 {[#]} Qc8 30. Na4 Qc7 31. Qe2 Ne5 32. Rd1 (32. Ne3 {is a
better defense.}) 32... Nd3 33. Ne3 Bh4 34. Rf1 Qc6 35. Qg4 $2 (35. g3 Qxa4 36.
gxh4 Qxa2 37. Qc2) 35... Bf6 36. b3 c3 37. Qe2 Qxe4 {[#] Hoping for ...Bd4.}
38. Nb6 Bh4 {White must now prevent ...Rf8.} 39. Nbc4 a4 40. g3 {intending f3.}
Bg5 41. h4 Bxe3 42. fxe3 (42. Qxe3 Qxe3 43. Nxe3) 42... Rd5 43. Kh2 Ne5 {
Strongly threatening ...axb3.} 44. Rf4 Qb1 45. e4 Rd1 46. Qf2 g5 $2 47. Qa7+ $2
{[%mdl 8192]} (47. Nxe5 $11 Rh1+ 48. Kg2 gxf4 49. Qa7+ {[%mdl 64] Double Attack
} Kh6 50. Ng4+ Kg6 51. Ne5+ Kh6 52. Ng4+ Kg6 53. Ne5+ Kh6) 47... Rd7 48. Qc5
Qc2+ 49. Kh3 g4+ 50. Rxg4+ Nxg4 51. Qg5+ Kf8 {( -> ...Nf2+)} 52. Qf4+ Rf7 53.
Qxg4 Qd3 (53... Qb1 $142 54. Qxe6 Qf1+ 55. Kg4 Qf3+ 56. Kh3 Qf1+ 57. Kg4 c2 58.
Qc8+ Kg7 59. Nd6 c1=Q 60. Qxc1 h5+ 61. Kxh5 Qxc1 62. Nf5+ Kh7 63. Kg4 Qd1+ 64.
Kg5 Qd2+ 65. Kg4 Qxa2 66. Kf4 axb3 67. g4 b2 68. g5 b1=Q 69. g6+ Kxg6 70. Ke5
Qc1 71. h5+ Kxh5 72. Ng7+ Rxg7 73. Kf6 Qg5#) 54. Qg5 Qf1+ 55. Kg4 Rg7 {
Weighted Error Value: White=0.73/Black=0.31} 0-1

[Event "Goldmoney Asian Rapid Prelims 2021"]
[Site "Chess24"]
[Date "2021.06.24"]
[Round "11.3"]
[White "So, Wesley"]
[Black "Erigaisi Arjun"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "C43"]
[WhiteElo "2770"]
[BlackElo "2567"]
[Annotator "ChessBase"]
[PlyCount "21"]
[EventDate "2021.06.26"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "NET"]
[Tiebreak "Koya+Number of black wins+Number of wins"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]
[TimeControl "900+10"]

1. e4 {[%emt 0:00:00]} e5 {[%emt 0:00:00]} 2. Nf3 {[%emt 0:00:02]} Nf6 {
[%emt 0:00:02]} 3. d4 {[%emt 0:00:01]} Nxe4 {[%emt 0:00:03]} 4. Bd3 {[%emt 0:
00:01]} d5 {[%emt 0:00:02]} 5. Nxe5 {[%emt 0:00:00]} Nd7 {[%emt 0:00:02]} 6.
Nxf7 {[%emt 0:00:01]} Kxf7 {[%emt 0:00:03]} 7. Qh5+ {[%emt 0:00:00]} Ke7 {
[%emt 0:00:02]} 8. Qe2 {[%emt 0:00:01]} Kf7 {[%emt 0:00:03]} 9. Qh5+ {[%emt 0:
00:01]} Ke7 {[%emt 0:00:01]} 10. Qe2 {[%emt 0:00:00]} Kf7 {[%emt 0:00:01]} 11.
Qh5+ {[%emt 0:00:01]} 1/2-1/2

[Event "Goldmoney Asian Rapid Prelims 2021"]
[Site "Chess24"]
[Date "2021.06.24"]
[Round "11.4"]
[White "Svidler, Peter"]
[Black "Gukesh D"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "D33"]
[WhiteElo "2714"]
[BlackElo "2578"]
[Annotator "TA"]
[PlyCount "92"]
[EventDate "2021.06.26"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "NET"]
[Tiebreak "Koya+Number of black wins+Number of wins"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

{[%evp 20,92,16,11,20,14,16,17,21,6,8,0,2,-4,18,-2,0,-42,-34,-77,-77,-75,-79,
-82,-81,-70,-84,-91,-57,-57,-57,-64,-64,-64,-64,-64,-64,-64,-64,-66,-68,-64,
-64,-64,-21,-65,-56,-62,-49,-55,-55,-62,-60,-62,0,0,0,-62,-27,-45,-45,-45,-1,
-16,-3,-8,-8,-8,-8,-8,-8,-8,0,0,0]} 1. c4 {Nielsen,Peter Heine} e6 2. Nc3 d5 3.
d4 c5 4. cxd5 exd5 5. Nf3 Nf6 6. g3 Nc6 7. Bg2 cxd4 8. Nxd4 Bc5 9. Nxc6 bxc6
10. O-O O-O 11. Qc2 Bb6 {D33: Tarrasch Defence: 6 g3 sidelines.} 12. Na4 Bd7
13. b3 Re8 {[#]} 14. Nxb6 $146 ({Predecessor:} 14. Bb2 h5 15. h4 Ne4 16. e3 Rc8
17. Nxb6 axb6 18. Qd1 Bf5 19. Qxh5 Qd7 20. Qd1 {0-1 (59) Aronian,L (2775)
-Carlsen,M (2872) Moscow 2019 CBM 193 Extra [Nielsen,Peter Heine]}) 14... axb6
15. a4 Ne4 16. Be3 h5 17. Rad1 h4 18. Bf4 Qf6 19. Bc7 Bf5 {[#] Hoping for ...
hxg3.} 20. Bxe4 Rxe4 21. Qd2 Rae8 22. Rfe1 hxg3 23. Bxg3 Qe6 {[%cal Re4e2]} 24.
f3 Rxe2 25. Rxe2 Qxe2 26. Qxe2 Rxe2 $15 {[%mdl 4096] Endgame KRB-KRB} 27. Bf2
Bc2 28. Ra1 c5 29. a5 bxa5 {[#] ...d4 is the strong threat.} ({Don't blunder} 
29... Bxb3 $2 30. axb6 Ba2 31. Bxc5 $18) 30. Bxc5 Bxb3 {Strongly threatening ..
.a4.} 31. Rxa5 Bc4 32. Ra7 Rd2 33. Rd7 Be2 34. Be3 Rd3 35. Kf2 Bd1 36. h4 Kf8
37. Bc5+ Kg8 38. Be3 $1 Ba4 39. Rd8+ Kh7 40. h5 Bb3 41. Rd6 {The position is
equal.} Bc4 42. h6 gxh6 43. Rxh6+ Kg7 {Threatens to win with ...Rxe3!} 44. Rd6
Rd1 45. Kg3 Rh1 46. Bd4+ Kh7 {Weighted Error Value: White=0.06/Black=0.09}
1/2-1/2

[Event "Goldmoney Asian Rapid Prelims 2021"]
[Site "Chess24"]
[Date "2021.06.24"]
[Round "11.5"]
[White "Salem, A.R. Saleh"]
[Black "Ding, Liren"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "E24"]
[WhiteElo "2682"]
[BlackElo "2799"]
[Annotator "TA"]
[PlyCount "112"]
[EventDate "2021.06.26"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "NET"]
[Tiebreak "Koya+Number of black wins+Number of wins"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

{[%evp 10,112,-4,-19,-20,-23,-6,-37,-45,-34,-36,-32,-14,-10,-9,-8,0,0,12,0,11,
16,8,-43,-32,-80,-8,-69,-71,-34,-25,-100,-81,-102,-94,-123,-119,-134,-123,-126,
-119,-141,-135,-82,-110,-93,-99,-176,-157,-164,-133,-165,-122,-179,-162,-246,
-116,-135,-137,-160,-89,-116,-110,-118,-118,-142,-145,-143,-123,-246,-237,-230,
-210,-231,-233,-404,-389,-356,-356,-489,-476,-555,-547,-543,-510,-720,-714,
-815,-781,-817,-806,-780,-749,-979,-966,-932,-912,-1078,-1056,-1035,-937,-924,
-882,-872,-830]} 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. a3 Bxc3+ 5. bxc3 b6 6. f3 Nc6
{E24: Nimzo-Indian: Sämisch: Unusual Black 5th moves and 5...c5 sidelines.} 7.
e4 Na5 8. Bg5 h6 {Black is slightly better.} 9. Bh4 d6 10. Bd3 Ba6 11. f4 Qd7 (
11... Bxc4 $2 12. Bxc4 Nxc4 13. Bxf6 $18 (13. Qa4+ Qd7 $16)) (11... Nxc4 $2 12.
Qa4+ c6 13. Qxa6 $18 (13. Qxc6+ Kf8 $11)) 12. e5 {[#]} Ng8 $146 ({Predecessor:
} 12... dxe5 13. fxe5 Ng8 14. Qf3 Rb8 15. Ne2 Bxc4 16. O-O Bxd3 17. Qxd3 g5 18.
Be1 Qc6 {1-0 (31) Turati,P (2448)-Meissner,R (2339) ICCF email 2008}) 13. Qf3
Bb7 14. Qg4 f5 15. exf6 Nxf6 16. Bg6+ (16. Bxf6 $11 gxf6 17. Qh5+ Kd8 18. Nf3)
16... Kd8 $15 17. Qe2 Nxc4 18. Nf3 (18. Qxc4 $2 Bxg2 19. Nf3 (19. Bxf6+ $2 gxf6
20. Nf3 Bxh1 $19) 19... Bxh1 $19) (18. Bd3 $11 Na5 19. Nf3) 18... Bd5 $1 19.
O-O Kc8 20. a4 (20. f5 $11) 20... a5 21. Nd2 Qc6 22. Bd3 {[%cal Rd2c4]} Nxd2
23. Qxd2 Bc4 $1 24. Qe2 Bxd3 25. Qxd3 Nd5 26. c4 Nb4 {[%cal Rb4d3]} 27. Qe2 Kb7
28. Rfc1 (28. c5 $17) 28... Rhf8 $19 29. Bg3 Rad8 30. Rc3 Rf5 31. Qxe6 (31. Re3
$17 {might work better.}) 31... Rf6 32. Qg4 {[#]} (32. Qe2 $142) 32... Qe4 (
32... Nd5 $1 $19 {[%cal Rd5c3][%mdl 512] is more deadly.} 33. Rcc1 Nxf4 $1 {
[%mdl 512]} 34. Bxf4 Qe4 {[%mdl 64] Double Attack}) 33. Qf3 Re8 34. Rd1 Rfe6 ({
Black should play} 34... Qxf3 35. Rxf3 Re2) 35. Bf2 Qxf3 36. Rxf3 Re2 37. f5
Ra2 38. d5 Ree2 39. Rf1 (39. Kf1 $17 {was necessary.}) 39... Nc2 ({Don't take} 
39... Rxa4 40. Rg3 $17) 40. Rg3 Re5 ({Not} 40... Rxa4 41. Rxg7 Re8 42. f6 $14)
41. Rxg7 {f6 is the strong threat.} Rxf5 42. c5 $2 (42. Rc1) 42... bxc5 43.
Rb1+ Nb4 44. Bg3 {White hopes to continue with Bxd6.} Rxd5 {Black is clearly
winning.} 45. h4 Rxa4 46. Rf1 Ra2 47. Rf6 Kc6 48. Rxh6 a4 49. Rh8 Rd1+ 50. Kh2
Raa1 {[%csl Ga1][%cal Rd1h1]} 51. Kh3 a3 52. Ra8 a2 53. h5 Rd5 54. Ra7 Rh1+ 55.
Kg4 a1=Q {( -> ...Qd1+)} 56. Rgxc7+ {[#]} Kb5 $1 {Weighted Error Value:
White=0.42/Black=0.11} 0-1

[Event "Goldmoney Asian Rapid Prelims 2021"]
[Site "Chess24"]
[Date "2021.06.24"]
[Round "11.6"]
[White "Carlsen, Magnus"]
[Black "Adhiban, B.."]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "E97"]
[WhiteElo "2847"]
[BlackElo "2660"]
[Annotator "TA"]
[PlyCount "95"]
[EventDate "2021.06.26"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "NET"]
[Tiebreak "Koya+Number of black wins+Number of wins"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

{[%evp 17,95,37,39,27,28,18,38,23,25,0,14,14,16,14,23,19,104,104,96,96,94,74,
100,62,71,52,75,38,77,67,125,53,67,65,133,134,366,42,45,45,108,93,104,0,18,0,0,
0,0,0,0,0,0,-10,-26,-133,-148,-338,-338,-333,-324,-324,-324,-324,0,-309,-309,
-277,0,-51,0,-3,-3,-4,0,0,0,-5,0,0]} 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. Nc3 Bg7 4. e4 d6 5.
Nf3 O-O 6. Be2 e5 7. O-O Nc6 8. d5 Ne7 9. b4 {[%cal Bb2b4,Bb4b5][%mdl 32]} a5
10. b5 {Recently 10.bxa5 got a lot of attention. E97: King's Indian: Classical
Main Line (6...e5 7 0-0 Nc6): 8 Be3 and 8 d5 Ne7, not 9 Ne1.} b6 11. a4 {[#]}
Kh8 $146 ({Predecessor:} 11... h6 12. h3 Nd7 13. Ne1 f5 14. g4 Nf6 15. g5 hxg5
16. exf5 gxf5 17. Bxg5 Kf7 {0-1 (50) Minerva,E (2022)-Popovich,F (1945)
Vescovato 2014}) 12. Ra3 {White is slightly better.} Nd7 13. Re1 Ng8 14. Bd3
Bh6 15. Bb2 Bg7 16. Bc2 f5 (16... Qe7 $11) 17. exf5 $16 gxf5 18. Ne2 f4 19. g3
fxg3 20. hxg3 (20. Nxg3 {seems wilder.} Bh6 21. Nd4 Ndf6 22. Ndf5 Bg5 23. h4)
20... Nc5 21. Kg2 Nh6 22. Rh1 Bf5 23. Nh4 Be4+ {[#]} (23... Bxc2 $14 24. Qxc2
Kg8) 24. f3 (24. Bxe4 $1 $16 Nxe4 25. f3) 24... Bxc2 $14 25. Qxc2 Kg8 (25...
Qd7 $14) 26. Bc1 $16 Qf6 $2 {[#]} (26... Qd7 $16) 27. Bxh6 $2 (27. g4 $1 $18)
27... Bxh6 $14 28. g4 e4 (28... Qg5 $14) 29. Nf5 $16 Bg7 30. Neg3 (30. f4 $16)
30... Rae8 $1 $11 31. Nxe4 Nxe4 32. fxe4 Rxe4 33. Qxe4 Qb2+ {[%mdl 64] Double
Attack} 34. Kf3 Qxa3+ {[%mdl 64] Double Attack} 35. Qe3 Qxa4 36. Qe6+ (36. Qe4
$1 $11 {remains equal.}) 36... Kh8 $17 37. Qe7 $2 (37. Qe4 $17 Qa3+ 38. Ke2
Qb2+ 39. Kd3 Qc3+ 40. Ke2) 37... Qb3+ $19 38. Kg2 {[%csl Gf5][%cal Re7g7]} Qc2+
({Not} 38... Qb2+ 39. Kf1 $19) 39. Kf3 {[%csl Gf5][%cal Re7g7]} Qd3+ 40. Kg2 {
[%csl Gf5][%cal Re7g7]} Qc2+ 41. Kf3 $1 {[%csl Gf5][%cal Re7g7]} Qc3+ 42. Kg2
Qe5 (42... Qb2+ $19 43. Kh3 a4) 43. Re1 $1 $15 {[%cal Re1e5]} Qc3 (43... Qf6
$15 44. Re6 Qc3) 44. Re3 {The position is equal.} Qb2+ 45. Re2 Qc3 46. Re3 Qb2+
47. Re2 Qc3 48. Re3 {What a bad dream for Black.  Weighted Error Value:
White=0.29/Black=0.39} 1/2-1/2

[Event "Goldmoney Asian Rapid Prelims 2021"]
[Site "Chess24"]
[Date "2021.06.24"]
[Round "11.7"]
[White "Giri, Anish"]
[Black "Artemiev, Vladislav"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "B01"]
[WhiteElo "2780"]
[BlackElo "2704"]
[Annotator "TA"]
[PlyCount "84"]
[EventDate "2021.06.26"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "NET"]
[Tiebreak "Koya+Number of black wins+Number of wins"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

{[%evp 10,84,67,42,55,54,46,30,32,20,36,35,27,32,40,28,26,19,21,22,22,17,25,25,
38,33,33,41,108,41,41,41,42,36,39,37,33,23,34,20,22,12,35,13,27,21,27,25,31,19,
26,19,19,0,1,0,25,28,67,0,0,0,8,0,11,0,5,0,24,0,0,0,20,0,0,0,19]} 1. e4 d5 2.
exd5 Qxd5 3. Nc3 Qd6 4. d4 Nf6 5. Nf3 c6 6. Ne5 Nbd7 {B01: Scandinavian
Defence.} 7. Nc4 Qc7 8. Qf3 Nb6 {White has an edge.} 9. Bf4 Qd8 10. Be5 Be6 11.
Ne3 g6 12. O-O-O Bh6 {[#] White must now prevent ...Bg4.} 13. Kb1 Bxe3 14. Qxe3
Ng4 15. Qe1 Nxe5 16. Qxe5 O-O {[#]} 17. h4 $146 ({Predecessor:} 17. Bd3 Nd5 18.
Nxd5 Qxd5 19. Qxd5 Bxd5 20. Rhe1 Rfe8 21. f3 Rad8 22. b3 Rd6 23. Kb2 {1-0 (63)
Wegerle,J (2401)-Grafl,F (2353) Karlsruhe 2020}) 17... Nd5 18. Ne4 Qb6 (18...
Qb8 $14) 19. Bc4 (19. h5 $16 Bf5 20. hxg6 Bxg6 21. Bd3) 19... Qc7 $14 20. Qg5
Qf4 21. Rhe1 h6 22. Qxf4 Nxf4 23. Bf1 b6 24. g3 Nd5 25. Kc1 Rad8 26. c3 Rfe8
27. Nd2 Nf6 28. Bc4 Bd5 29. a4 Kf8 30. Kc2 Rc8 31. Re2 Red8 32. Rde1 Bxc4 33.
Nxc4 c5 34. dxc5 (34. Rxe7 $14 cxd4 35. b3) 34... Rxc5 $11 35. Ne5 e6 36. Re3
Rdd5 37. b4 Rc7 38. Kb3 Rd2 39. R3e2 Rd8 {The position is equal.} 40. Re3 Rd2
41. R3e2 Rd8 42. Re3 Rd2 {Weighted Error Value: White=0.09/Black=0.07} 1/2-1/2

[Event "Goldmoney Asian Rapid Prelims 2021"]
[Site "Chess24"]
[Date "2021.06.24"]
[Round "11.8"]
[White "Duda, Jan-Krzysztof"]
[Black "Dubov, Daniil"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "C84"]
[WhiteElo "2729"]
[BlackElo "2714"]
[Annotator "TA"]
[PlyCount "61"]
[EventDate "2021.06.26"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "NET"]
[Tiebreak "Koya+Number of black wins+Number of wins"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

{[%evp 13,61,20,11,4,26,13,14,31,37,22,34,34,13,55,46,24,31,23,20,20,19,35,22,
29,45,40,62,68,70,70,172,168,176,177,170,172,324,320,294,294,282,295,390,385,
410,394,386,385,540,526]} 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4. Ba4 Nf6 5. O-O Be7
6. d3 b5 7. Bb3 d6 {The main line 7...d6 scores better than 7...0-0.} 8. a3 {
C84: Closed Ruy Lopez: Unusual White 6th moves.} Bg4 9. Be3 d5 10. h3 {The
position is equal.} Bxf3 11. Qxf3 {[%cal Re4d5] [#]} dxe4 $146 ({Predecessor:} 
11... d4 12. Bc1 O-O 13. Nd2 Qd6 14. Qe2 Nd7 15. Nf3 Bf6 16. Nh2 Nd8 17. Ng4
Ne6 18. Nxf6+ Nxf6 {1-0 (73) Chacon,P (2586)-Biedermann,T (2438) ICCF email
2010}) 12. Qg3 exd3 13. Qxg7 Rf8 14. cxd3 Nd4 15. Bxd4 Qxd4 16. Nc3 Qxd3 17.
Rfe1 Qg6 18. Qxg6 hxg6 19. Rxe5 Kd7 20. Rd1+ Bd6 21. Re3 Ne8 ({Black should
play} 21... Kc8 $1 $14) 22. Ne4 $36 {[%mdl 2048] White has strong initiative.}
Kc8 23. Bd5 Rb8 24. Bc6 {[#] Strongly threatening Bxe8.} Ng7 (24... f5 {
is a better defense.}) 25. Nxd6+ cxd6 26. Re7 (26. Rxd6 Nf5 $17) 26... Rb6 27.
Bd5 ({Not} 27. Rxd6 Nf5 $17) 27... Kd8 28. Ra7 Ne6 29. Rc1 {[#] Bxe6 is the
strong threat.} Re8 30. Rxf7 b4 (30... Nc5 {was called for.} 31. b4 Nd7) 31.
axb4 {Weighted Error Value: White=0.01/Black=0.28} 1-0

[Event "Goldmoney Asian Rapid Prelims 2021"]
[Site "Chess24"]
[Date "2021.06.24"]
[Round "12.1"]
[White "Aronian, Levon"]
[Black "Dubov, Daniil"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "D46"]
[WhiteElo "2781"]
[BlackElo "2714"]
[Annotator "TA"]
[PlyCount "85"]
[EventDate "2021.06.26"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "NET"]
[Tiebreak "Koya+Number of black wins+Number of wins"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

{[%evp 19,85,0,12,0,11,-79,-79,-75,-64,-58,-50,-68,-72,-73,-45,-39,-33,-41,0,
-63,0,0,69,69,66,53,42,0,92,69,89,95,99,79,104,122,120,117,114,113,187,196,180,
135,353,353,314,332,308,318,305,282,297,295,264,243,329,262,416,411,638,637,
600,593,984,829,29995,29996]} 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nf3 d5 4. Nc3 c6 5. e3 Nbd7
6. Qc2 Bd6 7. Bd3 O-O 8. O-O dxc4 9. Bxc4 a6 10. e4 e5 $1 11. Rd1 {Strongly
threatening dxe5. D46: Semi-Slav: 5 e3 Nbd7 6 Bd3, Black avoids the Meran.} Qc7
12. Bg5 $5 {[%mdl 4] [#] An interesting side line.} (12. g3 $11) 12... exd4 $1
$17 13. Rxd4 {[#] Black is better.} Ne5 $146 ({Predecessor:} 13... Ng4 14. h3
Nge5 15. Nxe5 Nxe5 16. Be2 Bc5 17. Rd2 Ng6 18. Na4 Ba7 19. Nc5 Bb8 {1/2-1/2 
(40) Evdokimov,A (2530)-Beliavsky,A (2648) Dresden 2007}) 14. Bxf6 gxf6 15.
Nxe5 Bxe5 16. Rd3 b5 17. Bb3 Bxh2+ 18. Kf1 $1 Be5 19. Ne2 (19. Rc1 $11) 19...
f5 (19... a5 $15 20. Rc1 a4) 20. f4 $11 Bg7 (20... Bxf4 $11 21. Nxf4 Qxf4+ {
[%mdl 64] Double Attack} 22. Rf3 Qe5) 21. e5 $14 {[%mdl 1024] White has
compensation.} c5 $1 {[%cal Rc5c4] And now ...c4 would win.} 22. Bd5 Rb8 23.
Rc1 c4 {[#]} (23... Rd8 $1 $11 {remains equal.}) 24. b3 $1 $36 {[%mdl 2048]
White is pushing.} Qe7 (24... a5 25. bxc4) 25. bxc4 bxc4 26. Bxc4 Bb7 {...Be4
would now be nice for Black.} 27. Rh3 Be4 28. Bd3 Rb4 29. a3 Bxd3 (29... Qb7
$16 30. Rg3 Rb2 31. Bxe4 fxe4) 30. Qxd3 $18 Re4 31. Qxa6 Rd8 $2 {A mistake
that costs the game.} (31... Qd8 $16 {was called for.}) 32. Rc8 Bf8 33. Rg3+
Kh8 {intending ...Rd1+.} 34. Rxd8 Qxd8 35. Rd3 Qh4 36. Qc8 {[%cal Rc8f8]} Qh1+
37. Kf2 {[%cal Rc8f8]} Qh4+ 38. Rg3 {[%cal Rc8f8]} Qh6 (38... Qe7 $142 39. Qxf5
Rc4) 39. Qd8 Rc4 (39... Ra4 $142 40. Rh3 Qg7) 40. Rh3 Qg7 41. Nd4 Ra4 42. Nxf5
Qg8 {[#]} 43. Rxh7+ $3 {[%mdl 576] Back Rank.  Weighted Error Value: White=0.
15/Black=0.59} 1-0

[Event "Goldmoney Asian Rapid Prelims 2021"]
[Site "Chess24"]
[Date "2021.06.24"]
[Round "12.2"]
[White "Artemiev, Vladislav"]
[Black "Duda, Jan-Krzysztof"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "D42"]
[WhiteElo "2704"]
[BlackElo "2729"]
[Annotator "TA"]
[PlyCount "111"]
[EventDate "2021.06.26"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "NET"]
[Tiebreak "Koya+Number of black wins+Number of wins"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

{[%evp 16,111,0,-16,16,10,53,30,35,7,10,9,17,31,18,6,13,0,19,7,14,7,4,0,0,0,0,
0,0,0,26,0,0,0,0,0,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,13,16,198,197,222,214,327,295,
412,364,663,655,655,641,1139,1002,3689,2508,6127,11039,7420,6755,6127,5065,
29967,29963,29968,29969,29969,29970,29970,29971,29971,29972,29972,29973,29973,
29974,29974,29975,29975,29976,29976,29977,29977,29978,29978,29978]} 1. d4 Nf6
2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 d5 4. cxd5 Nxd5 5. Nf3 c5 6. e3 Nc6 7. Bd3 Be7 {7...Be7 is
better than 7...cxd4.} 8. O-O O-O 9. a3 b6 {D42: Queen's Gambit Declined:
Semi-Tarrasch: 5 cxd5 Nxd5 6 e3 Nc6 7 Bd3 .} 10. Qc2 h6 11. dxc5 Nxc3 {[#]
White has an edge.} 12. Qxc3 $146 ({Predecessor:} 12. cxb6 Qxb6 13. bxc3 Ba6
14. Rb1 Bxd3 15. Qxd3 Qc7 16. e4 Rfd8 17. Qa6 Ne5 18. Qb7 Nxf3+ 19. gxf3 {
1-0 (62) Ragger,M (2668)-Dourerassou,J (2414) Montpellier 2015}) 12... bxc5 13.
Rd1 Qb6 14. Qc2 Ba6 15. Bxa6 Qxa6 16. Bd2 Rfd8 17. Bc3 Rd5 18. Rxd5 (18. h3 {
with more complications.} Rad8 19. Rac1 Qc4 20. Rd2 a5 21. b3) 18... exd5 19.
Rd1 Rd8 20. Qb3 Qb6 21. Qa4 Bf8 22. h3 g6 23. Bf6 (23. b4 $5 cxb4 24. axb4 $11)
23... Rd6 24. Qf4 d4 25. exd4 Nxd4 26. Bxd4 ({Wrong is} 26. Nxd4 $2 Rxf6 27.
Qe4 cxd4 $19) 26... cxd4 27. Rxd4 Rxd4 28. Qxd4 ({Much worse is} 28. Nxd4 Qxb2
29. Nf3 Qa1+ 30. Kh2 Qxa3 $17) 28... Qxd4 29. Nxd4 $11 {[%mdl 4096] Endgame
KB-KN} Bg7 30. Nc6 {[#] b4 is the strong threat.} Bxb2 31. a4 a6 32. Kf1 f5 33.
Ke2 {Black should prevent Kd3.} Kf7 $2 {This costs Black the game.} (33... Bc3
$1 $11 {and Black stays safe.}) 34. Kd3 Ke6 35. Nb4 g5 (35... Bf6 $142 36. Kc4
(36. Nxa6 Kd6 $16) 36... Bh4) 36. Nxa6 $18 g4 37. Kc4 Bc1 $2 (37... Kd6 38. a5
Be5) 38. Nc5+ Kd6 39. a5 {[%cal Ba4a5,Ba5a6][%mdl 32] [#] And now a6 would win.
} Kc6 40. Nb3 gxh3 41. gxh3 Bg5 42. Nd4+ Kb7 43. Kb5 f4 44. a6+ Ka7 45. Nc6+ {
White mates.} Ka8 46. f3 h5 47. Kc4 Bh4 48. Kd5 Bg3 49. Ke4 Bh2 50. Kf5 Bg3 51.
Kg5 h4 52. Kg4 Bf2 53. Kxf4 Be1 54. Ke4 Bg3 55. Kd5 Bh2 56. Kc4 {Weighted
Error Value: White=0.02/Black=0.39} 1-0

[Event "Goldmoney Asian Rapid Prelims 2021"]
[Site "Chess24"]
[Date "2021.06.24"]
[Round "12.3"]
[White "Adhiban, B.."]
[Black "Giri, Anish"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "A06"]
[WhiteElo "2660"]
[BlackElo "2780"]
[Annotator "TA"]
[PlyCount "69"]
[EventDate "2021.06.26"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "NET"]
[Tiebreak "Koya+Number of black wins+Number of wins"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

{[%evp 9,69,4,16,8,8,16,28,8,15,0,21,-14,-10,-22,-7,-23,-7,0,-2,-17,-11,-77,
-38,-39,-56,-41,-22,-29,-2,-4,0,0,6,6,33,0,266,125,107,82,422,379,662,619,983,
983,5173,5173,1879,339,332,330,330,332,29992,29993,29993,29994,29995,29996,
29996,29997]} 1. b3 d5 2. Nf3 Bf5 3. Bb2 e6 4. d3 h6 5. Nbd2 Nf6 6. g3 {
A06: Réti Opening: 1 Nf3 d5.} Bh7 7. Bg2 Be7 8. e4 {White has an edge.} O-O 9.
Qe2 a5 {[%cal Ba7a5,Ba5a4][%mdl 32]} 10. a3 a4 11. b4 c5 12. b5 {[#]} c4 $146 (
{Predecessor:} 12... Qa5 13. c4 dxe4 14. dxe4 Nxe4 15. O-O Nf6 16. Ne5 Qc7 17.
Rad1 Nbd7 18. Nxd7 Nxd7 {1/2-1/2 (41) Gabuzyan,H (2557)-Pashikian,A (2606)
Yerevan 2021}) 13. dxc4 {Threatens to win with e5.} Nxe4 14. O-O Nd7 15. Rad1 (
15. cxd5 $11 {keeps the balance.} exd5 16. Nxe4 Bxe4 17. Ne5 Nxe5 18. Bxe5)
15... Bf6 16. Nxe4 Bxb2 17. cxd5 exd5 18. Rxd5 {Strongly threatening Rb1.} Qe7
{Hoping for ...Nb6.} 19. Nfd2 Bxa3 20. Nc4 {And now Qd3 would win.} Bb4 21. c3
{Rfd1 is the strong threat.} Ba5 (21... Bxe4 $5 22. Qxe4 Qxe4 23. Bxe4 Nf6 {
[%mdl 64] Double Attack} 24. cxb4 Nxe4 $11) 22. b6 f5 $2 {[%mdl 8192] [#]} 23.
Nf6+ $1 {[%mdl 512]} Qxf6 $16 24. Rxd7 Qxc3 $2 {[%mdl 8192] This move loses
the game for Black.} (24... Kh8 $16) 25. Bxb7 Rab8 (25... Rae8 26. Bd5+ Kh8)
26. Nxa5 $18 Qxa5 27. Bd5+ Kh8 28. Qe5 {[%csl Gd7][%cal Re5g7]} Rg8 {[#]} 29.
Rc1 $2 (29. Rxg7 $3 {[%mdl 512]} Rxg7 30. Qxb8+ Bg8 31. Bxg8 Rxg8 32. Qd6)
29... Qxb6 {and the idea ...Rbe8 leaves Black hopeful.} 30. Bxg8 Rxg8 31. Rcc7
{[%cal Rd7g7]} f4 $2 (31... Qb1+ $18 32. Kg2 Qe4+ 33. Qxe4 fxe4) 32. Rxg7 {
[%csl Gc7][%cal Rg7h7] White mates.} Qb1+ 33. Kg2 {[%csl Gc7][%cal Rg7h7]} f3+
34. Kh3 {[%csl Gc7][%cal Rg7h7]} Qf5+ 35. g4 {[%csl Gc7][%cal Rg7h7] Weighted
Error Value: White=0.43/Black=0.64} 1-0

[Event "Goldmoney Asian Rapid Prelims 2021"]
[Site "Chess24"]
[Date "2021.06.24"]
[Round "12.4"]
[White "Ding, Liren"]
[Black "Carlsen, Magnus"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "E08"]
[WhiteElo "2799"]
[BlackElo "2847"]
[Annotator "TA"]
[PlyCount "29"]
[EventDate "2021.06.26"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "NET"]
[Tiebreak "Koya+Number of black wins+Number of wins"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

{[%evp 28,29,0,0]} 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. g3 d5 4. Bg2 Bb4+ 5. Bd2 Be7 6. Nf3
O-O 7. O-O c6 8. Qc2 b6 9. Rd1 Bb7 10. Bf4 Nbd7 11. Ne5 Nh5 12. Bd2 Nhf6 {[#]}
13. Bf4 $146 ({Predecessor:} 13. cxd5 cxd5 14. Nc6 Bxc6 15. Qxc6 Rc8 16. Qb5
Ne8 17. Qd3 Nd6 18. Nc3 Nf6 19. Be1 Qd7 20. Rac1 h5 21. Rc2 Rc7 {1/2-1/2 (44)
Leko,P (2663)-Giri,A (2764) chess24.com INT 2020}) 13... Nh5 14. Bd2 Nhf6 15.
Bf4 1/2-1/2

[Event "Goldmoney Asian Rapid Prelims 2021"]
[Site "Chess24"]
[Date "2021.06.24"]
[Round "12.5"]
[White "Gukesh D"]
[Black "Salem, A.R. Saleh"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "E94"]
[WhiteElo "2578"]
[BlackElo "2682"]
[Annotator "TA"]
[PlyCount "33"]
[EventDate "2021.06.26"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "NET"]
[Tiebreak "Koya+Number of black wins+Number of wins"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

{[%evp 19,33,15,16,19,84,106,102,68,66,70,68,51,84,78,1317,1315]} 1. d4 Nf6 2.
c4 g6 3. Nc3 Bg7 4. e4 O-O 5. Nf3 d6 6. Be2 e5 7. O-O Na6 8. Re1 c6 9. Bf1 exd4
10. Nxd4 Ng4 {[#] And now ...Qh4! would win.} 11. h3 {E94: King's Indian:
Classical: 6 Be2 e5 7 0-0: Various Black 7th moves.} Nxf2 12. Kxf2 $16 {
Black must now prevent Be3.} Qb6 13. Be3 {Rb1 is the strong threat.White is
better.} Qxb2+ {[%mdl 64] [#] Double Attack} 14. Nce2 Nc5 15. Kg1 Re8 {[#]} 16.
Nc2 $146 ({Predecessor:} 16. Rb1 Qxa2 17. Nc3 Qa5 18. Qc2 Bd7 19. Bf2 a6 20.
Ra1 Qc7 21. Nf3 b5 22. cxb5 axb5 23. Rxa8 Rxa8 {1-0 (37) Gyimesi,Z (2624)
-Polzin,R (2514) Austria 2005}) 16... Qb3 $2 {[%mdl 8192]} 17. axb3 {Weighted
Error Value: White=0.07/Black=0.23} 1-0

[Event "Goldmoney Asian Rapid Prelims 2021"]
[Site "Chess24"]
[Date "2021.06.24"]
[Round "12.6"]
[White "Erigaisi Arjun"]
[Black "Svidler, Peter"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "D85"]
[WhiteElo "2567"]
[BlackElo "2714"]
[Annotator "TA"]
[PlyCount "79"]
[EventDate "2021.06.26"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "NET"]
[Tiebreak "Koya+Number of black wins+Number of wins"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

{[%evp 17,79,30,43,0,43,43,60,58,75,41,32,17,32,5,15,0,0,0,15,15,8,8,18,12,18,
18,18,18,18,14,15,15,22,12,18,15,7,0,30,26,51,0,0,0,0,0,0,15,44,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,
0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]} 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. Nc3 d5 4. cxd5 Nxd5 5. e4 Nxc3 6. bxc3
Bg7 7. Nf3 c5 8. Be3 O-O 9. Be2 Qa5 10. Nd2 {D85: Exchange Grünfeld: Unusual
White 7th moves and lines with 7 Nf3.} cxd4 11. cxd4 Bd7 {Black wants to play .
..Ba4.} 12. O-O {[#] White is slightly better.} Bb5 $146 ({Predecessor:} 12...
Ba4 13. Nb3 Qb4 14. Rc1 Nd7 15. Rc4 Qa3 16. Qc2 Nb6 17. Rc5 Rfd8 18. d5 Nd7 {
1/2-1/2 (42) Bruno,F (2420)-Antal,G (2505) Forni di Sopra 2015}) 13. Bxb5 Qxb5
14. Rb1 Qd7 15. Nc4 Rc8 16. Ne5 Bxe5 17. dxe5 Qxd1 18. Rfxd1 b6 19. Bh6 Na6 20.
Rd7 Re8 21. f3 Nc5 22. Rd5 Rad8 23. Rbd1 Rxd5 24. Rxd5 $11 {[%mdl 4096]
Endgame KRB-KRN} Rc8 25. h4 f6 26. exf6 exf6 27. Be3 Rc7 28. Kf2 Ne6 29. f4 (
29. a4 $14) 29... Rc2+ 30. Kf3 Rxa2 31. f5 gxf5 (31... Nc5 {keeps more tension.
} 32. Bxc5 bxc5 33. Rxc5 gxf5 34. Rxf5 Kg7) 32. exf5 Nc5 33. Bxc5 (33. h5 {
is interesting.} Kf7 34. Rd8 Ra1 35. Rh8 Kg7 36. Rc8) 33... bxc5 {The position
is equal.} 34. Rxc5 $14 {KR-KR} h5 35. Rc6 Kg7 36. Rc7+ Kg8 37. Rc8+ Kg7 38.
Rc7+ Kg8 39. Rc8+ Kg7 40. Rc7+ {Weighted Error Value: White=0.11/Black=0.08}
1/2-1/2

[Event "Goldmoney Asian Rapid Prelims 2021"]
[Site "Chess24"]
[Date "2021.06.24"]
[Round "12.7"]
[White "Vidit, Santosh Gujrathi"]
[Black "So, Wesley"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "C54"]
[WhiteElo "2726"]
[BlackElo "2770"]
[Annotator "TA"]
[PlyCount "41"]
[EventDate "2021.06.26"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "NET"]
[Tiebreak "Koya+Number of black wins+Number of wins"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

{[%evp 16,41,24,14,23,10,22,5,12,14,16,0,10,-28,-14,-16,7,-5,-7,-22,-17,-20,3,
0,-3,0,-5,0]} 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Bc5 4. c3 Nf6 5. d3 O-O 6. O-O d6 7.
Re1 h6 8. Nbd2 Bb6 9. Bb3 $1 {[%mdl 4] now scores much better than the old 9.
Nf1.} a5 {C54: Giuoco Piano: 4 c3 Nf6, main lines with 5 d4 and 5 d3.} 10. Nf1
Be6 11. Bc2 d5 12. exd5 {[#]} Nxd5 $146 ({Predecessor:} 12... Qxd5 13. Bb3 Qd6
14. Bxe6 Qxe6 15. d4 Rad8 16. Qc2 Nd7 17. Bf4 f6 18. a3 Qg4 {1-0 (28) Aronian,
L (2781)-So,W (2770) Paris 2021}) 13. h3 Qd6 14. Ba4 Nde7 15. Be3 {The
position is equal.} Bxe3 16. Rxe3 Rad8 17. Bxc6 Nxc6 18. Qe2 {[%cal Rf3e5]} Bf5
{[%cal Rf5d3]} 19. Nxe5 Nxe5 20. Rxe5 {[%mdl 64] [#] Double Attack} Bxd3 21.
Qe3 {A rather calm draw.  Weighted Error Value: White=0.10/Black=0.09} 1/2-1/2

[Event "Goldmoney Asian Rapid Prelims 2021"]
[Site "Chess24"]
[Date "2021.06.24"]
[Round "12.8"]
[White "Firouzja, Alireza"]
[Black "Hou, Yifan"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "C11"]
[WhiteElo "2759"]
[BlackElo "2658"]
[Annotator "TA"]
[PlyCount "247"]
[EventDate "2021.06.26"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "NET"]
[Tiebreak "Koya+Number of black wins+Number of wins"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

{[%evp 16,247,20,20,20,7,85,89,95,103,107,95,100,100,93,96,110,104,100,108,102,
91,105,104,174,133,194,108,112,96,95,83,122,71,72,78,82,85,100,103,96,104,92,
51,51,58,47,39,38,12,12,12,60,60,57,43,70,67,67,66,83,73,64,56,79,65,83,96,84,
66,115,115,128,138,175,179,173,164,146,115,115,115,115,115,115,115,115,115,202,
202,306,210,345,202,202,202,202,202,202,202,288,202,202,0,202,0,202,115,181,
161,161,154,154,125,125,125,164,154,154,115,115,115,115,115,115,115,115,115,
115,115,146,146,146,139,146,139,139,132,154,154,184,183,195,195,195,195,195,
195,195,195,683,195,649,550,559,452,806,1138,888,1214,1110,1213,955,1186,1213,
1214,1213,1210,1219,1220,1208,0,1157,1185,1166,1109,744,1074,1025,802,747,0,
1000,979,922,914,1225,1224,1215,1173,1187,1167,1152,1137,1140,1117,1132,1117,
1117,1103,1103,1103,1103,1095,1074,804,1066,1054,975,956,1034,1004,967,597,829,
695,658,573,616,270,1850,1807,1555,1345,29974,29975,29978,29979,29979,29980,
29979,29978,29979,29977]} 1. d4 e6 2. e4 d5 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. e5 Nfd7 5. f4 c5 6.
Nf3 Nc6 7. Be3 a6 8. Qd2 b5 9. a3 Qa5 {C11: French: Classical System: 4 e5 and
4 Bg5 dxe4.} 10. dxc5 b4 (10... Bxc5 $11 11. Bxc5 Nxc5) 11. Na2 $16 {[%cal
Ra3b4]} Nxc5 {White is better.} 12. axb4 Nxb4 {[#]} 13. c3 $146 {[%cal Rc3b4]}
({Predecessor:} 13. Be2 Nxc2+ 14. Kd1 Qxd2+ 15. Kxd2 Nxa1 16. Bxc5 Nb3+ {
0-1 (16) Hagner,B (1912)-Buchenau,F (2064) Playchess.com INT 2020}) 13... Nb3
14. cxb4 Qa4 {[#]} 15. Qd1 Bd7 16. Kf2 Nxa1 17. Qxa1 Bxb4 18. Bd3 Be7 19. Qb1
Bb5 (19... Rb8 $16) 20. Bc2 Qc4 {[#]} (20... Qa5 $16 21. Nd4 Rc8) 21. Nc3 ({
White should try} 21. Nd4 $1 $18) 21... Bc5 22. Bxc5 Qxc5+ 23. Kg3 h6 24. Qg1 (
24. f5 $142) 24... Qxg1 25. Rxg1 Ke7 26. Nd4 Rhc8 27. Ra1 Bd7 28. Kf3 Rab8 29.
Ra2 ({Not} 29. Rxa6 Rxb2 30. Ra3 Rc4 $17) 29... Rb4 30. Ke3 a5 31. h4 a4 32.
Bd3 Rcb8 33. Nd1 h5 34. Ra3 Rc8 35. Ra1 g6 36. Nc2 Rb3 37. Kd2 Rc7 38. Ra2 Rcb7
39. Nd4 R3b6 40. Ra3 Rc7 41. g3 Rb4 42. Ne2 d4 43. Nc1 Bc6 44. Bc2 Bb5 45. Na2
Rbc4 46. Bd3 R4c5 47. Nb4 Bxd3 48. Kxd3 {Hoping for Na6.} Rc1 49. Nf2 Rb1 50.
Rxa4 Rxb2 51. Ne4 Rb3+ (51... Rb1 $16 52. Kxd4 Rcc1 53. Ra7+ Kf8) 52. Kxd4 $18
Rb7 (52... Kf8 {might work better.} 53. Ra8+ Kg7) 53. Nd3 R3b5 (53... Rd7+ $142
54. Nd6 Rb8) 54. Nf6 (54. Nd6 $142 Rd5+ 55. Ke4 Rxd6 56. exd6+ Kxd6 57. Ra6+
Ke7 58. Nc5) 54... Rb8 55. Ke3 Rb3 56. Ne4 R8b5 57. Ra7+ Rb7 (57... Kf8 {
was necessary.} 58. Nd2 (58. Nd6 Rd5 $11) 58... Rb7) 58. Ra8 Rb8 59. Ra4 R8b5
60. Nf6 Rb8 $1 61. Ke4 ({Better is} 61. Kd2 $18) 61... R3b5 (61... Rd8 $16) 62.
Rc4 R5b7 63. Ke3 Rd8 64. Nb4 {And now Nc6+ would win.} Kf8 65. Ne4 Rdb8 66. Nd3
Ra7 67. Nd6 Ra3 68. Ke4 Rbb3 69. Rd4 Ra7 70. Nc4 Rc7 71. Nd2 Rbb7 72. Ke3 Rd7
73. Rc4 {Strongly threatening Nc5.} Ra7 74. Rc3 Rdc7 75. Nc5 Ke7 76. Nde4 Ra5
77. Kd4 Rb5 78. Ra3 {aiming for Ra8.} Rb4+ 79. Ke3 {Ra8 is the strong threat.}
Rb5 80. Nd3 Rb8 81. Nd6 Kf8 82. Nf2 Rb1 $2 (82... Kg7 83. Nfe4 Rd7) 83. Nfe4 $2
(83. Ra8+ Ke7 84. Nd3) 83... Ke7 $2 (83... Rb8 84. Nf6 Rd8 85. Nh7+ Kg8) 84.
Ng5 Rbc1 85. Ngxf7 R1c3+ (85... Rg1 $142) 86. Rxc3 Rxc3+ 87. Kf2 Rc2+ 88. Kf3
Rc3+ 89. Kg2 Rc2+ 90. Kh3 Kf8 91. Ng5 Ke7 92. Nb5 Rc4 93. Nd6 Rc2 $1 94. Nde4
Kd7 95. Nf7 Ke7 96. Nfd6 Kf8 97. Nb5 Ke7 98. Ng5 Rc4 $1 99. Kg2 Kd7 100. Kf3
Rb4 101. Nc3 Rb3 102. Nge4 Ke7 103. Ke3 Rb4 104. Ne2 Rb3+ 105. Kd2 Rb4 106. Kd3
Rb3+ 107. N4c3 Ra3 108. Nd4 Ra1 109. Ne4 Ra3+ 110. Ke2 Ra2+ 111. Nd2 Ra1 112.
N2f3 Ra2+ 113. Ke3 Ra3+ 114. Kf2 Ra2+ 115. Kf1 Ra3 116. Kg2 Ra4 117. Kh3 (117.
Ne2 $142 Ra2 118. Kf2) 117... Rc4 $2 (117... Kd7 118. Nb3 Ke7) 118. g4 hxg4+
119. Kxg4 Ra4 120. Kg5 {White mates.} Kf7 121. Kh6 Ra8 122. Ng5+ {[%mdl 64]
Double Attack} Ke7 123. Kg7 Ra1 124. Kxg6 {Weighted Error Value: White=0.22/
Black=0.19} 1-0

[Event "Goldmoney Asian Rapid Prelims 2021"]
[Site "Chess24"]
[Date "2021.06.24"]
[Round "13.1"]
[White "Hou, Yifan"]
[Black "Aronian, Levon"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "C54"]
[WhiteElo "2658"]
[BlackElo "2781"]
[Annotator "TA"]
[PlyCount "91"]
[EventDate "2021.06.26"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "NET"]
[Tiebreak "Koya+Number of black wins+Number of wins"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

{[%evp 24,91,10,0,37,23,35,32,50,46,52,0,0,0,0,-89,-116,-142,-152,-137,-137,
-126,-108,-139,-127,-164,-124,-125,-128,-121,-62,-68,-76,-137,-109,-122,-112,
-152,-159,-149,-137,-160,-44,-43,-37,-37,-45,-56,-54,-48,-26,-26,-19,-27,-20,
-20,-20,-20,-20,-26,-14,-14,-14,-14,-14,-14,-14,-14,8,8]} 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6
3. Bc4 Bc5 4. c3 Nf6 5. d4 exd4 6. cxd4 Bb4+ 7. Bd2 Bxd2+ 8. Nbxd2 d5 9. exd5
Nxd5 10. O-O O-O 11. Rc1 Nce7 12. Qb3 c6 13. Rfe1 Kh8 {C54: Giuoco Piano: 4 c3
Nf6, main lines with 5 d4 and 5 d3.} 14. Ne4 f6 15. h3 {[#]} b6 $146 {White is
slightly better.} ({Predecessor:} 15... a5 16. Nc3 Nf4 17. a4 Rb8 18. Ne2 Ned5
19. Qa3 Nxe2+ 20. Rxe2 Nb4 21. Nh4 g5 {1/2-1/2 (49) Miettinen,K (2213)
-Vertongen,W (2310) LSS email 2009}) 16. Qa3 a5 17. Bxd5 ({White should play} 
17. Nc3 $14) 17... Nxd5 $11 18. Rxc6 {Strongly threatening Rd6.} Bb7 19. Re6 {
[#]} (19. Rd6 $11 {remains equal.} Qc7 20. Re6) 19... Nb4 $1 $17 20. Nd6 Bd5 {
[%mdl 64] Double Attack} 21. Qa4 Bxe6 22. Rxe6 Ra7 {[%cal Ba8a7,Ba7d7,Bd7d5]
[%mdl 32]} 23. a3 Nd5 24. Nb5 Rd7 25. Qc4 Re8 26. Rc6 g6 (26... Qe7 $17 27. Qb3
Qe4) 27. Nc3 $15 Kg7 28. Qb5 (28. g3 $142) 28... Ree7 29. Nxd5 Rxd5 30. Qxb6
Qxb6 31. Rxb6 $17 {[%mdl 4096] Endgame KRR-KRN} h5 32. h4 g5 (32... Rdd7 $17 {
...Rb7 is the strong threat.} 33. Ra6 Ra7) 33. hxg5 $15 fxg5 34. Ne5 Kh7 35. b3
g4 ({Don't play} 35... Rxd4 36. Rb5 $17) 36. Kh2 $1 Rxd4 37. Rb5 {[#] And now
Nc6 would win.} Rc7 38. f3 a4 (38... Kg7 {with more complications.} 39. Rxa5
Kf6 40. fxg4 hxg4 41. Kg3 Rc3+) 39. bxa4 Rxa4 {With the idea ...Rc3.} 40. fxg4
hxg4 41. Rb4 $1 {[%cal Rb4a4]} Rxb4 (41... Rxa3 {feels hotter.} 42. Rxg4 Rc2
43. Rh4+ Kg7 44. Rf4 Rca2) 42. axb4 {The position is equal.} Rb7 43. Nxg4 Rxb4
44. Ne5 Rb2 45. Nf3 Rxg2+ 46. Kxg2 {Weighted Error Value: White=0.14/Black=0.17
} 1/2-1/2

[Event "Goldmoney Asian Rapid Prelims 2021"]
[Site "Chess24"]
[Date "2021.06.24"]
[Round "13.2"]
[White "So, Wesley"]
[Black "Firouzja, Alireza"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "E32"]
[WhiteElo "2770"]
[BlackElo "2759"]
[Annotator "TA"]
[PlyCount "54"]
[EventDate "2021.06.26"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "NET"]
[Tiebreak "Koya+Number of black wins+Number of wins"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

{[%evp 13,54,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,
0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]} 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. Qc2 O-O 5. e4 d5 6. e5 Ne4
7. Bd3 c5 {The position is equal.} 8. Nf3 {E32: Nimzo-Indian: Classical (4 Qc2)
: 4...0-0.} cxd4 9. Nxd4 Nd7 10. Bf4 Qh4 11. g3 Qh5 12. O-O g5 13. cxd5 Bxc3
14. bxc3 exd5 15. e6 gxf4 16. exd7 Bxd7 17. Bxe4 dxe4 18. Qxe4 {[%mdl 64] [#]
Double Attack} fxg3 19. fxg3 b6 20. Nf5 Rae8 21. Qd5 Bxf5 ({Wrong is} 21... Re2
$2 {[#]} 22. Ne7+ $1 {[%mdl 512]} Rxe7 23. Qxh5 $18) 22. Rxf5 Qe2 23. Raf1 {
Hoping for Rg5+.} Qe3+ 24. R1f2 {[%cal Rf5f7]} Qe1+ {[#]} 25. Rf1 $146 ({
Predecessor:} 25. Kg2 Qe4+ 26. Qxe4 Rxe4 27. Rg5+ Kh8 28. Rgf5 Kg8 29. Rg5+ Kh8
30. Rgf5 Kg8 {1/2-1/2 (30) So,W (2770)-Nakamura,H (2736) Lichess.org INT 2020})
25... Qe3+ 26. R1f2 {[%cal Rf5f7]} Qe1+ 27. Rf1 Qe3+ {An uneventful encounter.
Weighted Error Value: White=0.00/Black=0.00} 1/2-1/2

[Event "Goldmoney Asian Rapid Prelims 2021"]
[Site "Chess24"]
[Date "2021.06.24"]
[Round "13.3"]
[White "Svidler, Peter"]
[Black "Vidit, Santosh Gujrathi"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "A09"]
[WhiteElo "2714"]
[BlackElo "2726"]
[Annotator "TA"]
[PlyCount "104"]
[EventDate "2021.06.26"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "NET"]
[Tiebreak "Koya+Number of black wins+Number of wins"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

{[%evp 9,104,31,43,27,31,24,39,32,21,37,59,54,73,75,75,69,68,65,71,70,185,187,
175,116,148,185,266,222,268,171,131,194,246,-15,-9,-7,0,-92,-85,-122,-120,-85,
-90,-91,-95,-87,-83,-96,-70,-71,-71,-123,-124,-135,-104,-107,-112,-123,-93,
-100,-87,-115,-100,-146,-125,-173,-120,-120,-120,-120,-120,-153,-157,-148,-134,
-140,-64,-76,-46,-92,-97,-194,-202,-204,-174,-174,-192,-126,-121,-130,-124,
-347,-339,-340,-332,-5126,-760]} 1. Nf3 d5 2. c4 d4 3. b4 c5 4. g3 a5 5. bxc5
Nc6 6. d3 {A09: Réti Opening: 1 Nf3 d5 2 c4.} e5 7. Ba3 Nf6 8. Nbd2 {White is
slightly better.} Qc7 9. Bg2 Nb4 10. Nb3 Na6 11. O-O a4 12. Nbxd4 exd4 13. Nxd4
{[#]} Nxc5 $146 ({Predecessor:} 13... Bd7 14. Rb1 Nxc5 15. Nb5 Bxb5 16. Rxb5
Ra5 17. Bxc5 Bxc5 18. Rxb7 Qd6 19. e3 O-O {1-0 (27) Mareco,S (2632)-Slipak,S 
(2457) Montevideo 2018}) 14. Nb5 Qa5 ({Black should play} 14... Qd8 $14) 15.
Rb1 $18 {[%mdl 1024] White has strong compensation.} Bd7 16. d4 ({White should
try} 16. e4 $18) 16... Nce4 $16 17. Qd3 {Black must now prevent Bxf8.} Nd2 (
17... Bxa3 $142 18. Qxa3 Ra6) 18. Qe3+ $18 Be6 19. Bxb7 Nxc4 20. Bc6+ Kd8 (
20... Nd7 $142 21. Qd3 Nxa3) 21. Qf3 $2 ({Better is} 21. Qd3 $18 {Strongly
threatening Bxf8.} Nxa3 22. d5) 21... Nxa3 $11 22. Nxa3 Bd5 $1 {[%cal Rd5f3]} (
22... Bxa2 $2 23. Bxa8 Bb4 24. Qb7 $1 $18) 23. Bxd5 (23. Nc4 $1 $11 {remains
equal.} Bxf3 24. Nxa5 Rxa5 25. Bxf3) 23... Qxd5 $17 {[%mdl 64] Double Attack} (
23... Nxd5 $2 24. Nc4 $18) 24. Qd3 Bxa3 ({Wrong is} 24... Qxa2 $2 25. Nc4 $18)
25. Qxa3 Kd7 26. Rfc1 {Rc5 is the strong threat.} Rhc8 27. Rxc8 Rxc8 28. Qxa4+
Ke7 29. f3 Nd7 30. Kf2 (30. Rb4 $142) 30... Rc4 31. Qa3+ Qd6 32. Qe3+ Kf8 33.
Rd1 h6 34. Rd2 Nb6 35. Qe4 Ra4 36. e3 g6 37. Rc2 Kg7 (37... Ra3 $19 38. Kg1 Qb4
) 38. Qe5+ Qxe5 39. dxe5 {[%mdl 4096] Endgame KRN-KR} Nd5 40. f4 Ra3 $1 41. e4
Nc3 42. Ke3 {[#]} Nxa2+ (42... Nb5+ $1 $17 43. Kf2 Nd4) 43. Kd4 $15 Ra4+ 44.
Kc5 Ra8 {Threatens to win with ...Rc8+.} 45. Kd6 {[#]} (45. Kb5 $17) 45... Nb4
$1 $19 {[%cal Rb4c2]} 46. Rc7 Ra6+ 47. Kc5 Nd3+ 48. Kd4 Nf2 49. f5 Ra4+ 50. Ke3
$2 (50. Kd5 $17) 50... Ng4+ ({Weaker is} 50... Nxe4 51. f6+ Nxf6 52. exf6+ Kxf6
53. Rc3 $17) 51. Kf4 gxf5 {[%mdl 64] Overworked Piece} ({Not} 51... Nxh2 52.
f6+ Kg8 53. Rc8+ Kh7 54. e6 $11) 52. Kxf5 $2 (52. h4) 52... Ne3+ {Black used
his chance.  Weighted Error Value: White=0.50/Black=0.12} 0-1

[Event "Goldmoney Asian Rapid Prelims 2021"]
[Site "Chess24"]
[Date "2021.06.24"]
[Round "13.4"]
[White "Salem, A.R. Saleh"]
[Black "Erigaisi Arjun"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "E54"]
[WhiteElo "2682"]
[BlackElo "2567"]
[Annotator "TA"]
[PlyCount "71"]
[EventDate "2021.06.26"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "NET"]
[Tiebreak "Koya+Number of black wins+Number of wins"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

{[%evp 23,71,4,24,25,36,51,56,18,56,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,-11,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,-26,
-14,-23,0,0,2,4,89,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,4,0]} 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3
Bb4 4. e3 O-O 5. Bd3 d5 6. Nf3 c5 7. O-O cxd4 8. exd4 dxc4 9. Bxc4 b6 10. Bd3
Bb7 11. a3 $1 {[%mdl 4] outshines the older 11.Bg5.} Bxc3 12. bxc3 Qc7 13. c4 {
E54: Nimzo-Indian: Rubinstein: Main Line: 7...dxc4 8 Bxc4.} h6 14. Re1 Nbd7 15.
a4 {White is slightly better.} Rfe8 {[#]} 16. h3 $146 ({Better is} 16. Bb2 $14)
({Predecessor:} 16. Bb2 Rac8 17. Nd2 e5 18. d5 Ba6 19. Ra3 Qd6 20. Qa1 Qb4 21.
Bc3 Qf8 22. Bf1 {1-0 (53) Raznikov,D (2484)-Warakomska,A (2260) Zalakaros 2015}
) 16... e5 $11 17. Nxe5 Nxe5 18. dxe5 Rxe5 19. Rxe5 Qxe5 20. Ra2 Rd8 {[#]
White must now prevent ...Qe4!} 21. Rd2 {And now Bh7+! would win.} Be4 (21...
Ne4 {with more complications.} 22. Qe1 f6 23. Bxe4 Rxd2 24. Bxd2 Qxe4 25. Qxe4
Bxe4 26. c5 bxc5 27. Be3 a6) 22. Bf1 Rxd2 23. Bxd2 Bc6 24. Be3 Nd7 25. Bd3 Nc5
26. Bc2 Be4 27. Bxe4 Qxe4 28. a5 {White wants to play axb6.} Qxc4 (28... Kh7
$11 {keeps the balance.}) 29. axb6 (29. Qd8+ $16 Kh7 30. Qc7 (30. axb6 axb6 31.
Qxb6 Nd3 $11)) 29... axb6 {The position is equal.} 30. Qd8+ Kh7 31. Qxb6 Ne6
32. Qb1+ Kg8 33. Qb8+ Kh7 34. Qb1+ Kg8 35. Qb8+ Kh7 36. Qb1+ {Weighted Error
Value: White=0.11/Black=0.14} 1/2-1/2

[Event "Goldmoney Asian Rapid Prelims 2021"]
[Site "Chess24"]
[Date "2021.06.24"]
[Round "13.5"]
[White "Carlsen, Magnus"]
[Black "Gukesh D"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "D00"]
[WhiteElo "2847"]
[BlackElo "2578"]
[Annotator "TA"]
[PlyCount "174"]
[EventDate "2021.06.26"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "NET"]
[Tiebreak "Koya+Number of black wins+Number of wins"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

{[%evp 9,174,8,8,3,6,0,9,0,1,-8,-7,-16,-6,-7,0,-47,-30,-25,-27,-35,-34,-56,-50,
-54,-40,-52,-57,-54,-45,-66,-48,-46,-54,-73,-70,-85,-63,-81,-64,-83,-75,-70,
-73,-109,-88,-89,-57,-62,-35,-29,-8,-8,-8,-8,-2,-2,-2,-2,-10,-31,0,-8,0,0,0,
-12,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,43,43,43,43,43,43,43,43,48,43,43,43,43,43,43,43,43,43,
43,43,43,43,43,12,43,12,43,43,43,43,43,43,43,43,43,43,43,43,43,43,43,43,43,0,
43,0,43,43,43,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,
0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]} 1. d4 d5 2. Bf4 Nf6 3. e3 Bg4 4. Be2 Bxe2 5. Qxe2 e6 6.
Nf3 {[#] D00: 1 d4 d5: Unusual lines.} c5 $146 ({Predecessor:} 6... Bd6 7. Nc3
O-O 8. Ne5 c5 9. dxc5 Bxc5 10. O-O Nc6 11. Nd3 Bd6 12. Bxd6 Qxd6 {0-1 (20)
Freire,D (1931)-Tanti,J (2185) ICCF email 2017}) 7. dxc5 Nc6 8. Qb5 Qd7 9. Nc3
a6 10. Qb6 Qc8 11. Na4 Nd7 12. Qc7 Qxc7 13. Bxc7 Bxc5 14. Nxc5 Nxc5 15. Ke2 Rc8
16. Bg3 b5 17. c3 f6 18. Rhc1 Kf7 19. Nd2 e5 20. f3 Rhd8 21. b3 a5 22. Rc2 h5
23. Rd1 Ke6 24. Rb1 g5 25. Bf2 e4 26. fxe4 dxe4 27. b4 axb4 28. cxb4 Nd3 {
[#] Strongly threatening ...Nd4+!} (28... Na6 $5 {[%cal Rc6d4]} 29. Rcc1 Naxb4
30. Nxe4 Nxa2 $17) 29. Nxe4 Ncxb4 30. Rxc8 Rxc8 31. a3 $132 {[%mdl 2048] White
has counterplay} Rc2+ 32. Nd2 $1 {And now Bg3 would win.} Nxf2 33. Rxb4 $11 {
[%mdl 4096] Endgame KRN-KRN} Ng4 34. Rxb5 Ra2 35. Rb6+ Ke7 36. Rb7+ Ke6 37.
Rb6+ Kd7 38. h3 Ne5 39. Rxf6 Nc4 {[#]} 40. Kd3 Nxd2 41. Rf2 Rxa3+ 42. Kxd2 {
KR-KR} Ke6 43. Ke2 Ke5 44. Rf8 Ke4 45. Re8+ Kf5 46. Kf3 Rb3 47. g4+ hxg4+ 48.
hxg4+ Kf6 49. Rd8 Ra3 50. Rd6+ Kf7 51. Ke4 Ra4+ 52. Rd4 Ra3 53. Rb4 Kf6 54. Kd4
Ra1 55. Rc4 Ra2 56. Kd5 Rd2+ 57. Rd4 Ra2 58. Ke4 Ra3 59. Rd6+ Kf7 60. Rd3 Ra4+
61. Kf3 Kf6 62. Rd6+ (62. Kg3 {feels hotter.} Kg6 63. Rd4 Ra6 64. Rb4 Ra3 65.
Re4) 62... Kf7 63. Rc6 Rb4 64. Rd6 Ra4 65. Rd3 Kf6 66. Rb3 (66. Kg3 {is
interesting.} Kg6 67. Rd6+ Kg7 68. Rc6 Kf7 69. Rc7+) 66... Kf7 67. e4 Kf6 {
The position is equal.} 68. Ke3 Ra1 69. Rb6+ Ke5 70. Rb5+ Kf6 71. Rf5+ Kg6 72.
Rf2 Ra3+ 73. Kd4 Rg3 74. e5 Rxg4+ 75. Kd5 Rg1 76. e6 Rd1+ 77. Kc6 Re1 78. Kd7
g4 79. e7 Kg5 80. Rf1 Re2 81. e8=Q (81. Rf8 {seems wilder.} g3 82. Rg8+ Kh4 83.
Ke8 g2 84. Kf7) 81... Rxe8 82. Kxe8 {KR-KP} g3 83. Rg1 Kg4 84. Kf7 Kf3 85. Kf6
g2 86. Kf5 Kf2 87. Rxg2+ $1 Kxg2 {Weighted Error Value: White=0.06/Black=0.07}
1/2-1/2

[Event "Goldmoney Asian Rapid Prelims 2021"]
[Site "Chess24"]
[Date "2021.06.24"]
[Round "13.6"]
[White "Giri, Anish"]
[Black "Ding, Liren"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "D38"]
[WhiteElo "2780"]
[BlackElo "2799"]
[Annotator "TA"]
[PlyCount "74"]
[EventDate "2021.06.26"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "NET"]
[Tiebreak "Koya+Number of black wins+Number of wins"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

{[%evp 20,74,34,23,22,0,0,0,0,6,0,3,6,0,6,6,6,6,6,0,6,6,6,0,6,6,12,6,12,6,6,6,
6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,0,6,0,6,0,6]} 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nf3
d5 4. Nc3 Bb4 5. Bg5 h6 6. Bxf6 Qxf6 7. e3 O-O 8. Rc1 dxc4 9. Bxc4 c5 10. O-O
cxd4 11. Nxd4 $1 {The main line 11.Nxd4 scores better than 11.Ne4.} Bd7 {
D38: Queen's Gambit Declined: Ragozin Defence (4 Nf3 Bb4).} 12. Qb3 {The
position is equal.} (12. Ne4 {feels hotter.} Qe7 13. Bd3 Nc6 14. Nb3 Rfd8 15.
a3) 12... Nc6 13. Nxc6 Bxc3 14. Qxc3 {[#] Black must now prevent Ne5.} Bxc6 15.
Qxf6 gxf6 16. Rfd1 Rfd8 17. f3 f5 18. Kf2 Kg7 19. Be2 Kf6 20. Rxd8 Rxd8 21. Rd1
Rxd1 (21... Rc8 {is more complex.} 22. Rc1 Rd8) 22. Bxd1 $11 {[%mdl 4096]
Endgame KB-KB} b6 23. a3 {[#]} a5 $146 ({Predecessor:} 23... Bb5 24. Bc2 Bc6 {
1/2-1/2 (26) Ding,L (2812)-Giri,A (2797) Shamkir 2019}) 24. g3 Bd5 25. Ke1 Bc6
26. Kd2 Ke5 27. Kc3 Kd6 28. Be2 Kc5 29. b4+ axb4+ 30. axb4+ Kd6 31. f4 f6 32.
Bc4 Bf3 33. Bb3 Bc6 34. Kd4 Be4 35. Kc3 Bc6 36. Kd4 Be4 37. Kc3 Bc6 {An
uneventful encounter.  Weighted Error Value: White=0.03/Black=0.01} 1/2-1/2

[Event "Goldmoney Asian Rapid Prelims 2021"]
[Site "Chess24"]
[Date "2021.06.24"]
[Round "13.7"]
[White "Duda, Jan-Krzysztof"]
[Black "Adhiban, B.."]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "C78"]
[WhiteElo "2729"]
[BlackElo "2660"]
[Annotator "TA"]
[PlyCount "124"]
[EventDate "2021.06.26"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "NET"]
[Tiebreak "Koya+Number of black wins+Number of wins"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

{[%evp 13,124,22,51,39,42,8,43,10,27,12,10,18,15,11,15,0,0,0,0,-13,-28,-51,-12,
-13,-16,-8,-12,-26,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,-13,0,-41,-7,-75,-66,-93,-77,-81,-75,-83,-81,
-52,-48,-77,-66,-96,-99,-68,-36,-46,62,-29,31,43,47,89,65,11,0,2,0,18,30,25,31,
26,85,27,49,0,0,-30,0,-24,0,0,0,6,295,40,55,12,4,7,11,0,0,-12,0,0,0,-20,-22,
-79,-25,-53,0,0,0,0,0,-12843,-12843,-29993,-29994,-29994,-29995]} 1. e4 e5 2.
Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4. Ba4 Nf6 5. O-O Bc5 6. c3 b5 7. Bc2 d6 8. a4 {C78: Ruy
Lopez: Archangelsk and Möller Defences.} Bg4 9. d3 O-O 10. b4 {White is
slightly better.} Bb6 11. h3 Bd7 12. Bg5 {[#]} h6 $146 ({Predecessor:} 12...
Qe7 13. Re1 h6 14. Bh4 Rfc8 15. Qd2 Nd8 16. d4 exd4 17. cxd4 Qe6 {1-0 (56)
Bondarev,I (1759)-Soloviov,A (2251) Moscow 2009}) 13. Bh4 g5 14. Nxg5 hxg5 15.
Bxg5 Kg7 16. Qf3 {Hoping for axb5.} Rb8 17. Nd2 Kg6 18. Bh4 Rh8 19. Qg3+ Kh7
20. Qg5 Ng8 21. Qh5+ Kg7 22. Qxh8+ Kxh8 23. Bxd8 Nxd8 24. Nf3 Ne6 25. Rfd1 a5 {
[%mdl 1024] Black has compensation.} 26. d4 (26. Bb3 $11 {keeps the balance.})
26... exd4 $17 27. bxa5 Bxa5 28. cxd4 b4 {...b3 is the strong threat.} 29. Bb3
Nf6 30. Re1 Kg7 31. e5 dxe5 32. dxe5 Nh7 33. Nd2 Nc5 34. Re3 $1 {[%cal Re3g3]}
Bb6 (34... Nf8 $15) 35. a5 (35. Rg3+ $1 $14 Kh8 36. Bxf7) 35... Ba7 (35... Nxb3
$11 36. Rg3+ (36. Rxb3 Bd4 $15 {[%mdl 64] Double Attack}) 36... Kf8 37. Rxb3 (
37. Nxb3 Ba7 $11) 37... Ba7) 36. Rg3+ $14 Kf8 37. Bc2 f5 38. Bxf5 Bxf5 $11 39.
Rf3 Ke7 {And now ...Rd8 would win.} 40. Rxf5 Nf8 41. Rb1 Nfe6 42. Rh5 {With
the idea Rh7+.} Kf7 (42... Kd7 $11) 43. Kh2 ({White should play} 43. Rh7+ $16
Kg8 44. Rh6) 43... Nd3 44. Rf5+ Ke7 45. g4 Rh8 46. Ne4 Ndf4 47. Ng5 Nxg5 48.
Rxf4 Bd4 $2 {[%mdl 8192] [#]} 49. Rxd4 $2 $18 {[%mdl 4096] Endgame KRR-KRN} ({
White has to play} 49. Rf5 $1 $18 {[%cal Rf5g5]} Ne6 50. Rxb4) 49... Nf3+ $14
50. Kg2 Nxd4 51. Rxb4 $11 {KRN-KR} c5 52. Rb7+ (52. Rc4 {is interesting.} Rc8
53. a6 Ke6 54. a7 Kd5 55. Ra4) 52... Ke6 53. a6 Ra8 54. Rc7 Kd5 55. a7 Nb5 56.
Rb7 (56. Rd7+ $11 {remains equal.} Kxe5 57. h4) 56... Nxa7 $17 57. f4 Nc6 (
57... c4 $1 $15 58. Kf3 c3 59. Rd7+ Kc6 60. Rd6+ Kc5) 58. Rd7+ $11 Ke4 59. Rc7
$1 {[%cal Rc7c6]} Nd4 {Strongly threatening ...Ne6.} 60. f5 {[%mdl 8192] [#]} (
60. Rxc5 $11 Kxf4 61. h4) 60... Kf4 $1 $19 {( -> ...Ra2+)} 61. h4 Ra2+ 62. Kf1
Nf3 {Weighted Error Value: White=0.49/Black=0.23} 0-1

[Event "Goldmoney Asian Rapid Prelims 2021"]
[Site "Chess24"]
[Date "2021.06.24"]
[Round "13.8"]
[White "Dubov, Daniil"]
[Black "Artemiev, Vladislav"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "C66"]
[WhiteElo "2714"]
[BlackElo "2704"]
[Annotator "TA"]
[PlyCount "128"]
[EventDate "2021.06.26"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "NET"]
[Tiebreak "Koya+Number of black wins+Number of wins"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

{[%evp 10,128,34,33,38,29,33,5,4,0,0,0,0,0,14,0,4,0,7,0,0,0,6,-14,-3,-20,-13,
-52,-25,-58,-36,-36,-41,-43,-12,-106,-28,-31,-40,-26,-12,-25,14,-15,-14,-20,19,
11,19,19,16,21,14,18,16,16,22,16,18,21,54,42,78,0,0,-8,-8,-8,76,80,69,39,104,
10,16,14,23,-7,-7,-6,-6,-7,0,-57,-62,-60,-62,-87,-13,-13,-12,-12,-14,-21,-20,
-24,-28,-28,-28,-28,-24,-25,-8,-8,0,-8,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,8,-8,-8,-8,-8,-8,-8]} 1.
e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 Nf6 4. O-O d6 5. Bxc6+ bxc6 6. d4 exd4 {C66: Ruy Lopez:
Steinitz Defence.} 7. Nxd4 c5 8. Ne2 (8. Nc6 $5 {[%cal Rc6d8]} Qd7 9. Na5 $11)
8... Be7 9. Nbc3 O-O 10. Ng3 Re8 {[#]} 11. Bf4 $146 ({Predecessor:} 11. h3 Bb7
12. Re1 Nd7 13. Nf5 Bg5 14. Qg4 Bf6 15. Bh6 g6 16. f4 Kh8 17. Ng3 {0-1 (41)
Marchenko,V (1900)-Galevsky,N Odessa 2010}) 11... Bb7 12. Re1 Nd7 13. Qd2 g6
14. Rad1 Bf6 15. Bh6 Ne5 16. Qe2 a5 17. Nd5 Bh8 18. h3 (18. b3 {feels hotter.}
a4 19. Qd2 Qb8 20. h3 Nd7 21. Qd3) 18... Bxd5 19. Rxd5 Qh4 20. Bc1 a4 21. Rdd1
Nc6 22. Qc4 (22. a3 $11 {keeps the balance.}) 22... Be5 (22... a3 $1 $17 {
[%cal Ra3b2]} 23. bxa3 Bd4) 23. Ne2 Bg7 24. Nf4 Bd4 25. Qe2 Ne7 (25... a3 $5
26. bxa3 Bc3 $11) 26. Qf3 Qf6 27. Qg4 h5 (27... Bxb2 $6 28. Nh5 $16) 28. Nxh5
Bxf2+ 29. Kf1 Qh4 {[#]} 30. Re2 Qxh5 31. Qxh5 gxh5 32. Rxf2 Ng6 33. Rd5 Rxe4
34. Rxh5 Rae8 {[%csl Ge8][%cal Re4e1]} 35. Bd2 Rc4 36. Be1 (36. Ba5 $1 $16)
36... Rd4 $11 37. Rhf5 Rd1 {[%csl Gd1][%cal Re8e1]} 38. Re2 Rb8 {[#]} (38...
Re5 $11 39. Rfxe5 Nxe5) 39. Kf2 $1 $16 d5 ({Much worse is} 39... Rxb2 40. Re8+
Nf8 41. Ke2 $18) 40. b3 a3 (40... Ra1 $14) 41. Rd2 (41. Ba5 $16) 41... Ra1 {
Threatens to win with ...c6.} 42. Rfxd5 c4 43. Rd8+ Rxd8 44. Rxd8+ $11 {
[%mdl 4096] Endgame KRB-KRN} Kh7 45. Ra8 ({But not} 45. bxc4 Rxa2 46. Ke3 Rxc2
$17) 45... Rxa2 46. Kg3 ({White should try} 46. Ke3 $11) 46... Rxc2 $15 47.
Rxa3 Re2 48. Ba5 {[#]} Re3+ (48... c3 $1 $17 {[%cal Rc3c2] And now ...c2 would
win.} 49. Ra1 c2) 49. Kf2 $11 Rd3 50. Bxc7 cxb3 51. Ra6 Rd7 52. Bg3 Rb7 {
Hoping for ...b2.} 53. Ra1 b2 54. Rb1 Rb3 55. Bd6 f5 56. Ke2 {The position is
equal.} Kh6 57. Kd2 Nh4 58. Kc2 Rb5 59. g3 Nf3 60. Rxb2 (60. Ba3 {with more
complications.} Nd4+ 61. Kd2 Rb3 62. Bd6 Nf3+ 63. Kc2) 60... Rxb2+ 61. Kxb2 Ng1
62. g4 fxg4 63. hxg4 Kg5 64. Bc5 Nf3 {Weighted Error Value: White=0.14/Black=0.
14} 1/2-1/2

[Event "Goldmoney Asian Rapid Prelims 2021"]
[Site "Chess24"]
[Date "2021.06.24"]
[Round "14.1"]
[White "Aronian, Levon"]
[Black "Artemiev, Vladislav"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "D46"]
[WhiteElo "2781"]
[BlackElo "2704"]
[Annotator "TA"]
[PlyCount "122"]
[EventDate "2021.06.26"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "NET"]
[Tiebreak "Koya+Number of black wins+Number of wins"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

{[%evp 15,122,22,32,24,30,17,17,20,24,25,22,0,33,29,28,27,39,33,37,27,39,33,36,
33,37,37,43,36,40,36,38,43,42,31,37,19,39,19,38,31,28,16,23,16,30,22,37,8,19,
19,29,14,18,7,22,19,19,19,19,19,19,19,19,19,19,19,50,50,105,112,140,119,242,
229,219,93,90,93,91,99,85,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,
0,0]} 1. d4 d5 2. c4 c6 3. Nf3 Nf6 4. Nc3 e6 5. e3 Nbd7 6. Qc2 Bd6 7. Bd3 e5 (
7... O-O 8. O-O dxc4 9. Bxc4 e5 10. b3 exd4 11. Nxd4 Ne5 12. Be2 Qe7 13. Bb2
Ba3 14. Bxa3 Qxa3 15. Rfd1 Re8 16. Rd2 Qe7 17. Rad1 Ng6 18. Qb1 Qe5 19. Qb2 a5
20. Nf3 Qe7 21. h3 b5 22. Bd3 Bb7 {1/2-1/2 (29) Aronian,L (2773)-Artemiev,V 
(2716) Chess.com INT 2020}) 8. cxd5 cxd5 {And now ...e4 would win.} 9. Nb5 {
D46: Semi-Slav: 5 e3 Nbd7 6 Bd3, Black avoids the Meran.} Bb8 {aiming for ...
e4.} 10. dxe5 Nxe5 11. Nxe5 Bxe5 12. Bd2 O-O 13. O-O Bd7 {was the old line (13.
..a6).} (13... a6 $5 {[%cal Ra6b5]} 14. Bc3 Bxc3 15. Nxc3 Be6 $14) 14. Bc3 Qe7
15. Bxe5 Qxe5 16. Nd4 {[#]} Rac8 $146 ({Predecessor:} 16... Rfc8 17. Qe2 Rc7 {
1/2-1/2 (17) Lelgemann,L (2040)-Schueler,W (2174) GER email 2014}) 17. Qb3 Rc7
18. Rfc1 Rfc8 19. Rxc7 Rxc7 20. h3 h6 21. Qd1 Rc5 22. Rc1 Qc7 23. Rxc5 Qxc5 24.
Qc2 b6 25. a3 Kf8 26. Kf1 g6 27. Ke2 Ke7 28. Kd2 Ne8 29. Qc3 Kd6 30. h4 Nc7 31.
f4 (31. f3 {with more complications.} h5 32. Ne2 Qxc3+ 33. Kxc3 Ne8 34. Nd4)
31... Qxc3+ 32. Kxc3 $11 {[%mdl 4096] Endgame KBN-KBN} Bg4 33. b4 Bd7 34. Be2
Ne8 35. g4 Nf6 36. g5 hxg5 37. hxg5 Ne4+ 38. Kd3 Nf2+ 39. Kc2 Ba4+ 40. Kb2 Ne4
41. Bb5 Bxb5 ({Black should play} 41... Bd1 $1 $14) 42. Nxb5+ $14 {KN-KN} Kd7
43. Nxa7 Nd6 (43... d4 $16 44. exd4 f6) 44. Kc3 $18 Nc4 45. e4 (45. Nb5 $1 $18
{is the precise move to win.}) 45... Nxa3 $16 46. exd5 Kd6 {[#]} 47. Kb3 $1 {
[%cal Rb3a3]} Nb1 {[#]} 48. Nb5+ (48. Kb2 $1 $16 {[%cal Rb2b1]} Nd2 49. Kc3)
48... Kxd5 $11 {The position is equal.} 49. Kc2 Kc6 50. Na7+ Kb7 51. Kxb1 {
Black must now prevent Nb5.} Kxa7 {K3P-K3P} 52. b5 (52. Kc2 {looks sharper.}
Kb7 53. Kd3 Kc6 54. Ke4 Kd6 55. f5) 52... Kb7 53. Kc2 Kc7 54. Kd3 Kd7 55. Ke4
Ke6 56. f5+ Kd6 57. fxg6 fxg6 58. Kd4 Ke6 59. Ke4 Kd6 60. Kd4 Ke6 61. Ke4 Kd6 {
Weighted Error Value: White=0.10/Black=0.10} 1/2-1/2

[Event "Goldmoney Asian Rapid Prelims 2021"]
[Site "Chess24"]
[Date "2021.06.24"]
[Round "14.2"]
[White "Adhiban, B.."]
[Black "Dubov, Daniil"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "A15"]
[WhiteElo "2660"]
[BlackElo "2714"]
[Annotator "TA"]
[PlyCount "185"]
[EventDate "2021.06.26"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "NET"]
[Tiebreak "Koya+Number of black wins+Number of wins"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

{[%evp 10,184,6,9,18,18,18,13,20,23,16,24,29,10,38,8,7,16,0,0,12,-34,-8,-51,
-24,-15,-11,-33,0,-6,0,-17,0,-14,-13,-12,-25,-61,-45,-58,-7,-20,-27,-37,-39,
-39,-40,-42,-41,-62,-53,-67,-63,-60,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,
-16,0,0,0,0,0,0,8,8,8,8,8,8,143,135,111,107,163,164,81,82,371,296,282,288,271,
46,46,46,46,14,14,14,14,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,
0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,
0,0]} 1. Nf3 Nf6 2. b3 g6 3. Bb2 Bg7 4. g3 b6 5. Bg2 Bb7 6. c4 c5 {A15:
English Opening: 1...Nf6.} 7. d4 cxd4 8. Qxd4 d6 9. Nc3 Nbd7 10. O-O Rc8 11.
Rad1 O-O 12. Qe3 a6 {[#]} 13. Nd4 $146 ({Predecessor:} 13. Bh3 Rc7 14. Nd4 Nc5
15. f3 Qb8 16. Rd2 Rd8 17. Rfd1 Ba8 18. Nc2 Bc6 19. Nb4 Rcd7 {1-0 (19) Mira,H 
(2077)-Trippold,D (1842) Feistritz an der Drau 2014}) 13... Bxg2 14. Kxg2 Re8
15. Nd5 (15. Qd2 {feels hotter.} Nc5 16. f3 e6 17. e4 d5 18. e5) 15... Rc5 16.
Nxf6+ Bxf6 (16... Nxf6 {with more complications.} 17. Qd3 e5 18. Nc2 Qa8+ 19.
Kg1 d5) 17. a4 Qa8+ 18. Kg1 Ne5 19. Ba3 Rc7 20. Rd2 h5 21. f4 Ng4 22. Qf3 b5
23. h3 {Qxa8 is the strong threat.} Bxd4+ (23... Nh6 {feels hotter.} 24. cxb5
Bxd4+ 25. Rxd4 axb5 26. g4 Qa7) 24. Rxd4 {[#]} Nf6 ({Black should try} 24...
Qa7 $1 $15 25. e3 e5) 25. Qxa8 Rxa8 26. cxb5 axb5 27. Rc1 Rca7 {[%cal Rb5a4]}
28. Bb2 bxa4 29. Rxa4 Rxa4 30. bxa4 $15 {[%mdl 4096] Endgame KRB-KRN} Ne4 31.
Kg2 f5 ({Weaker is} 31... Rxa4 32. Rc8+ Kh7 33. Rh8#) (31... Nc5 $15) 32. Ra1
$1 $11 Ra5 33. Bd4 Kf7 34. Bb6 Ra6 35. a5 Ke6 36. Rc1 Nf6 37. Rc7 Ra8 38. Rb7
Nd5 39. Kf3 Rc8 40. Bd4 Rc4 41. e3 {And now a6 would win.} Ra4 42. Rb5 Kd7 43.
Rb7+ ({But not} 43. Rxd5 $2 Kc6 $19) 43... Kc6 44. Rb8 Ra3 45. Rg8 e5 46. fxe5
dxe5 47. Rxg6+ Kb5 {[#]} 48. Rd6 $1 e4+ (48... Kc4 $1 $11 49. Rc6+ Kb4) 49. Kf2
$16 Ra2+ 50. Kf1 Nb4 (50... Ne7 $16) 51. Rf6 $18 Kc4 52. Rxf5 Nd5 $2 {[%mdl
8192]} (52... Kd3 $16 {was necessary.}) 53. Re5 Rxa5 54. Rxe4 Kd3 55. Re5 ({
Better is} 55. Re8 $18) 55... Nxe3+ $1 $14 {[%mdl 64] Remove Defender} 56.
Rxe3+ Kxd4 {KR-KR} 57. Kf2 Rf5+ {The position is equal.} 58. Rf3 Ra5 59. g4 {
Black must now prevent Rf4+.} Ke4 {aiming for ...Ra2+.} 60. Kg3 {Strongly
threatening Rf4+.} h4+ $1 61. Kg2 Ra2+ 62. Rf2 Ra3 63. Re2+ Kf4 64. Rf2+ Ke4
65. Kh2 Rb3 (65... Ra1 {is more complex.} 66. Rf8 Ra3 67. Rf6 Ra2+ 68. Kg1 Ra1+
) 66. Rg2 Kf4 67. Rf2+ (67. g5 {is more complex.} Rb8 68. g6 Kf5 69. g7 Rg8 70.
Rg4) 67... Ke4 68. Rf8 Rb2+ 69. Kg1 Rb3 70. Kg2 Rb2+ 71. Rf2 (71. Kf1 {with
more complications.} Ke3 72. Rf5 Rb1+ 73. Kg2 Rb2+ 74. Kf1) 71... Rb3 72. Ra2 (
72. g5 {keeps more tension.} Rg3+ 73. Kh2 Rb3 74. g6 Rb8 75. g7) 72... Rg3+ 73.
Kh2 (73. Kf1 {looks sharper.} Rxh3 74. Kg2 Rg3+ 75. Kh2 Rxg4 76. Kh3) 73... Rb3
74. Ra4+ (74. g5 {is interesting.} Kf5 75. Rg2 Kg6 76. Rg4 Rb2+ 77. Kg1) 74...
Kf3 75. Ra2 Ke4 76. Rg2 (76. g5 {looks sharper.} Kf5 77. Rg2 Kg6 78. Rg4 Rb2+
79. Kg1) 76... Kf4 77. g5 (77. Ra2 {seems wilder.} Kf3 78. g5 Kf4 79. g6 Rb7
80. Kg2) 77... Rb7 78. Rg4+ Kf5 79. Kg2 Rg7 (79... Rb2+ {feels hotter.} 80. Kf3
Rb3+ 81. Kg2 Rb2+) 80. Kf3 Rxg5 81. Rxg5+ (81. Rxh4 {feels hotter.} Kg6 82. Ke4
Rb5 83. Rg4+ Kh5 84. Rg3) 81... Kxg5 $11 {KP-KP} 82. Ke4 $1 Kg6 83. Kf4 Kh5 84.
Kf5 (84. Kf3 {with more complications.} Kg5) 84... Kh6 85. Kg4 Kg6 86. Kxh4 {
KP-K} Kh6 (86... Kf5 {looks sharper.} 87. Kh5 Kf6 88. h4 Kf5 89. Kh6 Kf6) 87.
Kg4 (87. Kg3 {is interesting.} Kh5 88. Kg2 Kg6 89. Kf3 Kf7 90. Ke4) 87... Kg6 (
87... Kh7 {feels hotter.} 88. Kh4 Kg6 89. Kg4 Kf7 90. Kg5 Ke8) 88. h4 Kh6 89.
h5 Kg7 90. Kg5 Kh7 91. h6 Kg8 92. Kg6 $1 Kh8 93. h7 {White really could win
this.  Weighted Error Value: White=0.17/Black=0.21} 1/2-1/2

[Event "Goldmoney Asian Rapid Prelims 2021"]
[Site "Chess24"]
[Date "2021.06.24"]
[Round "14.3"]
[White "Ding, Liren"]
[Black "Duda, Jan-Krzysztof"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "A30"]
[WhiteElo "2799"]
[BlackElo "2729"]
[Annotator "TA"]
[PlyCount "106"]
[EventDate "2021.06.26"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "NET"]
[Tiebreak "Koya+Number of black wins+Number of wins"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

{[%evp 9,106,14,10,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,14,16,28,44,29,33,16,21,20,29,35,35,22,
27,12,55,48,47,-108,-96,-97,-97,-133,-144,-153,-125,-145,-156,-157,-114,-204,
-210,-249,-256,-261,-264,-250,-221,-211,-204,-238,-218,-182,-177,-362,-381,
-423,-415,-397,-393,-388,-331,-456,-444,-413,-402,-398,-397,-379,-366,-366,
-350,-402,-395,-351,-367,-661,-588,-406,-408,-406,-384,-1790,-1877,-1814,-1753,
-1356,-1191,-4950,-4950,-4566,-1931,-1841,-1807,-1523,-546]} 1. c4 c5 2. Nf3
Nc6 3. e3 Nf6 4. d4 cxd4 5. exd4 d5 6. h3 {A30: Symmetrical English: Double
Fianchetto and Hedgehog.} g6 7. c5 Bg7 8. Bb5 {The position is equal.} Qa5+ 9.
Nc3 Ne4 {[#]} 10. a4 $146 ({Predecessor:} 10. Bd2 Nxc3 11. Bxc6+ bxc6 12. Bxc3
Qa6 13. Qe2 O-O 14. Qxa6 Bxa6 15. Kd2 f6 16. Rhe1 {0-1 (58) Wein,U (1993)
-Enigl,K (2022) Bayern 2011}) 10... Nxc3 11. bxc3 O-O {[#] ...Nxd4! is the
strong threat.} 12. O-O Qc7 13. Re1 Bd7 14. Bg5 Rfe8 15. Qd2 b6 16. Bf4 Qd8 17.
Rab1 Na5 18. Be5 Bxb5 19. axb5 Nc4 20. Qf4 (20. Qd3 $14 {keeps the upper hand.}
) 20... f6 $17 21. Bc7 Qd7 22. c6 Qc8 23. Ra1 e5 $36 {[%mdl 2048] Black is in
control.} 24. Bxe5 fxe5 25. dxe5 Qc7 {[%cal Rc4e5]} 26. Re2 (26. Rad1 $17 {
keeps fighting.} Nxe5 27. Nxe5 Bxe5 28. Qf3) 26... Nxe5 $19 ({But not} 26...
Bxe5 27. Qg5 $17) 27. Nd4 Qf7 28. Qg3 Nc4 29. Rae1 Rxe2 30. Rxe2 Bf8 31. Qg4 a5
32. bxa6 Rxa6 33. Nb5 $2 (33. g3) 33... Nd6 34. Nxd6 Ra1+ 35. Kh2 Bxd6+ 36. g3
Ra8 37. h4 h5 38. Qe6 Bc5 39. c7 Qxe6 40. Rxe6 {[%mdl 4096] Endgame KRB-KR} Kf7
41. Rc6 Rc8 42. f4 d4 43. cxd4 Bxd4 44. Kg2 $2 (44. Rd6 Bf6 45. Rxb6 Rxc7 46.
Kh3) 44... b5 45. Kf3 b4 {[#] And now ...b3 would win.} 46. Ke4 Bf6 {Strongly
threatening ...b3.} 47. Rb6 $2 (47. Kd5) 47... Rxc7 {Black is clearly winning.}
48. Rxb4 Rc3 49. Rb7+ Be7 50. f5 Rxg3 51. fxg6+ Rxg6 52. Rb5 Rg4+ 53. Kf3 Rxh4
{Weighted Error Value: White=0.65/Black=0.06} 0-1

[Event "Goldmoney Asian Rapid Prelims 2021"]
[Site "Chess24"]
[Date "2021.06.24"]
[Round "14.4"]
[White "Gukesh D"]
[Black "Giri, Anish"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "D85"]
[WhiteElo "2578"]
[BlackElo "2780"]
[Annotator "TA"]
[PlyCount "65"]
[EventDate "2021.06.26"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "NET"]
[Tiebreak "Koya+Number of black wins+Number of wins"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

{[%evp 9,65,27,35,18,16,12,24,22,30,19,19,12,3,14,24,12,33,16,46,50,47,53,49,
40,52,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,47,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]} 1.
d4 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. Nc3 d5 4. cxd5 Nxd5 5. Bd2 c5 6. e4 {D85: Exchange Grünfeld:
Unusual White 7th moves and lines with 7 Nf3.} Nxc3 7. Bxc3 cxd4 8. Bxd4 {
White has an edge.} e5 9. Bxe5 Bb4+ 10. Bc3 Bxc3+ 11. bxc3 Qa5 12. Qd2 (12. Qb3
{feels hotter.} O-O 13. Bc4 Qg5 14. g3 Nd7 15. Bd5) 12... O-O 13. Nf3 {[#]} Nd7
$146 ({Predecessor:} 13... Rd8 14. Qe3 Bg4 15. Be2 Nd7 16. O-O Rac8 17. Rfc1
Bxf3 18. Bxf3 Ne5 19. Be2 Qa3 {1-0 (53) Aditya,M (2438)-Antipov,M (2584)
Lichess.org INT 2020}) 14. Bc4 Ne5 15. Nxe5 Qxe5 16. Bd5 Be6 {[#] Strongly
threatening ...Bxd5.} 17. O-O ({Avoid the trap} 17. Bxb7 $2 Rad8 $19) (17. f4
$14 Qc7 18. O-O) 17... Rfd8 $11 {[%cal Re6d5]} 18. Rfd1 Rac8 19. Rac1 b5 20. f4
Qc7 21. f5 Bxd5 {The position is equal.} 22. exd5 Qd6 23. Qf2 Qc5 24. Qxc5 Rxc5
25. fxg6 hxg6 {[%mdl 4096] Endgame KRR-KRR} 26. d6 Rc6 27. d7 Rc7 28. Rd5 Rcxd7
29. Rxb5 Rd1+ 30. Rxd1 Rxd1+ 31. Kf2 Rd2+ 32. Kf3 Rxa2 33. c4 {Weighted Error
Value: White=0.08/Black=0.05} 1/2-1/2

[Event "Goldmoney Asian Rapid Prelims 2021"]
[Site "Chess24"]
[Date "2021.06.24"]
[Round "14.5"]
[White "Erigaisi Arjun"]
[Black "Carlsen, Magnus"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "D94"]
[WhiteElo "2567"]
[BlackElo "2847"]
[Annotator "TA"]
[PlyCount "127"]
[EventDate "2021.06.26"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "NET"]
[Tiebreak "Koya+Number of black wins+Number of wins"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

{[%evp 15,127,32,32,23,21,18,25,14,24,18,28,11,9,3,12,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,
0,0,-7,-10,-6,0,-12,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,
0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,
0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]} 1. d4 d5 2. c4 c6 3. Nf3 Nf6 4. e3 g6 5. Nc3 Bg7 6.
Be2 O-O 7. O-O a6 {7...a6 is the recent fashion.} 8. a4 a5 9. b3 {D94:
Grünfeld: 4 Nf3 Bg7 5 e3.} Bg4 10. Ba3 Re8 11. cxd5 {White has an edge.} Bxf3
12. Bxf3 {aiming for dxc6.} cxd5 13. Qd3 e6 {[#] The position is equal.} 14.
Rac1 $146 ({Predecessor:} 14. Nb5 Bf8 15. Bxf8 Rxf8 16. e4 dxe4 17. Bxe4 Nc6
18. Rac1 Nb4 19. Qf3 Nxe4 20. Qxe4 {1/2-1/2 (41) Mamedyarov,S (2791)-Kamsky,G 
(2676) Sochi 2017}) 14... Nc6 15. Be2 (15. Qb5 {seems wilder.} Qd7 16. Rfd1
Rec8 17. Bc5 h5 18. h3) 15... Bf8 16. Bxf8 Kxf8 17. Qd2 Qb6 18. Nb5 Rec8 19.
Nd6 Rd8 20. Nb5 Rac8 21. f3 Nb4 22. Rxc8 (22. g4 {with more complications.} Rc6
23. Nc3 Kg8 24. Kg2 Rdc8 25. Bb5) 22... Rxc8 23. Rc1 $1 {[%cal Rc1c8]} Rc6 24.
Rc3 (24. Nc3 {feels hotter.} Kg7 25. g3 Qd8 26. Bb5 Rc8 27. h4) 24... Qd8 25.
Na7 Rxc3 26. Qxc3 Kg7 27. Nb5 Ne8 28. g3 Nc6 29. Kf2 Nd6 30. Qc5 Ne8 31. Bd3 h5
32. h4 Nb4 33. Be2 Nc6 34. Bd3 Nb4 35. Be2 b6 36. Qc3 Nd6 37. Qc7 Qxc7 38. Nxc7
$11 {[%mdl 4096] Endgame KBN-KNN} Kf6 39. Nb5 Nf5 40. e4 Ne7 41. Ke3 Nec6 42.
Bd3 Nxd3 43. Kxd3 {KN-KN} Ke7 44. exd5 Nb4+ 45. Kd2 Nxd5 46. Na3 f6 47. Nc4 g5
48. Ne3 Nb4 49. Ke2 gxh4 50. gxh4 Kd6 51. Kd2 Nc6 52. Kd3 Ne7 53. Kc4 Kc6 (
53... Ng6 $5 54. Ng2 $8 Kc7 $11) 54. b4 {[%cal Bb3b4,Bb4b5][%mdl 32]} Ng6 55.
Ng2 f5 56. f4 Ne7 57. Ne3 Nd5 (57... axb4 {is interesting.} 58. Kxb4 Ng6 59.
Ng2 Kd7 60. Kb5 Kc7) 58. b5+ Kd6 59. Nxd5 exd5+ 60. Kd3 Ke6 61. Ke3 Kd6 62. Kd3
Ke6 63. Ke3 Kd6 64. Kd3 {A rather calm draw.  Weighted Error Value: White=0.02/
Black=0.00} 1/2-1/2

[Event "Goldmoney Asian Rapid Prelims 2021"]
[Site "Chess24"]
[Date "2021.06.24"]
[Round "14.6"]
[White "Vidit, Santosh Gujrathi"]
[Black "Salem, A.R. Saleh"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "D36"]
[WhiteElo "2726"]
[BlackElo "2682"]
[Annotator "TA"]
[PlyCount "108"]
[EventDate "2021.06.26"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "NET"]
[Tiebreak "Koya+Number of black wins+Number of wins"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

{[%evp 21,108,26,21,21,26,22,31,3,0,0,0,0,0,0,14,0,0,0,0,-26,0,-14,-16,-42,-41,
-43,-34,-28,-38,-34,-7,-14,-11,-12,-9,-35,0,0,0,-2,-1,0,-1,0,0,0,0,-17,-16,-32,
-3,-29,-1,-18,0,0,0,-5,0,-12,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,-8,-8,-12,0,0,0,0,0,
0,0,0,0,0,0]} 1. d4 d5 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. cxd5 exd5 5. Bg5 Be7 6. e3 O-O 7.
Bd3 h6 8. Bh4 c6 9. Qc2 Re8 10. Nge2 Nbd7 11. O-O {11.f3 deserves study.} Nh5
12. Bxe7 {D36: Queen's Gambit Declined: Exchange Variation: Main line (5 Bg5
c6 6 Qc2).} Qxe7 13. Rae1 Nf8 14. Nc1 {White is slightly better.} Bd7 15. f3
Rad8 {[#]} 16. Qd2 $146 ({Predecessor:} 16. Qf2 Bc8 17. e4 dxe4 18. fxe4 Ne6
19. Nb3 Nef4 20. Be2 Qg5 21. Kh1 Nxe2 22. Rxe2 {1/2-1/2 (36) Monacell,J (2458)
-Szczepanski,Z (2523) LSS email 2009}) 16... Bc8 17. a3 Ne6 18. b4 b6 19. Nb3
Nf6 20. Kh1 h5 21. Qf2 (21. Ne2 {keeps more tension.} Qd6 22. h3 Nc7 23. Nf4
Ne6 24. Ne2) 21... c5 22. bxc5 bxc5 23. dxc5 Nxc5 24. Nxc5 Qxc5 {[%mdl 64] [#]
Double Attack} 25. Nb5 a6 26. Nd4 Qxa3 27. Qd2 Qd6 28. Ra1 h4 29. Qf2 Re5 30.
Qxh4 Rxe3 31. Bxa6 Bxa6 32. Nf5 Qe6 33. Qg5 {[%csl Gf5][%cal Rg5g7]} g6 {
And now ...Re5 would win.} 34. Nxe3 {Strongly threatening Ng4.} (34. Nd4 {
is interesting.} Qb6 35. Qxe3 Bxf1 36. Rxf1 Ra8 37. Qd2) 34... Bxf1 35. Rxf1
Rc8 36. Qf4 Rc3 37. Re1 {[#]The position is equal.} Rc4 $1 38. Qg3 Rc8 39. Ng4
(39. Qh4 {seems wilder.} Qb6 40. Nf5 Re8 41. Ne7+ Kg7 42. Nf5+) 39... Qb6 40.
Qf2 (40. Nh6+ {feels hotter.} Kg7 41. Nf5+ Kf8 42. Qh4 gxf5 43. Qh6+) 40...
Qxf2 (40... d4 {looks sharper.} 41. h3 Nxg4 42. hxg4 Qd6 43. Rd1 d3) 41. Nxf2
$11 {[%mdl 4096] Endgame KRN-KRN} Rc2 42. Kg1 Kf8 43. Nd3 Rd2 44. Nf2 Rc2 45.
Kf1 d4 46. Rd1 Nd5 {White must now prevent ...Ne3+.} 47. Ng4 Nf4 48. g3 Ne6 49.
h4 Ke7 50. Ne5 Kf6 51. Ng4+ Ke7 52. Ne5 Kf6 53. Ng4+ Kg7 54. Ne5 Kf6 {Weighted
Error Value: White=0.06/Black=0.05} 1/2-1/2

[Event "Goldmoney Asian Rapid Prelims 2021"]
[Site "Chess24"]
[Date "2021.06.24"]
[Round "14.7"]
[White "Firouzja, Alireza"]
[Black "Svidler, Peter"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "B81"]
[WhiteElo "2759"]
[BlackElo "2714"]
[Annotator "TA"]
[PlyCount "91"]
[EventDate "2021.06.26"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "NET"]
[Tiebreak "Koya+Number of black wins+Number of wins"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

{[%evp 12,91,16,22,29,40,31,20,34,28,29,23,33,42,35,20,26,12,14,18,45,-33,12,0,
0,0,0,0,36,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,5,43,44,60,55,54,37,75,73,70,74,62,62,72,71,61,
26,30,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1124,1090,985,932,1704,1472]} 1.
Nf3 c5 2. e4 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 a6 6. h3 e6 7. g4 Be7 {B81:
Sicilian Scheveningen: Keres Attack.} 8. g5 Nfd7 9. Bg2 Nc6 {The position is
equal.} 10. h4 O-O 11. b3 Qb6 12. Nxc6 bxc6 13. Na4 Qc7 14. Bb2 e5 15. Qd2 {[#]
} f6 $146 ({Predecessor:} 15... Nb6 16. Nxb6 Qxb6 17. O-O-O f6 18. g6 hxg6 19.
f4 Bg4 20. Bh3 Bxh3 21. Rxh3 exf4 22. Qxf4 {1/2-1/2 (61) Saric,I (2667)-Keymer,
V (2506) Douglas 2019}) 16. Bf1 (16. O-O-O $14) 16... f5 17. Bc4+ Kh8 18. f3
fxe4 19. fxe4 Nb6 {...Nxa4 is the strong threat.} 20. Nxb6 (20. Qa5 $5 {
[%cal Ra5b6]} Bd8 21. Qxb6 Qxb6 22. Nxb6 Bxb6 23. O-O-O $14) 20... Qxb6 21.
O-O-O Bg4 22. Rde1 Rf2 23. Qe3 Qxe3+ 24. Rxe3 Bh5 25. Bc3 h6 26. Kb2 hxg5 27.
hxg5 {[%cal Rh1h5]} g6 28. Be1 Rff8 29. Be2 Kg7 30. Bxh5 gxh5 31. Rxh5 Rh8 $1 {
[%cal Rh8h5] [#]} 32. Rxh8 Rxh8 $16 {[%mdl 4096] Endgame KRB-KRB} 33. b4 (33.
Rc3 $5 {[%cal Rc3c6]} Rh1 34. Bf2 $14) 33... Bxg5 34. Rc3 (34. Rd3 {is
interesting.} Be7 35. Ra3 Ra8 36. c4 Kf7 37. Kb3) 34... Rh1 35. Bf2 d5 36. exd5
cxd5 37. a4 d4 38. Rc7+ Kg6 39. b5 axb5 40. axb5 Kf5 41. b6 {aiming for b7.}
Rh6 42. b7 Rb6+ 43. Ka3 {White wants to play Be1.} Rb1 {[%mdl 8192] [#]} (43...
Bd2 $11) 44. Be1 $1 $18 {[%mdl 512] White is clearly winning.} Bd8 45. Rd7 Ke6
46. Bb4 {Weighted Error Value: White=0.08/Black=0.08} 1-0

[Event "Goldmoney Asian Rapid Prelims 2021"]
[Site "Chess24"]
[Date "2021.06.24"]
[Round "14.8"]
[White "Hou, Yifan"]
[Black "So, Wesley"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "C67"]
[WhiteElo "2658"]
[BlackElo "2770"]
[Annotator "TA"]
[PlyCount "97"]
[EventDate "2021.06.26"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "NET"]
[Tiebreak "Koya+Number of black wins+Number of wins"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

{[%evp 18,97,21,15,19,12,14,20,16,7,12,7,31,18,18,3,18,7,4,6,3,0,6,0,0,0,0,0,0,
0,0,0,0,-15,0,0,13,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,
0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]} 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 Nf6 4. O-O Nxe4 5.
Re1 Nd6 6. Nxe5 Be7 7. Bf1 Nxe5 8. Rxe5 O-O 9. d4 Bf6 10. Re1 Re8 {C67: Ruy
Lopez: Berlin Defence: 4 0-0 Nxe4.} 11. c3 Rxe1 12. Qxe1 Ne8 13. Nd2 d5 14. Nf3
g6 15. Bd3 Ng7 {The position is equal.} 16. h3 c6 17. Bf4 Bf5 18. Bxf5 Nxf5 19.
Qe2 Ng7 20. Re1 {[#]} Qa5 $146 ({Predecessor:} 20... Qd7 21. Be5 Re8 22. Qd2
Bxe5 23. Rxe5 Rxe5 24. Nxe5 Qe7 25. Nd3 Ne6 26. Qe3 Qd6 {1/2-1/2 (33) Bruzon
Batista,L (2644)-Dominguez Perez,L (2758) Lichess.org INT 2020}) 21. a3 Re8 22.
Be5 Bxe5 23. dxe5 Ne6 24. Qd2 Rd8 25. Ng5 Nxg5 26. Qxg5 $11 {[%mdl 4096]
Endgame KQR-KQR} Re8 27. Re3 Qd8 28. h4 (28. Qf4 {with more complications.} b6
29. g4 c5 30. Rd3 Qd7 31. Kg2) 28... h5 29. Qf4 c5 30. Rd3 Qd7 31. Qg5 d4 32.
cxd4 cxd4 33. Qf6 Qd5 34. Qf4 Qxe5 35. Qxe5 Rxe5 36. Rxd4 {KR-KR} Re1+ 37. Kh2
Re2 38. Rb4 Rxf2 39. Rxb7 a5 40. b4 axb4 41. Rxb4 Kg7 42. a4 Ra2 43. Kg3 f6 44.
Rb7+ Kh6 45. Rb4 Ra3+ 46. Kf2 Ra2+ 47. Kg3 $1 Ra3+ 48. Kf2 Ra2+ 49. Kg3 {
A rather calm draw.  Weighted Error Value: White=0.03/Black=0.02} 1/2-1/2

[Event "Goldmoney Asian Rapid Prelims 2021"]
[Site "Chess24"]
[Date "2021.06.24"]
[Round "15.1"]
[White "So, Wesley"]
[Black "Aronian, Levon"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "C54"]
[WhiteElo "2770"]
[BlackElo "2781"]
[Annotator "ChessBase"]
[PlyCount "27"]
[EventDate "2021.06.26"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "NET"]
[Tiebreak "Koya+Number of black wins+Number of wins"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]
[TimeControl "900+10"]

1. e4 {[%emt 0:00:00]} e5 {[%emt 0:00:00]} 2. Nf3 {[%emt 0:00:03]} Nc6 {
[%emt 0:00:04]} 3. Bc4 {[%emt 0:00:00]} Bc5 {[%emt 0:00:03]} 4. c3 {[%emt 0:00:
01]} Nf6 {[%emt 0:00:01]} 5. d4 {[%emt 0:00:00]} exd4 {[%emt 0:00:01]} 6. cxd4
{[%emt 0:00:00]} Bb4+ {[%emt 0:00:01]} 7. Bd2 {[%emt 0:00:00]} Bxd2+ {[%emt 0:
00:01]} 8. Nbxd2 {[%emt 0:00:00]} d5 {[%emt 0:00:01]} 9. exd5 {[%emt 0:00:00]}
Nxd5 {[%emt 0:00:01]} 10. Qb3 {[%emt 0:00:00]} Na5 {[%emt 0:00:02]} 11. Qa4+ {
[%emt 0:00:01]} Nc6 {[%emt 0:00:01]} 12. Qb3 {[%emt 0:00:00]} Na5 {[%emt 0:00:
00]} 13. Qa4+ {[%emt 0:00:01]} Nc6 {[%emt 0:00:01]} 14. Qb3 {[%emt 0:00:00]}
1/2-1/2

[Event "Goldmoney Asian Rapid Prelims 2021"]
[Site "Chess24"]
[Date "2021.06.24"]
[Round "15.2"]
[White "Svidler, Peter"]
[Black "Hou, Yifan"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "B90"]
[WhiteElo "2714"]
[BlackElo "2658"]
[Annotator "TA"]
[PlyCount "73"]
[EventDate "2021.06.26"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "NET"]
[Tiebreak "Koya+Number of black wins+Number of wins"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

{[%evp 9,73,19,27,0,-1,-9,12,-17,42,43,51,53,56,54,72,62,55,62,347,347,347,346,
345,337,313,296,293,144,283,248,771,746,684,341,364,335,336,341,476,371,581,
470,483,483,506,487,506,0,0,0,499,483,608,600,570,562,948,948,29987,29988,
29988,29989,29989,29989,29989,29990]} 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6
5. Nc3 a6 6. b3 {B90: Sicilian Najdorf: Unusual White 6th moves, 6 Be3 Ng4 and
6 Be3 e5.} e6 7. Bb2 Be7 8. Qd2 $5 {[%mdl 4] The position is equal. Leaves
trodden paths.} Qc7 (8... O-O $11) 9. O-O-O {[#]} b5 $146 ({Predecessor:} 9...
Nc6 10. f3 Nxd4 11. Qxd4 b5 12. Kb1 Bb7 13. g4 h6 14. a4 bxa4 15. Nxa4 d5 {
1-0 (54) Schmitt,C (1988)-Loehr,H (1730) Idstein 2009}) 10. Bxb5+ axb5 11.
Ndxb5 Qb6 12. Nxd6+ Bxd6 13. Qxd6 Nc6 $2 {[%mdl 8192] [#]} ({Better is} 13...
Qxd6 $14 14. Rxd6 Bb7) 14. Nd5 $1 $18 {[%mdl 512]} exd5 15. exd5 Nxd5 16. Rhe1+
(16. Bxg7 Rg8 $16) 16... Be6 17. Rxd5 Qb7 18. Rc5 (18. Bxg7 $18 {is the
precise move to win.} Rg8 19. Bf6) 18... Ra6 (18... Rc8 $16 {might work better.
}) 19. Rd1 Qa8 (19... Qd7 20. Qg3 (20. Bxg7 Qxd6 21. Rxd6 Rg8 $18) 20... Qa7)
20. Bxg7 {White threatens Bf6 and mate.} Ne7 21. Qd4 (21. Qe5 $142 Rg8 22. Bf6)
21... Rg8 22. Bf6 Nd5 23. a4 Nxf6 24. Qxf6 {aiming for Rc7.} Bxb3 (24... Qb8
$142 25. f4 Rb6) 25. Rd6 Rxd6 26. Qxd6 Be6 27. Rb5 $1 {[%cal Rb5b8] Hoping for
Rb8+.} ({Inferior is} 27. Rc7 Qd8 $15) 27... Qd8 {[#]} 28. Rb8 $2 $40 {[%mdl
128] White mounts an attack.} (28. Qe5 $1 $18) 28... Bc8 $11 29. Qe5+ Kf8 $2 {
[%mdl 8192] [#]} (29... Kd7 $1 $11 {and Black has nothing to worry.}) 30. a5 $1
$18 {[%cal Ra5a6] Strongly threatening a6!} Rxg2 {Black hopes to continue with
...Rg5.} 31. Qc5+ Kg7 32. Rxc8 Rg1+ 33. Kb2 Qd1 34. Qf8+ {White mates.} Kg6 35.
Rc6+ Kg5 36. Qg7+ Kf5 37. Qxf7+ {Weighted Error Value: White=0.46/Black=0.84}
1-0

[Event "Goldmoney Asian Rapid Prelims 2021"]
[Site "Chess24"]
[Date "2021.06.24"]
[Round "15.3"]
[White "Salem, A.R. Saleh"]
[Black "Firouzja, Alireza"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "E60"]
[WhiteElo "2682"]
[BlackElo "2759"]
[Annotator "TA"]
[PlyCount "118"]
[EventDate "2021.06.26"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "NET"]
[Tiebreak "Koya+Number of black wins+Number of wins"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

{[%evp 10,118,13,16,16,-27,-31,-21,-18,-43,-35,-48,-49,-50,-41,-48,-42,-47,-35,
-78,-70,-68,-42,-42,-14,-12,-17,-12,-19,-21,0,-47,-47,-35,-45,-40,-42,-93,-93,
-101,-70,-81,-86,-114,-102,-109,-110,-116,-109,-108,-117,-107,-111,-109,-72,
-110,-8,-6,42,41,41,26,52,-45,0,-14,58,0,0,-136,-156,-145,-41,-210,-210,-216,
-203,-272,-216,-239,-226,-274,-299,-589,-581,-564,-576,-922,-699,-680,-680,
-614,-566,-798,-796,-767,-706,-758,-610,-784,-767,-804,-789,-5097,-5185,-2378,
-1545,-5700,-4814,-29990,-29991]} 1. d4 Nf6 2. Nf3 g6 3. g3 Bg7 4. Bg2 O-O 5.
O-O d6 6. c4 Ne4 {E60: King's Indian: Unusual lines and Fianchetto Variation
without Nc3.} 7. Nc3 (7. Be3 {with more complications.} c5 8. Nbd2 cxd4 9. Nxd4
Nf6 10. Qb3) 7... Nxc3 8. bxc3 Nc6 {The position is equal.} 9. e4 Na5 {[#]} 10.
h4 $146 ({Predecessor:} 10. Qe2 c5 11. Be3 b6 12. Nd2 e5 13. Qd3 Ba6 14. f4
cxd4 15. cxd4 Rc8 16. Rac1 {1-0 (34) Brumen,D (2338)-Curic,D (2223) Mali
Losinj 2017}) 10... c5 11. h5 cxd4 12. cxd4 Bg4 13. h6 Bh8 14. Qd3 Rc8 15. Rb1
Bxf3 16. Bxf3 b6 17. Be3 Nxc4 18. Bg5 Qd7 19. Rfc1 Na5 {[%cal Bc4a5,Ba5b7,
Bb7c5][%mdl 32]} 20. d5 Nb7 21. Qd1 Rxc1 22. Rxc1 Nc5 23. a4 (23. Be3 $15)
23... Bf6 $17 24. Be3 Nxa4 25. Bg4 Qb5 26. Be2 Qe8 27. Rc7 {[#]} Qb8 $1 28. Qc2
Nc5 $1 29. Rc6 Qb7 30. g4 Qd7 31. g5 Be5 32. Kg2 e6 (32... Bh8 $17) 33. Bg4 $1
$11 Qb7 34. f4 exd5 35. exd5 Bh8 36. Bf2 (36. Rxd6 $14 Qe7 37. Bxc5 bxc5 38.
Rd7 (38. Qxc5 Qe4+ {[%mdl 64] Double Attack} 39. Kg3 Bd4 $11)) 36... Qe7 37.
Qe2 Qb7 (37... Qxe2 $11 38. Bxe2 Rd8) 38. Rxd6 (38. Bg3 $1 $14) 38... Qc7 $36 {
[%mdl 2048] Black is more active.} 39. Rc6 (39. Bxc5 $11 bxc5 40. Rd7 Qxf4 41.
Rxf7 Qxg5 42. Qe6 Rxf7 43. Qe8+ Rf8 44. Qe6+ Rf7 45. Qe8+ Rf8 46. Qe6+ Rf7)
39... Qxf4 $17 40. Be3 {[#]} Qe5 (40... Nd3 $1 $17 {[%mdl 512] Threatens to
win with ...Qa4.} 41. Bxf4 Nxf4+ 42. Kf2 Bd4+ 43. Kg3 Nxe2+ 44. Bxe2 Be5+ 45.
Kf3 Rd8) 41. Qf3 $2 {This costs White the game.} (41. d6 $1 $15) 41... Ne4 $19
42. Bf4 Qxd5 43. Rc2 Qd4 44. Be3 Qe5 45. Bf4 Nxg5 46. Qf2 (46. Bxe5 {only move.
} Nxf3 47. Bg3) 46... Qe4+ 47. Kg3 Be5 48. Re2 Bxf4+ 49. Qxf4 Qxf4+ 50. Kxf4
Ne6+ 51. Bxe6 fxe6+ {[%mdl 4096] Endgame KR-KR} 52. Ke5 Kf7 53. Rc2 Re8 54.
Rc7+ Re7 55. Rc8 g5 56. Rh8 Kg6 57. Rg8+ Kxh6 58. Kf6 Rc7 59. Rg6+ hxg6 {
Weighted Error Value: White=0.52/Black=0.27} 0-1

[Event "Goldmoney Asian Rapid Prelims 2021"]
[Site "Chess24"]
[Date "2021.06.24"]
[Round "15.4"]
[White "Carlsen, Magnus"]
[Black "Vidit, Santosh Gujrathi"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "D41"]
[WhiteElo "2847"]
[BlackElo "2726"]
[Annotator "TA"]
[PlyCount "131"]
[EventDate "2021.06.26"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "NET"]
[Tiebreak "Koya+Number of black wins+Number of wins"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

{[%evp 11,131,35,38,39,41,-16,33,44,39,39,39,37,51,27,39,33,17,9,22,16,16,17,
19,14,16,15,15,15,15,14,14,7,8,8,14,6,70,69,72,67,67,68,86,77,106,93,93,93,93,
93,93,93,93,89,112,106,111,114,112,120,137,124,172,172,172,172,155,137,133,133,
231,227,448,448,431,447,366,60,51,16,18,23,131,148,1566,1042,6699,6075,29957,
29962,29957,29961,29961,29964,29958,29962,10533,4587,29975,29976,29976,29977,
29977,29978,29978,29979,29979,29980,29982,29983,29983,29984,29984,29985,29985,
29986,29986,29987,29987,29988,29988,29988]} 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nf3 d5 4. Nc3
c5 5. cxd5 cxd4 6. Qxd4 exd5 7. e4 {[%cal Re4d5] D41: Queen's Gambit Declined:
Semi-Tarrasch with 5 cxd5.} dxe4 8. Qxd8+ Kxd8 9. Ng5 {White is slightly
better.} Be6 10. Nxe6+ fxe6 11. Bg5 Nc6 {11...Nc6 is the recent fashion.} 12.
O-O-O+ Ke8 13. Bb5 Rc8 14. Kb1 Bb4 15. Bxf6 gxf6 16. Nxe4 f5 17. Ng5 Ke7 $1 18.
a3 $36 {[%mdl 2048] White has good play.} Ba5 19. f4 h6 20. Nf3 Rhd8 21. Rxd8
Nxd8 22. Rd1 Rc7 23. Ne5 {[#]} Nf7 $146 (23... a6 $11 24. Be2 Nc6) ({
Predecessor:} 23... a6 24. Be2 Bb6 25. Ng6+ Ke8 26. Bh5 Nc6 27. g4 fxg4 28. Rd6
Kf7 29. f5 Kf6 30. fxe6 {1/2-1/2 (56) Carlsen,M (2862)-Tari,A (2625) Wijk aan
Zee 2021}) 24. Nc4 $1 $14 {[%cal Rc4a5]} Bb6 25. Nxb6 axb6 $16 {[%mdl 4096]
Endgame KRB-KRN} 26. Be2 Nd6 27. Rd3 Rc8 28. Rb3 Rg8 29. g3 h5 30. Rxb6 h4 31.
Rb3 ({Much worse is} 31. gxh4 Rg2 $14) 31... hxg3 32. hxg3 ({Don't play} 32.
Rxg3 $6 Rh8 $11) 32... Kd7 33. Kc2 Kc7 34. Rc3+ Kb6 35. Re3 Kc7 36. Bd3 Kd7 37.
Kc3 Rh8 38. a4 Rc8+ 39. Kd4 b6 40. b4 Ra8 (40... Rc1 $16 41. a5 bxa5) 41. Bc2
$18 Rc8 $2 (41... Nf7 42. Bb3 Nd8) 42. Bb3 Ne4 43. Ke5 Rc6 44. Rd3+ (44. Re2
$18) 44... Ke7 $14 45. Kd4 (45. Rd1 {looks sharper.} Nxg3 46. Rg1 Rc3 47. Bxe6
Re3+ 48. Kd5) 45... Rd6+ 46. Ke3 {[#] Threatens to win with Rxd6.} Rxd3+ (46...
Nxg3 $11 47. Bd1 Ne4) 47. Kxd3 $16 {And now Kd4 would win.} Nxg3 $2 $11 {
[%mdl 8192] KB-KN. Black cannot hold the game after this.} (47... Kd6 $16) 48.
a5 $18 bxa5 49. bxa5 {[%cal Bb4a5,Ba5a6][%mdl 32]} Kd6 50. a6 Kc7 51. Bxe6 Kb6
{[#]} 52. Bc4 $1 Nh5 53. Ke3 Ka7 54. Be2 Ng3 55. Bf3 {White mates.} Nf1+ 56.
Ke2 Nh2 57. Bh5 Kxa6 58. Kf2 ({Worse is} 58. Bg6 Ng4 $11) 58... Kb6 59. Kg2 Ng4
60. Bxg4 fxg4 {KP-KP} 61. Kg3 Kc7 62. Kxg4 Kd6 63. Kf5 Ke7 64. Kg6 Kf8 65. Kf6
Kg8 66. Ke7 {Weighted Error Value: White=0.09/Black=0.35} 1-0

[Event "Goldmoney Asian Rapid Prelims 2021"]
[Site "Chess24"]
[Date "2021.06.24"]
[Round "15.5"]
[White "Giri, Anish"]
[Black "Erigaisi Arjun"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "C42"]
[WhiteElo "2780"]
[BlackElo "2567"]
[Annotator "TA"]
[PlyCount "80"]
[EventDate "2021.06.26"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "NET"]
[Tiebreak "Koya+Number of black wins+Number of wins"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

{[%evp 13,80,1,3,0,8,0,23,15,19,1,32,19,7,14,14,14,18,18,12,7,14,11,13,8,11,11,
12,6,14,6,18,0,0,1,12,8,8,0,14,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,
0,0,0,0,0,0]} 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nf6 3. Nxe5 d6 4. Nf3 Nxe4 5. Nc3 Nxc3 6. dxc3
Be7 7. Be3 $1 {The main line 7.Be3 scores better than 7.Bf4.} O-O 8. Qd2 {
C42: Petroff Defence: 3 Nxe5 and unusual White 3rd moves.} Nd7 9. O-O-O c6 10.
Kb1 {White has an edge.} d5 11. h4 Re8 12. Bd3 Bc5 {The position is equal.} 13.
Bd4 Bxd4 14. cxd4 Nf6 15. Rde1 Ne4 16. Qf4 {[%cal Rd3e4]} Qf6 17. Qxf6 Nxf6 18.
Kc1 Ne4 {[#]} 19. Nd2 $146 {[%cal Rd3e4]} ({Predecessor:} 19. Bxe4 dxe4 20. Ne5
Bf5 21. Nc4 Rad8 {1/2-1/2 (21) Dolin,B (2417)-Popov,E (2365) ICCF email 2017})
19... Nd6 20. Rxe8+ Nxe8 21. Re1 {[%cal Re1e8] [#]} Be6 22. c3 Nd6 23. g3 h6
24. Nf1 Re8 25. Kd2 Kf8 26. a3 Bf5 {[#] Hoping for ...Rxe1.} 27. Rxe8+ Kxe8 28.
Bxf5 Nxf5 29. Ne3 Nxe3 30. Kxe3 $11 {[%mdl 4096] Endgame KP-KP} g5 31. hxg5
hxg5 32. f4 f6 33. fxg5 fxg5 34. b4 b5 35. g4 Ke7 36. Kf3 Kf6 37. Ke3 Ke6 38.
Kf3 Kf6 39. Ke3 Ke6 40. Kf3 Kf6 {A rather calm draw.  Weighted Error Value:
White=0.03/Black=0.03} 1/2-1/2

[Event "Goldmoney Asian Rapid Prelims 2021"]
[Site "Chess24"]
[Date "2021.06.24"]
[Round "15.6"]
[White "Duda, Jan-Krzysztof"]
[Black "Gukesh D"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "D32"]
[WhiteElo "2729"]
[BlackElo "2578"]
[Annotator "TA"]
[PlyCount "153"]
[EventDate "2021.06.26"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "NET"]
[Tiebreak "Koya+Number of black wins+Number of wins"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

{[%evp 12,153,51,24,24,23,64,45,70,70,135,135,131,135,250,232,241,249,247,243,
247,-179,-192,-180,-180,-194,-179,-177,-185,-178,-177,-175,-82,-79,0,0,0,-335,
-337,-490,-514,-518,-513,-498,-507,-559,-545,-518,-447,-506,-159,-141,-167,
-641,-629,-604,-585,-520,-93,-123,-92,-87,-77,-96,-76,-70,-85,-73,-5,-91,-89,
-72,-105,-117,-111,-132,-126,-122,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,-72,-84,-57,-76,-103,-8,-8,0,0,
0,0,56,0,0,0,0,0,112,125,435,395,472,429,493,465,686,453,4480,4319,29984,8,693,
0,29984,1462,1196,1174,1030,0,646,563,554,484,1446,1420,1061,1412,1664,1771,
1411,1644,1470,1581,6390,29973,29967,29969,29979,12820]} 1. d4 d5 2. c4 e6 3.
Nc3 c5 4. cxd5 exd5 5. Nf3 Nf6 6. Bg5 Be6 7. e3 (7. Bxf6 $5 gxf6 8. e4 $14)
7... c4 {is more profitable than 7...Nc6 at the moment. D32: Tarrasch Defence:
Sidelines and lines without g3.} 8. Qa4+ $5 {[%mdl 4] Leaves trodden paths.}
Nc6 {[#]} 9. Bxc4 $146 ({Predecessor:} 9. Ne5 Qb6 10. O-O-O Be7 11. Qb5 O-O 12.
Qxb6 axb6 13. Bxf6 Bxf6 14. Nxc6 bxc6 15. f3 {0-1 (45) Pashanov,S (2131)
-Batsiashvili,N (2491) Lichess.org INT 2021}) 9... dxc4 {White is slightly
better.} 10. d5 $1 {[%cal Rd5c6]} Bxd5 (10... Qa5 $14 11. Qxa5 (11. dxc6 Qxa4
12. Nxa4 bxc6 $14) 11... Nxa5 12. dxe6 fxe6) 11. Bxf6 $16 {[%mdl 64]
Overworked Piece} Qxf6 12. Nxd5 Bb4+ (12... Qd6 $16) 13. Nxb4 $18 Qxb2 14. Nc2
Qc3+ 15. Kf1 O-O-O {[%cal Ba8d8,Bd8d5,Bd5a5][%mdl 32]} 16. g3 $4 {[%mdl 8192]}
(16. Rc1 $18 {avoids the disaster.}) 16... Rd5 $1 $19 17. Ncd4 Nxd4 (17...
Qxa1+ 18. Kg2 $16) 18. Nxd4 Qxa1+ 19. Kg2 Qc3 20. Rb1 Ra5 21. Qd1 Qd3 (21...
Rd8 $1 $19 22. Rc1 Qb4) 22. Qg4+ $17 f5 ({Better is} 22... Kb8 $17 23. Rxb7+
Kxb7 24. Qd7+ Kb8 25. Qd6+ Kc8 26. Qc6+ Kd8 27. Qd6+ Ke8 28. Qb8+ Kd7 29. Qb7+
Ke8 30. Qc8+ Ke7 31. Qc7+ {[%mdl 64] Double Attack} Kf6 32. Qxa5 g6) 23. Qxg7
$11 {[%mdl 64] Double Attack} Qe4+ 24. Nf3 $2 {[%mdl 8192]} (24. f3 $11 Rxa2+
25. Kh3 Qxb1 26. Qxh8+ Kc7 27. Qe5+ {[%mdl 64] Double Attack} Kb6 28. Qe6+ {
[%mdl 64] Double Attack} Ka5 29. Qxc4) 24... Rd8 $19 ({Less strong is} 24...
Qxb1 25. Qxh8+ Kc7 26. Qxh7+ Kb6 27. Qg6+ Kc5 28. a3 $17) 25. Rb4 (25. Qb2 {
is a better defense.}) 25... Rc5 {White must now prevent ...a5.} 26. Qc3 Rc7
27. Rb5 a6 28. Re5 Qd3 29. Qa5 {White hopes to continue with Nd4.} c3 30. Nd4
c2 $2 (30... Qc4 $19 31. Rxf5 c2 32. Nxc2 Qe4+ 33. Kh3 Rxc2) 31. Rc5 $17 {
[%csl Gc5][%cal Ra5c7]} Qe4+ $1 32. Kh3 $2 (32. f3 Qe7 33. Rxc2 Rxc2+ 34. Nxc2)
32... Rxc5 $19 33. Qxc5+ {[%mdl 4096] Endgame KQR-KQN} Kb8 34. Nxc2 {Now Nd4
and White clings on.} Rc8 $2 (34... Rd2 $19 {has better winning chances.} 35.
Nb4 Rxf2 36. Qd6+ Kc8 37. Qf8+ Kc7 38. Qf7+ Kb6 39. Nd5+ Ka7) 35. Qd6+ $17 Ka8
36. Nd4 h5 37. Qd7 Rf8 38. Ne6 Rg8 39. Qf7 Qg4+ 40. Kg2 h4 {( -> ...h3+)} 41.
Nf4 hxg3 42. hxg3 Rh8 43. Qd7 Qg5 $1 44. Kf3 Qh6 (44... Qf6 $17 45. Qd4 Qxd4
46. exd4 Rh1) 45. Qxf5 $11 Qh1+ 46. Ke2 $1 Rd8 {[%csl Gd8][%cal Rh1d1]} (46...
Qc1 {looks sharper.} 47. Qd5 Rc8 48. g4 Rc2+ 49. Kf3 Rd2) 47. Qc2 Kb8 48. a4 (
48. g4 $11 {remains equal.}) 48... Rc8 $1 $17 {[%cal Rc8c2][%mdl 1024] Black
has strong compensation.} 49. Qd3 Qa1 $1 50. Qd6+ {[#]} Ka8 (50... Ka7 $1 $17
51. Qd4+ Qxd4 52. exd4 a5) 51. Nd5 $1 $11 {[%cal Rd5b6]} Rc2+ (51... Rc6 {
keeps more tension.} 52. Qd8+ Ka7 53. Ne7 Rc2+ 54. Kf3 Qf6+) 52. Kf3 Qh1+ 53.
Kg4 $1 Qd1+ (53... Qh8 $11) 54. f3 (54. Kg5 $14 Qa1 55. f4) 54... Rc4+ {
[%mdl 64] Discovered Attack} 55. Kg5 Ka7 56. f4 Qb3 {[#]} (56... Qxa4 $11 {
keeps the balance.} 57. Qb6+ Kb8) 57. f5 $1 $16 {[%cal Rf5f6] aiming for f6.
Black is on the road to losing.} Rc6 $2 {[%mdl 8192]} (57... Qd1 $16 {is a
better chance.} 58. Qb6+ Kb8 59. Qd8+ Ka7) 58. Qe5 $18 Rc5 59. e4 Qxa4 {
intending ...Rc4.} 60. f6 Rc4 (60... Qd7 $142 61. Qe7 Rxd5+ 62. exd5 Qxd5+ 63.
Kh4 Qh1+ 64. Kg4 Qd1+ 65. Kf4 Qd4+ 66. Kf5 Qd3+ 67. Qe4 Qxg3 68. Qd4+ Ka8) 61.
Qe6 {Threatens to win with Qb6+.} Rxe4 (61... Rc6 $142 62. Qe5 Qa3) 62. Qb6+
Kb8 63. Qd8+ (63. Qd6+ $142 Ka7 64. Qc5+ Kb8 65. f7 Re5+ 66. Kf6 Qd7 67. Qf8+
Ka7 68. Kxe5) 63... Ka7 {And now ...Re5+ would win.} 64. Qb6+ (64. f7 $18 Qa3
65. Qb6+ (65. f8=Q Qxg3+ 66. Kh6 Rh4+ 67. Qxh4 Qxh4+ 68. Kg6 Qe4+ 69. Qf5 Qxf5+
70. Kxf5 Kb8 $11) 65... Ka8 66. Qf2 Qc1+ 67. Kf5) 64... Kb8 $1 {Strongly
threatening ...Re5+.} 65. f7 (65. Qc7+ $142 Ka7 66. Qc5+ Kb8 67. f7 Re5+ 68.
Kf6 Qd7 69. Qf8+ Ka7 70. Kxe5) 65... Qa3 66. Qc7+ Ka7 67. Nf6 $2 (67. Kf5 $18
Qd3 68. Nf4) 67... Re3 $2 {[%mdl 8192]} (67... Qe3+ $11 68. Kg6 Re5) 68. g4 Re7
69. Qc4 ({But not} 69. f8=Q $2 Qe3+ 70. Qf4 Re5+ 71. Kg6 Qxf4 $19) 69... Re5+ (
69... Rxf7 $142 70. Qxf7 a5) 70. Kg6 Qd6 71. Qf4 Qd3+ 72. Kg7 Re7 73. g5 a5 74.
g6 Ka6 75. Kh6 Qd8 76. Nh7 Re1 77. Qf6+ {Weighted Error Value: White=0.39/
Black=0.53} 1-0

[Event "Goldmoney Asian Rapid Prelims 2021"]
[Site "Chess24"]
[Date "2021.06.24"]
[Round "15.7"]
[White "Dubov, Daniil"]
[Black "Ding, Liren"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "C47"]
[WhiteElo "2714"]
[BlackElo "2799"]
[Annotator "TA"]
[PlyCount "56"]
[EventDate "2021.06.26"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "NET"]
[Tiebreak "Koya+Number of black wins+Number of wins"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

{[%evp 9,56,0,0,-7,13,8,8,13,8,14,5,6,7,10,4,9,6,0,10,0,13,12,20,4,11,12,16,12,
12,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,13]} 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Nc3 Nf6 4.
a3 d5 5. exd5 Nxd5 {The position is equal.} 6. Nxe5 {C47: Scotch Four Knights
and Four Knights with 4 g3.} Nxc3 (6... Nxe5 $5 7. Qe2 $8 f6 $11) 7. Nxc6 Nxd1
8. Nxd8 Nxf2 $1 9. Kxf2 {[#]} Kxd8 $146 ({Predecessor:} 9... Bc5+ 10. Kf3 Kxd8
11. c3 Be6 12. d4 Bd6 13. Bd3 Bd5+ 14. Be4 Bxe4+ 15. Kxe4 Kd7 {1/2-1/2 (48)
Lintchevski,D (2555)-Artemiev,V (2708) Chess.com INT 2020}) 10. d4 Bf5 11. Bf4
Bd6 12. Bxd6 cxd6 13. c3 Re8 14. Be2 Rc8 15. Rhe1 Rc7 16. Bb5 {[%csl Gb5][%cal
Re1e8] [#]} (16. Bf3 {feels hotter.} Rce7 17. Rxe7 Rxe7 18. Re1 Rxe1 19. Kxe1
b6 20. Kd2) 16... Rxe1 (16... Re4 {keeps more tension.} 17. g3 Rce7 18. Bf1
Rxe1 19. Rxe1 Rxe1 20. Kxe1 d5) 17. Rxe1 {[%csl Gb5][%cal Re1e8]} Re7 18. Rxe7
(18. Re3 {looks sharper.} Be4 19. Bd3 Bxd3 20. Rxd3 Kd7 21. a4) 18... Kxe7 $11
{[%mdl 4096] Endgame KB-KB} 19. Ke3 d5 20. Be2 g5 21. g3 h6 22. Bf3 Kd6 23. Bh5
f6 24. Bf3 b6 25. Bg2 Bg6 26. Bf3 Bf5 27. Bg2 Bg6 28. Bf3 Bf5 {A rather calm
draw.  Weighted Error Value: White=0.03/Black=0.03} 1/2-1/2

[Event "Goldmoney Asian Rapid Prelims 2021"]
[Site "Chess24"]
[Date "2021.06.24"]
[Round "15.8"]
[White "Artemiev, Vladislav"]
[Black "Adhiban, B.."]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "A49"]
[WhiteElo "2704"]
[BlackElo "2660"]
[Annotator "TA"]
[PlyCount "75"]
[EventDate "2021.06.26"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventCountry "NET"]
[Tiebreak "Koya+Number of black wins+Number of wins"]
[SourceTitle "playchess.com"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

{[%evp 12,75,19,13,22,13,19,32,27,22,31,36,30,36,84,71,81,74,79,65,81,72,75,66,
86,67,76,60,87,83,147,108,106,108,124,115,145,145,145,145,146,139,177,158,160,
161,260,252,241,260,297,272,292,237,324,316,426,424,470,440,414,415,903,901,
839,771]} 1. Nf3 Nf6 2. g3 g6 3. Bg2 Bg7 4. d4 O-O 5. O-O d6 6. Nc3 Nbd7 7. a4
c6 {A49: 1 d4 Nf6 2 Nf3 g6 3 g3: Anti-King's Indian systems.} 8. a5 Qc7 9. Qd3
$5 {[%mdl 4] Exploring less charted territory.} e5 {White is slightly better.}
10. dxe5 Nxe5 11. Nxe5 dxe5 12. a6 {[#]} Bf5 $146 ({Predecessor:} 12... bxa6
13. Qc4 Bb7 14. Be3 c5 15. Qxc5 Qxc5 16. Bxc5 Bxg2 17. Bxf8 Bxf1 18. Bxg7 Kxg7
19. Kxf1 {1-0 (49) Pert,R (2414)-Anderson,J (2171) Southend 2017}) 13. e4 Be6 {
[#]} 14. axb7 $1 Qxb7 15. Rd1 h5 16. Be3 Nd7 17. b3 Rfc8 18. Qa6 Qc7 19. Qa5
Qb8 20. Na4 ({Of course not} 20. Bxa7 $6 Qb7 $11) 20... h4 ({Better is} 20...
Bf8) 21. Nc5 Nxc5 22. Bxc5 h3 23. Bf1 ({Avoid the trap} 23. Bxa7 $2 Qb7 $19)
23... Qc7 24. Qxc7 Rxc7 25. f3 Bf8 26. Ra5 Rcc8 27. Bxf8 Kxf8 28. Rxe5 Rd8 (
28... c5 $142 29. Ba6 Rc7) 29. Rxd8+ $18 Rxd8 {[%mdl 4096] Endgame KRB-KRB} 30.
Rc5 Rd6 31. Kf2 Ke7 32. Be2 Bc8 33. e5 Rd2 34. Ke3 Rd7 35. Rxc6 Bb7 36. Rc5 Ke6
(36... Kd8 $142 37. Ra5 Bd5) 37. Bc4+ Ke7 38. Bb5 {Weighted Error Value:
White=0.06/Black=0.31} 1-0

