Leinier Domínguez Beats Morozevich at Chess Super Tournament in Corus
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- 01 / 24 / 2009
Domínguez, playing white, was able to penetrate the Nadjdorf variant of the Sicilian defense employed by Morozevich, who, even though he hasn’t had a great tournament, is no easy opponent.
Carlos Martínez Laporte informed us that Morozevich becomes the fourth GM in the 2,700 club that Domínguez has defeated.
The Cuban GM currently sits in second place at Wijk aan Zee along with Armenian Levon Aronian (2,750), Gata Kamsky from the US (2,725) and Jan Smeets from Holland (2,604). All of them have three points and are chasing the young Ukrainian Sergey Karjakin (2,706), who sits alone in first with 3.5 points after his victory over host Daniel Stellwagen (2,605).
The other victories in the fifth round belong to Aronian who deafeated Slovakian Sergei Movsesian (2,751), and Dutch Loek van Wely (2,618) who surprised Azerbaijan Teimour Radjabov (2,761).
Ivanchuk (2,779) drew with the Norwegian “phenomenon” Magnus Carlsen (2,776), as did Kamsky with Chinese Wang Yue (2,739) and Smeets with British Michael Adams (2712).
Carlsen, Van Wely, Radjabov and Movsesian are tied for third with 2.5 points; followed by Stellwagen, Ivanchuk, Adams and Wang with two points; and Morozevich with 1.5.
Friday’s matches include fierce duels between Carlsen-Karjakin and Aronian-Ivanchuk, while Leinier will meet Smeets. Rounding out the day are matches between Movsesian-Morozevich, Wang-Adams, Radjabov-Kamsky and Stellwagen-Van Wely.
Leinier-Morozevich
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e4 c5 2. Cf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Cxd4 Cf6 5. Cc3 a6 6. Be3 e5 7. Cb3 Ae6 8. Dd2 Cbd7 9. f3 b5 10. 0-0-0 Tc8 11. g4 Cb6 12. g5 b4 13. Ca4 Ce4 14. fxe4 Cxa4 15. Dxb4 Dc7 16. Td2 Ad7 17. Da5 Dc6 18. Axa6 Tb8 19. Td5 Ae7 20. Aa7 Ta8 21. Ab5 Db7 22. Dxa4 Ta7 23. Ca5 Dc7 24. Thd1 Ab5 25. Db5 Rf8 26. Rb1 g6 27. Cc4 Tb7 28. Da4 Db8 29. b3 Ta7 30. Dc6 Tc7 31. Tb5 Da7 32. Dd5 Df2 33. Dd2. Df3 34. Cd6 Ag5 35. Cf5 Tc8 36. Tb8 (1-0).
(Juventud Rebelde)
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