Amazing Chess Game by Karjakin vs Riazantsev

Hello everyone!

It's football season as the World Cup continues in South Africa. Check out the following game and you will feel as if the Black King caught the football fever too!

The Black King decided to march down himself - all the way into enemy territory - to score a 'goal' (read 'queen a pawn'!)

This game was played between GM Alexander Riazantsev and Sergey Karjakin at the just-concluded XI Karpov Poikovsky Chess Tournament. The game was so complicated that it even got chess engines thinking. That's the power of 'human chess'!

You can even read a beautiful column by GM Lubomir Kavalek on the game in the Huffington Post.

You can play the PGN in our pgnplayer: 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nf3 b6 4. g3 4... Ba6 5. Qc2 Bb7 6. Bg2 c5 7. d5 exd5 8. cxd5 Nxd5 9. O-O Be7 10. Qe4!? Na6 11. Nh4 g6 12. Nf5! gxf5 13. Qe5 O-O 14. Qxf5 Re8 15. Nc3 Nac7 16. Be4 Bf6 17. Qxh7! Kf8 18. Bxd5 Bxd5 19. Nxd5 Nxd5 20. e4 Nc7! 21. Bh6 Ke7 22. e5! Bxe5 23. Qe4! f6 24. f4 d5 25. Qh7 Kd6 26. fxe5 fxe5 27. Rf7 Ne6 28. Qg6 Kc6 29. Raf1 d4 30. R1f6! Qd5 31. Rxa7! Rad8 32. a4!? c4 33. Qf7? Kc5! 34. Bd2 c3 35. Rc7?! Kb4 36. bxc3 Kb3?! 37. c4! Qd6 38. Rb7 d3 39. a5 Qd4 40. Kf1 Qe4 41. Kg1 Kc2! 42. Rxb6 Kxd2 43. Rbxe6 Rxe6 44. Qxe6 Kc2 45. c5 Qd5! 46. Qg4 Qd4 47. Rf2 d2 48. Qf3 e4 49. Qf7 Kc3 0-1

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Karjakin wins XI Karpov Poikovsky Chess Tournament

Hi everyone!

It seems Sergey Karjakin is on a magical run. Congratulations to him for winning the XI Karpov Poikovsky Tournament. The 20-year-old young man just won the World Rapid Cup in Odessa.

In the final round he beat Israeli Grandmaster Emil Sutovsky. Though Sutovsky was the one who was pressing for a win with Black, Karjakin seized a small chance to eventually win the point.

Meanwhile, Moldovian GM Viktor Bologan won his last few games to tie with Karjakin. However, Sergey won on tie-break points. Congratulations!

You can read all about it at the Russian website Chesspro.ru.

And, here is Karjakin's last-round game against Sutovsky. It's really worth looking at.

Here is the pgn which you can also run in our pgn player:

1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.e5 Ne7 5.a3 Bxc3+ 6.bxc3 c5 7.Qg4 cxd4 8.Qxg7 Rg8 9.Qxh7 Qc7 10.Ne2 Nbc6 11.f4 dxc3 12.Nxc3 Nd4 13.Bb2 Bd7 14.0-0-0 Qb6 15.Qd3 Ndf5 16.Nb5 Rc8 17.g3 Rc4 18.Nd6+ Nxd6 19.exd6 Nf5 20.Kb1 Ba4 21.Rd2 Kd7 22.Bh3 Nd4 23.f5 e5 24.f6+ Kxd6 25.c3 e4 26.Qe3 Nb5 27.Qxb6+ axb6 28.Rc1 d4 29.cxd4 e3 30.Re2 Rxc1+ 31.Kxc1 Re8 32.Re1 Nc7 33.Bf5 Nd5 34.h4 Nxf6 35.d5 Nh5 36.g4 Nf4 37.h5 Ng2 38.Re2 Nf4 39.Re1 Bd7 40.Bxd7 Nd3+ 41.Kd1 Kxd7 42.Bg7 Nxe1 43.Kxe1 Rc8 44.h6 Rc1+ 45.Ke2 Rh1 46.Kxe3 Ke7 47.Kf4 Rh3? 48.g5 Kd6 49.Kf5 Rh1 50.Bf8+ Kd7 51.Kf6 Ke8 52.Bb4 Rh5 53.d6 b5 54.Bc5 Kd7 55.Bb4 Ke8 56.Bd2 Rh2 57.Kg7 f6 58.g6 1-0

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Four lead in XI Poikovsky Karpov Chess Tournament

Four players - D. Jokovenko, V. Bologan, N. Vitiugov, S. Karjakin - were jointly leading after the tenth round at the XI Poikovsky Karpov Tournament in Poikovsky. Poikovsky is located in the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Region of Russia.

Earlier, in the ninth round, Grandmaster Dimtry Jakovenko was leading by half a point. However, he lost his game to Alexander Onischuk while Sergey Karjakin, who was only half a point behind, drew his game. Only one round is left to be played.

You can read interesting articles about the tournament at Chesspro.ru in Russian or at Chessbase.com in English. You can find the official website of the tournament here.

Here is an interesting game from the tournament:



PGN: 1. d4 d5 2. c4 c6 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. e3 e6 5. Nf3 a6 6. Qc2 c5 7. cxd5 exd5 8. Be2 Be6 9. dxc5 Bxc5 10. Nd4 Nc6 11. Nxc6 bxc6 12. O-O Bd6 13. b3 Qc7 14. h3 O-O 15. Bb2 c5 16. Rac1 Qe7 17. Rfd1 Rfd8 18. Na4 Ne4 19. Bd3 f5 20. Bxe4 fxe4 21. Nxc5 Rac8 22. b4 a5 23. Qd2 axb4 24. Nxe6 Qxe6 25. Rxc8 Rxc8 26. Qxd5 Qxd5 27. Rxd5 Bf8 28. Ra5 h5 29. Rxh5 Rc2 30. Bd4 Rxa2 31. Rb5 Rc2 32. g4 Be7 33. g5 Kh7 34. h4 Kg6 35. Kg2 Kh5 36. Bxg7 Bc5 37. Kg3 b3 38. Be5 1-0


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