Nalchik R7: Karjakin and Eljanov win and Aronian leads

Posted by 365Chess.com on April 23, 2009 in Chess news

A very exciting game was played by Sergey Karjakin and Gata Kamsky and the ucranian GM achieved a very important victory that moves him to the second place. Pavel Eljanov win his game against Boris Gelfand and all other games were draw.

Aronian leads the tournament with 4.5 pts followed by Karjakin, Alekseev, Leko, Grischuk and Svidler with 4.0 pts.

Karjakin,Sergey (2721) - Kamsky,G (2720) [C19]
4th FIDE GP Nakchik RUS (7), 2009-04-24
1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.e5 c5 5.a3 Bxc3+ 6.bxc3 Ne7 7.Qg4 cxd4 8.Qxg7 Rg8 9.Qxh7 Qc7 10.Ne2 Nbc6 11.f4 dxc3 12.Qd3 d4 13.Ng3 Bd7 14.Be2 0-0-0 15.0-0 Qb6 16.Ne4 Nd5 17.Nd6+ Kb8 18.Nxf7 Rdf8 19.Nd6 Nce7 20.Bf3 Bc6 21.a4 Nb4 22.a5 Qc5 23.Qh7 d3+ 24.Kh1 d2 25.Bxd2 cxd2 26.Qxe7 Rxf4 27.Rab1 Rgf8? 28.c4 a6 29.h3 Ka8 30.Qg7 Qe3 31.Kh2 d1Q? 32.Rbxd1 1 - 0 (view game)

Gelfand,B (2733) - Eljanov,P (2693) [A13]
4th FIDE GP Nakchik RUS (7), 2009-04-24
1.Nf3 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.g3 d5 4.b3 c5 5.Bg2 Nc6 6.cxd5 exd5 7.0-0 Bg4 8.h3 Bxf3 9.Bxf3 Bd6 10.Nc3 Be5 11.Ba3 Qa5 12.Bb2 0-0 13.Bg2 Rac8 14.Rc1 Qa6 15.a4 Rfe8 16.Ba3 Bxc3 17.dxc3 Na5 18.Re1 c4 19.bxc4 Nxc4 20.Ra1 Qe6 21.Bc1 b6 22.Qd4 Na5 23.Qd3 Ne4 24.Bb2 Nc4 25.Bc1 Ne5 26.Qa6 h5 27.Be3 h4 28.g4 Rxc3 29.Bd4 Rc4 30.Bxe5? Qxe5 31.Qxa7 Nxf2 32.Kxf2 Qg3+ 33.Kf1 Rf4+ 34.Bf3 Qxh3+ 35.Kg1 Qg3+ 36.Kh1 Rxf3 0 - 1 (view game)