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Moscow 2012
Vishy Anand Boris Gelfand
5Vt:Jd5 ld:g5 58.b5 �f5?!
Gelfand keeps making good moves, but fails to find an immediate way to resolve the tension.
Here 58 ... �d3! would have instantly forced the draw, using a small tactic to attack the bS-pawn.
59.J::!.h6 .iilg4 60Ji:f6
60.llh7+ '<t>b8 6l.tbb4 was a more direct try, but Black defends easily with 6l...�f3!, transferring the bishop to the long diagonal.
60 • • . J:i:f5 61.J:i:b6+ cJiJa7 62.J:i:g6
�f3 63.l:tg7+ �b8 64.tt:lc3 �b7 65.�c4 .iilf3 66.Wb4 .iild5 6Vt:Ja4
Vishy's attempt is starting to take shape. He wants his king on aS, his knight on cS and the pawn on b6, set
ting up mating nets for the black king.
67 •.. .l:!.f7 68.J:i:g5 iilf3 69.tt:lc5 �c7 70.J::!.g6
70 ..• �d8
Logically, Gelfand runs for safety, but
it would actually have been simpler to give White what he wanted.
After 70 ... �b7! 7l.b6+ �b8 72.l:!.g8+
�c8 White has reached his best posi
tion, but he has no way to make the slightest progress, as Black has an impregnable fortress.
71.�a5
71 ... J::!.f5??
Played with just under a minute on the clock, and despite being (briefly) the top move of the engines, the los
ing mistake. 71...�hl or something similar holds. Vishy had three m in
utes left, but took just seconds to play the decisive:
72.tt:le6+! �c8 73.tt:ld4! J:i:f8 74.
tt:lxf3 l:i:xf3 75.cJiJb6!
Exploiting the fact that Black's king is on c8, White combines the threat of llg8+ with penetration on a7. Black can only defend against one of the threats.
MOSCOW
TPR
Rapid tiebreak
1 2 3 4 TPR
6 2727 6 2791
75 ••• J:i:b3
lY2 2704
75 ... .!:i.f8 would have been the way to draw if the black king had been on b8: 76.'<t>a7 .l:!.£7+ 77.�a8! (77.�a6 l:If8 78.!:i.b6 also wins) 77 ... llfl 78.
.Ua6! .!:i.bl 79.b6 llb2 80. �a7! Releas
ing the rook from the defence of the pawn and transferring it to the c-file decides.
76.J::!.g8+ cJiJd7 77 .J::!.b8
And as there is no defence to �a7, fol
lowed by b6, Gelfand resigned.
The last decisive game in the match, but the adventures were not exactly over. However, Vishy held on to his lead and retained his title, becoming the first player since Lasker to have won World Championship matches against four different opponents.
Quite interestingly, Garry Kasparov was the main critic of Vishy's play in this World Championship match.
Interesting in the sense that what Vishy managed to do was to avoid repeating Kasparov's mistakes! Like Vishy, Kasparov won matches in spectacular attacking fashion or by a decisive last-game victory. But fac
ing an opponent who clearly found a strategy to avoid the champion from showing his best, I think Moscow 2012 showed a better approach than London 2000. Not letting your frus
tration get the better of you, but fight
ing back. •
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he day after he successfully defended his title, all Vishy Anand's time was claimed by a minuteto-minute schedule. Television inter
views, calls from home, a lengthy final press conference and an evening reception at the residence of the Indian ambassador to Russia seamlessly fol
lowed each other. A good part of the daytime was filled with an unex
pected highlight, a visit, together with Boris Gelfand, to Russian president Vladimir Putin in his residence in the
woods outside of Moscow.
It's the first thing we talk about when we meet the next day on the seventh floor of the Baltschug Kempinsky Hotel in the suite that served as the 'control room' of his seconds. Dressed in a casual shirt, ditto pants and
slip-said. He spoke a lot with Boris about Belarus and the chess scene: Anand's eyes sparkle as he recounts a funny part of their conversation. 'I told him that I grew up playing in a chess club which was hosted by the Soviet cul
tural centre and he said, so you are a problem that we created for ourselves: