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“…it was hard not to see the humor in the 14 draws…”
Anish on Candidates and Norway Chess with his annotations
Candidates The long awaited Candidates tournament cemented my reputation as a solid player, mildly put. You probably have never heard of the game called chess if you don't know my final score. I was far from being happy with my tournament performance, but it was hard not to see the humor in the 14 draws I had made, even if I tried not to. For this little article instead of delving deeply into the philosophical side of things, I will rather present a couple of moments when the score board COULD have been opened. Game Fragment: F. Caruana - A. Giri (Click here to view the game analysis in Chessbase viewer) Game Fragment: A. Giri - F. Caruana (Click here to view the game analysis in Chessbase viewer)
Game Fragment: V. Anand - A. Giri (Click here to view the game analysis in Chessbase viewer) It was thus also a somewhat wrong impression that I was never in any danger myself, but overall, if all things went right, I would have made a good shot. That was definitely not meant to be though, so without crying over my failure to qualify or come close to qualify I moved on to my next events. And fortunately there are plenty of those!
My next tournament was Norway Chess. Things started excellently! I cruised through the blitz tournament, ending on clear second, behind Carlsen, who started with 7.5/8 and lost his last game to me. I might annotate that game for NewInChess magazine (heard the blitz tournament will get a page or two there!), but there were also few other nice ones. Game Fragment: N. Grandelius - A. Giri (Click here to view the game analysis in Chessbase viewer) I won a couple of nice Najdorf games with black (vs. Harikrishna and Li Chao) and had I not lost on time against MVL in a won endgame (Najdorf with white this time), who knows, maybe I would have even made a shot at the first place in the blitz tournament. The first game in the classical part was sweet as well. I won a very complicated game against Pavel Eljanov, who is never to be underestimated, no matter the color.
Game Fragment: A. Giri - M. V. Lagrave (Click here to view the game analysis in Chessbase viewer) I wasn't feeling particularly down after this game and there were no reasons to as I made an easy draw against Vladimir Kramnik, who I had trouble against since I was a genuinely nice little kid. That was quite long ago, as you can imagine.
Game Fragment: A. Giri - P. Harikrishna (Click here to view the game analysis in Chessbase viewer) -1 was definitely sad, but somehow, although I didn't do anything particularly stupid, chances didn't appear, and then as it sometimes happens, the tournament just ended. That's where I am standing right now, and hey, back to work, Shamkir coming up soon! THE END ************************************************************************** Official Website of Candidates Tournament 2016 Official Website of Norway Chess 2016  |
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