P Harikrishna-World Jr. Champ 04, WR#10 Sep 2016

[viji]

Hari lost Elijanov earlier but this evening beat Bluvshtein to be back sharing the lead with Kamsky, Ivanchuk and Tiviakov (all 3.5/5). It was the longest game of the day, and the end was thrilling. Hari let black go ahead and get an extra queen but had enough pawn protection around the king and a queening threat of his own. Finally he managed to get rid of the extra queen (the way he played, he seems to have foreseen that) and was left with four white pawns to nothing for black. This combined with possible time trouble for Bluvshtein finally brought the resignation. 

[indiansportsfan]

Wow!! Thats some pretty impressive field out there.

[viji]

Hari had two draws in a row, playing against Kamil Miton and Pascal Charbonneau (I was hoping for a win against Charbonneau). Currently Tiviakov (5.5/7) leads with Ivanchuk (5/7) behind him, followed by Kamsky and Hari, both at 4.5/7. Hari would play Tiviakov next and face Ivanchuk at the last game. Hari has white against Tivi tomorrow. Hope he pulls out a great win.

Short managed to draw against Kamsky. Perhaps his desire to get even with the Kamskies overwhelmed the toothache distraction

Standings of affairs at the Empresa tournament after round 7:
1. Tiviakov, Sergei g NED 2648 5.5

2. Ivanchuk, Vassily g UKR 2762 5.0

3-4. Kamsky, Gata g USA 2718 4.5
3-4. Harikrishna, P g IND 2664 4.5

5. Eljanov, Pavel g UKR 2701 4.0

6. Miton, Kamil g POL 2648 3.5

7-8. Bluvshtein, Mark g CAN 2520 2.5
7-8. Sutovsky, Emil g ISR 2656 2.5

9. Charbonneau, Pascal g CAN 2503 2.0

10. Short, Nigel D g ENG 2683 1.0

[viji]

Hari beats Tivi.
Ivanchuk, who won against Miton Kamil today, should be the leader with 6 points
Hari catches up with Tivi at 5.5.
Kamsky, who drew with Charbonneau, should be at 5.0.
Tomorrow, Hari plays Ivanchuk.

[ajay]

That's a good result for Hari. So Hari is only half point behind the leader. Go Hari!

[jaydeep]

So I think who win in Hari and Ivanchuk will take title ... Go Hari.

[viji]

Hari lost to Ivanchuk. Ivanchuk has been in great form recently, starting from his surprise appearance in Morelia-Linares. He also had white.
Hari came third, behind Tiviakov, who drew with Charbonneau.
He still landed ahead of Kamsky and Elijanov. His performance was 63 points above his rating.

Most of the press is focussed on why Short did so badly and not on Tiviakov and Harikrishna doing very well. They do note that Ivanchuk is steadily moving back towards the top.
http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=4016

[jaydeep]

Yes, with this title Ivanchuk is having chance of moving to 3rd place in FIDE ranking .. Very creditable perfromance by Hari in this tough category - 18 tournament.

Jaydeep.

[sameerph]

Harikrishna has been doing pretty well at Marx Gyorgy Memorial Chess tournament at Hungaray where he is in sole lead with 2 rounds to go. He started badly with a loss & three draws but then had 3 wins on a trot including one over Victor Korchnoi .

Report in rediff :-

http://www.rediff.com/sports/2007/aug/14chess.htm

[Varma]

Nice job, Hari. Keep it up & get the title!

- Varma

PS: I can't believe Korchinoi, at 77, is still competing at such a high level. Talk about passion for the game!

[suresh]

Nice point Varma. I hope Hari learns a thing or two from Korchnoi.

[usaindian]

hari shared the title with a guy named Acs
Hari shares title with Acs

[viji]

Hari came second in the tiebreak in that tournament. He would lose some points since he was the top seed.

He had a pretty good run in Ordix open in Mainz but lost to Navara in time in a game he parctically won. Hari came out 6th with 1/2 point behind the leaders (Navara, Mchedlishvilli and Sasikiran).

BTW, Hari just got the Arjuna award (news that is few weeks old). Congrats, Hari.

[viji]

Harikrishna playing blindfold chess at Bilbao.
He is somewhere in the middle of a field containing Veselin Topalov, Magnus Carlsen, Judit Polgar, Serguei Karjakin and Bu Xiangzhi.  Yesterday he lost to Carlsen by forgetting Carlsen had a knight at c5 and playing QXb3, thereby losing the queen. Today it was topalov's turn to forget Hari's pawn configuration and making a move that loses a knight.

I guess that is part of fun of blindfold chess, having super-GMs commit "blunders" (Anand lost a blindfold game to Kramnik at Monaco this way). I, of course, can't imagine how they play blindfold at all.

One thing in this tournament is that win counts for 3 point and draw for 1. So for the moment Hari is ahead of Polgar and Topalov (and Carlsen, by some tiebreak system).

[suresh]

Harikrishna playing blindfold chess at Bilbao.
He is somewhere in the middle of a field containing Veselin Topalov, Magnus Carlsen, Judit Polgar, Serguei Karjakin and Bu Xiangzhi.  Yesterday he lost to Carlsen by forgetting Carlsen had a knight at c5 and playing QXb3, thereby losing the queen. Today it was topalov's turn to forget Hari's pawn configuration and making a move that loses a knight.

I do all this with both eyes open - don't need a blindfold