Bacrot made the worst blunder of the entire event

Round 11 results:

Cheparinov Ivan 2695 ½ – ½ Kamsky Gata 2726

Karjakin Sergey 2732 ½ – ½ Radjabov Teimour 2751

Navara David 2672 ½ – ½ Gashimov Vugar 2679

Grischuk Alexander 2716 ½ – ½ Carlsen Magnus 2765

Adams Michael 2729 ½ – ½ Mamedyarov Shakhriyar 2752

Bacrot Etienne 2705 0 – 1 Inarkiev Ernesto 2684

Wang Yue 2689 1 – 0 Svidler Peter 2746

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Wang Yue used fashionable Bg5 variation to outplay Peter Svidler in his favorite Gruenfeld Indian defence. Black tried to reduce the positional squeeze by sacrificing an exchange, but Chinese had no mercy and converted the advantage into win.

Etienne Bacrot, who has been ultra solid so far, committed the worst blunder of this tournament by putting the Queen en price on attacked square. My friend joked that Ernesto Inarkiev covered the culprit Knight with his hand, so Bacrot didn’t see it. Frenchmen actually had almost winning position in the opening, but then dropped the advantage with 17. d4 when 17. Nc7 was the right move.

Round 11 standings:

1-2. Grischuk Alexander 2716 RUS and Yue Wang 2689 CHN – 7.0

3. Gashimov Vugar 2679 AZE – 6.5

4-6. Mamedyarov Shakhriyar 2752 AZE, Adams Michael 2729 ENG and Carlsen Magnus 2765 NOR – 6.0

7-8. Radjabov Teimour 2751 AZE and Kamsky Gata 2726 USA – 5.5

9-11. Cheparinov Ivan 2695 BUL, Karjakin Sergey 2732 UKR and Bacrot Etienne 2705 FRA – 5.0

12-13. Inarkiev Ernesto 2684 RUS and Svidler Peter 2746 RUS – 4.5

14. Navara David 2672 CZE – 3.5

Round 12 on 4th May at 15:00 local time

Kamsky Gata 2726 - Svidler Peter 2746

Inarkiev Ernesto 2684 - Wang Yue 2689

Mamedyarov Shakhriyar 2752 - Bacrot Etienne 2705

Carlsen Magnus 2765 - Adams Michael 2729

Gashimov Vugar 2679 - Grischuk Alexander 2716

Radjabov Teimour 2751 - Navara David 2672

Cheparinov Ivan 2695 - Karjakin Sergey 2732

Morelia Linares round 11 – results and replayable games

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Alexei Shirov is expert for the Gruenfeld Indian defence and also unpleasant opponent for Veselin Topalov, but the Bulgarian managed to impose him another defeat in the same variation. Earlier he won with Sokolsky Attack at the 2007 Corus. Thanks to Magnus Carlsen’s loss, when he played somehow carelessly against the last-placed Peter Leko, Topalov and Aronian have evened with him on the second place tie. Radjabov-Anand was uneventful draw where black used the cleaning line to force quick exchanges against the rare setup in Caro-Kann. Completely on the opposite, Aronian-Ivanchuk deviated from the known theory already on 8th move and turned into wild chase as the pieces were disappearing from the queenside. Aronian realised he could only end up worse, and proceeded to trade the queens which killed all the tension and draw was imminent.

Round 11 results:

Teimour Radjabov – Vishy Anand draw

Levon Aronian – Vassily Ivanchuk draw

Veselin Topalov – Alexei Shirov 1-0

Peter Leko – Magnus Carlsen 1-0

Round 11 standings:

1. Vishy Anand 7.0

2-4. Magnus Carlsen, Levon Aronian and Veselin Topalov 6.0

5-6. Teimour Radjabov and Vassily Ivanchuk 5.0

7-8. Alexei Shirov and Peter Leko 4.5

Round 12 pairings:

Vishy Anand – Peter Leko

Magnus Carlsen – Veselin Topalov

Alexei Shirov – Levon Aronian

Vassily Ivanchuk – Teimour Radjabov

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