Ivanchuk wins World Blitz Championship, Anand second

What a game!!!!!!! Real Thanks giving party was held at Mascow. If you are enjoying the thanks giving party without seeing the World Blitz championship games... then you missed a great oppurtunity...... Anand and Ivanchuk fought like a worriers in the final of world blitz chamiponship match. But atlast its IVANCHUK, who lift the CUP.

The first half of the Blitz Final had seen Vassily Ivanchuk in the lead, with Vishy Anand trailing two points behind in fifth place. The reigning World Champion, who said he had had a "bad day", came to the second half with new spirits, winning his first four games (against Carlsen, Morozevich, Shirov and Leko – the last as a revenge for a first-round loss). By round 29 Anand had caught Ivanchuk, and one round before the end both were still leading the field, each with 24.5 points, a point and a half adhead of the others. Everything was to be decided on the final game, in which the world's highest ranked player had white, against the world's second highest player (how much more exciting can it get?). Here is what transpired:

Anand,V (2801) - Ivanchuk,V (2787) [B42]
World Blitz Moscow RUS (38), 22.11.2007
1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 e6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 a6 5.Bd3 Bc5 6.Nb3 Ba7 7.Qe2 Nc6 8.Be3 d6 9.N1d2 Nf6 10.f4 0-0 11.Bxa7 Rxa7 12.g4 b5 13.0-0-0 Rc7 14.Rhg1 Qe7 15.Kb1 Nd7 16.g5 Bb7 17.Rg3 Nb4 18.Rh3 g6 19.Qg4 Rfc8 20.Qh4 Nf8 21.a3 Nxd3 22.cxd3 h5 23.gxh6 Qxh4 24.Rxh4 Nh7 25.Nd4 Nf6 26.N2f3 Re8 27.Ng5 e5 28.fxe5 dxe5

Anand was at this point sensationally winning the world blitz championship. He was two pawns up and only needed to push the h-pawn to clinch it. Unfortunately he played: 29.Ndf3? Nh5 30.Rg1 Kh8 31.Nh3 Bc8 32.Nf2 Nf4 33.Nxe5 Ne2 34.Re1 Nd4

35.Neg4?? This is going to haunt Anand's dreams for a while.35...Nf3 36.Nf6 Rd8 37.Nd5 Rb7 0-1.

The Real game was went betwen Ivanchuk and Peter Leko, which lost 217 moves. Can you imagine 217 moves with in 8 min.(4 min Each)....The suprising point thing is the game went to draw!!!!!!!

Importnat Games

Carlsen,M vs. Anand,V

1. d4 d5 2. c4 c6 3. Nf3 Nf6 4. Nc3 e6 5. e3 Nbd7 6. Ne5 Bd6 7. f4 O-O 8.
Bd3 c5 9. O-O cxd4 10. exd4 dxc4 11. Bxc4 Nb6 12. Bb3 Bd7 13. Qf3 Rc8 14.
f5 exf5 15. Nxd7 Qxd7 16. Qxf5 Bb4 17. Qxd7 Nbxd7 18. Ne2 Nb6 19. Ng3 Nfd5
20. a3 Be7 21. Ne4 Rfd8 22. Bd2 Nc4 23. Rac1 Nxd2 24. Rxc8 Nxb3 25. Rxd8+
Bxd8 26. Rf5 Nc7 27. d5 Nd4 28. Rf1 Nxd5 29. Rd1 Bb6 30. Kh1 Ne3 31. Rc1 h6
32. Nd6 Ng4 33. g3 f5 34. Nxb7 g5 35. b4 Kf7 36. a4 Ne6 37. a5 Be3 38. Nd6+
Kf6 39. Rc6 f4 40. gxf4 gxf4 41. Nb5 Ke5 42. h3 Nf2+ 43. Kg2 Ne4 44. h4 Nd2
45. Rc1 f3+ 46. Kg3 Ne4+ 47. Kxf3 Bxc1 48. Nxa7 Nd4+ 49. Kg4 Nf6+ 50. Kh3
Bd2 51. a6 Bxb4 52. Nc8 Ne6 53. a7 Nc7 54. Nb6 Kf5 55. a8=Q Nxa8 56. Nxa8
Ba5 57. Kg3 h5 0-1

Kramnik,V vs. Gelfand,B

1. d4 d5 2. Bf4 c5 3. e3 Nc6 4. Nf3 Bg4 5. c3 e6 6. Qb3 Qc8 7. Nbd2 Nf6 8.
Ne5 Be7 9. Nxg4 Nxg4 10. Be2 Nf6 11. O-O O-O 12. dxc5 Bxc5 13. Bg5 Nd7 14.
Rac1 Qc7 15. Rfd1 Bd6 16. Nf3 Nde5 17. Nd4 Na5 18. Qc2 a6 19. e4 Ng6 20. g3
Be7 21. Bxe7 Nxe7 22. exd5 Nxd5 23. c4 Nb4 24. Qa4 Nac6 25. Nf3 Qa5 1-0

Shortest Game of the Tournament
Kasimdzhanov,R vs. Shirov,A

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 e6 4. Bxc6 dxc6 5. b3 f6 6. d3 e5 7. O-O 0-1


Bacrot,E vs. Ivanchuk,V

1. d4 c6 2. e4 d5 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Bg5 dxe4 5. Nxe4 Nbd7 6. Nf3 h6 7. Nxf6+
exf6 8. Bh4 c5 9. Bc4 cxd4 10. O-O Bc5 1-0


Morozevich,A vs. Rublevsky,S

1. Nf3 d5 2. g3 Bg4 3. Bg2 Nd7 4. d3 c6 5. h3 Bh5 6. g4 Bg6 7. Nh4 e6 8.
Nxg6 hxg6 9. e3 Bd6 10. Qe2 Ne7 11. Nd2 g5 12. Nf3 Ng6 13. Bd2 Nde5 14.
O-O-O Qf6 15. Bc3 Nxf3 16. Bxf6 1-0


Carlsen,M vs. Bacrot,E

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 exd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 Be7 6. g3 d5 7. e5 Ng4 8.
Bg2 c6 9. f4 Nh6 10. O-O Qc7 11. f5 Qxe5 12. Bxh6 O-O 13. Bf4 Qf6 14. g4
Bc5 15. Nce2 Nd7 16. Kh1 h6 17. c3 Ne5 18. Ng3 Nc4 19. b3 Nb6 20. Nh5 Qh4
21. Bg3 Qg5 22. h4 Qd8 23. Qd2 Bd6 24. Bxd6 Qxd6 25. f6 Bxg4 26. fxg7 Bxh5
27. Nf5 1-0



Carlsen,M vs. Karpov,Ana

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nf6 3. Nxe5 d6 4. Nf3 Nxe4 5. Nc3 Nxc3 6. dxc3 Nd7 7. Bf4
Be7 8. Qd2 O-O 9. O-O-O Nc5 10. h4 Re8 11. Bc4 Be6 12. Bxe6 Nxe6 13. Be3 c6
14. c4 a6 15. Ng5 b5 16. Qd3 Nf8 17. Qf5 f6 18. Ne6 Qc8 19. Nd4 bxc4 20.
Qf3 d5 21. Nf5 Rb8 22. h5 Qb7 23. Bd4 Ne6 24. Qg4 Bf8 25. Bxf6 c5 26. Rhe1
d4 27. b3 Qd7 28. Bxg7 Bxg7 29. h6 Rb7 30. hxg7 Nxg7 31. Qxg7+ Qxg7 32.
Rxe8+ Qf8 33. Rxf8+ Kxf8 34. bxc4 Rf7 35. g4 h5 36. Rh1 1-0


Rublevsky,S vs. Anand,V

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. f3 Nc6 6. c4 e6 7. Nc3 Be7 8.
Be3 O-O 9. Be2 d5 10. cxd5 exd5 11. Nxc6 bxc6 12. exd5 Nxd5 13. Nxd5 cxd5
14. O-O Bf6 15. Bd4 Rb8 16. b3 Be6 17. Qd2 Bxd4+ 18. Qxd4 a5 19. Rfd1 Rb4
20. Qc5 Qb6 21. Qxb6 Rxb6 22. Rac1 Ra8 23. Rd4 Rb4 24. Rcd1 Kf8 25. Kf2
Rxd4 26. Rxd4 Ke7 27. Ra4 Bd7 28. Rd4 Kd6 29. Ke3 Kc5 30. a3 Re8+ 0-1


Adams,Mi vs. Kamsky,G

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4. Ba4 Nf6 5. Qe2 Be7 6. O-O b5 7. Bb3 d6 8.
c3 Bg4 9. d3 Na5 10. Bc2 c5 11. Nbd2 Nd7 12. h3 Bh5 13. Rd1 O-O 14. Nf1
Bxf3 15. Qxf3 Bg5 16. Ne3 g6 17. Bd2 Kh8 18. a4 b4 19. Re1 bxc3 20. Bxc3
Nc6 21. Bb3 Rb8 22. Bc4 a5 23. Qg3 Nd4 24. Rad1 Bf4 25. Qg4 h5 26. Qxf4
exf4 27. Nd5 f3 28. g3 Ne5 0-1


Kasimdzhanov,R vs. Rublevsky,S

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 e6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 a6 5. Nc3 Qc7 6. Bd3 Nf6 7. Qe2 Bd6
8. Ndb5 axb5 9. Nxb5 Qa5+ 10. Bd2 Bb4 11. Bxb4 Qxb4+ 12. c3 Qc5 13. e5 Nd5
14. Nd6+ Kf8 15. Qh5 g6 16. Qh6+ Kg8 17. h4 Nc6 18. h5 Nxe5 0-1

Carlsen,M vs. Shirov,A

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4. Ba4 Nf6 5. O-O b5 6. Bb3 Bc5 7. c3 d6 8.
d3 O-O 9. Bg5 h6 10. Bh4 g5 11. Bg3 Bg4 12. Nbd2 Nh5 13. Re1 Nxg3 14. hxg3
Ne7 15. Nf1 Ng6 16. d4 Bb6 17. Ne3 Bxf3 18. gxf3 exd4 19. cxd4 Qf6 20. Ng4
Qg7 21. e5 Kh8 22. Kg2 dxe5 23. Rh1 Bxd4 24. Rxh6+ Kg8 25. Qd3 e4 26. Qxe4
1-0

The REAL BIG GAME OF THE TOURNAMENT
Ivanchuk,V vs. Leko,P

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nf3 b6 4. g3 Ba6 5. b3 Bb4+ 6. Bd2 Be7 7. Bg2 c6 8.
Bc3 d5 9. Ne5 Nfd7 10. Nxd7 Nxd7 11. Nd2 O-O 12. O-O Rc8 13. e4 c5 14. exd5
exd5 15. dxc5 dxc4 16. cxb6 Nxb6 17. Re1 cxb3 18. Qxb3 Nd7 19. Nf3 Bc4 20.
Qb2 Nc5 21. Bxg7 Nd3 22. Bxf8 Nxb2 23. Bxe7 Qb6 24. Ne5 Be6 25. Re2 Nc4 26.
Rae1 Nxe5 27. Rxe5 h6 28. R5e2 Qd4 29. h4 Rc4 30. Ba3 Qd3 31. Bb2 Rc2 32.
Bf1 Rxe2 33. Rxe2 Qb1 34. Bc3 Qc1 35. Bb4 Bc4 36. Re1 Qb2 37. Re8+ Kh7 38.
Bxc4 Qxb4 39. Bd3+ Kg7 40. Re4 Qb6 41. Bc2 Qc6 42. Rg4+ Kf8 43. Bb3 a5 44.
Rf4 f6 45. Rc4 Qb7 46. Kh2 Kg7 47. Rg4+ Kh7 48. Rd4 Qc7 49. Rf4 Qe5 50. Kg2
Kg7 51. Rg4+ Kf8 52. Rf4 Kg7 53. Kf3 Kf8 54. Re4 Qf5+ 55. Ke3 Qc5+ 56. Kf3
Qf5+ 57. Rf4 Qe5 58. Kg2 Kg7 59. Ra4 Qc5 60. Rg4+ Kf8 61. Rg6 Qf5 62. Rg8+
Ke7 63. Rg7+ Kf8 64. Rf7+ Ke8 65. Rc7 Qe4+ 66. Kh2 Qf5 67. Rc2 Kf8 68. Re2
Qf3 69. Rd2 Kg7 70. Bd5 Qc3 71. Re2 Qc5 72. Bb3 Qb4 73. Rc2 Qd4 74. Bc4 Qe4
75. Bb3 a4 76. Rc7+ Kf8 77. Rc4 Qe2 78. Rxa4 Qxf2+ 79. Kh3 h5 80. Rf4 Qg1
81. Bd5 Kg7 82. Bg2 Qc5 83. a4 Qa5 84. Rd4 Kg6 85. Rf4 Kg7 86. Bf1 Kg6 87.
Kh2 Qd2+ 88. Bg2 Kg7 89. Rf5 Kg6 90. Rd5 Qa2 91. a5 Kg7 92. Kh3 Kg6 93. Rc5
Kh6 94. Rb5 Qe6+ 95. Kh2 Qa2 96. Rd5 Kg6 97. Kh3 Kh6 98. Rc5 Qe6+ 99. Kh2
Qa2 100. Rc6 Qxa5 101. Rxf6+ Kg7 102. Rf4 Qe5 103. Bf3 Kg6 104. Kh3 Qe6+
105. Kg2 Qa2+ 106. Kg1 Qb1+ 107. Kh2 Qc2+ 108. Kh3 Qc8+ 109. Kh2 Qc2+ 110.
Bg2 Qd2 111. Kg1 Qe1+ 112. Kh2 Qd2 113. Rf3 Qb2 114. Kg1 Qc1+ 115. Bf1 Qa1
116. Kg2 Qb2+ 117. Rf2 Qb7+ 118. Kh2 Qd5 119. Bh3 Qd4 120. Rf4 Qb2+ 121.
Bg2 Qd2 122. Rc4 Qf2 123. Rc6+ Kg7 124. Ra6 Qd2 125. Rb6 Qe2 126. Rd6 Qf2
127. Rd5 Kg6 128. Rg5+ Kh6 129. Kh3 Qf6 130. Rd5 Qe6+ 131. Kh2 Qe2 132. Rd4
Kg6 133. Rf4 Qd2 134. Rf3 Qb2 135. Kg1 Qc1+ 136. Bf1 Qd2 137. Bd3+ Kg7 138.
Kf1 Qb2 139. Be2 Qd2 140. Rf5 Qe3 141. Rg5+ Kf6 142. Bxh5 Qc1+ 143. Kg2
Qd2+ 144. Kh3 Qd3 145. Rg6+ Ke7 146. Rg7+ Ke6 147. Rf7 Qd5 148. Bg6 Qh1+
149. Kg4 Qd1+ 150. Rf3 Qd4+ 151. Kh3 Qg7 152. Bh5 Qh6 153. Bg4+ Ke7 154.
Rf4 Qc6 155. Bf3 Qe6+ 156. Rg4 Kf6 157. Be4 Qd7 158. Bf3 Qf5 159. Kh2 Qc2+
160. Bg2 Qe2 161. Rf4+ Kg7 162. Rf3 Qe5 163. Kh3 Qe6+ 164. g4 Qd7 165. h5
Qe7 166. Rf5 Qe3+ 167. Bf3 Qe6 168. Kh4 Qe1+ 169. Kh3 Qf1+ 170. Bg2 Qd3+
171. Kh4 Qd2 172. Bd5 Qe1+ 173. Kh3 Qe3+ 174. Rf3 Qd4 175. Bc6 Qc5 176. Bb7
Qe5 177. Rf5 Qe3+ 178. Bf3 Kh6 179. Rf6+ Kg7 180. Rf5 Kh6 181. Kg2 Qd2+
182. Kg3 Qe1+ 183. Kh3 Qf1+ 184. Bg2 Qd3+ 185. Kh4 Qd4 186. Bd5 Kg7 187.
Rg5+ Kh6 188. Rg6+ Kh7 189. Bg8+ Kh8 190. Be6 Qf2+ 191. Kg5 Qe3+ 192. Kf6
Qd4+ 193. Kf7 Qa7+ 194. Ke8 Qb8+ 195. Ke7 Qc7+ 196. Bd7 Qe5+ 197. Re6 Qg5+
198. Kd6 Kh7 199. Re4 Qf6+ 200. Be6 Qg5 201. Bf5+ Kg7 202. Re7+ Kh8 203.
Re6 Qd2+ 204. Ke7 Qg5+ 205. Ke8 Qg8+ 206. Kd7 Qg5 207. h6 Qd2+ 208. Ke8 Qa5
209. Kf7 Qd5 210. Kf6 Qd4+ 211. Kg6 Qd8 212. Kh5 Qd7 213. g5 Qd1+ 214. Kg6
Qd7 215. Re4 Qf7+ 1/2-1/2


Anand,V vs. Gelfand,B

1. Nf3 d5 2. d4 Nf6 3. c4 e6 4. g3 dxc4 5. Bg2 a6 6. O-O Nc6 7. Nc3 Rb8 8.
e3 b5 9. Qe2 Be7 10. Rd1 Nd5 11. e4 Nxc3 12. bxc3 O-O 13. h4 Qe8 14. Bf4
Bd8 15. h5 f6 16. h6 e5 17. hxg7 Kxg7 18. Be3 Bg4 19. a4 Ne7 20. axb5 axb5
21. Ra6 Ng6 22. Qd2 Kh8 23. Rda1 exd4 24. Bxd4 Ne5 25. Qf4 Bxf3 26. Bxf3
Nxf3+ 27. Qxf3 c6 28. e5 Rc8 29. exf6 Rf7 30. Ra8 Qe6 31. R1a7 Rxa8 32.
Rxa8 Qd7 33. Qxc6 Kg8 34. Qxd7 Rxd7 35. Bb6 1-0

Final Standings (38 rounds)

Place	SNo.	Name	Fed.	FIDE	Total	S.B.	Wins
1	16	Ivanchuk, Vassily	UKR	2787	25.5	480	19
2	4	Anand, Viswanathan	IND	2801	24.5	437	18
3	3	Grischuk, Alexander	RUS	2715	23.5	430.5	14
4	7	Kamsky, Gata	USA	2714	23.5	429	16
5	8	Kramnik, Vladimir	RUS	2785	21.5	393.75	13
6	1	Leko, Peter	HUN	2755	21.5	392.5	13
7	9	Rublevsky, Sergei	RUS	2676	21.5	385.75	16
8	18	Morozevich, Alexander	RUS	2755	21	378.5	16
9	17	Carlsen, Magnus	NOR	2714	20.5	352	15
10	13	Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar	AZE	2752	18.5	344.75	13
11	20	Adams, Michael	ENG	2729	18.5	337.25	13
12	11	Ponomariov, Ruslan	UKR	2705	18	339.5	15
13	5	Kasimdzhanov, Rustam	UZB	2690	17.5	319.75	11
14	2	Dreev, Alexey	RUS	2607	17	313.5	12
15	14	Gelfand, Boris	ISR	2736	17	310.75	10
16	6	Savchenko, Boris	RUS	2583	17	291.5	13
17	19	Shirov, Alexei	ESP	2739	16	298.75	11
18	12	Karpov, Anatoly	RUS	2670	14	252	8
19	10	Bacrot, Etienne	FRA	2695	12	235	9
20	15	Korotylev, Alexey	RUS	2600	11.5	205.25	7