Topalov: I Made Mistake in 2nd Game vs. Anand

Veselin Topalov claims he lost Sunday's second game with world chess champion Anand because of a wrong move he had made at the very start. Photo by BGNES

The Bulgarian chess master Veselin Topalov admitted that he had started “on a wrong footing” in the second game against the world chess champion.
On Sunday, Topalov lost to his opponent, the Indian-born world chess champion Viswanathan Anand at the 43rd move.
In an interview for one of the biggest Spanish sports dailies, Topalov said that he had planned and started the whole game in a wrong way, adding that the second game was a lot tougher than the first one.
Anand on the other hand commented that he had played well and had concentrated on winning the game after the 28th move.
Topalov won the opening game on the 31st move on Saturday. Thus, the score so far is 1:1 with ten more games to go.
The two chess masters will have a break on Monday, and will face one another again on Tuesday when Topalov will be with the white pieces.

Source: novinite.com

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Anand's turn with the white pieces today after a complete catastrophe in yesterday's game one. Six different world championship matches have started with an exchange of wins in the first two games, but you have to go back to the second Tal-Botvinnik match in 61 for the last example. Live today at 8am ET. Not to be a snob, but it would be nice if they had someone with native-level English for the English pages of an official site of a world championship match. I'd give dollar for indefinite article or two.
Kasparov thought Anand was crazy for playing that Grunfeld line in the first game. Not only is it very dangerous, he said, but Black doesn't get real chances in compensation for the risks.
Update: Just like I said, every 50 years like clockwork the loser in game one strikes back in game two. After a crushing loss in game one world champion Vishy Anand bounced back with white in a Catalan to even the match heading into the rest day. He made steady progress on the queenside and Topalov, who seemed to come out of the opening in good shape, never found a plan and watched his pushed queenside pawns get picked off. Ironically, the extra pawn Anand gambited in the opening was still on the board on e3 when Topalov resigned the hopeless rook endgame. All the blather about Anand being discombobulated by the brutal loss in the first game can now be summarily defenestrated. Match on!
Maybe I misunderstood the seriousness of Topalov's use of "no draw" rules in this match? You have to go back to 1958 for three decisive games in a row to start a match, but all three were wins by Botvinnik over Smyslov, so a different kettle of borscht there. (They had a remarkably golden-age stretch of eight consecutive decisive games in their first match in 1954.) But these days we don't even have the space on the calendar to equal the first Steinitz-Chigorin match in 1889. The first 16 games were decisive before they drew the final game of the match.
Monday is an off day, then Anand will have to decide whether or not he goes back to the Grunfeld.

Source: Daily Dirt Chess Blog

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Anand draws level

by Ian Rogers

After his unexpected loss to challenger Veselin Topalov in the first game of the World chess championship, defending champion Viswanathan Anand wasted no time in levelling the match at 1-1 through a powerful win in their second game on Sunday.

Anand, playing white, began the game with the Catalan Opening, a system which had been a favourite of Anand's great rival Vladimir Kramnik. Topalov responded by taking a pawn and hanging on to it.

Anand's 15th move, offering to exchange of queens and accept a wrecked pawn structure, provoked criticism from the prominent Grandmaster Nigel Short but many observers, as well as Topalov, quickly saw merit in Anand's idea.

Topalov, confident in front of his home crowd after his convincing victory on Saturday, responded with fast, solid moves but Anand's initiative persisted.

“Only after my 27th move was I confident that I was out of danger,” admitted Anand. “But in fact already White had a big advantage.”

By the 28th move Anand had regained his sacrificed pawn and he started piling on the pressure. A few moves later the Indian Grandmaster won a key pawn and was headed for victory.

Anand's only enemy was his clock, having spent a most of his allocated time plotting Topalov's downfall, but the champion began moving faster and forced Topalov's resignation after 43 moves and almost four hours play.

“It was a complicated game, but at some point I started to make mistakes,” admitted a despondent Topalov at the post-game press conference.”

The course of Sunday's game showed that Anand had recovered his composure after what he described as “the worst possible start” to the world title match; losing a game in two hours where your opponent did not need to find a single original move.

“The main thing after a game like that is to sleep — which was impossible,” said Anand, “and after that to play a good game, [which I managed to do].”

The psychological initiative has now shifted back to Anand, although Topalov now has a rest day to lick his wounds and bounce back in third game starting at 5.30 p.m. IST on Tuesday.

You can see the full game 2 analysis here & video report here.

Source : The Hindu

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Anand fights back to win second game, levels world title match

SOFIA: World Chess Champion Viswanathan Anand fought back in style to level his 12-game World chess final against Bulgarian Veselin Topalov with a superb win in the second game Sunday.

Fighting tiredness and a first-game deficit, Anand, who endured a 40-hour road trip to make it to Sofia, is now tied 1-1 after losing the first game Saturday.

"I am happy with my play and I thought that I played fairly accurately," Anand said. This sends him to the first rest day with a psychological advantage.

Anand started with the Queen Pawn Opening. It was a complex Catalan Opening with neither player having any clear advantage.

In comparison to the rapid-style first game, players were more circumspect Sunday. Topalov seemed to have an edge in terms of position, but Anand waited it out.

Anand sacrificed a pawn and Topalov appeared to have greater mobility. The early exchange of queens on the 15th move was a bit surprising since it was at Anand's invitation and he was a pawn down.

Anand made a few unexpected moves and slowly seemed to be improving his position. The 25th move of Topalov to get into Anand's territory to exchange a knight for a bishop was dubious and the Indian started looking better.

Anand spent too much time on the 29th turn and had just 19 minutes to Topalov's 38 minutes to complete the stipulated 40 moves before the first time control.

Topalov's 29th move was either unnecessary aggression or desperation in trying to exchange at least one rook as Anand's position had started looking better and better.

The Indian first won a pawn and then the second one with his rooks, bishop and knight in perfect control even as Topalov's pieces were left with no play and he resigned on the 38th move.

The Moves:

Viswanathan Anand vs Veselin Topalov

1. d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 d5 4.g3 dxc4 5.Bg2 a6 6.Ne5 c5 7.Na3 cxd4 8.Naxc4 Bc5 9.0-0 0-0 10.Bd2 Nd5 11.Rc1 Nd7 12.Nd3 Ba7 13.Ba5 Qe7 14.Qb3 Rb8 15.Qa3 Qxa3 16.bxa3 N7f6 17.Nce5 Re8 18.Rc2 b6 19.Bd2 Bb7 20.Rfc1 Rbd8 21.f4 Bb8 22.a4 a5 23.Nc6 Bxc6 24.Rxc6 h5 25.R1c4 Ne3 26.Bxe3 dxe3 27.Bf3 g6 28.Rxb6 Ba7 29.Rb3 Rd4 30.Rc7 Bb8 31.Rc5 Bd6 32.Rxa5 Rc8 33.Kg2 Rc2 34.a3 Ra2 35.Nb4 Bxb4 36.axb4 Nd5 37.b5 Rdxa4 38.Rxa4 1-0

Source : Times of India

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