Dortmund Round 2 - Three Wins

Gustafsson,J (2603) - Naiditsch,A (2624) [D37]
1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 d5 4.Nc3 dxc4 5.e4 Bb4 6.Bg5 c5 7.Bxc4 cxd4 8.Nxd4 Bxc3+ 9.bxc3 Qa5 10.Bb5+ Bd7 11.Bxf6 gxf6 12.Bxd7+ Nxd7 13.0-0 a6 14.Rb1 Qc7 15.Qh5 Ke7 16.f4 Qxc3 17.Rfd1 Rab8 18.e5 Qe3+? 19.Kh1 Rhd8 20.exf6+ Ke8 21.Nxe6 Nxf6 22.Nc7+ Ke7 23.Qh4 1-0

Leko,P (2741) - Ivanchuk,V (2740) [B46]
1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 e6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nc6 5.Nc3 a6 6.Nxc6 bxc6 7.Bd3 d5 8.0-0 Nf6 9.Qf3 Be7 10.Qg3 Nh5 11.Qf3 Nf6 12.e5 Nd7 13.Qg3 g6 14.Bh6 c5 15.Na4 c4 16.Be2 Bb7 17.b3 Bc6 18.Nb2 Rb8 19.Nd1 Nc5 20.Ne3 Ne4 21.Qh3 Ng5 22.Qg4 c3 23.a3 Bb5? 24.Bxb5+ axb5 25.f3 Qb6 26.Rae1 d4 27.Nd1 d3+ 28.Kh1 dxc2 29.Nf2 Bc5 30.Nd3 Be3 31.Bxg5 Bd2 32.Re2 0-0 33.Nc1 b4 34.Bxd2 cxd2 35.Rxd2 bxa3 36.Rxc2 Rfc8 37.Qe4 Rxc2 38.Qxc2 Qd4 39.Na2 Qxe5 40.b4 Rd8 41.h3 h5 42.Rb1 Qe3 43.Rd1 Rd5 44.Qb1 Qe2 45.Re1 Qd2 46.Rc1 Rd8 47.b5 Rb8 48.Rc3 h4 49.b6 Qd6 50.Rb3 Rb7 51.Nc3 Qc6 52.Rxa3 Qxb6 53.Qxb6 Rxb6 54.Ra4 g5 55.f4 Rb3 56.Ne2 Re3 57.Ng1 1-0

Kramnik,V (2788) - Van Wely,L (2677) [D11]
1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.Nf3 Nf6 4.e3 e6 5.b3 Nbd7 6.Bb2 b6 7.Bd3 Bb7 8.0-0 Bd6 9.Nbd2 0-0 10.Ne5 Qe7 11.Qf3 Rfd8 12.Qh3 h6 13.f4 Bb4 14.Ndf3 Ne4 15.Nxd7 Rxd7 16.Ne5 Rc7 17.Bxe4 dxe4 18.c5 bxc5 19.a3 Ba5 20.dxc5 Qxc5 21.b4 Qb5 22.Qg3 Bb6? [22...f5] 23.Nd7 g6 24.Nf6+ Kf8 25.Be5 Rcc8 26.Qh4 h5 27.Nh7+ Ke8 28.Bd6 Rc7 29.Rfd1 1-0

Nepomniachtchi-Mamedyarov was a draw

Dortmund Round 1 - Four Draws

Jan Gustafsson	½-½	Vladimir Kramnik
Arkadij Naiditsch	½-½	Ian Nepomniachtchi
Shak. Mamedyarov	½-½	Peter Leko
Vassily Ivanchuk	½-½	Loek van Wely

MGP3 - Petrosian

So, I read My Great Predecessors 1 and 2, and they have all these great games where you see the world champions whoop butt on their opponents. Now I'm reading the first chapter in volume 3 on Petrosian, and ...

• Game 2 (Zurich CT 1953) - Reshevsky has strong pressure all game but Petrosian defends well and gets the draw (by the way, in this same line at Zurich, Taimanov soundly thumped Petrosian and Smyslov had a won position although that game was drawn)
• Game 3 (USSR Ch 1958) - Tal has strong pressure all game but Petrosian defends well and gets the draw
• Game 4 (Varna Ol 1962) - Gligoric has strong pressure all game but Petrosian defends well and gets the draw
• Game 5 (San Antonio 1972) - Portisch has strong pressure all game but Petrosian defends well and gets the draw
• Game 8 (Amsterdam CT 1956) - Colorless draw with Bronstein

Given that only 22 games (excluding the losses to other players featured in the book and the two wins against Kasparov) were needed, surely Kasparov could have found sufficient GOOD games by Petrosian to fill up the required number of slots rather than giving us this slop.