2011 Russian Team Championship

Analysis by Chess Coach William Stewart

The 2011 Russian Team Championships this year were absolutely

incredible this year. I covered these games last week while

the championships were still going on but I got so caught up with

covering the USA championships that I wasn’t able to get this article

up until now.  The 2011 Russian Team Championships was definitely an

interesting event this year, as two rising stars were drafted on to

the winning SHSM-64 team. GM Fabiano Caruano (18 yrs old from Italy)

achieved an outstanding score of 8/10. GM Anish Giri (16 yrs old from

the Netherlands) put on a solid display with 5.5/9. The SHSM-64 team

displayed a very solid-line up with Boris Gelfand, Wang Hao, Fabiano

Caruana, Anish Giri, Alexander Riazantsev, Vladimir Potkin, Boris

Grachev, and Evgeniy Najer, boasting an average ELO rating of 2689!

All the games were extremely interesting, but I was particularly

impressed by the jaw-dropping performance of 18 year old Caruano. I

want to present to you two my favorite games from the tournament where

he takes on much older and experienced peers, completely dominating

the tournament and leading his team to victory:

GM Fabiano Caruana vs GM Dmitri Bocharov

In this game Bocharov took the opening into a Philidor Defense, and

conceded a slight advantage in space and development to Caruana. Black

attempted to reroute his dark-squared bishop via 14. ...Bd8, however

this led to a critical misplacement of the queen. White was able to

skillfully exploit this by weaving his way through immense tactical

complications, and earned a well-deserved tactical victory.

Grandmaster Fabiano Caruana vs GM Pavel Eljanov

In this game Caruana opens with a Ruy Lopez and Eljanov takes the game

into a Berlin Defense. Eljanov attempted to lift his queenside rook to

the 6th rank, however this plan seemed misplaced and Caruana

attentively reacted to keep black's rook out of play. A few

consecutive dubious moves by Eljanov and Caruana rapidly seized the

initiative - and the win. A fine game by the young super-GM Fabiano

Caruana.

I hope you all enjoyed these analyses. I apologize for their late

arrival. If you enjoyed these please check out my full article on the

2011 Russian Team Championships where you can watch 5 more game

analyses with PGN and more.

Hope you enjoyed the videos. Thanks to Natalia Pogonina for her support.

P.S. from Pogonina.com: if you are interested in the full standings, Natalia's performance and other results, make sure you don't miss this post.

	1. Written by Þðèé on 15:36 01 ìàÿ 2011 ã.
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