High voltage PRESSURE | 56-year-old Vishy Anand vs 20-year-old Javokhir Sindarov

Welcome everyone to Bengaluru at the Lalit Ashok Hotel. We have the team of Vishy Anand entering in. They are taking on the team of Chawukhir Sindarov. A very exciting game awaits us as Vishy and his team enter the playing hall, and there you see Sindarov coming in talking to Nihal Sarin. Vishy Anand versus सिंदरोव इस अ वेरी माउथवाटरिंग एनकाउंटर। इट्स लाइक टू जेनरेशंस ऑफ चेस फेसिंग ऑफ अगेंस्ट इच अदर। 20 इयर ओल्ड सिंदरोव वर्सेस 56 इयर ओल्ड विशी। एंड यू कैन सी जावुक हीर टॉकिंग तू निहाल देर एंड आल्सो काइंड ऑफ पुटिंग अ हैंड अराउंड हिज शॉल्डर्स। वेरी कूल। एंड द ऑर्बिटर स्टार्ट्स द क्लॉक। इट्स 20 मिनट्स। No increment until move 40, and then 2 seconds increment. E4, e5, knight f3, knight c6, and Vishy plays the Ruy Lopez. a6, bishop drops back, knight comes out to f6, and Vishy castles. Now Vishy's been playing Ruy Lopez for over 3 decades, one of the best players in the world playing this opening, but Chaukhier is going for the Archangel setup with bishop to c5. This is more active than putting your bishop on e7. a4 striking on the queenside. Black castles here, and Vishy goes knight c3. He's putting pressure on the b5 point. If you play b4, I have knight d5. So Sindarov thinking here what to do. He goes knight to a5. And the point is, if you take this, I have knight b3, cb3, and ab5, which is good compensation for the missing pawn. So Vishy goes bishop a2, b4 played, knight jumps back to e2, and now d5 striking in the center. Anand takes on e5, but Chaukhier is blitzing out his moves. He's very well prepared. And now Vishy pushes the pawn to d4 along with the support of his knight. The bishop drops back and these 2 bishops are quite dangerous. Bishop g5 pinning the knight and queen d6 quickly played. He goes c3 and I think Jao Kheer first time starts to think, but in 15 seconds pushes his pawn to c5. This entire central structure is a bit loose. Pawn takes pawn, and now, I mean, if you take cd4, I have knight f7, rook f7, bishop takes, and then this is hanging. So that's the reason why he plays cb4. Vishy takes on f6. If you take with the queen, there's a knight d7 fork. So pawn takes, and believe it or not, this position is Excellent for black. Knight c4, even though the kingside structure is broken, there is no way to take advantage of it, and black is doing very well. In fact, Javokhir can tuck his king— that's what he does— and later take advantage on the g-file. Queen comes to b3. Vishy starts to put pressure on the f7 point, but Sinderov goes rook d8. The main point being, if takes here, it's just waste of time. Black gets the pieces moving. Rook ad1 played by Anand. f5 played. Now the threat is f4, f3. So he goes Queen g3, stopping knight— I mean, the pawn coming to f4. And a5. Chaukeer is okay with the queen trade. He knows that the endgame is going to be good for him. Queen takes queen, rook takes. But Vishy's time He has 11 minutes while Jao Kir has just 6 minutes. This position already better for Black. Now Jao Kir goes King g7, not the best move. He should have played Rook fd8, and then if Bishop takes f7, there's Bishop a6, very powerful way to continue. But once you go King g7, Vishy can go Rook to d2 and then bring the rook here. Yes, he plays Rook d2. King f6. Black's position still very preferable. Rook comes to d1, and now rook e8. Vishy brings his king in. It seems like white is slowly stabilizing, but black instantly pushes his pawn forward, trying to open up the position. The bishop is now open. Rook takes e3. Taken, but black is running positional risks now. The reason is that these pawns are weak and Vishy closes down this bishop on b7. h5 played, and now you can go knight to f4, but first rook d3 offering a trade. But this is a bad move because after rook takes d3, rook takes d3, king e5. Black will win the d5 pawn and will have a winning endgame. Let's see if Chaukhir can find it. No, he goes directly King e5, which is also good, but perhaps taking on d3 was better. Now Vishy comes back. He sees that exchanging the rooks was not to his benefit. Rook e4, and now Knight to g1. So the knight is coming here, and I think the best move is to take Take on g1, but instead he goes rook g6, allowing Anand to come back knight f3 check king d6. You never want to give up the bishop pair when they are so strong, but sometimes you do have to give it up. Now the position is equal, and you know the game situation, the match situation is such that Vishy's team is ahead with nine four, which means that if Anand gets a draw in this game, his Team wins. Rook g8, and now rook e1 played. Jaukir goes rook f4, but now Anand is winning with rook e8. He can win the game. I mean, he's better clearly. Trading off the important rook, and then the rook can come from behind along with the knight joining in. The bishop here. Yes, he plays it. 3 minutes 54 seconds for Anand, only 32 seconds for Javokhir. Vishy is not just equal, he's better now. He only needs a draw for his team. Rook e4, and now Rook d8 check. He goes Rook h8, maybe giving this check and then playing Rook h8 would have been so much better. Then you wouldn't kind of Allow this idea, bishop e3, which is what Sinderov does. It's a good move by him. And now Anand can take on h4, but he'll lose this central pawn. Knight takes h4, rook f4 check. That's a mistake. King e2 is coming. He comes here. The best move was rook takes c4. Bishop d4, he comes with a check. King c5, and now knight to f3, check with the rook. Vishy in driver's seat, he comes back. King d1, his king is safe, his bishop is well placed defending everything. Bishop takes pawn, takes, takes here, and he goes rook a6 attacking this a5 pawn. And now rook f6 is winning, attacking these two. But he takes on a5. Rook e3 played by Javokir Sindarov, and knight d2. He goes for the g3 pawn, taking here on g2. Is he goes rook g3 trying to win the g2 pawn? Rook a8 and takes on g2 check. King e6. Man, this position has become so intense. Vishy, after the club, everything has settled, is better here. But I mean, is equal, but Black's pawn is coming down as well. a6 check to the king, and king comes up. The rook moves behind the pawn. You can't lose that a-pawn. But he plays knight e4, attacking the bishop. The bishop steps in, and how do you save that pawn is the question. Look at Vishy, hands shaking there. Rook a8. He still has 1 minute 22 seconds. Sindarov has just 11 seconds. King d3, f5 attacking the knight. Knight jumps in with a check. King to d5. Knight comes back to Stop a mate on d2. Rook a3. Now the b3 pawn is falling. Anand gives a check. King c5. He gives a check again. Draw is all that he needs. His team will win it. Meanwhile, the score has become 9-8 now. So if Sindarov wins, his team would win it. Sindarov cannot draw the game. Check. King b6. He tries to fight on. Maybe another check is a good idea. He goes king c4, which is also fine. Rook a2, trying to get it here. And now rook f8. He gives a check. Taking here is a mate. So he has to go King d5, takes, Rook takes f5 taken, and Rook c3. Vishy's time down to 53 seconds. He starts to push the pawn. King b5 played, pressure growing, tremendous pressure, and he pushes h5. Rook takes pawn and h6, just go on. But he gives a check. He goes into a rook endgame. It's still a draw, but now very tricky. There was a check. King moves ahead. King e4, the blunder, because rook c3, he takes the pawn. b3 played. Rook to f8. And now rook c4 check, an insanely good move. King comes up because now you can block here, and Vishy loses on time. He He loses the game on time, but his position was also lost, and Javokhir Sindarov scores a very, very important win here. Let's analyze that final position, what happened here. So here Vishy was doing very well. He pushed h5, Rook takes b3, and instead of this check, h6. Would have led to a very good position for white, but check, and this is still a draw. But now it's tougher. You have to find the move rook f8. Let's say the rook goes behind the pawn, and now a very important move king c4 to threaten a mate. Check, king comes back, and this is a draw. But after king e4, rook c3, Javakir finds the only move. What a move this was! King f4, b3 again the only move, and then finds another only move, rook c4 check. And after Vishy, if he would have played king g5, there is b2. And if you try to stop this pawn, I can simply block and make a queen. That's why this is lost. But what a fight this was. From morning, from morning I'm waiting, sir. Please, Vishy sir. I need to see those. Don't push, guys. Don't push. अगला डोर अगला है ब्रा? आगे दिया? हाँ हाँ हाँ आगे। प्रेस में प्रेस में प्रेस में प्रेस में वाले