London Chess Classic

The London Chess Classic, the third and final leg of the Chess Grand Tour 2015, began on Friday 4th December and continues until Sunday 13th and what a stellar line-up there is:

 Carlsen                   Caruana           Nakamura           Topalov              Grischuk

          Anand                  Giri                Aronian                Adams           Vachier-Lagrave

Each tournament in the Grand Chess Tour has a prize fund of $300,000 and there is a bonus pool of $150,000 for the top three finishers in the Grand Tour based on their overall performance to make a total prize fund of over 1 million dollars. Round 3 begins this afternoon (Sunday) and after two rounds there has only been one victory.  Here it is.

White: Veselin Topalov (2803)                                 Black: Anish Giri (2784)

London Chess Classic 2015      Rd 1

  1 .  d4  Nf6  2.  c4  g6  3.  g3  c6  4.  Bg2  d5  5.  Qa4  Nfd7  6.  cxd5   Nb6  7.  Qd1  cxd5  8.  Nc3  Nc6  9.  e3  Bg7  10.  Nge2  O-O  11.  O-O  Re8  12.  b3  e5  13.  dxe5  Nxe5  14.  h3    Bf5  15.  Nd4  Bd3  16.  Re1 Ba6  17.  Qd2  Nd3  18.  Rd1  Bxd4  19.  exd4  Qf6  20.  a4   Qxd4!?  21.  a5   Nd7  22.  Ra4  Qe5  23.  Nxd5  Nxc1  24.  Rxc1  Nf6  25.  Nc7  Rad8  26.  Qf4  g5  27.  Qb4  Qb2  28.  Raa1  Re2 29.  Qc5  h6  30.  Nxa6  bxa6  31.  Rab1  Qd2  32.  Bf3  Ne4  33.  Qxa7   Nxf2!  34.  Bxe2  Nxh3  35.  Kf1  Qd5!  36.  Bh5  Qh1  37.  Ke2  Qg2  38.  Ke1  Re8  39.  Kd1  Nf2  40.  Kc2  Ne4   

41.Kd3 Qd2+ 42.Kc4 Rc8+ and mate next move.