How to Beat French Defence | Anand vs Xiong | Tata Steel Chess 2020
Channel: Mordimer's Chess Channel
Date: 2020-01-16

5th Round of Tata Steel Chess Tournament. This time the players went to Eindhoven to play in the famous football stadium. As they said in the interviews it was interesting experience for them. In this game Viswanathan Anand faces young American Grand Master, Jeffery Xiong. They play French Defence, Winawer Variation, what is big surprise for many commentators as Anand played many successful games against that system. But tt seems like Jeffery is well prepared for the Tata Steel Masters 2020 and he wants to check his preparation against the toughest opponents. Very brave, indeed! He already got 2.5 points out of 4 and against Anand he slightly deviated from the main lines which also slowed down his activity on queen side. Vishy managed to win a pawn and again showed to everybody how to play against French Defence. In this chess game analyzed I show the critical lines, however the game is so complex that it’s nearly impossible to cover them all. Anyway, very interesting game by both players, first of chess games 2020 won by veteran Madras Tiger.

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Viswanathan Anand - Jeffery Xiong, Eindhoven 2020 
French Defense: Winawer Variation, Poisoned Pawn Variation [C18]
1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. e5 Ne7 5. a3 Bxc3+ 6. bxc3 c5
7. Qg4 Kf8 8. h4 h5 9. Qd1 b6 10. Bg5 Qc7 11. Rh3 cxd4
12. cxd4 Nf5 13. c3 Ba6 14. Bxa6 Nxa6 15. Ne2 Nb8 16. Nf4 g6
17. g4 hxg4 18. Qxg4 Nd7 19. Rc1 Rg8 20. h5 gxh5 21. Qxh5 Qc4
22. Ne2 Rc8 23. Rf3 Rc6 24. Ng3 Ke8 25. Nxf5 exf5 26. Rxf5
Rcg6 27. Kd2 Nf8 28. Be3 Ne6 29. Qe2 Qa2+ 30. Rc2 Qb1 31. c4
Rg4 32. cxd5 Rxd4+ 33. Bxd4 Qxc2+ 34. Kxc2 Nxd4+ 35. Kd3 Nxe2
36. Kxe2 Rg4 37. f4 Rg3 38. Rg5 Rxa3 39. Rg8+ Kd7 40. Rf8 Ke7
41. Rb8 Kd7 42. Rb7+ Ke8 43. d6 1-0

Promised link to Study created of this game: 
https://lichess.org/study/UN4iGUP9/EII1Idlg#0

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0:07 Introduction of Visvanathan Anand vs Jeffery Xiong
2:16 The chess game begins here

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