Duda-Fedoseev 0-1
The situation when in the 51st move white has 2 rooks and a pawn and black has 2 rooks and 3 pawns is not a comfortable one. However, we have a draw in the 70th move, and a real draw position is reached in the 65th move. It follows that Duda lacked a good concept. Not necessarily ours.
We do not consider any more of his games, as he lost as many as 3 of them and fell out of our interest.
In the end Fedoseev came back on top and won this tournament. Second Alireza.
Our heroes who lost only one game each in this tournament are Alireza and Aronian. And here is an interesting observation. They both lost to Aravindh, who finished 3rd, but also lost 2 games, to Lagrave and to Pragna. As we can see, Superbet is the kind of tournament where anyone can beat anyone.
Aravindh-Firouzja game 1-0
Firouzja defended until the 87th move and we are not sure if he rightly surrendered the game. We see the possibility of a draw and do not see a loss. Unless Alirezia ran out of time.
Aravindh-Aronian 1-0
Aravindh played this game very strongly. Or Aronian poorly. Although white did not play the strongest (20.Nc2) there was little chance of black winning after black’s move 20….a5. In our opinion this was a mistake that consequently gave white a free winning pawn. Instead of playing 20…a4, they should not have counter-attacked here, should not have rushed the resolution of the pawn issue, but should have left white with the initiative and the effort of forcing the pawns, which would have taken both time and commitment on the queen wing of their pieces.
We won Aronian’s game with 3 variants. One with the sacrifice of the queen. A chess masterpiece. If Aronian played like that, he would be world champion. But he can still become one. He just needs to come to Goldchess and learn to play chess.