After the first six games the match was tied after six fairly short draws. Gelfand won game 7, but the next day Anand won game 8 when Gelfand managed to get his own Queen trapped in a miniature that is the shortest decisive game in World Championship history. It’s today’s featured game.
Then after four draws, the match headed into overtime. Anand was famous for his prowess in rapid and scored +1 -0 =3 in the rapid games to retain his title.play,
The day before this game Gelfnd had produced a strategic masterpiece by Gelfand and it left some profits predicting that Anand’s days as World Champion were numbered, but they turned out to be false prophets when Gelfand produced this anti-masterpiece that lasted only 17 moves and 110 minutes.
[Event "World Championship Match, Moscow"]
[Site ""]
[Date "2012.05.21"]
[Round "8"]
[White "Viswanathan Anand"]
[Black "Boris Gelfand"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "D70"]
[Annotator "Stockfish 17.1"]
[PlyCount "33"]
[EventDate "2012.05.10"]
{E60: King's Indian} 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 g6 {.} 3. f3 {Apparently the point of
this old move of Alekhine's is to discourage Gelfand from playing his favorite
GFruenfeld (3...d7-d5).} c5 {In game 3 he played 3... d5.Here white should
play on the Q-side and black on the K-side.} (3... d5 4. cxd5 Nxd5 5. e4 Nb6 6.
Nc3 Bg7 7. Be3 O-O 8. Qd2 Nc6 9. O-O-O {and the position slightly favors white.
}) 4. d5 d6 5. e4 Bg7 6. Ne2 O-O 7. Nec3 {One would expect the other N to go
here, but Anand has played what turns out to be Stockfish's preferred move.
The idea is that the B can develop to d3.} Nh5 {At the time this game was
played this was a novelty. According to Gelfandm white's last move was against
principles, so Ihe had to exploit it. The idea is that because he has a lead
in development he wants to play ...f7-f5 and open up the position. The problem
is that ...Nh5 allows white to seize the initiative with ...g4! The
conventional 7...e6 would have been better.} 8. Bg5 {He could well have played
8.g4! at once.} (8. g4 Nf6 9. Be2 e6 10. Be3 exd5 11. cxd5 {White is slight;ly
better. Hammer,J (2633)-Stokke,K (2403) Norway 2013}) 8... Bf6 (8... f5 {
was suggested by GM Peter Leko and it seems to completely equalize after} 9.
exf5 Rxf5 10. Be3 {and black has rwo equally good moves: 10...e6 amd 10...Re5})
9. Bxf6 $16 exf6 {A[[arently the idea now is to use the open e-file and
advance the f-Pawn in an attempt to counter white's center. but white's
psoition is more promising.} 10. Qd2 {Black's position is weak on the dark
squares in the vacinity of his K...not a good sign.} f5 11. exf5 Bxf5 12. g4 {
How does black meet this Pawn fork? He has two satisfactory replies" 12...Bxb1,
or probably best is 12...Qh4+} Re8+ {A good looking move, but he is barking up
the wrong tree.} (12... Qh4+ $14 13. Kd1 Bxb1 14. Rxb1 Ng7 {with equal chances.
}) 13. Kd1 {Black's next move is forced or else he will lose a piece.} Bxb1 14.
Rxb1 Qf6 {Played after 9 minutes thoughtm this is a major tactical error. He
reasoned that if he had to play thr N back to g7 then his whole plan was wrong.
} (14... Ng7 15. h4 h5 16. Bd3 {is promising for white, but at least black can
play on with some hope.}) 15. gxh5 {Anand took only two minutes to make sure
this was safe.} Qxf3+ 16. Kc2 Qxh1 {There was nothing better, Now Anand
springs the trap.} 17. Qf2 {Black resigned. Gelfand realized his Q is trapped
and the only way to save it leaves him with a vastly inferior position.} (17.
Qf2 Nc6 18. dxc6 (18. Bg2 Nd4+ 19. Kd2 Qxh2 20. Rh1 Qe5 {Black is better.})
18... Qxc6 19. Bd3 Re5 20. Rf1 Qd7 21. Nd5 Rxd5 {He simple cannot allow 22.Nf6+
} (21... Kg7 22. Qf6+ Kh6 (22... Kg8 23. h6) (22... Kf8 23. Qh8#) 23. Qf4+ Kg7
24. h6+ Kf8 25. Qf6 {wins.}) 22. cxd5 {and white is a piece up/}) 1-0
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