📗28...Nd4?
[serious inaccuracy.]

[28...Bxg2 29.Rxc8 Kxc8 30.Kxg2 Nd4 31.Kf2 Ne6 is passive but holdable.]

29.Rc4! Ne6 30.f5 [now white has the initiative.]

📗41...a5?!
[41...Nb4 Wei Yi should try to get rid of the pawns as soon as possible. There are three of them left and giving up a piece for them is not a bad plan!]
42.Nc4+ Ke6 [42...Kd4]
43.Rh7

📗48.Ne3+?!

[48.Nd6+ Ke5 49.Rh8!! Rxh8 50.Nf7+ Kd5 51.Nxh8 c4+ 52.Kc3 Kc5 53.Ng6 and white is winning.]

48...Ke5 49.h5

📗50.Kc4? [Kramnik almost let go of everything he had gained.]

50...Ne4? [50...Rd2 51.Kxc5 Ne4+ 52.Kc6 Kd4 and black can make a draw by winning back the lost material.]

51.Kb5? [51.Ra6 Rd2 52.h6 Rxb2 53.Ng4+ Kf4 54.h7 Rb8 55.Nf6 Ng5 56.Rxa4 Rh8 57.Kd5+ Kf5 58.Ra6 Nxh7 59.Nxh7 Rxh7 60.a4 Rh1=; 51.Rg6! Rd2 (51...Rb8 52.h6 Rb4+ 53.Kd3 Rd4+ 54.Ke2 Rd2+ 55.Ke1 Rh2 56.Ng4+ Kf5 57.Nxh2 Kxg6 58.Ng4 c4 59.Ne5+ Kxh6 60.Nxc4+–) 52.h6 Rxb2 53.Ng4+ Kf5 54.h7 Rb8 55.Rg8+–]

📗51...Kd4?

[51...a3 This was the last chance and probably good enough to make a draw.]

52.Nc4 a3 53.Nxa3 Nd6+ 54.Kc6 Nf7 55.Nb5+ [A clear victory in Kramnik's style. Wei Yi needs to learn a lot of ending.] 1-0

🔸Aeroflot Open Moscow 2018
🔸Round 8
⚪️Kamsky,Gata (2677)
⚫️Antipov,Mikhail Al (2598)
🔸1-0

📘For the first time, this position from French defence, exchange variation arose in Atousa Pourkashiyan-Carolina Sanchez in 2002 (9.c3 0-0-0 10.b4 f6 Nbd2 1-0). Then, the game Aryan Tari (2593)-Mikhail Antipov (2588) in 2018, went 9.b4 N×b4 10.Qb3 Nbc6 11.Q×b7 Rb8 12.Qa6 f6 13.Ba3.
Now, Kamsky has a new plan for Antipov.
9.Bd2 f6 10.b4 a6 11.a4 g5 12.Na3 g4 13.Nh4 Kf7 14.b5 +/-

🔸Aeroflot Open Moscow 2018
🔸Round 8
⚪️Paravyan,David (2603)
⚫️Erigaisi,Arjun (2458)
🔸1-0

📘 25...Qd5?
(25...Rd5= Black should have prevented White from playing the strong 26.Qe5.)
26.Qe5 Rd1+ 27.R×d1 Q×d1+ 28.Ka2 Qd5+ 29.Q×d5 e×d5 30.f5!
Black will lose the knight soon.
1-0

🔸Aeroflot Open Moscow 2018
🔸Round 8
⚪️Maghsoodloo,Parham (2594)
⚫️Mareco,Sandro (2632)
🔸0-1

📘 44.N×d5?
A time-trouble blunder.
( Better is 44.Qc2. The white queen is completely out of play so activating her is the most logical plan on the board.)
44...Qb7! 45.Qc2 Na7 46.Nf6+ g×f6 47.Qe2 f×e5 -+

🔸Aeroflot Open Moscow 2018
🔸Round 9
⚪️Sjugirov,Sanan (2652)
⚫️Esipenko,Andrey (2571)
🔸1-0

📘 14...Bd3??
Esipenko's miscalculation.
15.Qa4! A strong intermediate move.
15...Qc7
A(15...B×c4 16.B×c6+ b×c6 17.Q×c6+ +-)
B(15...Rc8 16.Rad1 +-)
C(15...Qc8 16.Nb6 +-)
16.Nb5 a×b5 17.B×c6+ Q×c6 18.Q×a8+ Ke7 19.Nd6 +-

⚪️#307 (Strategy-White to Move)
🔸Prokopchuk,Evgeny (2440)
🔸Brodsky,Michail (2515)
🔸RUS-Cup4 Perm 1997

📕 13.Qc2!
A likely pointer to a promising initiative - vacating the open files for the rooks to arrive with tempo. Already the bishop on d5 looks unhappy since it also cannot costlessly abandon its cover of e4. 13...Qb6 14.Rad1! Nb4 15.Qa4+ Bc6 16.Qb3 Nd5 17.Qc4!.

⚪️#308 (Strategy-White to Move)
🔸Motwani,Paul (2455)
🔸Hempson,Peter W
🔸BCF-ch Blackpool, 1988

📕 15.a4!
The idea is clear - of course Black should not allow this pawn to advance to a6. The question is where to stop it.
15...Rd8 16.c3 Nd5?! (correct is 16...a5!=) 17.a5 a6 18.Nb3+/- and then 19.Nc5.