Don't miss that Kamsky was threatening mate-in-5 himself by:

33.Rxh7+ Kxh7 34.Rh3+ Qh5 35.Rxh5+ Bh6 36.Qf7+ Kh8 37.Rxh6#

at the time he blunders. Looks like a crosschecking error of analysis, as he would have realized he was covered two different ways vs Qe1+ right before the Qb3+ move, and during analysis, not realizing he was giving Both away and thought the Qe1 implausible still. Sort of focusing upon his offensive analysis and not connecting it with his defensive analysis properly. This is my guess.

I know some Masters who will engage in "trap checking" basically. And figure they are covered unless something takes coverage away ...but dont recheck it if no mental alert gets triggered by the move made. This saves time. And what could be more harmless than ...Kh8! eh? And indeed he Was SAFE until combining his Own two moves, and no dangerous looking opponent move occurred until too late. [Congrats if you guessed it ... YES, this has happened to me! ]

I would like to know what was Kamsky thinking for move 32. I think that that position will go into future beginner's puzzles .

(Kamsky is still great, this only shows that grandmasters can blunder like all of us.)

great last game!  go chucky!

Amazing what you learn in the discussions following the games! Thanks for posting.

Yes, Yes, it's Elisabeta Polihroniade in the right, she was a huge woman player back in the past century.

this threat which Kamsky didn`t see was really obvious.. it`s good to see that such good players blunder too

Many congratulations to Ivanchuck!!

Kamsky may be not in his great form lately,but these 3 wins showed that Vasily is at his best...

I liked the game against Shirov who is always a very strong player

i have not seen 84 move game from top players, must have been most tiring.. GG

Once again Ivanchuk shows his class.

And do not omit the fact that with Romana is the Romanian GM Elisabeta Polihroniade. Or I might be mistaken...

Hey, I've played a couple of games with the mystery woman... lol

Thank you, SonoPearl ... Very interesting tournament ... Tommorow I will publish an article about it and exclusive interviews with each player (In English) ...

I just figured out the last game. I was so chuffed with myself to figure out why Shirov resigned...

In the final position, i thought that 84.h7 was a draw as 84...Kg7 and then the pawn falls.

But white is just sacrificing the pawn to trap the black king in the corner square.  Tthe King gets trapped in the corner and cannot stop an excruciatingly slow mate in 9 moves!

84.Kh7 (last move in game), Kg7.  85.Bh6! wins.  The king cannot move, so black only has bishop moves.  White simple ignores the bishop and plays Kg5-f4-e5-d6-e7 and then Kf8.  Move 9 is then Bg7 checkmate.

@ Eustake - thank you very much!

Very nice finish in the first game, threatening the weak back rank, that's a great move. Kamsky can only save himself with 33. Bg1 and the Rook hangs.

The second game is another weak back rank! I had a hard time seeing why this one wins. The Rf5 must defend the knight because Rc8 cannot (it must defend the back rank!). The only way to not immediately lose the knight is ...Rg5 where h4 follows and the knight is won after the rook leaves the 5th rank. Ivanchuk's returning to form all right.

The Mystery woman in the left is RomanaChisu, she has a strong account here on Chess.com :D

Congrats to Ivanchuk!