The French Defense Is Alive and Well In Wik

Karjakan loses at Wik to a French Defense
[Event "79th Tata Steel Chess 2017-Masters"]
[Site "Rotterdam"]
[Date "2017.01.19"]
[Round "5"]
[White "Karjakin, Sergey"]
[Black "Adhiban, Baskaran"]
[Result "0-1"]
[Annotator "ChessBase"]
[BlackElo "2653"]
[Classes "0"]
[ECO "C11"]
[GameID "0"]
[Remark ""]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[WhiteElo "2785"]

{Game analysis^13 ^10 Processor: AMD A10-5757M APU with Radeon(tm) HD Graphics
(@2.50GHz)^13 ^10 Engine(s): Deep Rybka 2.3.2a x64^13 ^10 Analysis time:
0:18:38} 1. e4 {0} 1... e6 {6} 2. d4 {0} 2... d5 {1} 3. Nc3 {50} 3... Nf6 {5}
4. e5 {5} 4... Nfd7 {4} 5. f4 {5} 5... c5 {5} 6. Nf3 {5} 6... Nc6 {4} 7. Be3
{6} 7... Be7 {9} 8. Qd2 {56}{[%t Shrt] N} (8. dxc5 O-O 9. Qd2 Nxc5 10. a3 b6
11. Bb5 Bb7 12. O-O Rc8 {...0-1, Kramnik Vladimir 2760 - Morozevich Alexander
2758 , Monte Carlo 2003 It "Melody Amber" (blindfold)})(8. Be2 O-O 9. O-O a6
10. Qd2 b5 11. Nd1 b4 12. Nf2 a5 {...1/2-1/2, Kamsky Gata 2745 - Morozevich
Alexander 2610 , Amsterdam 1996 Memorial J.Donner (cat.16)}) 8... a6 {5} 9. a3
{394} 9... O-O {21} 10. dxc5 {31} 10... Nxc5 {4} 11. Qf2 {9} 11... Nd7 {4} 12.
Nd4 {632} 12... Nxd4 {7} 13. Bxd4 {4} 13... f6 {4} 14. exf6 {48} 14... Bxf6 {3}
15. Bxf6 {308} 15... Qxf6 {2} 16. g3 {8} 16... g5 {5 } 17. O-O-O {242} 17...
gxf4 {4} 18. Kb1 {245}{[%t Val] +} (18. Rd4 fxg3 19. Qxg3+ Kh8 20. Rh4 Rg8
{+0.11}) 18... f3 {488} 19. g4 {491}{[%t Val] !} (19. Rd4 Ne5 20. Na4 b5 21.
Nc5 Qe7 22. Bd3 Qg5 23. h4 Qg7 24. Rf4 Ra7 {-0.26}) 19... Ne5 {373} 20. g5 {67}
20... Qg7 {508} 21. g6 {573}{[%t Val] ^27 } (21. h4 Bd7 22. Qb6 Bc6 23. Bh3
Rae8 24. Qf2 Nc4 25. Rhe1 e5 26. Bf1 Rd8 {-0.65}) 21... hxg6 {424} 22. Bd3
{786}{?!}{[%t Val] ^17 } (22. h4 {!?} 22... Qh6 23. Bh3 Bd7 24. Rhg1 Rf4 25.
Qe3 Nc4 26. Rxg6+ Kf7 {-0.87}) 22... Bd7 {156} 23. Rdg1 {56}{[%t Val] ^15 }
23... Nxd3 {234} 24. cxd3 {16} 24... Rf5 {19} 25. Rg4 {104} 25... Raf8 {45}
26. Rhg1 {138} 26... Be8 { 265} 27. Nd1 {373} 27... Rh5 {1254} 28. h4 {309}
28... Re5 {543} 29. Ne3 {458} 29... Bb5 {228} 30. Rd4 {170} 30... Re4 {217}
Deep Rybka
2.3.2a x64][%meval 9s]}{31...Bxd3+} 0-1
Below is the final position