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| Dec-20-08 | | walker: Time: Svidler-Toppalov 50-124 |
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| Dec-20-08 | | Mameluk: Movsesian and Ivanchuk are still enjoying chess it seems. Interesting that Rybka on chessok is more pesimistic about the g4 sacrifice than my older version, I have no idea why. |
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| Dec-20-08 | | shintaro go: Someone forgot to tell Bu and Aronian that they're playing classic time controls. |
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| Dec-20-08 | | Mameluk: Sergei went completely crazy with 18. Nxe5. Ivanchuk was probably OK anyway. |
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| Dec-20-08 | | zluria: Movsesian is going to win Ivanchuck's Queen, but it'll cost him two knights and a Rook, so in fact he's sacrificing material. Rybka thinks he has some compensation, but not enough. Ivanchuck is very strong in such wacky positions, so my guess is he'll survive the assault (and probably win, if he feels like it). |
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| Dec-20-08 | | shintaro go: Not sure what Svidler's trying to do here. |
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| Dec-20-08 | | percyblakeney: Svidler is down to less than 30 minutes after 17 moves and is -0.62 according to Rybka. |
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| Dec-20-08 | | shintaro go: Looks bad for Movsesian. |
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Dec-20-08
 | | Eyal: <Not sure what Svidler's trying to do here> Well, he had two weak pawns on the Q-side where Black can develop quite a lot of pressure, so apparently he decided to just get rid of one of those pawns, and in return get some tempi and freer play. That seems to be the general idea - of course, it might not work... Interesting to see, btw, how easily Topalov got an advantage out of the opening with Black. |
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| Dec-20-08 | | percyblakeney: Topalov would maybe not mind a draw, that would secure him at least shared first even if he loses with white against Movsesian. |
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| Dec-20-08 | | arkansaw: emm, He should mind a draw because a win will give him clear first |
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| Dec-20-08 | | Mameluk: Either GMīs absolutely donīt understand it today, or Rybka does not. I surely donīt. Anyway Serge is doing fine now, though itīs probably mainly due to Ivanchukīs disastrous form. |
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| Dec-20-08 | | walker: Does he need to win this tournament? Why is he revealing his preparations? He deserves to become the WC, but his bravery before matches with Kamsky and Vishy may coast him the title. If he anyway wins the title he will become one of the greatest champions of all time. Let's see. |
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| Dec-20-08 | | percyblakeney: Movsesian has a perpetual now. |
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| Dec-20-08 | | Mameluk: And draw in Movsesian-Ivanchuk. Not a good game. |
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| Dec-20-08 | | ivan999: well if rybka's elo is 3200, it is not surprising that GM's don't play like the program sometimes. hence the eval is somewhat mistaken. |
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Dec-20-08
| | Eyal: Svidler's 21.Nc1 threatened to trap Topalov's queen with Nd2, but apparently that wasn't much more than a one-move threat and now he has to fight for a draw in an endgame (or queenless middlegame) where he's simply a pawn down without much compensation. Maybe 21.Rc1 was better. |
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| Dec-20-08 | | arkansaw: The difference between Rybka and GMs is that Rybka never speculates... |
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| Dec-20-08 | | arkansaw: Caro-kann is nothing special for Topalov, considering that Cheparinov is playing it like every other day |
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Dec-20-08
| | Eyal: Well, both started experimenting with it mainly this year. Topalov, besides his classical games here, vs. Shirov in the Olympiad, and vs. Anand in Bilbao, already practiced it in several rapid & blindfold games (http://www.chessgames.com/perl/ches...). |
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| Dec-20-08 | | k0mi: it's interesting. will Topa win against Svidler with black and the Caro?! Topa is a real fighter. |
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Dec-20-08
| | Eyal: From chessdom: <26...Nb8 with idea Nc6 and 0-0 should be working fine for Topalov. The other White Rook is still tied for the first rank as Black has Nxd2 and then Nc1 would be hanging. For example 26...Nb8 27. Ra8 0-0! 28. Raxb8 Nxd2 29. Rxc8 Nxf3+ with Rxc8 next, which is a very poor ending for White.> |
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| Dec-20-08 | | ivan999: so topalov has +4-2=9 as black with the caro-kann excluding today's game. not bad. |
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| Dec-20-08 | | arkansaw: Topalov must be feeling lucky, he's so close to losing a piece if not for Svidler's own weakness |
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| Dec-20-08 | | percyblakeney: This isn't a fun endgame for Svidler. |
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