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| Jul-20-12 | | Midas Touch: Bh6 ... |
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| Jul-20-12 | | achieve: <Shams> You win the cake! - largest part at least ;) <Midas Touch: Bh6 ...> Good idea, but after f6 or even f5 Black seems OK. The trick here is to cement that F7 pawn, immobilize it, and then the threat over the b1-h7 diagonal can not be solved. More or less. There are lines where Black is just a piece behind, but the position is a mess. |
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Jul-20-12
 | | Eyal: A bit reminiscent of the famous Fischer vs Benko, 1963 |
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| Jul-20-12 | | achieve: Yes, with the rook playing a similar role on <f6>. You have a keen memory. |
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| Jul-20-12 | | waustad: Would anybody have expected to see Jobova in dead last? |
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| Jul-20-12 | | waustad: Giri won again in the Dutch Champs. 5.5/6 with one more round to go. |
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| Jul-20-12 | | achieve: Congrats to Giri, 3rd time Dutch champion, but I can't shake the feeling that his opponents really play below their potential. More likely is that I am mistaken.
Chess at the top is about punishing mistakes, and Giri did just that this week. |
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| Jul-20-12 | | achieve: Ivanchuk - Sasikiran is mightily tense now at move 35. Chuky up a pawn/2, but down a nagging exchange: RR v RBN |
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| Jul-21-12 | | shivasuri4: <achieve>, you gave CG today's POTD! |
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| Jul-21-12 | | achieve: Yes, it's Saturday, 9:30 in the morning, and I just noticed... How the heck did that happen so fast? ;) |
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| Jul-21-12 | | waustad: Going into the final round Chuky is +3, Kamsky is +2 and Anna M and Sutovsky are +1. Chuky and Anna play in the final round. Kamsky plays Jobova. |
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| Jul-21-12 | | Everett: < Eyal: A bit reminiscent of the famous Fischer vs Benko, 1963> And a lot of other games, too, long before that one. Since it is called "Alekhine's Block" we might as well give the man his due. Game Collection: Alekhine's Block |
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| Jul-22-12 | | achieve: Brilliant Game Collection...
the Block Sac
Indeed one of many tactical (and positional) features. |
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| Jul-22-12 | | Shams: What happened to Jobava here? A disaster for him. |
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Jul-22-12
 | | brankat: A very fine performance by Ivanchuk. A good showing for Kamsky, too. And, certainly for Anna. Twelve decisive games out of 21. |
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Jul-22-12
 | | Marmot PFL: Top bad it wasn't rated. offhand I think Ivanchuk would move up to #6 and Kamsky to #11 (maybe these are too high but that's my guess). |
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Jul-22-12
| | brankat: <Marmot PFL> <Top bad it wasn't rated...>? :-) |
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| Jul-23-12 | | blazerdoodle: surely he mean "too" |
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Jul-23-12
 | | HeMateMe: Why isn't this tournament rated? |
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| Jul-23-12 | | SimonWebbsTiger: @<HMM>
It wasn't rated because of its non-standard nature! i.e. Long gone are the days of 150/40 with adjournments, so it was just a bit of fun with the old format. I bet Jobava is happy it wasn't rated too. :) |
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Jul-23-12
| | HeMateMe: oh, forgot. There would be the russian team, analysing for Karpov... |
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| Sep-16-12 | | LIFE Master AJ: GO CHUCKY!!! |
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Dec-21-16
 | | Domdaniel: Was this experiment (classic time controls with adjournment) ever repeated? Or were these the last GM games to be adjourned? |
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Dec-21-16
| | Eyal: <Dom> There was a second edition of this "Golden Classic" two years later - ACP Golden Classic (2014) ; but that's it, as far as I know. |
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Dec-21-16
| | Domdaniel: <Eyal> Thanks. So the 2014 event probably had the last GM games to be adjourned? It didn't seem to make a great difference. |
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