| Feb-22-04 | | Dillinger: Where did Al go wrong? |
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| Mar-20-04 | | Taidanii: In the end game, Petrov's knight is gorgeously placed on d4. That's the source of Alekhine's problems in the endgame. He can't exploit either of white's doubled pawns as weaknesses, and thus: white plays 27. b5. |
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| Mar-20-04 | | Dillinger: what if 18...Bxe5 19.fxe5 Ne4 or something like that, to double on e and take off the dangerous knight? |
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| Mar-20-04 | | Lawrence: <Taidanii>, both Fritz and Junior suggest 29...Kc6 for Alekhine and if White plays 30.Nd4+ then 30...Kb6. Now Petrov has to decide whether to take the g7 pawn (Junior) or retreat the Rook to a3 (Fritz). In either case Petrov is a bit ahead but Alexander Alexandrovich's situation is not desperate. |
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| Mar-21-04 | | Lawrence: <Dillinger>, Junior 8 gives 18...Bxe5 19.fxe5 an eval of +0.23 whereas 18...b3 gets a -0.30 (i.e. half a pawn stronger) and is the first candidate, so looks as if Alekhine made the right move at that stage of the game. (12 min. search) |
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| Mar-21-04 | | Lawrence: <Taidanii>, have you seen http://www.chesscafe.com/winter/win... a teenaged Capablanca, member of the Columbia University baseball team? If the link doesn't work it's chesscafe.com, Edward Winter's Chess Notes number 3258. |
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| May-05-05 | | KODIAK: Alekhine mated!! Wow, I am getting a new respect for Petrov. He also demolished Kotov with the same opening. Does anyone know more about Petrov's career and history? He is obviously very strong GM. |
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| May-05-05 | | Ziggurat: A book on the life of this player was recently published, see http://www.chesscenter.com/twic/jwa... |
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May-30-06
 | | OhioChessFan: <Kodiak> I had never heard of him before today, and am quite impressed with some of his games. |
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| May-30-06 | | Nomen Nescio: It seemed that Alekhine's main goal was to double Petrov's pawns. |
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| Sep-06-07 | | Autoreparaturwerkbau: <OCF> Isn't that The Petrov of Petrov's defense? |
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| Sep-06-07 | | paul1959: <Autoreparaturwerkbau> No , the Petrov (A.) of the defence died in 1867.
V. Petrov name is sometimes spelled Petrovs (Chessmetrics). |
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| Mar-02-08 | | Whitehat1963: A move away from mate, the reigning champ takes one on the chin in a game that features the Opening of the Day. |
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Mar-02-08
 | | chancho: He's played some nice games.
V Petrov vs R Grau, 1939 |
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| Mar-02-08 | | anjyplayer: Piece activity is paramount, even if it comes at the cost of doubled pawns. |
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Jun-10-12
| | OhioChessFan: I really don't understand Kd7/e7. Just a total waste of time. The Knight has to move after a b4 push anyway, so why not 23...Nb7? |
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| Jan-05-13 | | altai: Why not ...7.b5? |
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| Jan-05-13 | | fokers13: <altai> 8.Nxb5 with a terrible position for black. |
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