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| Sep-25-08 | | Eyal: <A few seconds later [after playing 5...Bf5] 6.Qe2 dawned on me, and Alonso as well was really shocked. I think he thought that a strong grandmaster could not play such a move, so he sat there calculating himself. And now I had the choice, which was to just make my move, play a piece down for another twenty moves so that none of these magazines could publish it as a miniature, and you don't need to be reminded for the rest of your life that you lost a game in six moves. But that would mean that my fellow players in the tournament hall might come by and notice that I'm a piece down and start laughing ... So I decided to go for Plan B, which was to resign and then get out of the hall as quickly as possible, so that nobody would notice. This worked successfully - for many days people thought I had agreed to a short draw with Alonso - a very short draw.> (http://www.chesscafe.com/Reviews/bo...) |
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| Oct-01-08 | | stardust762: Anand should avoid this opening novelty in the WCC. |
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| Nov-30-08 | | hedgeh0g: Ah...the blunder variation of the Petrov. Seldom seen, but quite playable for White. |
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| Jan-01-09 | | WhiteRook48: what a pin. Anand fell on the Zapata potato chips. :) |
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| Jan-21-09 | | Poulsen: The Anand of 1988 was not the Anand of 2008 |
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| Jan-21-09 | | Stuckman: "they call me is...ZAPATA!" |
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| Jan-21-09 | | KingG: At least Anand had the decency to resign. Most players just play on to avoid having such a short loss. A recent example would be Ivanchuk vs Bu Xiangzhi, 2008, where Bu should have resigned at move 9. |
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| Feb-15-09 | | WhiteRook48: Anand blunders!
I would have played 5...Nxc3 causing doubled pawns |
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| Mar-23-09 | | WhiteRook48: 6...Qe7 7 d3! |
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| May-05-09 | | WhiteRook48: overload |
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| Jun-07-09 | | AnalyzeThis: Just think, this guy became world champion. Gives the rest of us hope. |
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| Aug-17-09 | | Helios727: <Somitra>, None can beat that record but here is one that ties it: Fischer vs Spassky, 1972 |
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| Sep-11-09 | | Cercatore: ...maybe he can try to play this match.
Already lose... try to do it. |
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| Nov-14-09 | | walker: In 1988 Annand knew well Petroff. This could be a case of a wrong touch or something like this. I play Petroff all the time online and never...and I mean NEVER anyone had done this kind of mistake. . In the CG'
s database there is another similar blunder by a GM.In both cases I believe the reason is different. |
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| Dec-16-09 | | Stoned Knight: It would be interesting to see the clocks. I guess that Anand was just playing the first moves automatically without paying attention to his opponent's moves, maybe preparing some sharp line. A lesson to be learned? |
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| Jul-07-10 | | MaczynskiPratten: <walker>, <StonedKnight>; see the comments on earlier pages. It is believed that Anand was following the latest theoretical suggestion in Informator, unaware that it was completely unsound, for interesting reasons :-) <centercounter>; ironically Anand lost this game because he DID prepare and read the latest journals ... he would have done better to think OTB this time (but I agree your comment is true 99% of the time) |
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| Jul-07-10 | | JCRchess: If 6.) ... Qe7 then 7.) Nd5! |
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| Dec-01-10 | | kevins55555: ANAND?? VISWANATHAN ANAND, THE CURRENT WORLD CHAMPION?"??? LOL LOL LOL LOL
i do not understand why 6.♕e2 and black resigned just because losing a minor piece in petroff defence lose minor piece variation means so much that World champion, Yes, World champion, RESIGNED!!!!
uh, just because of losing a ♘ or ♗.
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| Dec-01-10 | | kevins55555: Just shorter than four move checkmate; 1.e4 e5 2.♗c4!? ♘c6 3.♕h5?! ♘f6?? 4.♕xf7#!! |
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| Dec-01-10 | | kevins55555: <somitra> LOL for that game
♗lack |
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| Dec-01-10 | | Benzol: It's nice to know that even the great can slip on the banana skins sometime. |
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Dec-01-10
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| Dec-10-10 | | rapidcitychess: Oops... |
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| Jun-06-11 | | chesssantosh: <kevins55555>.ya i agree.Anand should have continued to play so that it would later become "lose minor piece" variation in petroff defence.i m sure kramnik will give a try on this variation !!!! |
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Jun-23-11
 | | Fusilli: Can someone tell me what tournament this was? When I google chess biel 1988 I get this one: http://www.365chess.com/tournaments...
No Zapata or Anand, so wrong tournament. |
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