| Aug-06-04 | | alexandrovm: black rook can't let white king enter the fight, that's why is a drawn position. Kramnik monitors black king movements. Plus the pawns are all on the same side. |
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| Sep-25-04 | | BradMajors: <Garry Kasparov>
The worst night, in fact, wasn’t after game fifteen, but after game fourteen. I mean, this position wasn’t for Kramnik to save, but for me to win…after this game, I wouldn’t say I was ruined, but I was not pleased.<Vladimir Kramnik>
I cannot agree with Garry game fourteen. I don’t think I was losing that game. The result was not accidental. <Garry Kasparov>
Yes, I’d like to call on him to share with us his analysis of the final position [of game 14]. The only position that was not lost was the final position! |
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| Oct-15-05 | | csmath: What a magnificent effort of Kasparov that plays a creative game to get a pawn more against an opponent who plays everything he can just to make a draw with whites. What Kasparov is talking about is
56. ... Ke6!
57. Re8 ... Kf6!
and this is not certain. It might have a win in it, it might not, I don't know Kasparov's analyses but I cannot find that win (if there is any), I tried: 58. Rf8 ... Ke7
59. Rf5 ... Ke6
60. fxg4 ... hxg4
61. Rg5 ... Ra4
62. Kf2 ... Kf6
63. Rg8 ... Kf5
64. Ke3 ... Ra3
65. Kf2 ... Ra2
66. Kg1! (Ke3? ... Rg2!  ) ... Re2
67. Kf1 ... Rc2
68. Kg1 ... Ke4
69. Rxg4 ... Kf3
70. Rg6 ... e4
71. Rf6 ... Ke2
72. g4 ... e3
73. g5 ... Kd1
74. Rd6 ... Rd2
75. Ra6 ... Rd5
I don't see a win here.
This game was probably the most bitter game he ever played. He had to swallow this pill with very little hope that he can overcome Kramnik in the last two games. Boy, did he have some good barrel of poison ready for Kramnik. :-) |
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| Dec-29-05 | | Conde de Montecristo: A nice game that i think Kasparov could have won. |
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| Dec-29-05 | | PARACONT1: <csmath> great analysis. Now it seems settled for almost certain (except to Kramnik haters) that Kasparov had NO chance of winning. |
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| Jan-27-06 | | Badmojo: 28. Qa8, one hell of a move.
I don't recall what the threat was, but it caused Kramnik to immediately give a pawn and go into the endgame down material. It was also an endgame that he had zero winning chances in. Lose or draw, that was it. Retreating moves, man, are hard to find.
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| Apr-19-06 | | positionalbrilliancy: What's the idea behind 28...Qa8. |
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Apr-19-06
 | | pawn to QB4: I guess threat of 29...Rc5 winning the knight (30.Qf4 Rf5; 30.Nh7+ Kg8 31.Nf6+ Kh8); the queen has to be on a8 to protect R on d8 against Nh7+; there's a second threat to double rooks on c file and target the isolated c pawn. |
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| Nov-26-06 | | Karpova: <Conde de Montecristo: A nice game that i think Kasparov could have won.>
Doubtful that Kaspy had a win, but this game alone easily refutes the silly Sloan-article our dear <Conde> loves to post a link to (like here: Kramnik vs Kasparov, 2000) |
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