| Feb-19-04 | | ruylopez900: Nice pressure in the middlegame and good engame play by Leko for the only decisive game in round 1 of Linares 2004. |
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| Feb-19-04 | | Bartleby: This game should go in an anti-Trompowski file...maybe I'll start a game collection as an homage to that theme. I myself usually play 2) ... Ne4 and then ...d5. For all Radjabov's active piece play and full center he couldn't get antyhing decisive. I think Radjabov went awry with 12) Qe4; I think the queen-trade favors Leko. I prefer 12) e4, bolstered by an ensuing f3, then perhaps Rdg1, aiming at an eventual g4 push. |
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| Feb-19-04 | | Rubanmar: yo creo,que Radjabov,se equivoco` en la apertura,queriendo sorprender a Leko,pero,`este,is a old fox of the sea y oppenning`s won.anyway,perdio peones sin razon queriendo activar sus piezas,pero,fallo`y sobretodo cambio` muy pronto su Dama,en fin,perdio` el hilo,y el sorprendido fue El(Radjabov) |
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Feb-19-04
 | | InspiredByMorphy: What a game by Leko! I like how he calmly controls his side of the board and when the time is right crosses with flying colors! I enjoyed his use of the rook pawns and gradually increased pressure so positionally applied. |
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| Feb-19-04 | | Dustin J.: Tim was teaching me this the other day. Is Ne4 really that bad? Thats what I play. The only other move is d5 which basically get rids of any Benoni lines, and I'm not familiar with it. I play it as White aswell; I only do that because you know Black and White's intentions. It's also pretty good opening. But then again this is coming from a man who hopes White exf7+ in the Modern Benoni. |
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| Feb-19-04 | | JerseyDevil: i dont like the tromposki as white, sometimes i get afraid to set up a big center, because it makes such a large target |
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| Feb-19-04 | | Bartleby: 2) ... d5 and 2) ... Ne5 are looked at as black's most active options. 2) ... c5 is regarded as "too sharp" for black but proper preparation and a trappy temperment can probably make something of it. 2) ... e6 followed by ...h6 and ...Be7 is a safe, and fairly painless way to equalize. Black hopes to get the two bishops without the usual diseased pawn structure that the Tromp saddles him with. |
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| Feb-19-04 | | tud: Rubanmar, the romanians get in spanish. The reason why Leko beated Radjabov is because of endgames not because of fox stuff in the opening. 40 f4 ?? 40 Be6 resists better |
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| Feb-19-04 | | ughaibu: How about 25.d6 Be6 26.Be6 e6 27.Kc2? |
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Feb-20-04
| | drukenknight: goodness, look at whites move 28... |
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| Feb-20-04 | | apple head: <tud> 40. f4 was correct play to stop g5 g4 g3 pushing the knight out |
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| Feb-20-04 | | waldorf: note that radjabov was in time trouble for his moves 30 till 40 |
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| Feb-20-04 | | Benjamin Lau: Yeah, but it hardly mattered, he was clearly lost already by move 30, two pawns down against one of the most precise endgame players in the world. |
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Feb-20-04
| | drukenknight: if you look at whites problems in the end game, which are definitely bad, they come down to: he's down about one pawn too many and his passed pawn is advanced far enuf. Is there a connection between this and move 28...? |
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| Feb-21-04 | | J.A. Topfke: Giving up the pawn with 22.e5? was the losing move, of course. I think Radjabov overestimated the strength of his two center pawns. So either 22.g3 fxe4 23.Nxe4 or 22.exf5 Bxh4 23.fxg6 Bg5 24.Nce2. Or if you prefer to look at the glass half full the winning move was 24...c6!. 25.d6 would not have been so strong because of 25...Re8, winning the e-pawn. According to Fritz White can get a pawn back (after 25.d6 Re8) with 26.Rd4, for instance 26...Rexe5 27.Rxe5 Rxe5 28.Rb4 Nd7 29.Rxa4, but the power of White's center pawns has dissipated, Black is still a pawn up and the White pawn on d6 doesn't have much hope of winning the next round of Survivor. Even though before move 22 I would still have preferred Black. In my opinion offering to trade queens was a strategic mistake. The side with the bishop pair doesn't mind trading off the big pieces, generally speaking, therefore I prefer 13.e4. As for the opening, I am not an expert but I don’t consider the lines with ...g6 to be the strongest test against White’s setup. |
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Feb-21-04
| | Cyphelium: <J.A. Topfke> 13. e4 was my spontaneous reaction too, but I'm not sure it's so good after all. Perhaps Radjabov was troubled by the possible answer 13.- c5, when the queen turns out to be blocking the bishop's way back and opening the c-file look like good counterplay for black. |
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| Feb-21-04 | | Giancarlo: Too early of a queen trade off in my oponion by Radjabov |
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| Feb-21-04 | | PinkPanther: Who does Radjabov think he's kidding playing an opening like against a player of Leko's caliber? Did he think he was going to blow Leko off the board like he did last year against Naiditsch in Dortmund? |
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| Feb-21-04 | | Taidanii: I like 38. b4 A LOT better than 38. bxa4. |
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Feb-23-04
| | drukenknight: as Ugi pointed out, 25 d6 was way better. I dont understand Tofke analysis, so black's up a pawn. Does fritz think it's won in theory? I have serious doubts. No to mention the practical problems over the board. 29 gxf4 may he still have a chance? |
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Feb-24-04
| | drukenknight: doesnt it look like he was planning on going 28 exf6 and then changed his mind right in the middle of the combo? |
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| Mar-13-04 | | Ivax: I think Qe4 and Qxe7 is a bad idea, because white needed queen to make pression over the bad protected black king. White had to make an attack. After the change of queens black is ok. Bye |
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Dec-23-04
 | | Whitehat1963: A good game for analysing the Trompowsky. |
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