Pentala Harikrishna vs Vassily Ivanchuk (2004)

Pentala Harikrishna vs Vassily Ivanchuk
FIDE World Championship Knockout Tournament 2004 · Nimzo-Indian Defense: St. Petersburg Variation (E43) · 0-1

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Aug-28-04		Whitehat1963: Unstoppable h-pawn. I just don't understand white's play in this game at all.

Aug-28-04		RisingChamp: Yes it would require a psychologist to say why someone as good as Harikrishna played like that.Maybe I am just not good enough to understand his play but his whole middle game seemed to be founded on the hope that a 2700+game would move his c6 knight and walk into a one move mate.E.g Ba6,qe4,qh1,Bb5-a6 and though this might be theory 0-0-0 looks awful

Aug-28-04		RisingChamp: P.S I think he needed to retreat with the admittedly counterintuitive Bf1.The position already looks poor for him.

Aug-28-04		Whitehat1963: I'm far from a great chessplayer, but what do you think of 11. d5, <RisingChamp>?

Aug-28-04		RisingChamp: Doesnt solve the problem Whitehat it just loses a pawn to temporarily block that diagonal.Black just plays exd5 and then pushes the pawn again and the diagonal is open yet again.I have researched this a bit and this is apparently a novelty in a variation where black scores 60-70% and a very dubious novelty at that.

Aug-28-04		RisingChamp: All my confidence as a chessplayer comes from games like this and knowing that even classy Grandmasters can play like patzers sometimes.

Aug-28-04		Whitehat1963: Yeah, even I think Harikrishna was way out of his (her?) depth on this one.

Jan-18-05		ChessMan94: <Whitehat1963> Pentala is a male. You can see more info on him by searching "Harikrishna" on chessbase.com.

Feb-15-05		offramp: Ivanchuk did very well considering his opponent was probably banging a tambourine all through the game.

Feb-15-05		RisingChamp: Tambourine?I dont get it.

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