| Jan-09-05 | | Milo: 51...Kg4?!
51...Ke4 leads to a complicated Q vs. Q+P+P ending which is probably still won for white... |
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| Jan-09-05 | | euripides: <milu> Are you sure ? I think 51...Ke4 52 a4 f5 53 a5 f4 54 a6 f3 55 a7 f2 56 a8=Q+ Ke3 57 Qa6 followed by Qf1 wins outright for White. |
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| Aug-18-05 | | SnoopDogg: What I'm amazed with is how Topalov calculated 42.Rxc4+ to the bone, that's a 22 move endgame calculation. Impressive! |
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| Feb-27-08 | | Microdot: <SnoopDogg: What I'm amazed with is how Topalov calculated 42.Rxc4+ to the bone, that's a 22 move endgame calculation. Impressive!>
After 47...g6! the game lead to a draw or even 47...g5! =
By the way, great Morozevich is a better and very stronger than topalov this is because he out played topalov several times. |
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| Feb-27-08 | | cannibal: <Microdot: By the way, great Morozevich is a better and very stronger than topalov this is because he out played topalov several times.> Great reasoning, considering that, at least according to <cg.com>, <Veselin Topalov beat Alexander Morozevich 10 to 9, with 6 draws.> More importantly, the reason why this score looks so close, is mainly blindfold chess. In classical, it seems to be 6-3 for Topalov. |
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| May-16-10 | | Xeroxx: And if 11.fxg4
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| Feb-24-13 | | master of defence: Yes, what is wrong with 11.fxg4? |
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| Feb-24-13 | | rilkefan: Stockfish plays 11.fxg4, thinking it's +2 at a depth of 25. I can imagine Topalov didn't want to walk into a prepared line. Or thought that 11.Qa4 (preparing O-O-O) leaves him a safe pawn up with a less chaotic position against a very dangerous attacker. This appears to be stockfish's assessment (+0.8 at a depth of 24 after 11...Qg5, which it prefers). After 17.Bd4 (instead of the strong xe5) sf says that ...Bc2 was equal. And that 19.O-O just dropped a full pawn to dead equality. 47...h5 decided the game. I bet this was a rapid. |
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| Feb-24-13 | | rilkefan: Yep, rapid. |
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| Feb-24-13 | | Jason Frost: Had to be getting low on time in the ending. Don't think Moro would ever blunder so badly as 47...h5?? with 5> minutes on his clock. |
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sac: 42.Rxc4+