Nov-30-04
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| Knight13: 29... Bxb7 30. Qd7#. Or 29... Ke8 30. Re7+ Bxe7 31. Qxe7#. Yet 2238 beating a 1973 player is not a surprise at all. |
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| Nov-30-04 |
| maoam: <Knight13>
There's slight improvement to your second line: 29...Ke8 30.Qxc6+ Kd8 31.Qd7#. |
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| Knight13: <maoam> No. 31. Qd7 is not mate because the bishop can capture the queen on d7. |
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| Nov-30-04 |
| maoam: The bishop on c6 which was captured on move 30 in that line? That bishop will capture the queen will it? |
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| Knight13: <maoam> You just never make a mistake... |
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| Feb-17-05 |
| MidnightDuffer: 16. ... Kf7, proper move, but this set up, shows, the French, it be the Tarrasch or Advance or McCutcheon, at times, is not for the faint of heart; |
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| Feb-17-05 |
| MidnightDuffer: 28. ... Bc6 ; Abrahamyan looks like has a momentary loss of focus; one doesn't wish to go RxN, Rxg6; shame, Black has a material lead at this point, but even Rxg6 stands to lose material, it is as they say, "the route is on." That's why Akobian is really impressive in making the French work for him so well! |
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| Feb-17-05 |
| MidnightDuffer: Maybe she is emulating fellow Armenian
Varuzhan Akobian who seems to play the French against e4; almost exclusively; even 13. ...f5 vs. even bookish ...f6 seems to take a page out of the latest American-Armenian grandmaster's book. This is in the game vs. Shabalov in the November Chesslife; the advance variation can get dicey; surely, more reason to admire Akobian's handling of the situation. With ...f5 by Black, it becomes a one shot deal for White to take the pawn via e5 with en passant. The problem in the French is sometimes, I believe the e6 pawn can become a poisoned pawn. Also, here, as with Var we see, 4...Qb6
Even most texts and in many games, you will see, 4. ... Nc6; for example, P Enders vs Uhlmann, 1978 or
Przewoznik vs Uhlmann, 1980 are but two examples. In fact, Shabalov vs Akobian, 2003
from 2003 plays 4...Nc6 vs. 4...Qb6 as in the more recent game in Chesslife. There have been at a number of French Defences between the two, I would like to see each game. They may all be the Advance, 3. e5 As I recounted else where, I believe both Abrahamyan and Var hail from SoCal as they say. |
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| Feb-17-05 |
| MidnightDuffer: I wished to add on; because it is not clear from what I wrote, that the game in the Nov. Chess Life, Var won, an elegant game, unsure of all the details, I left that out. It is pertinent to this game, because of similar playing styles, with the opening [C02] at the World Open, Philadelphia 2004. That opening the French Advance and in Akobian's words "This is the fifth time we have had the same opening in the past year and a half"; I thought it was important to mention this; because the game I cite above in a link, he obviously is not the victor; so this is when he won the World Open! Again, this has a link to this game, but with some here, who obviously are rooting for the Armenians and such, I thought this was important to clarify. |
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