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| Dec-30-04 |
| Pawsome: After following the game on the official website, I pulled out my pieces and tried to figure out why young Magnus threw in the towel. After a lot of wood shifting It seemed to me that he could draw with the aggressive Rb6+ 41. Kc3 Rb1 as well as lines flowing from 41. Ra6. Then the light went on and I checked here only to discover that I should have checked here first! Now I'm going to check out the buzz on Kalifman-Stefanova, where I'm convinced the young WWCC took a draw when there was a win afoot. Happy New Year all! |
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| Dec-31-04 |
| BradMajors: <Pawsome> Magnus did not resign, he lost on time due to his mistake in score sheet. A pity because the position is drawn. |
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Dec-31-04
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| Ron: to beatgiant: nothing published yet, hopefully in the future. |
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| Dec-31-04 |
| pawn52: <acirce> Since you know Korchnoi, can you see if you can steer him over to this site? He, along with Mr. Keene, would be a valuable asset to the site. |
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| Jan-01-05 |
| northbridge: <Obviously Korchnoi was under no obligation to alert Carlsen about the approaching time limit; still, it would have been a nice gesture had he done so. I wonder what the reaction (if any) in the GM community - or the chess community in general - will be in this regard.> Since Carlsen only had one move left to reach time control Korchnoi probably thought that Carlsen was just using all his time to make the move ... Korchnoi couldn't have realized that something is wrong until the last few seconds when it was already too late. |
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| Jan-01-05 |
| bigbear: Korchnoi is a killer. He is not supposed to teach tournament chess to the boy. |
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| Jan-01-05 |
| azaris: You could say Carlsen just received a lesson on tournament time controls. |
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| Jan-03-05 |
| catfriend: It was Tartakover |
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Jan-05-05
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| waddayaplay: < Now it is historical, that Lajos Portisch had the same mistake once against a FIDE-master, because of the scoresheet: that paper's rows were so dense that the 8-time-world championship candidate wrote one move into two gaps! > Another infamous time loss because of the score-sheet was : J Mason vs Tarrasch, 1895 |
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| Jan-11-05 |
| EARNSKI: A powerful knight on e5 win the game of KORCHNOI after 11.Nxc4 dxc4 12.d5!! with the great initiative. Then when endgame come after a nice shot of 18.Bxc6! bxc6 goes to a pawn-up, rook pawn endgame. |
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Jun-04-05
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| iron maiden: <Minor Piece Activity> <Across the Generations> |
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| May-13-06 |
| MagnaPsygnosis: I love this match so very much......
Old Korchnoi took Magnus boy to school, and there he tought Magnus a Trick or two. Korchnoi is far beyond Magnus (and Magnus knows it.) |
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| Jan-01-07 |
| THE pawn: Best wishes to everyone for 2007! |
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| Jan-01-07 |
| Sularus: Happy new year everyone ! |
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| Jan-01-07 |
| Happypuppet: Nice G.O.D. title, hehe. |
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| Jan-01-07 |
| fgh: Happy new year and good game choice :-) |
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| Jan-01-07 |
| sfm: <notsodeepthought: Korchnoi... warning Carlsen about the approaching time limit; still, it would have been a nice gesture had he done so...> Nope! Au contraire. People with only seconds left (and only beginners could be unaware) do not want to be disturbed. It would be a completely wrong and objectionable thing to do, and would be interpreted as harrassment. For this reason such warnings are unseen in tournament chess. - - -
An exception was when one of my oponents once left the table for an urgent toilet vist, with 3 minutes left for 16 moves. He forgot to hit the clock, and I shouted it after him. He shouted back "Please do it for me!" and kept running. And so I did. I even waited with my move, an obvious recapture, till he came back. Mr. Nice Guy? Oh no, I had planned such a nice ending, and wouldn't want to have it spoiled by a time forfeiture... ;-) |
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Jan-01-07
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| euripides: It's interesting how the presence of the a pawns helps Black here; White's is a target and Black's stops White's natural lateral check on b6. Without the a pawns this would be a technical win for White. 37.f5 looks interesting e.g. 37...gxf5 38.Rf2 Ra5 39.Kc3 Kc6 40.Kb6 Kb6 41.Re2; or perhaps 38...f4 39.Rxf4 Rxa2 40.h4. Neither line is clear but White seems to have some chances. |
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Jan-01-07
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| cu8sfan: I remember the game well. For those who don't know: Carlsen ran out of time at move 40. Hence the pun. |
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| Jan-01-07 |
| Sularus: i wonder how much time Korky still had at the end. |
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| Jan-01-07 |
| MadBishop: Some beautiful manoevering combinations by The Master! Well done to Carlsen for keeping up with him! A great game to start the year off with!! |
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Jan-01-07
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| norami: The age difference is a few months less than sixty years. I wonder if that's a record for games between grandmasters. |
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Jan-01-07
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| kevin86: I think that Korchnoi would have won without his opponent's timing out. He is a pawn plus and seems to be on the offensive. HAPPY Twenty o seven-everyone! |
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Feb-27-09
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| DrGridlock: < kevin86: I think that Korchnoi would have won without his opponent's timing out. He is a pawn plus and seems to be on the offensive.> Rybka gives -
40 ... rb6+, 41 Kc3 Ra6, 42 Rd5+ Kc6, 43 Kb2 Rb6+, 44 Ka1 Rb4, 45 Rd8 Rxc4, 46 Rg8 Rc1+, 47 Kb2 Rh1 (+.62). Advantage to White, but still a lot of chess to be played. Not what anyone considers to be a "won" position. |
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| Jun-09-09 |
| WhiteRook48: drawn. Hate that clock |
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