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Jan-17-08 | | DIO: Jessica, LOL!!! A very smart comment. No it is not. |
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Jan-17-08 | | Hesam7: Well Aronian deviated from Beliavsky vs Kramnik, 1998 |
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Jan-17-08 | | Eyal: 16.Nd2 deviates from both Beliavsky vs Kramnik, 1998 and Kramnik vs Leko, 2007, where white played Na4. |
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Jan-17-08
 | | jessicafischerqueen: Aronian has FOUR pieces attacking Anand's C PAWN.
He also has THREE PIECES blockading it.
I predict the c-pawn does not "Queen" any time soon.
thanks <DIO>!
Are you a Roman History buff as well?
There are actually quite a few of us around the site |
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Jan-17-08 | | DIO: A buff by no means Jessica. But as a Greek, I do remember a little about Roman and Greek history. Whatever I was taught at school. |
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Jan-17-08
 | | jessicafischerqueen: <DIO>
Well, according to the BBC you guys invented Western Civilization. Not Chess though! |
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Jan-17-08 | | Rawprawn: <DIO> Genes then? Think about it :-) |
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Jan-17-08
 | | Mateo: White has a better pawn structure but Black has the Bishop pair. So 17.Bf3 trying to swap one of those 2 Bishops looks like a natural positional idea. |
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Jan-17-08 | | whiteshark: Well balanced position so far. Will be a longer battle to get a full point. |
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Jan-17-08 | | DIO: LOL!!! To change the subject a little bit, ChessGenious analysis gives about 0.5 pawn edge to white. For what it's worth ... |
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Jan-17-08 | | TheBB: The board will soon tip over to the left. The arbiter should provide some counterbalance. Like a heavy book on the kingside, or something. |
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Jan-17-08 | | DIO: And for those who will ask, ChessGenious is a program for handheld PCs. Waaay better than ChessPartner, but by no means in the same league as Rybka, Fritz, etc ... |
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Jan-17-08
 | | Mateo: 19.h3. This move could prove useful on the long term. No more back rank mating threats. |
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Jan-17-08 | | whiteshark: The kside really look like waste land but I don't exspect any ♔'s marches... |
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Jan-17-08 | | malthrope: <TheBB: The board will soon tip over to the left. The arbiter should provide some counterbalance. Like a heavy book on the kingside, or something.> I'm hoping for an exhaustive and comprehensive K + P's Endgame book in that case... So, if Levon ever does win that 'c-pawn' then he might also win the King & pawn ending! ~lol~ :^) |
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Jan-17-08
 | | Mateo: I guess that, according to the usual chessgames policy, we should see Ivanchuk-Carlsen now. |
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Jan-17-08 | | whiteshark: livin is easy (1/2) |
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Jan-17-08 | | malthrope: I'm guessing the Endgame book that the arbiters provided wasn't that heavy after all... - draw! :^) |
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Jan-17-08 | | Tomlinsky: Not very inspiring. Ah well. |
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Jan-17-08 | | waustad: They picked the quickest draw. |
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Jan-17-08 | | whiteshark: No 2nd live game today? Mamedyarov vs van Wely looks interesting. Any game would have been better than this bored woodpushing. |
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Jan-17-08 | | ahmadov: For me as an Anand fan, this is another missed opportunity for Anand... Now only 8 rounds left... |
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Jan-17-08 | | whiteshark: No spirit :( |
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Jan-17-08 | | acirce: The first new move seems to be 16.Nd2, but it doesn't appear to improve significantly on White's winning chances compared to Beliavsky-Kramnik and Kramnik-Lékó referred to above. This 7.Qc2 sideline doesn't seem to offer White much in general. It might seem that none of the players were too ambitious, but at least Anand was ready for the sharp anti-Moscow this time, having healed his wounds since the loss against Radjabov. For an example of what happens after the cheeky 9.Nxb5!? see this game, won by the world's leading chess entity: [Event "17th IPCCC"]
[Site "Paderborn GER"]
[Date "2007.??.??"]
[White "JONNY "]
[Black "RYBKA "]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "D02"]
[Round "3"]
1. d4 d5 2. Nf3 Nf6 3. c4 c6 4. Nc3 e6 5. Bg5 h6 6. Bxf6 Qxf6 7. Qc2 dxc4 8. e3 b5 9. Nxb5 cxb5 10. Qe4 Bb4+ 11. Kd1 O-O 12. Qxa8 Bd7 13. Qxa7 Bc6 14. Be2 Bxf3 15. Bxf3 Qf5 16. Kc1 c3 17. Rd1 Rc8 18. e4 Qf4+ 19. Kc2 cxb2+ 20. Kxb2 Bc3+ 21. Kb1 Nc6 22. Qc5 b4 23. a4 bxa3 24. Qxc3 Qb8+ 25. Kc1 Nxd4 26. Rxa3 Nb5 27. Qxc8+ Qxc8+ 28. Kb2 Nxa3 29. Kxa3 Qc5+ 30. Kb3 Qxf2 31. Kc4 g5 32. h3 h5 33. Rd8+ Kg7 34. Rd3 Qg3 35. e5 Qxe5 0-1 following Wells' advice up to (at least) 12..Bd7.
After 14..Rfc8 in our game Pedersen writes <The text-move is Kramnik's preference and this is enough to persuade me to choose it as the main line. Black has some minor, though probably not very serious, problems with his c-pawn, but the bishop pair and altogether active pieces compensate for this. Other moves have fared reasonably well in practice but there may be a reason for Kramnik avoiding them. The question is: had he noted a problem with the main lines or did he just want to win?> |
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Jan-18-08 | | Ulhumbrus: As 8...b5 does not in fact retain the pawn, this suggests looking for an alternative. One alternative is 8...Qd8 9 Bxc4 Be7 and another is 8...g6 9 Bxc4 Bg7 |
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