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Feb-16-08
 | | arifattar: Oh well. |
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Feb-16-08
 | | MindCtrol9: <Yes,their last moves were telling me that,a draw> |
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Feb-16-08
 | | Strongest Force: Raggy cant win this without some major help ... btw, is Shirov and Carlsen still playing? |
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Feb-16-08
 | | Wild Bill: Shirov - Carlsen ½-½ |
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Feb-16-08
 | | krisxchy: Are they not going to put another game on ??? |
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Feb-16-08
| | Wild Bill: The only other game in progress is Ivanchuk-Leko. The last time I saw it, it appeared to be headed for a draw. In fact, it looked an awful lot like this game, where White had more space and Black just enough to keep him out. |
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| Feb-16-08 | | hangingenprise: put a dancing rook in chucky's column! |
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| Feb-17-08 | | mindkontrolle: sorta pathetic if you ask me. nowhere near developed as could be. |
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Feb-17-08
 | | notyetagm: Black to play: 18 ... ?
click for larger viewHere Topalov (Black) played the excellent <RELOADER> 18 ...  g6xe5!, 
click for larger viewusing the basic <RELOADER> principle that one defender (White f4-pawn) cannot keep out two attackers (Black g6-knight, h5-rook). For the <RELOADER> to work, the piece (Black h5-rook) that ends up on the inadequately defended (two attackers, one defender) square (e5-square) must be able to make use of this square in order to make up for the previous sacrifice (Black g6-knight) on this square (18 ... g6xe5!). That is, after 19 f4xe5?  h5xe5
click for larger viewwhat does Black have to show for his sacrificed knight? From the diagram above the answer is obvious: Black has a <ROOK SKEWER> of the -two- <UNDEFENDED> White pieces, the <UNDEFENDED> White e4-knight and the <UNDEFENDED> White e3-bishop. This <SKEWER> regains the sacrificed piece for Black, leaving him two pawns ahead for nothing. Hence White cannot recapture on e5 with 19 f4xe5? as the recapture simply loses a second pawn to the 19 ... h5xe5 <RELOADER>. 18 ... g6xe5!, an excellent tactical shot by Topalov, winning a pawn based on the two <UNDEFENDED> White minor pieces lined up on the e-file and the <RELOADER> tactic. Aagaard says in one of his books that there is a myriad of ways to win material win there are <UNDEFENDED> pieces on the board. This <PETITE COMBINAISON> by Topalov is yet another example. |
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Feb-17-08
| | notyetagm: How did Topalov see the <RELOADER> 18 ... g6xe5! ? He probably saw that he would love to play ... h5-e5 and <SKEWER> the <UNDEFENDED> White e4-knight and e3-bishop. That is the basic idea/pattern that he saw. Since the White f4-pawn prevents this <SKEWER> by <DEFENDING> the e5-square from the Black h5-rook, it cannot also keep the Black g6-knight out. Hence 18 ... g6xe5!. |
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Feb-18-08
| | notyetagm: 18 ... g6xe5! is my favorite <PETITE COMBINAISON> of the year thus far. Nice tactical alertness by Topalov, finding a neat tactic that a strong tactician like Radjabov overlooked. |
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Feb-18-08
| | Bobsterman3000: <notyetagm> Where did the term <<reloader>> come from? Did you coin the term? |
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Feb-18-08
| | notyetagm: <Bobsterman3000: <notyetagm> Where did the term <<reloader>> come from? Did you coin the term?> No, not my term. It comes from Weteschnik's stupendous book "Understanding Chess Tactics". It's a great way to describe the tactic 18 ... g6xe5! 19 f4xe5 h5xe5: Black <RELOADS> on the e5-square. |
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Feb-18-08
 | | parmetd: Berlin is just such a solid opening, it is hard for white to gain an edge but easy to lose one due to the bishop pair. |
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Feb-18-08
| | Bobsterman3000: No one can scale the Bulgarian Wall! Radja couldn't even chip the paint! |
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Feb-18-08
| | notyetagm: Position after 18 ... g6xe5!
click for larger viewTopalov's outstanding 18 ... g6xe5! gets my vote as the most instructive <RELOADER> of all-time, since it does not involve either a <KNIGHT FORK> or a square lined up with the enemy king, as most <RELOADERS> do. Black simply wants to get his h5-rook onto the e5-square so that he can <SKEWER> White's two <UNDEFENDED> minor pieces (e4-,e3- ) ehich are conveniently already lined up on the e-file. After 19 f4xe5? h5xe5 Black regains his sacrificed knight with the <ROOK SKEWER> of the <UNDEFENDED> White e4-knight and <UNDEFENDED> White e3-bishop, winning two pawns for nothing. (VAR) Position after 19 f4xe5? h5xe5
click for larger viewWhat makes this tactical blow even more impressive is that the super-tactician Radjabov overlooked it. Simply -amazing- tactical acuity by Topalov. |
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Feb-19-08
| | notyetagm: <CRWynn: ...Ne5 was a very simple tactic, you see much more complicated things in blitz games. Even not-very-good blitz games. I don't see the big deal - except that if Radja really just missed that, it's a bit unusual.> It's a very unusual tactic. How often do you see a rook smack in the middle of the board (e5-square) <SKEWERING> two minor pieces that are both <UNDEFENDED> and lined up on a file? It is -so- unusual that the super-tactician Radjabov missed it. -That- is what I find so impressive about it. And of course it is obvious once someone shows it to you. I am sure Radjabov was thinking "Why didn't I see that?" right after Topalov played 18 ... g6xe5!. |
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Feb-19-08
| | notyetagm: <CRWynn: ... Looking at earlier kibitzing the comps were suggesting Kf2, probably just to stop this tactic; at least this is not a "retreating" move but you are blocking the rook from acting on the f-file (or the bishop from using f2 as in the game. Also it looks weird.> Looks do not matter. <TACTICS> come first, last, and in between. 18  g1-f2 stops the 18 ... g5xe6! <RELOADER> tactic by <DEFENDING> the White e3-bishop so that there is no <SKEWER> down the e-file, saving a pawn, so it is no wonder the comp engines favored that king move over Radjabov's blunder 18 d1-d2?. |
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Feb-19-08
 | | acirce: If I remember correctly, Radjabov replied 19.b3 immediately or almost immediately after 18..Nxe5. This right after having thought about 18.Rd2 for a long time. It certainly indicates, along with the fact that 18..Rxe5 was so obvious, that he did not simply "blunder" the pawn, but had spent time calculating the consequences - how good it was I can't tell, but White sacrificing the e-pawn in the Berlin is quite typical, and just like <CRWynn> says, White soon got the pawn back anyway. Unless Radjabov actually <said> he missed it I won't assume such a thing. |
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Feb-20-08
| | dabearsrock1010: ok i will echo <acirce> a bit and say there is no way <GM> radjabov missed this move for example in Leko vs Kramnik, 2004 kramnik plays 15...a6 and there is no way he didnt see the leko's next trick...these guys are 2700+ for gosh's sake |
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Feb-26-08
| | notyetagm: <dabearsrock1010: ok i will echo <acirce> a bit and say there is no way <GM> radjabov missed this move for example in Leko vs Kramnik, 2004 kramnik plays> Well, Mig said that if Radjabov denies hanging his e-pawn that he "shan't believe him". :-) |
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Feb-20-11
| | notyetagm: Game Collection: LINE-OPENING SACS: GETTING AT WEAKNESSES (LATE) |
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