| Dec-17-08 |
| ellenliisbet: What a beautiful move, 31. Qh7+!! :-) |
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| Dec-17-08 |
| ex0duz: Watching this game live(before falling asleep), i had a feeling Leko was gonna get raped after 17.Nxg4 Anyone know the theory behind this line? Is the pawn poison? |
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Dec-17-08
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| percyblakeney: According to chessok 17. g4 is a <novelty of doubtful advantage>, but chessvibes points to one earlier game with the move (Pesoa-Romero, Villa Ballester 2002). Leko got a good position but missed playing Bg5 on move 21 or 22 (both seen as giving black a very big advantage by chessok). 23. ... Rg5 is another improvement suggested by chessok, and evaluated as better for black. 28. ... Qxf2 looks as if it could hold, and 30. ... Qe7 would at least give white some problems to overcome. When the last moves were played Leko was in bad time trouble, with only a few seconds on the clock, but Bacrot's finish is still pretty. http://www.chessvibes.com/reports/e... |
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| Dec-17-08 |
| ex0duz: Thanks dude. After this game, it will probably go out of 'fashion' with everyone analyzing it, but OTB the first time it seems to be pretty deadly(refused the first time, and with Leko himself getting raped in less than 15 moves after taking the pawn). I like these kinds of 'unsound' novelties, especially when they work. If it is a novelty of doubtful advantage, then surely Bacrot came up with it OTB and it wasn't prepared? Even more respect if so. |
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Dec-17-08
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| Gilmoy: A <short triangle> or "swinging gate" mate, cf. Stanishevsky vs Nikonov, 1981 and Capablanca vs T A Carter, 1909. Push that P to 6 or 3! |
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Dec-17-08
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| JointheArmy: Oh my Peter. What happened? |
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| Dec-17-08 |
| shintaro go: The "safe" Caro-Kann loses yet another game. |
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Dec-18-08
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| luzhin: I like the fact that if Leko tries to run with 31...Kf8 then Bacrot forces mate in quick order with 32.Bb4+ -- in boxing terms a devastating right-left combination. |
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| Dec-18-08 |
| arnaud1959: Bacrov loves to give up his queen. sometimes he sacs it like in this game or he forgets it: Bacrot vs E Inarkiev, 2008 |
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| Dec-19-08 |
| TheChessGuy: A sharp and humorous game by M. Bacrot! |
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| Dec-20-08 |
| Alphastar: <shintaro go> the game wasn't lost in the opening so your remark is off target. On a different note, I don't understand how Leko can get in time trouble, considering at least the first 16 moves or so are mandatory. This g4 pawn sacrifice is very often made in similar positions and black has to accept to not end up worse. |
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| Dec-20-08 |
| Bobsterman3000: Isn't this a blatant case of "castling into trouble" unnecessarily and inviting an immediate attack with 16... 0-0?! Maybe 16... 0-0-0 would have worked better, at least it wouldn't have given Bacrot so much initiative. At the time, Leko was still about 2 tempi away from a tangible counterattack on the queenside, so Bacrot could open lines on the kingside with impunity and have a free hand. |
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| Dec-21-08 |
| Alphastar: <Bobsterman3000> if black wants to castle queenside with a 'safe' game, he should play 12. ..Qc7 immediately, so white doesn't have the extra move c4 to accelerate his queenside (and central) play. The theory of the classical variation with castling queenside is so much worked out that it is completely impossible to play for a win with black while white can try to grind out a small advantage. I wouldn't say castling kingside gives black far better chances of scoring a full point but it is definitely sharper. That white usually gets to attack first doesn't really matter - theory says it is all fine for black. |
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| Dec-22-08 |
| Bobsterman3000: <Alphastar> Thanks for the lucid explanation, I think I'm not yet advanced enough to tackle the underlying theoretical issues that powered Leko's choice to handle the line in this way... |
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| Dec-27-08 |
| Brown: <exOduz> Please, go get yourself raped before using the term so flippantly. |
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Feb-12-09
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| Geronimo: Lovely game. This month's Euro Echecs has commentary by Bacrot on it. I'll try to translate/post a bit later on today. |
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