Jan-22-09
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Jan-22-09
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| chessic eric: With 9...Nh5, Radjabov deviated from his 3rd round game against Ivanchuk (Ivanchuk vs Radjabov, 2009), which up until then was identical by transposition to this game. |
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Jan-22-09
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| hedgeh0g: A fine game by Van Wely. |
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Jan-22-09
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| Eyal: As in their game a couple of months ago from the Olympiad, it seems that Van Wely outprepared Radjabov in one of the ultra-sharp KID Bayonet lines. With 20.h4! Van Wely deviates from Ponomariov vs Radjabov, 2003. Engines were critical of Radjabov's 21...gxh4 (instead of Nxe6), 23...Kg8 (instead of Nh7), and 24...Bxh6 (instead of Qe8/d7). After 25.Qxh6 the black king is just too exposed and becomes target practice for the white pieces. Some sidelines: 26...cxd5 27.Rg3+ Kf7 28.exd5 and Black has to lose the knight on e6; 26...Ng7 27.Rg3 Nfe8 28.Rf1! Rxf1+ 29.Kxf1 Qd7 (to defend against Qe6+) 30.Rf3! Qe6 (among other things, there's a threat of Qf6! and opening the diagonal for the white bishop with 30...cxd5 31.exd5 would be fatal) 31.Qh4 and the threat of Ne7+ is decisive. A couple of moves later, 28....Nf4 is simply answered by 29.Rxf4! (exf4 30.Qg6#). Van Wely levels the score in his life-long King's Indian theoretical battle with Radjabov to 3-3: http://www.chessgames.com/perl/ches... |
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Jan-22-09
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| Marmot PFL: They followed Ponomariov vs Radjabov, 2003 up through move 19. Don't know if 20.h4 was preparation on Van Wely found it at the board. |
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| Jan-22-09 |
| jon01: <A couple of moves later, 28....Nf4 is simply answered by 29.Rxf4! (exf4 30.Qg6#).> Wow, this is really nice mate. When I was watching the game live I wondered why Radjabov didn't play Nf4. Now I know. |
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Jan-22-09
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| Eyal: <On his way out, the Azeri GM said to me: "I forgot everything, as usual," obviously referring to his home-analysis after his 2003 game against Ponomariov. A cheerful Van Wely showed the game at today's press conference.> (http://www.chessvibes.com/reports/c...) <Van Wely: "We have a principled discussion in this variation [...] Radjabov has been scoring quite a few wins in this line, and I seem to be the only one to bother him in it". He went on to say that by now it is "matter of honor" to keep this up, and if not the most practical choice.> (http://www.coruschess.com/report.ph...) |
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Jan-22-09
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| messachess: <Don't know if 20.h4 was preparation on Van Wely found it at the board.> Looks like a highly feasible, very natural move, doesn't it. Nice win by
Van Wely. I don't think Radjabov will be abandoning the KID like Kasparov did.--(after a loss to Kramnik was it?) |
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Jan-22-09
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| KingG: Considering how many wins, and relatively few losses Radjabov has in the KID, I don't see why he would even consider giving it up. It seems that whenever a player plays an opening that some see as slightly dubious like the Dragon or the KID, as soon as they lose a game with it, people start talking about them giving it up, no matter how well they score with it. No one says things like that when a player loses with the Najdorf or the Semi-Slav for example. Once Radjabov starts losing more games than he is winning with the KID, then maybe he should think of playing something else, but I don't see him ever getting into that position. |
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Jan-22-09
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| Eyal: 20.h4 was probably prepared, but in the preparation itself it may have not been so hard to find - it does leap to the eye when you look at the position, engines seem to like it, and according to the chessbase report it was even recommended by Ftacnik, in his annotations to the Ponomariov-Radjabov game... |
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Jan-22-09
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| percyblakeney: <Considering how many wins, and relatively few losses Radjabov has in the KID, I don't see why he would even consider giving it up. It seems that whenever a player plays an opening that some see as slightly dubious like the Dragon or the KID, as soon as they lose a game with it, people start talking about them giving it up, no matter how well they score with it> Radjabov has some amazing results with the KID, especially in Wijk. After losing the round 2 game in 2003 he scored +9 -0 =4 before this game (one loss listed as a KID on this site should be a Benoni). Going an undefeated +9 with black in 13 games against top level opposition is just to good to be true and something like this had to be waiting sooner or later. Well played by van Wely, but also a strangely effortless win. After all he only followed the ChessBase recommendation from Radjabov's game against Ponomariov and had a winning position almost immediately. Radjabov should probably have played 21. ... Nxe6 even if the position gets very messy. |
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Jan-22-09
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| KingG: I think Radjabov is simply off form in this tournament. He has done nothing with the White pieces, and didn't really play very well against Ivanchuk either. Even if he had forgotten his analysis, he probably should have seen that 21...gxh4 was going to lead to a horrible position. |
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Jan-23-09
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| notyetagm: <Eyal: ... A couple of moves later, 28....Nf4 is simply answered by 29.Rxf4! (exf4 30.Qg6#).> A great example of a <PIN AGAINST A SQUARE>. |
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Jan-23-09
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| notyetagm: <percyblakeney: ... Radjabov should probably have played 21. ... Nxe6 even if the position gets very messy.> Yes, <RYBKA 3> at http://www.chessok.com/broadcast/?k... says that 21 ... g5xh4?! is dubious, that 21 ...  d4xe6 is better, and gives a variation ending with an eval of <Rybka Aquarium (0:17.21)+0.07|d18>. 21. Qg3 gxh4 ?!
(21... Nxe6 was better 22. hxg5 Nxd5 23. cxd5 Nxg5 24. Be3 Rf7 25. b5 Qd7 26. Qh4 Kg8 27. Rb3 Raf8 28. Rc1 Rybka Aquarium (0:17.21)+0.07|d18) |
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Jan-23-09
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| notyetagm: 28 ... ?
click for larger view<Eyal: ... A couple of moves later, 28....Nf4 is simply answered by 29.Rxf4! (exf4 30.Qg6#).> (VAR)
28 ... e6-f4?
click for larger view29  f1xf4! <pin: e6,e7>
click for larger view29 ... e5xf4?? 30  h6-g6#
click for larger view29 f1xf4! is a *fabulous* example of a <PIN AGAINST A SQUARE>. |
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Jan-23-09
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| Eyal: Van Wely analyzing the game at the press conference: http://www.chessvibes.com/reports/c... |
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Jan-24-09
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| Eyal: Btw, in case of 26...cxd5, 27.Rg3+ Kf7 28.exd5 which I mentioned in my first post is good enough to win, but even more efficient is 27.exd5 Ng7 (27...Kf7 28.Rf1 transposes to the game) 28.Rg3 Qc7 (or Rf7) 29.Bg6 (not immediately 29.Rf1? e4) with the plan of Rf1/Rxf6/Qh7+/Qh8+/Qxg7+/Qxf6 against which there's really nothing Black can do. |
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| Mar-21-09 |
| WhiteRook48: taking advantage of pins |
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