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| Jul-03-09 | | waustad: Sadly my copy of Nimzo's blockade book (autographed by Petrosian and Kavalek) is no longer in my possession. |
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| Jul-03-09 | | Knight13: <Marmot PFL: Nd2 Rd1 - don't pin your pieces> Kf8 and black doesn't loset he piece. After king moves to e8 the Knight moves and Black gains the e file. Trading rooks favor Black. And Black can also play Nc5 and force trade rooks if possible. |
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| Jul-03-09 | | Knight13: <waustad: Sadly my copy of Nimzo's blockade book (autographed by Petrosian and Kavalek) is no longer in my possession.> Let me guess... You sold it for $500? |
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| Jul-03-09 | | waustad: It is beginning to look like the poster who predicted that Jakovenko - Naiditsch was the most likely to be decisive may have had something. |
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| Jul-03-09 | | Marmot PFL: Yes the rook ending looks drawn. |
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| Jul-03-09 | | Marmot PFL: Bacrot does well vs Kramnik. |
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| Jul-03-09 | | Knight13: <Ulhumbrus> Kramnik saw that and concluded that it's not enough to get a win. |
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| Jul-03-09 | | jcnorcro: Well...we are a lot closer to a draw. The white B on a8 diag along with pmajority was the winning deal. Now, can Kramnik out tempo Bacrot with
R vs R?? |
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| Jul-03-09 | | Knight13: <jcnorcro> No. Because kramnik gave up his b pawn with Rc1. |
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| Jul-03-09 | | whiteshark: Nice game, probably. |
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| Jul-03-09 | | Knight13: <whiteshark> Nice draw! (Yeah you know why I said that right?) |
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| Jul-03-09 | | jcnorcro: Well heck. Bacrot is (was) under considerable time pressure. A draw too easily gained. |
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| Jul-03-09 | | Ulhumbrus: If 27 Kg2 is insufficient to win because White lacks any way to keep his B and still answer all of Black's threats, a better way to let the bishop go may be to play 27 b4 and after 27...ab 28 ab Ne2+ 29 Kf1 Nc3 30 Re1 Nxe4 31 Rxe4 White has the outside passed pawn and some advantage in development. |
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| Jul-03-09 | | acirce: So far it seems like Kramnik is struggling to find his best form again but it's way too early to draw conclusions. |
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| Jul-03-09 | | whiteshark: <K13> Sure! :D |
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| Jul-03-09 | | radu stancu: <acirce: ...it's way too early to draw...> I don't know if that was intentional or not, but nice one! :) |
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| Jul-03-09 | | smaragdus: They say that after only two rounds played it is early to DRAW conclusions, that might be right, but Kramnik, together with his good friend Leko (it is not amazing they get on very nicely together), is a man with history, and his chess history spans more than 25 years, and during all these years he has elaborated his own style of playing chess, and of course his unique style is a result of things like weltanschauung, temperament, education, training, etc, and Kramnik's style can be qualified in brief as drawish, sluggish, cowardly, and, as far as I remember, Flaubert has mentioned, that man- this is his style. |
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 | | plang: <Kramnik's style can be qualified in brief as drawish, sluggish, cowardly,> Kramnik's style has changed quite a bit in the last 10-12 years. He played some brilliant counter-attacking games in the 90s with Black (he was terrific with the Sicilian). For whatever reason his style has become more cautious in recent years. |
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| Jul-03-09 | | Bridgeburner: <acirce> <So far it seems like Kramnik is struggling to find his best form> I agree. I'm seriously puzzled by Kramnik's <15.cxb5> instead of <15.Nxb5>. |
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| Jul-03-09 | | acirce: <radu stancu> Um no, I just meant to say that it's only been two rounds so it's too early to say how Kramnik is doing after his seven months off. <Bridgeburner> I didn't think it seemed like (the "boring") 15.Nxb5 was going to give him anything. 15.cxb5 still seems more ambitious. Not that I know anything about chess. Maybe White already doesn't have an advantage to speak of. |
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| Jul-04-09 | | Whitehat1963: What happens if 11...Qxb2? |
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| Jul-04-09 | | erebdraug: <smaragdus> <as far as I remember, Flaubert has mentioned, that man- this is his style.> Sorry for this off-topic post, but I can't just let you misquote Flaubert. "Le style, c'est l'homme" (The style is the man) is often attributed to Flaubert. But he himself was quoting Buffon. Glad we cleared that up. |
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| Jul-04-09 | | radu stancu: <acirce: <radu stancu> Um no, I just meant to say that it's only been two rounds so it's too early to say how Kramnik is doing after his seven months off.> I thought so. It seemed like a joke thrown in there, that's why I asked. :) |
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| Jul-04-09 | | kurtrichards: Hmmm...what about a game of space invaders? |
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| Jul-04-09 | | smaragdus: <erebdraug> Thank you for correcting me, indeed! I was trying to evoke the quotation from a vague and distant memory, so it turned out to be quite a distortion of a periphrase, so thank you once again for giving the exact phrase and the explanation about it. |
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