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| Jan-12-10 | | jinchausti: Best match I've seen for a long...Great battle... |
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| Jan-12-10 | | khursh: It takes two to make a nice game. Hikaru Nakamura should be invited more to top tournaments, it will definitely bring fresh air to chess community.
Congratulations to Aronian and thanks to both for granting such fighting battle !!!! |
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| Jan-12-10 | | DUS: I think Rybka was suggesting 41.Qa5 for white, which perhaps was stronger. |
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| Jan-12-10 | | Chlipchlop: Beautiful rooks dance after 32. Rc6 !? until 42. :) |
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| Jan-12-10 | | Gambitor: 47...Kh6 , a nice trap for a time trouble or a blitz game 48.Nf7+ Rxf7 49.Rxf7 Ne3+ 50.Kg1 Qg6! and the white rook will fall. |
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| Jan-12-10 | | noiselesion: Aronian takes his revenge after Nakamura's wins in their chess 960 encounters. I didn't have time to do much analysis, what happens after 42 ...RxQ ? |
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| Jan-12-10 | | ceebo: <after 42 ...RxQ> white can win bishop, knight and rook. My computer suggests 43.Rxb8+ Ne8 44.Rxe8+ Kg7 45.Ne6+ Kh7 46.Nxc7 with a +3 advantage to white. |
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| Jan-12-10 | | ounos: Wow, 42. Rb6, surprizing! |
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| Jan-12-10 | | Atking: Yesterday I stopped the live nearly at this point 22...b6 slowing white queen side attack but weakening c6 (Qb4, this square should be for Nb4)
I was thinking about Qb8~Be7~Bd8. Someone will probably test it what about 22...Qb8 23.Qb6 Be7 24.Ba5 QxBd8 25.QxQd8 RxQd8? Black quenen side is still weak but blacka has exchange his "bad" bishop for the "good" one of white. Needless to say that this time, Nakamura was the one who went in the opening prepration of his opponent. |
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| Jan-12-10 | | kakarot: This game was something like Holmes vs Watson.. |
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Jan-12-10
 | | parisattack: Very exciting game! Naka almost holds his own against a Top 5 SGM. The Top Five being Carlsen, Kramnik, Anand, Topalov, Aronian. I wouldn't want to sort them out although I think K3 a small nudge ahead of the pack - nor would I give too much weight to the ratings. At 2800  a few points it's a pick 'em. |
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| Jan-12-10 | | zanshin: <ceebo: <after 42 ...RxQ> white can win bishop, knight and rook. My computer suggests 43.Rxb8+ Ne8 44.Rxe8+ Kg7 45.Ne6+ Kh7 46.Nxc7 with a +3 advantage to white.> That's also the Rybka line (+2.3). Look at the position after 45.Ne6+. 
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Jan-13-10
 | | HeMateMe: Great game, seemed like Naka was winning, for a while. That theme of white sacking a rook exchange on the q side for two connected passers happens a lot in skittle games, not sure how often it occurs in GM contests. When white couldn't get the pawns connected, I thought black might win. |
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| Jan-13-10 | | stanleys: Perhaps Nakamura should have tried Nh8-f7-h6 instead of Nh4 ?
Ok this is slow but allows a further ...g4 |
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Jan-13-10
| | HeMateMe: hmmmm....has N-h8 ever been played by the winning side in a GM chess game? |
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| Jan-14-10 | | arsen387: when 2 creative minds meet at the chess board, an entertaining chess is the result. Rc6, Rb6, Kg1, Nf7+ are beautiful moves by Aronian |
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| Jan-14-10 | | DaveyL: <HeMateMe> Oh yes, very famously! Korchnoi vs Fischer, 1970 |
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| Jan-14-10 | | Riverbeast: I'm still baffled why, after 25. h3, Nakamura spent the next six moves shuffling his Q and B around, just to get the bishop to b8...Where it hardly seems better placed than on f8 Why not just play 25...Ra7, followed by ...Nf6 and ...g4 ? |
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Jan-14-10
 | | keypusher: <kakarot: This game was something like Holmes vs Watson.> More like Holmes vs Shavers, I'd say. |
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Jan-15-10
 | | patzer2: According to http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail..., Aronian's theoretical novelty 19. Ncd1! gave him a lasting advantage that was difficult for Black to defend against. Even so, Aronian's surprise 42. Rb6!! has to go down as one of the most clever and amusing discovered attack combinations ever played. Not only does White discover a deep attack on Black's position, but he exposes his own queen to a sham attack in the process -- offering to trade his Queen for Bishop, Knight and Rook in a technically won but still very complicated middle game. |
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| Jan-15-10 | | falso contacto: This game is too good. Classic. |
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| Jan-15-10 | | jhoro: I (+Rybka) think that 41...Ng7 was weak. Even if Aronian did not play the super nice 42.Rb6!!, 42.f6 would have been very strong too. It made more sense for Naka to bring the Knight to d6 since the battle was on the Queen side anyway. 
click for larger viewNaka was on the ropes few times in this game and was probably bound to make a mistake somewhere, but right after the control was unexpected to me. |
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Jan-16-10
 | | notyetagm: 41 ...  e8-g7?
click for larger view42  a6-b6!!
click for larger view<patzer2: ... <<<Even so, Aronian's surprise 42. Rb6!! has to go down as one of the most clever and amusing discovered attack combinations ever played.>>> Not only does White discover a deep attack on Black's position, but he exposes his own queen to a sham attack in the process -- offering to trade his Queen for Bishop, Knight and Rook in a technically won but still very complicated middle game.> Aronian's 42 a6-b6!! is just incredible, showing *amazing* <TACTICAL ALERTNESS> in that Black's last move 41 ... e8-g7 made the stunning 42 a6-b6!! possible; the possibility was not just hanging in the air but only became possible after Nakamura played 41 ... e8-g7?. Incredible. |
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Jan-22-10
| | keypusher: <HeMateMe: hmmmm....has N-h8 ever been played by the winning side in a GM chess game?> A non-blitz example (though Nimzowitsch was not yet a grandmaster as the term was then understood). Schlechter vs Nimzowitsch, 1907
A famous example, if Nh1 by White counts:
Nimzowitsch vs Rubinstein, 1926
Nimzowitsch was known for putting his knight in the corner... Janowski vs Nimzowitsch, 1914
...so much so that when Rubinstein played it Tarrasch sniffed in the tournament book that he hoped Nimzowitsch had not founded a school with the move. Blackburne vs Rubinstein, 1914 |
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| Jan-26-10 | | elohah: Notes...
Good game by Aronian.
Somebody finally grows a pair... |
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