Darwin Laylo vs Rauf Mamedov (2010)

Darwin Laylo vs Rauf Mamedov
Aeroflot Open (2010) · Modern Defense: Averbakh Variation (A42) · 0-1

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Feb-09-10		HeMateMe: white picked a bad place to castle--right in the middle of a freeway.

Feb-09-10		Ezzy: Laylo - Mamedov click for larger view Black wants to play 24...h6 removing whites queen from the 5th rank so he can play 25...b4 and the knight is lost. BUT white has 25 Qg3 and if 25...b4 then 26 Nc4 saves the knight because 26...Bxc4 27 Bxc4 and black can't recapture 27...Rxc4 because of 28 Qxb8+. Laylo played (from the diagram position) 24 Rd6?? which after 24...h6 Laylo can't play 25 Qg3 because his queen no longer hits the rook on b8 because he's put his rook in the way at d6. He now loses the knight and the game.

Feb-09-10		Ezzy: <HeMateMe: white picked a bad place to castle--right in the middle of a freeway.> Yes, (from the diagram) every black piece is pointing at the white king.

Feb-10-10		Gilmoy: Modern Defense, Averbakh, <Accelerated-Recurring-Delayed-Revived Fianchetto>. The strategic idea is to eat your way through the entire b2-g7 blockade. White eventually runs out of minors ...

Feb-10-10		mysql: I like how black's black bishop keeps going back from e5 to f6 to g7. :o)

Feb-10-10		kurtrichards: I can't say if Mamedov played well in this game but definitely Laylo played bad in this game.

Feb-10-10		Jim Bartle: A couple of superficial musings: White doesn't exchange the dark-squared bishops, even though black's has control all the way down the long diagonal. Then he castles long, even with the g7 bishop pointing right at b2. Then he gives up his dark-squared bishop.

Feb-11-10		KERESOV: Oooops! the Dragon Bishop did it again but it seems GM Darwin Laylo was playing very energetically and I should say original chess until his positional understanding left the best of him when he refused to exchange bishops on move eight or move eleven at least. Castling queenside is fine as long as the long range dark bishop is eliminated first.

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