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Apr-27-10
 | | Meatwad: <Nigel Short> To play devil's advocate - is it prophylaxis against play for Black on the c-file? Like ...Bc5? Seems to make life awkward at any rate. |
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Apr-27-10
 | | autolycus: The point about the Rc1 is good. So the logic would be, to use that rook, move the Nc3 and Bc4 elsewhere. I suppose Bc4 at b3 is OK, but the Nc3 even after Nd1-e3 has limited scope. |
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| Apr-27-10 | | chessic eric: 17.h5 does throw a wrench in the plan below. |
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Apr-27-10
 | | Robin01: Perhaps the rook on c1 is stopping (or at least helping to prevent) black from castling queenside. |
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Apr-27-10
 | | Richard Taylor: Rd1 meant that Bd6 was impossible. |
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| Apr-27-10 | | Papagambit: ok Vishy chose my move, not boring Vaseline to death gonna play position not comfortable to Toppy and out position him. Probable draw, butwe'll see... |
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Apr-27-10
 | | Boomie: <Nigel Short: Do you get my point about 14.Rc1?> Yeah. After a5, you'd probably rather have the rook on b1 to push the b-pawn. |
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Apr-27-10
 | | OneArmedScissor: <Nigel Short: Do you get my point about 14.Rc1? I know it is the sort of move one is supposed to play (rook on the open file blah,blah,blah) but what actually is it doing there?> It's sitting there motionless, like every other piece on the board. |
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Apr-27-10
 | | Eyal: <18.a5 now it's getting more "interesting" since White has got the a4 square for his Knight, but his "a" pawn may become weak and exposed to ...Bb4> (Bauer on chessdom) |
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| Apr-27-10 | | mack: Oh look --- Topalov's lobbing his rook pawns down the board in a position that may not necessarily call for it, again. I bet he's a disappointingly quick lover. |
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| Apr-27-10 | | chessic eric: I didn't think a5 was likely due to ...Bb4 - how does white reply? Bb6?! |
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Apr-27-10
 | | twinlark: <Grandmaster Short> <what actually is it doing there?> Would it have better to redeployed his minor pieces, perhaps developed his king to the second rank, and awaited developments to decide which file to locate the a-rook? |
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Apr-27-10
 | | Ulhumbrus: Black can't dispute the c file or the d file as long as his King's Rook is tied to the defence of the g7 pawn. The move ...f6 frees the R but leaves the e6 pawn en prise. This suggests 18...Ke7 preparing....f6 freeing the R on g8. The moves h5 and a5 carry some risk as the pawns may become targets. |
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Apr-27-10
 | | albertfrank: < Albertan: Do you people watching want this analysis or not?> No thanks. We are watching a chess game played by humans. |
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Apr-27-10
 | | mcguigan97: Topalov's last two moves are minor inaccuracies, as was Ke2. If he keeps this up it's going to look like game 2... |
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Apr-27-10
 | | Nigel Short: Enough of this position. Let's ask some important questions instead. Where is Natalia today? Her appearance normally perks me up a bit :) |
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Apr-27-10
 | | hedgeh0g: <Nigel> You do realise that if the game ends up being decisive, you'll catch a lot of flak here for not calling it correctly, don't you? |
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Apr-27-10
 | | agb2002: Anand can improve the position of his knight with 18... Ne5 19.Ba2 Nc6 |
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Apr-27-10
 | | tamar: Get the point about 14 Rc1, although hard to see the move as bad. What are the chances of White playing g4 and just playing for an endgame against the h7 bishop? |
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Apr-27-10
| | Nigel Short: Oh I like that! 14.Rc1 with the idea of 18.a5! Would the rook not have been better on a1 in that case? |
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| Apr-27-10 | | aragorn69: Who says Nigel doesn't like the <flak> ?? |
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Apr-27-10
 | | achieve: <Nigel Short: Do you get my point about 14.Rc1?> Not quite, yet, except thatit didn't "perk you up" sufficiently ;) |
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Apr-27-10
| | Nigel Short: <tamar? ok, but the h7 bishop is far from dead. See the game Kramnik-Short from the DVD "Nigel Short: Greatest Hits (volume 1)" :) |
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Apr-27-10
| | twinlark: If 18...Bb4 then 19. Ra1... |
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Apr-27-10
| | Robin01: I assume a5 perhaps is to clear the a4 square for the knight. |
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