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Evgeny Tomashevsky vs Parimarjan Negi
Biel Chess Festival (2010), Biel SUI, rd 2, Jul-20
Queen's Gambit Declined: Harrwitz Attack. Main Line (D37)  ·  1-0

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Jul-20-10  zanshin: <78...Qb4> might have held the draw. Good win by Evgeny though.
Jul-20-10  Marmot PFL: I gave up on this one, but white was persistent and finally escaped the checks.
Jul-20-10  frogbert: dunno why, but i assumed white would win, once i saw the ending at the point the bishops were exchanged. there might be some engine-draw of course, but defending these things is terribly hard for a human: if the better side goes wrong somewhere, he often can start over and try something else. if the defending side slips, it usually means game-over.
Jul-20-10  YouRang: For much of this game, Negi (black) is trying to force a draw with repetitive checks. It looks like he should have succeeded too. However, he went astray with a poisoned pawn grab:


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Here, it looks like 78...Qb4+ keeps the draw alive, but he played <78...Qxf2?>, a pleasant surprise for white who now had time to play <79.e7>.

From then on, black's checks fail, as the white king roamed over to the kingside and ate black's remaining pawns, while being pushed along by black's hapless checks.

Jul-21-10  ycbaywtb: long game, tough loss
Jul-22-10  Jason Frost: <zanshin> <YouRang> Don't have an engine, but it looks to me like black won't be able to stop white from transposing his king to either f6 or f7, both of which seem to lead to white's quick victory.
Jul-22-10  zanshin: <Jason Frost> I played the game through with engines (Rybka 4 and Fire 1.3) and in both cases, White won eventually. Negi's pawn grab may have simply hastened his loss, as suggested by <YouRang>. As <frogbert> points out, these positions are very tough to hold OTB.

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