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Oct-23-10
 | | whiteshark: He will be kneaded vice-like for a time, though |
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Oct-23-10
 | | okba12: Re2 makes sense-allowing for the king to marsh |
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Oct-23-10
| | okba12: now its draw- and i dont like the cowardness of Gshimov |
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Oct-23-10
 | | Bridgeburner: Carlsen looks safe now. |
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Oct-23-10
| | Bridgeburner: ...unless Gashimov is able to force his h-pawn through. It's not over yet and Carlsen still has some defending to do. |
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Oct-23-10
| | Bridgeburner: <Eyal>
What about 59. Ke3 Kf6 60. g3 followed by 61. h4...? |
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Oct-23-10
| | okba12: where r u capablanca?those players of these days r without imagination |
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Oct-23-10
 | | Eyal: <What about 59. Ke3 Kf6 60. g3 followed by 61. h4...?> Looks like the a-pawn gives Black enough counterplay - 60...a5 61.h4 gxh4 62.gxh4 a4 etc. |
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Oct-23-10
 | | moronovich: theres a lot of imagination in todays players but some of the onlookers
stay at the same point as allways.. |
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Oct-23-10
| | Bridgeburner: It would seem <59. Ke3 Kf6 60. g3 a5> saves the day for Black, eg: <61. Ke4 Ke6 62. h4 gxh4 63. gxh4 a4 64. h5 a3 65. h6 a2 66. Rxa2 66. Rxc7>:
click for larger viewand its drawn. |
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Oct-23-10
| | Eyal: Yes, 60...a5; "by the skin of his teeth" indeed... |
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Oct-23-10
| | okba12: no my friend - to study chess for 10 hours a day and then not winning this as whit is just progressing by hard work - no imagination at all-sorry to tell this |
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Oct-23-10
| | moronovich: <okba> Dont be sorry & keep on dreaming . |
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Oct-23-10
 | | pmerrifield1: Is there any reason white cannot not play g4 here |
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Oct-23-10
 | | lost in space: seems draw now, or? |
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Oct-23-10
| | lost in space: Finally a DRAW! |
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Oct-23-10
| | okba12: it was a waist of time to follow those players-sorry to say that |
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Oct-23-10
| | Eyal: A little trap that Carlsen had to avoid after 71.Ke5:
click for larger view71...Rxh7?? 72.Rg1+ Kh5 (72...Kh6 73.Kf6) 73.Kf5 Kh6 74.Kf6 Kh5 75.Rh1+ and Black loses the rook. |
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Oct-23-10
| | whiteshark: Well, Carlsen defended actively and it worked in the end. |
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Oct-23-10
 | | Domdaniel: <meanwhile, aboard the time-ship *Aimless Enterprise* ...> - There's chrono-turbulence in the time stream, Captain, I can feel it in my gut. - You're right, Spocketwatch! It's a <waist of time>! Belt up, everyone, and buckle down! |
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| Oct-25-10 | | sharp position: someone can explain why black didnt play 16...g5 and trapped the bishop? |
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Oct-25-10
 | | Sastre: <Eyal> explained why 16...g5 doesn't work in an above post: <It allows White a strong attack after 17.Nf5! gxh4 18.Nxh6+ Kg7 19.Ng5! Besides, 16.Ng3 was the novelty so it's quite certain that Gashimov was thoroughly prepared for this.> |
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Oct-25-10
| | Eyal: Gashimov was close to winning the endgame here – Giri on chessbase points out <52.Bxd5> Bxd5 53.Rxd5 Kf6 54.c6 Rc7 as White’s best winning chance (“Black's problem here is that he can't just come over with king and take on c6, since after that White will go g3 and h4, creating a second passed pawn. However all of these things depend on tempos... Ah, those rook endgames!”) – that’s clearly better than taking the pawn a move earlier with 51.Bxd5 Bxd5 52.Rxd5 Kf6, where White doesn’t have the c6 push. It seems that 50…Re6 was a sloppy move by Carlsen – with 50…Re7 (or e8) he could counter 51.Rd2 (which threatens c4, by removing the rook from d3 where it will be attacked by dxc4) with Rc7/c8, attacking c5. Later, 58.c7 leads to a forcing drawing sequence in which Black is saved by the counterplay provided by his a-pawn. There were probably better practical chances with 58.Ra2, even though Black should still be able to draw by 58...Rd3! (not the passive 58...Ra8? 59.Ke3) 59.Rxa6 Rc3 and now White can get one of Black’s K-side pawns for the c-pawn, e.g. 60.Ke2 Kf6 61.Kd2 Rc5 62.c7+ Ke7 63.Ra5 Rxc7 64.Rxg5 – leading to a theoretical draw, but one which is not completely trivial in practice to defend for Black (in fact, Carlsen was implicitly offering to enter such an endgame at an earlier stage with 48...Rc4, if Black takes the pawn - 49.Bxd5 Bxd5 50.Raxd5 Rxd5 51.Rxd5 Rxc3 52.Rxg5+ Kf8 53.Ra5 Rc4! 54.Ra4 a5! Liquidating to the same kind of rook endgame with 2 vs. 1 pawns on the same wing). |
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| Oct-29-10 | | checkmateyourmove: To me this was magnus's best game of the tourney, fighting his way back to secure the draw and forcing his opponent to finish him perfectly for 70 moves or suffer a draw. |
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| Jan-07-12 | | Penguincw: Looks like Gashimov was on the attack in this game. |
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