| Nov-07-10 | | Marmot PFL: Hard to believe that after all the Slav's that Gelfand played he could get into a mess like this. Seems that trading bishops on move 20 was obvious and would have solved many (but not all) of black's problems. In positions like that every trade and tempo counts. |
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Nov-07-10
 | | tamar: Aronian revving up new 2800 engine.
Kramnik, now Gelfand.
More and more Aronian looking like a future WC. |
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Nov-07-10
 | | Peligroso Patzer: Aronian’s <5. Qd3> is decidedly rare (48 prior occurrences in this database) and does not have a good track record (44.8%) : Opening Explorer. But Gelfand’s <5. … Nbd7> was hardly a propitious choice; it scores only around 25% for Black in the CG database:
Opening Explorer. |
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| Nov-07-10 | | TheRavenPK: Can someone please explain me, why not 12..hxg5? I can see just something like 13. Ng6 Qe8 14.Nxf8 Nxf8 15.d5 and perhaps attack on the f7 pawn?? what am I missing? |
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Nov-07-10
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Aronian considers this position at 19:10:34 http://video.russiachess.org/browse... But he does not demonstrate anything against 12...hxg5, accepting 12...Nb6 Probably 13 Nf5 Qe8 14 Nxd6 Qe7 15 Nf5 Qe8 improves White's position without allowing Black to develop. |
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| Nov-07-10 | | whiteshark: Probably <13...Nxc4 14.Bxe7 Bxe7 15.d5 Nxb2 16.Rdb1> is the more critical line here 
click for larger view e.g. <16...Bb4 17.dxc6 Bxc3 18.cxb7 Bxb7 19.Bxb7> 
click for larger view when the position seems to be equal. |
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| Nov-07-10 | | messachess: if 12...hxg5, white takes back the B on d6 with 13.NF5 (and black with fractured pawns.) The final position must be a theoretical win for white. Well, it's all very deep play by Aronian against the very able Gelfand. Maybe the future will be Aronian vs. Carlsen for wc. |
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| Nov-07-10 | | TheRavenPK: <tamar>, <messachess> thanks guys, i am totally blind tonight.. probably time to sleep :) |
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| Nov-07-10 | | Eyal: A truly superb game by Aronian. 12.Nh4 is quite a nasty surprise to meet over the board (in the few previous games in the databases that reached this position, the "automatic" Bxg5 was played). Computers may show several opportunities for Black to improve his play before the position becomes really critical, but the relevant lines tend to be very messy and quite difficult to calculate and evaluate otb – such as the 13...Nxc4 14.Bxe7 Bxe7 15.d5 line, or a move later 14...Be6!15.d5 cxd5 16.Nxd5 Nxd5 17.Bxd5 Bc5! A trade of bishops on move 20, as mentioned by <Marmot>, was perhaps the most "natural" of possible improvements. The white light-square bishop is really a key piece of the game. The unusual 5.Qd3 combined with 6.g3 is a sort of Catalan take on the Semi-Slav (Navara, who among top players revived the 5.Qd3 line in recent years, follows with 6.e4 instead). The power of the bishop becomes abundantly clear on moves 15-16; it’s quite rare to see a "Catalan" bishop offered for an exchange as in 16.Bxd5: 
click for larger viewBut the point is that Black can’t take it: 16...Nxd5? 17.Nxd5 Qd6/d8 18.Ng6! followed by a knight check on e7 if the queen retreats or captures the knight. And moving on to the end of the game, the BOOC ending which features an apparently dramatic pawn race (White’a a-pawn vs. Black’s c-pawn) isn’t really drawish at all: 
click for larger viewThe queening square of White’s passer is supported by the mighty bishop and it cannot be stopped (...Rc7 can be met by Bb7!), whereas after 40.e3! it becomes clear that the black bishop cannot provide a similar support for its pawn, so Black has really got nothing. |
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| Nov-07-10 | | drnooo: what it always beyond me in chess is how
these guys let some organization lead them around: for decent money could be
drummed up for an Anand Carlsen 15 game match or Krammnik ditto with him outside
the auspices of Fide or any other organization |
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| Nov-07-10 | | notyetagm: http://www.thechessmind.net/storage... 16 ?
click for larger view16 ♗g2xd5!
click for larger view<16.Bxd5! Taking advantage of a tactical nuance.> <16...Kh8 <<<[16...Nxd5?? 17.Nxd5 Qd6 18.Ng6!  Black loses serious material here.>>>]> (VAR)
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| Nov-07-10 | | notyetagm: Aronian vs Gelfand, 2010 16 ♗g2xd5!
click for larger viewhttp://www.thechessmind.net/storage... <16.Bxd5! Taking advantage of a tactical nuance. > Aronian is just so strong tactically. |
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| Nov-07-10 | | notyetagm: http://www.chessintranslation.com/2... SHIPOV
<Aronian 1 – 0 Gelfand
The game of the day. Levon demonstrated a creative approach to the game and good form. All of his play, starting with 5. Qd3!?, continuing with the novelty 12. Nh4 and ending with the brilliant paralysing manoeuvre 28. Nb7! was one unbroken song. Boris, clearly, missed important defensive resources right out of the opening. Black’s position already looked miserable after the 16th move. By the process of elimination you have to look at 13…Nxc4!? instead of the automatic capture 13…Qxf6. Analysis shows that after the exchange of queens Black holds, and that’s how you had to play. In the game, meanwhile, White’s powerful pressure in the centre led to a logical victory.> |
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| Nov-08-10 | | Smooth Operator: Ended at move 41... Let me check Aronian- Kramnik game. |
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| Nov-10-10 | | NARC: I think Marcel Duchamp also played Na8 as black, against Stoltz. |
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| Nov-13-10 | | Eyal: <The majority of players at the Tal Memorial have brains that are so clouded (clouded by their preparation work with computers), that the learning process backfires on them. Where does knowledge end and your own play begin? The answer to that question brings us to the conclusion that the difference in the quality of moves made when knowledgeable and those made when “ignorant” is colossal. That’s the problem of contemporary chess, the problem of chess players at the very highest level. The Aronian – Gelfand game. White unleashed the novelty: 12.Nh4. Does it win? No, of course not. But within ten moves, perhaps slightly less, we saw that as excellent, subtle and pure a chess player as Boris Gelfand had a lost position – with a knight on a8 and pieces that you simply couldn’t look at. Within ten moves he had a lost position: how on earth did that happen? It’s the effect of the novelty. I remember Tal’s commentaries and the chess of that time. Of course back then grandmasters also came up against novelties. However, they realised: yes, my opponent could have looked at the position himself or with his second, but that doesn’t yet mean anything. He might have miscalculated, this opponent. Very often – in Tal’s games as well – meeting a novelty he’d think for forty minutes, an hour, as long as necessary – and then either neutralise the novelty, or totally refute it. In other words when you faced a novelty it was unpleasant, but not fatal. Now though, when you come up against the move Nf3-h4, and it’s played very quickly, you realise that it’s not some sort of improvisation, it’s not something that he’s had a hasty look at – you realise that you’re up against some computer work. You’re competing with a computer. And the effect of that painful awareness is four times, five times, or ten times what it was in Tal’s time.> (Gennady Sosonko, quoted by Ilya Odessky - http://www.chessintranslation.com/2...) |
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| Jan-01-11 | | notyetagm: One of my favorite games of 2010. |
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| Jan-01-11 | | notyetagm: Game Collection: RELOAD! Aronian vs Gelfand, 2010 16 Bg2xd5! wins material after 16 ... Nb6xBd5 17 Nc3xNd5 |
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| Jan-17-11 | | notyetagm: This masterpiece is annotated by Aronian himself in the latest edition of <New In Chess magazine, 2010/8>. http://www.newinchess.com/Shop/Prod... |
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