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| Nov-11-10 | | madlydeeply: okay how about BXP |
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| Nov-11-10 | | kirchhoff: <tpstar> looks like it. |
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| Nov-11-10 | | Gregor Samsa Mendel: Wow, I went to unload the dishwasher and all of a sudden white has this monster pawn on h7... |
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| Nov-11-10 | | kirchhoff: I don't see how black can hold this. |
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| Nov-11-10 | | Marmot PFL: Bd4 looks nice, but is useless. Nothing for it to attack, and cut off by it own pawns from defending. |
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| Nov-11-10 | | brucejavier: That bishop on d4 looks like a pawn!! |
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| Nov-11-10 | | crafty: 46. ♔f5 ♗b2 47. ♗g7 ♔e7 48. f4 ♗d4 49. ♗f6+  (eval 3.00; depth 14 ply; 150M nodes) |
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| Nov-11-10 | | Marmot PFL: Now its zugzqzng. The N and QB can't move, if the K moves Ke6, and if the KB moves either Bxe5 or f4. |
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Nov-11-10
 | | tpstar: I thought Black was intending 45 ... Bg6 46. Bg8 Bxh7!? giving the piece back for the passed Pawn. Now with the Knight on g6, White can play 46. Bd8 picking off the Pb6 (46 ... Kc6?? 47. Bb5+) while the Ph7 is untouchable. |
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| Nov-11-10 | | SCUBA diver: This is an amazing position. Black is a piece up but cannot do anything. White's next move is Bc8. |
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| Nov-11-10 | | Marmot PFL: My prediction is black resigns. |
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| Nov-11-10 | | Eyal: <I thought Black was intending 45 ... Bg6 46. Bg8 Bxh7!? giving the piece back for the passed Pawn.> It wouldn't have helped - White plays 47.Kg5 followed by Kh6 (or, in case of 47...Be3+, Kf6-g7) trapping Black's LSB. Funny how Black's bishops are completely helpless here. |
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| Nov-11-10 | | Ulhumbrus: The move 34...a5 devalues Black's Queen side majority. By contrast, The moves 35 g4 and 37 h5 don't devalue White's King side pawns to an extent which matters nearly as much, because on the King side White has a potential threat of an inspired sacrifice, following the moves 36 Ne6 and 38 g5. For in reply to the capture 38...hxg5 White has the Knight sacrifice 39 Nxg7!! and in reply to 39...Ng7 40 h6, after which in order to stop the h pawn Black has to end up losing his g5 pawn, his N and his e5 pawn as well. |
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Nov-11-10
 | | tamar: Beautiful conception from Shak with g5, taking into account check and Ng6 even. Unfortunately, before he could explain when he saw the idea, the broadcast went off the air. |
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| Nov-11-10 | | Ulhumbrus: <malthrope: <Ulhumbrus> - I left you a kind response to yours in the previous game broadcast live here 'Gelfand-Kramnik' which is still on page 1 of the kibitzes as of this posting. :)
Link: Gelfand vs Kramnik, 2010
Regards, - Mal>
I have seen the section referred to. |
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| Nov-11-10 | | Kwesi: This guy really likes 4.Qc2 |
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Nov-11-10
 | | HeMateMe: Did black just blow the endgame? It seems like a symetrical, drawish position after 35 moves. |
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| Nov-11-10 | | Kwesi: Black was effectively a piece down, the Bd4 had no way of coming back to defend. |
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Nov-11-10
 | | Jimfromprovidence: I thought that 47 Bxe5+ was going to come before h8Q, seeing 47 Ke7 48 Bf6+ Kf8 49 e5!
click for larger viewIt seems like this line is more of a knockout blow than the text. Black's position is a nightmare. The black king has no legal moves and the bishop on e8 can not go anywhere. Finally, the knight can't take the advancing e pawn because of the threat of h8Q#. The overall threat is e6 then e7+ and it does not look like it's possible to stop it. |
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| Nov-11-10 | | Eyal: <Did black just blow the endgame? It seems like a symetrical, drawish position after 35 moves.> Moves 34-35 may be exactly where Black blows it - with 34...a5 he nullifies his own Q-side majority, leaving White completely free to operate on the K-side, and then with 35...Kd7 he seems to be oblivious to White's plans - he should have tried 35...Ne8 36.Nd5+ (36.Ne6 Bd7) 36...Bxd5 37.Bxd5, where with White's bishop pair and advancing pawns on the K-side it's probably going to be grim defense, but maybe he can hold it. And the very last chance was 36...h5. Once White gets to play 37.h5, it's a forced win. The Nxg7-h6 tactics is a common trick in knight endgames to queen an outside pawn, though here the winning process becomes more elaborate since Black has the temporary resource of the check on f4, gaining a tempo on the way to g6 (42.Bxf4?? exf4 and the bishop on d4 suddenly defends the queening square). |
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| Nov-11-10 | | polarmis: Shipov agrees: http://www.chessintranslation.com/2... <Clearly poor were 34…a5? (more accurate is 34…Bc3, for example 35. g4 Ne8 and not 36. Ne6? in view of 36…Bd7), and also 35…Kd7? (35…Ne8! was much more stubborn). That’s how in only two moves an almost equal position turned into a hopeless one. With the bold, but essentially elementary blow 39. Nxg7! Mamedyarov broke through his opponent’s defences and deservedly won.> |
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| Nov-12-10 | | NARC: I don't recall a slav with e5 push against king side fianschetto
succeeding for a long while. Are there any game collections with
the e6-e5 theme working out when white has a bishop on g2? |
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| Nov-12-10 | | splatty: 39.Nxg7 wow, amazing long range move |
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| Nov-12-10 | | Bdellovibrio: So <this> is where all of Leko's technique has been going! |
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Nov-15-10
 | | perfidious: For all the criticism of Black's play in this slightly inferior ending, it serves as an object example of how difficult it is to defend such positions from a psychological point of view, in the knowledge that one will gain no more than a draw, at even the very highest level of play. |
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