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Vladimir Kramnik vs Boris Gelfand
20th Amber Tournament (Blindfold) (2011) (blindfold), Monaco MNC, rd 5, Mar-17
Slav Defense: General (D10)  ·  0-1

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Mar-17-11  Xeroxx: The boring slav exchange strikes again.
Mar-17-11  TheRavenPK: Why 19.Kd1? I would definitely play Bd3 or Be2 with 0-0 and safe position and two rooks against queen..
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  Sastre: <TheRavenPK: Why 19.Kd1? I would definitely play Bd3 or Be2 with 0-0 and safe position and two rooks against queen..> After 19.Bd3 or 19.Be2 Black can win a piece with 19...Rxb6. 19.Kd1 was played to protect the rook on c1.
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  Penguincw: I thought Kramnik was better at blindfold than this.If this was chess at classical time controls with the players seeing the board,Kramnik better not make this mistake.
Mar-17-11  hedgeh0g: Kramnik must have intended the queen sac. No way a Slav player of his calibre would blunder his queen after 10 moves. I think he simply missed the idea of returning material to get at the king.
Mar-18-11  TheoNov: <Xeroxx: The boring slav exchange strikes again.> A Q for R+B trade on move 10 is boring?

<hedgeh0g: Kramnik must have intended the queen sac.> Absolutely. This is a quite playable for White, with roughtly equal chances, but it's an odd strategy for a blindfold game. You would think Kramnik had prepared deeply before playing this, but then he messes up a few moves later with 17.bxc5?, which is probably the losing move.


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Correct was 17.Nxc5 Rxb4 18.Nxa6 Qb7 19.Nc5 Qb6 20.Bd3 Ne4 21.Ncd7 Qb7 22.O-O where Black has a slight edge. [Houdini]


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I don't get it. What did Kramnik achieve with this?

Mar-18-11  Ulhumbrus: An alternative to 15 b4 is 15 b3 so that on 15...Nb7 White can keep the bishop pair by 16 Ba3.

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