| Mar-23-11 | | Penguincw: What a surprise.Topalov was defeated with white.Topalov has "only" lost with the white pieces 117 times.http://www.chessgames.com/perl/ches... |
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Mar-23-11
 | | Ulhumbrus: Grandmasters Seirawan and de Firmian who were providing a commentary on the official site said that Aronian simply accepted every sacrifice which Topalov offered and then refuted the attack. |
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Mar-23-11
 | | jmboutiere: After 12 moves black has ompletely equalised |
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Mar-23-11
| | jmboutiere: The exchange sacrifice on c3 is correct ,Rybka 3 + 0.09 |
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Mar-23-11
| | jmboutiere: After 18.Qf6 + 1.33
22.f4 +0.00
22.Bf5 Qg7 23.Qe7 Rfe8.24.Qb7 Qf8 25.Qd5 c3 26.Qb3 Rac8 27.h3 Qe7 28.Rc1 Kc5 29.Qc3 Kd7 30.Qc8 + 3.33 |
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Mar-23-11
| | jmboutiere: if 38...Kh5 than 39.h3 + 7.89 because h3 and mate with g4, 38...Kg7 - 0.06 |
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Mar-23-11
| | jmboutiere: 42.Rc5 + 0.00, 42.Rc6 - 0.33
43.Kf3 0.00; 43.f5 - 1.20 |
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Mar-23-11
 | | hedgeh0g: What's wrong with 12...Nxc3? |
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Mar-23-11
 | | Phony Benoni: <hedgeh0g> Very little, as far as I can see. Though Houdybka may reveal the error of my ways, I have to wonder if the moves are reversed in the score, White actually playing 12.0-0 and 13.Ne5. Another possibility is that the players were simply reeling off prepared analysis blindfold, and not analyzing carefully. |
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| Mar-23-11 | | MaxxLange: an impressive game for blindfold!
Topalov resigned, after heroic defense efforts, because the White King is cut off by 2 files, with the pawn far advanced. Having the Rook on the long side of the pawn is not enough to draw this kind of position, if I have my rook ending theory straight. |
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| Mar-23-11 | | MaxxLange: in the game final position
click for larger viewWhite to move is lost
In the position with the King cut off by only one file 
click for larger viewthe tablebases show EIGHT Rook moves that draw for White |
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| Mar-23-11 | | goldenbear: A brilliant game by Topalov! 22.Bf5 just wins easily, and again confirms my opinion that the Ragozin Defense is unreliable at best and possibly just unsound. |
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| Mar-23-11 | | MaxxLange: eh, the Black King prevents ...d3 in the second diagram, confusing the issue. Black would be winning,even with a 1-file cutoff, if his King were better placed. Man, the people who figured this stuff out, before endgame tablebases, were pretty smart |
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| Mar-23-11 | | Davolni: <goldenbear: A brilliant game by Topalov! 22.Bf5 just wins easily, and again confirms my opinion that the Ragozin Defense is unreliable at best and possibly just unsound.> Did you look at the scorecard again? who won and who lost? or perhaps you wanted to say "Brilliant 21 moves by Topalov"??? ;) 22.f5 MAY give some advantage, but it's not a SURE WIN! |
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Mar-24-11
 | | wordfunph: it's over after Levon's 53...Ke4 but Veselin fought up to the end. 0-1 and +2k chessbucks to my account.. |
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| Mar-24-11 | | goldenbear: <Davolni> 22.Bf5 is indeed a win. A brief analysis will show that the d4 pawn is irresistible... |
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Mar-24-11
 | | chancho: <goldenbear> Could you please provide the analysis?
After 22.Bf5 Qg7, how does White win? |
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| Mar-24-11 | | goldenbear: <chancho> The are lots of possibilities, but <jmboutiere> provided the basic analysis above, only instead of his 28.Nc5, my computer thinks 28.Red8 is a much better move for Black, although that still runs into 29.Rxc3 Rxc3 30.Qxc3 f6 31.d5!, with a win for White. |
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Mar-25-11
 | | Hesam7: Very strange game. Topalov gets a big advantage but then he loses all of it. Already after 24. Qd7? Black is better. |
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| Mar-26-11 | | piltdown man: A beautiful game, and a credit to both players.
Do play like this in a normal game would be amazing enough, but blindfold - wow! |
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Apr-08-11
 | | notyetagm: <The Power Play Show 7th April with GM Daniel King> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gosa... |
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