Radoslaw Wojtaszek vs Simon Kim Williams (2011)

Radoslaw Wojtaszek vs Simon Kim Williams
French Team Championships (2011) · Dutch Defense: Classical Variation. General (A96) · 0-1

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Jun-06-11		lopium: White either lose its knight on a8 or its bishop on c1.

Jun-07-11		redcircle: how is it possible for this guy Williams to defeat super-GM's like they are patzers?i don't think that he is particularly strong.this is very suspicious.and i am not referring only to this game..he has also beaten Eljanov and Anrukh

Jun-07-11		polarmis: He seems to have some exceptional opening preparation in some lines (and of course he's also able to play the type of position that results). 12...Qh5!! here is a monster novelty. Plus Wojtaszek has been in terrible form in his last two appearances, losing enough rating points to drop back below 2700 :(

Jun-07-11		lopium: To <redcircle>: as far a I remember, a difference of 200 elo points means the higher elo has a 75% chance of winning over the lower elo rated. 25% isn't so small. Now if you do 3 times in a row you have a (1/4)ł*100 chance of winning. It's more than 1%. How many players are there participating? I don't find this performance quite special or suspicious.

Jun-08-11		redcircle: <lopium> chess is not based in possibilities.as we all know luck is not involved in chess.unless you disagree. as for the games.Williams beat Wojtaszek and Avrukh in a way a GM beats a 2000 patzer. As for the Eljanov game it is also suspicious because he always played the best moves that caused Eljanov a lot of problems and got in time trouble,finally blundering

Jun-08-11		belgradegambit: In the Avrukh game, Black refused a draw by repetition and then simply played poorly. None of Williams moves looked suspicious to me of computer involvement.

Jun-08-11		OrigamiArtist: Best not to let the spectacularly idiotic comments by <redcircle> stimulate discussion. Simon Williams is one of the leading experts in the Dutch defence and this sort of rook sacrifice is right up his street. Though white contributed heavily to his own demise, winning in 20 moves against a 2700 (as black) is very impressive.

Jun-09-11		beenthere240: Though move 8 I kept waiting for white to break with e4. After black got 9...e5 in first, it started to look grim for white.

Jul-14-11		Edwin M: When someone asked who Wojtaszek was playing before the start of this game, he supposedly said he was going to play "some English patzer".

Jul-14-11		Shams: <Edwin M.> Source??

Jul-14-11		Edwin M: How about Simon Williams's own blog for source? http://www.gingergm.com/2011/07/10/... And if you get a kick out of that one you'll get an even bigger kick when you read and listen what happened in his game against Pavel Eljanov.

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