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| May-08-12 | | JustAFish: ... or Hikaru needs paint himself pale lavender and spike his hair like the dancing rook. |
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| May-08-12 | | JustAFish: I think the reasonably long think that Naka went into was because he was examining Bd5. Seems to me like that was the hard to find move. |
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May-08-12
 | | King Sacrificer: Black Queen should stay back. Well played by Nakamura. If Evans gambit is winning, this is good for us. Hope to see another one live. |
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| May-08-12 | | timhortons: gratz naks! |
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| May-08-12 | | JustWon: Robert Hess should givee up chess |
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May-08-12
 | | SteinitzLives: Give these guys credit for playing a fun opening and ezpecilly to Naka for the finishing combination. It's a nice counterweight to Little Alex vs Droog big mean Alex, who is no doubt "singin in the rain". |
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May-08-12
 | | keypusher: <SteinitzLives: Give these guys credit for playing a fun opening and ezpecilly to Naka for the finishing combination.> Agree. Maybe the strange vogue for 5...Bd6 will end. |
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| May-08-12 | | Jambow: Ha ha that was fun an Evans gambit way to go guys. Nice game Nakmura and probably good for his mind as well. |
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May-08-12
| | keypusher: <JustWon: Robert Hess should givee up chess> You should give up living. |
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| May-08-12 | | Jambow: This looks like vintage Nakamura, rook razzle dazzle and he really uncoordinates black's rook and queen while his dance. An unconventional approach to a classical opening. I can hear Spasky now but it looks like Japanese tanks not chess. ;0] |
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May-08-12
 | | haydn20: The effin' Evans Gambit! All those Romantic swashbucklers smiling in Chess Heaven. Maybe 26...Rb5 was a bit more prudent. |
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| May-08-12 | | galdur: Mr. Nakamura evidently comes out very strong from his recent rest period. |
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May-09-12
 | | miamihurricane: Paul Morphy style crush. Hess was totally outclassed. |
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May-09-12
 | | HeMateMe: Is the game header a typo? Should it read "Stonewall" instead of Stone Ware? Or, are there two players named Stone and Ware? I think if GM Ware were to collude with GM Tupper, it could be a bountiful pairing. |
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May-09-12
| | keypusher: <HeMateMe>
No, it's not a typo. Yes, there were two players named Stone and Ware. Pillsbury wowed 'em with this defense at Hastings 1895. M Kemeny vs Pillsbury, 1895 |
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| May-09-12 | | timhortons: 
click for larger view28....Rc7 is something a top 10 player will not miss. it take a strong gm and a less stronger one to produce this kind of game. |
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May-09-12
 | | Ulhumbrus: 5..Bd6 blocks the d pawn
One justification for 6 h4 instead of 6 d4 is that the move 5...Bd6 can be called an example of an opening eccentricity, and an opening eccentricity may give Black a good game in the end, unless White reacts strongly and matches eccentricity with eccentricity. However this justification does not have to be sufficient: Fine says that bad opening play can always be answered by general principles. The move 12...Bxc1 moves the bishop a fifth time to exchange it for an unmoved White queen's bishop. Black has lost therefore no less than five moves for development. White returns some of these five moves soon by the move 14 exd6. This moves the pawn a third time to exchange itself for a d6 pawn moved once. If we take a look at the position after 19...Nc7 we can see that White has a slight lead in development, greater space, the stronger minor piece and central superiority. If other things are equal and if White can make all of his assets count, Black can be expected to lose if White starts an attack now. Nakamura does start an attack by 20 e5 and this looks like a sound attack based upon positional advantage, an attack which will probably win against any defence. With 25 Rdd3 White has developed both of his rooks to the third rank as Morphy or Spassky might do before starting a final attack by means of a sacrifice <timhortons: 28....Rc7 is something a top 10 player will not miss.> On 28...Rc7 29 Bxe6 fxe6 ( 29...Rxe6 30 Rd8+ wins black's queen) 30 Rd8! Qxe4 31 Rxe8 Kf7 21 Rxe4 White has won a pawn. |
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| May-09-12 | | diceman: <timhortons:
28....Rc7 is something a top 10 player will not miss.> To be fair, I dont think Hess had anytime on the clock. |
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| May-09-12 | | AVRO38: This is what I love about Naka, he's one of the few top GMs to understand the soundness of the Evans Gambit and the King's Gambit, and he has the balls to play them. Compare this to the snooze fest of Kramnik-Aronian.
I'd love to see a WC match some day with Naka playing the Evans and King's Gambits while watching his opponent's jaw drop. |
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May-10-12
 | | PinnedPiece: Future Monday puzzle material:
31.?
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| May-10-12 | | izimbra: <28....Rc7 is something a top 10 player will not miss.> <28...Rc7 29.Rg3> and black doesn't have a good defense. |
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| May-10-12 | | Jim Bartle: I don't understand why black had to give up control of d7 by moving the queen away on move 26. |
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| May-11-12 | | Poisonpawns: One of the worst games between two GM`s.4 Bishop moves by black by move 9, Black is in trouble by move 10. This looks like a simul. |
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May-11-12
 | | FSR: How cool! Naka plays the Evans Gambit and Hess responds with the Stone-Ware Defense, which the great Pillsbury used to win Hastings 1895, scoring 2-0 with it. Schiffers vs Pillsbury, 1895 Bird vs Pillsbury, 1895 M Kemeny vs Pillsbury, 1895, cited by <keypusher>, was <not> played at Hastings 1895, even though CG.com claims to the contrary. But see the "scoresheet," which shows that the game was played in Philadelphia. The Stone-Ware didn't fare well here, but gets a 50% score in CG.com's database. Opening Explorer In recent years, it has been successfully played by the likes of Grischuk, Jobava vs Grischuk, 2003, and I. Sokolov, Short vs I Sokolov, 2004. |
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| May-11-12 | | Troller: It was considered refuted in ECO, as White can more or less win a piece in the line 8.Ng5 0-0 9.f4. However, 9..exf4 10.e5 Nxe5! 11.dxe5 Bxe5 is very unclear with Black currently having 4 pawns for the piece:
click for larger viewNote that 12.Qb3 can be met by ..d5!
8.Nbd2 as played by Nakamura might be better and it is in fact recommended by Tim Harding, one of the foremost experts in the Evans the last 20 years. |
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