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May-12-12
 | | Ulhumbrus: White has the superior minor piece but 21...Re2 acquires a rook on the seventh rank |
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May-12-12
 | | kingscrusher: Imbalance alert! Bishop vs Knight. The game has got really exciting now. Can this be made into a winning advantage ... |
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May-12-12
 | | waustad: <crusher>That sounds like your vids. |
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May-12-12
 | | Peligroso Patzer: <Giuoco Piano Man> Nakamura won with an Evans Gambit against Robert Hess in Round 1 of the U. S. Championship on Tuesday. |
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May-12-12
 | | Boomie: <GiuocoPianoMan: <BOOMIE > With my nickname I have to ask. The GM with the Evans Gambit. Are you talking about Kasparov? He played it a few times near the end of his career.> Naka successfully played it in the US Championship. Nakamura vs R Hess, 2012 |
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May-12-12
 | | Jack Kerouac: Two strong knights, opposite colored bishops.Balanced pawns. Draw barring misstep. Oh those 'missteps'. Neal could tell you about those........ |
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May-12-12
| | waustad: That was responding to your previous comment, not the B vs N. |
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May-12-12
| | Boomie: <hms123> Still stepping on my cues, huh? You're too fast for me... |
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May-12-12
 | | Eyal: <Ron> There are quite a few in the later matches as well (though not as much). But people naturally tend to remember the great and dramatic games much more vivdly. |
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May-12-12
 | | Stonehenge: Why not a 13 or a 15 game match, where the challenger gets an extra white. But where the defending champion keeps his title in case of a tie. So no need for rapid and blitz games. |
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May-12-12
| | Jack Kerouac: Draw before 30? |
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May-12-12
 | | hms123: <Boomie> Sorry. I am never sure when someone has headed out for the day. |
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May-12-12
 | | Natalia Pogonina: The classical bishop vs knight confrontation with rooks on board usually favors the side with the bishop. Most ordinary grandmasters would have retreated with the bishop to g6. However, Vishy is not the person to follow standard paths. I am sure he knows what he is doing here. |
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May-12-12
| | Ulhumbrus: White threatens 23 Rd7 if Black does nothing to prevent it eg 22...Rad8 |
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May-12-12
 | | Richard Taylor: As Short (rightly) says Fischer played some great end games winning with the B against the N. Petrosian played some great N ending games! There is even a "Fischer ending" and a "Petrosian ending"! But here the position is open...so the position is certainly not drawish. |
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May-12-12
| | Natalia Pogonina: 21...h5 is a multi-purpose move: secure the knight on f5 and avoid getting problems with the back rank. |
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May-12-12
| | kingscrusher: Is the Knight effective on f5, because it keeps an eye on d4?!. Therefore if black can later prepare b6 to knock the bishop off that diagonal, the knight could later come to d4 maybe. The Knight on f5 perhaps doesn't need any rerouting. Black can just try and prepare b6 at some point and coordinate rooks more now. |
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| May-12-12 | | GiuocoPianoMan: <BOMMIE >THANKS |
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May-12-12
 | | Sneaky: Many years ago, there was a wise man in this land, who could extract an advantage out of a bishop-vs-knight endgame like a prospector extracts golden nuggets from a dry wasteland: Fischer vs Taimanov, 1971. |
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May-12-12
| | Eyal: <The bishop is traditionally stronger than the knight in a battle on two flanks, but to succeed White also needs to create weaknesses in Black's camp... But how? Another promising scenario consists of exchanging at least one pair of rooks, and better two - after which the white king will rush into the centre and, perhaps, outpace the black king. It'll take up a dominant position and then break through on one of the flanks. But for now that's only a pipe-dream> (Shipov) |
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May-12-12
 | | jimrindgen: Would doubling the Rooks, d1 and d2, make sense? |
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May-12-12
| | Ulhumbrus: 22... Rac8 pins potentially White's bishop eg 23 Rd7 Re5 |
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May-12-12
 | | JamesT Kirk: 22..../ Re5 |
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May-12-12
| | Natalia Pogonina: <Sneaky> I was waiting for someone to bring that reference up. :) Classic indeed. My suggestion is 22... ac8. Can anyone find a good plan for White? This is a good training exercise, by the way. |
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| May-12-12 | | reti: Why Gelfand is beating a dead draw? |
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