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May-24-12
 | | technical draw: Engines have shoulders! |
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May-24-12
 | | JenShahade: One constructive plan for White is to hammer on the c5 pawn with a4, Ne4 & Ba3 but Gelfand can hold the balance with ideas like ...Nd5-b4. |
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| May-24-12 | | LIFE Master AJ: (N. Pogonina) BTW, I tremendously enjoyed our game against you a while back ... |
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May-24-12
 | | tarek1: This kind of structure seems ideal for knights. Lots of pawns, blocked doubled pawns, static weaknesses c6,c5,a7. I don't know if it's enough to win, but more pleasant for white, or so I think. |
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May-24-12
 | | talisman: Boris looking nervous...Vishy calm. |
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May-24-12
 | | Natalia Pogonina: There is actually a difference between drawish and equal positions. Some drawish positions are not equal, and some equal positions are not drawish. :) Visually White is slightly better. |
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May-24-12
 | | peyote: Isn't that an Ayn Rand book title? |
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May-24-12
| | JenShahade: On a lower level I think the position is much more pleasant for White. Not sure about the K+P endgame, depends on specifics and if there's an entry point for White's king. |
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May-24-12
 | | karnak64: Should white get his DSB to either a3 or back to c1 soon? Or is there some subtle virtue to its remaining on b2? |
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May-24-12
 | | okba12: is there any engine evaluations or similar games in the past? |
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May-24-12
 | | Sneaky: <Memethecat: <Sneaky: <principle of a "superfluous knight"> My pet name for that is "the knight that ain't going anywhere."> Was wondering what it meant, but Nd2 & the board is its oyster, no?> I can understand your confusion. What my pet name means is, "Go ahead and capture my knight on c4, then you'll find I *still* have a knight on c4." Maybe Dvortskey's terminology is more clear. Or perhaps it's best summed up in the immortal words of Roger Daltrey: "Meet the new boss, just like the old boss." |
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May-24-12
| | technical draw: Darn, I keep thinking that Gelfand has white. |
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May-24-12
| | Natalia Pogonina: <LIFE Master AJ> Thank you. It was an interesting game indeed. |
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May-24-12
 | | Ulhumbrus: With White's QB on f4, his QN on e4 and his rooks on c1 and d1 White could start an attack by c3, apart from being able to play the check Nd6+. This suggests that Bf4 counts as a potential threat on the part of White. |
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May-24-12
 | | Strongest Force: Instead of the routine Rhe8 I would have started pushing that black h-pawn down Vishy's throat. |
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May-24-12
 | | Memethecat: Thanks Jen & Sneaky, would the other Who song 'substitute' also fit the bill? |
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May-24-12
 | | Jack Kerouac: Isn't e5 flouting intentions? |
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May-24-12
| | talisman: a3 then b4? |
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| May-24-12 | | LIFE Master AJ: I teach my students to always evaluate a position in terms of the K+P ending, mentally strip away all of the pieces. (I understand that leave a LOT out ... unfortunately, I don't get to train too many 1600+ players, not where I live.) In that case, if the White King ever got to c4, I think that Black would have problems, of course! (Getting there is not so easy.) |
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May-24-12
| | Ulhumbrus: In one respect the positon seems not to have changed much in the last few moves: Black's pieces have few targets while White's pieces have plenty. Even White's QB may make trouble if it goes to f4. This latter point suggests that the advance of Black's queen side pawns has exposed Black's position to attack. |
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May-24-12
| | peyote: Does Anand use his g-pawn here? Still learning about cramping pawn moves |
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May-24-12
| | tarek1: I don't like ideas like c3,a3 or b4, opening the position for the bishop pair.
Knights shine in blocked structures, bishops in flexible, open structures. Here ithe position is blocked and White should keep it that way IMHO |
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| May-24-12 | | LIFE Master AJ: I think Black is playing for ...Nd5-b6; and a double swap on c4 ... and (then) a fairly easy draw. |
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May-24-12
 | | FSR: Why is it that in the Ruy Lopez Exchange Variation Black almost always plays 4...dxc6, but in the Sicilian Rossolimo Variation if White exchanges Black almost always plays ...bxc6, as here? |
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May-24-12
 | | Richard Taylor: Morozevich isn't the greatest communicator in the world!! |
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