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Teimour Radjabov vs Vladimir Kramnik
Tal Memorial (2012)  ·  Spanish Game: Berlin Defense (C65)  ·  1/2-1/2
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Jun-09-12
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  waustad: Good choice for the game with two of the leaders.
Jun-09-12
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  whiteshark: One of them will end as winner of the second prize.
Jun-09-12
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  lost in space: One of the two will end as third.
Jun-09-12
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  Strongest Force: It is appropiate that Radja is 4th in world.
Jun-09-12  BadKnight: This is the chosen one of the five games tomorrow.
Jun-09-12  MindCtrol9: Capablanca was great playing simultaneus 13545 games and lost only 172,and having a record of 102 in one of them losing only one to a twelve year old child who later became Champion of the World.
Jun-09-12
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  PinnedPiece: Last year Radjabov's Armenian team came in 7th at the World Team championships.

World Chess Team Championship (2011)/Teimour Radjabov

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Jun-09-12
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  wordfunph: 8 hours to gametime..
Jun-10-12
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  moronovich: 9 virgins for the winner.
Jun-10-12
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  WinKing: These players truly are '10 lords a leaping'...all the way to the finish line.
Jun-10-12
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  ketchuplover: eleventh!
Jun-10-12
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  Marmot PFL: O lets switch and watch Naka play king's gambit :)
Jun-10-12
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  Eyal: Heh... At the live broadcast of the games, on the official site, you can see:

<Nakamura Tomashevsky: 1.e4 e5 2.f4?!> (http://online.russiachess.org/#2012...)

Jun-10-12
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  Eyal: Anyway, Radjabov avoided the Berlin instant endgame with 4.d3. The line they're playing was recently seen in F Caruana vs A Giri, 2012.
Jun-10-12
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  Strongest Force: Naka has fire on the board and in his eyes.
Jun-10-12  MindCtrol9: I bet that Rabjabov is going to put Kramnik in a very uncomfortable position.I'm going to guess,in 20-23 moves.
Jun-10-12
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  Eyal: Btw, the two already played this Berlin 4.d3 line twice in their recent candidates match, but those were blitz games. In both, Radja chose 7.Nbd2.
Jun-10-12
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  whiteshark: Is RuyLopez the new Petrov?
Jun-10-12
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  Eyal: Kramnik has used a similar setup in his recent match vs. Aronian (Aronian vs Kramnik, 2012), though there c6 was played rather than a6.
Jun-10-12
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  Eyal: <Is RuyLopez the new Petrov?>

It is for Kramnik... he switched from the Petrov to the Berlin after experiencing some difficulties with the former in the Tal Memorial of 2010 (lost to Karjakin and nearly lost to Nakamura). But of course, Kramnik is also the one who originally reinstated the Berlin as a major defence for Black in his match vs. Kasparov.

Jun-10-12
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  dakgootje: What's this with young English players and 'horrible time-management'? Howell has a habit of just letting his clock run out and blitzing move 20-40; and looking at the games of yesterday and today, McShane is following the same philosophy :S
Jun-10-12
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  Strongest Force: I have a feeling both players have what they want and that the fans will not get what we want: a win.
Jun-10-12  MindCtrol9: Now is when the game is interesting.If <13.d5> when the LSB that Black has is going to play?White LSB would be block by the <e4> pawn,but has more option to be activated.The <f2 square> is only defended by the White King,but I don't see any real dengerous,yet.
Jun-10-12
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  chancho: <in one of them losing only one to a twelve year old child who later became Champion of the World.>

Botvinnik was 14 years old when he defeated Capablanca in a simul.

Jun-10-12  MindCtrol9: chancho> If I read well,it says 12.
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