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Magnus Carlsen vs Evgeny Tomashevsky
Tal Memorial (2012)  ·  English Opening: King's English. Four Knights Variation Fianchetto Lines (A29)  ·  1/2-1/2
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Jun-17-12
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  Cemoblanca: It needs some tricky play here & in addition Black must hope that White makes an error during this time: 66...e4! 67.Bd2! c3! (Yes, there are many good & tricky moves) 68.Bxc3 e3! and if 69.Bxf6 then 69...e2! 70.Bc3 Kf8, etc. & Black should hold this position! Well, it looks still tricky, but as I said just before: Black should, but you know on the board that's another story! Very enjoyable endgame, but not an easy task for both!
Jun-17-12
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  OBIT: Dead drawn now. Black can sac his knight for the d-pawn, since White is left with the wrong bishop for the a-pawn.
Jun-17-12  AuN1: hmmm...i think tomashevsky slipped up a little bit. he would have been better served hanging on to the c pawn for a little while longer and brought his king around to prevent white's king from penetrating on the queenside. he is hanging on a precipitous edge here.
Jun-17-12  Tadeucouto: Yes. Now I belive in drew.

Unfornatly ...

Jun-17-12
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  HeMateMe: Only K-d7, right? The only way to stop the pawn.
Jun-17-12  LWCrunner05: Kd7 gets answered with Kb6
Jun-17-12
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  Marmot PFL: Right Kd7 Kb6 Nf6 Kxa6 Kc6
Jun-17-12  arp001: wow! what a game! looks like we are into a draw after all!
Jun-17-12  MindCtrol9: I can say that he is not any good playing endgames.
Jun-17-12
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  Honza Cervenka: Black has to be careful but it's still draw.
Jun-17-12  Skafi: Black will not win at least.
Jun-17-12  MindCtrol9: Black may lose due to lack of plan.White has the edge here.
Jun-17-12
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  Peligroso Patzer: <OBIT: Dead drawn now. Black can sac his knight for the d-pawn, since White is left with the wrong bishop for the a-pawn.>

The one other factor that should be mentioned is that Black <does> (barely) have time to get his King to the a8-corner, since the wrong-colored Bishop only matters when the defending King is able to blockade.

Jun-17-12
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  HeMateMe: Black has to surrender his h pawn to capture white's last two pawns. Draw.
Jun-17-12
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  Ulhumbrus: At this point Black is no longer a pawn ahead. Now instead of having winning chances he has losing chances
Jun-17-12
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  chancho: This is drawn.

Tomashevsky only has to be precise.

Jun-17-12  Papagambit: WHite wins this of course! Nice K side P sacs to continue the initiative with Z themes go Capa!!
Jun-17-12
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  Marmot PFL: This looks harder as he can't afford to make a bad knight move. still seems to draw
Jun-17-12
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  kb2ct:

White has the wrong color biship for the a-pawn.

:0)

Jun-17-12  Tadeucouto: The write is better again.
Jun-17-12
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  Ulhumbrus: 80...Nc5 may be sufficient to draw.
Jun-17-12
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  MrSpock: Game over and draw.
Jun-17-12  Whitehat1963: My extensive analysis with Little Chess Partner indicates that this is a hopeless draw.
Jun-17-12
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  Cemoblanca: Finally, it doesn't happen every day that there are 2 winners in 1 game! That was a very good (end)game! I think it's a draw now!
Jun-17-12
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  HeMateMe: eval is exatly 0.0
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