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| Feb-25-13 | | DcGentle: The quality of these encounters is high, but will we see a single win nevertheless? Must be possible! :-) |
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| Feb-25-13 | | fgh: <AylerKupp: Another dull and drawish Benoni. Sigh.> Another mindless post. |
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Feb-25-13
 | | Check It Out: <fgh>, I think <AylerKupp> may have had tongue firmly implanted in cheek when he made that comment. |
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Feb-25-13
 | | AylerKupp: <fgh> Obviously sarcasm escapes you. |
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| Feb-25-13 | | morfishine: Not 51...Bxb2 but 51...c3
Oh well |
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| Feb-25-13 | | Eyal: [Posted earlier during Anand-Gelfand] <AylerKupp: <darshandatta> It looked that way after Kramnik's 24...Qxb6 with a Houdini 3 eval of [+0.72]. But after Caruana's 25.Be4 Houdini 3's eval is now only [+0.14]. I don't know why.> Position after 24...Qxb6:
click for larger viewThe eval was so high for White here because of <25.Rea1!>; it looks indeed a bit mysterious, but I think I've figured out why. It doesn't have much to do with pressure on the a-file or anything obvious like that, but rather with a very concrete ("computerish") tactical point. With the rook on a1 rather than e1, the sequence played by Kramnik in the game in response to Be4 wouldn't work, since after <...Bxe4 Nxe4 Ng6> White has the winning <Nc4>. This wouldn't work in the game, since Black has the saving - even winning - <...Qb3>, forking the knight on c4 and the <undefended> rook on a2. So it appears that 25.Rea1 is strong as preparation for Be4, which is considered as very good under the right circumstances... |
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| Feb-25-13 | | BadKnight: nice post, Eyal, as always! |
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Feb-25-13
| | AylerKupp: <morfishine> But if 51...c3 then 42.bxc3 and either the rook or the bishop goes. If 42...Rb1 43.cxd4 Rg1+ 44.Kh2 and there is no mate. I looked at other ...c3 possibilities during the game and Black was always one tempo short. Sorry. |
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| Feb-25-13 | | ajile: The fianchetto line against the Benoni seems a bit tame and Kramnik shows one reason why. |
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| Feb-25-13 | | Eyal: Well, Kramnik actually got into quite a difficult position out of the opening and was saved by tactics (which is typical of the Benoni, really). Btw: <Ezzy: Kramnik's only played the Benoni once before, against Leko in the 2004 World Championship Match! That was a draw.> I think Morozevich vs Kramnik, 2007 also qualifies as a Benoni, even though it started as an English and e3 by White is quite unusual. This was the only classical game Kramnik lost during 2007... ("Kramnik was lured into the swampy terrain of Morozania and slowly sank into the marsh" - Mig Greengard) |
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Feb-25-13
 | | chessgames.com: Thanks to everybody for stopping by and participating today. Please note that tomorrow is a rest day; the tournament will continue on Wednesday, March 27, 9:00am (USA/Eastern). Thanks and hope to see you then! |
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| Feb-25-13 | | DaringSpeculator: <chessgames.com: Thanks to everybody for stopping by and participating today. Please note that tomorrow is a rest day; the tournament will continue on Wednesday, March 27, 9:00am (USA/Eastern). Thanks and hope to see you then!> They must be playing on Mercury or some similar planet! |
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Feb-25-13
| | AylerKupp: <DaringSpeculator> Probably the moon, specifically the Earth's moon. With a slow rotation rate around its axis such that one of its days equals 28 of ours, "tomorrow" on the moon would make it just about right. And I apologize for another mindless post. |
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| Feb-25-13 | | DrChopper: Why not 44.Ke6? |
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| Feb-25-13 | | Hesam7: <Eyal> yes during the live transmission everyone got excited but I remembered the game against Morozovich, combine that with Kramnik's score against Caruana and I was pretty pessimistic about his chances in the game. Although the fianchetto Benoni is one of the few openings where I actually prefer Black to White. Another (although quite old) Kramnik loss in Benoni (it starts off as KID): Ivanchuk vs Kramnik, 1996 |
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| Feb-25-13 | | Tiggler: <AylerKupp>:<And I apologize for another mindless post.> I was taught never to apologize unless truly contrite and resolved never to do it again. Not the case, I hope? |
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| Feb-25-13 | | Eyal: Btw, for those who missed it - during the game Kasparov joined the live commentators (Hug & Pelletier) at Zurich and discussed the position with them for about 15 minutes - the video is on http://new.livestream.com/ZurichChe..., second from the top. It was after Kramnik played 41...Rb8 - the first thing Kasparov said was that he didn't like Kramnik's move, and straight away he started to look at lines involving the idea of Nd3 for Black:-) |
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| Feb-25-13 | | Marmot PFL: Kasparov looks so old and gray, while I, although older than Kasparov, have hardly changed (except for needing glasses). Some things just defy easy explanations. |
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| Feb-25-13 | | Tiggler: <Marmot PFL: Kasparov looks so old and gray, while I, although older than Kasparov... > It's not the years, it's the mileage. |
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| Feb-25-13 | | Hesam7: The Kasparov video made me laugh, the way he leans back shakes his head as a sign of disapproval makes for a Russian adaptation of Robert De Niro. |
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Feb-26-13
 | | HeMateMe: Kasparov and olympic diver greg Lougannis--separated at birth? |
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| Feb-26-13 | | beenthere240: I agree with AylerKupp, that Caruana-Kramnik was an amazing game and merits multiple replays. |
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| Feb-26-13 | | csmath: Interesting that yet again Caruana almost got Kramnik. There is something very unpleasant in chess Fabiano plays, I mean it in good way. He is very difficult opponent because he is very good in sensing danger, just like Kramnik. It is almost as Kramnik is facing himself in a younger version. :-) |
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Feb-27-13
| | AylerKupp: <Tiggler> Fear not. I apologize for giving the wrong impression. ;-) |
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| Mar-01-13 | | ajile: <AylerKupp: <fgh> Obviously sarcasm escapes you.> Obviously he doesn't know you are a big fan of the Benster. |
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