| Apr-29-13 | | Ulhumbrus: Everything seems to go wrong for White after he tries to regain the pawn by 11 Ne5. An alternative to 11 Ne5 is 11 Qc2. |
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| Apr-29-13 | | Strongest Force: Turn-about is fair play: man bites Shark! |
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| Apr-29-13 | | bachiller: Hard to believe a superGM loses in such a way. Was Shak sick, maybe? |
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| Apr-29-13 | | Eyal: <Was Shak sick, maybe?> Well, yesterday in the press conference, after his loss to Nakamura, Morozevich said that he's sick - maybe Shak caught the virus. |
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| Apr-29-13 | | SirRuthless: It's called the i got beat by a better player virus. |
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| Apr-29-13 | | fisayo123: <SirRuthless> Mamedyarov vs Nakamura, 2012
Don't be in a hurry to forget this destruction. Naka got lucky against an off-color Shak. End of. |
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| Apr-29-13 | | ajile: It's actually not completely clear that White is outright losing here.
click for larger view Analysis by Rybka 3 32-bit :
1. (-0.92): 1.bxc4 Bxc4 2.Nxb4 Bxe2 3.Nxd5 exd5 4.Bxe2 Nxd2 
click for larger view2.  (-1.69): 1.Rxc4 Bxc4 2.bxc4 Qxc4 3.Rc1 Nc3 4.Bxc3 bxc3 5.gxf5 Rxf5 6.Rxc3 Rg5+ 7.Kf1 Qxc3 8.Qxe6+ Kf8 9.Qxd7 Qa1+ 10.Ke2 Qa2+ 11.Ke3 Qf7 12.Bc6 Line #1 is certainly difficult for White but he probably could have continued the game. (-.97) |
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| Apr-29-13 | | njchess: <Ulhumbrus> I agree. White spends an inordinate amount of time capturing Black's pawns, all the while exposing his pieces to pinning types of attack. In the end, Black trades material for more active pieces. I think even 11. Be2 would have been preferable to the game move. The futility of White's position becomes obvious with 19. e4 when he sacs the pawn for... nothing. Tough game for GM Mamedyarov. Black doesn't do anything particularly special, he just lets White self-destruct. |
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| Apr-29-13 | | SirRuthless: Mamedyarov himself said he could have played on but his position was extremely difficult and he was basically lost. Here is the interview. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXuG... |
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| Apr-29-13 | | Eyal: Position after 18...Qf5:
click for larger viewAs someone (probably with a computer) notes in the background during the press conference, White might still be able to hold here by 19.Nxb4 Bxc4 20.Rxc4 (20.bxc4 Ne5) 20...Rxc4 21.bxc4 Ne5 22.Nc6! (which can also be played if Black goes for Ne5 immediately on move 20) - though, as Nakamura notes, without the help of a computer it looks terrible for White after 22...Nxc6 23.Bxc6 Rd8 24.Qc1 (24.0–0 Qd3 loses the bishop on d2) 24...Qd3: 
click for larger viewAnd here the comp's idea is 25.c5! ("Houdini probably finds some great defence" - Nakamura), which defends against both Ba3 and Rb8 (because after 25...Rb8, 26.Bb5 blocks the b-file while gaining a tempo by attacking the black queen, so that Black doesn't have time for a6). |
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| Apr-29-13 | | master of defence: White shouldn't have resigned yet. As ajile mentioned, 23.bxc4 Bxc4 24.Nxb4 Bxe2 25.Nxd5 exd5 26.Bxe2 Nxd2 27.Rfd1 Bb4 28.Rc2 Nf6 29.Rcxd2 Bxd2 30.Rxd2 and black is just a pawn up. |
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| Apr-29-13 | | 17.Bxg7: Another evidence for Mamedyarov lack of fighting spirit. It is very frequent for him to resign early just because "I was lost and it was difficult to continue". At least 10 times in the last five years you can find examples where Mamedyarov resigned early, just because he felt lost. This is quite unusual at the top level (so in the position Aronian got against Adams yesterday he would have resigned much earlier, when Aronian managed to get a draw). The first I remember is this: Mamedyarov vs Carlsen, 2008
where several people, including well known chess commentators considered that he resigned prematurely. But they didn't imagine that this is actually quite common for him. |
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| Apr-29-13 | | Eyal: <It's actually not completely clear that White is outright losing here [...] Line #1 is certainly difficult for White but he probably could have continued the game. (-.97)> From what I can understand of Mamedyarov's English, he's saying near the end of the press conference (at about 10:40) that he mistakenly thought Black is left with three (rather than two) pieces for the rook, after all the exchanges following 22...Rxc4. |
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| Apr-29-13 | | Skakalec: I always play 6. Na2 here. Is that a mistake? |
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| Apr-29-13 | | cormier: if 23.bxc4:
click for larger viewAnalysis:
1.  (-0.80): 23...Bxc4 24.Nxb4 Bxe2 25.Nxd5 exd5 26.Bxe2 Nxd2 27.Rc7 Rd8 28.Bb5 Bd6 29.Rxd7 Bxh2+ 30.Kxh2 Nxf1+ 31.Kg2 Rxd7 32.Bxd7 Nd2 33.Bxf5 Kf7 34.f4 g6 35.Bc2 Kf6 36.Kf2 Nc4 37.g5+ Ke6 38.Kf3 Nd6 39.Ke3 Nf5+ 40.Kd3 Kd6 41.a5 Kc5 42.Bd1 |
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| Apr-29-13 | | mike1: well, lost not not, white is pretty bad (and his play since move 1 was as well!). Nakamura gets the points thrown at him! |
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| Apr-29-13 | | Just Another Master: Nice win by Naka, he is improving imho. However I can see why Shak is not invited to many super strong tournaments, he never sits at the board when its not his move and gives up like Happy Hour is ending...a Short game from Gilbrater I remember him being destroyed in like 20 moves getting his queen trapped and he spent 10 minutes at the board and on the last move returned just to resign. Strange fellow. |
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| Apr-29-13 | | bamaexpert: Well, yesterday in the press conference, after his loss to ♘akamura, Morozevich said that he's sick - maybe Shak caught the virus.
It's a well known fact that no healthy man has ever lost a game of chess. |
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| Apr-30-13 | | Eyal: <From what I can understand of Mamedyarov's English, he's saying near the end of the press conference (at about 10:40) that he mistakenly thought Black is left with three (rather than two) pieces for the rook, after all the exchanges following 22...Rxc4.> That's also what the round report says - <It was still not necessary to resign after 22…Rc4, even the position was still much better for Black but Azeri player miscalculated the variation and thought he would end up in the position with rook against 3 pieces.> (http://zug2013.fide.com/en/componen...). |
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| Apr-30-13 | | Eyal: <I always play 6. Na2 here. Is that a mistake?> I'm not sure if this comment is facetious or not, but Na2 - as well as Ne4 or Nb1 - is quite common here, and it's hard to believe it's worse than Nce2, which looks quite suspect; this knight maneuver to g3 seems to make more sense when White plays 4.e4 rather than e3. Mamedyarov did score a crushing win with 6.Nce2 in Mamedyarov vs S Brunello, 2011, but of course the opposition was much weaker - it's quite instructive, actually, to see how much better Nakamura handles the opening than Brunello did there. |
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| Apr-30-13 | | intuitivesac: Great finish by Naka. All his pieces are poised to enter the fray after Rxc4. |
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Jun-30-13
 | | perfidious: <bamaexpert:....It's a well known fact that no healthy man has ever lost a game of chess.> Quite true. |
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