Baadur Jobava vs Fabiano Caruana (2014)

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Baadur Jobava vs Fabiano Caruana
FIDE Grand Prix Tashkent (2014), Tashkent UZB, rd 2, Oct-22
King Pawn Game: Tayler Opening. Inverted Hanham (C44) · 1/2-1/2

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Oct-22-14		MarkFinan: Even for the two rooks, because that pawn of blacks isn't going anywhere.

Oct-22-14		chancho: Rdg5+ loses both Rooks. Black King and Queen cover the g5 square.

Oct-22-14		LucB: <MarkF> I wouldn't move the K then; I'd take with the Q on g5.

Oct-22-14		whiteshark: SF had <44. ... Rh1 45. Rg5+ Qxg5 46. Rxg5+ Kxg5 47. Kg3 Rf1 48. Bc5 Kf6 49. Bf2 Ke5> as winning line

Oct-22-14		MarkFinan: Rdgf5+ QxR RxQ kxR Be3+ kf5 kg3 .. Looks like a draw to me.

Oct-22-14		mike1: 52. Be7 should draw as Rhg5+ and Rh5+ cannot be avoided

Oct-22-14		Zappa XP: Joba has to blunder and then Fab can win. He's still holding but a blunder is just one move away! (don't forget that!). LoL ;)

Oct-22-14		MarkFinan: Surely Rh6+ is winning for white now?

Oct-22-14		MarkFinan: I can't analyse an on going game but I'm fairly sure that 53. Rh6+ was winning for white. You get the queen for the rook and bishop and stop black from promoting the pawn, plus white had 2 pawns.

Oct-22-14		US255: Seems like a draw to me. Black either checks or puts his Q on c1. An exchange of Q for R and B on h6 would leave a drawn R+P ending with Black's R supporting the passed e pawn.

Oct-22-14		MarkFinan: Qc1 or d2 and white has Rh6+ again! I think black has blown it.

Oct-22-14		LucB: Draw agreed.

Oct-22-14		chancho: ☻☻☻☻☻☻

Oct-22-14		MarkFinan: So Bh6 led to a draw. I was half right, just like I am at the bookies everytime I bet, lol. Be interesting to see what stockfish makes of this game from around move 45.

Oct-22-14		MarkFinan: click for larger view The tiniest of edges for black if e3 was played here, but Ra6 and the eval goes 0.00 at a depth of 100 plys.

Oct-22-14		HeMateMe: quite a game, from a marauding Queen, doubled rooks, down to a dry Rook-pawn endgame. Both sides had a minefield of blunders to avoid.

Oct-22-14		waustad: I don't recall seeing a Philidor reversed by players rated this high before.

Oct-22-14		whiteshark: <waustad> Pls check my post/link on pg 1 for <Jobava - Svidler> game. ;)

Oct-22-14		plang: At the Russian Team Championships this year Jobava defeated both Svidler and Kamsky with 3 Be2 - Caruana could not have been surprised by the opening

Oct-22-14		waustad: <whiteshark> Thanks. I've seen Eva Moser play a Hanham reversed, but she plays it as black too and has her own notions about openings. I like seeing players who play something other than whatever is in style at the moment. Rapport is fun too.

Oct-22-14		Gypsy: Entertaining ♕ vs ♖+♗ fight.

Oct-24-14		haydn20: I thought this used to be called Ponziani's opening. In any case Opening Ex has 7. Qa5 as an innovation. If this is a prepared line, it seems strange that White played 9. 0-0?! as only 9. b5! makes sense of the previous two moves: maybe it was an unwitting transposition. I couldn't really tell where Black went astray--it seemed White kept finding the only move to keep the game alive. I didn't like 40...e4?! as maybe 40...Qe2 was better. In any case, it was big fun to play thru.

Oct-24-14		perfidious: <haydn20> The Ponziani is 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.c3.

Oct-24-14		coolconundrum: Looks like a reverse Philidor to me.

Oct-24-14		perfidious: Round about 1980, I played some OTB events with Keith Rex Hayward and we had at least one game which featured this Reversed Hanham, though Hayward opened 1.c3, following up with d3, Nd2, Qc2 Ngf3 and e4 in one order of moves or another.

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