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Jan-10-15
 | | chancho: Looks like a draw in the offing... |
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| Jan-10-15 | | varishnakov: After 19...Ke7, I black has isolated e pawn, but bishop for knight and queenside pawn majority. To me, I think black's position is preferable. |
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Jan-10-15
 | | Penguincw: You know the position is dead equal when the computer doesn't even give either side a centipawn advantage. Ooh. 20.Nd5+. Maybe the rooks aren't coming off the board quite yet... |
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Jan-10-15
 | | keypusher: But the minor pieces are. Any anti-draw rules in effect in this tournament? |
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Jan-10-15
| | chancho: Saric Aronian, drawn. |
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Jan-10-15
| | Penguincw: It's a dead drawn endgame, but let's see if Carlsen can use his technique to turn this into a win. (or come close). |
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Jan-10-15
 | | plang: I doubt he will try to hard here |
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Jan-10-15
| | Penguincw: And the rooks are gone! It's down to a king and pawn endgame. |
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Jan-10-15
 | | WannaBe: Computer eval is 0.00002, white is winning. |
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Jan-10-15
| | WannaBe: Wonder if CG.com is willing to give us Wesley's game, once this is over. He's got a really interesting positional game. |
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| Jan-10-15 | | kellmano: Who is this musician dude? He is quite good at chess. Normally 'celebrity' chess players just suck. |
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| Jan-10-15 | | kellmano: I'd bloody hate to have this position. So much counting required. |
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Jan-10-15
| | plang: I was more confident of the draw with the rooks on - king endings can be tricky |
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Jan-10-15
| | WannaBe: <kellmano> No worries, we have Bill Gates and Kim Kardashian tomorrow as guest commentator. |
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Jan-10-15
 | | Stonehenge: I think it's Robert Ris now commenting with Seirawan. |
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Jan-10-15
| | chancho: Draw official. |
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Jan-10-15
| | Penguincw: What game to switch to...
Most would say So-Wojtaszek, although all of the games seem equal to me. :) |
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Jan-10-15
| | chancho: Make it So! |
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Jan-10-15
| | keypusher: I would vote for Caruana, but I've got to run in a moment anyway. |
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| Jan-10-15 | | beenthere240: World class chess at its best! |
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| Jan-10-15 | | Ulhumbrus: 9 c5? looks like a mistaken attack and ends up conceding the bishop pair or superior minor piece to Black After 16 0-0 Black exchanges queens and keeps the superior minor piece. 16 Qe2 seems necessary. |
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| Jan-10-15 | | 1d410: What a boring game. Preferred watching Caruana's this round. |
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| Jan-10-15 | | Pedro Fernandez: A clear draw before 1.d4. The right way, IMO. |
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| Jan-11-15 | | 1971: <Pedro Fernandez: A clear draw before 1.d4. The right way, IMO.> I would say chess is a forced win for white before saying its a forced draw as the game is never perfectly symetrical since White's tempo creates the first imbalance. Anyway, 9. c5 looks like a bailout move by someone out of his prep. Giri would much rather Carlsen smile at him and shake hands and be friends then to actually get in a real fight. I think Black could even draw by shuffling his Rook along the 7th rank if he doesn't want to calculate the K+P endgame. |
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| Jan-11-15 | | whiteshark: Post-morten analysis:
with Giri + Seirawan (and a Dutch musician/chess fan): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byD3... by GM Jan Gustafsson: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wA4D... |
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