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Ding Liren vs Anish Giri
Sinquefield Cup (2019), St Louis, MO USA, rd 5, Aug-21
Queen's Gambit Declined: Ragozin Defense (D38)  ·  1-0

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Aug-22-19
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  An Englishman: Good Morning: Ding Liren won with a fine pawn sac followed by a mating attack, but 28...Nb3 stands out; was Black really compelled to solve White's pawn structure problems?
Aug-22-19  Steve.Patzer: Would not 33. Nb4 be better?
Aug-22-19  csmath: I am sure Ding calculated that but it really does not make a decisive punch like 33. c5!.

Black plays
33. ... Rb6
and what do you do now?

For one thing 33. c5! makes a passer that black has to deal with because it interferes with his major pieces.

Black is positionally lost with exposed ranks (7,8) but you need that knockout punch and that is 33. c5!

Aug-22-19  goodevans: <Steve.Patzer> 33.Nb4 is a good move. It may even be objectively better than 33.c5.

But <33.c5> is a beautiful, unsettling, challenging move. Quite likely the move that ultimately led to the win.

I find it slightly odd that you should seek to improve on what seems to me the pivotal and most brilliant move of the game.

Aug-24-19  tigreton: Not espectacular, but very instructive. I also like 33. c5, and the manouevre Bb5-a4-b3, it really requires class. In the fourth phase of the game, with only queens and rooks, the weakness of the black king is desicive, Ding invades through the seventh and sixth ranks.
Aug-24-19  mckmac: GM Daniel King is calling this game "a strategic masterpiece".

https://youtu.be/ujb2IgF5jA0

Aug-24-19  tigreton: Ding King 😁
Aug-24-19
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  0ZeR0: On the Saint Louis Chess Club broadcast today Peter Svidler was a guest and said that this is one of the best games of the year so far.
Aug-25-19
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  HeMateMe: why doesn't black play 33...RxP?
Aug-25-19
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  beatgiant: <HeMateMe>
Did you know that you can move the pieces on the display board above, and then click on "Engine" to get an analysis?

But in this case, you don't need an engine to see 33...Rxc5 <34. Nb6>, hitting one rook while threatening to fork the other with 35. Nd7.

Aug-25-19  WorstPlayerEver: Great game.
Aug-30-19  Ulhumbrus: 17...c5?! seems inconsistent with 15...e4 in one way.

With the move 16...e4 Black is playing for a king side attack, perhaps with ...f5-f4.

This suggests that Black will not want White to open files and expose Black's game to a counter-attack.

However with the move 17...c5 Black helps White to open the d file.

What happens then is that White attacks the e4 pawn by dxc5 followed by Rd4 and so hinders the advance ...f4. In addition to this White uses the d file for a victorious counter-attack against Black's king.

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