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Apr-21-21
 | | An Englishman: Good Evening: Black might have underestimated the strength of 17.Bg5 before he played 14...e5. The silicon monsters might disagree, but giving White the f5 square looks very bad to the eyes of this carbon-based life form. After 14.Rac1, White has somehow persuaded Black to live with a cramped position as so often happens in Catalan and Neo-Catalan positions. Perhaps Black should have chosen 14...Bd7 and then figured out how to acquire more space. |
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Apr-21-21
| | An Englishman: Good Evening: Should have looked at the database before writing the previous post. Turns out that 8.Nc3 is a quietly dangerous move and 10...cxd4 has a *terrible* record in the DB, but 11...Qc7 doesn't appear there at all. Black might have wanted to improve on current theory. |
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Apr-21-21
 | | Troller: <Casr> Could be that 18..Qd8 is in fact better, counter-intuitive as it is to leave the rook in the corner. 18..Qd8 19.Bxb7? Nd6 20.Qf3 e4 21.Qb3 Rb8 and Black is probably winning. But the simple 18..Qd8 19.Nc3 probably keeps Black in trouble, e.g. 19..Rb8 20.Rd1 Qa5 21.Nd5 and it is difficult to see how Black keeps his position together. |
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Apr-21-21
 | | harrylime: What the hell was/is Alekseenko even doing there ?? lol lol See chess is still corrupt. |
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| Apr-21-21 | | savagerules: Throwback to Botvinnik-Keres in the late forties where Keres throws the game to Botvinnik - or else. Bobby was right in 1962 and he's right today. Hope Alekseenko (whoever the f he is) enjoys his money. |
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| Apr-21-21 | | fabelhaft: <See chess is still corrupt> <Hope Alekseenko (whoever the f he is) enjoys his money> The level of comments one can expect on this site... |
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| Apr-21-21 | | WorstPlayerEver: I assume <chi> means <cheat> in Russian. |
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| Apr-21-21 | | W Westerlund: Some of these comments are so shameful, I am leaving. |
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Apr-21-21
| | harrylime: <<fabelhaft: <See chess is still corrupt>
<Hope Alekseenko (whoever the f he is) enjoys his money> The level of comments one can expect on this site...> >Here's one more for you
Alekseeeenko is a joke. xx |
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Apr-21-21
 | | MissScarlett: <Some of these comments are so shameful, I am leaving.> You'll find solace and respite at The Kibitzer's Café. |
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| Apr-21-21 | | SChesshevsky: Appears a lemon here by Alekseenko. A shame since he had a couple of good games from the restart. Nepo might've been really clever in the opening. Steering toward a Catalan like. Appears Alekseenko doesn't have a lot of experience in defence per cg database. Also black probably wouldn't prepare as don't think serious part of Nepo rep. Get the feeling Kirill never got the feel for how to handle it. Often black LSB needs to be developed to offset monster white Bg2 or exchange it off and hold the diagonal with ...c6 and look for counter elsewhere. Dealt with the sometimes tricky c pawn but without solution for the h1 diagonal. Here felt like he was worse by move 12 and after Nepo gladly exchanged off blacks LSB with pressure on kside plus still having Bg2, it's probably pretty bad. Hoping Alekseenko bounces back next round. |
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| Apr-21-21 | | Olsonist: Kirill, today's not your day. You're going down in the 3rd round against Nepo, capisce? |
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Apr-22-21
| | Troller: Carlsen mentioned that another line had a better rep right now on top level - was it 6..c5 perhaps? Apparently the unusual 8.Nc3 caught Black out. He spent almost ten minutes before playing 8..Be7 which seems suboptimal, at least it scores poorly for Black and engines do not like it either. Good preparation by White and probably Alekseenko's lack of experience on this level made itself felt in this game. |
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| Apr-22-21 | | Ulhumbrus: A few computer evaluations help to suggest that the capture 10...cxd4 gets Black into trouble and although it does give White's king's knight a free move to develop it is a common reply to d4. Two examples of an alternative to 10...cxd4 are 10...Qc7. and 10...Nb6 A few computer evaluations also help to suggest that 18...Qd8 19 Nc3 g6 may give Black a chance to escape in the end although White has the advantage all the same. |
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| Apr-22-21 | | DouglasGomes: The 5... c6 variation seems to be a better way to fight for equality. |
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Apr-22-21
 | | HeMateMe: That black bishop is just a glorified pawn. |
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| May-08-21 | | Andrew Chapman: Why does Black resign? Is it because White wins the black a pawn and then marches his own a pawn? |
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May-15-21
 | | PawnSac: < HeMateMe: That black bishop is just a glorified pawn. > but the problem is black can't save the F pawn and the ending is lost because of the 4 vs 2 pawn majority. Kirill's resignation is right on time. He can only stop the outside passer at the cost of that bishop |
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| May-15-21 | | macer75: <harrylime: <<fabelhaft: <See chess is still corrupt> <Hope Alekseenko (whoever the f he is) enjoys his money>
The level of comments one can expect on this site...>> Here's one more for you
Alekseeeenko is a joke. xx>
OH @#$%!!! What a burn! |
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| Jun-24-21 | | newzild: <<Andrew Chapman>: Why does Black resign? Is it because White wins the black a pawn and then marches his own a pawn?> White will win a second pawn, and Black won't be able to hold the draw even with opposite-coloured bishops. 31...Ke8? 32. Bc6
31...Kd8 32. Qf8+ and capture on f7.
31...Qd6 32. Qxd6+ and 33. Bxf7 |
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| Dec-12-21 | | estrick: After Nepo's horrendous performance in the World Championship match with Carlsen, I started to wonder, "How did he get to be the challenger, anyway?" So, I've been looking at the results from the Candidates' Tournament more closely. Nepo scored 3.5 out of 4 against Alekseenko and Wang Hao, the bottom two finishers in the tournament. He had 2 wins, 2 losses, and 6 draws against the other players in the field.
That's hardly a standout performance.
The tournament was held in Russia. And that gave the host country the right to nominate a wild card entry into the field. Presto! A young, inexperienced Alekseenko, who could be ordered to throw a game to Nepo, in order to help him secure 1st place. Others have pointed out that 8. . . . Be7 has a very bad record in the data base and that the engines don't like that move either. 10. . . . cxd4 is also very bad.
This does smell the same as Keres and Bronstein being ordered to throw games to Botvinnik back in the day. |
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| Dec-12-21 | | estrick: Or how about the time when the Kremlin intervened in the first match between Karpov and Garry Kasparov right when Kasparov was on the verge of winning the match? |
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| Dec-12-21 | | estrick: Between 2011 and 2017 the move 8. . . . Be7 was played seven times. The first time resulted in a 57 move draw.
The next six times that move was played, the player with black pieces lost every game. Then, it seems that the move was retired from Master level play, until Alekseenko resurrected the move four years later. And this game lasted only 31 moves, which is the shortest of any of the eight games where this move was played. Pretty fishy |
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Apr-07-22
| | Troller: <estrick - Pretty fishy> Yup. Almost as fishy as Caruana's results in the Candidates. In 2016 he scored 1½ against his compatriot Nakamura. In 2018 he scored (surprise!) 1½ against his compatriot So. In 2020 he had no one to throw games against him and ended up in the middle of the field. |
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Apr-07-22
 | | perfidious: Will Taylor Kingston write of how Nepo got there cos of the 'help'? Will he use variations supplied by others without attribution to buttress his case? |
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