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Kirill Alekseenko vs Ding Liren
World Championship Candidates (2020/21), Yekaterinburg RUS, rd 13, Apr-26
Italian Game: Classical Variation. Giuoco Pianissimo (C53)  ·  0-1

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Apr-26-21  Steve.Patzer: Alekseenko was winning against Ding until move 46 when he should have moved Bb2.
Apr-26-21
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  An Englishman: Good Morning: The pawn sacrifice gave Black a surprising (to me) amount of "annoyance compensation," for lack of a better term, and perhaps White should have taken the perpetual on move 38. But 38...a3 simply looks like a blunder, albeit one that induced a bigger blunder by White.
Apr-26-21  Steve.Patzer: I meant move 47
Apr-26-21  Brenin: <Steve.Patzer>'s suggestion of 47 Bb2 initially looks like a blunder, as it seems that Black can win White's N with 47 ... c5. However, White can free himself with 48 Nf3, e.g. 48 ... Rxd3 49 Qxe5 Qxe5 50 Nxe5, or 48 ... Bxc3 49 Rxd8+ Kh7 50 Ng5+ and 51 Nxe4.
Apr-27-21  fabelhaft: Now if Alekseenko had played 47. Bc5 against Nepo we would never hear the end of it.
Apr-27-21
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  perfidious: The catcalls of 'collusion!' would be deafening, to put it mildly.
Apr-27-21  WorstPlayerEver: Dean Rigger
Mar-02-22
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  PawnSac: Ding and Kirill have squared off 6 times. Ding faired better:

4 rapid games.. +2 =2
[two rapid wins suggest Ding’s instincts are slightly better.. or were at the time].

2 classical games.. +1 =1
[He pulled a rabbit out of his hat in this game to win it.]

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