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Nijat Abasov vs Ian Nepomniachtchi
World Championship Candidates (2024), Toronto CAN, rd 1, Apr-04
Queen's Gambit Declined: Modern Variation (D50)  ·  1/2-1/2

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Apr-05-24  VictorVonDoom: Why the heck has no one kibitzed here. Its a candidates tournament.
Apr-05-24  fabelhaft: <Why the heck has no one kibitzed here. Its a candidates tournament>

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Apr-05-24  VictorVonDoom: I see. Nevertheless, I shall. It doesn't matter if it's a drawn game. It can still be interesting.

The game does look pretty equal throughout.

But on move 26, Abasov had to play an important move to prevent his doubled pawns from being taken.

In this position:


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Nepo played Rd8 trying to attack the doubled pawns.

In this position, only one move keeps the game equal: Kf2.

This is because black's next move is going to be Rd3 attacking the pawn on b3.

If instead of Kf2, Abasov had played something like h3, Rd3 and the pawn cannot be protected by the rook. If the pawn advances, Rb3, Re4 and Rxb2 and black is up a pawn.

Whereas if white plays Kf2, after Rd3, Re3 protecting, if Rd2 check, Re2 block.

Congratulations to Abasov for drawing against a Grandmaster with more than 100 rating points above him.

Apr-05-24
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  offramp: Abasov took on the responsibility of having an IQP, but at move 15 he took the chance to get rid of it. Sensible.

Later, did you see how Black took 2 moves to swap off the white knight, Bb7-d5xb3?

I have a feeling that Nepo might end this tournament with a load of dollars and an equal score.

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