Apr-10-13 V Bhat vs Y Shulman, 2009
| |
|
JCigan: No, not a Stonewall Dutch... 9 times out of 10 this sort of stonewall with white knights on e2 and c3 and the light-square bishop on d3 is reached from an e3-Slav move order and is pleasant for White. If White tried to play this way against a regular Stonewall Dutch, Black would have
|
|
| | Mar-23-13 Carlsen vs Radjabov, 2013 
| |
|
JCigan: Lol the black queen would be happy to leave defense of c5, grabbing that pawn now would be suicidal
|
|
| | Mar-20-13 Svidler vs Gelfand, 2013
| |
|
JCigan: f6 knight has h7 square but black looks better all the same. Don't think we'll see many repeats of Svidler's e3-f4 plan in the exchange Grunfeld
|
|
| | Jan-20-13 Anand vs I Sokolov, 2013
| |
|
JCigan: Good result for Sokolov though
|
|
| | Jan-01-13 L E Johannessen vs Nakamura, 2002
| |
|
JCigan: The Grunfeld has been my exclusive opening against 1. d4 for a year and a half. And I've never understood why any players below 2700 would play the ...cxd4, ...Qa5+, ...Qxa2 system against the Rb1 Exchange. The "passed pawns" on the a- and b- files are often weaknesses rather than ...
|
|
| | Nov-26-12 Sarai Sanchez Castillo
| |
|
JCigan: The bar for WGM must be pretty low. Played her on ICC and would estimate her strength to be mid-1900s.
|
|
| | May-30-12 Anand vs Gelfand, 2012
| |
|
JCigan: <ucbu> You're late to this party! First game just ended in a draw.
|
|
| | May-30-12 Gelfand vs Anand, 2012
| |
|
JCigan: <Sneaky> You have the Meran with 6. Bd3 in mind. Gelfand played 6. Qc2, sometimes called the Anti-Meran, which if I'm not mistaken is roughly as popular as the Meran proper these days
|
|
| | May-28-12 Anand vs Gelfand, 2012
| |
|
JCigan: Time is seriously becoming a factor here. To me this feels like a signature Anand victory in the making, but I shouldn't get ahead of myself...
|
|
| | | indicates a reply to the comment. | |
