Apr-06-13 V Tukmakov vs E Magerramov, 1983 
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ashalpha: @jamboree
You don't need mate, the free rook and pawn is obviously winning with the Queen and Knight windmill.
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| | Mar-31-13 World Championship Candidates (2013)
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ashalpha: @uberhikari
Really? Do you have any concrete lines? I would be really interested to see them. All the other lines I saw had an advantage but would probably still be a draw with best play.
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| | Mar-01-13 Eljanov vs W So, 2013
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ashalpha: <Actually the amount that So is risking is range (depending how many players tie for 1st). It can be as close to 3K assuming only 2 players finish at the top. So, the math makes sense.> At the time of the draw though there were at least three players who could have joined ...
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| | Feb-27-13 Wesley So
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ashalpha: "- Qualify for the World Cup
- Break 2700
- Help his Webster University team win the College Chess Final Four" If that was his goals for the year and tournament then Wesley did a terrific job fulfilling them. The decision to offer the draw makes more sense if he was not really ...
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| | Feb-27-13 Reykjavik Open (2013)
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ashalpha: So it ended up being: clear first with a win= 5K, shared first with a draw= 2.5K (give or take) for second in tiebreak probably less if someone with better tiebreak had won, and probably around 10th place with a loss = 350 Euro. Interesting...especially since there could have been ...
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| | Oct-27-12 SPICE Cup (2012)
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ashalpha: "Let's assume So, had not blundered against Giri back then, and had won/earnt his spot to play in the A section of the Wijk tournament. Now the unthinkable could have happened too, he could have finished dead last." I am making a wish because I truly wish Wesley So to do well as a ...
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| | Oct-20-12 W So vs M Vachier-Lagrave, 2012
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ashalpha: 39. d5! is pretty brilliant. Very hard to find in time trouble Eyal.
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| | Oct-19-12 W So vs Ding Liren, 2012
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ashalpha: Wesley had the advantage throughout even with the weaker 25. e5?!. I think he had a more solid advantage with 25. g5 trying to keep more pieces on the board. He reached a favorable ending with the bishop against the knight in an open position but the knight held because of the ...
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| | Oct-02-12 Ponomariov vs Short, 2012
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ashalpha: 22...b3?! seems bad though he probably could have held on. 27...Rdd7? was the decisive mistake though losing a clear pawn in a forced simplified ending.
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| | Sep-08-12 E Torre vs F Berkes, 2012
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ashalpha: 46...g4?! is indeed questionable and gave away much of his advantage, the best explanation that I can think of is he did not want the f or h files opened when hxg5 at any point but he could have avoided that by taking on h4 himself which maintains his advantage. 60...Bxh4 taking ...
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