Dec-11-10 Nakamura vs D Howell, 2010
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crwynn: I would not be so sure White is winning anywhere; after move 20 things look rather nice, having forced the unlovely ...Qxe5, but he has to play energetically or Black will still blockade the dark squares, leaving White with a bad bishop. So if 22.Nc4 Nxc4 23.bc Rac8, then for ...
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| | Nov-21-10 I Nepomniachtchi vs Nakamura, 2010
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crwynn: Maybe he thought 40...Rxa2+ 41.Kb1 Rad2?! 42.Kc1 forces a draw. Of course 41...Rab2+ 42.Ka1 (42.Kc1 Rfc2#) 42...Rbd2 works just fine.
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| | May-25-10 Mamedyarov vs Leko, 2010 
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crwynn: http://astrakhan2010.fide.com/1st-r... "Shakhriyar Mamedyarov:
– 21...d3 is a strong novelty. Of course, I wanted to play a sharper game as White, but this move basically closes the variation." Was this merely a hasty conclusion? I have to wonder if this was a bit of gamesmanship -
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| | May-18-10 Larsen vs S From, 1964
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crwynn: 26.hg Nh4+ 27.Nxh4 Qxf2+ looks annoying, hence Larsen's 26.Rh1.
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| | May-18-10 M Khachiyan vs Shabalov, 2010
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crwynn: How is Black winning after 58.c8Q+? 58...Rxc8 59.Rxc8 Rxb6 60.Ra8 Rb4 61.Ra6 looks like a draw to me. I would think 58.d7 is the real blunder.
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| | Mar-21-10 Carlsen vs V Gashimov, 2010
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crwynn: It was in Carlsen's head, he never actually played the line that allowed mate.
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| | Mar-21-10 Amber Tournament (Rapid) (2010)
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crwynn: Carlsen isn't saying he actually allowed a mate in two, he's saying he thought that he could play some variation, then realized it allowed mate. Probably some back-rank thing after Black plays ...Rc8, but I'm not sure what.
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| | Mar-08-10 Bareev vs Stefansson, 2010
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crwynn: It looks like Black, a grandmaster, hangs a piece here about one move out of theory. It was in this line that Kramnik got his only win against Vishy in the WC match: Kramnik vs Anand, 2008 Maybe he missed it because 21...Qxg4 22.f3 Bxf3 23.Qxc4 somehow looks as if Black ought to have
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| | Feb-27-10 S Feller vs S Williams, 2009
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crwynn: Well I have little interest in whatever "patterns of behavior" that you may perceive in my posts; of course nobody argues with a stranger on the Internet for any reason but boredom and irritability, so this "pattern of behavior" is everywhere in the web, certainly including your own ...
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| | Feb-24-10 Linares (2010)
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crwynn: In a round-robin that is
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