Jun-17-13 Karjakin vs Mamedyarov, 2013 
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luzhin: Remarkably daring and innovative play by Mamedyarov, offering two pawns for the initiative. I can find one very obscure amateur game with 7...Nbd7 but it seems completely new at the top level.
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| | Jun-16-13 Navara vs Yifan Hou, 2013
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luzhin: After 22.Nf3 Nxd3 Hou is TWO pawns up - and they are passed and connected: it's absolutely resignable.
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| | Jun-12-13 Caruana vs Carlsen, 2013
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luzhin: 41.Rb7? threw it all away but 42...Bf2+!! was very hard to anticipate in a blitz game.
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| | Jun-12-13 Z Byambaa vs A R Saleh Salem, 2013
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luzhin: 7.Nh2 is definitely not the correct response to Black's daring thrust. Obviously if 12.Bf1 then 12...Nh3+ 13.Kh1 Nf2+
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| | Jun-12-13 Kamsky vs A Pridorozhni, 2013
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luzhin: 20.c4? is most un-Gata like carelessness, even for a blitz game.
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| | Jun-12-13 D Andreikin vs E Ghaem Maghami, 2013
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luzhin: There is no viable defence to White's plan of Raf1, Rxf7+ and Qxg6+. Which is a fitting commentary on Black's entombed LSB on c8.
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| | Jun-10-13 E Inarkiev vs D Gordievsky, 2013
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luzhin: A tragic-comic finish (comedy for White, tragedy for Black).
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| | Jun-09-13 E Neiman vs C Picard, 2013
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luzhin: 26...d4! destroys White's brilliancy (after 27.Bxd4 Rc1+ 28.Kg2 Qb7+ 29.Kh3 f5 it's all over).
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| | Jun-07-13 Karjakin vs Karpov, 2013
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luzhin: Mudhupper, 8.g3 contained the colossal threat of Bh3 winning instantly. The idea of 8...Nd5 is that 9.Bh3 can at least be countered by 9...f5.
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| | May-26-13 Short vs Van Wely, 2013
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luzhin: ...although, come to think of it, Short had to find 32.Bd4!, which seems to be the only move to keep Van Wely in the box.
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