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Nov-09-14
 | | OhioChessFan: <breaker: Where is jmphamlore? His beloved Queen's Gambit has accounted for 4 losses while the only black win comes from a Grunfeld Defense.> Haha. |
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| Nov-09-14 | | jphamlore: <breaker90: Where is jmphamlore? His beloved Queen's Gambit has accounted for 4 losses while the only black win comes from a Grunfeld Defense.> This event shows how in top level chess how important it is to be able to play the Queen's Gambit from both sides of the board. A player can't beat a Queen's Gambit if he or she opens only 1. e4 which is characteristic of many younger Gruenfeld players. And as I have noted elsewhere, current champion, and looking likely to retain, Magnus Carlsen is a magnificent Gruenfeld player when he chooses to play that defense. |
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| Nov-09-14 | | Jim Bartle: <A player can't beat a Queen's Gambit if he or she opens only 1. e4 which is characteristic of many younger Gruenfeld players.> That is just nuts. |
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Nov-09-14
| | OhioChessFan: Carlsen is a magnificent __________ player when he chooses to play that defense. |
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Nov-09-14
 | | perfidious: <Jim> At the very end of my career, I played the Gruenfeld and 1.d4/c4 as White; of course, I was a hasbeenusetawas and an old bugger by then. |
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| Nov-09-14 | | nok: <A player can't beat a Queen's Gambit if he or she opens only 1. e4> Thank you for your contribution. |
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Nov-09-14
 | | Sneaky: Poor Grischuk is having the tournament of his life, and nobody is paying attention because of Sochi! |
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| Nov-09-14 | | jphamlore: <Jim Bartle> I will tell you what's nuts. Wei Yi finished a half-point out of first in the World Junior Championship 2014. He was on a red-hot streak and I believe was tied for first when in the next-to-last round this occurred: V Fedoseev vs Wei Yi, 2014
Carlsen when he plays these days the Gruenfeld, unfortunately not as often as he could so that he can instruct everyone else apparently, would never allow a passed pawn in the center nor allow a position where one became inevitable. The teaching of the Gruenfeld these days is ahistoric, especially if it used for younger players as an almost exclusive defense to 1. d4. Kasparov learned to beat the Gruenfeld as White before he played it as Black, and his first couple of matches with Karpov the Queen's Gambit Declined was his major defense (and some Queen's Indians) to 1. d4. |
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| Nov-09-14 | | Pulo y Gata: <A player can't beat a Queen's Gambit if he or she opens only 1. e4 which is characteristic of many younger Gruenfeld players.> Such thought never even crossed my mind. Thank you for this really revolutionary revelation. |
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Nov-09-14
| | perfidious: How would <hamhock> refer to the position which arises after 1.e4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.exd5 cxd5 4.c4 Nf6 5.Nc3 e6 6.Nf3 Be7 7.cxd5 Nxd5 8.Bd3 Nc6 9.0-0 0-0 10.Re1? Probably not as a QGD Semi-Tarrasch, but that is the name of the opening, which has very often arisen by transposition from the Panov move order, amazing as that may sound to the openings maven: Opening Explorer |
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| Nov-10-14 | | notyetagm: Morozevich vs E Inarkiev, 2014
click for larger view41 ♕c4xd4?
click for larger view(VARIATION)
41 ... ♖c8-c1+!!
click for larger view42 ♔b1x♖c1 ♕d8-c7  + <Δ ... Qc7-c2-a2#>
click for larger view41 ... ♖c8-c1+!!, a *tremendous* tactical blow that was missed by both Morozevich and Inarkiev. <Karpova: 41.Qxd4?? (41.Rxd4) 41...Qc7?? (41...Rc1+ and now either 42.Rxc1 Qxd4 or 42.Kxc1 Qc7+ 43.Kb1 Qc2+).> 42 ♔b1x♖c1 ♕d8-c7+ is the <DECOY FOR TEMPO: FOCAL POINT> theme, while 42 ♖d1x♖c1 ♕d8x♕d4 is the old <HOOK-AND-LADDER TRICK>. |
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Nov-10-14
 | | keypusher: <Sneaky: Poor Grischuk is having the tournament of his life, and nobody is paying attention because of Sochi!> He's got twice as many wins as the rest of the field put together...wow. |
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| Nov-10-14 | | jphamlore: Another time pressure crush brings Kramnik - Morozevich to a shocking end. |
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| Nov-10-14 | | waustad: So the leaders play in the final round. Are there tiebreaks here? |
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| Nov-10-14 | | Jim Bartle: <jphamlore> It is nuts to suggest that a player cannot play any opening as black if he doesn't play against it as white. |
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| Nov-10-14 | | kia0708: what's going on with the chess engines ?
Houdini gives +2.6 (!) for Leko (White), while Stockfish and Komodo give close to 0.00. ps.
I'm talking about Leko-Inarkiev game. |
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Nov-10-14
 | | Penguincw: Reminder for those who will watch the games tomorrow that it starts 2 hours earlier (whenever that is). < waustad: So the leaders play in the final round. Are there tiebreaks here? > I don't think Kramnik will beat Grischuk, but if he does, there'll be a tie (obviously). I'm not sure what tiebreaks are there, but one of them might be wins. Looking at the current standings (http://www.tashir-chess.com/en/sche...), Gelfand is ahead of Aronian and Liren, with the latter 2 have drawn all their games. Or maybe it's just a coincidence... |
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Nov-10-14
| | OhioChessFan: <A player can't beat a Queen's Gambit if he or she opens only 1. e4 which is characteristic of many younger Gruenfeld players.> <Pulo: Such thought never even crossed my mind. Thank you for this really revolutionary revelation.> Hold on to your hat. I have something even more revolutionary to say: A player can't beat a King's Gambit if he or she opens only 1. d4 |
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Nov-11-14
 | | Sally Simpson: "A player can't beat a Queen's Gambit if he or she opens only 1. e4 which is characteristic of many younger Gruenfeld players." I think what the lad is trying to say is that staunch 1.e4 players (who never play anything else.) have not studied the finer points of 1.d4 so they tend to stay away from 1.d4 d5 and choose, KIDS, Grunfelds, Nimzo, Benoni's, Dutch to get the imbalance. Of course the key words are 'tend to' and in general it applies to weaker players. There are of course exceptions. The lads statement was too broad without a fuller explanation. Anyway I think that is what he was trying to say. I may be wrong. |
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Nov-11-14
| | Penguincw: Looks like Grischuk drew Kramnik in 14 moves to clinch the tournament. Personally, I would've wanted them to play longer, but I can't blame them for a short draw. |
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| Nov-11-14 | | whiteshark: Quick draw in 14 moves (3fold repetition) in Grischuk - Kramnik secured the undisputed tournament win for Alexander Grischuk. CONGRATULATIONS!! |
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| Nov-11-14 | | kia0708: Ding Liren:
(+0 -0 =7)
Intriguing result :-) |
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| Nov-11-14 | | BUNA: Congratulations to Sasha Grischuk!
He finished the tournament in style turning up 15 minutes late in the last round. He probably just overslept while Kramnik had already been memorizing lines for hours. ;) |
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| Nov-11-14 | | kia0708: So Grishchuk got into TOP 4 in the World:
1. Carlsen 2.860
2. Caruana 2.830
3. Grishchuk 2.810
4. Topalov 2.800
Congrats !
ps.
approximate numbers for clarity |
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| Nov-11-14 | | Shams: <kia0708> A Golden Axe for Ding Liren! Who will update his bio? |
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