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| Oct-20-23 | | Messiah: He stopped it. 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏 |
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| Oct-20-23 | | fabelhaft: Erigaisi, in no time trouble, went for Rh4 here against Abdusattorov and the tournament victory was gone in what was far from Monday puzzle level...
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| Oct-20-23 | | goodevans: <Check It Out: After rd 8, Erigaisi is in sole lead with 6.5. Six players including Naka tied for 2nd with 6.> ... which means Erigaisi will win it with just a draw unless one of those six can force a win. <Narayanan> ½-½ <Nakamura> and Giri ½-½ <Sindarov> means those six are now down to three. Hold the press...
<Erigaisi> has just blundered big time against <Abdusattorov> which means Noddy is about to leapfrog him on the leaderboard. <Yakubboev> (a.k.a. 'Noddy II') also looks like winning so a tie-break between those two now looks on the cards. |
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| Oct-20-23 | | goodevans: Meanwhile, back in <Messiah>'s world, MC is having to fight quite hard for a draw in a game where he once enjoyed a substantial advantage. Bit of a side show though. |
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Oct-20-23
 | | perfidious: Oh, I have no doubt that <antichrist> is dancing with glee. |
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Oct-20-23
 | | chancho: Quite frankly, I don't get the obsession.
Carlsen is no longer champion.
And what happened to the Wesley So future champion talk? Its been 14 years and nothing. |
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| Oct-20-23 | | fabelhaft: Erigaisi hanging the rook:
https://x.com/olimpiuurcan/status/1... |
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| Oct-20-23 | | fabelhaft: Longer version:
https://x.com/chess24com/status/171... |
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| Oct-20-23 | | goodevans: So MC hung on for the draw after all but was lucky not to lose. Here's where Puranik missed the win:
click for larger viewMagnus has just played <46...Ka4> which, as things stand, would draw if White allows 47...Re1+. Giving away a pawn with 47.b5+ would take away that threat at the cost of much of White's plus. There was a better way to avoid the draw. Once you've seen it it seems obvious but I must admit I didn't at the time. Magnus won't be happy losing 2 games in 9 rounds but losing 3 would have really hurt. |
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| Oct-20-23 | | fabelhaft: Eventually the lower rated of the Nodirbeks won the playoff. |
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| Oct-20-23 | | goodevans: <Eventually>? Wasn't it 2-0 in the minimum number of games. Some justice there as Yakubboev's last round win was well deserved whereas Abdusattorov's was handed to him on a plate. |
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| Oct-20-23 | | stone free or die: <<Sally> Also trolling. Anyone who punts an idiotic post on here hoping to ruffle a few feathers is a punter (...er...forget that one.)> Well, as that old chestnut goes...
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I'd rather a pint in front of me,
than a punter behind me.
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Ha!
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Oct-20-23
 | | fredthebear: These two sluggers are a delight to watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xhs... |
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Oct-20-23
 | | MissScarlett: Waiting for someone to pop up and complain that the tournament standings table is confusing. |
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Oct-20-23
 | | Sally Simpson: Perhaps the two play off games should not be included. but most people will figure what has happened. Congratulations Nodirbek and Nodirbek. |
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Oct-20-23
 | | Check It Out: Congrats to Nodirbek Yakubboev. This is a notable victory that will go in the history books. |
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| Oct-21-23 | | goodevans: <greed and death: [...] CG's format is excellent. Rather a shame that there are no longer as many current tournaments here...> The trade-off of providing better coverage of fewer tournaments seems a good one and generally suits me to a tee. However, I was hoping to find here coverage of this year's <Joya Sanitary Napkin Tournament>. Alas, it's absent and I had to go to chess.com to find it: https://www.chess.com/events/2023-j... |
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| Oct-21-23 | | stone free or die: Ouch!
According to https://2700chess.com/ Carlsen lost 17.2 ELO points in this tournament. . |
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| Oct-21-23 | | fabelhaft: Maghsoodloo went straight to Germany and won brilliantly in the Bundesliga the day after the last round in Qatar. |
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Oct-22-23
| | Sally Simpson: Hi fabelhaft.
Yes a good a game. P. Maghsoodloo - M. Ragger, German League 2023. (White to play and it was 1-0) 
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| Oct-22-23 | | thegoodanarchist: <Sally Simpson: Hi fabelhaft.
Yes a good a game. P. Maghsoodloo - M. Ragger, German League 2023. (White to play and it was 1-0)> Simple tactic: 1.Qxh7+ Kxh7 2.Rh3+ and mate next Can't believe Ragger missed this. |
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Oct-22-23
| | Sally Simpson: OOPS! you need to look again TGA.
<Simple tactic: 1.Qxh7+ Kxh7 2.Rh3+ and mate next
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It is not as simple as that. |
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| Oct-22-23 | | goodevans: <Simple tactic: 1.Qxh7+ Kxh7 2.Rh3+ and mate next .> My first thoughts too but then I saw 2...Bxh3. So... <1.Ng3> so that the N can jump into f5 and block that capture then that simple tactic will work. Nothing much Black can do to prevent Nf5 and if Black prevents Qxh7+ with <...h5> then the White Q sneaks to h6 via g5 then mates on h8. |
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Oct-22-23
| | Sally Simpson: Hi Good Evans,
click for larger viewIt is very possible Maghsoodloo saw Ng3 with the Nf5 idea first, (it looks OK and winning) then sat on his hands and looked for something better or maybe he had planned his 24th, moves a few moves earlier. He played 24. Rf5! |
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| Oct-22-23 | | goodevans: <Sally Simpson> Ah, yes. A quicker way to make the block! |
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