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| Dec-22-10 | | Strongest Force: If he can trade off all the pawns plus the rook whit will be left with a useless extra piece. And if Santa Claus wasn't some rich white guy from up north some ghetto kids might get some toys. |
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| Dec-22-10 | | kurtrichards: Or the organizers might use the "winner over the other" rule. In which case Karjakin wins the tourney becuase he won over Nepomniachtchi in the 3rd round. Am not so sure... |
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| Dec-22-10 | | DCP23: <Shams: who wins on tiebreaks?> <TugasKamagong: who wins on tiebreaks?> Karjak and Nepo will play a rapid mini-match, then a blitz mini-match if still tied, then an armageddon blitz game if still tied. The same situation occured with Jakovenko and Alekseev a few years back. |
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| Dec-22-10 | | TugasKamagong: Every time I look at the game I find myself scrolling back to 26...Nxa3. What was Karjak thinking when he sacked that Knight? |
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| Dec-22-10 | | paavoh: @TugasKamagong <What was Karjak thinking when he sacked that Knight?> Cannot say that I KNOW his thoughts, but perhaps he wanted to eliminate the passed Q-side pawns and draw in the endgame? |
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| Dec-22-10 | | crazybird: Game 2 of the rapid tiebreak (to determine the winner of the Russian Championship Superfinal 2010) between Karjakin and Nepomniachtchi currently being played. Game 1 (Karjakin had white) was drawn. http://www.russiachess.org/online/i... |
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| Dec-22-10 | | Strongest Force: What the @#$% happened in that second game...looked like a crazy mess |
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| Dec-22-10 | | Strongest Force: As i understand it, the first 3 games were drawn. Nepo has a mad tactical style that can often imitate Nakamura. Can't wait for those two to play next month. |
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| Dec-22-10 | | siamesedream: So Nepo drew Armaggedon and is new Russian champ.
Congrats! |
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| Dec-22-10 | | Strongest Force: When Nepo plays Nak somebody will get knocked the @#$% out! |
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| Dec-22-10 | | fisayo123: Wow,what a year nepo has had,congrats. |
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| Dec-22-10 | | Jason Frost: Congratz to Nepo! Impressive tournament and a really nice win over Svidler. Looks like he did get a bit lucky in the Armegedon though, as Karjakin was up an exchange and a pawn, but then missed a one move skewer and dropped the exchange back. |
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| Dec-22-10 | | percyblakeney: Well done by Nepomniachtchi to win his first Russian Superfinal in such a strong field, with players like Grischuk, Svidler and Karjakin in it. He also had 6 blacks in 11 games while for example Karjakin had 5. Together with his first board medal in the Olympiad and advancing from around #70 to #15 in one year it makes 2010 an excellent year for Nepomniachtchi. |
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| Dec-22-10 | | Eyal: Yes, Nepomniachtchi is establishing himself as a legitimate top player, not just a "promise" now. It will be interesting to see how he does in Wijk next month - that's going to be the strongest tournament he's played yet. |
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| Dec-22-10 | | Maatalkko: The class of 1990 is tough. Carlsen, Karjakin, MVL, and Nepomniachtchi will all likely be top 10 players in not too long. |
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| Dec-22-10 | | theodor: why has Tomashevsky played one more game?!! |
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| Dec-22-10 | | theodor: Zvjaginsev too! |
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| Dec-22-10 | | Rolfo: Wow, Karjakin lost ..Must learn the name of the new guy :) |
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| Dec-22-10 | | Shams: <Maatalkko:><The class of 1990 is tough.> You're right. The chess analog to the NFL QB class of 1983? |
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| Dec-22-10 | | Blunderdome: Grischuk was the Anand of this tournament, going undefeated but finishing just off the pace. |
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| Dec-23-10 | | anandrulez: <Grischuk was the Anand of this tournament, going undefeated but finishing just off the pace. >
So has that been finalized ? New chess phrase " anand of the tournament" ....lol |
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| Dec-23-10 | | kevinatcausa: Has anyone kept stats as to the relative winning percentages of white vs. black in high level Armageddon tiebreaks? It may be that 6 min vs. 5 min isn't a large enough time differential to make up for the draw odds. |
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Dec-23-10
 | | Troller: So Karjakin is not invincible after all. Malakhov has a history of cracking in critical situations, but not so this time. Nepom is a most welcome chapion, though; European & Russian champion the same year, quite an achievement! |
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| | Troller: Btw, Dmitry Andreikin is also born in 1990. Same goes for Ildar Khairullin, but he has not quite fulfilled the expectations from when he was one of the strongest pre-teenagers in the world. |
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| Dec-23-10 | | DCP23: <Troller: Malakhov has a history of cracking in critical situations, but not so this time.> That's because it was a critical situation for Karjakin, not for Malakhov. |
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