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Maxime Vachier-Lagrave vs Magnus Carlsen
6th Lausanne Young Masters (2005), Lausanne SUI, rd 3, Sep-19
Sicilian Defense: Four Knights. Exchange Variation (B45)  ·  0-1

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Given 17 times; par: 32 [what's this?]

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Feb-02-06  2nr: 19)Bb2?
Dec-26-06  thedoyle: how is this a win?
Dec-19-07  xeroxmachine: Well he is only a piece up.
Dec-19-07  HOTDOG: perhaps too early to resign
Oct-07-13  garrettfu5: I don't think it is too early as long as Maxime was low on time.
May-18-14  talwnbe4: Stockfish evaluates the position as 2.80 at move 20 and plays 20. Bxg7 as well. Maxime overlooked 19..Rxc4 after which black is winning. 19.Bxd5 was fine.

It seems that black collects a pawn and has two connected passers some moves after Lagrave resigned.

Feb-26-15  bennyvsfischer: Bb2?? even me sees it...
Sep-09-18  cormier:


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Analysis by Houdini 4
<19.Bxd5> Bxd5 20.Bb2 f6 21.c4 Bc6 22.Qd6 Rab8 23.Bd4 Qb4 24.Bc5 Qc3 25.Qd1 d5 26.Rc1 Qe5 27.Re2 Qf5 28.Bd6 Ra8 29.Rec2 Rd8 30.Be7 Rd7 31.cxd5 Rxd5 32.Qe2 Bb7 33.Rc7 Ba6 34.Qe4 + / = (0.31) Depth: 22

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