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| Jun-27-07 | | Akavall: After 18. Na5 black position was already looking bad. I wonder when it became lost though. |
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| Jun-27-07 | | Knight13: Carlsen lost!! NOO!
Come on Kramnik just lose! |
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| Jun-27-07 | | AgentRgent: <notyetagm: Indeed, a virtual chess clinic put on by Kramnik: <PIECE COORDINATION>, <WEAK BACK RANK>, <PINS>, <WEAK SQUARES>, <WEAK PAWNS>, etc. The great strategic/positional players like Capablanca, Kramnik, Smyslov, etc. really do make chess look like a simple game.> Who are you and what have you done with the real notyetagm?! ;-) All kidding aside, I greatly agree with your second point. One reason I love the games of Kramnik and Smyslov is exactly that, their seeming simplicity. Others have refered to it as Harmony and I can't help but agree. Sometimes it's as if these titans are simply playing a different game than the rest of us. |
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| Jun-27-07 | | djmercury: <After 18. Na5 black position was already looking bad. I wonder when it became lost though.>
The whole variation that starts with 11. ... Nb4 looks really dubious, in my old database I had one game where was played 15. Nb3, but b4 looks much much stronger and gives white a large edge. |
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| Jun-27-07 | | weltschmertz: 22... Re8 looks bad... maybe black should try to drum up some activity against the white king with Bd6 and h5... also, what about sacking the exchange on move 24... and picking up the b pawn... of course these ideas are probably wrong.. i'm sure magnus considered them. |
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 | | IMlday: 10..Nc6 This is disappointing. I was curious what VK would play against 10..Ra7 with Grischuk's improvement on Kramnik-Anand at Corus.
Bareev vs Grischuk, 2007 |
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| Jun-27-07 | | Bridgeburner: A tour de force by Vladimir Kramnik, a true spiritual descendent of the great Akiba. |
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| Jun-27-07 | | whatthefat: Kramnik really 'drew' that one out. Hohoho, man I crack myself up. What's that you say? He won? |
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| Jun-28-07 | | notyetagm: <AgentRgent: ... Who are you and what have you done with the real notyetagm?! ;-)> I give credit where credit is due. When Kramnik played like crap, I did not make excuses for him. Now that he is playing like the best player in the world, I say that he is playing like the best player in the world. Kramnik's blindfold play at Amber was stupendous and this win over the always-dangerous Magnus Carlsen is one of the best played games I have ever seen. Not a brilliancy, mind you, just incredibly well played from beginning to end. |
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| Jun-28-07 | | KamikazeAttack: <A tour de force by Vladimir Kramnik, a true spiritual descendent of the great Akiba.
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haahahaa |
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| Jun-28-07 | | awfulhangover: Kramnik makes it seem so easy. Wish I knew how to play like that :-) |
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| Jun-28-07 | | geraldo8187: kramnik certainly seems in shape for mexico |
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| Jun-28-07 | | Bridgeburner: <KamikazeAttack> Why is that funny? |
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| Jun-29-07 | | Ulhumbrus: One justification for 19...Qd6!, instead of 19...Bxc6? which may be the losing mistake, is that the move 19...Bxc6 increases the value of White's Ns. Why? Because powerful and attractive as the Ne5 may appear to be, it is in fact doing little on e5, while the Black QB can be considered the equal of the Nc6 insofar as it can exchange itself for a N on c6. On the other hand, if White can be persuaded to play Nxe7+, the N can be considered to be more valuable than Black's KB. Thus by playing 19...Bxc6? Carlsen is exchanging the bishop which is of greater value for the N. |
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| Jun-29-07 | | newton296: kramnic just plays 1 perfect move after another from move 17 on . Carlson just can't match the champ in middle and endgame technique .. |
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| Jun-29-07 | | newton296: I gotta give kramnik his props. the winning lines against gelfand and carlson were complicated and fairly dificult to find but he finds the best moves move after move anyway. I guess it looks easy if you consider finding the perfect move as in this game , from move 16 to 30 an easy way to win! Reminds me of the ruthless technique of fisher, karpov , and capablanca. |
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| Jun-30-07 | | KamikazeAttack: <Bridgeburner: <KamikazeAttack> Why is that funny?> The analogy with Akiba. |
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| Jun-30-07 | | Karpova: <KamikazeAttack>
What's so funny about the comparison with Akiba? |
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| Jul-03-07 | | Confuse: <Karpova>, <Bridgeburner> agreed. Rubinstein was among the finest players. Unless you guys are talking about someone else. |
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| Feb-14-08 | | Eyal: <When you get such a position out of the opening, you don't need to be Kramnik to play it well.> (Kramnik in a post-game interview - http://www.chessclub.com/bits/webca...) |
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| Feb-14-08 | | aazqua: Really nice win by Kramnik. That guy is a stud. |
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| Mar-06-08 | | MichAdams: Carlsen deserved to lose, if only because of that jumper he was wearing. At some point, Magnus will become his own man, and buy his own clothes. |
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| Jul-19-08 | | myschkin: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dy... (by Lubomir Kavalek) |
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| May-17-09 | | MarvinTsai: Though in database Kramnik beat Carlsen with 6:1, this is the only classical time control game among them. I wonder how Kramnik overwhelmed in rapid, blitz, and blindfold? |
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| May-17-09 | | apple pi: <Marvin Tsai> Well, Kramnik has been noted as a very sharp rapids player, perhaps even better comparatively in rapids than in classical. |
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