| Oct-21-19 | | Gypsy: It looks like White is 'checkmating' Black.
Wang Hao is closing out the tournament in style! |
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| Oct-21-19 | | Thief: Howell wants to increase the move count or something, instead of resigning. |
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| Oct-21-19 | | whiteshark: From IoM to Candidates Tournament, from there to Match, and then ... Future generations will be able to read that in the biography "Hao I wang the chess crown". |
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Oct-21-19
 | | chancho: 18...Bd5 A Howell Howler! |
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Oct-21-19
 | | Dionysius1: Hi <Thief>. Or looking for stalemate chances maybe. Stranger things have happened, though it's a bit obvious. |
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Oct-21-19
 | | Sally Simpson: ***
18...Bd5!?
David went for a win in an effort to get a seat in the candidates. Wang cooly spent 10 minutes on evaluating 19.Rd1. In such situations it is very tempting to try and blitz and clock out an opponent. A draw was no good. It had to be a win. Time (Black was down to 4 minutes for 22 moves.) was running out and the position was devoid of complications. It was a 'now or never' decision.
And 'never' meant spending months, maybe years wondering what would have happened. He judged that his future candidates chances may not come around all that often, he must go for it. Not meekly play out a draw. Bravo! Giving Wang the full point scuppered others players chances. That is not David's problem, there were another 10 rounds for these players to improve their chances instead on relying on Howell to draw his last round game. The last dozen moves by Black were blitz'd out on auto pilot, as explained a stalemate was no good. Wang joins his countryman Ding in the candidates. Both deserve to be there. Looking forward to it already. We need more of the Super-Swiss's they are great fun. *** |
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| Oct-22-19 | | Ulhumbrus: 18....Bd5 allows White to pin Black's queen's bishop by 19 Rd1. A queen and bishop may be not enough to win against a rook and the bishop pair, but Howell does not manage to reach safety in time and ends up losing a bishop and the game. |
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| Oct-23-19 | | ex0duz: 18.Bd5? What was Howell thinking? It wasn't time pressure I'm guessing since it's only move 18..? Agadmator thinks it's definitely a blunder and I do too, but just what was he thinking in that case? It's not online so it's not a mouse slip, id make a wild guess and just say he was too eagar fo trade off the light SB and completely overlooked Rd1? But seriously.. how does a 2700 super GM playing to win the tourney so that? Too much nerves perhaps since this win would have been the biggest accomplishment in Howells career.. no? But yeah.. Howell strikes me as the type to let his nerves get the better of him, but granted that is just pure speculation on my part based on his "shy" mannerisms from interviews I've seen. Wang Hao definitely thought Christmas had come early for him and greedily opened the gift from Howell hahaha |
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| Oct-23-19 | | ndg2: Hard to believe black is the same guy who defeated three GMs in a row the three rounds before (Bluebaum, Kasimdzhanov, Grischuk). What was he thinking when playing 18..Bd5? |
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| Oct-24-19 | | Kurakotsaba: Wang Hao, 👈💪💪💪💪💪💪👉 |
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| Oct-26-19 | | spingo: 
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Black has control of both long diagonals. Normally this is done from b7 and g7. |
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| Oct-26-19 | | goodevans: <ex0duz>, <ndg2>, You both ask what Howell was thinking when he played 18..Bd5. Well there's a very plausible explanation given in <Sally Simpsons>'s earlier post if you're really interested. |
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Oct-26-19
 | | keypusher: <Howell do you know me?> Ha, ha...uh, I don’t get it. |
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Oct-26-19
 | | playground player: <"Hao well do you handle Howell?"> is a crepuscularity. |
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| Oct-26-19 | | ex0duz: <Oct-26-19 goodevans: <ex0duz>, <ndg2>,
You both ask what Howell was thinking when he played 18..Bd5. Well there's a very plausible explanation given in <Sally Simpsons>'s earlier post if you're really interested.> Sally said it was complications in order to play for a win, but as we can see it is just losing and not even complicated to find. If Howell assumed wang would find Rd1, which I assume that was what sally meant, the resulting moves aren't that complicated and you can resign a few moves later as you lose all your pawns and even a piece. I guess the real reason was time trouble(4 mins for 22 moves), and he just got desperate and blundered trying to simplify into a drawn endgame. A draw would have been better than a loss, he lost a lot of money by losing in such a tight field. Anyone know how much time wang hao had at move 16? |
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Apr-22-21
 | | pandaTT: You can hear David Howell's thoughts on the game from his very candid interview on Perpetual Podcast: https://www.perpetualchesspod.com/n... (Start at 50 minutes. The whole interview is worth a listen though.) Nice to see David H. involved in the candidates still, albeit with a different seat to the one he wanted. |
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