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Jan-02-23
 | | saffuna: There were other reversals earlier. White was lost after 27...Qe5. |
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Jan-02-23
 | | tamar: Fischer at Herceg Novi astounded the other players at his accuracy which the other players could not match. Carlsen is not so accurate in blitz, but I believe it is a deliberate choice to increase his win rate. Matching Nakamura is not easy. For example, he had a safe choice with 25 Qe1 but chose the piece sacrifice 25 Nxd5 to get a pawn to f7. Once Rapport neutralized that with the calm 27...Qf5, Magnus realized he was lost and tossed in another piece 27 Rb4?! just to keep the f pawn alive a bit longer. It took a blunder to make it work, but few other players could have the foresight to keep the f pawn alive for that eventuality. Correction: Rapport had 18 seconds not 10 when he played the losing blunder 65...Qe8. Had he just held the piece on e8 a bit longer, he would have averted a loss. But as keypusher noted, he already had thrown away the win with 64...Qe3+ (64...Rg8 ) That also may have contributed to his confusion. |
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Jan-02-23
| | tamar: Rather, 64...Rb8 would have kept the win, stopping the mate threat. |
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| Jan-02-23 | | SChesshevsky: Probably can't really fault either players decisions given the time factor, dual threats to king as well as possible perpetuals, and excitement. Thought interesting was Rapport seemed to go to 65...Qe2+ before actually going 65...Qe8. My first instinct was 65...Qe2 66. Kg5 Qxa6 and blacks probably never going to lose. Probably won't win either but now white has to deal with the passed pawn which might give black the tiniest tempo initiative. Or at least moves whites thinking away from attack. Wondering if Rapport was even considering a draw, or all or nothing for a win, or just thought he was better all along? |
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Jan-03-23
| | saffuna: Rapport had the chances to win with Rc6+, but once he missed those he had to take a perpetual, which he had had available through much of the game. But how much can players see in two seconds? |
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Jan-03-23
 | | perfidious: <saffuna>, based on my experiences, even in a vacuum, not a great amount; one only spots the outlines of an idea and pattern recognition fills in the gaps. Once one accounts for the extraordinary nervous tension which surely played a role in this enervating encounter, probably even less; it then becomes pure reaction. Present some of the positions to any strong grandmaster without the nervy atmosphere of this game and it is odds-on that they would come up with solutions, and fairly quickly. Long ago, I recall playing a blitz game with an opponent ~2400 and being familiar with a motif I had seen in one of Korchnoi's games, which Viktor the Terrible used to destroy his opponent's position. Took a few seconds to verify its correctness in that concrete situation and played it. Would I have spotted this if I had not known of the precedent? Best guess: not at all likely. |
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| Jan-05-23 | | Cheapo by the Dozen: This has to be a GotD.
Given how Rapport went in and out of situations where his pieces weren't working well together, I suggest: Loss of Rapport |
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| Jan-05-23 | | Aminda: 63….Rc6 is mate in six. (SF) |
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Jan-05-23
| | tamar: After 64…Rb8 it is mate in 18 for Black, but after 64 Qe3+ eval is o.oo Rapport probably saw Rb8 was an option, but after 64…Qe3+ 65 Kh5 Rb8 66 Qxd5+ Rb7 67 Qxb7# The win disappears once the queen stops guarding d5 |
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Jan-05-23
 | | Check It Out: I submitted "Lord Almaty!", with due credit to <offramp>. |
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Jan-08-23
 | | An Englishman: Good Evening: This scarcely believable struggle would have proven just as difficult to play at classical time controls. |
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| Jan-08-23 | | WickedPawn: After 65.... Qe8 I said: oh no! Carlsen's queen is pinned. Black wins! When I saw 66. g8=Q!! I jumped off my chair screaming like if it was the world cup. One of the most incredible chess moves you'll ever see |
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Jan-08-23
 | | MissScarlett: <I submitted "Lord Almaty!> You omitted the <!> and I have no power of editing. |
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| Jan-08-23 | | nok: Why didn't black play 63...Rc6+, winning?
Look for checks! |
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| Jan-08-23 | | Everett: Enjoying a few French Winawer games showing up in GM play again� And, though blitz, it�s interesting how Carlsen is in dead-lost positions on both sides of it, only to pull out a victory. |
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| Jan-08-23 | | goodevans: <nok: Why didn't black play 63...Rc6+, winning?> I guess the only answer is that it's a blitz game. Although, to be fair that's a bad miss for even a blitz game. I can only assume that Rapport's flag was teetering and he was making moves on instinct alone. In the videos I've seen he plays left handed so maybe the Q check was just quicker to make than the R check 😉. That sort of mistake is what normally puts me off blitz but I'll make an exception for this game. |
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| Jan-08-23 | | Whitehat1963: Fantastic game! |
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| Jan-08-23 | | WickedPawn: <perfidious>: <one only spots the outlines of an idea and pattern recognition fills in the gaps.>
Great insight there. This is why I'll never go above 1800 ELO. You're born with natural pattern recognition skills or you aren't no matter how hard you try (like my case). |
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| Jan-08-23 | | Aminda: Sometimes Stockfish is a lot of fun, such as in this analysis (in a blitz game!) after white’s move 66:
« mated-in-64 (50 ply) 66...Qe2+… » |
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Jan-08-23
| | Check It Out: <Everett> I was watching a Carlsen stream and he said he purposefully gets in to worse blitz positions early on, which gets his opponent looking for knock out blows instead of positional superiority. |
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| Jan-09-23 | | Everett: <Check It Out: <Everett> I was watching a Carlsen stream and he said he purposefully gets in to worse blitz positions early on, which gets his opponent looking for knock out blows instead of positional superiority.> Interesting, right? Chess rope-a-dope.
I can name only a few players who really didn’t mind being attacked or worse for a while in their games: Steinitz, Lasker, Petrosian, and Karpov come to mind. Takes a certain mindset, and nerve. |
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Jan-09-23
 | | chancho: Korchnoi was a great defender too... |
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| Jan-09-23 | | Everett: <chancho> you are of course correct, sir. Korchnoi (and Fischer) were willing to suffer (temporarily), for material gains in particular. After going over Karpov’s games, I found he was willing to sacrifice the initiation for more positional gains (usually on the q-side, away from his K). Kasparov punished him for that! In the Ruy games in particular, if Karpov weathered the K-side attack, his q-side trumps would win the game. Alas… |
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| Jan-11-23 | | Everett: *initiative instead of initiation… |
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Mar-27-25
 | | Sally Simpson: In the BBC2 'Chess Masters: The Endame' series (episode 3) this position was shown to the contestants by Magnus who added this game " was special to him."
click for larger viewContestants had 1 minute to study the position and then recreate it from memory. All failed though one female player was only out by a few pieces. |
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