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Jorden van Foreest vs Anish Giri
Tata Steel Masters (2024), Wijk aan Zee NED, rd 12, Jan-27
French Defense: Exchange Variation (C01)  ·  0-1

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Kibitzer's Corner
Jan-27-24
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  Sally Simpson: :) I was taking about the Exchange French in this very thread a few days ago mentioning how it can sometimes defy it's 'easy draw' reputation.

Tata Steel Masters (2024) (kibitz #264)

Jan-27-24
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  Check It Out: <SS> yes!

21.Qc3 allowed black an easy series of attacks to win a piece.

Jan-27-24  Refused: Well, if white just blunders away pieces with moves like 21.Qc3?? then the opening doesn't really matter, does it?
Jan-27-24  whiteshark: It must have been really hard for Giri not to make a draw here.
Jan-27-24  technical draw: It looks like Jorden couldn't see the Foreest for the trees.
Jan-27-24
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  perfidious: It looks as though v Foreest was determined to avoid the move c3, which wound up costing him in what came to resemble a very good version of the 3....c5 Tarrasch for Black, with him getting all sorts of free play and not having to deal with the IQP at all.
Jan-27-24
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  PeterLalic: Van Foreest made seven of his 24 moves with his queen.
Jan-27-24
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  fredthebear: 6.Qe2+ as played in the game has been tried 116 times in the database thus far.

6.c3 has been played 10 times in the database thus far.

Both moves are playable. Both draw 60% of the time.

6.0-0 and 6.Nc3 are more popular tries.

Jan-27-24  cormier: depth=31 | Stockfish 16
-3.97 21... Rc8 22. Qd2 a4 23. f3 Rxe3 24. Rxe3 axb3 25. Rxb3 Qa7 26. Ra3 Qb8 27. Rc3 Rf8 28. Re3 h6 29. b3 Nh5 30. Re7 Qd6 31. Qe3 Rc8 32. Qe5 Qxe5 33. Rxe5 Nf4 34. g3 Nxh3+ 35. Kf1 Ng5 36. Rxd5 Bc6 37. Rd6 Ne6 38. Nxc6 bxc6 39. f4 Kf8 French Defense: Exchange Variation
Jan-27-24  cormier: depth=53 | Stockfish 16
0.00 21. Rxe4 Rxe4 22. Rxe4 Nxe4 23. c3 a4 24. Nd2 Qxb2 25. Nxe4 dxe4 26. Qg3 h6 27. Qc7 Bc6 28. Qc8+ Kh7 29. Qf5+ Kg8 French Defense: Exchange Variation
Jan-28-24
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  Korora: <Van Foreest made seven of his 24 moves with his queen.>

And that, I guess, was why the trees became cabinetry.

Jan-28-24
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  fredthebear: Round 12 action: https://www.chess.com/news/view/202...

Postgame interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bM3...

<"Anish Giri has a Chessable course on the French but he has only very rarely played it himself. Jorden Van Foreest hasn't had a good event and he chose the Exchange Variation, presumably he didn't expect the French at all. Although there have been various recent attempts to tout the French as a decent winning try for white more often than not it rebounds, and today Black was fine straight out of the opening and had to recognise the fact by playing 21.Rxe4 with a likely draw, instead 21.Qc3? was a horror show leading to an almost immediate loss."> -- Mark Crowther, TWIC

BTW, these same two Dutch players went to a winner take all Armageddon tiebreak in Tata Steel 2021.

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