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| Apr-13-24 | | csmath: Yikes, what a bad blunder in the end. Not sure how Nakamura would have won this without that but ... it is all a part of the game. Not much sleep for Caruana tonight. |
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Apr-13-24
 | | FSR: Stockfish 16 says that Nakamura was winning (+2) after 32.Nf5. 33...b5? was a blunder, but 33...Bd7 34.Qxb7! Bxf5 35.Qxa8! Bxc2 36.Re8 Qd6 37.Rc8 would still be winning. Black has two pieces for rook and pawn, but can't hold his queenside pawns. |
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Apr-13-24
| | FSR: Smoking Caruana. |
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Apr-14-24
| | FSR: Wow. I just submitted this pun maybe 15 minutes ago. A new land speed record. I had previously submitted it for G Sargissian vs Caruana, 2009, but swapped the pun out for this game. btw, Sargissian seems to have the "Indian sign" on Caruana - 3-0 in classical, including a game from the 2022 Chennai Olympiad. https://www.chessgames.com/perl/che... |
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| Apr-14-24 | | LivBlockade: <A new land speed record.> Yes, why the hurry? Just a few more days until 4/20. |
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Apr-14-24
| | FSR: <LivBlockade> Gotta strike while the iron is hot. This game and Vidit-Gukesh are the two biggest games of the day. This game probably won't be the most important game on 4/20, although admittedly that would be a better date for this pun. |
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Apr-14-24
 | | An Englishman: Good Evening: <FSR>, if anyone deserves the "new land speed record," it's you. |
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| Apr-14-24 | | thegoldenband: It's fun to smoke Caruana, hey hey:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xj2... |
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| Apr-14-24 | | jakc: what an odd game. After 31 moves, Caruna has all his pieces on the back row and the Q Rook hasn't (and won't) move. And the K Knight jumps around a lot and to the D5 square three times before being exchanged back on F6. I'm sure this makes sense to good players but just reminds me of how big the gap between those players and me is. |
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| Apr-14-24 | | cormier: 27...Ng6? 27...Nxg3 28.Qc3 Rad8 29.Qd3 Bh3 30.Rxe8 Rxe8 31.Qh7+ Kf8 32.Be4 Rxe4 33.Qxe4 Nxh4 34.Qxe5 cxe5= |
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Apr-14-24
| | FSR: <An Englishman: Good Evening: <FSR>, if anyone deserves the "new land speed record," it's you.> I'm honored to receive such an assessment from someone who has the Road Runner for his avatar. P.S. I found this very disturbing: "In real life, coyotes are much faster than roadrunners and don't typically have a problem catching them." https://www.azcentral.com/story/tra... |
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Apr-14-24
 | | HeMateMe: That would be...cuban cigars? |
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| Apr-14-24 | | Lloyd Gross: Cuban cigars that were rolled by hand on the thighs of beautiful Cuban women…for enhanced flavor. |
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| Apr-14-24 | | fabelhaft: Nakamura has now won his four latest classical games with white against Caruana. |
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Apr-14-24
 | | offramp: Out of interest I submitted <"Smoking Caruana"> to HISPIDU on the dark web channel <PGN4CHAN>. I am afraid that opinions were overwhelmingly negative. @TrumP$4Prez said, <"Shoulda gotta betta pun dude. ShOUlda DECREASED da scrip of betablockersz dude. LULZ> That was a representative comment.
Here were the results of the poll:
STRONGLY IN FAVOUR 13
NO OPINION 105
STRONGLY AGAINST 6,201. |
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| Apr-14-24 | | lentil: What's the idea behind 26 h4. All I see is 26 Qxh4 27 Re4 forces ... g5 but then what? Maybe 38 Nf1 with threat g3... |
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Apr-14-24
 | | Sally Simpson: Hi Lentil,
click for larger viewIt does look like if 26...Qxh4 27 Re4 g5 is forced. Then 28.Rad1, full development with a pin on the e6 Bishop looks good. The more you look at the more ideas you see. After g5 and Rad1, Bc1 is in there with Queen trapping idea. Do not it know if 26.h4 is the best move, it looks like a very good OTB move and it appears to have thrown Caruana a curve ball. |
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Apr-14-24
 | | Teyss: So <FSR> now officially holds the record of the shortest pun acceptance delay (15 minutes), as well as the longest one (12 years, 4 months & 18 days: see P Acs vs Vachier-Lagrave, 2008 (kibitz #6)). Over all the puns he submitted, the average acceptance delay is 9 years, 12 months & 30 days. It was 10 years & 2 days before the present one: Missy wanted to bring his year average to one digit in order to limit complaints. He also holds the record of the funniest post of this thread: <I'm honored to receive such an assessment from someone who has the Road Runner for his avatar.> Joint with offramp's of course. Good game, nothing to add to above. |
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| Apr-14-24 | | goodevans: Caruana made three big mistakes towards the end of the game. All three were perfectly understandable if he were an 1800 player rather than a 2800 Super GM. Was he channelling my former self at this point?
click for larger view<29...Qd8?>
Obviously not 29...Qc4?? 30.b3 and 29...Qa2 30.Qc3 threatening 31.Bb3 is also easily dismissed but why not the instinctive retreat 29...Qd7 which seems to cover most of the threats? Well, 29...Qd7 30.Nf5 threatens to sac the N on h6 or g7 with a quick and deadly attack so 30...Bxf5 31.Bf5 is forced which in turn forces the self-pin 31...Ne6 and Black's position is very uncomfortable. Instead 29...Qd8 provides the option to redeploy to b6 or f6 so it's what I would have chosen. 30.h5 <Bd7?>
Caruana takes his eye off the ball and instead of redeploying the Q immediately he decides first to ease the pressure of the doubled Rs on the e-file even though the resulting position, with all of Black's pieces on the back rank, is rather pathetic. This kind of self-doubt takes me back to my playing days. 31.Rxe8 Bxe8
32.Nf5 Qf6
33.Qb4 <b5??>
Caruana saves the b-pawn. I'd have done the same as losing it would indeed have been nasty! |
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Apr-14-24
| | FSR: I wondered why Caruana didn't just play the Petroff's, which he used to be the world's leading exponent of. I forgot that he did so last year in the FIDE Grand Swiss. Naka responded by playing the Scotch Four Knights' Game, to mind a total nothingburger opening, and crushing Fabi: Nakamura vs Caruana, 2023. As many have pointed out, Naka has now won his last four classical games as White against Fabi. |
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Apr-14-24
 | | MissScarlett: Given its non-partisan, catholic nature, <CG> takes no position on the legalisation of cannabis debate, but Josef Noa. |
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Apr-14-24
| | An Englishman: Good Morning: <FSR>, some coyotes are more than twice as fast as roadrunners, but contrary to the cartoon, the birds do have the ability to fly. Breaks my heart to learn that cartoons don't always tell the truth... |
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Apr-14-24
| | offramp: Roadrunners make a surprising guest appearance in a song by .... The Beatles.
The bird appears at 1:05 in the song <Drive My Car>. |
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| Apr-14-24 | | Fanques Fair: Caruana loses a almost equal position in a weird sequence of mistakes. Instead of 28...,Nf8 he could have exchanged the rooks in a better situation immediately with 28...,Bd7, 29-Rxe8,Rxe8, 30-Rxe8,Bxe8, 31-Qe3,Bd7 , 32-h5,Nf8 and Black has a solid position, although White retains the more active pieces. Maybe Nakamura would try on for a long game, but the likely outcome would be a draw. |
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| Apr-14-24 | | thulium: What´s wrong with 35 . . . P-b5?
If 36. QxP, Kt-d7. If 36. KtxQ, PxQ. |
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