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| Mar-07-06 | | Ulhumbrus: <revelator: Ulhumbrus: please tell, can does the pawn on b4 do ? In the endgame it can be a serious weakness, as black can easily create a passed a-pawn> The b4 pawn keeps the black pieces out of c5, hinders ...a5 and ...c5 and may attack c6 by b5. However it is more valuable in the middle game than in the ending, and seems more valuable a few moves before this point when the c6 pawn is on c7 than it seems at this point. The point is that after b4, the b pawn does something ( attacking the c5 pawn) while the b7 pawn does nothing.That means that taking all the useful tasks performed by the white and black men, white gets at least one piece of work out of his men which Black does not get out of his.It also suggests a useful method of thinking ( of which there may be many): for the player to ask himself what his b pawn can do which the b7 pawn cannot do. |
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| Mar-07-06 | | Ulhumbrus: 18 Qc2 may lead to nothing but 18 Nd2 takes a step towards Nc4. |
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| Mar-07-06 | | pankajdaga: Aronian won! |
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| Mar-07-06 | | notyetagm: This is a great tournament: the quick start of Leko and Svidler, the great comeback of Topalov, the mature play of Radjabov and Aronian. Great stuff.
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| Mar-07-06 | | Veryrusty: It's a real pity they drew at this point. The long-awaited d4 is now definitely in the air -- when and how would it have been played? The position had the potential to blow up into real fireworks.
Probably the kid decided that if he had a bird in the hand against the World Champion, he should take it.
Pity. |
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| Mar-07-06 | | suenteus po 147: <notyetagm> I wholeheartedly agree. |
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| Mar-07-06 | | percyblakeney: A draw is quite a good result for them both, much will depend on how Topalov-Leko ends up in round 13. White win there and Aronian, Topalov, Radjabov and Leko all have chances to win the tournament. |
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| Mar-07-06 | | ahmadov: I wonder who offered draw? |
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| Mar-07-06 | | ahmadov: It is still good for Radjabov, provided that he continues this tournament with at least two wins and all draws. |
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| Mar-07-06 | | suenteus po 147: <ahmadov> I'm guessing Radjabov offered it since he was the last to move. |
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| Mar-07-06 | | percyblakeney: Time for Radjabov to play a fairly short draw just because I mentioned that he has very few of them in Linares, only one in less than 23 moves in three tournaments... |
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| Mar-07-06 | | SickedChess: as I said in page 8 <SickedChess: I see a short draw in Radja-Topa and we will switch to Chucky-Leko game later :)> I was right! |
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| Mar-07-06 | | ahmadov: <suenteus po 147: <ahmadov> I'm guessing Radjabov offered it since he was the last to move.> Well, I think there is no such rule. |
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| Mar-07-06 | | suenteus po 147: <ahmadov> The rule is that you offer a draw and then make your move. If your opponent accepts, game over, it's drawn. If he doesn't accept then he makes his move. Since Radjabov was the last to move, he offered a draw, moved his king and Topalov accepted without making another move. That's how I understand draw offers to occur. |
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| Mar-07-06 | | ahmadov: <suenteus po 147> I think I saw different cases... |
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| Mar-07-06 | | aw1988: You know, Leko just scored a 60-something move draw, and gets called Drewko. Here, Topalov does it for even less, no names at all... hmm... |
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| Mar-07-06 | | acirce: One from me, but that was in jest. |
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| Mar-07-06 | | little fluffy: Hi aw1988.
"You know, Leko just scored a 60-something move draw, and gets called Drewko. Here, Topalov does it for even less, no names at all... hmm..." Comparing Leko's amount of draws and Topalov's might give you an answer. :-) |
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| Mar-07-06 | | alexandrovm: the Ruy Lopez is a good opening and there's always a fight to reduce white's little advantage. |
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| Mar-07-06 | | aw1988: White doesn't have any advantage. |
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| Mar-07-06 | | alexandrovm: <aw1988: White doesn't have any advantage.> yes, in this game it doesn't. Topa did a very good job... |
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| Mar-07-06 | | alexandrovm: <offramp: Quite funny. Huge evenements for a Topalov win yet nothing transpires!> the Berlin tends to be drawish... |
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| Mar-08-06 | | saurav4000: I suppose Anand is probably watching all these games while making his preparation for the next super GM tournament! By the way, what's the next super GM tournament & when will it start?? |
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| Mar-10-06 | | DeepPatzer: <ahmadov: I wonder who offered draw?>
Topalov offered the draw according to this site:
http://www.chesspro.ru/events2/lina... |
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