| Apr-29-06 | | EmperorAtahualpa: Great game! Rock solid play from van Wely. |
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| Apr-29-06 | | EmperorAtahualpa: An analysis by <ezzy>, copied and pasted from the Loek Van Wely page: <Van Wely,Loek - Carlsen,Magnus
DSB Tweekamp Schagen (1), 2006
1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 b6 4.g3 Ba6 5.b3 Bb4+ 6.Bd2 Be7 7.Nc3 0–0 8.Rc1 c6 9.e4 d5 10.e5 Ne4 11.Bd3 Nxd2< Ponomariov played 11...Nxc3 against Topalov in the M-Tel masters 2005 and was demolished by a brilliant attacking display by Topalov!> 12.Qxd2 Nd7 13.0–0 Bb4 14.cxd5 Bxc3 15.Rxc3 Bxd3 16.Qxd3 cxd5 17.Rfc1 f6 18.Qe2 fxe5 19.dxe5 Nc5 20.Nd4 Qe8 21.f3 a5 22.a3 <Van Wely has all the positional advantages. More space in the center giving him an excellent knight on d4. White will have complete control of the 'c' file once he removes Carlsen's knight from 'c5'. So that is the simple plan.> 22...Qg6 23.b4 axb4 24.axb4 Nd7 25.Rc6 Rae8 26.Rd6 Rf7 27.Kg2 <White would like the option of playing 28 Rcc6 but 28...Qb1+ would pick up the b pawn, so 27 Kg2 stops that counterplay.> 27...h5 28.h4 Nf8 29.Rxb6 Ra8 30.Qd2 Ra3 31.Rb8 Rd3 32.Qf2 Qh6 33.f4 Qg6 <Threatening the dangerous 34...Qe4+> 34.f5 Qh6 <Black should continue with 34...Qg4 keeping up the 35...Qe4+ threat.> 35.Rc2 Kh7 36.Re8 Rxd4 <What else? Everything loses anyway.> 37.Qxd4 Rxf5 38.Rf2 Ng6 39.Rxf5 exf5 40.Rc8 f4 41.Qd3 1–0 Nice play by Van Wely. Positionally outplayed Carlsen in great style!> |
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| Apr-29-06 | | Atking: Well played by Van Wely. He got an advantage from the opening and Magnus tried to counter. It 's possible that Magnus overestimated f file and outestimated c file with the exchange 14. ...BxNc3. But after 14. ...cxd5 15.Qd3 White looks a bit better. |
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| Apr-30-06 | | JordanKwiatek: Suprises me how clearly Van wely is the underdog. Magnus is on absolute fire though! Go Magnus Carlsen |
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| Apr-30-06 | | EmperorAtahualpa: Pictures of the round 1 match:
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| Apr-30-06 | | CapablancaFan: I'm surprised no one has said it yet, but Van Wely has Carlsen in virtual zugzswang. The king can't move, the knight can't move (because of a pin), if the queen moves it will be captured. Even if black plays 41...fxg3 42.e6! would be the response. This IS zugzwang! I'm sorry people, I like Magnus too, but he lost this one badly. Excellent play by Van Wely. |
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| Apr-30-06 | | technical draw: <Capafan> If 41...fxg3 then the simple 42.Rc6 puts an end to the conflict. |
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| Apr-30-06 | | Jarlaxle: Where is Carlsen from?
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Apr-30-06
 | | WannaBe: <Jarlaxle> http://www.fide.com/ratings/card.ph... Norway. |
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| Apr-30-06 | | Elixir of Life: Carlsen is... DESTROYED ... in this match. He needs to improve his posisional play. :( :( |
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| May-01-06 | | acirce: Very bad game by Carlsen. Outplayed right from the opening. |
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| May-02-06 | | notyetagm: <CapablancaFan: I'm surprised no one has said it yet, but Van Wely has Carlsen in virtual zugzswang. The king can't move, the knight can't move (because of a pin), if the queen moves it will be captured. Even if black plays 41...fxg3 42.e6! would be the response. This IS zugzwang!> Very good point. Another example of a pin producing zugzwang, like the famous Alekhine vs Nimzowitsch San Remo 1930 game. |
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May-02-06
 | | tamar: <I'm surprised no one has said it yet, but Van Wely has Carlsen in virtual zugzswang.> Virtual zugzwang maybe, but not zugzwang.
The definition of zugzwang is chiefly that the person whose turn it is to move would obtain a worse position having to move than were it his opponent's turn to move. (Hooper & Whyld) In the final position of this game, if Carlsen were able to pass, Van Wely would win even more easily by playing 41 Qd3 Pass 42 e6 than 41 Qd3 fxg 42 e6 |
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| May-02-06 | | technical draw: Again not 42.e6 but 42.Rc6 wins faster. |
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May-02-06
| | tamar: Hmm, 42 Rc6 is better. At least Van Wely can reflect on this game, where he showed
definite superiority.
The course of the match is eerily like Morphy's encounters in Europe. Early troubles, then no more losses. |
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| May-02-06 | | CapablancaFan: <technical draw> <Again not 42.e6 but 42.Rc6 wins faster.> You are right about Rc6, but e6 also wins. |
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