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Apr-18-08
 | | Honza Cervenka: This pretty game somewhat resembles Keres vs Botvinnik, 1941 |
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| Apr-18-08 | | JG27Pyth: Aronian has future World Champion written all over him IMO. Bobak Zahmat says "He can become a legend" ... time will tell, but I agree. |
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| Apr-18-08 | | DarthStapler: Oh wow |
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Apr-21-08
 | | Domdaniel: <Kevin86> -- <2676-I bet the rating suffered by this fiasco!> Unfortunately, the fiasco-ness of a game has no effect on the players' ratings. Neither does the brilliance of a win. A win is a win, a loss is a loss, a draw is a draw, and the system doesn't care how they were achieved. In this case, Aronian was rated nearly 100 points higher. GMs use a low K-factor - the part of the equation that dictates how many points can be won or lost per game. Very roughly, I'd say Aronian gained about 6 points for this; and Sokolov would've dropped from 2676 to 2670. It would be interesting to have a rating system with bonuses for brilliancies, or even for winning with Black. But if it gets down to extra punishment for blunders, I'd be in real trouble... |
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| May-22-08 | | justapatzer: would'nt 13...Na2 be a killer and end the game? |
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| Jun-06-08 | | ezmerin: Yes, justapatzer, it would. 13...Na2 14. axb4 and Black can resign. Nothing Black ever looked for. |
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| Jan-27-09 | | RobertLangdon: If not a chess player Aronin could be someone like Einstien(Actually his get up,attitude tells that).Pure genius! |
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| Feb-20-09 | | notyetagm: <LIFE MASTER AJ ANNOTATES>: http://www.geocities.com/lifemaster... |
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Mar-08-09
 | | LIFE Master AJ: Haha! A fan just sent me an e-mail about this game. I thought it looked familiar ... (I honestly did not remember annotating this particular game!). |
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| Oct-10-09 | | seagull1756: My God, is Qc2 Nimzo refuted? :)))) |
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| Oct-24-09 | | AuN1: poor sokolov, playing aronian and giving him king's bishop, knight and rook odds. |
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| Feb-21-10 | | vonehsreg: If 14.nf3 then 14...0-0-0 15.e3 15... d4!!!! 16.nd4 16...rd4 17.ed4 17...re8 18.be5 18... re5!
if in tht line 16. ed4 16...rd4!!!17.nd4 17...re8 |
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| Feb-21-10 | | vonehsreg: instead of 111. bg3 maybe nf3 is better |
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| Apr-11-10 | | Kinghunt: Am I right in thinking that 14. e3 would have left white with an excellent game? |
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| Nov-17-10 | | Hesam7: <Kinghunt: Am I right in thinking that 14. e3 would have left white with an excellent game?> No. 14. ... O-O-O and we have P Vavrak vs V Popov, 2009 and Yang Shen vs T Kosintseva, 2009. |
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| Feb-01-12 | | kiiuglik: i dont understand.. can someone explains why sokolov didnt play 16...bxa5? |
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Feb-01-12
 | | Sastre: 16.bxa5 allows 16...Rxc5 17.Nf3 (17.Qb1 Qc3+) Rxc1+ 18.Rxc1 Qb2. |
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| Apr-21-12 | | PeaceRequiresAnarchy: It's worth saying this again:
When the game finished Aronian's clock was down only 1 minute. Taking into account the 30 second increment, this means that it was his turn for only 10 minutes and 30 seconds during the game. Not bad! |
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Oct-25-12
 | | TheAlchemist: I read that van Wely, perhaps unhappy at being relegated to a lower board due to his bad form prior to the Olympiad, found this game particularly funny and of course Sokolov didn't like that at all. I don't know if it's true, but apparently Sokolov was close to punching him. |
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| Jan-13-14 | | chesswar1000: god, I would love to see the faces of both players after this game! |
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| Apr-02-14 | | SpiritedReposte: What a fine way to sustain the initiative move after move. |
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| Oct-02-17 | | Vollet: I suppose that after
20.Rd2 Rc1+
21.Rd1 Qc2
22.Qd4 Nc3! |
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| Mar-28-18 | | Spy72: I wonder why so far nobody has commented that "Ivan the terrible" is definitely a faulty title for this game.
Kudos of course to Aronian, but also to Sokolov for resigning without making a last move with a K-side piece,which would destroy a bit the beauty of the final position. |
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| Oct-29-18 | | Chessonly: Nice Info. I also find interesting summary of Qc2 variation here: https://www.chessonly.com/nimzo-ind... |
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Dec-04-20
 | | Korora: What good is a fork if a pin prevents one of the captures while the other capture hastens your end? |
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