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Peter Svidler vs Levon Aronian
Corus Group A (2007), Wijk aan Zee NED, rd 6, Jan-19
Spanish Game: Closed Variations (C84)  ·  1/2-1/2

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Jan-19-07  acirce: Chessbase says Svidler "sacrificed" the exchange, but in reality he blundered it.

<"At the climax of the struggle, Peter, who isn’t in perfect health at the moment (“I seem to make one bad mistake in every game now” -- Svidler) blundered the exchange with 25.Be3?, (see diagram 3) trapping his own rook on a7. Luckily for him he had just enough time to consolidate, and with his previously gained material was in no real danger. With both sides ready to bring their kings to the center, and without any realistic aspirations for progress by either side, the Armenian offered a draw which was accepted at once by the Russian. Svidler: “if we had started from the final position, I might have played on, but considering how we got to it, I thought it was a good time to call it a day”.>

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Jan-19-07  Kangaroo: Had Svidler lost the game, we would say that <he blundered ... >. Had he won it (which was quite impossible), the appropriate statement would have been: <Svidler had brilliantly sacrificed the exchange>, but since it was a draw, both of the expressions are equally appropriate ... .

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