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Sep-24-07 | | badest: Bummer... :( |
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Sep-24-07 | | Landman: acirce called it, bravo. |
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Sep-24-07
 | | Richard Taylor: Anand was winning - he shouldn't have taken a draw. |
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Sep-24-07
 | | WannaBe: Took these guys long enough, I already said draw back on page 4! |
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Sep-24-07 | | ajile: <outplayer: 41...Kb4 can't be played for 42.Rb1+>
What about 42..Nb3? |
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Sep-24-07 | | Rodrigo Gutierrez: Can someone explain? |
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Sep-24-07 | | Eyal: <tarek1: The position is still very unclear. Once the king goes to b4 White has the plan Qg8 - Qa2 I have no clue what's going on.> Maybe that's the way Anand felt as well, so he took the draw... |
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Sep-24-07 | | Boomie: <41...Kb4 can't be played for 42.Rb1+> 41...Kb4 -0.37/17 |
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Sep-24-07 | | you vs yourself: <41.Ra8+ After Kb4 42.Qg8! with Qa2 idea may yet save the day for white. Apparetnly Anand didn't want to risk in such a good tournament situation, so a draw was agreed> http://www.chessdom.com/wcc-mexico-... For Kramnik, this was a must win game. He couldn't get it done and Vishy is happy to keep his 1pt lead. |
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Sep-24-07 | | Rodrigo Gutierrez: <White has the plan Qg8 - Qa2 I have no clue what's going on.> But 42... Qd5 takes care of that, right? |
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Sep-24-07
 | | Peligroso Patzer: <Rodrigo Gutierrez: <Eyal: <Peligroso Patzer: It seems to me that 39.Rdc1 Ne2 40.Ra8 would have been close to > True - after 40...Kb6 41.Qc8 Rb7 42.Rb1! That's why black should have blocked the b file with the knight instead, by 39...Nb3!> But what about 40... Nxc1?> 39.♖dc1 ♘e2 40.♖a8 ♘xc1 41.♕c8+ ♔b6 42.♖a6#
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Sep-24-07 | | VargPOD: IM Kalin Karakehayov on Chessdom.com: <The accurate Ra8! looks like a move Kramnik will find... And the "computer" Qg8 may be even better...
40.Rb8? Ka5 Now Kramnik is in serious trouble...
41.Ra8+ After Kb4 42.Qg8! with Qa2 idea may yet save the day for white. Apparetnly Anand didn't want to risk in such a good tournament situation, so a draw was agreed. Non the less the Indian showed how dangerous he really is... I think we can call him the new World champion already.> |
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Sep-24-07 | | acirce: <I think we can call him the new World champion already.> This is a very dangerous thing to say. There are four rounds left. In just ONE of them Gelfand can catch up. |
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Sep-24-07
 | | keypusher: Nice game, well-played by both. It will take a miracle to stop Anand now. Well, he is a great player and a great guy, so good for him! |
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Sep-24-07 | | chessic eric: <Rodrigo Gutierrez: <White has the plan Qg8 - Qa2 I have no clue what's going on.> But 42... Qd5 takes care of that, right?> And then 43.Qf8+,Qd6 44.Qg8 etc. =/= |
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Sep-24-07 | | you vs yourself: IM Karakehayov edited his analysis from <40.Rb8? Ka5 Now Kramnik is in serious trouble...> to <40.Rb8+?! Ka5 Now Kramnik is in bit of a trouble...> |
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Sep-24-07 | | notyetagm: Make sure you check out the end of Aronian's win over Grischuk: a beautiful tactical sequence. |
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Sep-24-07 | | yalie: i have played through rybka's lines and it does look like 41..Kb4 gives Anand an advantage. If Anand, for some reason does not win this tourney, he will regret not playing on here. |
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Sep-24-07
 | | Peligroso Patzer: <you vs yourself: IM Karakehayov edited his analysis from <40.Rb8? Ka5 Now Kramnik is in serious trouble...> to <40.Rb8+?! Ka5 Now Kramnik is in bit of a trouble...>> After 40. ... ♔a5, I think Kramnik was only "in trouble" in the sense that he had few winning chances in a game that, in light of the tournament situation, was essentially must-win for him. |
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Sep-24-07 | | you vs yourself: <Peligroso Patzer> I don't think that's what he meant by that. If you look at the IM's initial remark, he gave 40.Rb8 a ? and probably thought Anand's Kb4 Nb3 and pawn push plan gives black a big edge. But after he found Qg8, he changed the annotation from ? to ?! |
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Sep-24-07 | | yalie: eveb after qg8 .. kramnik is in trouble |
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Sep-24-07 | | yalie: now rybka seems to think Rb8 is better than qg8
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Sep-25-07 | | ahmadov: It is nice to see two of your favourite players drawing in such a game with full of fight... |
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Sep-25-07 | | you vs yourself: For 41 moves, they fought ruthlessly. After the game, the two chess titans analyzing it but this time in a much different mood: http://www.chessbase.com/news/2007/... |
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Sep-25-07 | | einneu: I wonder why Kramnik did not play 35.Qh6 taking the g5 pawn.Maybe he prefered controlling the 8th rank. Also what is the refute to 39.Rdc1? And what about 38.h4 instead of h3. Now black has to spare a vital defensive tempo with 38...g:h4 39.Rdc1 (even stronger now) or let the h pawn become a dangerous threat if 38...a4 39.h5 |
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