| Feb-01-08 | | percyblakeney: 3. g3 is an unusual move, and Petrosian seems to be the by far strongest player to have tried it in this database. The early exchange sacrifice doesn't give him much, and he is quickly outplayed by Nakamura. |
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| Feb-01-08 | | kasp: Yes.3.g3 isnt a very good move.. also played in S Dovliatov vs Mamedyarov, 2006 and white was outplayed by Mamedyarov.3.d4 is much more better |
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 | | alexmagnus: <kasp> You forgot to mention that this is the <only> of 9 games in the database in this line won by black:))) |
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| Feb-01-08 | | percyblakeney: One should maybe not use engines in the opening, but it's unusual to see Shredder give black the advantage already after white's third move, it's half a pawn after the fourth, and after his thirteenth white is already more than two pawns down. |
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| Feb-06-08 | | Gameoverziggy: That exchange sac looks bad, white will not have enough pressure down the b file to get any counter play |
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| Feb-08-08 | | Eyal: From Nakamura's blog:
<So after having won three games against some weaker players, I knew that in round nine I would be playing a fairly strong GM. As luck would have it, I was paired against Tigran L Petrosian (no relation to the famous world champion) who is very well known in the online world as "Tigrano" on ICC. Although we might appear to be enemies on ICC, in real life we are friends and have known each other since we first met during the Lausanne Young Masters in Switzerland back in 2004. Tigran was having a relatively good tournament at this point having rebounded from an early loss to Stefanova in round 4. The opening in our game was rather bizarre as it started out with 1.e4 Nf6 2.e5 Nd5 3.g3!? Although this has been played before, neither Tigran nor I had ever played it with either color. I continued with 3…d6 4.exd6 Qxd6 5.Bg2. For anyone who was watching this game, it must have been weird to see me having used up a half hour before I made my fifth move. Here, I took a very deep think because I honestly could not figure out which variation to go for. If I played 5…Nf6 6.d4 c6 we would have transposed into a Scandinavian with 4…Qd6 (similar to Nakamura-Caspi, Gibraltar Round 6 2008) in the end I chose to play 5…Nc6 6.Nc3 Nxc3 7.bxc3 e5 8.d3 Be7 9.Ne2 Be6 and we have transposed into some sort of weird Vienna Opening, the only real difference being that I have the queen on d6 as opposed to d8 where it normally is. The game continued in a fairly standard manner until 13…Bh3. For those who are wondering, …Bxc4 was possible as well but after Nc3 followed by Be3, white will have tremendous pressure on the queenside. Therefore, …Bh3 made more sense from a practical point of view. However, here, Tigran came up with the extremely novel idea of 14.Bh1!?!!? Although I have yet to analyze this thoroughly with any of the engines, I am quite convinced that this sacrifice, although probably losing, offers white great practical chances. There were many different spots in this game where we both could have tried different ideas but the position was probably about equal until Tigran played 26.Rd3?! During the game I saw this idea of 26.Qd1 Bc5 27.Nxc7! Rxc7 28.Bxc7 Kxc7 29.Qd5 it seems that at this point the best I have is 29…Nd7 30.Rf7 Rf8 31.Qb7 and the game would have been a draw. However, after a few more inaccurate moves in time pressure, I was able to regain the initiative and win with relative ease. After this round, I was feeling rather euphoric and this was also in large part due to the fact that Chinese GM Xiangzhi Bu played a little bit too passively in order to try and secure a draw with Ukrainian GM Zahar Efimenko and ended up losing. So despite Bu’s having a whole one point lead with only two rounds to go, now everything was up in the air…> (http://www.hikarunakamura.com/main/...) |
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| Apr-07-08 | | The Chess Express: Tigran Vartanovich Petrosian died in 1984 and Tigran L Petrosian was born in 1984. Maybe TLP is the reincarnation of TVP. He certainly plays like. |
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