Levon Aronian vs Viswanathan Anand (2008)

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Levon Aronian vs Viswanathan Anand
Amber Tournament (Blindfold) (2008) (blindfold), Nice FRA, rd 8, Mar-23
Queen's Gambit Declined: Capablanca - General (D30) · 1-0

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Mar-23-08		Augalv: click for larger view / Black played 14..f6 forcing White to go for 15.e6 Nb6 16.Rc3?!.. Very interesting, but not so good, most of the players would choose 16.Bd3 with some Ng6+hxg4 motives. 16..Be6,17.Re3 Kd7 18.Bd3 Re8?! Wrong.18..Bd6! and White faces serious problems.He is pawn down, Nh4 suddenly has no future on h4, jumping on g6 would be waste of time. 19.Ng6 Rg8 20.Nf4.. Now it's hard to estimate, but surely White can hope for nice compensation here. 20..Bh6 21.Bh7 Rgf8 22.Nb3 Bf7 23.Nc5 Kc8 24.Nce6 Bxe6 25.Nxe6 Rxe6 26.Rxe6 Nc4 27.hxg4 hxg4 28.Rh4? Major slip.28.Kf1 with idea Re1+Qe2 is right choice, but this is really hard to notice on Blindfold game. click for larger view 28..Nxb2? No, no, no.28..Kd7! 29.Re2 f5! and suddenly Bh7 gets into serious trouble.Unusual picture! 29.Qc2 Nc4 30.Bf5 Kb8 31.Rxg4 Qc1+? 31..Nxa3 with check on c1 on next move.See the difference? White lost a3 pawn in this line. 32.Qxc1 Bxc1 33.a4.. Serious advantage for White in this position. 33..Bb2 34.Ke2 a5 35.Bc2 Na3?! Intro into wrong plan, if there ever was a plan here.On the other hand, what to do for Black here? He is just lost, he can't pust his pawns, f6 is weak, it takes time to relocate Bb2.Too many problem. 36.Bb3 f5 37.Rh4 Rf7 38.Kd3.. Yep, Black Knight cannot get out, Anand will lose another pawn. 38..Bc1 39.Rh1 Bg5 40.Ra1 Nc4 41.Bxc4 dxc4+ 42.Kxc4 f4 43.g4 f3 44.Re5 Bh4 45.Rh1 Bxf2 46.Rf5 Rd7 47.Rxf3 Bxd4 48.Rd3 c5 49.g5 Rg7 click for larger view 50.Rg3 1-0 Extracted from blog about Sergey Karjakin.

Mar-24-08		An Englishman: Good Evening: One thing I've noticed about modern chess at the highest levels is bizarre games like this one, where the moves almost appear random in nature. The position after move 13 looks like something a pair of Class C players would produce, and yet each of these guys would win 100-plus straight games against me at my best (which was a looooong time ago). Chess at the Super-GM level used to make sense, even with players of such different styles as Karpov and Kasparov. Now it's advanced so far that it's become just baffling.

Mar-25-08		SniperOnG7: <An Englishman> It's like they stab here and there and voila, it's a win. I've noticed the same thing too. For example, in the French you often find Black suddenly playing ...g7-g5 (going for a Kingside pawn storm while Black's King remain in the centre or end up 0-0-0!) or something random like that, when in the past the Kingside should be White's playground and Black should focus on the Queenside. Modern chess is truly like two duelists armed with a dagger each...searching for chinks in the opponent's armour or stance.

Sep-13-08		notyetagm: I just absolutely adore this crazy <BLINDFOLD> game. 23 ♘b3-c5+ click for larger view I really cannot believe that this insane position started as a QGD but not a Semi-Slav!

Apr-13-09		notyetagm: Can you believe this was a blindfold game?

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