| Aug-20-09 | | cracknik: FIRST! masterful defense by Nielsen. |
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| Aug-21-09 | | Whitehat1963: I'm confused (not unusual, of course). What happens on 26...Bg4? Queen moves, 27...f3 (or depending on white's reply, 27...Bf3)? |
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| Aug-21-09 | | paavoh: <Whitehat> <What happens on 26...Bg4? Queen moves...> How about 27.f3? |
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| Aug-21-09 | | Whitehat1963: Gotta hate simple chess blindness. One more thing for my list on the <I Hatem> page! |
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| Aug-21-09 | | returnoftheking: 19..Nf4 must have been pure despair.
Or maybe Stellwagen thinks he is the new Tal.
Nielssen should have erased that dream then-this was just a walkover. |
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Aug-21-09
 | | Troller: According to the offical site, Nielsen was actually "pessimistic" about his position in the post mortem. But maybe he was being nice to Stellwagen, it's always easy to complement your opponent when you've won. The Ne2-g3-f1 maneouver nicely covers the few threats Black has got for his two pieces, so the attack does not seem to ever have been really dangerous. |
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| Aug-21-09 | | returnoftheking: Probably being nice.. Nielsen was walking around and had a gigantic reserve of time compared to Stellwagen. He looked extremely confident and it's not very hard to see that Nf4 contains no real threats. I doubt it's even necessary to take the piece, if white leaves it there the pawns at g4 and g5 still obstruct blacks pieces and there are no real entry fields. Moves like Nh3+ can be countered with Ng1, and white will win on the other side of the board.
I think it was a very good game of Nielsen but Stellwagen played very weak. |
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| Aug-21-09 | | Knight13: Botvinnik once played 9. f4. I still think that's the better move. |
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Aug-21-09
| | Troller: As Nielsen points out in a video, on 24..f3 25.Qf1? would lose to the fantastic 25..Qxh2+!! 26.Kxh2 Rh6+ 27.Nh5 Rxh5+ 28.Kg3 Bh6! and unstoppable mate. Stellwagen should probably have tried it, but 25.Nf1 holds everything together. |
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| Aug-21-09 | | waustad: If you think of the Scandinavians you know, how many would badmouth the person he just defeated? I'm sure there are examples, but it really isn't in character. |
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| Aug-22-09 | | returnoftheking: I know a +_2000 rated player from Norway..
It was interesting that that Nielsen left the playing room many times during the game. I think well over 10 times. So I was waiting for the accusations but no such thing..(fortunately) |
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| Aug-22-09 | | Knight13: <It was interesting that that Nielsen left the playing room many times during the game. I think well over 10 times. So I was waiting for the accusations but no such thing> Every G/120 game I play OTB I leave like 15 times each game. No one had any suspicions. Nothing. So I don't see why it's worth bringing this up. It's not like Kramnik in 2006 when he would leave like 100 times per game. |
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| Aug-22-09 | | returnoftheking: For one I am glad no one said that he cheated, but during the game I thought..oh oh, what if..
When watching such a tournament I sometimes get a bit bored and then it
s mildly interesting to see the differences in behavior. Ljubo only got away from the board regulary after he knew he had a draw, Hou Yifan was at the board during the entire game !! and Svidler always went to sit in an other chair just half a meter away when waiting for her to move. Those are just the pointless observations you make when in between moves. In an earlier version of this tournament it was interesting to see te difference in behavior of Carlsen (wiggling and moving a lot) and Karjakin (very silent). Of course the position may have to do with it, when you are easily winning like Nielsen was during most of the game it's hard to keep focused. |
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| Aug-24-09 | | mastermind7994: wow this game is great |
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