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Anish Giri vs David Howell
Corus Group B (2010), Wijk aan Zee NED, rd 8, Jan-24
Gruenfeld Defense: Exchange. Modern Exchange Variation (D85)  ·  1-0

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Jan-24-10  dakgootje: As I posted at the Corus-tournament page:

Very convincing play by Giri, even though -looking at the time used unto around the 23rd move- there might have been a fair deal of home preperation. By that point Giri had virtually the same amount of time left that he had started with [due to the 30s-increments per move], while howell was down to about 30 minutes.

Howell was worse right out of the opening, still he apparently wanted to drag it out a little longer..

Jan-24-10  luzhin: 18.Ng5!! was a devastating TN -- previously White had played 18.Qxe4; but Black is absolutely lost after Giri's improvement. Howell should rethink his stubborn adherence to the Grunfeld Defence, or at least develop an alternative: at the moment he presents a stationary target to 1.d4 players
Jan-24-10  notyetagm: <luzhin: <<<18.Ng5!! was a devastating TN -- previously White had played 18.Qxe4; but Black is absolutely lost after Giri's improvement.>>> Howell should rethink his stubborn adherence to the Grunfeld Defence, or at least develop an alternative: at the moment he presents a stationary target to 1.d4 players>

Wow, thanks for the great info.

Jan-24-10  notyetagm: 32 ?
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Jan-24-10  maxxowar: 32... Bxf4? 33 Rh8#
Jan-24-10  Eyal: <Very convincing play by Giri, even though -looking at the time used unto around the 23rd move- there might have been a fair deal of home preperation. By that point Giri had virtually the same amount of time left that he had started with [due to the 30s-increments per move], while howell was down to about 30 minutes.>

<18.Ng5!! was a devastating TN -- previously White had played 18.Qxe4; but Black is absolutely lost after Giri's improvement.>

Yeah, apparently one of the players in this game analyzed A Moiseenko vs T L Petrosian, 2009 and the other one didn't...

Apr-23-10
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  Richard Taylor: <Eyal> Thus did Fischer and Kasparov and others win games!
Dec-11-10  notyetagm: https://webcast.chessclub.com/icc/i...
Apr-12-23  EvanTheTerrible: Howell brought this up during coverage of game 3 of the 2023 World Chess Championship as an example of why in some cases it's better to know nothing about an opening than something. Howell says he blitzed out the first ~20 moves, but the line he followed was exactly what his notes said not to do.

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