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Magnus Carlsen vs Vladimir Kramnik
Corus Group A (2010), Wijk aan Zee NED, rd 9, Jan-26
Catalan Opening: Open Defense (E04)  ·  0-1

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Jan-26-10  DrGridlock: < Mulyahnto: Can white take the exchange here instead of h7 after NxN? >

Rybka, on short calculation, showed the positions were pretty close.

Jan-26-10  tallinn: Materialistic as I am I would have preferred Bxc8. What's wrong with that? I see something like Rxc8 Qxc8 Nb6 Qb7 Nxe5 fxe Nc4. The only nasty thing for white here is the e,d pawn center of Black. Which seems to appear now anyway.
Jan-26-10  whiteshark: If white doesn't retreat his ♗h7, <...b3> could be a nasty zwischenzug.
Jan-26-10  cielodrive10050: Danilov is bulgarian...and he knows something about russian tricks (fischer and Korknjoy knew too..)...so all he did was protect Topalov against the accusation of cheating...the russians had said that Topalov was cheating...5 years later Topalov is still over 2800 so it proves he was not cheating
Jan-26-10  ILikeFruits: who shall...
win this...
motha...
Jan-26-10  BishopofBlunder: One advantage I see to 22.Bxh7+ is it helps expose black's king a bit more. That can often be more useful than a slight material advantage (i.e., winning the exchange). Though I probably would have taken the rook, too.
Jan-26-10  Eyal: <Materialistic as I am I would have preferred Bxc8. What's wrong with that? I see something like Rxc8 Qxc8 Nb6 Qb7 Nxe5 fxe Nc4.>

Black can play [23...] Qe6, preventing Nc4 and trapping the knight. Even without it, Black would have a very strong bishop pair, and White very weak light squares.

Jan-26-10  acirce: <cielodrive> I agree, Danailov is Bulgarian.
Jan-26-10  Marmot PFL: Bxc8 d3! was strong - Qc1 Qxc8 Nxe5 de2
Jan-26-10  BishopofBlunder: Those black pawns look awfully menacing.
Jan-26-10  acirce: Absolutely nothing wrong with that Carlsen's Facebook status, but he must be aware of and ready for the fact that some people will inevitably misunderstand it (deliberately or not).
Jan-26-10  grebenarov: Kramnik must have read what Carlsen said cause he is playing unusually aggresively. I like that
Jan-26-10  Marmot PFL: It's hard to believe a top level GM would cheat. If he was caught his career would be finished.
Jan-26-10  percyblakeney: I thought he wrote the crush like a bug thing to show that he had read the long discussion on the crush like a bug expression at chessgames.com the days before, but maybe he didn't.
Jan-26-10  whatthefat: Fascinating position.
Jan-26-10  cielodrive10050: anybody has Rybka evaluations ?
Jan-26-10
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  Mateo: 25...Rh8!? sacrifices a pawn.
Jan-26-10  A Karpov Fan: these two r cooking up a classic rivalry imo. a superlative game so far
Jan-26-10  Intrepid Spiff: <cielodrive10050: anybody has Rybka evaluations ?>

http://livechess.chessdom.com/site/

http://chessok.com/broadcast/?key=c...

Jan-26-10  Karpova: <cielodrive10050: anybody has Rybka evaluations ?>

<(26. Qxe5+ ♖ybka Aquarium (0:03.18) +0.00|d15 equal chances)>

http://chessok.com/broadcast/?key=c...

Jan-26-10  Marmot PFL: Intereting idea to give up e5 with check. He had several safe ways to protect it.
Jan-26-10
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  Mateo: After 26.Qxe5+ Bf6 27.Qe4, White has an extra pawn. However, there must be compensation. One point is that the Knight remains out of play and a Rook is tied to the defence of that Knight.
Jan-26-10  badest: <acirce: Absolutely nothing wrong with that Carlsen's Facebook status...> That's for sure. It is just a reflection of his maturity ... (or lack of it... ;)
Jan-26-10  grebenarov: <A Karpov Fan: these two r cooking up a classic rivalry imo. a superlative game so far > Great game indeed!
Jan-26-10  Karpova: The Rybka 3 line might be interesting:

26. Qxe5+ Bf6 27. Qe4 Re8 28. Qg4+ Kf8 29. Be4 Rc7 30. Bf3 Qd6 31. Qh5 Be5 32. b3 d3 33. Rac1 c4 34. exd3 cxb3 35. Rxc7 Qxc7 36. d4 Bxa4 37. dxe5 Qxe5 38. Qh4 Qc3 39. Qh6+ Kg8 40. Qg5+ Kf8 41. Qh6+ ♖ybka Aquarium (0:04.48) +0.00|d16 equal chances

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