| Jan-03-11 | | bezzazz: Why not 12. .... hxg5? Black wins material without adequate compensation for White? |
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Jan-03-11
 | | HeMateMe: Short must have forgotten there was a Biship on g2? |
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Jan-03-11
 | | Check It Out: Amazing that Short is down by 3 (!) pieces at only move 16. |
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| Jan-03-11 | | Shams: I don't understand why white didn't continue in KIA fashion. |
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| Jan-03-11 | | zluria: What's up with this wacky game? It's hard to believe that White played 12. 0-0-0 and that Black replied Qa6. I guess there was a transmission error. Any way you look at it, though, Nigel was really trippin' here. |
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| Jan-03-11 | | Eyal: <zluria: What's up with this wacky game? It's hard to believe that White played 12. 0-0-0 and that Black replied Qa6. I guess there was a transmission error.> No, it actually makes perfect sense. After 12...hxg5 13.Nxg5 White has very good compensation, and in case of 13...Bxg2 there's 14.Nb5 (a move White doesn't have anymore after Qe3 in the game) - threatening Nc7+ & Nxf7 - 14...Na6 15.Nxe6! f6 (15...fxe6 16.Qxe6+ Kd8 17.Rhe1 Nf6 18.d7) 16.Nf4+ Ne5 17.Nxg2. But even a move later, it could have been an interesting game after 14.Rhe1 (instead of 14.Nxg5??), when White certainly has strong attack for the piece. My guess is that Short mistakenly thought he was mating after 17.Rhe1 (note the importance of 12...Qa6!, vacating the c8 square for the king). Perhaps Short got once again delusional about winning a brilliancy prize, like when he committed suicide against Anand in London (Short vs Anand, 2010) with 35.Ng5? and 37.Bxg5??, missing 38...Qd6... At any rate, a pity it had to end like that, because until move 14 Short was playing quite a creative attacking game - even if not 100% sound. |
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| Jan-03-11 | | jmboutiere: after 11 moves black has equalised
12.0-0-0 and Qa6 are all right.
14.Rhe1 may be much better than 14.Ng5
again,15.Rhe1 seems better than 15.Ne6 |
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| Jan-03-11 | | bezzazz: How could he continue with a win after 14. Rhe1?
Can you please show me some winning variations after that move? |
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| Jan-03-11 | | Eyal: No one said White is winning after 14.Rhe1. But he's obviously much better developed and has an initiative (after, e.g., Bf1 and Nxg5), while Black's position is very cramped and he has trouble in developing. White has at least practical chances, especially if Black doesn't play with computer accuracy, which is much better than giving up another piece for nothing (as it turns out) with 14.Nxg5. |
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| Jan-03-11 | | polarmis: <Eyal: My guess is that Short mistakenly thought he was mating after 17.Rhe1 (note the importance of 12...Qa6!, vacating the c8 square for the king)> That's very close to what Movsesian said after the game. He thought Short forgot that after 12...Qa6 the king has the c8 square: http://chess-news.ru/node/1268 |
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| Jan-04-11 | | 4tmac: GM Short is really playing some fun chess lately. O-O-O was a good try but it ran into the wise Qa6. Still, as was pointed out, with 14♖he1! it would have been good. A shame, especially since most lines featured the ♘♘ after all. I like 14.Rhe1 g6 15.Nxg5 Bh6 16.Bd5! |
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| Jan-05-11 | | Hesam7: <Eyal: But even a move later, it could have been an interesting game after 14.Rhe1 (instead of 14.Nxg5??), when White certainly has strong attack for the piece.> After 14. Rhe1 Black has 14. ... Rh6!:
click for larger viewHere Stockfish 1.9.1 gives the following @ depth 27:
15. Bf1 b5 16. a4 Qb7 17. Nxg5 bxa4 18. Bh3 Nb6 19. Qd3 Qd7 20. f4 Kd8 21. f5 e5 22. Qf1 a3 23. Ne6+ fxe6 24. fxe6 Qe8 25. e7+ Bxe7 26. dxe7 Kc7 27. Rxe5 axb2+ 28. Kb2 N8d7 29. Ree1 Rb8 30. Kc1 Kb7 31. Bg2 a6 32. g4 Rc8 (-0.80) |
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| Jan-08-11 | | Ulhumbrus: <Hesam7> I suggest that in order to find all of the moves comprising a computer like defence, Black would have had to make all of the reasons for the computer moves (including the incomprehensible looking ones) a part of his knowledge and skill. In the variation given the sacrifice 23 Ne6+ puts the d6 and f5 pawns to work, by preparing to replace the N on e6 with the f5 pawn, so forming a phalanx with the d6 pawn. |
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Feb-04-11
 | | kingfu: 13 QxQ NxQ
14 Be3
Does this hold? Did Short hallucinate some sort of brilliancy sacrificing THREE pieces for positional beauty? |
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