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Hikaru Nakamura vs Alexander Grischuk
"Nak on Wood" (game of the day Jan-23-2011)
Tata Steel Group A (2011), Wijk aan Zee NED, rd 1, Jan-15
Queen's Gambit Declined: Ragozin Defense (D38)  ·  1-0

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Jan-15-11  Marmot PFL: Qf3?! why give black Rxe3? either white has decided its bad for black, or he got nervous and couldn't find anything better
Jan-15-11  waustad: tactical blitz we'll never keep up
Jan-15-11
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  kingscrusher: Wow Wow Wow! Nf5+ trick!! Nice one! Missed that completely!
Jan-15-11  SamAtoms1980: And here comes the show of NINJUTSU
Jan-15-11  madlydeeply: Ha rook sac i love it Naka is such a brawler!
Jan-15-11  Marmot PFL: White gets the rooks off but also loses pc3. with just rook pawns left i seriously doubt he can win.
Jan-15-11
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  kingscrusher: White has 32. Qe4 here - centralising the Queen quite powerfully.
Jan-15-11  madlydeeply: There are always checkmate threats with Q+N Naka is going to wear him out
Jan-15-11
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  An Englishman: Good Evening: I resign; I have no idea what's going on here.
Jan-15-11
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  Open Defence: engines might give White a big plus here...
Jan-15-11  Marmot PFL: Trading queens was just awful.
Jan-15-11  jmactas: This is easy now that black's pawn structure is a wreck, white can queen the a pawn.
Jan-15-11  SamAtoms1980: Naka ippon, baby.
Jan-15-11  Marmot PFL: Nakamura need this win, as he has not beaten any top players recently other than Kramnik
Jan-15-11
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  kingscrusher: Wow! Congrats - very gutsy play by Naka! Fantastic for chess!
Jan-15-11
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  ketchuplover: How does he stop the f pawn?
Jan-15-11
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  Open Defence: refill my drink and i see White is winning...
Jan-15-11
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Jan-15-11
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  kingscrusher: I guess Kxc3 and Nxc4 - and the knight is well prepared to stop black's f pawn. The White king can herd the a-pawn.
Jan-15-11  Marmot PFL: Ponomariov also blunder in time trouble and old Anand will trap his queen
Jan-15-11
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  Open Defence: im curious to see if the commentators thought the line with Bxg4 was the best, cant imagine it was, opened up too many lines for Whites heavy pieces (Queen and Rooks) and even if it was objectively ok, you would have to calculate really well to play it and Grischuk's follow up moves seem to show he had not....
Jan-15-11
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  Open Defence: well played by Nakamura
Jan-15-11
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  chancho: Looks like Naka is getting mighty comfortable playing in these high level events.
Jan-15-11  OneArmedScissor: anymore live games?
Jan-15-11  BobCrisp: Maybe 18...Bxg4 wasn't objectively that much worse than trying to tough it out, but it seems symptomatc of a certain laxity in <Grischuk>'s approach to chess.
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