Mar-14-11 | | thom: Have they shaked hands? |
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Mar-14-11
 | | HeMateMe: just an NBA "fist bump". |
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Mar-14-11
 | | Penguincw: Endgame Statistics:
♔♖♘♙♙♙ vs. ♔♖♘♗♙♙
The superior side (in this case white) wins 51% of the time. A draw occurs 42.2% of the time.
The inferior side (in this case black) wins 6.8% of the time. |
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Mar-14-11 | | zealouspawn: penguin, your material doesn't match up with the game. |
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Mar-15-11 | | Hesam7: Kramnik's poor form shows here. Some suggestions for Black: 29. ... f5, 32. ... Nd5, 34. ... Qd7, 35. ... Qd7 and 38. ... Rf6. |
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Mar-15-11 | | Ulhumbrus: After 12..Bxc5 Black has some advantage in space in return for the isolated d pawn, but in addition Black has the bishop pair as well. This suggests that Black has the advantage. I would not expect Kramnik to lose the Black side of this game in a normal game. An alternative to 17...Bb6 is 17...a6 preventing the move Nb5 in reply to the Rook advance...Rd6. |
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Mar-15-11 | | ozmikey: <After 12..Bxc5 Black has some advantage in space in return for the isolated d pawn, but in addition Black has the bishop pair as well.> It looks like a classic Tarrasch-style position where Black should be doing well, but Topalov actually manages to get quite a good position out of the middlegame...at least until the bizarre 26. Rd3. After that Black seems to be better for a while, until the miscalculation of 34...d3. |
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Mar-15-11 | | fab4: <Hesam7: Kramnik's poor form shows here. Some suggestions for Black: 29. ... f5, 32. ... Nd5, 34. ... Qd7, 35. ... Qd7 and 38. ... Rf6.> After 29..f5 there's 30.f3
32..Nd5 looks ok,.. after 35..Qd7 white has 36.Qf3. and just blockades with the kt on d3 after 34..Qd7if black does'nt move the pawn forward to d3. 39..Rf6 looks good. |
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Mar-15-11
 | | Penguincw: < zealouspawn: penguin, your material doesn't match up with the game. > Really?I'm showing it for the final position. |
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Mar-15-11 | | minasina: <Penguincw: < zealouspawn: penguin, your material doesn't match up with the game. > Really?I'm showing it for the final position.>
Black knight is too much, you see? |
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Mar-15-11
 | | Penguincw: < minasina: <Penguincw: < zealouspawn: penguin, your material doesn't match up with the game. > Really?I'm showing it for the final position.> Black knight is too much, you see?> Ok.I made a mistake.But I'm not going to fix it because I can't.Well,I got the statistics right though. |
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Mar-17-11 | | Hesam7: <fab4: After 29..f5 there's 30.f3> That loses on the spot: 30. ... Qxg3:
 click for larger viewThe e1-rook is hanging so White can't take on e4. And almost all of the ways of defending the rook run in to ... Nc5. After which White loses the exchange because if the d3-rook moves then ... d3 comes with a check. <fab4: just blockades with the kt on d3 after 34..Qd7if black does'nt move the pawn forward to d3.> Well at least Black keeps his pawn! 34. ... Qd7 35. Bg2 Kg7 36. Nd3 Re6 preparing ... Ne4 etc. <fab4: after 35..Qd7 white has 36.Qf3> But then Black at least gets his pawn back: 36. ... Qxh3 and equality is maintained. |
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Mar-17-11 | | fab4: < Hesam7 :That loses on the spot: 30. ... Qxg3:> Ooops! lol
After 35..Qd7 then it has to be 36.Bg2,and it's difficult to see how black can strenghten. You make some good points tho. |
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