Sep-05-12
 | | Eyal: This was the game that decided the China-Armenia match. Interesting how White's position collapses like a house of cards after the "aggressive" 16.f5? (and next 19.Bxh5? which is just suicidal, but by that stage the position is already quite difficult). The fact that Black hasn't castled turns out to be an asset rather than a liability, with the pressure along the h-file provided by the rook on h8. |
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| Sep-05-12 | | ex0duz: Great Wang Yue! You won it for China this round(although of course it's a team effort), and probably one of the most important wins for China in the tourney so far! Go China, go Wang Yue! I hope you get your ratings back and play more international tourneys, because i think Chinese players are more used to your style, and i think it's more effective against those who you never play against(or rather, train with). Nd7 was good idea.. i'm guessing Movsesian didn't expect him to play so aggressively(in answer to his own overly 'aggressive' 16. f5). Nd7 capitalized, and then Wang Yue made it look easy. Was f6 the only real 'error', and if it was, how bad was it exactly? What is the evaluation after 16. f6? |
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Sep-05-12
| | Eyal: With 16.f<5> Houdini's evaluation switches from ca. +0.4 (after 16.Nc4, the comp's top recommendation for White) to ca. -0.5. As I mentioned, 19.Bxh5 is another mistake, after which White seems to be losing by force - best is apparently 19.e6(!), to slow down Black's own attack which follows from 19...e6. Btw, that's why Houdini likes an immediate 18...e6 (with the queen coming next to g5) a little better than Nd7. |
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| Sep-05-12 | | Naniwazu: This game has so many great moves, I don't know where to start.. 9...h5 is an interesting way of handling this variation (preventing g4 after Bf5). 12. a4 is another excellent move which forces b4 thus clearing the c4 square for the Bishop after the exchange of Knights. 14...Be6 is an excellent move which reroutes the Bishop to d5 where it binds Black's position together. 16...Bxe5 creates fatal pawn weaknesses in White's camp and 18...Nd7 followed by 19...e6 is just fantastic giving up 2 pawns (!) in order to clear the first rank. To top it all off the coup d'etat 23...Nd3 opening up a discovered attack on h2 by the Queen and Rook. |
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Sep-05-12
| | Eyal: <12. a4 is another excellent move which forces b4 thus clearing the c4 square for the Bishop after the exchange of Knights.> Or for the knight. But funnily, with the way the game developed, forcing this pawn to b4 turns out to be White's undoing, since the fact that the white king cannot escape via d2 to c3 after Qg3 & Rh1 decides the game in Black's favor... |
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| Sep-05-12 | | ex0duz: <This game has so many great moves, I don't know where to start.. 9...h5 is an interesting way of handling this variation (preventing g4 after Bf5). 12. a4 is another excellent move which forces b4 thus clearing the c4 square for the Bishop after the exchange of Knights. 14...Be6 is an excellent move which reroutes the Bishop to d5 where it binds Black's position together. 16...Bxe5 creates fatal pawn weaknesses in White's camp and 18...Nd7 followed by 19...e6 is just fantastic giving up 2 pawns (!) in order to clear the first rank. To top it all off the coup d'etat 23...Nd3 opening up a discovered attack on h2 by the Queen and Rook.> Yeah. I really liked the 14-15th move of black and that bishop maneuver from f5-e6-d5. It's such a 'Wang-Yue-positional-style' move if there is such a thing, heh. I would probably never do that OTB, but then again, i'm just a patzer :p @Eyal, your analysis is much appreciated. One of the best posters on this website. Yeah, i was thinking that letting white play 19.Bxh5(or 19. Rxh5.. why can't white play this after a fast 18.e6 from black?) was a bad idea, but i guess not for the right reasons.. thanks for the explanations man. Much appreciated as always. |
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Sep-06-12
| | Eyal: <ex0duz> Thanks for the kind words. And to clarify - I said it was a "bad idea" to let White play <19.e6>, an opportunity which he missed. After 18...e6 (instead of Nd7 as played) 19.Rxh5 Rxh5 20.Bxh5 Qg5 followed by Nd7-Nxe5 Black is doing very well. |
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Kibitzing
sac: 23...Nd3