Hikaru Nakamura vs Fabiano Caruana (2014)

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Hikaru Nakamura vs Fabiano Caruana
FIDE Grand Prix Baku (2014), Baku AZE, rd 3, Oct-04
Queen's Gambit Declined: Charousek (Petrosian) Variation (D31) · 1/2-1/2

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Oct-04-14		PhilFeeley: Moves folks! Where did Caruana blow it?

Oct-04-14		Imran Iskandar: Nakamura has to defend his h-pawn in response to the check. If not, Black has a passed pawn that can be defended by his queen at h8.

Oct-04-14		Penguincw: < Moves folks! Where did Caruana blow it? > From what I saw, the eval went to even after 36...Ng2. 36...Nd5, 36...Ne6 and 36...Qe6 were recommended, in that order.

Oct-04-14		mrbasso: Simply 36...Nd5! 37.Nxd5 Qe6 and he is almost winning (and can't possibly lose)

Oct-04-14		mrbasso: totally winning for black was 34...Nh3+ followed by b7-b5 but this was certainly very hard to see.

Oct-04-14		caissafan1963: Kh3, Nxd4 Qb6. Looks drawish.

Oct-04-14		MissScarlett: Fab missed the intermezzo ...Qe6 idea on move 33, so it's no surprise he didn't see it on move 36.

Oct-04-14		Penguincw: This game looks like it's about to end with perpetual check.

Oct-04-14		caissafan1963: White has to be careful here. Black still has some winning chances.

Oct-04-14		Penguincw: 50...Qf2+ and this epic game comes to a close. Good fight by Nakamura to salvage the draw. There are 2 games remaining: Gelfand-Grischuk and Tomashevsky-Kasimdzhanov. Since Gelfand was one of the co-leaders heading into this round, how about see if he can convert his advantage against Grischuk. :)

Oct-04-14		SirRuthless: Caruana was the best from moves 1-31. Nakamura was best from that point forward. Talent beats prep.

Oct-04-14		Penguincw: < Caruana was the best from moves 1-31. Nakamura was best from that point forward. Talent beats prep. > Or how I like to see it: it's not how you start, it's how you finish. :)

Oct-04-14		chancho: And somewhere out there, <SirRuthless> is cackling like an evil genius.

Oct-04-14		Pulo y Gata: <SirRuthless: Caruana was the best from moves 1-31. Nakamura was best from that point forward. Talent beats prep.> I thought it's a draw.

Oct-04-14		SirRuthless: Not really. Nak is in bad shape and Fab has been making massive blunders in all three games. I want Fab to pass Carlsen and Nak deserved to lose today.

Oct-04-14		chancho: Caruana faces Mamedyarov next, and Naka has Grischuk. Gelfand has black vs. Dominguez. Looking forward to tomorrow.

Oct-04-14		HeMateMe: Well, Nak held his own. Well done.

Oct-04-14		rogl: Caruana missed a very difficult win from this position click for larger view The winning line goes as 33...Nh3+! 34.Kg3(Kxf3 Qe6! , white loses a rook)b5 35.Qc2 Qe6! 36.Rxa3 Qg4+ 37.Kh2 Qxh4 click for larger view 38.Rxf3(forced) Nxg5+ 39.Kg2 Qg4+ 40.Rg3 Qxe4+ 41.Qxe4 Nxe4 click for larger view black emerges from the mêlée with two healthy pawns up in a rook endgame.

Oct-04-14		bobthebob: <rogl>. Yes. That is a difficult win from that position but Caruana always has trouble finding the win against Nak.

Oct-04-14		SirRuthless: <<<<<bobthebob> Yes he has had what should have been a winning position 4 or 5 times in the recent past and failed to find the coup de grâce.> It hasn't been due to time trouble but doe to failing to see a tactical opportunity or miscalculating.> Caruana's strengths are in positional chess understanding and preparation. He appears to get weaker as the game goes on. Nakamura is the opposite. His strengths are in the and endgame and weaknesses are in the opening and middlegame.> If Nak solves his opening woes he will crack 2800 even with his occasional middlegame blunders. So often he is behind in the opening in either tempo or position that it has become a severe handicap.>

Oct-04-14		perfidious: It can be amusing to see the usage of 'weak master', not to mention 'weak grandmaster', bandied about in these pages; even the former, while nowhere near GM strength, rank in roughly the top one per cent in the US system.

Oct-04-14		bobthebob: <Yes he has had what should have been a winning position 4 or 5 times in the recent past> That does not appear to be true. There was one game in the recent past (Gashimov) in which he missed the far better move). But Nak also missed a far better move at Tata.

Oct-04-14		SirRuthless: <Perf> Gashimov, Both games in Sinquefield cup, This game...The eval was at least +3.5 for Caruana in a late middlegame or endgame and he has only converted one of them.

Oct-04-14		SirRuthless: And yes you are right in the past year Nakamura has missed some moves but nothing like the overwhelming chances that Fab has whiffed on.

Oct-14-14		rogl: < SirRuthless: And yes you are right in the past year Nakamura has missed some moves but nothing like the overwhelming chances that Fab has whiffed on.> COUGH Carlsen COUGH Zürich...

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