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Fabiano Caruana vs Evgeny Tomashevsky
FIDE Grand Prix Baku (2014), Baku AZE, rd 11, Oct-14
Spanish Game: Closed Variations (C84)  ·  1/2-1/2

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Oct-14-14  hoodrobin: A square dance perhaps? (== a draw).
Oct-14-14  Ulhumbrus: White has the bishop pair. Black has an extra pawn but his queen side pawn structure is fractured and his king side pawn structure has been weakened as well by the pawn advance ...g5, making his f pawn backward. White's queen's rook and queen's bishop are undeveloped. If White can complete his development he may have the better of it.
Oct-14-14  Ulhumbrus: Tomashevsky may have chosen a mistaken way to return the pawn. After 31 Bxc6 Rxc6 32 Rxa4 Black's a d and f pawns remain weak
Oct-14-14  chessdgc2: It appears that there are winning chances for both sides although those chances don't exactly meet the eye at the moment. Dynamically equal, seems the best way to label it. White should NOT trade LSB's!
Oct-14-14
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  Penguincw: Hehe. Nice little move there with 31.Be6. Obviously if 31...Qxe6 then 32.d5 wins the piece back (and maybe even the rook on b6).
Oct-14-14  Ulhumbrus: <chessdgc2: It appears that there are winning chances for both sides although those chances don't exactly meet the eye at the moment. Dynamically equal, seems the best way to label it. White should NOT trade LSB's!> Perhaps you have in mind 31 Bxc6 Rxc6 32 Rxa4 Rfc8 threatening ...Rc2 as well as ...Rxc1. If White cannot then answer Black's threats one alternative to 31 Bxc6 is 31 Qf5 inviting Black to do the exchanging by 31...Bxd5 32 Qxd5
Oct-14-14  chessdgc2: Goodness, isn't Caruana cute? 1. Be6!!, not bad for a little devil....Uh yeah, Black can't accept this gift....if he doesn't (!!) He better move that thang on b6!
Oct-14-14  hoodrobin: Maybe a <general> square dance.
Oct-14-14  Marmot PFL: Black has a safe position with extra pawn, but as it's a doubled pawn on the a-file it doesn't look winnable.
Oct-14-14  chessdgc2: 1. Ra3!! This game is getting razor-sharp! Both dudes vying for a win
Oct-14-14
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  Penguincw: Hey everyone! Look! Grischuk's in time trouble. :o He only has 7 minutes to make 15 moves.

P.S. I've always wanted to say that. :p

Oct-14-14  SirRuthless: Ridiculous choice from Tomashevsky to accept a draw here... Caruana now getting reputation draws like Carlsen... Lol.
Oct-14-14  hoodrobin: Did they all agree (in practice) on a general draw?
Oct-14-14  Marmot PFL: <Both dudes vying for a win> lol
Oct-14-14  ossipossi: D-dddraw??
Oct-14-14
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  Penguincw: < SirRuthless: Ridiculous choice from Tomashevsky to accept a draw here... Caruana now getting reputation draws like Carlsen... Lol. >

Well, with the draw, Caruana ensures a tie of first with Gelfand (I believe he has the tiebreaker) and Tomashevsky ensures that he finishes at +1 (he also gains 13.4 rating points). Seems like a win-win for both players. :)

Oct-14-14  chessdgc2: It seems a shame to draw in such a dynamic position....THANKS CHESSGAMES.COM!!
Oct-14-14  Ulhumbrus: If Bronstein's comments on the game Averbakh vs Najdorf, 1953 apply here, Tomashevsky agreed to a draw because he believed his position to be in danger while Caruana did not see exactly how to regain his pawn. Perhaps with reversed colours they would have continued playing.
Oct-14-14  hoodrobin: They're professionals after all.
Oct-14-14  ossipossi: <Ulhumbrus>: wise sentence. Flesh is weak, only Houdini would have keep on fighting, both sides without a care.
Oct-14-14  chessdgc2: Yeah, my girlfriend is professional, too :)
Oct-14-14  Pedro Fernandez: << Marmot PFL>: <Both dudes vying for a win> lol> ``vying''? I didn't know that word, I had written: "Both dudes who compete for a win", so that I have added up a new word to my poor English. BTW my dear friend, were you lost? No body knows about you since long, greetings!
Oct-14-14  chessdgc2: ....and she accepts draws, but they've gotta be straight out
Oct-14-14  Strongest Force: Because I am waiting for this game to end so I can get away from the devises, this game will now probably last another 6 hours:(
Oct-14-14  hoodrobin: Grischuk is not (a professional).
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