| May-19-15 | | Ulhumbrus: Tomashevsky concedes two bishops for two knights with little or no compensation. Karjakin is not a player to take such a liberty with, and eventually wins. |
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| May-19-15 | | Marmot PFL: The king march from moves 40-60 was the highlight of the game. |
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| May-19-15 | | haydn20: <Ulhumbrus> I can't agree with your assessment. White plays passively and after 19...Nb6 Black has a small plus. After 27...Bxf3, Black's N's rule the center and 32...h5 ends White's Kside dreams. Finally, after 56...Kh6, White is stuck with the bad a-pawn. At least until then, Black had a draw in hand and better play. |
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| May-19-15 | | haydn20: Oops, misread my notes. 56...Kg8 was intended. After 57 Kd1 Black should probably play 57...g6. |
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| May-19-15 | | haydn20: 69...Nc8?! is the beginning of a bad idea; just Kg6 and White has nothing. Opening the position benefits the B's, so Black should keep it closed; thus 75...Nf5 is preferable to 75...bxa4?! Finally, 77...Re8+? loses--he could still play Nxg3 and might be OK. Another sad example of playing a draw into a loss--not that any of us have ever done that. |
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May-19-15
 | | perfidious: <u: Tomashevsky concedes two bishops for two knights with little or no compensation. Karjakin is not a player to take such a liberty with, and eventually wins.> Typical irresponsible Reinfeldian rubbish emanating from this quarter. As noted by <haydn20>, White was actually worse in this middlegame and had no advantage even after queens came off. |
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May-19-15
 | | Penguincw: Yeah, 69...Nc8 turned into what was supposed to be an interesting (two bishops vs. two knights), yet dead endgame into an open one that benefited white. < Classical games: Sergey Karjakin beat Evgeny Tomashevsky 3 to 0, with 3 draws. > Another dominating matchup (Jakovenko now leads 4-0, with 3 ties against MVL, who also won today). |
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| May-19-15 | | SirRuthless: This just goes to show chess is a game of matchups. Ratings are just a generalization. In that way chess is like golf. The course might have a really high slope rating but if it fits your eye, you might always play well there even without completely owning your swing that week. |
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| May-19-15 | | bobthebob: <The king march from moves 40-60 was the highlight of the game.> Absolutely. "The king is a fighting piece!" |
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| May-20-15 | | latvalatvian: I bring my king out right away--right after the first move. 1. e4 e5 2. Ke2--games are always at least 175 moves long. |
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| May-20-15 | | haydn20: < latvalatvian: I bring my king out right away--right after the first move. 1. e4 e5 2. Ke2--games are always at least 175 moves long.> LOL. 1. d4 d5 2. Kd2, which also blocks two pieces, may be "better". |
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| May-20-15 | | latvalatvian: Once when I played this 2. Ke2 business my opponent managed to transpose the game into Berlin defence on move 30. I lost because I was in book again. |
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May-20-15
| | perfidious: <latvalatvian: Once when I played this 2. Ke2 business my opponent managed to transpose the game into Berlin defence on move 30....> You made him wait long enough!
<....I lost because I was in book again.> Well do I know <that> feeling.... |
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May-20-15
 | | Gregor Samsa Mendel: <latvalatvian>--You do realize that your "novel" opening is the well-studied WannaBe Gambit. The Kibitzer's Café |
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| May-21-15 | | morfishine: White's King walk from <g1> to <a2> then back to <g2>, then back over to the Q-side finally settling in on <d2>, is either the silliest thing I've seen or the most profound maneuver in the history of chess ***** |
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| May-21-15 | | ajile: Nice play by White to open the center for the 2 bishops. Black probably should have kept his pieces more centralized to inhibit White from playing moves like 70.e4 and 71.f4. Black does better with the 2 knights in closed positions. |
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| May-22-15 | | morfishine: <ajile> Good observation...fairly breathtaking White's WSB circuitous route thru <f7> running rings around the Knights, literally, then scooping up the h-pawn & finally settling in on the h1-a8 diagonal to coordinate with the DSB |
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May-30-15
 | | thegoodanarchist: <bobthebob: <The king march from moves 40-60 was the highlight of the game.> Absolutely. "The king is a fighting piece!"> Well, it can be, but in this game the king march was just wandering around in his own camp. It certainly wasn't fighting much. |
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May-30-15
| | Gregor Samsa Mendel: <thegoodanarchist>--The king was traveling around the board giving inspirational pep talks to all the pieces. Given the result of the game, the strategy obviously was successful. |
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Jun-02-15
| | thegoodanarchist: <Gregor Samsa Mendel> What a funny post! Thanks for the humor. |
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Aug-31-18
| | perfidious: <GSM>, it obviously worked in the end. (laughs) |
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| Sep-01-18 | | Howard: Personally, I'm not even remotely close to being an expert at endgames, but one can't help but feel that White should have won this ending much quicker. Two B's vs two N's ?! |
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