| Apr-19-16 | | suenteus po 147: Just blitzing through the moves, it looks to me like a situation where general rules cannot be followed in all circumstances. Giri gets two pieces for his rook and ends up being better off with all the pawns on the board to inhibit rooks. He doesn't even touch his queen's rook all game, yet manages to win. |
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| Apr-19-16 | | EhsanBalani: Giri didn't move his a1-Rook whole game! |
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| Apr-19-16 | | Jim Bartle: Will the jokes come to a merciful end now? |
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| Apr-19-16 | | notyetagm: <Jim Bartle: Will the jokes come to a merciful end now?> Yes, those stale Giri jokes will now *draw* to a close. :-) |
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| Apr-19-16 | | Sokrates: The Rook manoeuvre initiated with 33.-♖d5 was a surprisingly bad judgement at this level. Covering the a-Pawn with b6 looks ugly, but I think it was necessary. |
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| Apr-19-16 | | technical draw: Eljanov has a 2765 ELO but he played like a patzer. Losing the exchange in a simple tactical move then trapping his own rook. But he'll probably beat me anyway. |
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Apr-19-16
 | | chancho: Giri decided to redraw his approach to the game, and got himself a fine win. Congrats Anish.
You, young man, are top shelf, or should I say: a <top drawer> amongst the best players today. |
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| Apr-19-16 | | truefriends: < technical draw: Eljanov has a 2765 ELO but he played like a patzer. Losing the exchange in a simple tactical move then trapping his own rook. But he'll probably beat me anyway.> When Giri wins suddenly the other player "played like a patzer"?!
Even Svidler was impressed by Giri's play during the commentary... And he didnt lose an exchange (it was B+N for R+pawn), but whites pieces worked better together... |
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Apr-20-16
 | | PawnSac: < Sokrates: The Rook manoeuvre initiated with 33. ..Rd5 was a surprisingly bad judgement at this level. Covering the a-Pawn with ..b6 looks ugly, but I think it was necessary. > in fact, 33. ..b6 was the only try.
Here is the stockfish 7/64 analysis at 44 ply after 33.Nc4 .. 44/63 1:52:23 5,765,641k 855k -2.48 b7-b6 Bd3-e4 c6-c5 Nc4-e3 Ke7-f7 c3-c4 Rd8-d7 Bh2-g1 Rb8-d8 Ne3-d5 Kf7-g7 Bg1-e3 Rd7-f7 Ra1-a3 Rd8-d6 Ra3-b3 Kg7-h6 Rb3-b5 Kh6-g7 Be3-g1 Rf7-d7 Rb5-b3 Kg7-h8 Bg1-e3 Rd7-f7 Be4-g6 Rf7-g7 Bg6-f5 Rg7-f7 Bf5-e4 Rf7-g7 Ke2-d3 Rd6-d8 Kd3-c2 Rd8-d6 Be3-g1 Rg7-f7 Be4-f5 Kh8-g7 Rb3-b5 Rf7-f8 Bg1-e3 Rf8-d8 Rb5-b3 Rd8-f8 Bf5-e4 Rf8-f7 after playing thru this line it is clear that although black is given an eval of -2.48 , white is not winning, but only drawing position. and btw, for all you Giri fans out there, you will be relieved to see that the result SHOULD have been a draw. It was only thru his opponents blunders that he was forced to win this game. LOL seriously tho..
look at the position after ..b6 34.Be4 c5
click for larger viewone must find it bazaar that EVERY black piece is on black. The DSB is nothing but an overgrown pawn. White also has 3 lovely white squares (b5, d5, or f5) for his knight (or the LSB). One might also intuitively think that such a position must be losing for black, and avoid it at all costs. This in fact might be exactly what black was thinking that motivated him to play Rd5, in which case all his intuition drove him to avoid the very line that DRAWS. I suppose this is just another one of life's ironies, in which our human assessment can go totally wrong. |
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| Apr-20-16 | | devere: <PawnSac:>
It's a win for White, not a draw, with Na3, Nb5, Bg1, and b4. Certainly White can't play c3-c4 which locks the pawn formation.19...h5?? was a losing move in an equal position. And after that, Eljanov embarrassed himself by getting his rook trapped on c5. It does look like a patzer-like maneuver, not something from a man who almost made the 2015 World Cup finals. |
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| Apr-20-16 | | Ulhumbrus: 9...g5 exposes Black's king side but it is up to White to find a way to take advantage of it. 14...Nh5 and 15...Nf6 loses two tempi with the knight After 19 Ng4! Black's N on e4, pawn on e5 and f6 square are suddenly all targets. |
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Apr-20-16
 | | Richard Taylor: Earlier in the game Eljanov could have tried 7...Ng4 which is slightly better overall. Later 19...Kg7 is about = it keeps the N from getting to f6. Then Eljanov drifted. He didn't play like a patzer, his mistake (common enough) was to drift from a good plan (although his position was not good from about move 19 when he misjudged the R "sac" for two pieces).
By the time he lost to the skewer which I saw coming myself, he was in trouble. Things weren't good. But I think there may have been better moves about move 30 .... But Black's tactical error of omitting Kg7 or overlooking the small combination by Giri meant his position was hard from then on. Overlooking the skewer was more or less the icing on the cake... |
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| Apr-20-16 | | thegoodanarchist: Bang the Pavel! |
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