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Jeffery Xiong vs Fabiano Caruana
US Chess Championship (2016), St Louis, MO USA, rd 7, Apr-21
Spanish Game: Morphy Defense. Fianchetto Defense Deferred (C70)  ·  1/2-1/2

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Apr-21-16  RookFile: Unusual play. Pillsbury would play this defense sometimes, but here the bishop ends up on e7 rather than g7.
Apr-21-16  SirRuthless: It feels like black was much better right before the first time control but instead of going in and attacking the loose a pawn or white's king,, he balked and started retreating. White might even have some fantasies about advancing his K side pawns and maybe creating some pressure on black. Good result for the youngster to draw arguably the second best player in the world with white.
Apr-22-16  ndg2: The critical position after 33.Rd2.


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With 33...Ree7 black could have kept the tension. Xiong would have been forced now to isolate his king side pawns with g4 / fxg4 e.p. just to save the knight on h5 and Caru would win back atleast one pawn. In the longer run, white' pawn weaknesses on both sides of the board would have been decisive.

Apr-22-16  ndg2: Instead Caru allowed Xiong to sac the piece and it was a more or less forced draw shortly afterwards.
Apr-22-16
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  lostemperor: An impressive game from Xiong the debutant in the strongest US championships surviving the attack from the top seed. From the diagram black played 33. .. Re1 when white came up with the surprising but fantastic looking 34. a4?! Perhaps not a good move but intriguing! I still trying to find out the exact meaning of why since the pawn is en prise..

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