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Wei Yi vs Peter Svidler
Tata Steel Masters (2018), Wijk aan Zee NED, rd 2, Jan-14
Gruenfeld Defense: General (D80)  ·  1/2-1/2

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Jan-14-18  Gregor Samsa Mendel: I think black has an impregnable fortress set up here.
Jan-14-18  Taxman: White may be thinking of getting his king to e8 and ganging up on the f7 pawn that way.
Jan-14-18  Gregor Samsa Mendel: White's bishop is the wrong color for the h-pawn, which makes it harder to win.
Jan-14-18  boz: White's task isn't made any easier by the fact that his bishop is the wrong color.
Jan-14-18  ChemMac: White's only negligible chance is to win a pawn and later get one of the winning positions with R+B vs R, because if rooks get exchanged the B is the wrong colour for promoting the h pawn. Perhaps Wei Yi wants to enjoy being a Bishop up a bit more.
Jan-14-18  Taxman: There are some positions where the B + wrong RP can still win, if the weaker side has double NPs, e.g. Short vs Kasparov, 1989. The idea is to force the NP to advance by zugzwang, whereupon the RP can capture and convert itself into a winning NP.

However I'm pretty sure that that trick won't work here.

Jan-14-18  ChessHigherCat: A 124-move draw. Glad I didn't suffer through that!
Jan-15-18  Robyn Hode: Wonder how many time Svidler played Rf6.

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