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Nov-16-18
 | | Check It Out: 16 of the first 23 moves have been N moves! |
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Nov-16-18 | | DrGridlock: Love these quiet positional games that come out of the Petrof! |
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Nov-16-18 | | rogge: Caruana is <not> prepared for this :) |
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Nov-16-18 | | vasja: Those mules must be exhausted by now. It is time to exchange them. ;-) |
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Nov-16-18 | | diceman: <Check It Out:
16 of the first 23 moves have been N moves!> I predict a knights of opposite color ending. |
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Nov-16-18 | | boz: Svidler: <Fabi is not surprised by these developments.> |
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Nov-16-18 | | JimNorCal: Fabi needs to go for sharp positions. Every dull positional slog takes MC a half point closer to retaining the title. |
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Nov-16-18
 | | Mateo: <Fifteen of the first 20 moves have involved the knights after 8. Nxe7 Nxe2 9. Nd5 Nd4 10. Na3 Ne6. What a time to be alive. “This is one of the more peculiar openings I’ve seen in a while!” Russian chess grandmaster Peter Svidler grandmaster says.> |
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Nov-16-18
 | | MissScarlett: I'm trying to decide if this will be drawn in 31, 32 or even as many as 33 moves. |
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Nov-16-18 | | PhilFeeley: The Americans are discussing a transmission error - 13. c4 instead of c3. |
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Nov-16-18
 | | Check It Out: Caruana is thinking a lot, he might be out of prep. Carlsen must be grinning to do that to Caruanas beloved Petrov so easily. |
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Nov-16-18 | | Ulhumbrus: My present guess is a draw |
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Nov-16-18
 | | Penguincw: Heh, better late than never.
< Classical games: Magnus Carlsen beat Fabiano Caruana 10 to 5, with 23 draws. > When Carlsen has white, he's +5,-2,=12. |
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Nov-16-18 | | Atking: 14...d5 was it bad? 15.Nc2 Bd6 16.Nd3 c5 |
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Nov-16-18
 | | AylerKupp: The commentators at https://www.uschesschamps.com/2018-... (Seirawan, Shahade, Ashley) showed a "funny" line: 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.Nxe5 d6 4.Nd3 Nxe4 5.Qe2 Qe7 6.Nf4 Nc6 7.Nd5 Nd4 8.Qc4?? Nc3+ 9.Nxe7 Nxc2#
 click for larger view<DrGridlock> So much for the quiet positional games that could come out of the Petroff! |
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Nov-16-18 | | DrGridlock: Crazy time is over ... we now return you to our regularly scheduled programming! |
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Nov-16-18
 | | Mateo: This one should be very likely a draw. |
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Nov-16-18 | | chessdgc2: DrGridlock: :) |
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Nov-16-18 | | DrGridlock: <Ayler> yes, I saw the "crazy" stuff that Seirawan / Ashley were looking at. Opening style has changed in the last 2 games from games 1 through 4. |
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Nov-16-18
 | | WannaBe: <diceman: ... I predict a knights of opposite color ending.> Yeah, one of them will be white and the other one black coloured. |
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Nov-16-18
 | | An Englishman: Good Morning: Happy Friday! So we finally have ourselves a Petroff Defense. The CG database has only 11 games, and Carlsen deviated with 6.Nf4. This does not seem to have flustered Caruana at all. He has fianchettoed the Bf8 before; he might consider doing that again. |
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Nov-16-18 | | sudoplatov: Reminds me of Euwe's conssruction: 1.Nf3 Nf6, 2.Ng1 Ng8 3.Nc3 Nc6 4.Nb1 Nb8 5.Nc3 Nc6 6.Nb1 Nb8 7.Nf3 Nf6 8.Ng1 Ng8..... Call moves 1 and 2 "A" and moves 3 an 4 "B"; then one can make the sequence ABBA BAAB; then repeat backwards and concatenate BAABABBAABBABAAB. Continue, there never is a threefold repetition of move sequences (there are repetitions of positions.) |
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Nov-16-18
 | | Sally Simpson: ***
Edit:
Got 5.Qe2 right again. I should be in commentary box. Carlsen vs Caruana, 2018 (kibitz #29) Let us see if Carlsen can inflict a tangible weakness to grind against, or if he presses too hard to force one Caruana may be the grinder. *** |
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Nov-16-18 | | achieve: Carlsen will be playing here, Very simple improvements will be enough, mark my words. Space. time, as well as piece plavement are in white's favour, might as well press on now. Caruana would very well yo hold the fort. |
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Nov-16-18 | | Atking: 15.Nc2 seems natural 15...NxN 16.BxN Nd5 17.Bg3 Bf5 18.0-0-0 or 18.Kd2 |
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