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And let's not forget the greatest of them all, that brilliant Congresswoman from New York: <AOC>. And then there's <chessgames>' own <CIO>..!!>">

Hi Gypsy,

Yes at last 37.Rc7 and resigns!!

Remember back here.

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Engines and everyone else wanting 22. Rc7. (He played 22.Bb5)

I think we are sussing Carlsen out. He spots the obvious good move and then looks around a good reason for not playing it, but still threatening to play it.

He is using Nimzovitch's maxim about the threat being stronger than the execution to the full.

He also tampering with Lasker a maxim.

If you see a good move sit on your hands and look for a better move, but don't play it, play something else threatening to play the better move.

Well it's 10 am on the morning of Monday the 8th of July 2019 and I (OK...me and Gypsy) have figured out Carlsen and how to upset him.

Threaten to force him to play good moves.

After this post I'll email the rest of the boys the solution to the Carlsen Problem.

More specifically the move 22 Bb5 prepares 23 d5 in reply to 22...f5 by depriving the black rook on d6 of the square d7 and so preventing the move 24...Rd7 in reply to the zwischenzug 24 Bf4 in reply to the capture 23...exd5.

We certainly need to avoid depending too much, or at all, on computers poorly used. The tournament computers used Stockfish but they stop it analyzing at very low search plies, in the low- to mid-20s ply. At such low depths Stockfish's evaluations are not very reliable and can show wide differences as you pointed out, [+0.68] for 23.d5 after Vachier-Lagrave played 22...f5 and [+1.16] after Carlsen played the exact same move that that the computer evaluated to be the best just one ply earlier.

Stockfish's evaluations at search plies in the 20s tend to swing wildly depending on the position and don't really stabilize until the search plies reach the high 30s or low 40s. To have much confidence in Stockfish's evaluations in the low- to mid 20s is unwise.

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Analysis by Houdini 4 d 22 dpa done

1. = (0.17): 13...Bg4 14.Ke2 Rad8 15.d5 e6 16.Rb5 b6 17.h3 Bxf3+ 18.Kxf3 f5 19.Ke2 exd5 20.Rxd5 fxe4 21.Rxd8 Rxd8 22.Bxe4 Nc4 23.Bc1 Kf7 24.Re1 b5 25.Bc6 a6 26.Bg5 Rd6 27.Be4 Re6 28.f3

Hi P.J.

Unless you are going to be playing Carlsen and his gang on a regular basis I'd not worry too much about where MVL went wrong.

Round about the 2000 level (is that American expert?) you will get theory dodgers who will not play 4.cxd4 and instead have up their sleeve one of the many other 4th moves at White's disposal.Opening Explorer

If I was a 1.d4 player then that is where I'd look about for a line v the Grunfeld. 4.cxd4 it is where the bulk of their knowledge will be, side-step it.

What I am saying is you may find the antidote, say on move 15, but the chances are you may never see it OTB.

Just play chess and don't worry too much what Carlsen is doing to MVL. Master the two move trick, that works in any position from every opening at any level and should you one day find yourself in the Carlsen and Co company then anything anyone here suggests will be of little value. (don't wear Bermuda shorts is sound advice.)