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Anish Giri vs Alireza Firouzja
Tata Steel Masters (2021), Wijk aan Zee NED, rd 12, Jan-30
French Defense: Steinitz. Boleslavsky Variation (C11)  ·  1/2-1/2

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White to move.
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Jan-30-21  ndg2: Oh my, this will go down as one of the most decisive games in Tata (and for Giri) not being decided. Finally error by white was 61.g4 instead of 61.♔a4.
Jan-30-21
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  An Englishman: Good Evening: Thought Giri would play 17.Qh3 followed by 18.Ne4 and have all sorts of fun on the King side. What discouraged him?
Jan-30-21
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  moronovich: <An Englishman: Good Evening: Thought Giri would play 17.Qh3 followed by 18.Ne4 and have all sorts of fun on the King side. What discouraged him?>

..Qxg2+ followed by dxNc3

Jan-30-21
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  An Englishman: Good Evening: Thanks. Good thing they didn't invite me to this competition.
Jan-30-21
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  moronovich: <An Englishman > Good evening to you too !

Well it is easy to overlook this move.
And I am also happy they didn´t send an invitation :)

Jan-31-21  Ulhumbrus: Peter Leko thought that taking the h7 pawn and so allowing Black's e pawn to advance was an error and the computer evaluations suggested that it at least reduced White's advantage. An alternative is 47 Rd7 pinning the knight. On 47 Rd7 e4 48 Bc6 Rxb4+ 49. Ka3 the pinned knight falls.

The computer evaluations may have indicated that 56 a6 was another error, allowing Black's knight to take advantage of the pin on the b pawn to go to c5 and keep White's king out of a4. Instead of this 56 Ka4 avoids the pin and the check 56...Nc5

Feb-12-21  Poisonpawns: https://youtu.be/nGSjdt2SQf0 video analysis

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