| Jul-19-21 | | Diana Fernanda: No comment?, poor year of Caruana. We want to see new people |
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Jul-19-21
 | | saffuna: A back-and-forth game, one having the advantage then the other, then back. Analysts say 32...Nd6 would have maintained the advantage. I thought Caruana could hold on. Looks like 41. Qc4 was an error, but it still looked difficult for black to convert the win. |
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Jul-19-21
| | saffuna: Daniel King analysis: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pdr... He says Caruana now drops below 2800. |
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Jul-20-21
 | | fredthebear: Here's the live action video call: https://www.bing.com/videos/search?...
(might have to turn up the volume) |
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Jul-20-21
| | fredthebear: Another video, World #2 vs #124: https://www.bing.com/videos/search?... |
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| Jul-20-21 | | Ulhumbrus: The move 12...Ndf6 removes the N from the queen side and leaves the other knight misplaced. This suggests switching the attack to the queen side by 13 Rb1 Two differences between this game and the game Botvinnik vs Keres, 1952 which we can assume that Caruana knows about are that in that game Keres does not play ..Nh5 to exchange the dark squared bishops and in this game Black answers the move f3 with ...c5. Black's isolated d pawn matters less if White has in return a backward e pawn. |
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| Jul-20-21 | | virginmind: At first I thought the purpose of allowing 27.Bxf1 was 28.gxf6, but I was considering black retreats the bishop to b5 (so white can continue with Nxd5 and some strong attack). Fritz shows me black simply retreats the bishop to c4 instead, so d5 cannot be captured. Still, like that, white has an equal game - but probably with difficult to calculate single lines. |
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| Jul-20-21 | | Saniyat24: I don't get why Caruana moved his queen on b2 in move 50...! |
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Jul-20-21
| | saffuna: Jumabayev: "On move 30 he offered a draw, but I thought I was already much better and I refused it..." Draw offers really should be official and noted on the scoresheet. |
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Jul-20-21
 | | Troller: Draw offers are noted as (=) on the scoresheet. But there is no pgn code for this I guess. |
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Jul-20-21
 | | MissScarlett: <Draw offers are noted as (=) on the scoresheet.> I'm not aware of this practice. |
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| Jul-20-21 | | Z4all: It's a FIDE rule, but lacking in the original PGN standard. See FIDE rule 8.1.5:
https://handbook.fide.com/chapter/E...
PGN should just add draw offered by [White|♗lack] after move. (More interesting, though unwanted, automagic by Daniel just above) |
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| Jul-20-21 | | Z4all: add ... -> add comment { draw offered by [White|Black] } |
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Jul-21-21
| | Troller: I think the rule has been there for quite some time. Of course, it always depends on the rules a certain tournament is played under; probably not all national federations have this as part of their rule book. I have noted draw offers at least since 2007 when I started playing again and IIRC also during the nineties. In this particular game the FIDE rules would apply of course, so the draw offer is presumed present on the score sheets. Another matter is that pgns are often generated from the DGT boards nowadays so these should have a button for "draw offer" installed to make it smooth. That sounds like a cheap and easy solution... |
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Aug-31-22
 | | Breunor: Stockfish doesn't like Caruana's exchange sacrifice, but it is only costing less than half a pawn: 1) =0.00 (33 ply) 27.Rf2 Bc4 28.Rb2 Ne6 29.Nge2 Qe7 30.Nxe6 fxe6 31.Qg5 Qd6 32.Nf4 Nd7 33.Nxg6 hxg6 34.Qxg6+ Kh8 35.Bxc4 dxc4 36.Qh6+ Kg8 37.Qg6+ 2) -0.43 (32 ply) 27.g5 Nfe8 28.Nxd5 Bxf1 29.Kxf1 Rb5 30.e4 Ne6 31.Ba4 Rxd5 32.exd5 Qxd5 33.Bxe8 Qxf3+ 34.Kg1 Rxe8 35.Ne4 Nxg5 36.Nxg5 Rxe1+ 37.Qxe1 Qg4+ 38.Qg3 Qxd4+ 39.Kf1 Qd5 40.Nf3 b3 41.Qb8+ Kg7 42.Kf2 Qc5+ 43.Ke2 Qc4+ 44.Ke3 Qc3+ 45.Ke2 h5 46.Nd2 b2 47.Qb7 h4 48.Qe4 Qc5 49.Qxh4 Qb5+ 50.Kf2 b1=Q 51.Qd4+ f6 52.Nxb1 Qxb1 53.Qd7+ Kh6 54.Qh3+ Kg5 55.Qe3+ The losing move does appear to be 41 Qc4 an Saffuna said above: 1) =0.00 (38 ply) 41.Qd2 Nf4+ 42.Kh4 h6 43.Nf5 Ng6+ 44.Kh3 Kh7 45.Qxb4 Nf4+ 46.Kh4 Ng2+ 47.Kh3 2) -2.55 (37 ply) 41.Qc4 h5 42.Kg2 h4 43.Kh3 hxg3 44.hxg3 Kg7 45.Qxb4 Rf3 46.Qb7+ Kh6 47.Qb8 Re3 48.Kg2 Rxe4 49.Qd6 Re3 50.Kf2 Rd3 51.Qc7 Rf5+ 52.Ke2 Rxd4 53.Ke3 Rdd5 54.Qc3 Rfe5+ 55.Kf2 Rd1 56.Qf3 Rd2+ 57.Kf1 Red5 58.Qe3+ Kh7 59.Qa7+ Rd7 60.Qc5 R7d3 61.Qc7+ Kh6 62.Qc5 Rd1+ 63.Kg2 R3d2+ 64.Kh3 Rd5 65.Qe3+ Kg7 66.Qa7+ Rd7 67.Qb6 R1d2 68.Qe3 R7d3 69.Qe4 Rd5 41 Qd2 draws |
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Aug-31-22
 | | An Englishman: Good Evening: Have never seen a Q & 3P vs. 2R & N before; fascinating struggle. 55...Black to Play is an amusing finisher and would constitute a nice puzzle some day. |
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| Aug-31-22 | | goodevans: <41...?> Black to play would also make a great puzzle.
click for larger viewOne that Caruana evidently failed to solve OTB. |
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| Aug-31-22 | | GlennOliver: O Lord, Punbaya ... |
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| Aug-31-22 | | morphynoman2: 55... Rd3! is nice. |
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Aug-31-22
 | | Honza Cervenka: Instead of 28. Rxf1 white could have played 28.gxf6 with idea 28...Bc4 29.Bxc4 dxc4 30.Qh6, and now black cannot play 30...Qxf6? for 31.Ne4 Qf5 (after 31...Qd8 or 31...Qe7 white can win easily with 32.Ng5 +-) 32.Nd5! with threats 33.Nf6+ and 33.Ne7+. After better 30...Ne8 white can continue with 31.Nf5 gxf5 32.Kh1 Qxf6 33.Rg1+ Qg6 34.Nxg6 etc. |
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