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Hans Niemann vs Vasyl Ivanchuk
Tournament of Peace (2023), Zagreb CRO, rd 3, Nov-24
Russian Game: Classical Attack. Mason-Showalter Variation (C42)  ·  1-0

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Nov-24-23  EvanTheTerrible: Another very clean game by Niemann where he takes down a legend and from a position where you wouldn't expect it. After 14. Bf4, there are 106 games in the lichess database, 100 of which ended in a draw.

I'm not sure what would have been preferable, but 22...g5 seemed to be the first source of problems for Ivanchuk. 30...Kh7 instead of Kg7 is confusing, given that it allows white to plant his rook on f6.

I hope Ivanchuk is able to return to form soon. He's lost a lot of rating recently and has fallen out of the top 100.

Nov-24-23  dehanne: Ivanchuk is more interested in draughts these days.
Nov-25-23
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  tamar: MVP goes to the rook who made the circuit f1-h1-xe1-e5-f5-f6-xh6-d6-d8
Nov-28-23  jerseybob: <EvanTheTerrible: <...I hope Ivanchuk is able to return to form soon. He's lost a lot of rating recently and has fallen out of the top 100.> Chucky's now 54, an age I would gleefully sign up for, though for top-flight chess it's a little long in the tooth. But Lasker won 2 tourneys at a comparable age, in 1923 and 1924, so there's always hope.
Nov-28-23
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  perfidious: Lasker, Anand and Korchnoi are the exceptions who prove the rule: tough old lions who played at a high level for a very long time.
Nov-30-23
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  fredthebear: Video analysis by Robert Ris: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SX...
Jul-16-24  kereru: 12.g3 has become standard since Vallejo introduced it at Aeroflot in 2016, but it isn't covered in any of my old books. Can anyone explain the idea behind it? (Yes I know it's the engine's first choice, that's not what I'm asking).
Jul-16-24
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  nizmo11: One idea seems to be to protect the knight with the King(!), so that after Qc2 white has ...Bxf3+ Kxf3. Bacrot vs X Bu, 2017. I vaguely remember this was analyzed somewhere.
Jul-16-24  kereru: It seems correspondence players discovered it some time around 2010 and it found its way into GM play from there. Does seem quite an odd way to break a pin, but that very idea (retake with the king) occurred in Baklan vs M Costachi, 2016.
Jul-16-24  FM David H. Levin: <kereru: 12.g3 has become standard since Vallejo introduced it at Aeroflot in 2016, but it isn't covered in any of my old books. Can anyone explain the idea behind it?>

<nizmo11: One idea seems to be to protect the knight with the King(!), so that after Qc2 white has ...Bxf3+ Kxf3.>

12.g3 also allowed White's king to vacate the back rank, which permitted 22.Rh1.

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