Jan-18-24
 | | Stonehenge: 9. Nf3 = J Liang vs M Ouellet, 2022. |
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Jan-18-24
 | | perfidious: Time for another long slog once Black breaks with either ....c5 or ....e5. |
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Jan-18-24
 | | offramp:  click for larger view
It's interesting to have a middle game with no bishops. |
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Jan-18-24
 | | offramp: The old fashioned system was the minority attack, with Qa4, b4, Qb3, a4, b5 etc.
That is all too slow... white would be checkmated way before that. |
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Jan-18-24
 | | Mateo: 10...Nfg8!? is unexpected. |
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Jan-18-24
 | | offramp: 10...Ng8! Very good. The idea must be ...f5 then ...f4. |
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Jan-18-24
 | | Mateo: <offramp: 10...Ng8! Very good. The idea must be ...f5 then ...f4.>I think Black rather anticipates e4 theatening e5 and is relocating his King Knight to e7. |
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Jan-18-24
 | | offramp: I believe that white is in last position, and Giri is at the top. |
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Jan-18-24 | | whiteshark: <offramp: It's interesting to have a middle game with no bishops.> --> Game Collection: 58b_middlegames w/o BB (Bishop-less) |
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Jan-18-24 | | whiteshark: Any Game without bishops is losing some colours... |
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Jan-18-24
 | | perfidious: In the normal minority attack, Black looks to get the LSBs off, play for ....b7-b5 and exploit the weakness at c4. The pawn on d3 kills that idea stone dead. |
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Jan-18-24 | | vonKrolock: The Anti-Clericalist System |
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Jan-18-24 | | vonKrolock: If Black manage to play c6-c5, the game will look drawish |
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Jan-18-24 | | vonKrolock: ...but: well, white will not be able to dispute the vertical c, so black is better ... |
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Jan-18-24 | | whiteshark: one open file to trade them ♖♖♖♖ all? |
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Jan-18-24
 | | An Englishman: Good Morning: Wouldn't surprise me if both players feel dissatisfied with their positions, no matter what the silicon monsters might say. White can't feel happy with the a-pawn, Black can't feel happy with the open c-file. |
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Jan-18-24
 | | tamar: Karpovian play by Prag. Meaning good but hard to fathom |
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Jan-18-24
 | | offramp: The game looks level.
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I would expect Giri to somehow try to win, against the tailender. |
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Jan-18-24
 | | offramp: I didn't notice that both players were 2700+: in fact Pragg is 2743, Giri is 2749.
That is close!! In fact they are 0.00218% close to each other. |
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Jan-18-24
 | | stevemcd87: At move 31, White has about 1min30sec per move until move 40 |
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Jan-18-24
 | | tamar: Now White has the file and the pin on the diagonal |
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Jan-18-24
 | | offramp: White has a serious pin on the ♘g6.
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I suppose Giri will try to swap the queens off. |
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Jan-18-24
 | | offramp: The queens have come off - that's okay.
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Botvinnik said that Knight endings are the same as pawn-endings.
It is really easy to go wrong in pawn-endings. |
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Jan-18-24
 | | offramp: I therefore predict that Giri will win this game at move 54. |
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Jan-18-24 | | whiteshark: Draw! |
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