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Dommaraju Gukesh vs Max Warmerdam
Tata Steel Masters (2024), Wijk aan Zee NED, rd 7, Jan-20
Tarrasch Defense: Schara Gambit (D32)  ·  1-0

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Jan-20-24  Atking: How delicious is this victory, when you saw at move 25 Black has spend only few sec and White has only 25 minutes left. And the top English GM Howell almost supplying in the live "give back the pawn but please don't go on such time pressure. You are obviously plying under an home prep". Around move 40 no more time pressure and Rook ending won like Akiba Rubinstein will have.
Jan-20-24  Atking: True... As much the preparation of the opening by the Blacks was impressive, the move 53...Rg1? is disappointing.
Jan-21-24  cormier: depth=41 | Stockfish 16
+0.49 10. e3 Bxc3 11. Bxc3 Ne4 12. Rc1 Nc6 13. Nf3 Be6 14. Qxd8 Rfxd8 15. Nd4 Bxa2 16. Nxc6 bxc6 17. Ba5 Rd5 18. b4 Bb3 19. f3 Nd2 20. e4 Rd4 21. Be2 Ba4 22. Kf2 Nb3 23. Rcd1 Rxd1 24. Rxd1 Nxa5 25. Ra1 Bb5 26. bxa5 Kf8 27. Rb1 a6 28. h4 Rc8 29. h5 Ke7 30. Ke3 Kd6 Tarrasch Defense: Schara Gambit
Jan-21-24  cormier: depth=53 | Stockfish 16
+5.37 54. Kf2 Rd1 55. Kg3 Rd2 56. Rg5 Kf6 57. Rxg4 Rd1 58. Rf4+ Kg6 59. Rf3 Rd6 60. e5 Rd4 61. Re3 Kf7 62. e6+ Ke7 63. Kh3 Rd8 64. g4 Rf8 65. Re4 Rg8 66. Kg3 Rf8 67. g5 Rg8 68. Kh4 Rh8+ 69. Kg4 Rg8 70. Kf5 Rf8+ 71. Kg6 Rf1 72. Kg7 Rh1 73. Re5 Rh5 74. Rf5 Kxe6 75. Rf6+ Ke5 76. g6 Rh1 77. Rb6 Rg1 78. Kh7 Rh1+ 79. Kg8 Rg1 80. g7 Rh1 81. Kf8 Rf1+ 82. Kg8 Tarrasch Defense: Schara Gambit
Jan-21-24  cormier: depth=59 | Stockfish 16
0.00 53... Kf6 54. Ke2 Rf4 55. Rf5+ Rxf5 56. exf5 g3 57. Kf3 Kxf5 58. Kxg3 Kg5 59. Kh3 Kh5 60. g4+ Kh6 61. Kh4 Kg6 62. g5 Kf7 63. Kg4 Kg6 64. Kf4 Kg7 65. Kf5 Kf7 Tarrasch Defense: Schara Gambit
Jan-21-24  Atking: <cormier> Right 10.e3 seems a more flexible approach as this move has to be played (Indeed Nf3 could be Ne2). And yes, 53...Kf6 is usual technique at this level. So deep opening preparation to end by 53....Rg1?; A comedia dell'arte. I really enjoy it!
Jan-25-24
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  FSR: At move 43, Stockfish 16 says that 43...g4 is best and easily drawing (+.01), but that many other moves should also draw, including what Warmerdam played. At move 53, the Syzygy tablebases say that 53...Kf6! is the one and only drawing move. https://syzygy-tables.info/?fen=8/8... After 53...Rg1? Black was lost. Gukesh obviously knew what he was doing, and efficiently converted the point. 59.Rg5! was the only winning move. https://syzygy-tables.info/?fen=8/8...
Jan-25-24
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  FSR: Max Warmerdam has a Chessable course "The Maximized Von Hennig-Schara Gambit." https://www.chessable.com/the-maxim... Maximized - get it? I am embarrassed to admit that it is one of those rare Chessable courses that I don't own. I bought it when it came out, but returned it for a refund because I figured I'd never play it as Black and didn't need a whole course to play White against it. I'm not sure if Warmerdam analyzes 8...Bb4 in that course. Probably not, given how much time Gukesh (who probably took a look at his opponent's course before the game) used in the opening.

When I use Chessable's Opening Explorer tool no games come up with 8...Bb4. ChessBase Online shows that it is rare, having previously been played in only 14 out of 295 games that reached the position after 8.Qd1. Astonishingly, Tartakower played 8...Bb4 93 years ago in Pirc vs Tartakower, 1931! Opening Explorer, which does not yet include the present game, shows that as the <only> game with 8...Bb4! Tartakower reached the worse side of a R+4 v. R+3 ending, which he held.

As I say, ChessBase Online has 13 other games with the move. The second oldest of them was played in 2011, 90 years after Pirc-Tartakower! White scored +7 =5 -2 (67.9%). Make that exactly 70% after this game. That kind of sums up why I didn't take up the opening. I figured I'd probably lose some games, draw some games, and only rarely win.

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