| Jan-31-25 | | whiteshark: Wei Yi has turned out to be a draw master so far in this tournament. So what should we expect now? Wasn't he once feared as a creative attacking player? |
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| Jan-31-25 | | whiteshark: Classical games: Dommaraju Gukesh beat Wei Yi 2 to 0, with 1 draw.
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| Jan-31-25 | | vonKrolock: One factor that could influence events here today is Gukesh's willingness to take risks. Or not to take unnecessary risks ... |
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Jan-31-25
 | | MarcusBierce: <whiteshark: Wei Yi has turned out to be a draw master so far in this tournament. So what should we expect now? Wasn't he once feared as a creative attacking player?> A common arc. |
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Jan-31-25
| | MarcusBierce: Stockfish claims a solid position for White after playing Re1. Both Nbd2 and Re1 are good, flexible moves. Stockfish suggest three moves for Black, each of which I wouldn’t consider, not knowing theory. Re8-Bf8 and continuing developments seems sensible, but not amongst the suggestions. Also 1..Nb6 asking White whether he will play Bb5 or Bb3 and moving from there seems a solid approach. Also not a suggestion from the machine. Apparently this is a position rife with negative transpositions for Black. |
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Jan-31-25
| | MarcusBierce: 9..Bg4-Bh5, with access to f7 and shoring up the light-squared weakness created with 8..f6 makes positional sense. |
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Jan-31-25
 | | OhioChessFan: <whiteshark: Wei Yi has turned out to be a draw master so far in this tournament. So what should we expect now? Wasn't he once feared as a creative attacking player?> <MB: A common arc.> Understandable too. Each step up in competition is likely to find opponents who know how to defend. |
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Jan-31-25
 | | perfidious: This is the type of position which the good books (believe Pachman in <Modern Chess Strategy> was one) always told us was why the early ....d5 break was undesirable; Black gives easy play against e5 and is forced to play ....f6 to hold the centre and thereby take on other problems. |
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Jan-31-25
| | OhioChessFan: Probably 10. h3 Bh5 11. Nb3 |
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| Jan-31-25 | | Atking: Light squares especially e6 square are the point toward White should fight. |
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| Jan-31-25 | | Atking: 10.Nb3(!) yes! |
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Jan-31-25
| | perfidious: <whiteshark: Wei Yi has turned out to be a draw master so far in this tournament. So what should we expect now? Wasn't he once feared as a creative attacking player?> Long ago--might have been in Vasiliev's biography of Petrosian--I read of the same career path for Bondarevsky, who by then had replaced Tolush as Spassky's second. The criticism was that, after enterprising play in his early days, as a mature grandmaster Bondarevsky's chess had become, to use the words of the person interviewed, 'rather dull'. |
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Jan-31-25
| | OhioChessFan: So is another player who was more aggressive early in his career. |
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Jan-31-25
| | perfidious: Early on, I would agree; but by the time So became a solid GM, it will be remembered that he had a period of three years or so in which he stagnated at the 2650-2680 level before making the leap to super GM. Playing through his games in those days, there was a hint of playing So to not lose than necessarily going for the jugular when given that choice. |
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| Jan-31-25 | | Atking: It's not the first time that Gukesh isn't afraid of a double pawn. |
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| Jan-31-25 | | Atking: Remember me the famous Fischer vs Euwe (CaroKann) with a dominant dark square Bishop and a potential Queen side passed pawn |
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Jan-31-25
 | | keypusher: Unlike Fischer-Euwe, I don’t expect White to win. |
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Jan-31-25
 | | An Englishman: Good Morning: Hope all of you will have enjoyable weekends. Interesting endgame. White has an excellent Rook, extra pawn, lame Bishop, five isolated pawns, and an inactive King. Can't see how White will overcome the disadvantages. |
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Jan-31-25
| | An Englishman: Good Morning: ...and neither could White. |
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Jan-31-25
| | perfidious: <Atking: Remember me the famous Fischer vs Euwe (CaroKann) with a dominant dark square Bishop and a potential Queen side passed pawn> Long go, I used to play both sides of the Panov and went in for that line as White once, for a change of pace; never cared for the Black side, so played a sharper variation. |
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| Feb-01-25 | | Atking: 12.dxe5 could be an improvement. |
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