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Fabiano Caruana vs Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa
Superbet Chess Classic Romania (2025), Bucharest ROU, rd 2, May-08
English (A21)  ·  1/2-1/2

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May-08-25
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  offramp: I think Caruana will one this one today.
May-08-25
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  offramp: 10. Ba7.


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I believe that this opening is A21.

May-08-25
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  offramp: Here's a similar opening: I Janik vs T Nguyen, 2025.
May-08-25  stone free or die: Looking kinda drawish after the Q-side clearance.
May-08-25
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  OhioChessFan: White could play Ba3 to generate a little pressure on the diagonal.
May-08-25
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  OhioChessFan: 38 moves in, looks dead drawn.
May-08-25
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  offramp: Thanks, chessgames.com for bringing the tournament.
May-08-25
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  Korora: I have to leave for work in a few minutes, but this looks (at least to me) like the cat is winning.
May-08-25
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  Korora: And just as I posted that, the cat did, in fact, win.
May-09-25
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  fredthebear: Were you talking about the Tabby, Siamese, or Persian? https://pixabay.com/images/search/h... The white cat and the black cat fought to a rule book draw.

Black did have a small edge in the middlegame after 19...axb5

May-09-25  stone free or die: <Black did have a small edge in the middlegame after 19...axb5>

I would say microscopic. My comment above, calling the position drawish, was made after 20...Bb8 (or maybe 21.Bc3)>

<Black to move after 20.Nxb5>


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So what advantage does Black have over White?

Maybe slightly better bishops with the engine move 20...Bb6, but I would give the position as equal(*).

You can't trust the <CG> engine eval at only 28-ply (or thereabouts), going out to 31-ply gives an eval of -0.07 (and rates 20...Bb8 almost the same).

Just to confirm, I ran the eval out to 38-ply and we have 20...Bb6 -0.13/38 and 20...Bb8 +0.00/38.

(*) The symmetrical pawn structure is the main factor.

May-10-25
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  fredthebear: The word police trying to save face after a disastrous intrusion elsewhere. What does that crank say about cats? Cats are way more interesting than decimals.

Let's meet Mittens: https://www.chess.com/terms/mittens...

May-11-25  stone free or die: Beyond remedy
May-13-25
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  fredthebear: Now that's the useless microscopic quip that we're used to from trollz. Too bad Kora didn't return, but that's what trollz want -- sabotage the page with drivel.

And FTB is restricted to 7 posts and then gets shut down?? It's discrimination, plain and simple.

General ranking after the fifth round:

1-3. Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, Fabiano Caruana, Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu

4-7. Wesley So, Bogdan-Daniel Deac, Levon Aronian, Alireza Firouzja

8-10. Nodirbek Abdusattorov, Jan-Krzysztof Duda, Dommaraju Gukesh

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