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May-28-25
 | | Open Defence: 18.Bb4 played, if this goes to an end game the d passer might be significant OTB I would have gone for Nxd4 but Gukesh does not hesitate to be dynamic, I dont know if White has enough though |
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May-28-25
 | | An Englishman: Good Morning: "And so I remain/Despite my feelings of doom/For like The Dude says/I complete the room." From a hypothetical "The Big Lebowski, The Musical" imagined after a session of beers. As for our current game, it appears that the players have played at a Stockfish level over the past few moves. |
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May-28-25
| | Open Defence: <An Englishman> Good Day, I wonder what the British equivalent of "Dude" would be...
<Mate> maybe? |
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May-28-25
| | Open Defence: Oh Nakamura goes for Nxe4 instead aiming to win back the piece with an eventual d5... interesting |
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May-28-25
 | | offramp: This is a very interesting position.
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I have no idea what is going to happen. |
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May-28-25
| | An Englishman: Good Morning: Looking at both 22.Rd7,Qc5 and 22.Rxc4 intending 23.Rac1. In the latter case, if you had told me after the first 10 moves that the c-file would become important, that would have surprised me. |
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May-28-25
 | | Check It Out: Blacks knight, which seemed destined for f7 and possibly g5 may now want to reroute to the b7-c5 outpost. |
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May-28-25
| | Check It Out: Lots of open files and heavy artillery. The f file has some promise for black, but the c, d, and e files look to be whites. Blacks e6 pawn looks particularly vulnerable. We could end up with a 3 vs 2 pawn and rook endgame. |
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May-28-25
| | offramp: These guys are moving slowly. This is move 25, and this game has been going on for 2 and a half hours. |
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May-28-25
| | offramp: Nakamura might wait for a gaffe from Gukesh. |
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May-28-25
 | | perfidious: There has been discussion of the weakness at e6, but Gukesh had a long term problem at a4 had he not played to liquidate it. |
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May-28-25
| | offramp: 
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I remember that opponents used to say, "Are you playing for a win". This was a draw offer. |
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May-28-25
| | An Englishman: Good Morning: Beginning to look like Armageddon time, unless White can find something right now. Would 32.Qe3 constitute a threat, perhaps? |
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May-28-25
| | An Englishman: Good Morning: Baffled--why not 32.Nxa7? |
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May-28-25
 | | Diademas: Won’t that trap his knight? |
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May-28-25
| | An Englishman: Good Morning: <Diademas>, that's where I fall short--it looks like the Knight always has an exit back to c6. E.g., 32.Nxa7,Qd7; 33.Nc6 lets the Knight get away and cover the b5 pawn at the same time. |
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May-28-25
| | Check It Out: Wow, Naka gave up that a- pawn. Why didn't he just kill time moving his knight around? |
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May-28-25
| | Check It Out: I suppose Gukesh could have won it anyways with his knight and queen, but there must have been a better way to defend. |
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| May-28-25 | | ultrausurper: Happy Birthday, Gukesh! |
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May-28-25
| | Diademas: Ouch!
Nice birthday gift. |
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| May-28-25 | | Lambda: <Wow, Naka gave up that a- pawn. Why didn't he just kill time moving his knight around?> White actually has big threats of attacking the black king in that position by Qe2-e5-b8, with the potential for Qf8 and Ne7. |
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May-28-25
| | An Englishman: Good Morning: Quite the subtle attack by White; never would have imagined that the threats of 32.Qe3 and esp. 32.Qe5 might have presented so many problems. |
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| May-28-25 | | Andrew Chapman: Computer says that the odd 31..Qd6, which no patzer would play, was in fact really bad. Instead it recommends getting the knight to b6 via a4. |
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May-29-25
| | perfidious: It is very likely that Nakamura saw that 32.Qe5 and Qb8+ was coming and opted for alternatives to going passive. |
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May-29-25
 | | 6t4addict: The Giuco Piano Opening |
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