JCigan Member since Sep-12-10 · Last seen Nov-20-19 USCF rating: 1950

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Nov-10-19 V Artemiev vs Aronian, 2019   JCigan: How on earth does white, one of the best technicians in the world, lose the position at move 53? While the move he plays draws still - that’s how much margin for error there is - after 53. Kd3/d2 surely a draw would have been agreed on the spot.      Nov-07-19 D Dubov vs Radjabov, 2019    JCigan: Did Radjabov for real miss 57... e2, easily winning?      Oct-05-19 S Volkov vs B Socko, 2014    JCigan: Not a great puzzle as there are numerous wins. I had 21. Rh7 and see no reason to believe it’s worse than the game move.      Jun-28-19 L Dek vs Bacrot, 2017   JCigan: The real story here is that Bacrot blundered into a well-known opening trap (which someone first showed me when I was rated 1800) and was lost by move 12      Apr-20-19 V Keymer vs Carlsen, 2019    JCigan: To all those saying White queens w check, observe that White does not queen at all because the Black knight comes to e6      Oct-14-18 D Mastrovasilis vs Nodirbek Yakubboev, 2018    JCigan: I find it very difficult to believe the move order 1 e4 e5 2 Nc3 Nf6 3 d4 d6 occurred in this high-level of a game. Clearly 3... exd4 and Black is already better. What I find more likely is that it went, say, 1 e4 d6 2 d4 Nf6 3 Nc3 e5 - this is a common Philidor move order.      Jul-04-18 P Ponkratov vs G Oparin, 2018    JCigan: I know Ponkratov is a strong GM, but his treatment of this opening was dreadful. Just an awful middlegame to get as white, and this isn’t even a good treatment of this particular sideline (Center Game).      Jun-16-18 M Vachier-Lagrave vs Grischuk, 2017   JCigan: It is just a dead lost position I assume he resigned      May-08-18 R Faizrakhmanov vs S Khanin, 2018   JCigan: *at times      Feb-13-18 D Gedult vs B Houzet, 1980    JCigan: This is not only not an impressive game, it's simply not good. How many players of, say, 2000 elo strength or so would fail to win as black at move 20, especially when 24 ...Rxd6+ was available?

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