Apr-21-24 World Championship Candidates (2024) 
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| abuzic: Tabanus: Nine possible outcomes:
After the final round the chances to win without tie are:
Gukesh 4/9
Naka 1/9
Fabi 0/9
Nepo 0/9
To reach a tie, all players have a chance of 2/9: Gukesh - Fabi; Gukesh - Nepo; Naka - Fabi; Naka - Nepo.
There cannot be a tie Gukesh - Naka or ... |
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Nov-17-21 Y Hou vs M Sebag, 2011
Jun-06-20 S Tsolakidou vs Dehankar Mrudul, 2019
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| abuzic: <Rat1960: Black did *not* play 18. ... Qf6>, this is a mistake that has to be corrected by CG, but maybe many other databases made the same mistake. Greek vs Indian players and females! they seem not to care, the least... In the real game black played 18...Rxg8! 19.Qxg8 Qf6+ ... |
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Mar-11-20 World Championship Candidates (2020/21)
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| abuzic: Socrates philosophy ... a rare phenomenon in modern times ... but valid forever |
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Mar-06-20 Smyslov vs C Hansen, 1993
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| abuzic: <Willem Wallekers>: try 24.Nf6+ and see if the engine changes mind? |
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Dec-21-19 Nakamura vs Carlsen, 2014
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| abuzic: Adding to <SirRuthless> excellent remarks to 37.Qh6, Stockfish (at depth 40 - 99% - 43958MN - 99.9%) gave the following evaluation of possible black's 37... responses: ...Qxh6 +23.88; ...Na5 +30.67; ...Ne3 +50.55; ...b6 +53.81; b5 +53.94; ...Nd2 #18; ...Nb6, ...Nd6 and ...Nxa3 ... |
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Nov-13-19 Grischuk vs Vachier-Lagrave, 2019
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| abuzic: 62...Final magician's trick revealed |
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Oct-13-19 E Safarli vs M Rodshtein, 2019
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| abuzic: Black thought: 20...Kg7, and if 21.Qh3 then 21...Rh8 stops the attack; but 22.Qh6+!! came as a shock to black. Every next move came as a surprise surprise. |
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Sep-28-19 Fedorov vs Z Lanka, 1997
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| abuzic: 19.Nxg7 Bxd5 20.Qh6 f5 21.g6 hxg6 22.Ne8! Rxe8 23.Qh8+ Kf7 24.Rh7+ Nxh7 25.Qxh7+ Kf6 <(25...Kf8 26.Bh6#)> 26.e5+ dxe5 <(26...Kxe5 27.Qg7+ Bf6 28.f4#)> 27.Rg1 e4 28.Bd4+ e5 29.Rxg6# |
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Sep-27-19 V Kovacevic vs Z Kozul, 1993
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| abuzic: 32...Ng4 also wins |
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