Jul-01-09 Kasparov vs Sadvakasov, 2001 
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heklex: Space advantage outweights material imbalance. Nice to see, especially when Kaspy gives up exchange just to repair his pawn formation. |
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Jul-01-09 Gligoric vs Smyslov, 1959 
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heklex: That innocent-looking pawn on h7 is the last piece you could suspect of delivering final blow. And only this makes the puzzle harder than yesterday's. For a while, I haven't seen worse piece that White's dark-squared Bishop. And his white-squared teammate was surely worth an exchange |
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Jun-30-09 Rybka vs Deep Sjeng, 2009 
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heklex: Comuters have edge over humans partly because they don't care about 'susipciousness' or 'aestethics' of the positions. They are smoothly accepting dobled pawns, weirdly placed Kings, exposed castling positions... of course as long, as the calculations are favoring them. |
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Jun-30-09 P Nikolic vs Topalov, 1997 
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heklex: A simple one. The only confusing feature is a mirage of check: 22...Nf2? But anyone can figure out how wrong it is, so it leaves only one choice with no sub-variations at all. |
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Jun-30-09 Rybka vs Nakamura, 2007 
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heklex: 115...Rh7! was a very subtle, psychological manevuer, luring Rybka on unexplored territory and getting it out of it's huge database. Shaken and confused, the computer has eventually given up a pawn, just to halt the Rook rampage. However, with deep Bishop swing on enemy's territory, ... |
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Jun-30-09 Alekhine vs A Fletcher, 1928 
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heklex: 3...Nc6? I don't understand. I'd play 3...cxd4 automatically. Surely, it turns into a weird kind of King's Indian. White rolls on Kingside, Black on Q-side, which is quite reversed approach. No surprise, that CG calls it 'English Anti-Benoni'. All in all, Black Knights are so lousy ... |
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