mrl has kibitzed 13 times to chessgames   [more...]

Apr-02-19 Giri vs Karjakin, 2019    mrl: Stockfish says 20 Bxh6 is winning! Tal would have gone for it! Even the more sedate 20 Nc3 probably wins. But 20 Nf4 simply is a mistake, because of 20...Qe8 And then more mistakes follow. But black gives it back with 25...g6 instead of 25...g5! which amazingly wins! But white keeps ...      Mar-31-19 Caruana vs Lenderman, 2019    mrl: Black gets lost trying to stop the white queen side pawns. Stockfish prefers 24...Ba4, blocking the black a pawn. And only eventually, maybe ...a6 And then 27...Bd8 is a clear mistake. 27...Ra8 prevents b5      Mar-30-19 Robson vs Nakamura, 2019    mrl: 22 f4 is a mistake. 22 Kh1 is needed to get the king to safety. And then 28 Rf6 is a blunder. Qf3 or Nd3 is necessary, but the game would still be hard. White's problems actually start with his plan to push f4. Black's attack is too fast for that. 20 Qd2 instead of Qe3 is better, as the      Mar-30-19 F Bindrich vs E Safarli, 2019   mrl: 40 Qa8 is an unusual way to resign. It's a lost position anyway, but giving up a piece definitely loses. :)      Mar-30-19 M Rodshtein vs K Alekseenko, 2019   mrl: 33...Bb5 is a mistake. Maybe he meant to play 33...b5, which almost equalizes. Passed pawn must be pushed! But the position is hard, because black's king side bishop and rook are poorly delivered. 33...Bb5 allows white's passed pawn to become active. Black might have hung out longer, ...      Mar-29-19 V Artemiev vs A Esipenko, 2019   mrl: 23...kg7 is a slight mistake, allowing Qa3. But 24...b6 is a definite blunder, removing the space for the knight to fall back, leading to a loss of a pawn, and the game.      Mar-26-19 Caruana vs Xiong, 2019    mrl: If 19...h6 is played, the f7 square is still available for king to escape, so there's no sacrifice of Bxh6. But yes you are right, Knight should chop Bishop at 20...Bxf5 Instead, the moved played, ...Bf7, blocks the f7 escape square for the king, so it has to escape to h8 instead, and ...      Mar-26-19 Nakamura vs T Gareyev, 2019    mrl: Black loses by refusing to trade off the back bishops via 21 ...Nh5, or 22 ...Bh6. And then compounds the problem by removing the strong queen side rook with 22 ...ad8, allowing 23 b4 The rooK on d8 is useless, and that leads to the white queen picking up the queen side pawns. Defense ...      Mar-25-19 Nakamura vs Sevian, 2019    mrl: Engine hates 16...b8 and so do I. What was his plan? A basic developing rook move like ...Rfd8 avoids the mess that follows.      Mar-16-19 Ding Liren vs R Mamedov, 2019   mrl: This is a drawn game until 38...g5, which, ppens up black's position and allows Rh7+. Perhaps black was expecting fxg6.

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