Valiantangel has kibitzed 26 times to chessgames   [more...]

Jul-28-17 Navara vs Leko, 2017    Valiantangel: Deep calculation ...probably he saw this at move 30. 15...b5 was better...and Nb8 was the tilting point...B never got back into the game      Jun-04-15 N Benmesbah vs N Maisuradze, 2015   Valiantangel: Moral of the game? Hmmm never castle in a "hole" ridden area. Its an uphill task      Oct-21-10 Anand vs Y Wang, 2010    Valiantangel: well Match play n tournament play are strange bed-fellows.Tournament play suit the suit the young n daring.Match play the most prepared.      Apr-24-10 Topalov vs Anand, 2010    Valiantangel: wow they are playing very fast      May-31-09 Karpov vs Kasparov, 1986    Valiantangel: But whats the idea of 14.Nb5?...i find it hard to understand      Aug-15-08 D Paunovic vs Ponomariov, 2008   Valiantangel: Just wondering y W did not take BxNF5....mmmmmmmmmmm      Apr-02-08 Gligoric vs Smyslov, 1959    Valiantangel: I feel black's control of diagonal(h1-a8) and his Nd5 had some effect of suppressing white's central advantage.It my feeling also white's advantage here can only be realised in the endgame.Hence 27.Bd1 (with the idea of removing all black's advantage)27...Rb6 28.Bf3 Bxf3 ...      Oct-20-07 Gelfand vs Ivanchuk, 2007   Valiantangel: 21.a4 was critical to to stop the Black a pawn push.Game still equal.21 a3??      Oct-01-07 H Wang vs S Megaranto, 2007    Valiantangel: 5...Ne7 6.0-0 Black seems to be doing well.Move 9 is the end of opening theory.Even Kasparov drew in this position in 2003. 11.h3 was a waste of tempo!It only help Black to break open White K-side later on. After 13...O-O-O you can see that Nb3 is displaced.c4 could hav been ...      Sep-26-07 World Championship Tournament (2007)    Valiantangel: I do agree GM Kramnik is a good match player.He is solid n difficult to be defeated.Each GMs from Anand to Topalov have their stlyes n they play pretty well in them. What i really missed was the personality clashes..like Alekhine-Capabalca,Fischer-Spasky & Kasparov-Karpov.I ...

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