Sep-04-08
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| suenteus po 147: Maybe I'm just a biased Radjabov fan, but I like and learn a lot from his solid play. Here, he gets a little creative with a line following some games Rublevsky played with this variation as black, with Radjabov's 16.Ba2 being the "new move." Unfortunately, the open position and resulting complexity drove both players into mutual time trouble with the accelerated control, and they were forced into the three-fold repetition at the end. |
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| Sep-04-08 |
| VaselineTopLove: What was wrong with 17.f5? |
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Sep-04-08
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| suenteus po 147: <VaselineTopLove: What was wrong with 17.f5?> My cursory guess is that 17.f5 Bxa2 18.Rxa2 Bg5 temporarily pins the knight (unless white wants to exchange bishops in the open position) and allows Black some room to breathe. |
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| Sep-04-08 |
| PinkPanther: <senteus po 147>
Yes, you are biased. His play in this tournament has been nothing to write home about, especially considered the fact that he was explicitly invited to the tournament for being an "attacking" player. |
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Sep-04-08
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| suenteus po 147: <PinkPanther: <senteus po 147>
Yes, you are biased.> Well, at least now I know. |
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Sep-04-08
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| acirce: At some point this started to look like a Berlin gone very wrong for Ivanchuk. You'd think there should be something more convincing somewhere for Radja. On ICC, Nataf and another GM claimed that 29.Rd1 was winning. Can't say that I see how. My Rybka 3 after an hour's thought agrees it's strong, but not clearly winning (yet). White seems to get some sort of endgame or another where he keeps the extra pawn, but where it might still be hard to win. Note the idea ..gxf5 Ng7! that already exists in the position, and that White can sometimes provoke by h4-h5. |
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Sep-05-08
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| Hesam7: <acirce> what does the machine say about the final position? I mean White could try something like Rc2 & b5 to open up more files. |
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Sep-05-08
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| Mateo: <suenteus po 147: Maybe I'm just a biased Radjabov fan, but I like and learn a lot from his solid play. Here, he gets a little creative with a line following some games Rublevsky played with this variation as black, with Radjabov's 16.Ba2 being the "new move." > Radjabov had this position twice. He played in both games 9.Nb3. played. 9.Nb3 was also played in Khalifman-Ivanchuk, 2000, draw. |
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