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Kramnik-Aronian match
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Re: Kramnik-Aronian match
"Set up your attacks so that when the fire is out, it isn't out!" (H N Pillsbury)
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Re: Kramnik-Aronian match
Absolutely - maybe Kramnik should switch to e4 more often
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Re: Kramnik-Aronian match
Game 4 another Berlin and another draw, except this time they must have the Rapidplay game
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Re: Kramnik-Aronian match
Aronian won that, for anybody that cares
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Re: Kramnik-Aronian match
Great stuff in this match. The round 3 game was very instructive and entertaining (didn't Hebden used to play this ...Bc5 line against the S4N?), the two round 4 games very instructive, too. Perhaps Kramnik was wrong to agree the draw in the first round 4 game, as he was surely under no real pressure, and possibly stood better in that endgame?
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Re: Kramnik-Aronian match
Maybe not, given how he playedJohn McKenna wrote:Thanks for that info. Vlad must care.
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Re: Kramnik-Aronian match
The rapid games will not be rated or count in the final match score - so perhaps Vlad doesn't really care much about that loss.
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Re: Kramnik-Aronian match
Round 4 analysis here:
http://www.thechessmind.net/storage/che ... _rapid.htm
http://www.thechessmind.net/storage/che ... _rapid.htm
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Re: Kramnik-Aronian match
Paul McKeown >... game 3 was very instructive... didn't Hebden used to play this ...Bc5 line...<
Indeed he did but he plays so much he must have played a great chunk of openings - for an individual - in his praxis.
Kramnik-Aronian m(3) went 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.d4 ed 5.Nd4 Bc5 6.Be3 Bb6 7.Qd2... 23.g3... but 7.g3... 20.Qd2... was Lane,G-Hebden 1994 London Lloyds 0-1 (32)
Indeed he did but he plays so much he must have played a great chunk of openings - for an individual - in his praxis.
Kramnik-Aronian m(3) went 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.d4 ed 5.Nd4 Bc5 6.Be3 Bb6 7.Qd2... 23.g3... but 7.g3... 20.Qd2... was Lane,G-Hebden 1994 London Lloyds 0-1 (32)
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Re: Kramnik-Aronian match
Draw, so all to play for in the last game tomorrow
Analysis here:
http://www.thechessmind.net/storage/che ... 012m_5.htm
Analysis here:
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Re: Kramnik-Aronian match
I bet I'm the only person - or at best one of very very few - who is hoping for another Berlin today. Admittedly, if Aronian goes for 1 e4 again it will be a bit of a sign that he's happy to draw the match.
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Re: Kramnik-Aronian match
Just started, last round being a bit earlier. e4 from Aronian again, then the d3 anti-Berlin,
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Re: Kramnik-Aronian match
Looking quite tasty, a real strategic and tactical battle (Black's just played 21.. c5).
Thank goodness it wasn't another soporific Berlin endgame.
Shipov's Chessvibes move-by-move commentary is good fun, too.
Thank goodness it wasn't another soporific Berlin endgame.
Shipov's Chessvibes move-by-move commentary is good fun, too.