WC Match 2016 - New York 10-30 November
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Game 4 as a "must win" for Black sees the Sicilian. Magnus plays an open Sicilian but dodges the question as to which main line by playing the rarer 5. f3 idea. It has the advantage that you can play it, if prepared to settle for a draw, with comforting "occupy the centre" moves as opposed to the desperate attempts to maintain the initiative seen in some lines.
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The obvious answer is Ra1 winning the queen but I suppose you really want to know what idea he missed that he couldn't save the queen by perhaps Qc3, Qd2 or running away to h4 to try and counter threaten something against the black king. The best answer is probably the idea of the moves NxB+ followed by Ng3+ and Rh1++ which is kind of hard to stop without shedding the queen.Christopher Kreuzer wrote:Strange blunder. What did Karjakin miss?
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Hmm. Karjakin has played ...h5.
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Isn't Nc2 just a forced repetition?
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Covered by @BBCNewsnight just now with Jovanka Houska, Malcolm Pein and Susan Polgar. Evan Davis describing the match as a "superpower standoff by proxy"; Malcolm Pein saying the match is a throwback to the 1970s and 1990s. Really?
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Depends whether you view Norway as a superpower.
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Hmm. Bxe6, gxh4, Kh1 and set up Alekhine's canon on the g-file?
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Ha ha did anybody ask her how many people were watching the match?Angus French wrote:Covered by @BBCNewsnight just now with Jovanka Houska, Malcolm Pein and Susan Polgar.
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Svidler really didn't think he'd finish it like that
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Nice final touch, reminds me of Kramnik's coup de grace (also the 4th rapid game, of course) in 2006.
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Ack, I missed the final few moves. Nice finish.
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Link to the iplayer coverage (December 2016 only)Angus French wrote:Covered by @BBCNewsnight just now with Jovanka Houska, Malcolm Pein and Susan Polgar. Evan Davis describing the match as a "superpower standoff by proxy"; Malcolm Pein saying the match is a throwback to the 1970s and 1990s. Really?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0 ... t-30112016
When was the last time Newsnight had a feature on chess?
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I’m not convinced that this was the most prepared he has ever been for a news item.Angus French wrote:Evan Davis describing the match as a "superpower standoff by proxy"
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Re: WC Match 2016 - New York 10-30 November
If TV licensing people come after me I m blaming YOU ROGERRoger de Coverly wrote:Link to the iplayer coverage (December 2016 only)Angus French wrote:Covered by @BBCNewsnight just now with Jovanka Houska, Malcolm Pein and Susan Polgar. Evan Davis describing the match as a "superpower standoff by proxy"; Malcolm Pein saying the match is a throwback to the 1970s and 1990s. Really?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0 ... t-30112016
I loved watching the match its the first one ive really followed.
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Indeed. Watching without an engine I was surprised Magnus didn’t play Qf2 instead of Qxf4. Then when he went for the sequence ending in Rc8 check I couldn’t see the mate and thought he’d blown it.Christopher Kreuzer wrote:Nice finish.
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the app I was watching on posted 0-1 and I nearly soiled the sofa. That really would have been the world championship of chokes.
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