5th Sinquefield Cup 2-12 August 2017
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Re: 5th Sinquefield Cup 2-12 August 2017
A quick win for Nepomniachtchi against Nakamura after black blundered the exchange whilst Svidler-So was a draw as was Aronian-Anand.
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Re: 5th Sinquefield Cup 2-12 August 2017
The Carlsen-MVL game is insanely complicated.
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Re: 5th Sinquefield Cup 2-12 August 2017
Insanely complicated, true. But I was still shocked when Carlsen lost control and lost, having slowly outplayed MVL.
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Re: 5th Sinquefield Cup 2-12 August 2017
From a won game to a lost one in just a few moves, you don't see that from Magnus very often.
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Re: 5th Sinquefield Cup 2-12 August 2017
Vishy's game worth a look chess.com report and Chess Mind
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Re: 5th Sinquefield Cup 2-12 August 2017
God wasn't on Wesley's side this time, evidently.
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Re: 5th Sinquefield Cup 2-12 August 2017
Karjakin-Anand drawn in 30 moves with very little incident. Elsewhere Caruana and Carlsen have promising positions.
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Re: 5th Sinquefield Cup 2-12 August 2017
Aronian 1 So 0 & Nepo-Svidler draw.
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Re: 5th Sinquefield Cup 2-12 August 2017
Aronian on fire again, how did he conjure that up?
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Re: 5th Sinquefield Cup 2-12 August 2017
Caruana-MVL now drawn so just Carlsen-Nakamura left with white having an extra pawn but I suspect a draw.
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Re: 5th Sinquefield Cup 2-12 August 2017
He's a genius when he's on form. It'd be really good to see match with Carlsen I think but goodness knows.PeterFarr wrote:Aronian on fire again, how did he conjure that up?
Rf6 (^Rxh6) then meeting h5 with Rh6 followed by Rxh5 is really quite amusing
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Re: 5th Sinquefield Cup 2-12 August 2017
Yes indeed, to all of that.MartinCarpenter wrote:He's a genius when he's on form. It'd be really good to see match with Carlsen I think but goodness knows.PeterFarr wrote:Aronian on fire again, how did he conjure that up?
Rf6 (^Rxh6) then meeting h5 with Rh6 followed by Rxh5 is really quite amusing
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Re: 5th Sinquefield Cup 2-12 August 2017
Carlsen is suppised to have missed a mate on 26 by neglecting to play h5. It is past midnight here so I shall not be seeing if he gets another chance.LawrenceCooper wrote:Caruana-MVL now drawn so just Carlsen-Nakamura left with white having an extra pawn but I suspect a draw.
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Re: 5th Sinquefield Cup 2-12 August 2017
It looks like he won't (get another chance).JustinHorton wrote:Carlsen is suppised to have missed a mate on 26 by neglecting to play h5. It is past midnight here so I shall not be seeing if he gets another chance.LawrenceCooper wrote:Caruana-MVL now drawn so just Carlsen-Nakamura left with white having an extra pawn but I suspect a draw.
The missed opportunity was on move 42 (he also missed 41.Kg5 which was also winning).
Apparently (don't ask me why) 42.h5 was winning, but 42.g5 was not.
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So after 42.h5 and an exchange of pawn on h5, it is possible to check that.
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Re: 5th Sinquefield Cup 2-12 August 2017
Needless to say my comment was posted well before that position arose. 42 g5 does seem very committal as it blocks an entry route for the king but h5 exchanges a pair of pawns which normally helps the defending side.Christopher Kreuzer wrote:It looks like he won't (get another chance).JustinHorton wrote:Carlsen is suppised to have missed a mate on 26 by neglecting to play h5. It is past midnight here so I shall not be seeing if he gets another chance.LawrenceCooper wrote:Caruana-MVL now drawn so just Carlsen-Nakamura left with white having an extra pawn but I suspect a draw.
The missed opportunity was on move 42 (he also missed 41.Kg5 which was also winning).
Apparently (don't ask me why) 42.h5 was winning, but 42.g5 was not.
Lomonosov 7-man tablebases are online here:
http://tb7.chessok.com/
So after 42.h5 and an exchange of pawn on h5, it is possible to check that.