Caplin Hastings 2023-24
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What is 3.d5 about too? I think I have seen it before though, I guess it is a radical way to avoid a Grunfeld.
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Momentum with Bodhana in her game with Scottish hope Waldhausen (I use his surname since I am not sure whether Freddie or Gordon is correct) - White has been drifting and further drifting could be rather serious.
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Re: Caplin Hastings 2023-24
Freddy is his given
Gordon is his father's surname
Waldhausen is his mother's surname
THey've avoided the hyphen to confuse you!!!
Gordon is his father's surname
Waldhausen is his mother's surname
THey've avoided the hyphen to confuse you!!!
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Re: Caplin Hastings 2023-24
Ah, a Spanish-style surname (although Spaniards usually put the father's surname first).
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In that case, it is Freddy who steadied the ship; and it is Bodhana who is now drifting.
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Shreyas playing a phenomenal game, he is calculating like an engine.
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Like a strong GM, perhaps, would be a better way of putting it.
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Shreyas seems to have allowed a rather nasty Rb5 tactic with his 40th move as Black.
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No, he was literally playing the 1st move of the engine for a long sequence of moves.John Moore wrote: ↑Sun Dec 31, 2023 5:38 pmLike a strong GM, perhaps, would be a better way of putting it.
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Re: Caplin Hastings 2023-24
According to the computer, White is already outright winning then.
I wonder if PC was thinking of possible tricks after 8....Qc7, but they don't actually work.
"Set up your attacks so that when the fire is out, it isn't out!" (H N Pillsbury)
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I'm surprised. What line is winning Matt?Matt Mackenzie wrote: ↑Sun Dec 31, 2023 7:15 pmAccording to the computer, White is already outright winning then.
I wonder if PC was thinking of possible tricks after 8....Qc7, but they don't actually work.
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Re: Caplin Hastings 2023-24
Potential Arkell ending incoming in Patel-Liu.
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A good example of how NOT to trust the Chess24 computer assessments without actually playing through its variations to the end it looks like.Matt Mackenzie wrote: ↑Sun Dec 31, 2023 7:15 pmAccording to the computer, White is already outright winning then.
I wonder if PC was thinking of possible tricks after 8....Qc7, but they don't actually work.
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Re: Caplin Hastings 2023-24
I was using Fritz, what is the saving line for Black then?
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3. d5 was played a couple of times by Tigran Petrosian among others.Matt Mackenzie wrote: ↑Sun Dec 31, 2023 7:15 pmI wonder if PC was thinking of possible tricks after 8....Qc7, but they don't actually work.
After 8. .. Qc7, a stockfish comes up with the idea 9. Qxa8 Bc3 where it thinks Black is worse but by a pawn, not a rook. In particular in a continuation 10. Kd1 Bb7 it much prefers Black after 11. Qxa7 Qd6+