Candidates Tournament in Berlin March 2018
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Impressive start from Vlad, the big question is if he can keep it up.
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Something of a declaration of intent at move 8Christopher Kreuzer wrote: ↑Mon Mar 12, 2018 4:25 pmLooks like Kramnik may be the first sole leader, as he has a crushing position against Aronian (move 20).
If one of your team mates suggested this, you would try to restrain them.
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I can think of at least one of your team mates who might play it!. After all although conventional wisdom suggests you might castle before launching such an attack, the king can always go long and isn't in immediate danger. I expect it might be the sort of thing to catch the eye of the lower rated, and be tried in similar positions, as indeed it often is.
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Sure you didJonathan Rogers wrote: ↑Mon Mar 12, 2018 4:50 pmProbably a good moment to say that I voted for Kramnik the other day!
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Well he came equal top in our poll with Aronian (who I voted for)
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I was also on Kramnik, as it happens.
Didn't Sutovsky say something about Caruana failing to convert more won positions than any other leading player? (Not that he was necessarily winning.)
Didn't Sutovsky say something about Caruana failing to convert more won positions than any other leading player? (Not that he was necessarily winning.)
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Why wouldn't Black play ... Rg8? Arguably White has played unambitiously, given up a bishop for a knight and created a target with h3. Black has five pieces and some pawns ready to attack which is more than White has to defend. Black can castle queenside if need be but there's no rush so why not preserve options?J T Melsom wrote: ↑Mon Mar 12, 2018 5:36 pmI can think of at least one of your team mates who might play it!. After all although conventional wisdom suggests you might castle before launching such an attack, the king can always go long and isn't in immediate danger. I expect it might be the sort of thing to catch the eye of the lower rated, and be tried in similar positions, as indeed it often is.
I also voted from KRambo!
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Peter Doggers report on round 3 featuring the remarkable Aronian-Kramnik game which will surely go down as one of the greatest games in chess history. Personally, I'm dreading the coaching tomorrow. "But sir, you said we shouldn't play moves like that...."
Leaderboard after round 3:
1 Kramnik 2½
2-3 Mamedyarov, Caruana 2
4-5 Grischuk, Ding 1½
6-7 Karjakin, Aronian 1
8 So ½
Leaderboard after round 3:
1 Kramnik 2½
2-3 Mamedyarov, Caruana 2
4-5 Grischuk, Ding 1½
6-7 Karjakin, Aronian 1
8 So ½
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What's Donner's line to the effect of when you become a grandmaster, you have to forget everything you've learned up to then?
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And if anything, that is truer now than when he said it.
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But that applies far more widely, for instance when getting a proper job after obtaining a university degree.JustinHorton wrote: ↑Tue Mar 13, 2018 10:22 amWhat's Donner's line to the effect of when you become a grandmaster, you have to forget everything you've learned up to then?
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Not really: that's engaging in a different way of working, not unpicking the knowledge you've actually acquired.
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Can't agree, since much of what has been learned is not really knowledge at all, but just the currently dominant theology. What is taught in academia, economics being one good example, does serious damage when applied to the real world.JustinHorton wrote: ↑Tue Mar 13, 2018 2:36 pmNot really: that's engaging in a different way of working, not unpicking the knowledge you've actually acquired.
If only professional economists were judged by their results, as top chess players are, rather than by the elegance of their exposition.
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Well up to a point, but even if I accepted that point (and it's worth reading, say, Simon Wren-Lewis on what economists as a group actually think) I'm not sure that professional economists outwith academia do have to reject what they've been taught. And more's the pity, sure.
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But if their rewards were results-based, like chess players, they would have no choice in the matter, because otherwise they would starve.JustinHorton wrote: ↑Tue Mar 13, 2018 3:13 pmI'm not sure that professional economists outwith academia do have to reject what they've been taught.
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