39 Ng4 is even more deadly. White should certainly have smelled a rat when the draw was offered,NickFaulks wrote: ↑Fri Jan 25, 2019 9:34 amI genuinely do not understand how anyone takes a draw there against anyone. At a minimum you play the obvious forcing line with 39.Qh3 to get to the time control and have another think.Chris Rice wrote: ↑Fri Jan 25, 2019 9:11 amThen there is the case where you are playing a 2700 who outrates you by 300+ but offers you a draw. You know you shouldn't really take it don't you?
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Re: Gibraltar 21 to 29 January 2019
The prettiest WMOTB ever played?
Played by my club colleague, Phil Crocker, in the final round of the Gibraltar Challengers A. Having walked all over his Spanish opponent for much of the game, Phil closed in for the kill. White has just played the plausible but wrong 31. Qg6, leaving Black [-4.40] to move and win. Phil now played the beautiful, line-cutting interference move 31...Rg5 with devastating impact - on Phil
Hassomal Daswani, Birjkumar
2019.01.25
Crocker, Philip J
Caleta Hotel, Gibraltar, Gibraltar
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Gibraltar Festival Challengers A (5.17)
Played by my club colleague, Phil Crocker, in the final round of the Gibraltar Challengers A. Having walked all over his Spanish opponent for much of the game, Phil closed in for the kill. White has just played the plausible but wrong 31. Qg6, leaving Black [-4.40] to move and win. Phil now played the beautiful, line-cutting interference move 31...Rg5 with devastating impact - on Phil
Hassomal Daswani, Birjkumar
2019.01.25
Crocker, Philip J
Caleta Hotel, Gibraltar, Gibraltar
1-0
Gibraltar Festival Challengers A (5.17)
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That's a complicated one but it's a winner if we can't cook it. All kinds of ways to lose a queen for nothing and none of them nearly as bad a move.
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True, but less trivial to calculate.
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"The prettiest WMOTB ever played?"
That is unlucky. I hope someone bought him a beer.
That is unlucky. I hope someone bought him a beer.
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The Spanish do generate some splendid names. Here's a couple of IMs who, if results go the right way, could be paired tomorrow.
Lance Henderson De La Fuente - Paolo Ladron De Guevara Pinto
Names straight from the pages of Cervantes
Lance Henderson De La Fuente - Paolo Ladron De Guevara Pinto
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Also mentioned here (where I included the accent but curiously spelled Guevara wrong). The other name, you'll notice, isn't just baroque, but half-English - I believe the guy is bilingual and has an American father.
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Chess Mind round 7 report with brief analysis of the leader's win
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Howell- Nakamura is one I'm looking forward to this afternoon.
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You must be a bit disappointed. Howell played with White against one of the world's most dangerous players, drew comfortably but with never a winning chance. I imagine he is only half pleased.
Cheparinov will play all ten games against GMs. I have not checked whether this is a first for Gibraltar, but it an impressive statistic.
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Round 10, Howell is a piece up for apparently not much on move 12 as Black v Aronian. Very strange.
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Perhaps he thought he could meet 11. .. e4 with 12. Qc3, then realised that 12. .. exd3 13. Qxh8 dxe2 works for Black.
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This is reminiscent of the infamous Carlsen - Jones. Easy for the computer to say that White has nothing, but in the real world it isn't that simple.
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Yes indeed, we can all be heroes with the computer in front of us.NickFaulks wrote: ↑Thu Jan 31, 2019 12:02 pmThis is reminiscent of the infamous Carlsen - Jones. Easy for the computer to say that White has nothing, but in the real world it isn't that simple.