| Mar-28-11 | | Bryan14: Very exiting video here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwcO...
.. anand was under time pressure and took 1 and half minute for his 4th move :O!! |
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| Mar-28-11 | | anandrulez: Well played by Vishy and thanks for the video - did Smirin make a mistake taking the pawn and Sacing the knight ? |
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| Nov-29-11 | | joelsontang: What will Anand play if 20. Rfd1? Would that win back a piece for Smirin and leave the latter with a decisive material advantage? Or what should Anand do after 19. f3? Seems like Anand will have to return the piece. |
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| Nov-30-11 | | standardwisdom: <joelsontang: Does 19. f3 get the white's piece back?>After 19. f3 Kh8 20. fxe4 Nxe3, and black remains a piece up. If 20. Bd2 then 20..Nxc3, and black still remains a piece up. There may be some combination here to attack white's minor pieces, but it isn't obvious. |
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| Nov-30-11 | | standardwisdom: <joelsontang: Does 19. f3 get the white's piece back?>
19. f3 Kh8 20. Bd2 Rc8 |
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| Apr-10-12 | | luzhin: Joelsontang, after 20.Rfd1 Anand can simply play 20...Nxe3! But actually 20.Bd4 was a huge blunder, since Anand could have won on the spot with 20...Nxc3!! |
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| May-11-13 | | torreAC: The commentrators had no clue what was happening... They just kept saying that Anand is sacrificing Rook, Queen....It was too fast for them...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwcO |
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| May-11-13 | | anandrulez: 29 f4 is just a gamble to get Anand to play rxf4 , qc8 wins for white . Anand was much sharp he just played qxe5 . Queen Sacrifice is qxf2 Nakamura vs Krasenkow Krasenkow vs Nakamura, 2007 . Only Misha Tal might play this in Blitz ! |
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| May-17-13 | | My Face: a blitz game
Believe it or not, anand spent 1:43 minutes on his fourth move( 4.d6 ) and he had only five minutes of time http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUr_... |
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| Aug-30-13 | | Aman68: Why was white given 1 min extra in this game? |
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| Aug-30-13 | | John Abraham: Interesting game, Vishy is a genius |
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| Jan-25-17 | | ajile: It's hilarious that on the youtube video one commentator is exclaiming that Black sacced his queen with 29..Qxe5. lol |
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Jan-10-19
 | | Penguincw: < Aman68: Why was white given 1 min extra in this game? > According to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUr..., Anand had draw odds, but Smirin had a time advantage to compensate for it. Armageddon game I imagine. |
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Jan-11-19
 | | sakredkow: I love this quote (which I'd never heard before) from one of the commenters on youtube: "Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe." - Abraham Lincoln quotes Very apt. |
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Jan-11-19
| | sakredkow: I think what happened is that Smirin surprised Vishy with an unusual move order (4. Nxe5 instead of the normal 4. Bd3) and Vishy took a long look to see if he could exploit it instead of transposing into the mainline. |
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| Feb-03-21 | | thathwamasi: <anandrulez: 29 f4 is just a gamble to get Anand to play rxf4 , qc8 wins for white . Anand was much sharp he just played qxe5 . Queen Sacrifice is qxf2 Nakamura vs Krasenkow Krasenkow vs Nakamura, 2007 . Only Misha Tal might play this in Blitz > - Qc8+ is still fine for black. He can simply defend with Bd8. Qe8+ is the end for black. Anand hence didnt fall for it as you suggeste |
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Nov-24-21
 | | saffuna: Anand writes:
<A few moves into a Petroff Defence, Smirin chose a rather unusual 4.Nxe5. What followed has now elevated the game to Internet immortality. On move four, I felt myself going numb. My clock was racing like a panther on the loose; I’d eaten up close to a minute already – unusual and unheard of in blitz games. Smirin had captured a pawn out of sequence, which had thrown me off. I leant over the board, in my aviator-style glasses, till I could almost sniff the pieces. ‘C’mon, Vishy, make a move! Make a move!’ pounded the commentators, Maurice Ashley and Daniel King, impatiently (though thankfully out of my earshot). I pushed my pawn to d6, attacking White’s knight and forcing it to retreat. I then wore him down with exchanges till he overreached. My decision to pause and consider had paid off – I’d gone from spending 1.43 minutes on one move to using up only two minutes on the last 46 moves and rode right into a win. It’s a lesson that almost runs as a leitmotif through my career: It’s not the worst idea to take a two-minute pause and get some clarity.> |
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Kibitzing
sac: 23...Rxc4