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| Feb-27-13 | | machess: No contest :) |
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| Feb-27-13 | | Torotot: Pavel and Wesley essayed the Sortest draw of the tournament, thus, the ensuing sourtest draw is drawing sour comments from all corners of the chess board. |
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| Feb-27-13 | | Torotot: In reality, who cares, and the two don't care - assured of their rightful spot in the tournament.
At least the game did not turned out as a four-mover Fools Mate draw! |
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| Feb-27-13 | | solskytz: An exciting game! The Grunfeld always provides entertaining counterplay. I was entertained :-) |
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| Feb-27-13 | | Pulo y Gata: A tremendously fearless, artistic, prophesy-fulfilling, revolutionary and theoretically important game! Pavel Eljanov – Wesley So
Reykjavic Open, 2013
1.d4 <Pavel stays true to his opening in this tournament. >
1…Nf6 <Wesley likewise prefers this flexible move, which allows Black to choose different types of set-up.> 2.c4 <The pawns look formidable, controlling the center.> 2…g6 <Wesley signals his intention to play one of his favorite defences: the Gruenfeld Defence, an opening with notable pedigree. Fischer and Kasparov, two of the best players in the history of chess, used it with some regularity with wonderful results.> 3.Nc3 <Pavel develops the Knight to its natural square and strengthens his hold on d5. Everything looks normal, but the chess world is in for a surprise…> 3…d5!
click for larger view<Black stakes his claim in the center. Here the two players agreed to draw, revealing the depth of their preparations: Where other players struggle to find good play for both Black and White, here our heroes had determined that the Gruenfeld is a draw with correct play and won’t bother spilling their findings (Eat your heart out, Carlsen!)—a truly revolutionary and advanced discovery! A sepulchral guffaw could be heard from Capablanca’s grave. Most of the chess world was dumbfounded.This is fearless chess at the highest level! The players risked future tournament invitations and being misunderstood by all, but this is the price of being ahead of their time and true to their art as chess players. Years from now, people will look at this game and wonder at the beauty and mysteries of chess.> |
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Feb-27-13
 | | perfidious: The players were probably unaware-poor, tormented souls that they are-of the following highly entertaining route to the same result: Keene vs D W Anderton, 1977. |
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| Feb-27-13 | | breakbad: Powerful game. Inspirational! |
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| Feb-27-13 | | etnadnaimad: Haha this is the new game of the millenium!!! |
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| Feb-27-13 | | jivepar: If this is poker, this is a no-brainer. you evaluate your moves based on the odds and risk/reward. Setting aside the title and focusing mainly on the prize money, the odds of losing more money is far greater than the reward of winning additional money. |
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Feb-27-13
| | perfidious: Too much has been made of this result, which might have been expected by anyone with a functioning cerebellum, given the circumstances-happens all the time in American swisses with other GMs and no-one says a frigging word. |
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| Feb-27-13 | | Pulo y Gata: <jivepar> Are you suggesting these players here could be ace poker players? |
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| Feb-27-13 | | Wild Bill: Exactly what variation of the Grunfeld is this? Does any one know? |
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Feb-27-13
 | | tamar: "Take the Money and Run" Variation |
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| Feb-27-13 | | granyid: hhahhahahahah...you know they analyzed for 15 to 20 moves ahead and they come up...a draw...the moves still hidden in their cerebellum.." Take the Money and Run" Variation of the Gruenfeld Defense.... |
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| Feb-27-13 | | Fiona Macleod: "We are Both So Good That We Can Spare a Round and Still Win the Tournament" opening. |
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| Feb-27-13 | | amadeus: This is just one of the reasons why chess will never be considered a sport. |
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| Feb-27-13 | | BadKnight: this has to be stopped. |
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| Feb-27-13 | | Pulo y Gata: They did after three moves. |
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| Feb-27-13 | | Maatalkko: <jivepar> Yes for Eljanov, no for So. Eljanov made 3,900 and So made 2,400 compared to a top prize of 5,000. Had they lost, they would have been in place 10 or so and picked up 350. Hence, Eljanov would have risked losing 3,550 to win an extra 1,100 - not worth it. So would have risked 2,050 to win an extra 2,600. If So thought he had the roughly the same or better winning chances as Eljanov despite being Black, playing on is a far better poker move than calling a draw. I think So made the prudent because he is not better than Eljanov, but the risk/reward ratio was actually pretty even when you factor in the slight disadvantage of playing Black. I bet that Ivanchuk, Kamsky, or Nakamura would have played, and I think Giri would probably have played as well. |
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| Feb-28-13 | | FamilyTree: A complete shame. The organizer invests money to keep supporting chess, even in these hard times... for this? |
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| Feb-28-13 | | geniokov: <FamilyTree> I post your comment at Pavel Eljanov page forum so that he might see it how constructive and professional you are!...That looks great there! |
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| Feb-28-13 | | Shams: At first I assumed this was an incomplete score, but apparently it is not!? God, that's really pathetic. Somebody needs to figure out a cash payout system different enough from that which <Maatalkko> lays out to incentivize a real fight. This should not be hard. |
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| Feb-28-13 | | paavoh: @tamar: A good one! <"Take the Money and Run" Variation> |
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| Feb-28-13 | | darshandatta: In this time when tournaments are disappearing, these quick draws will discourage organisers to sponsor chess tournaments |
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| Feb-28-13 | | torrefan: and i thought only humans are being taken by aliens from outer space. So now, even tournaments? |
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