Hikaru Nakamura vs Fabiano Caruana (2016)

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Hikaru Nakamura vs Fabiano Caruana
World Championship Candidates (2016), Moscow RUS, rd 1, Mar-11
English Opening: Symmetrical Variation. General (A30) · 1/2-1/2

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Mar-14-16		offramp: Very similar to an old Topalov - Shirov game.

Mar-14-16		Steve.Patzer: I am perplexed. On chessgames the title to this game is Topalov vs Shirov, but when it comes up, it is Nakamura vs Caruana.

Mar-14-16		perfidious: Perhaps the 'troublesome priest' should be introduced to the late Amarillo Slim's <Mr More>.

Mar-14-16		nalinw: Aren't there games with more troublesome bishops? Particularly if they bother kings .....

Mar-14-16		Cheapo by the Dozen: I don't understand the tag line. It's obviously a reference to Henry II/Becket, but I was expecting a bishop a lot more powerful than any in this game turned out to be.

Mar-14-16		FairyPromotion: I think it's obvious that the game intended was Topalov vs Shirov, 1998.

Mar-14-16		Richard Taylor: Yes, the play about this is Eliot's 'Murder in the Cathedral'. Quite a good play, quite dramatic. "Who shall rid me of this troublesome Priest?"

Mar-14-16		chessgames.com: <FairyPromotion: I think it's obvious that the game intended was Topalov vs Shirov, 1998.> You are right of course, how this happened is confusing.

Mar-21-16		Penguincw: Yay! Monday puzzle. Had a look at this puzzle, and the solution didn't come to me right away. I kept looking at the puzzle, still didn't come to me. I started panicking, because that usually means I won't get it. I then wondered if this solution was a recent game. Clicked on the game, wait a second! This is a Monday puzzle!? Wow, never knew Monday puzzles would be this hard, or long. Or perhaps an early April Fool's joke? <cg>???

Mar-21-16		greed and death: The obvious solution is 8. Qh5!! putting a massive amount of indirect pressure on the f7-pawn, which could lead to mate

Mar-21-16		catlover: I'm confused. Isn't it black's move?

Mar-21-16		An Englishman: Good Evening: Wrong game, correct?

Mar-21-16		Olsonist: I hate Mondays.

Mar-21-16		Granny O Doul: It doesn't hurt to be reminded from time to time that simply remembering to recapture is as key to success as finding deep combinations or long-winded maneuvers.

Mar-21-16		Bobby Spassky: This is a drawn position. This puzzle is a bust.

Mar-21-16		lost in space: I hate Mondays and have no clue how to win this with white. click for larger view Best is 8. cxd5 and the position is =

Mar-21-16		Razgriz: I get that you're supposed to recapture at move number 8 but it leaves a lot to be played after that.....

Mar-21-16		erimiro1: Monday, very easy. Very easy to see that there is no solution to the problem.

Mar-21-16		patzer2: <cg> Are you guys OK? This Monday non-puzzle to start the week is out of character and below your usual high standard.

Mar-21-16		DrGridlock: White is down a pawn. Three ways to recapture: cxd5 is best Bxd5 is playable, but not best Qxd5 is tragically bad. So the solution is: cxd5! Quite an easy puzzle, once you see that black has Nxd5 to answer Qxd5.

Mar-21-16		chessamateur: "We occasionally show a puzzle that we call a spoiler. These are positions where there is no move that clearly wins the game, but instead a variety of solid moves which are all playable. Usually these positions present the lure potential sacrifices which are unsound. You are expected to recognize the unsoundness of the tempting sacrifices and instead conclude that the best move is one of the "quiet" moves, or an obvious move like capturing a pawn. We show spoilers from time to time because it encourages people to think combinations all the way through, instead of simply finding a move which looks like it initiates an attack, without considering the defenses."

Mar-21-16		al wazir: I spent more time on this puzzle than on most Saturday or Sunday puzzles. The obvious move, 8. cxd5, is not a forced win or anything close to one. There has to be something better. But the more I looked, the more frustrated I got. I can't let a measly Monday puzzle defeat me! There has to be something better than that! Finally I gave up and slunk away, crestfallen, humiliated, to look at the game score, only to find that the move played was... 8. cxd5.

Mar-21-16		agb2002: Too recent. Peculiar joke. :-)

Mar-21-16		diagonalley: ... hey guys... surely it's not 1st april today(?!?)... "very easy"(?!?!?!?!?)... i need to lie down... ah!! but maybe this puzzle was inserted for the sole benefit of master owen... who should then be able to spew out volumes of mental diarrhoea

Mar-21-16		Phony Benoni: Well, <8.cxd5> is obviously the best move and is very easy to find, so I don't understand what all the complaints are about. Mondays are not just for queen sacrifices, you know. And it was the wrong game, which <cg> has now rectified.

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