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| Nov-22-09 |
| Augalv: Ho Yifan – I like Karjakin as a chess player!
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| Nov-23-09 |
| Augalv: 2nd game of the 1st round between Karjakin and Rodriguez drawn yesterday. Sergey moves to 2nd round. |
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| Nov-23-09 |
| Augalv: Artyom Timofeev who just beat Rafael Leitao at the tie-breaks will be Karjakin's opponent in the 2nd round. |
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| Nov-23-09 |
| returnoftheking: Timofeev is an interesting player but I'll bet on Karjakin;) |
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| Nov-24-09 |
| Augalv: First game of the minimatch between Karjakin and Timofeev drawn. Tomorrow Sergey has the black pieces. Radjabov may not be Sergey's most likely opponent in round 4, should the Russian player win rounds 2 and 3 of course. In one of the big upsets today, the Azerbaijani SGM lost to the Russian GM Konstantin Sakaev. Ivanchuk's loss to So was another big upset btw. |
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| Nov-24-09 |
| returnoftheking: Radjabov losing would be a good thing for Karjakin, but first he has to win himself. I fear it will be rapids. |
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| Nov-25-09 |
| Augalv: <Radjabov losing would be a good thing for Karjakin> Yes, Radjabov is always a very tough nut for karjakin to crack. Btw, 2nd game of the 2nd round between Timofeev and Karjakin drawn after 26 moves. It will be rapids. |
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| Nov-25-09 |
| Augalv: Radjabov lost. |
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Nov-25-09
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| Appaz: Karjakin should be clearly stronger at faster time controls, judging from his success in blitz, but I admit that I have no clue about his relative strength in rapid. Take it to the blitz, Sergey! |
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| Nov-26-09 |
| Augalv: No need to take it to the blitz, Sergey is also a rapid chess master! |
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| Nov-26-09 |
| Augalv: Karjakin beat GM Timofeev 2.5-1.5. He moves to the 3rd round where he will face GM David Navara. |
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| Nov-26-09 |
| returnoftheking: Still a bit dangerous strategy (if that's what it is) to wait for the rapids, imo. His won game is on first sight a one sided affair with continious/thematic pressure on b5, but I don't think he really had an advantage around move 30. And with 1 more draw you are in blitz territory where anything can happen. Maybe try a bit harder in the regular games against Navara. Don't think technical positions are Navara's forte so there is no need to complicate things either. |
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| Nov-27-09 |
| returnoftheking: Ayayayay...Seems like Navara played like Karjakin today winning the white side of a Ruy Lopez without risks. |
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| Nov-27-09 |
| Augalv: Crucial game for Karjakin tomorrow, he will have to go all out for a win. |
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| Nov-28-09 |
| Augalv: Karjakin-Navara 1-0. |
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| Nov-28-09 |
| returnoftheking: I think Karjakin will be a great match player. Today's game was really a good example of how to play in a must win situation against a "drawish" (correction) french (although Navara did not play it very well).No unnecessary risks or avoiding trades, but no fear of complications either. When he entered them he was already much better.
click for larger viewHere white just (temporary) sacked a pawn on c6 (bxc6) and followed with: 27. Rc5! After cleaning up the weak black a pawn the pawn avalanche proved decisive. |
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| Nov-28-09 |
| Augalv: <I think Karjakin will be a great match player.>
ditto that.
Critical position in today's game:
click for larger viewHere Navara continued with 23...bg5 (instead of the move suggested by Rybka 23...axb5), with the following continuation: 24.axb5 Nf6 25.Rfd1 Rhd5 26.Be3 Qd7 27.Rc3 and reaching this position: 
click for larger viewWhite is better, but not that clearly.
Game beautifully played by Sergey today, btw. |
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Nov-28-09
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| timhortons: <augalv> dude, is sergey having a second in world cup? |
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| Nov-28-09 |
| returnoftheking: <dude> ^^
Sergey is coached by Dokhoian (former second of Kasparov) but I don't know if he is there. |
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Nov-29-09
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| timhortons: thanks.
i mentioned these because wesleys tremendous performance could be attributed to the help of GM laylo and antonio. kamsky on the other hand mentioned that he got no second at the world cup,partly i blamed that for his loss to wesley. |
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| Nov-29-09 |
| Augalv: Karjakin beats Navara 3-0 in the rapids. Moves to the 4th round. |
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| Nov-29-09 |
| Augalv: He will face Russian GM and No. 42 on the November 2009 FIDE ratings list, Nikita Vitiugov. |
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Nov-29-09
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| timhortons: i bet on sergey for the next round. |
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| Nov-30-09 |
| Augalv: Game between Karjakin and Vitiugov drawn after 18 moves. |
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| Nov-30-09 |
| Augalv: Maybe not in the mood to continue and play for a win after two intense rounds. |
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