| Nov-27-07 | | aragorn69: Kamsky is my new hero! ;-) He plays the Modern Benoni... And wins! |
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| Nov-27-07 | | suenteus po 147: 3...c5 is a Kamsky ploy that is becoming familiar to me. He would rather play on uncertain terms than on his opponent's terms. The Catalan is becoming all the rage, so what better way to defeat it than by disallowing it. |
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| Nov-27-07 | | whiskeyrebel: 21...Bxc3 seems like a pragmatic return of the material. It deviates from a game in the database here in which Nunn played Bd4+ followed by Re7. I love blacks Q-side pawns. A nice game. |
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Nov-30-07
 | | Peligroso Patzer: When I first played over this game, I thought Avrukh might have missed a final defensive chance when he failed to play 51. ♗f6 (trying to tie both Black pieces to the defense of b2), but this also appears to be completely insufficient, for example: 51.♗f6 ♖d6 52.♔e2 (52.♖xb2 ♘xb2 53.♗xb2 ♖xe6  ) 52...♖xe6+ 53.♗e5 ♘xe5 54.fxe5 ♖b6 55.♔f3 ♖b4 . |
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| Dec-01-07 | | Udit Narayan: 53...Rd1 !!! |
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Dec-12-07
 | | Mateo: <Peligroso Patzer> In your variation, Black can even play 54...Rxe5+ first and next Rb5. But 51.Bf6 is worthy considering. However, as your vaiation shows, the White King should not go on the 'e' file but on the 'g' file. 52.Kg4! should be an improvement. If 52...Rxe6 53.Bxb2! Rb6 54.Re1+. Thus Black has to find something else. Not so easy. 52...Rd1 53.Rxd1 Ne3+ 54.Kg5 Nxd1 55.Bxb2 Nxb2 56.Kh6 Nd3 57.Kxh7 Nxf4 58.Kh6 is a draw. Maybe 52...Rd5 first, impeding f5 or Kg5. But next what? |
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| Dec-12-07 | | whiteshark: An interesting endgame. Instructive the way Kamsky advances his b♙. |
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| Dec-13-07 | | Eyal: <Mateo: But 51.Bf6 is worthy considering. However, as your vaiation shows, the White King should not go on the 'e' file but on the 'g' file. [51...Rd6] 52.Kg4! should be an improvement. If 52...Rxe6 53.Bxb2! Rb6 54.Re1+. Thus Black has to find something else. Not so easy. 52...Rd1 53.Rxd1 Ne3+ 54.Kg5 Nxd1 55.Bxb2 Nxb2 56.Kh6 Nd3 57.Kxh7 Nxf4 58.Kh6 is a draw. Maybe 52...Rd5 first, impeding f5 or Kg5. But next what?> After 51.Bf6, perhaps 51...Rc2 followed by Rc1 is a simpler way to win than 51...Rd6. |
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Dec-13-07
| | Mateo: <Eyal> 51...Rc2!. This is a much simpler win. |
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| Jan-28-08 | | notyetagm: B Avrukh vs Kamsky, 2007 Final position after 53 ... ♖d5-d1! 0-1
click for larger viewOne of my favorite <KNIGHT FORK> petite combinaisons of the year, winning an important game for Kamsky at the World Chess Cup (2007). The point is, of course, 54 ♖c1x♖d1 ♘c4-e3+.
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| Aug-15-11 | | DrMAL: Avrukh played an older main line against the Benoni that after 14.Nc4 basically only achieves an equal but double-edged game. After the pawn sac 16.a5 Qxa5 the advance with 18.g5 (instead of simply 18.f4) was interesting but dubious, possibly overextending. Giving back the exchange with 22...Qxc3 was strong, after 23...Rxe8 black's Q-side pawns more than balance white's chances. Probably best here was to try and bail out via 24.Qd2 and play for a draw, but white was insistent, trying for his center pawns later. White got too ambitious with 32.e5? (32.Rxd4 is a likely draw) but this went unpunished and the game remained drawish (32...Nc5! and black is in trouble; e.g., 33.Rxd4 a3! 34.Bc3 Nb3! 35.Ra4 Rxc3 losing bishop for pawn). The game was still probably a draw if 46.Rc2 Rd6 47.Rc5 Rxe6 48.Kf3 but white again got too ambitious with 46.Ra2? and Kamsky played well to show why (51.f5? helped, 51...Rd6!). |
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| May-21-18 | | Whitehat1963: Great game! |
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| Oct-20-18 | | cunctatorg: Great game and Gata Kamsky is a great chess player! |
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| Nov-28-18 | | Ironmanth: Tremendous game for Benoni aficionados! Go Gata. |
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