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| Jul-13-12 | | Poisonpawns: Can you refute 8..Bxc2
Perhaps 9.Bf4 Nc6(c6) 10.Rc1 Bf5 11.Bc4
I like white. No refutation per say but very hard for black.
Other move for black to try that is better than the text is 11..Qe7+
What does white play? I like 12.Kd1 0-0-0 13.a4!
It seems 1.Nf3 buries f5 to the trash bin of openings.
Question: How does a dutch player get to the dutch after 1.Nf3 without playing 1..f5? |
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| Sep-28-13 | | EGarrett: Given the quote from the interview, this should be a Game of the Day under the title, "Alexander's Delight." |
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Nov-02-13
 | | Check It Out: Kingscrusher highlights this game:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ntl9... |
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| Sep-16-14 | | MarkFinan: <Check It Out: Kingscrusher highlights this game:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ntl9...
Just watched the video. I got distracted for about 30 seconds so that's maybe why he lost me, although I do think his vids are brilliant most of the time. Can't really comment on the game itself now, lol, but I just wanted to say I liked the part where 'Kasparov's trainer' walked around the playing hall saying that "This is the game of a genius!". Btw.. If you're training Kasparov then you're either a genius yourself or you just know what you're talking about, lol. Either way he was right because Carlsen is now WCC and already up there with the greats throughout history.. Imo! ✌ |
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Oct-10-14
 | | Domdaniel: The 'what is this opening?' debate from 10 years ago is amusing. Comments range from saying that 2.d3 is 'junk' to calling it a refutation of 1.Nf3 f5. Neither, obviously, is true. Nor is this a Dutch, though 2.d4 would have transposed into one. It's a Neo-Lisitsyn ... an improved version of the original Lisitsyn Gambit, 1.Nf3 f5 2.e4. I've played both 2.e4 and 2.d3 and have come to prefer the latter. Carlsen's treatment of it here is inspirational, though not all opponents are quite so helpful. |
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Nov-27-15
| | Domdaniel: < This game reminds me of Morphy so much its scary. Is Magnus the reincarnate Morphy?> No, not really. All it takes to play a Morphyesque game is basic tactical skill plus help from the opponent. Most masters have played a few... even I have a couple of games that look superficially Morphy-like, though I know my opponents were weaker. |
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Nov-27-15
 | | perfidious: <Dom> one of (probably) very few Morphy-type smashes in my career came after 1.Nf3 f5 2.e4 fxe4 3.d3, when my 1900-rated opponent incautiously took what was on offer, going down in eight moves. Being a positional grinder was more my style, rather than playing for a quick kill. |
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Nov-27-15
| | Domdaniel: <perf> As was I, most of the time. But I can think of a couple of games that were superficially Morphyesque (and a couple more that I lost). I reckon the basic Morphy tactics are part of everyone's armory now. |
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| Oct-23-17 | | The Kings Domain: Neat and simply efficient win by Carlsen. One of the finest miniatures of the game. |
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| Aug-20-19 | | tigreton: I really like 6. d4, I think it's a very difficult move to spot. |
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| Aug-09-21 | | Gaito: < InspiredByMorphy: 10. ...b5? is weak. I liked Black's play up until this move. I think 10. ...d5 was much stronger.>
I agree with you, 10...b5 does look like a weak move (10...b5), yet the engines seem to like it! Stockfish 14 believes that 10...b5 is Black's best move in that position. It is reminiscent of the Opera game Morphy vs. Duke and Count, but in this position the engines recommend 10...b5!
I have strong confidence in what the engines recommend to play. Actually, Black's first mistake came later. |
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| Aug-09-21 | | Gaito: 
click for larger viewBLACK TO MOVE
This diagram depicts the critical moment of the game. Dolmatov played the seemimgly logical and obvious developing move 11....Be7?? Why would such a natural looking move be the losing mistake?
Well, Sergey Dolmatov obviously lacked a developed sense to smell possible danger. Some grandmasters of the past, like Korchnoi, Lasker or Petrosian, could smell danger several moves before the danger appeared; but most ordinary players do not perceive danger until it is too late! It is a gift some players have and some other players do not have. In this position Black ought to have played 11...h6! according to SF14. But 11...h6 is an engine's move, not a human move. Just imagine you are playing Black in this position: you are behind in development in a position where White can castle on either side, the e-column has been dangerously opened, and then the engine suggests that you play a non-developing move!
But the engine has a more acute sense of danger than Petrosian or Lasker, because the engine calculates future possibilities at a rate of several million nodes per second, and so it could easily "smell" the approaching danger when the human players could smell nothing. A possible continuation would have been something like this: 11...h6! 12.Qe3+ (or 12.Bxf6 Qxf6 13.Ne2 Qxd4 14.Nxd4 Bd7=) 12...Qe7 13.Bxf6 Qxe3+ 14.fxe3 gxf6 15.Rf1 Bd7 16.Ne4 (or else 16.Rxf6 d5 17.e4 b4 18.Ne2 Bg7=) 16...O-O-O! 17.Nxf6 Kc7 18.c3 d5 (=). See diagram below: 
click for larger viewAccording to the engine (SF14) White's extra pawn is of little or no significance in this position (Computer evaluation: +0.15) |
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| Aug-09-21 | | Gaito: <Apr-12-05 Weadley: Why is this a win? help me out here.>
click for larger viewA possible continuation could have been 19...gxh4 20.Nxd5 cxd5 21.Qxh8+ Qe8 22.Qxh6, whereupon Black's weak pawns would be picked up like ripe apples. (See diagram below):
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May-31-22
 | | plang: After 3..e5 the game had transposed into a tame variation of the Latvian Gambit. 8 Bd3 had been played in the short draw Romanishin-Malaniuk Tallinn 1987; 8 Bc4 was new. Black had several opportunities to play ..Bxc2 must have thought that White's lead in development would give too much compensation. 11..Be7? was determined to be the losing move (11..h6 was recommended) but the punishment was both surprising and impressive. |
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Sep-25-22
 | | FSR: The strange-looking 5...Nge7! is considered the solution to Black's problems these days. See Opening Explorer. |
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| Sep-25-22 | | Chessius the Messius: I wonder if 6. f6 is in the OE. |
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Sep-25-22
| | FSR: <Chessius the Messius> Yes, it is. The one game with that move is Ganguly vs Kindermann, 2017. |
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| Sep-25-22 | | Chessius the Messius: <FSR>
Thank you, although I would go for 2. d4. |
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Nov-04-24
 | | HeMateMe: A little homage to a late 1960s Walt Disney movie starring a very young Kurt Russell. An accident gives a high school debate team member enhanced memory, total recall. Sort of like a great chess player we know...a fun, comedy movie. Helluva game here from Magnus! |
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Nov-04-24
 | | OhioChessFan: Nice pun. |
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Nov-04-24
 | | WannaBe: Totally had to look this up, never heard of the movie... |
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| Nov-04-24 | | Atking: 13 year old! To win in such fashion against a GM like Doltamov, this guy is undoubtedly a genius! |
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Nov-04-24
 | | offramp: Yeah yeah! <101 Dolmatovs> and Nikitin kissed the scoresheet yeah yEAH! |
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Nov-04-24
 | | Teyss: Impressive miniature from the young Magnus, Fischer style: simple and efficient. Never heard of the movie either. Fits the game but as it would many other ones. |
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May-12-25
 | | GrahamClayton: Position after 13. Rhe1:
click for larger viewWhile Carlsen's rooks are centralised, Dolmatov's rooks are still in the corners of the board. |
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