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| Mar-24-05 | | BipolarChessorder: holy @#$%!! that's some attack Vallejo got going! I guess 27. Qe1 Qg4+ settles matters. |
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| Mar-24-05 | | aragorn69: Incredible!! Vallejo is resuscitating the Labourdonnais (-Pelikan). He already played it Linares, i.e. in a "classical" (time-control) game : Leko vs Vallejo-Pons, 2005 . And the result was a draw ! :-)) |
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| Mar-24-05 | | iron maiden: Hats off to Vallejo. The final position is a picture of humility. |
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Mar-24-05
 | | tpstar: Fine win by Vallejo-Pons - great compensation for the piece with 13 ... de! 14. fxg4 Rd8 & 15 ... f5 and Black was rolling. Maybe 15. Qe2 f5 16. g5 keeping lines closed would improve, since after 15. Bd2!? & 16. Re3!? White's pieces kept stepping on each other until the end. Surely FVP will get invited to Linares 2006 now ... |
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| Mar-24-05 | | pezzonovante: tpstar, I think you shouldn't be worried about it, I doubt very much that 11 Th3 will ever be played again.. :-) |
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| Mar-24-05 | | THE pawn: < I doubt very much that 11.Rh3 will ever be played again>` Yeah, I wonder why he played that. What would it have led to anyway? |
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| Mar-24-05 | | shortsight: Amazing win by Vallejo! Kramnik caught sleeping and was awaken by a hard slap. I wonder how Vallejo felt like to give the punches instead of on the rceiving end. |
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| Mar-24-05 | | dafish298: this game has inspired me to play this opening now as black. It is fine by fritz after researching alot of in depth lines and black has ALOT of traps. This has to get some sort of best game prize |
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| Mar-24-05 | | Knezh: It should be also mentioned that this Vallejo's achievement came in blindfold, tells something about his abilities. |
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| Mar-24-05 | | csmath: What a sound beating! Wow!
World champion got beaten like a patzer in a miniature. |
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| Mar-25-05 | | dafish298: vallejo annotates this game and all his others on his new site http://www.gmvallejo.com although its in spanish...luckily i speak spanish so its readable..probably one of the best gm chess webpages ive ever seen |
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| Mar-25-05 | | Minor Piece Activity: What are the other ones? Do any of the top 10 have any pages with annotations for recent games? |
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| Mar-25-05 | | dafish298: he annotates all of his linares games and his amber games (since the page is new) he doesnt have annotations up for older games. I dont think top 10 players have pages like his does where the actual player has pics, updates and actually comments on the site. |
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| Mar-25-05 | | catlover: <dafish298> Thanks for the reference to Vallejo's website. I enjoyed reading his comments on playing Kasparov and on his reaction to the announcement of Kaspa's retirement. How old is Paco, anyway? He looks like he must be in his twenties. |
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| Mar-25-05 | | hintza: <catlover> <He looks like he must be in his twenties> You are correct, Vallejo is 22. |
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| Mar-26-05 | | dafish298: does anyone have any info this opening for black? not many gm's appear to play the ..a6 before e6 line which paco played and BxNd6 followed by ..Qf6. Why is this? Im trying to book up on this opening so anyone that wants to help me would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks |
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| Mar-26-05 | | Minor Piece Activity: Isn't this the Lowenthal? I think Sneaky is a specialist in this type of Sicilian, probably best if you ask him. |
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| Mar-26-05 | | actual: This line is actually the Kalashnikov (B32)
1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 e5 |
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| Mar-26-05 | | Minor Piece Activity: That doesn't mean that it can't be also the Lowenthal (i.e. either Kalashnikov = Lowenthal, or one contains the other as a subset.) I am pretty sure the Lowenthal is 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 e5 5. Nb5 a6 which is also under B32. |
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| Mar-26-05 | | azaris: I take it this game is not going into "Opening for White according to Kramnik, Beating The Sicilians, Part VI". |
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Mar-26-05
 | | Sneaky: Yes this is the "hoary old Lowenthal" alright. The idea of playing ...a6 and ...Qf6 is what the Lowenthal is all about. It's amazing to see a GM play it, because there are so many published "busts" to Black's play, but every time it's been declared dead somebody finds a new little wrinkle to keep the opening alive. I really hate to talk about busts to my favorite opening but I'll tell you this much: the move that strikes fear into my heart is a line given by DeFirmian starting with 8.Qxf6. You might think that Black has a lead in development there, but White is poised for a vastly superior endgame if he can blunt Black's initiative. I find it funny how these old openings have zero regard for the bishop pair, instead you see knights hopping all over the place in the opening. In the above line I prefer to play the cheeky gambit 9...d5!? but I cannot say with certainty that it's sound. I've gotten some very strong players on the rope with it, and weak players often go wrong immediately (e.g. 10.exd5? Nd4! 11.Bd3 Qxg2  ) Also, for those who haven't seen it, this is one of the greatest games of the 20th century and was no doubt studied by Paco in his preperation, in fact I'm sure every GM has studied this gem ... Fischer vs Tal, 1962 |
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| Apr-18-05 | | dasp3edd3m0n: Was Qd1 a proper move? |
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| Apr-19-05 | | dafish298: Qd1 is the main book move, other moves are Qc7, Qd2, or QxQf6 |
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| May-17-05 | | Bobak Zahmat: Classical World Champion beaten by a yound supertalent! Incredible achievement by Vallejo Pons. Kramnik does not deserve to be called 'WORLD CHAMPION', this games proves it. The final position shows how bad his play was. |
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| May-17-05 | | maoam: <Bobak Zahmat>
Nonsense, titles aren't given out on the basis of individual games. Vallejo-Pons only narrowly beat Korchnoi in a match, he'd be crushed by Kramnik. |
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