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| Mar-11-06 | | victory: Thank you Chessgames for providing the games. |
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| Mar-11-06 | | Knight13: Short... But great! |
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| Mar-11-06 | | bane77: Kramnik has some sort of arthritis. This is chronical disease and beside physical sympthoms after some period it leads to psychic difficulties and frustration. If you have a pain and a slight fever for a very long time, it is normal that you can't fully concentrate on anything you do. So if his sickness is real (and I believe it is) it is not right to laugh at Kramnik and his disease. |
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| Mar-11-06 | | Tobias: <chessgames.com: Chessgames.com would like to thanks everybody who showed up here to participate in our Linares 2006 broadcasts. The kibitzers are an integral part of the equation here: without you, it would be nothing. This has been as much fun for us as it has been for everybody else, and we look forward to having more live broadcasts soon.
We also would like to congratulate Levon Aronian for his super performance this year and wish him more success in future events. Warmest regards,
The Staff @ chessgames.com>
Thank tyo very much.
Do you allready have an idea what the next live broadcast will be? |
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| Mar-11-06 | | CapablancaFan: Congradulations are due to Aronian for a great tournament. Also, I would like to give props to Topalov. Why? This guy was in 7th place (out of 8) at one point in this tournament and somehow mustered up everything he could to finish at 3rd place! Mater Leko was in first place at one point then lost his way. He is a perfect example of getting to comfortable and playing for draws when you have 7 other GM's gunning for you. Hopefully Leko will learn his lesson for the future. Congats to all players and a wonderful tournament |
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| Mar-11-06 | | Ulhumbrus: 22..Qb7 attacks on both wings, on the king side using the long diagonal and on the queen side using the b file |
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| Mar-11-06 | | Ulhumbrus: The queen side attack 23 ...Qb3 threatens suddenly the c3 and d3 pawns, and the d3 pawn falls on the very next move. |
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| Mar-11-06 | | veigaman: I think a5 was a terrible move by leko |
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| Mar-11-06 | | Ulhumbrus: After 26...Bxc4 the game enters a technical phase in which Aronian acquires still more material and proceeds to win. |
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| Mar-11-06 | | Ulhumbrus: This game suggests two useful lessons for conducting the black side. If White plays passively, Black can play ...f5 after ...Ng8, and occupy the b file by ...Rb8, ...b4 and ...bxc3. |
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| Mar-11-06 | | alexandrovm: Leko spent a lot of time and in time trouble he made mistakes. In the middle game he started ofering exchanging pieces and was punished by Aronian's activity. |
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| Mar-11-06 | | Petrosian63: Leko finished Linares playing very poor. The opposite of Topalov :D |
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| Mar-11-06 | | PeerGynt: It is hard to imagine another game with so many blunders. Starting the move 16 all white moves deserve ?? I would say Leko lost this game on purpose unless his rating is 1900 or something. |
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| Mar-11-06 | | Fan of Leko: <PeerGynt> I would hate to think that, but it didn't look like he was trying real hard. Possibly he was but still hadn't got over yesterday's loss. No excuses allowed, if he had done a little better with white against tail-enders Bacrot and Vallejo it wouldn't have come to this. Anyway this was one of Leko's worst games ever. 12 Nc4 looks worse than the usual Bc4, 15 c3 is dubious (opening file for black rook), and after 17 Ba4? white is probably lost (as well as Aronian was playing). Ra2 was also horrible, but mistakes come easy in bad positions. |
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| Mar-12-06 | | csmath: Not trying hard?
Well, a4-antiMarshall has been quite popular to avoid forced Marshall lines. I used to consider Kasparov's taste to be a guidance here but now I am more and more convinced that a4-antiMarshall isn't way to make much for the white. Aronian also plays sidelines with b4, Qc8, and Kh8. This last move is indeed original and very simple with a nice plan that follows. The whole black defence is consistent but it is hard to see any meaningfull plan for the white. 15. c3?! looks quite stereotypical and not effective since black is already breaking out with f5 establishing clear countergame. Leko's defensive insticts betrayed him in 21. Bg4?! and after this move it is all Aronian. This game seems almost effortless and yet so effective. Much, much easier than Topalov's grind in 13th round. Very impressive by Aronian, and very nice and quite simple game. If you like effortless positional play by otherwise tactically inclined player, this is your game. |
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| Mar-12-06 | | Fan of Leko: <csmath> Trying hard isn't only at the board, but also in preparation for the game. Both areas Aronian had the edge, at least in part because of Leko's loss the previous day. From watching GM games, and also from playing I know how a tough loss hurts a player's confidence and takes a while to recover from (except for the very toughest players).
As for the opening, yes the Marshall is very tough to crack. For years I did well with accepting the pawn but avoiding d4(8 c3 d5 9 ed5 Nd5 10 Ne5 Ne5 11 Re5 c6 12 Re1 Bd6 13 g3 Qd7 14 d3 Qh3 15 Re4). Only really works though if black doesn't know it well, or if you can play like Moro- Morozevich vs Grischuk, 2002 |
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| Mar-12-06 | | percyblakeney: Not often Leko has a more or less lost position with white in just over 20 moves... |
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| Mar-12-06 | | csmath: Leko didn't want to accept Marshall since it is too drawish I guess (Lekoish) but he had no any fuel left to play original anti-Marshall, exactly to the contrary with Aronian. I think Botvinnik used to say - it is better to play with any plan than without. |
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| Mar-12-06 | | SimonBrazil: http://www.chessbase.com/news/2006/... |
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| Mar-13-06 | | notyetagm: <csmath: ... If you like effortless positional play by otherwise tactically inclined player, this is your game.> This just proves what a complete player Aronian is. His friends call him a cheap tactician but here he positionally outplays the positional master Leko. |
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 | | plang: I think e4 players avoid the marshall gambit because it has scored so well for black; not because it is drawish |
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| Mar-13-06 | | Jim Bartle: Also I think theory on the Marshall goes through to move 30 or more, so there's a tremendous amount of memorization required. |
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| Mar-13-06 | | csmath: Marshall is very drawish, I would know since I am 90% e4 player. It is next to impossible to win it with whites assuming you have all the variations memorized as Jim says (in my case computer play :-)). AntiMarshall systems, both a4 and h3 are better choice,in my view. Kasparov used to play both but he ended up with h3 which I now think is better as well. In either case you have to be able to think outside the stereotypes. The move 15.c3 Leko played in this game is a typical example of ineffective stereotypical move. Leko has not found any plan against Aronian sidelined play so he played a typical antiMarshall move that usually works well in antiMarshall but not with black bishop on e6. If the black put his bishop on b7 on the move 8th then this c3 move would be a standard plan after rook exchanges. However in the position in this game it simply opened b-file for the black rook. This is what I called a planless play. Leko did not have a plan, Aronian did. And more importantly Aronian obtained clear cut positional advantage in the first 20 moves, so much so that no matter what Leko could have done afterwards, it would have been hard to save the game. |
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| Mar-13-06 | | csmath: In this game Aronian easily outplayed Leko and effortlessly so, clearly playing a simple positional plan that Leko had not anticipated. Leko's play here is actually positionally clueless.
I attributed this to a heavy grind Topalov applied on Leko in the 13th round. That was a very strenuous game where Leko tried to play lengthy passive defence but was smited anyway. That game probably took out all the energy Leko had. Sometimes it is real hard to play against Topalov (Aronian would know that too.) |
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| Mar-13-06 | | little fluffy: Hi veigaman.
"I think a5 was a terrible move by leko."
Terrible? But it is theory and even Kasparov plays it. = = Kasparov vs Short, 1993
Kasparov vs Grischuk, 2002 |
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