| Oct-25-07 | | whiteshark: So you are the <FirstOneArmedScissor>, no ?? |
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| Oct-25-07 | | Riverbeast: In his game against Vaganian Nakamura played 11...a5 instead of the ...f5 he played in this game. He won that game, and lost this one. As a devotee of the Kings Indian myself (of course nowhere near Nakamura's class) I have been burned by going too quickly for the kingside attack and ignoring white's queenside advances. It seems like more often than not white crashes through first -as happened in this game. The classical Kings Indian is a very delicate balance for black (which is why I like playing it)...he has to attack and at the same time try to stunt or delay white's breakthrough. Maybe the way Nakamura played the opening in the Vaganian game is the more balanced approach. |
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| Oct-25-07 | | Riverbeast: Sorry, I meant 10...c5 in the Vaganian game, not 11...a5 |
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| Oct-25-07 | | Marmot PFL: Having played f4 the natural approach seems to be g5-g4 etc. The line he plays trades off the bad bishop, but doesn't solve his other problems like the d6 weakness and white c file control. |
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| Oct-25-07 | | patzer2: White skillfully refutes Nakamura's attacking play after 28. Rf1! |
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| Oct-25-07 | | pacelli: From Naka's game with Dominguez a few days back ...
<Riverbeast> <It looks like Nakamura is starting to reach the elite levels we all expected from him. He's beating 2680+ players and making it look easy.>Omms Palise is rated 2506. Guess it's back to the drawing board for Naka. No elite GM loses to a common GM. |
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| Oct-26-07 | | patzer2: At http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/mai... you can read Malcolm Pein's analysis. He indicates the main source of Nakamura's trouble in this game was the weakening 14...c6. Pein gives 20. Be1!, 21. Qc2! and 28. Rf1! (not 28. gxf3?? Ra2) as Pallise's noteworthy moves. He also notes that "24. hxg3?? fxg3 mates." |
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Oct-27-07
 | | Peligroso Patzer: <patzer2: At http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/mai... you can read Malcolm Pein's analysis. *** > I am surprised that Pein does not comment on 24. ... ♖f6?, which is the move that really got Nakamura into trouble in this game. (Black would have been only slightly worse after 24. ... ♘xe2). One gets the impression that Nakamura felt that 24. ... ♘xe2 was too drawish, wanted more, and thought he could win simply by playing for complications against a 2500 opponent, but Oms rose to the occasion here. Throughout the remainder of the game (after 24. ... ♖f6?), White held a decisive advantage, even though Oms made one small slip in playing the second-best 27. ♗xf3, instead of the stronger 27. gxf3! (the best move after 26. ... f3, even though one move later, taking on f3 with the g-pawn [28. gxf3??] would have been a terrible blunder [because of 28. ... ♖a2! winning for Black]). After 27. ♗xf3 ♖xf3, Oms avoided 28. gxf3?? and played the star move, 28. ♖f1!!, preparing to give back the sacrificed material in order to stop Nakamura's attack and get his own decisive attack started. |
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| Nov-01-07 | | Jaburu: If Nakamura had read my book " Maiorias Qualitativas nas Defesas Índias", ISBN 8534802378, would not have played 15... c6 and to follow 16...cxd5. In that point it is the major cause of your defeat. |
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| Nov-02-07 | | Jaburu: The sequence 14... c6 15. Kh1 Nf6 16. Nb3 cxd5 17. cxd5 of this game is the same of 12... c6 13. Rc1 cxd5 14. cxd5 of the game Marinho vs Trois, 1971 (see). With the change of pawns white to win some time in the invasion of Queen side. This should be one of the reasons of Malcolm Pein's comment on 14... c6. |
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| Nov-02-07 | | Riverbeast: <Omms Palise is rated 2506. Guess it's back to the drawing board for Naka. No elite GM loses to a common GM.> That's not really true. Elite GMs lose to 'common' GMs sometimes, especially if they go nuts like Nakamura did in this game. It seems that Nakamura approached Oms Pallisse with no respect and thought he could just blow him off the board. |
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Kibitzing
sac: 31.Nxd6
