| Aug-06-08 | | Marmot PFL: Very bad time management by Grischuk in this game. He arrived late and and by move 25 seemed to be down to about 10 minutes. maybe the poker game just went too late. 28...cd4 is just bad, opening the diagonal for Bc1 when 28...Nh7 probably would hold for black. |
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| Aug-06-08 | | Ezzy: GM Cheparinov,Ivan(BUL) (2687) - GM Grischuk,Alexander(RUS) (2728) [D12] FIDE Grand Prix 2008/09 Sochi/Russia (6), 06.08.2008
1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.Nf3 Nf6 4.e3 Bf5 5.Nc3 e6 6.Nh4 Bg6 7.Qb3 Qc7 8.Nxg6 hxg6 9.Bd2 Nbd7 <[9...Rxh2?? 10.Rxh2 Qxh2 11.Qxb7]> 10.cxd5 exd5 11.0–0–0 a5< Novelty I think. 11...Nb6 and 11...Bd6 have been played before.> 12.f3 a4 13.Qc2< [13.Nxa4? b5 14.Nc3 (14.Nc5 Nxc5 15.dxc5 Bxc5 Wins the pawn back with open lines to attack whites king.) 14...b4 15.Na4 Qa5 16.Nc5 Nxc5 17.dxc5 Bxc5 and black's position looks good.]> 13...a3 14.b3 <Important to keep lines closed or the white king will always be living on the edge.> 14...Bb4 <If black goes pawn grabbing, he gives up his right to castle kingside. Grischuk probably thinks this is too much of a concession. [14...Rxh2 15.Rxh2 Qxh2] >15.Kb1 <Threatens the strong 16 Nb5!> 15...Qb6 16.g4 0–0 <Now we have the thematic opposite castling fight. White attacks kingside, black attacks queenside.> 17.h4 Rfe8 18.Rc1 Qa5 19.Bd3 Nf8 20.h5 g5 21.Bf5 Rad8 22.Qd3 b6 23.Rc2 c5 24.Rd1 <White has made good progress on the kingside, but issues in the center have not yet been resolved, and whoever wins this battle will probably win the game. >24...Re7 25.Bc1< With ideas of 25 Nb5 with pressure on c5.> 25...Rc7 <Threatening 26...c4 27 bxc4 dxc4 28 Qd2 Nd5 Winning.> 26.Ne2 Re7 27.Ng1 Rde8 28.Nh3 cxd4 29.exd4 Re1 30.Nf2 N6h7 31.Rxe1 Bxe1 32.Re2 Rxe2 33.Qxe2 Bxf2? <This knight can't possibly be better than black's bishop. Strange decision by Grischuk. Now whites bishop pair look a million times better than black's knights. [33...Bc3 34.Qd3 Qb4 35.Be3 Bb2 And black maintains some control of the dark squares around whites king, which should keep Cheparinov on his toes.]> 34.Qxf2 g6< Grischuk seems to be self-imploding weakening his king like this.> 35.hxg6 fxg6 36.Bd3 Ne6 37.Bxg6 Nhf8 38.Bf5 Qb4 39.Qe3 Kf7 40.Qe5 Qxd4 41.Qb8 Qd1 42.Qxb6 Nd4 43.Qc7+ <[43.Qb7+ Kf6 44.Qxd5 Nfe6 Winning another pawn is better.]> 43...Ke8< [43...Kg8 is more stubborn and makes whites task much more difficult.]> 44.Qc3< [44.Qe5+ Nfe6 45.Qxd5 Ke7 And white still has the winning chances.]> 44...Nxf5< [44...Ne2 45.Qe3+ Kf7 46.Qa7+ Kf6 47.Qxa3 Ne6 48.Bxe6 Kxe6 49.Qc5 white will still probably win unless black manages a perpetual somewhere along the line.] >45.gxf5 d4 46.Qc2 Qf1 47.Qe4+ Kf7 48.Kc2 Nh7 <This loses quickly. Again, more stubborn would be. [48...Qa6 49.Qxd4 Qe2+ 50.Qd2 Qxf3 51.Qxg5 Qc6+ 52.Kd3 Qd5+ 53.Ke3 Qc5+ 54.Kf3 Qd5+ 55.Kg3 Qd3+ 56.Be3 Qe2 but with correct play it seems to be just a matter of time before white wins. But at least it gives your opponent time to go wrong.]> 49.Qd5+ Kg7 50.Qd7+ Kg8 51.Qe6+ Kh8 52.Qe8+ Kg7 53.Qg6+ Kh8 54.f6 d3+ 55.Kb1 1–0 So Cheparinov bounces back after his disaster yesterday, and Grischuk loses a game after a promising start to the tournament. 33…Bxf2? Was a strange move for me. I can’t think why the knight was better than his bishop. Anyway it gave Cheparinov too much momentum, and he played well to keep the pressure on Grischuk. He fought gamely, but it was he who was always looking to save the game. Cheparinov has been involved in quite a few complex games in this tourney so far. This is his only clear win. He should have lost 2 games which he won. Anyway, by some remarkable good fortune (and tenacity on his part) he emerges at the top. |
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| Aug-06-08 | | gadfly: <He should have lost 2 games which he won> At what point was Cheparinov lost or even worse during the game with Svidler? |
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| Aug-06-08 | | walker: On this site there is bias against Bulgarians and Armenians. I don't know why. Maybe because the are chalengiig the Russian dominance in chess. |
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| Aug-06-08 | | gadfly: I don't really think that <Ezzy> can be accused of such bias, he just made an error or did not express himself with sufficient precision. We might be just getting a bit too touchy ;-). |
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| Aug-06-08 | | Ezzy: <gadfly> Cheparinov was lost against Kamsky until Kamsky's blunder, and he could have lost against Gashimov if Gashimov wouldn't of missed a winning combination. Ok fair enough, mistakes are made and a player can benefit. I'm just stating that Cheparinov had some good fortune in those games. Nothing wrong with that, I'm just saying what could of happened. At the end of the day it's scores that count however you get them. and he deserves to be the leader, but not without a few scares. |
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| Aug-06-08 | | gadfly: <Ezzy>I was only pointing to an error or ambiguity in your posting, without making any further implications whatsoever ;-). The sentence <He should have lost 2 games which he won> means that he got 2 points out of games he should have lost, while you actually wanted to say that he got 1.5 points out of them, because he only drew with Gashimov. That was all that my post was referring to ;-). |
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| Aug-06-08 | | Ezzy: <gadfly:> lol. Yeah sorry, my mistake. |
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| Aug-06-08 | | Ezzy: Radjabov's just as bad now. He's at the top of the leaderboard, and he's had a cuople of games he should of lost but won. This is a strange tournament. There's a bad blunder nearly every round. |
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| Aug-07-08 | | ahmadov: <Ezzy><This is a strange tournament. There's a bad blunder nearly every round.> The players are probably allowed to drink alcohol before the games... :-) It is indeed a bit strange that Grischuk lost this game... |
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| Aug-07-08 | | ahmadov: <walker: On this site there is bias against Bulgarians and Armenians. I don't know why. Maybe because the are chalengiig the Russian dominance in chess.> You probably mean bias by users not the web masters... I am not sure if there is a strong bias against Bulgarians and/or Armenians, but if there is even very little one, then I think it is because of Danailov and some nationalistic posts by a couple of Armenian users (thank God the number of such posts have reduced markedly recently)... However, my impression is that people on this site respect both Armenian and Bulgarian players as eqaully as players from other nationalities... |
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