Jan-23-12
 | | profK: This variation of the Petroff is probably best for club evenings not against GMs. |
|
| Jan-30-12 | | JonDSouzaEva: 29. Qc5 was sneaky, the idea being 29. ... fxg4 30. Qf5+ and 31. Qc8+ picks up the black rook on h8. |
|
| Jul-31-12 | | Abdel Irada: I question 8. ♗b5. It seems to me that thematically White should continue with 8. f4, and meet 8. ...f6?! with 9. ♘c3, breaking the pin on the e-pawn by defending the queen. If Black plays 9. ...fxe5, White can then riposte 10. ♗b5 to better effect, because 10. ...♗d7 can be met with 11. ♘d5. Play might continue 11. ...♕d6!?; 12. fxe5, ♘xe5; 13. ♗xd7†, ♔xd7; 14. ♗f4, ♖e8; 15. o-o-o!  with crushing pressure.Here Black's strongest is probably 8. ...f5, which does pose an awkward question to White's queen. However, it appears that she can retreat to f3, and on ...♘d4, go home to d1, after which the knight will soon have to leave and the white e-pawn remains well defended and cramps Black's kingside. |
|
| Feb-18-18 | | dehanne: The best move is 8.Nc3! strangely enough all other moves that look equally good lead to equality. 8.Nc3 Qxe5 9.Qxe5+ Nxe5 10.Bf4 Bd6 11.Bg3 f6 and white is better but black isn't dead at all. |
|
| Oct-09-18 | | mike1: great game, yes.. but certainly not the refutation of this opening as it sais to be. 12... a6 and all is well for black. |
|
May-07-21
 | | An Englishman: Good Evening: A thought for poor Belousov. He invents a gambit trying to rehabilitate one of the worst defenses in chess, essays it versus one of the strongest Soviet GMs of the era, takes the loss, and *therefore*... ...the chess world names his gambit in honor of his opponent. That seems so wrong. |
|
Feb-19-23
| | OBIT: Awonder Liang played this line vs Caruana at the 2022 U.S. Championships and managed to draw. In that game, Caruana played 8. Bb5, as also played by Kholmov. The Caruana-Liang game continued 8...Bd7 9. Nc3 O-O-O 10. Bf4 (deviating from Kholmov's 10. O-O) Qb4 11. O-O-O Qxe4 12. Nxe4 Nxe5 13. Bxd7+ Nxe7 14. Ng5 Be7, when Liang claims Black has equalized. Liang says 8. Nc3 is the critical try but doesn't give any clues on how he planned to continue. |
|
Feb-20-23
 | | perfidious: <OBIT....Liang says 8. Nc3 is the critical try but doesn't give any clues on how he planned to continue.> Big surprise: a strong player mentions an opening idea, but fails to elaborate on what he writes of as being 'critical', which, I suppose, is one step ahead of the old method of deliberately publishing a subpar piece of analysis in hopes of catching out an unwary opponent, a bit of trickery which seems to have gone into the shades with the rise of software, which would ruthlessly expose such attempts at subterfuge. |
|
Sep-22-23
 | | FSR: <OBIT....Liang says 8. Nc3 is the critical try but doesn't give any clues on how he planned to continue.> The critical line is indeed 8.Nc3 Qxe5 9.Qxe5+ Nxe5 and now either 10.Nb5 or 10.Bf4. White is better, but not decisively so. Liang would doubtless have played much as I did in these games: https://www.chessgames.com/perl/che... |
|
Kibitzing
sac: 13.Nxa7+