Can anybody show me the winning move or mating move here?

What little baseball lore I have is a weird mixture of movie stuff (Field of Dreams, and the brilliant Bull Durham... and Redford in The Natural ... and many versions of "Say it ain't so, Joe") plus references in the science essays of Stephen Jay Gould. And, hmm, a few novelists, like Don Delillo. And Exley's classic A Fan's Notes, though it's more gridiron and electro-therapy. And songs like 'Casey at the Bat'. And, and ... y'know, there's more of that stuff in my head than I thought.

I see Rothstein had links with real and imaginary mobsters from Legs Diamond to Dutch Schultz to Meyer Wolfsheim in The Great Gatsby. One of my favorite lines is from the 1930s film, The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond: our hero gets out of jail and finds things are different now. The new mob is run by accountants and businessmen, who don't like flashy capers. He's summoned to a meeting, and told:

"The world's changing, Mr Diamond. I suggest you leave it."

Gelfand almost *never* plays 1 e4.

Great scene that from the Godfather II movie.

Absolutely. Puzo is very fond of hiding famous figures "in plain sight." In The Last Don (not only my second favorite but also the basis for a very entertaining TV movie of the same name), there is a racist, ego-maniacal LA cop who was clearly inspired by Mark Fuhrman.

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<jess> Moe Greene's name is taken from mobsters Moe Sedway and Gus Greenbaum.

If Siegel hadn't skimmed with such rapacity, he might have lived a lot longer. Just couldn't keep his hand out of the till, though, and Lansky was forced to agree to get rid of his protege and friend.

"Well, with me movies are tough because it's hard to hear anything.

I applaud Shirov's non-boring approach, though as a C-K player, I like the line against a pesky g4.

It`s tactical rather than obvious , you can check

http://chessok.com/broadcast/?key=l...

Or

http://livechess.chessdom.com/site/... (choose Anand-Shirov , game 3 )

for variations .

<“I was lost before play started,” the Latvian grandmaster said afterwards. “I could not find any satisfactory variation against the Caro-Kann during my morning preparation in the hotel. So I got to the stage in not a very good mood. Then I chose a very aggressive line, with the hope that, playing with White, at least I would achieve a draw. This was clearly not right.”>

And Anand said it was a <textbook example> of how to exploit 4. g4.

Personally I think ChessBase went completely over the top on the (almost) novelty. Anand just played logical chess (responding in the centre to a premature push on the flank) rather than an astounding move that overturned existing judgments.*

e.g. http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail...

<After a fairly ho-hum Candidates cycle, chess fans were famished wolves in search of excitement on the chessboard.>

<The games have promised to be exciting, and after a fairly ho-hum Candidates cycle, they were a refreshing splash of cold water for chess fans.>

<All the chess fans are tired of the boring chess in Kazan and this choice of opening in this Rapid match is the least they could expect!>

The move 6...c5 attacks White's centre. At the same time it spends a second tempo upon moving the c pawn which has already moved to c6.

15.a3 (instead of simple 15.Nxc5) followed by 16.b4 makes it much more so, white is now lost, his king is stuck in the center and whatever he does loses significant material.