| Jan-27-18 | | Whitehat1963: Cowardly. Surprising. Does no one try to win with Black late in a tournament when they have a chance of winning the tournament? |
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| Jan-27-18 | | Severin: This proves Mamedyarov will go nowhere in the candidates, despite the increase in his rating. Champions don't just roll over when they could win a tournament. |
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Jan-27-18
 | | chancho: On paper this should have been a win for Shak, but he has a history with Gawain: search "jones vs mamedyarov" |
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| Jan-27-18 | | ChessHigherCat: Maybe Shake'yer booty was just exhausted and needed to conserve his energy for the next game, it's his choice. These aren't gladiatorial games where the spectators can demand blood. |
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| Jan-27-18 | | ChessHigherCat: BTW, is there any sign in the notation to indicate which player offered the draw? Or is it clear because it's not legal to play a move and then offer a draw? (Skooz my ignorance!) |
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Jan-27-18
 | | piltdown man: Spineless. |
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| Jan-27-18 | | John Abraham: you must make a move before offering draw, so in most games the player who made the final move offered and the opponent accepted immediately after. for a threefold repetition both players mutually agree to repeat moves. |
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| Jan-27-18 | | ChessHigherCat: Okay, thanks. So Mamedyarov didn't offer the draw, he just accepted it. White's offer of a draw is already an admission of failure to capitalize on the initiative so it hardly seems disgraceful for black to accept. |
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| Jan-28-18 | | disasterion: This is just bizarre. Mamedyarov seemed thoroughly annoyed with his opponent in post-match interview, but regardless of how offbeat 7...g6 is, why play the Petrov if he wasn't happy with a draw? Giri's comments bear repeating:
<His sort of main strength is that he dares to go all-out when it’s needed, and how to explain that he didn’t go all-out today? It’s completely insane – it doesn’t fit into my world view. I would bet my small apartment that he would play for a win today… It’s absolutely weird what he’s done. I would have done that very likely in his position, but that’s why I am myself and he is him!> |
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| Jan-28-18 | | morfishine: There was a threefold repetition which as noted, the 3 moves do not need to occur in succession. Shak has no basis to be annoyed, he could've prevented it; perhaps its all show, who knows. Can't blame Jones either due to his position |
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Jan-28-18
 | | perfidious: <morf: There was a threefold repetition which as noted, the 3 moves do not need to occur in succession....> Correct; the same position must occur with the same player to move on all three occasions, however, to claim the draw by repetition. Just ask Black in the following game about that: Keene vs P H Donoso Velasco, 1976. Bet he never forgot about it! |
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| Jan-28-18 | | morfishine: <perfidious> Yes, thats the toughest part, remembering the past positions! |
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May-19-19
 | | FSR: This game ended in an unusual draw, but as <disasterion> noted, it makes no sense for Mamedyarov to play Petroff's if he's unhappy with a draw. Jones could equally have played 5.Qe2 Qe7 6.d3 Nf6 7.Qxe7+. Or 6.Nc3. Good luck winning either of those lines as Black against a GM. |
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