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Jan-16-20
 | | An Englishman: Good Morning: Looking at 46...b5. White has a lot of choices; not just axb5 or b2-b3, but also h4 and Ke4. |
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Jan-16-20
 | | OhioChessFan: Yes, couldn't allow b5 there. |
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Jan-16-20
 | | perfidious: Amish Girl appears to have committed a gross blunder in an inferior, but defensible ending despite being well ahead on the clock. |
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Jan-16-20
 | | plang: White can just ignore ..b5 can't he - Black can't create a passer without assistance from the king |
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Jan-16-20
| | plang: king endings are rarely as easy as they look |
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Jan-16-20
| | perfidious: <plang>, true, cos when Black tries to do something with his extra queenside pawn, his opponent gets there first. |
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Jan-16-20
| | An Englishman: Good Morning: Black can force a passed pawn with ...b7-b5, ...bxa4 and ...a4-a3 (or c6-c5-c4-c3). |
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Jan-16-20
| | perfidious: True, but Firouzja plays g3-g4, then runs to the queenside and picks off the pawns while Black chases down the foot-soldiers on the kingside. |
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Jan-16-20
| | perfidious: Make that h3-h4. |
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| Jan-16-20 | | not not: Exciting finish despite of paucity of material |
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Jan-16-20
| | An Englishman: Good Morning: Absolutely true, <perfidious>, making this a race which both players must calculate correctly for at least a dozen moves. This shows why 46...b5; 47.h4 deserves consideration--Black's King will not have easy access to the King side pawns until after the White King stops guarding e5. |
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| Jan-16-20 | | Pedro Fernandez: 45.g4! and 46.a4!! were the only moves to win. What a extraordinary player is Firouzja! The latter one impides ...b5 due b3! and the black c-pawn is a victim of the white king. And the former one assures a decisive advantage on the kingside. |
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Jan-16-20
| | perfidious: <An Englishman>, a long calculation perhaps, but not at all difficult for a competent player once one understands the basic idea--the latent threat on the kingside always hamstrings any Black counterplay on the other wing. |
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| Jan-16-20 | | offramp: White might make a passed pawn on the kingside, but Black's king is there. Black can make a passed pawn on the queenside and it has no white king to stop it. White has to swap off all the kingside pawns and place his king on a1. |
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Jan-16-20
| | plang: Isn't this just winning for White? |
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Jan-16-20
 | | beatgiant: <offramp>
You're European, aren't you? How can I tell whether you're being ironic? |
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| Jan-16-20 | | not not: Giri forgotten to offer draw with two bishops following Kramnik technique. Learning curve for aspiring drawmaster |
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Jan-16-20
 | | Sally Simpson: I think even I could win that final position as White. Carlsen can relax, Giri's no loss streak is now currently zero. |
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| Jan-16-20 | | fisayo123: Game over! Fantastic pawn endgame from the Persian kid. |
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Jan-16-20
| | An Englishman: Good Morning: Nice win for Firouzja. Just out of curiosity, why didn't Black play 45...c5? Too slow after 46.a4, perhaps? |
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| Jan-16-20 | | not not: Firouzja Carlsen has got Kasparov Karpov feel to it |
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| Jan-16-20 | | wordfunph: olalahhh, Tata rookie Firo beating veteran Giri. this boy is for real.. |
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| Jan-17-20 | | pajaste: After opening, there are exchanges, and then you are in a winning K+P endgame. |
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| Jan-17-20 | | WorstPlayerEver: The Rook end is winning afaik.
Black should've played 35... Bb6
click for larger view35... Bb6 36. Rf4 Re8 37. Ng5 Be3 38. Rg4 Bxg5 39. Rxg5 h6 40. Rh5 Kg7 
click for larger viewBlack now simply trades h4 for e5 |
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| Jan-17-20 | | Whitehat1963: Quite a scalp! He’s for real, and we’ll likely see a lot of him in the coming 20 years. |
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