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Jan-21-20
 | | offramp: Alireza will not be discouraged. He will not lose to FabbyCabby! He will gird up his loins like a man and play the most uncompromising defence ever: 1...a5 and 2....h5. |
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Jan-21-20
 | | AylerKupp: <offramp> If Firouzja played 1...a5 and 2...h5 he would be channeling his inner AlphaZero, don't you agree? But I think he will likely reverse the move order in order to try to get Caruana out of his book. |
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| Jan-22-20 | | wordfunph: i shave my down under if Caruana does not win this one. 1-0 |
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| Jan-22-20 | | Diademas: <wordfunph: i shave my down under if Caruana does not win this one. 1-0>
As long as you don't take a picture and use it as an avatar;
Knock yourself out! |
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Jan-22-20
 | | keypusher: Caruana looks like Firouja's younger brother in the pictures next to the board. Maybe time to update Fabiano, cg? |
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Jan-22-20
| | offramp: Great! An actual real King's Indian. |
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Jan-22-20
 | | chancho: If the Iranian kid can steady himself after yesterday's thrashing, that's an accomplishment. But Caruana wants to win TATA very... very badly, so it will be hard work for the youngster to get there. |
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| Jan-22-20 | | Count Wedgemore: 8.g4 is an aggressive option here. |
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Jan-22-20
| | offramp: This is like the outré Game Collection: Kings Indian Defence, Four Pawns Attack but it is more like a 5-Pawns Attack. |
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Jan-22-20
| | keypusher: Wow, what an opening! If I was a tournament organizer, I'd be begging Ali F. to play in my event. |
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Jan-22-20
| | offramp: I have heard, BTW, that Terry Jones the director has died aged 77. |
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Jan-22-20
| | offramp: After 11...b6
click for larger view
I prefer Black. |
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| Jan-22-20 | | Count Wedgemore: Wow, both f4 and g4. Fabiano goes all in. Of course, often the problem with playing f4 is that it weakens the e4-pawn, but here White could play it with tempo since Black had to retreat his knight. |
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| Jan-22-20 | | Ulhumbrus: 13 Bg2 defends the pawn chain |
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Jan-22-20
| | offramp: < Count Wedgemore: Wow, both f4 and g4. Fabiano goes all in. Of course, often the problem with playing f4 is that it weakens the e4-pawn, but here White could play it with tempo since Black had to retreat his knight.> I think that in these positions Black does not mind his pieces being forced to retreat as long as White's pawns are advancing. |
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Jan-22-20
| | offramp: For Black I would suggest, in various move orders, Bb7 a6, b5, Nb6 and Nc4. |
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| Jan-22-20 | | Atking: On 13.Bg2 there is 13...Ba6 |
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| Jan-22-20 | | Ulhumbrus: On 13 Bg2 Black may however try 13...Ba6 threatening 14...Nd3+ and Caruana has defended e4 by 13 Qf3 instead |
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Jan-22-20
| | offramp: Will Caruana castle queenside? |
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| Jan-22-20 | | Atking: Remember the kind of hypermodern chess of the first days. Georges Koltanowski vs Marcel Duchamp in Paris (1929) |
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| Jan-22-20 | | Ulhumbrus: <Atking: On 13.Bg2 there is 13...Ba6> I saw your message after having sent mine, as happens sometimes. |
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| Jan-22-20 | | Count Wedgemore: Good to see you, <offramp>. Yes, the problem with advanced pawns is that they can become weak. The e4-pawn is already under some pressure. 13.Qf3 was an interesting move, by the way, and it may have surprised the young statelessian. |
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| Jan-22-20 | | Atking: <Ulhumbrus: <Atking: On 13.Bg2 there is 13...Ba6> I saw your message after having sent mine, as happens sometimes.> No problem, we are all here thinking together to get a better understanding of the game. |
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Jan-22-20
| | offramp: <Count Wedgemore: Good to see you, <offramp>> And you! It is nice to be back. many thanks for all the people who enquired about my absence. I have been at LiveLeak and Twitter. |
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| Jan-22-20 | | Atking: Will we have an hypermodern counter with 14...Nxe4!? 15.NxN Bxd5 16.Nf6+ exN 17.QxB Re8 |
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