| Jul-28-21 | | Steve.Patzer: Shankland’s 49th move was inaccurate. Kb5 was best. |
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| Jul-28-21 | | kevinatcausa: Steve.Patzer: Not sure if that was the case. Feels like Nc7 was a good practical way to simplify down into an easily won endgame. |
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| Jul-28-21 | | Steve.Patzer: The engine gives 49. Kb5 a +1.89 but 49. Nb7 a +0.64 |
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Jul-28-21
 | | K Any: The inside passed pawn, when it's protected and more advanced. |
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Jul-29-21
 | | yiotta: He-could-go-all-the-way, as they say in football (not soccer). |
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Jul-29-21
 | | keypusher: <Steve.Patzer: The engine gives 49. Kb5 a +1.89 but 49. Nb7 a +0.64> What engine would that be? SF14 gives 49.Nc7 about +5.5 at 34 ply. 49.Kb5 is about +3. Not only is 49.Nc7 a good practical move, it's the best move. |
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Jul-29-21
 | | offramp: I was watching the end of the game using FollowChess.
The pundits, Short and Whatsernamovich, said it was an elementary win for White. Shankland look completely confused, grimacing and fidgeting, tense. Karjakin was as white as a sheet, motionless and sitting back, folded arms. He looked like Johnny Rotten 1976-era without the haircut. I think he knew the game was over after 50.Rd7+. The players exchanged not word one after the game. For both players it seemed that both had lost badly. They were drained. |
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| Jul-29-21 | | Damenlaeuferbauer: When I watched this game yesterday online, I was deeply impressed, how concentrated and focused Samuel Shankland was. He worked really hard at the board to beat the best defender in the world. Good luck for today and the rest of the tournament, Sam! |
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| Jul-29-21 | | Ulhumbrus: <Damenlaeuferbauer> At the risk of repeating your words, impressive is the word. He outplayed the minister of defence no less, partly by making repeated use of the zwischenzug, a device which may have been characteristic of Fischer and which may also be characteristic of Carlsen. The repeated use of this device suggests either good playing form or advancement in proficiency or both. |
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Jul-29-21
 | | MissScarlett: This <Minister of Defence> stuff is beginning to pall. Can it be shown that Karjakin has a significantly lower incidence of defeat than other super-GMs? Or does he lose as often, but just more slowly? |
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Jul-29-21
 | | Honza Cervenka: <Steve.Patzer: The engine gives 49. Kb5 a +1.89 but 49. Nb7 a +0.64> That's the case only on a shallow depth of calculation. It takes some time for computer to realize that the Pawn ending after 49.Nc7 Bxc7 50.Rd7+ Ke6 51.Rxc7 Rxc7+ 52.bxc7 Kd7 53.Kb5 Kxc7 54.Kxa5 is lost for black. |
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Jul-29-21
| | offramp: < MissScarlett: This <Minister of Defence> stuff is beginning to pall. Can it be shown that Karjakin has a significantly lower incidence of defeat than other super-GMs? Or does he lose as often, but just more slowly?> I had a look at Vladimir Simagin's record: he is nicknamed "The World Champion with White", but it seems like a load of chin music. As a defender, my favourite player is the great Tigran V Petrosian. He would have been my Minister of Defence. |
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Jul-29-21
| | keypusher: <I had a look at Vladimir Simagin's record: he is nicknamed "The World Champion with White", but it seems like a load of chin music.> Ooh, catchy. I've heard the same title applied to Semyon Furman, though. Evidently these nicknames are too good to waste on one person. Perhaps they could be given tenures, as with real ministers. <Tigran Petrosian, Minister of Defense (1962-1969)>. |
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Jul-29-21
| | offramp: Yes, Furman was always known as World Champion with White, but Simagin burst into Furman's <dacha> and demanded to be called <World Champion with White>. They decided to play a game of chess to decide who would be <World Champion with White>. But they could not decide who would play White in the first game. So they toss a coin and Furman won. Years later, some stupid people could accidentally mistake Furman with Simagin and refuse to acknowledge their stupid mistake, and they would make up silly stories to cover up their silliness. |
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Jul-29-21
| | keypusher: <Years later, some stupid people could accidentally mistake Furman with Simagin and refuse to acknowledge their stupid mistake, and they would make up silly stories to cover up their silliness.> Others, each claiming to be <the World Champion of Bluff>, would simply brazen it out, confident that their interlocutors would be none the wiser. |
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| Jul-29-21 | | nok: I thought Polu was the wcw/ white
but OK |
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Aug-01-21
| | offramp: In any case, shouldn't it be <Secretary of Defence>? |
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Aug-01-21
| | keypusher: <offramp: In any case, shouldn't it be <Secretary of Defence>?> Not for a Russian. I think Secretaries of Defense are rare outside the United States, while Ministers of Defense are as common as starlings. |
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| Sep-11-21 | | cormier: SF Depth 33
+1.35 39.e5 Nf7 40.Kc4 Nh6 41.Nb3 Ng4 42.a5 Ne3+ 43.Kd3 c4+ 44.Kxe3 cxb3 45.a6 bxa6 46.bxa6 b5 47.Bd4 |
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| Sep-11-21 | | cormier: SF Depth 32
0.00 38....g5 39.e5 Nf5 40.Re1 gxf4 41.exf6+ Kf7 42.gxf4 Bxf4 43.Nc4 Bxh2 44.Ke4 Ng3+ 45.Kf3 Nf5 |
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