Jan-27-24
 | | perfidious: An unfortunate lapse in time trouble, but clock management is part of the game also. Take it from someone with vast experience of facing off with the zeitnot monstah. |
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Jan-27-24
 | | fredthebear: Who, what, when, where, why, how?
In your urgency to talk about yourself yet AGAIN, you told us nothing of importance about the particulars of the game, AGAIN. This looks like two teenage friends (power house players destined to face each other many, many, many times in the future) agreeing to a draw. |
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Jan-27-24
| | perfidious: Had you actually followed some of the comments on the tournament page, you <might> understand the initial post. Far easier, however for you to find obloquy where none exists. As to the game, pity matters ended as they did. |
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| Jan-27-24 | | dehanne: Looked winning for white at the end. |
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Jan-27-24
 | | keypusher: <FTB> Game was drawn by three-fold repetition, not by agreement. So says the official website, anyway. https://x.com/tatasteelchess/status... |
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| Jan-27-24 | | Rdb: I read that gukesh did not settle for draw but rather erred in time pressure <Huge drama in the all-Indian battle in Tata Steel Masters penultimate round. Praggnanandhaa saves a lost position against Gukesh - thanks to the photographic draw! Gukesh had the White pieces against Pragg today, and a very complex position appeared on the board soon. Both players were quite low on time before reaching move 40 - and Pragg made a tactical error. Gukesh now had a winning position! Just a few moves before reaching the time control, Gukesh repeated twice to gain some time on the clock. What happened next was completely shocking - with less than a minute on the clock, Gukesh played 40. Bd6, completely missing that the same position now occurs on the board 3 times! Praggnanandhaa was completely shocked as well - he paused the clock, called the arbiter and claimed a draw. A great escape for Praggnanandhaa, and a heartbreak for Gukesh - such is chess.> https://twitter.com/ChessbaseIndia/... |
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| Jan-27-24 | | Rdb: Position after move 36 , 38 , 40 of black , position is identical and therefore 3-repetition draw
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| Jan-27-24 | | Rdb: Move number 40 of black is not shown here in the score but it is shown on official site https://www.chess.com/events/2024-t... |
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| Jan-27-24 | | BxChess: Thanks for explaining that <Rdb>. I replayed the game after the last capture last and was struggling to find three identical positions. |
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| Jan-27-24 | | Rdb: You welcome <Bxchess> Regards 🙏 🙏 |
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Jan-28-24
 | | beatgiant: White would have a big advantage for example with <39. Re4> threatening Re7. Then 39...Qg6+ 40. Qg4 followed by a queen exchange, and the endgame looks winning for White. |
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| Jan-28-24 | | Atking: Yes <beatgiant> 39.Re4 Qg6+ 40.Bg3 Qf7 41.Re7 Qg6 (41...Qd5? 42.Qxh6#) 42.Rd7 and 43.Ne7 means 1-0 What a pity! I feel deeply sorry for Gukesh especially after he missed by the same way of a bad time management a win against Firouzja. Still very young Gukesh is however very promising chess talent. |
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Mar-06-24
 | | offramp: In the final position ...
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Gukesh had no idea how to continue. He was short of time, had a good-looking position but no idea how to continue.
White might have continued with 40. Rh4, but that is not a massive threat.
I am not surprised that White allow the 3x repetition. |
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