Feb-04-16 Gibraltar Masters (2016) 
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| JoeBerylwood: Nakamura is going to have a powerful berlin endgame in Candidates. Looks like his QGD and KID will be great too in addition to his sicilians and englishes. |
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Feb-03-16 Nakamura vs A Gupta, 2016
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| JoeBerylwood: Black's e4 idea was mistimed. Allowing the white LSB to get to c3 where it wanted to be anyway to blunt the power of the opposing B on g7 was a bad idea. From there black seemed aimless. He was in prep until he played Bc2 but then seemed to run out of ideas and was duly ... |
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Feb-02-16 Vachier-Lagrave vs L Bruzon Batista, 2016
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| JoeBerylwood: A beautiful destruction of the Berlin endgame. Only a true position master such as Carlsen or Kramnik can reliably defend this monstrosity. I smile whenever a weaker GM loses when employing this system, especially in a game they should be attempting to win with black in the ... |
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Feb-02-16 M Ragger vs Nakamura, 2016
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| JoeBerylwood: They were in prep until move 30 at least. Bring on the Fischer Random I say! |
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Feb-02-16 S Grigoriants vs Nakamura, 2016
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| JoeBerylwood: A nice techincal win with black. The hardest thing to do is keep the game alive in a must win game when you opponents just wants to make a draw with white. Generally black will just be worse if he wriggles too much. That said, 8.dxc5 just looks odd. If white was looking to ... |
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Feb-01-16 Nakamura vs R Bellin, 2016
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| JoeBerylwood: That makes more sense. Thanks for that. |
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Jan-31-16 Harikrishna vs A Gupta, 2016
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| JoeBerylwood: The lad is coming on strong, Gupta is. |
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Jan-31-16 M Ly vs Rapport, 2016
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| JoeBerylwood: I love a good Rapport Sicilian. I guess he decided that you need to embrace some opening theory to win and is playing like it. |
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Jan-31-16 Tata Steel Masters (2016)
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| JoeBerylwood: The candidates' minds are elsewhere. They are both struggling today. |
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Jan-30-16 Nakamura vs M Muzychuk, 2016
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