Dec-24-24 D Smerdon vs I Rogers, 1998 
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| karban: I will stick to my opinion. Here the economy of the position is marvellous plus the perfect symmetry of pawns, king and rook. Stunning to me. |
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Dec-12-24 Ding - Gukesh World Championship Match (2024)
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| karban: I also think that playing for who has the draw odds before match is fitting solution. Match finishes classical and, above all, at the every moment of the match is the person who trails the other one. It worked through some 20 matches in history, why not to give it a try? |
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Dec-11-24 D Gukesh vs Ding Liren, 2024
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| karban: I could understand that Gukesh maybe didn't expect that opening will go so well, and in fact he settled for tiebreaks already. But not capitalizing on this hour advantage on the clock is strange. |
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Dec-08-21 Carlsen vs Nepomniachtchi, 2021
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| karban: <You mean he can't get going or he can't stop falling?>
Both. First five games he was settling, used to new conditions and all this crap, then he lost game 6 and still can't self-arrest his fall. In the meantime the ship has sailed. |
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Dec-08-21 Carlsen vs S Gabrielsen, 2003
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| karban: < This Carlsen kid was only 15> I think he was not even 13, given the date. |
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Dec-06-21 Carlsen - Nepomniachtchi World Championship Match (2021)
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| karban: It resembles Chennai 2013. Anand lost game 5 there and then crumbled out of nowhere in an equal endgame in game 6 playing below his level. |
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Dec-05-21 Carlsen vs Nepomniachtchi, 2021
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| karban: Where's the dancing rook? Question of the century. |
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Dec-04-21 Carlsen vs Nepomniachtchi, 2021
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| karban: The game and material imbalance is strikingly similar to this gem, surprised nobody talked about it yet:
McShane vs Aronian, 2012 To my patzer eyes putting the king on e8 instead of g8 on move 128 broke the golden rule of keeping a king on a short wing. After the pawn crossed the ... |
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Feb-28-21 Levon Aronian
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| karban: I don't get financial reasons at all. Levon Aronian has won quite a lot tournaments in his life, could attract sponsors. Should be wealthy man, just from private money, I don't know how much he got from
a state, if so. The fact that someone gives you extra money should not be a ... |
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Jan-25-20 Marshall vs H Rogosin, 1940
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| karban: The game just shows how reach chess is. Actually, the peasant's revolt-the chess variant the pun for this game derives from, is a highly instructive tool for learning how to deal with pawns against knights and vice versa.
White starts with king and eight pawns, black with king, ... |
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