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Nyxisto
Germany6287 Posts
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marvellosity
United Kingdom36161 Posts
On June 19 2014 00:11 wingpawn wrote: Well, first of all, even if you defend best, it's a matter of 20 moves at most to either checkmate you or fork your Rook with the Queen. So I don't think it makes sense to check 2600+ player's technique, especially with so much time on the clock that he can literally figure out the technique over-the-board, even if he didn't knew it beforehand. Titled players do mess up QvR sometimes, so in the context of a rapid tournament it's definitely worth playing out. It's very very easy to make a move that adds several moves to conversion, and even if you need quite a few of those, it's worth a try imo. 20 moves to fork a rook is a lot of accurate moves. | ||
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wingpawn
Poland1342 Posts
That position... Maybe he saw the fork, but though that Nc5 Rxd6 Nxa4 bails him out to drawable endgame, because he can put Knight on c3, push e3-e4 and exchange last Black pawn? Maybe Nc5 a3! Nd7 Ra7! was the real thing he missed, as it wins one of his pieces without giving him the slightest chance to get rid of the d5 pawn (as the Knight won't be anywhere near the square from which it can cover e4)? | ||
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marvellosity
United Kingdom36161 Posts
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xM(Z
Romania5299 Posts
User was warned for this post | ||
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Nyxisto
Germany6287 Posts
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urboss
Austria1223 Posts
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Fighter
Korea (South)1531 Posts
Also, Karjakin really worked his way up! | ||
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kwizach
3658 Posts
edit: double-snipe ,-) | ||
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urboss
Austria1223 Posts
Carlsen 10.5 Aronian 10 Anand 10 Karjakin 10 Radjabov 9.5 Morozewitsch 9.5 Caruana 9.5 Carlsen needs a win basically. | ||
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wingpawn
Poland1342 Posts
Carlsen - Radjabov Anand - Aronian Karjakin - Morozevich Le Quang Liem - Caruana | ||
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wingpawn
Poland1342 Posts
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vndestiny
Singapore3473 Posts
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Arevall
Sweden1133 Posts
On June 19 2014 02:31 vndestiny wrote: After this tournament Carlsen might finally be on top of all the classical, rapid and blitz rating. Naka is feeling the pressure now. I think Nakamura is a better blitz than rapid player, but after these 3 days you might be right. Nakamura has not looked strong at all and might very well finish the rapid tournament under top 30. Not a good preparation for the blitz tournament  | ||
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wingpawn
Poland1342 Posts
2014 FIDE World Rapid Championship Tournament Final Standings: 1. Magnus Carlsen 11/15 (+8 -1 =6) 2. Fabiano Caruana 10.5/15 (+8 -2 =5) 3. Viswanathan Anand 10.5/15 (+6 -0 =9) 4. Levon Aronian 10.5/15 (+7 -1 =7) 5. Alexander Morozevich 10.5/15 (+9 -3 =3) 6. Evgeny Tomashevsky 10/15 (+8 -3 =4) 7. Sergey Karjakin 10/15 (+7 -2 =6) 8. Alexander Grischuk 10/15 (+7 -2 =6) 9. Teimour Radjabov 10/15 (+4 -1 =10) 10. Peter Svidler 10/15 (+8 -3 =4) 11. Etienne Bacrot 10/15 (+9 -4 =2) Magnus Carlsen is your 2014 FIDE World Rapid Champion! Coming next: 2014 FIDE World Blitz Championship Tournament Starting 19 June 2014, at 15:00 local time (UTC+3) | ||
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mahrgell
Germany3943 Posts
should be quite a confidence boost. And in the meantime Mr. Bigmouth Nakamura was completely destroyed by almost everyone... People said, you have to beat Saruman to beat Sauron. But this tournament he got stuck on some Uruks, and never got into sight of Saruman or even Sauron. | ||
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Fighter
Korea (South)1531 Posts
On June 19 2014 06:00 mahrgell wrote: anand staying undefeated, and scored a win again Magnus, (yes, it was a blunder... but blunders are an essential part of rapid)... should be quite a confidence boost. And in the meantime Mr. Bigmouth Nakamura was completely destroyed by almost everyone... People said, you have to beat Saruman to beat Sauron. But this tournament he got stuck on some Uruks, and never got into sight of Saruman or even Sauron. How did Nakamura even make it to number one? Everytime I remember watching a big tournament these last few months he's done poorly, or at least not nearly as well as the other stars. Did he rack up a bunch of chump points or did I miss something? | ||
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urboss
Austria1223 Posts
The Blitz WCS is 3 min + 2 sec. Let's see what Nakamura can do. btw, Caruana seems to be pretty terrible at Blitz in comparison: Rapid Rating: 2857 Blitz Rating: 2697 | ||
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vndestiny
Singapore3473 Posts
On June 19 2014 19:20 urboss wrote: The Blitz WCS is 3 min + 2 sec. Let's see what Nakamura can do. btw, Caruana seems to be pretty terrible at Blitz in comparison: Rapid Rating: 2857 Blitz Rating: 2697 His recent blitz game with Carlsen in the Norway chess tournament sure does suggest so. | ||
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Shock710
Australia6097 Posts
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