EPTWorld Chess Championship 2013 - Page 30
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Taekwon
United States8155 Posts
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shadymmj
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SpeaKEaSY
United States1070 Posts
i went away with carlsen's queen trapped in the corner and when i came back anand was surrounded O_o entertaining 4 hours  | ||
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LittLeD
Sweden7973 Posts
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Orome
Switzerland11984 Posts
On November 12 2013 22:36 Carnivorous Sheep wrote: Would you say he consciously chose to draw because he just wasn't feeling like he could convert the advantage to a win? I'm sure it was a conscious decision to go for the draw, but I have no idea why. Bd4 looked really dangerous for white to me, but maybe he was sure it wouldn't be enough and wanted to save his energy for tomorrow? Really curious what he says in the press conference now. | ||
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Andre
Slovenia3523 Posts
On November 12 2013 22:36 LaughingTulkas wrote: The giant struggle between Karpov and Kasparov for the title in 1984 had 38 draws, including a stretch of 17 in a row. What a match! Oh damn, that's hilarious. Well this was pretty amusing nevertheless, fight till the end! I wonder who scores the first real point, I guess the next match favors Anand a bit due to white? | ||
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marvellosity
United Kingdom36161 Posts
On November 12 2013 22:41 Orome wrote: I'm sure it was a conscious decision to go for the draw, but I have no idea why. Bd4 looked really dangerous for white to me, but maybe he was sure it wouldn't be enough and wanted to save his energy for tomorrow? Really curious what he says in the press conference now. But in the end, Anand comes out of this game better than Carlsen does. Carlsen achieved nothing as White again, despite getting the strategically complex game he likes to manouevre around in. Anand has the initiative atm I'd say. | ||
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-Kaiser-
Canada932 Posts
On November 12 2013 22:41 Andre wrote: Oh damn, that's hilarious. Well this was pretty amusing nevertheless, fight till the end! I wonder who scores the first real point, I guess the next match favors Anand a bit due to white? To be fair, 1984 would be the start of "the last few decades". | ||
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LaughingTulkas
United States1107 Posts
On November 12 2013 22:40 LittLeD wrote: Man, skipping a class to view this live was definitely worth it. That was one exciting game! I agree! I think Vishy had the advantage and could have won, but let it slip away from him. I agree with the ICC guys who said that it seems that he is somewhat afraid of getting into time pressure against Magnus and if he had taken a bit more time (he was banking a good 15 min over Magnus there) he might have found the better lines at the end. Oh well, instead he plays safe and draws again. Still a great game, and I think analysis may show that black had a winning game, perhaps with 29. ... Bxb2 or 34. ... Rf8. This will be much more fun to go over in the days to come, that's for sure! | ||
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Shock710
Australia6097 Posts
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Thojorin
Germany162 Posts
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Kishin2
United States7534 Posts
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Irave
United States9965 Posts
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wingpawn
Poland1342 Posts
On November 12 2013 22:46 Shock710 wrote: that lady is so beautiful :3 You mean Anastasia Karlovich? Yeah, she is. I love Magnus' style of handling press conferences. He's like "C'mon, gimme at least one good question..." | ||
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qrs
United States3637 Posts
On November 12 2013 22:41 Orome wrote: He's now addressed that, and it's pretty much what you say. He said that "normally" Bd4 is what he'd play, but he didn't see anything coming from it. He didn't specify why he didn't give it a shot anyway as he "normally" would, but presumably it was, as you said, to save energy.I'm sure it was a conscious decision to go for the draw, but I have no idea why. Bd4 looked really dangerous for white to me, but maybe he was sure it wouldn't be enough and wanted to save his energy for tomorrow? Really curious what he says in the press conference now. | ||
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Orome
Switzerland11984 Posts
On November 12 2013 22:42 marvellosity wrote: But in the end, Anand comes out of this game better than Carlsen does. Carlsen achieved nothing as White again, despite getting the strategically complex game he likes to manouevre around in. Anand has the initiative atm I'd say. Yeah he does, but he might've gotten something concrete out of today. Anyway, he just answered the question in the press conference, he simply didn't think he could make any progress with Bd4. I still don't understand why he wouldn't just play it out though. Ronen Har-Zvi didn't like it much either  :+ Show Spoiler + Indiana-Jones(GM) kibitzes: unreal Indiana-Jones(GM) kibitzes: he can not win a game Indiana-Jones(GM) kibitzes: match over, Indiana-Jones(GM) kibitzes: Anand telling Indiana-Jones(GM) kibitzes: that he can not win Indiana-Jones(GM) kibitzes: yup, if you not pushing here, you can not win a game / the mach | ||
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Orome
Switzerland11984 Posts
wtf chess journalists | ||
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Grumbels
Netherlands7032 Posts
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NapkinBox
United States314 Posts
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Shock710
Australia6097 Posts
On November 12 2013 22:58 NapkinBox wrote: Are press conferences always this awkward for Chess? I sad the chess board questions werent really shown i when they start talking about moves, O_O no way i can remember which bit they are referring to. Hopefully they'll get that board picture thing working for the stream | ||
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