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Reply #21 - 02/02/09 at 10:40:33
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Also loved the Dominguez-Karjakin game (some crazy Najdorf stuff, featuring active defence by the Black King). For those interested it is posted on Chessbase with analysis by Shipov.

btw these 2 players rock!
  
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Reply #20 - 02/02/09 at 09:13:52
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Very nice win by Karjakin, claiming first spot. Carlsen screwed up his endgame (shich I think he has done quite a lot), while the others decided to have the day off.
Decent showing by the Dutchies, though if everyone is beating up on Morozevich they should do so as well...

And that kid in group C also performed remarkebly and it seems we can soon count him as Dutch.
  
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Reply #19 - 01/23/09 at 17:56:53
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Morozevich is playing a very bad tourney, he often has a losing position after 20 moves already! Yesterday against the player from cuba and today against movsesian ... Also Howell does not seem to play like a 2600 in the C-Tourney ... I'm very curious on the play of Reindermann, he plays the Leningrad Dutch, and so far noone really managed to get a winning position from the opening against him, this only intensifies my belief that the mainline with d4 is not the best try against it. I also think we get to see a hint on what carlsen is capable of, he plays very complicated and creative moves (game today against karjakin or before against radjabov), I don't think anyone else on the current top level could play like him.
  
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Reply #18 - 01/23/09 at 15:52:51
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Meat wrote on 01/23/09 at 15:02:20:

I'm bewildered at how Radjabov played into an improvement over one of his own games without being prepared for it. Ftacnik have h4 in 2003, and Radjabov was just a little too care-free in playing this line again without knowing about inprovements that have been suggested for white.

Prolly because he had prepared revenge for this:
http://www.chesspub.com/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1226918621
  
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Reply #17 - 01/23/09 at 15:02:20
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Willempie wrote on 01/22/09 at 16:11:58:
And Van Wely beat Radjabov in the KID. Again...


I'm bewildered at how Radjabov played into an improvement over one of his own games without being prepared for it. Ftacnik have h4 in 2003, and Radjabov was just a little too care-free in playing this line again without knowing about inprovements that have been suggested for white.
  
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Reply #16 - 01/22/09 at 19:55:01
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Great days for Oranje!!
  
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Reply #15 - 01/22/09 at 16:40:40
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Willempie wrote on 01/22/09 at 16:11:58:
And Van Wely beat Radjabov in the KID. Again...


yes and what a pretty game it was.  Grin
  
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Reply #14 - 01/22/09 at 16:11:58
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And Van Wely beat Radjabov in the KID. Again...
  
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Reply #13 - 01/19/09 at 08:56:40
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trw wrote on 01/18/09 at 21:09:03:
Willempie wrote on 01/18/09 at 10:40:20:
So Smeets beat Chucky Cool

a very suprising and lucky upset. It was interesting to watch Smeets in the conference unsure why he was there giving it at all lol. His words "I was worse the whole game and was lucky to get a win on time!"

He doesnt lose many "lost" games. He has some sort of nose to make the win as difficult as possible. He did the same yesterday.

Anyway for the fans of old-fashioned gambit openings, apparently move 11 by Adams is not so good:
[Event "Corus Chess 2009"]
[Site "Wijk aan Zee"]
[Date "2009/1/18"]
[Round "2"]
[White "Movsesian"]
[Black "Adams"]
[Result "1-0"]
1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Bc5 4. O-O Nf6 5. d4 Bxd4 6. Nxd4 Nxd4 7. f4 d6 8. fxe5 dxe5 9. Bg5 Be6 10. Na3 Qe7 11. c3 Nc6 12. Kh1 Rd8 13. Qe2 h6 14. Bxf6 gxf6 15.Rf2 Rg8 16. Raf1 Rg6 17. Nc2 Kf8 18. Ne3 Nb8 19. Qh5 Kg7 20. Qf3 Kh7 21. Nd5 Bxd5 22.exd5 e4 23. Qf4 Rd6 24. Re2 Nd7 25. Rxe4 Ne5 26. Bb3 Kg8 27. c4 b6 28. Bc2 Qf8 29. Re3 Rg5 30. Bf5 Kh8 31. Rfe1 a5 32. b3 c6 33. dxc6 Rxc6 34. h4 Rg8 35. Rd1 a4 36.Rd8 Qg7 37. Rxg8+ Kxg8 38. Rg3 1-0
  
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Reply #12 - 01/18/09 at 21:09:03
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Willempie wrote on 01/18/09 at 10:40:20:
So Smeets beat Chucky Cool

a very suprising and lucky upset. It was interesting to watch Smeets in the conference unsure why he was there giving it at all lol. His words "I was worse the whole game and was lucky to get a win on time!"
  
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Reply #11 - 01/18/09 at 19:05:53
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The losers of yesterday Chucky and Moro rebounded today.
So everything is open again. Stellwagen played a carefull draw against Carlssen (note his trappy Rd7! in reply to ...Bxb2. Of course Carlssen was not to be fooled and choose Bf6 instead of getting mated after taking the rook on a1).
  
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Reply #10 - 01/18/09 at 17:35:17
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nowadays there are so many "major events" ...
I consider every tournament with 50 % of the players 2600+ major ...
almost every week you can watch some chess games being played by super GM's ... for chess lovers there has never been a greater time when now, and bethanks to the internet all the games are avaible to you in about 1 second ... and how can you call a tournament with players like carlsen, radjabov, ivanchuk or morozevich not major ... also I do not consider 2 of the players you mentionend, Kramnik and Anand, to be able to uphold their elite level against the new generation any longer
  
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Reply #9 - 01/18/09 at 11:04:41
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gutted Moro lost against that English Attack, I was considering using his line in my own games. Back to the drawing board!
  
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Reply #8 - 01/18/09 at 10:40:20
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So Smeets beat Chucky Cool
  
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Reply #7 - 01/17/09 at 23:58:44
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wow what a great berlin game! http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1531083

I hope Cox saw that Smiley
  
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