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Re: Nakamura and the Leningrad
Reply #6 - 01/05/11 at 20:58:34
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I'm sorry to say,but Naka is nowhere close Moro.He is talented yes,but Moro is a genius,a boy wonder.Naka is just a lot of work a lot of arrogance and some good matches.
  
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Re: Nakamura and the Leningrad
Reply #5 - 01/05/11 at 12:34:00
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Markovich wrote on 12/12/10 at 15:37:00:
Nakamura plays everything under the sun, so this is not really very startling news.


So "Naka" is the "new" Morozevic?
  
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Re: Nakamura and the Leningrad
Reply #4 - 12/14/10 at 10:16:12
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MartinC wrote on 12/12/10 at 14:08:37:
Yes not this time but he did offer it and has played it once or twice recently. Can't remember how he did in the end.

Wouldn't worry about him losing, I think if you look in the databases you'll find plenty of people losing to Kramnik/Carlsen etc on the black side of most openings Smiley Nakamura also just not quite as good as those two.

Nakamura plays the Leningrad rather regularly. I would say that he does reasonably well with it also against top class opposition. Recently he got a completely winning position as black against Grishuk in the Tal memorial. Before that he lost to Kramnik in an unusual sequence which is probably not too scary from a theoretical perspective.
  
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Re: Nakamura and the Leningrad
Reply #3 - 12/12/10 at 15:37:00
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Nakamura plays everything under the sun, so this is not really very startling news.
  
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Re: Nakamura and the Leningrad
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Yes not this time but he did offer it and has played it once or twice recently. Can't remember how he did in the end.

Wouldn't worry about him losing, I think if you look in the databases you'll find plenty of people losing to Kramnik/Carlsen etc on the black side of most openings Smiley Nakamura also just not quite as good as those two.
  
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Re: Nakamura and the Leningrad
Reply #1 - 12/12/10 at 11:50:52
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This is not a Leningrad, but a Closed English - a reversed Sicilian Big Clamp. Taimanov's 1980 move order is 1.c4 e5 2.Nc3 d6 3.g3 g6 4.Bg2 Bg7 5.e3 f5 6.Nge2 Nf6 7.d3 0-0.
In the game I don't like 8...Nbd7. What's wrong with 8...Nc6 ?
  
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Nakamura and the Leningrad
12/11/10 at 23:59:39
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Good news, he is playing it. Bad news, he is losing with it; any thoughts on the subject? Anyone disheartened? Is it still a good opening, but just a good, second-class opening to be played against anyone but 2700+ GMs?
Your thoughts, please?

It can't be helping the sales of McDonald's book, can it!?

Good analysis by k43en Regan on the Carl - Naka game from Rd 4.

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