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Re: Candidates Tournament 2020

Post by JustinHorton » Mon Apr 19, 2021 2:26 pm

Nepo v Giri also drawn
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Re: Candidates Tournament 2020

Post by Mick Norris » Mon Apr 19, 2021 2:28 pm

Bit surprising they followed suit, albeit Nepo is in the lead of the tournament
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Post by JustinHorton » Mon Apr 19, 2021 3:03 pm

Mick Norris wrote:
Mon Apr 19, 2021 2:28 pm
Bit surprising they followed suit
Apparently so
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Re: Candidates Tournament 2020

Post by JustinHorton » Mon Apr 19, 2021 6:27 pm

And great drama as Caruana beats MVL in what looked like an unwinnable Rook and g-pawn v knight and f-pawn ending.
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Re: Candidates Tournament 2020

Post by Nick Burrows » Mon Apr 19, 2021 6:42 pm

Well that was tense - I had £40 on Caruana beating MVL at 10/3 :D

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Post by JustinHorton » Mon Apr 19, 2021 6:47 pm

And Grischuk's provocation strategy pays off, albeit not for him but for Alekseenko.

Giri is the only one of the top five to have White tomorrow: if he's going to make a move this would seem to be the time for it.
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Post by Roger de Coverly » Mon Apr 19, 2021 7:01 pm

JustinHorton wrote:
Mon Apr 19, 2021 6:27 pm
And great drama as Caruana beats MVL in what looked like an unwinnable Rook and g-pawn v knight and f-pawn ending.
According to Lomonosov tables, a decisive mistake was Nh6 in this position at move 55 rather than Ne7


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Re: Candidates Tournament 2020

Post by Jonathan Bryant » Mon Apr 19, 2021 7:03 pm

JustinHorton wrote:
Mon Apr 19, 2021 6:27 pm
And great drama as Caruana beats MVL in what looked like an unwinnable Rook and g-pawn v knight and f-pawn ending.
That prep probably took most of the year break to polish up

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Re: Candidates Tournament 2020

Post by JustinHorton » Mon Apr 19, 2021 7:08 pm

Roger de Coverly wrote:
Mon Apr 19, 2021 7:01 pm
According to Lomonosov tables
I was trying to use Nalimov but (not for the first time recently) the board on their site refused to materialise
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Post by David Sedgwick » Mon Apr 19, 2021 7:16 pm

JustinHorton wrote:
Mon Apr 19, 2021 7:08 pm
I was trying to use Nalimov but (not for the first time recently) the board on their site refused to materialise
I had the same problem. I think that modern browsers reject the Nalimov board as unsafe.

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Post by JustinHorton » Mon Apr 19, 2021 7:21 pm

Oh that's interesting. There's a version of it on a creaky Shredder site that worked for a bit (and then didn't) but is there a reliable version anywhere?
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Re: Candidates Tournament 2020

Post by JustinHorton » Mon Apr 19, 2021 7:24 pm

Also, do we know how Grischuk broke his hand?
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Re: Candidates Tournament 2020

Post by Mick Norris » Mon Apr 19, 2021 7:27 pm

JustinHorton wrote:
Mon Apr 19, 2021 6:47 pm
And Grischuk's provocation strategy pays off, albeit not for him but for Alekseenko.

Giri is the only one of the top five to have White tomorrow: if he's going to make a move this would seem to be the time for it.
Or Wang Hao, if Giri over presses?

Svidler's comment about Alekseenko was
He could end up in a decisive role, not in the sense that he’s going to win the tournament, but quite often you see these events being decided by everybody will try hard to beat him, and at some point he might win a game against someone who’s gambling, and that guy will be out of the picture, so these underdogs have an important role in the tournament, in the sense that it’s a potential full point and someone is going to fail and it’s going to hurt him.
I think Svidler is Alekseenko's second too

Tomorrow we have:

Alekseenko (3.5) v Caruana (4.5)
Grischuk (3.5) v Nepo (5)
Giri (4) v Wang Hao (4)
Ding (3) v MVL (4.5)

Caruana now has a better tiebreak than MVL
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Re: Candidates Tournament 2020

Post by Matt Mackenzie » Mon Apr 19, 2021 8:07 pm

Grischuk the only one still without a win after today.
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Re: Candidates Tournament 2020

Post by Tim Harding » Mon Apr 19, 2021 8:08 pm

Roger de Coverly wrote:
Mon Apr 19, 2021 7:01 pm
JustinHorton wrote:
Mon Apr 19, 2021 6:27 pm
And great drama as Caruana beats MVL in what looked like an unwinnable Rook and g-pawn v knight and f-pawn ending.
According to Lomonosov tables, a decisive mistake was Nh6 in this position at move 55 rather than Ne7

It should have been but then Caruana went wrong. 59 Ke4 was the tablebase's recommendation though Fabi's 59 Kf4 was still OK.
Next move 60 Kf5 was necessary to preserve the win, but he continued to set problems and MVL made a fatal error later.
He would still have been in a tablebase draw position with the far from obvious 64...Nc7.
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