2022 US Chess Championship

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Re: 2022 US Chess Championship

Post by Mick Norris » Wed Oct 12, 2022 4:24 pm

chess24 round 6 report
After 18.Nxc5!? bxc5 19.Rxc5 Black has excellent compensation for the pawn.

Hans instead began to switch to attacking on the kingside with 18.Nh4!?, with Ray summing up his opponent’s approach as, “I think also he just wanted to complicate things as much as possible, make me burn time and then just flag me!”

20.Qh5!? was another attacking lunge when White could have switched to quiet positional play, and soon a deeply flawed attack would follow. Hans spent just two and a half minutes to push his f2-pawn all the way to f6.
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Re: 2022 US Chess Championship

Post by Matt Mackenzie » Wed Oct 12, 2022 4:26 pm

And meanwhile Aronian isn't having a great time of things here, is he.
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Re: 2022 US Chess Championship

Post by Christopher Kreuzer » Wed Oct 12, 2022 4:36 pm

Matt Mackenzie wrote: ↑
Wed Oct 12, 2022 4:26 pm
 And meanwhile Aronian isn't having a great time of things here, is he.
He isn't, is he? I don't know whether there still being 7 rounds to go is good or bad in that regard. Time to recover, time to, um, not recover? :?
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Re: 2022 US Chess Championship

Post by JustinHorton » Wed Oct 12, 2022 7:59 pm

Disaster
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Re: 2022 US Chess Championship

Post by LawrenceCooper » Wed Oct 12, 2022 8:05 pm

JustinHorton wrote: ↑
Wed Oct 12, 2022 7:59 pm
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I thought it looked familiar:

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Re: 2022 US Chess Championship

Post by JustinHorton » Wed Oct 12, 2022 8:10 pm

Well they do say you should study the classics
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Re: 2022 US Chess Championship

Post by Chris Rice » Wed Oct 12, 2022 8:18 pm

JustinHorton wrote: ↑
Wed Oct 12, 2022 7:59 pm
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It was an exact duplicate of a bullet game played four years ago:


and Black resigned.

Moradiabadi doesn't really play the Petroff as I could only find one game of his with it. Guess he was trying to catch his opponent in an opening he didn't expect but playing an opening you clearly don't know that well against a 2747 is asking for it.
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Re: 2022 US Chess Championship

Post by Christopher Kreuzer » Wed Oct 12, 2022 9:46 pm

In other news from round 7, Swiercz beat Niemann and Ray against So sees the lower-rated player (Ray) three pawns down but apparently with a winning attack (currently at move 23), though I am a bit suspicious of the Stockfish assessment there. If Ray wins and Caruana draws, then Ray will be only a half-point off the lead.
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Re: 2022 US Chess Championship

Post by JustinHorton » Wed Oct 12, 2022 10:15 pm

Matt Mackenzie wrote: ↑
Tue Oct 11, 2022 10:22 pm
JustinHorton wrote: ↑
Tue Oct 11, 2022 9:41 pm
 EDIT: Eswaran, who has had a poor tournament up to now, should beat Abrahamyan shortly.
It was even poorer before they mullered Zatonskih in the previous round tbf.
Another win for her tonight.

Two minutes for seventeen moves for Morris-Suzuki
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Re: 2022 US Chess Championship

Post by Matt Mackenzie » Wed Oct 12, 2022 10:21 pm

Christopher Kreuzer wrote: ↑
Wed Oct 12, 2022 9:46 pm
 In other news from round 7, Swiercz beat Niemann
Absolutely stuffed him, in fact. All going a bit pear shaped for Hans now.
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Re: 2022 US Chess Championship

Post by Keith Arkell » Wed Oct 12, 2022 10:30 pm

Caruana said the security is far better in the US Champs than it was for the first 3 rounds of the Sinquefield Cup.
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Re: 2022 US Chess Championship

Post by JustinHorton » Wed Oct 12, 2022 10:31 pm

Krush misses (move 35) a crush
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Re: 2022 US Chess Championship

Post by David Sedgwick » Thu Oct 13, 2022 9:06 am

JustinHorton wrote: ↑
Wed Oct 12, 2022 7:59 pm
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Re: 2022 US Chess Championship

Post by Geoff Chandler » Thu Oct 13, 2022 9:40 am

Regarding the 10 move game. It was played OTB in Hoogeveen in 2011.

https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1643297

Black, winning two minor pieces for their lowly Queen, played on. Which is how you must look at it and actually rejoices in the fact you have a lost game. Dave Smerdon goes into this in detail in his 'Swindles.' Relax, enjoy yourself, think up silly two movers, you have nothing to lose because you are already losing. Then citing examples. (good book)
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Re: 2022 US Chess Championship

Post by JustinHorton » Thu Oct 13, 2022 9:47 am

Chris Rice wrote: ↑
Wed Oct 12, 2022 8:18 pm
Moradiabadi doesn't really play the Petroff as I could only find one game of his with it. Guess he was trying to catch his opponent in an opening he didn't expect but playing an opening you clearly don't know that well against a 2747 is asking for it.
Caruana says that winging it against Domínguez, partucularly, was unwise
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