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Is anyone...
... following this Match? Impressions?
I get a sense that GM Nepomniachtchi is not trying very hard to win. Odd position for a challenger, but it's almost as though he's trying to shame the Champion into taking risks for the sake of a decisive result. ANY decisive result.
Thoughts?
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Game Six -
Longest match game in the history of World Championship Matches - 136 moves. And a decisive result, too.
www.youtube.com
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looks like 54...Bxg3 was the last good chance imho
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Really
... a impressive game. I wouldn't able to cope with that pression in a correspondence match 😁 anyway it's wonderful seeing those players playing so precisely in a difficult endgame with so little time on their clocks.
Anyway, 54 ... Bxg3 looked promising, giving the bishop for two pawns could be a interesting idea also for me, but probably it would be crushed by Carlsen in less than 136 moves. 😁
After this one, also this world championship will be won by Carlsen, Nepo... would have now to try to win one to equal but than also blitz playoffs will favor Carlsen, he's really too strong on low reflection time games.
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It seems ...
... That White missed a chance at move 33: Rcc2! Not easy to spot, as it doesn't go after the bishop so much as permit, after 33.Rcc2 Bxa3 34.Nf4! then establishing his rooks on the 7th rank.
Nepo shortly afterwards ignored an 'en prise' b-pawn for a couple of moves when it could safely have been taken.
Carlsen (in time trouble) missed a trick at move 40: Rdc2 with the idea 41.Nxa4.
Looking at Black's 54th move:
After 54.Qe4, Black seemed to have an even game. but how would 54...Bxg3 have gone?
54...Bxg3
55.fxg3 Qxg3ch
56.Kf1 Qh3ch (or ...h4)
57.Ke2 Qg4
58.Kd3 Qg6ch
59.Kc3 ...
Bearing in mind that instead of the string of checks, Black could have pushed his h-pawn.
One feels that in the resulting position, White has very good winning chances, probably better than at the same point in the game. But that is my conjecture. It would have been a whole different game! It is possible that after 54.Kg1 Carlsen was hoping that Black would go in for the piece sac.
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Interesting...
... considerations, I just took a look to Giri's comment here (en.chessbase.com), knowing my style of playing I would have played 33. Rxb2 which seems a rather safe move not considering 33. Rcc2 (too much complications in that position).
7th of the match was not so memorable, but Nepo... should try something in order to win a game.
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@sodiumattack
If I understand you correctly, I have been forming the same impression - Nepo hasn't been trying very hard to win games - rather more trying Magnus Carlsen's patience by simply playing for survival. I thought Nepo was really hoping Magnus would start to press, and in so doing, would overpress.
If I have been right about this, it very nearly worked! It seems, too, that, with the White pieces anyhow, Magnus has been playing obscure by OK lines with the idea of very early playing real chess, instead of following known paths deep into the game. I don't know enough about the Anti-Marshall Ruy Lopez to comment what his strategy has been with the Black pieces. Nepo seems to be content with the same line, without making much of it.
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Game 8...
anyone watching? After Qe1+ I thought Carlsen would have gone for the Queens' exchange, so after 11. ... Qe7 12. Qxe7+ Bxe7 13. Bxe7+ Kxe7 = and a rapid draw
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Nepo...
... with b5? missed the immediate Qa3+ winning the A pawn. The quieter Kg8 seemed ok, I think now it’s over
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mega kudos to herr Carlsen on retaining his title
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Curtains.
Game 9: 27.c5?? GM Nepomniachtchi has just butchered an even position and trapped his own bishop.
Methinks Game 6 broke him.
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It was already over...
... after game 8, anyway this is crucial.
How much did he think about that move? Anyway it’s all a matter of psychology... not a easy task to compete against Carlsen
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Anyway...
I stand with Nepo 🤗
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GM Nepomniachtchi
I heard and read somewhere that, creative as he is, 'Nepo' is something of a 'mood' player: when things start going badly, the wheels tend to fall off. I do hope he recovers his poise to win a game, or at least to fight for the remainder of the match. Any more blunders of the type that decided the last two games will start to get embarrassing.
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Another Petroff...
... today. Carlsen goes for Nd3 like the games in the 2018 with Caruana.
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Carlsen...
... is going to confirm his title today. Anyway, for a GM g3 is of course a blunder, anyway less worse than the last two, I have spotted the last two but this one was a bit tricky. Nepo understimated the action of Queen and Knight on the kingside... anyway can’t get why g3, Rxd4 looked more natural and easy. The position was quite drawish anyway, perhaps if Nepo want to win a game, should try something more aggressive. I am a fan of 4. Ng5 but know it’s not so sound at high levels... but why not 4. d4?
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