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And here he goes again with another pass. A6. It's not to keep the knight out at all, it's just a waiting game we're playing here. If I were a mind reader, I would say he might have an idea of knight A8. And that's not a misprint. He might put the knight on C7 and then put the pawn on B5. So that would be the idea behind A6.
put his knight on C7 and a pawn on B5 and fight back on the queen side. The whole time leaving this unresolved. So that could be what he had in mind, a long-term idea. But I don't think he has that kind of luxurious time. After D3, A6, it's a long-term plan to assail him on the C4 square.
So, A6. Oh, by the way, don't tell anybody about Knight A8. That's a secret.
People aren't supposed to know.
that can be said is that his b6 knight finally got something to chew on but at what cost so he wouldn't part with his good bishop we've had the discussion of how valuable that bishop is and now the half bad bishop here has become fully bad so trading off his good bishop would be positional capitulation as it turns out he wanted to be good that night so bad anyway oh well it's
and the threat of 97 is very powerful. He's got to weaken something.
Oh, no, he doesn't. He refuses to weaken his pawn structure. I thought he would weaken the cover in front of the king. He wouldn't, not right away. He says, I'm going to fight you like this.
That pawn cluster would be quite useful in defending his king. And so if I trade, he takes back, and the pawn cluster is okay. And that's when I finally decided.
If he could play without this pawn, he probably would. He'd be like, "I'd rather be down and pass pawn than to have this blockade that's about to occur." At least he would have a useful diagonal. But after my next move, I make sure he can't even gamut a pawn. I seal the position completely. And now except for the rather feeble b5 shot, he's not going to be going far. The weakness of f6 concludes in the kingside moves. I own the kingside. And I'm thinking that I can play g4, g5 in some cases. But I'm going to be careful before I open up my king, no matter what.
He is a grandmaster after all. So after 9-E4, Varjun came up with an idea, I think, to run his king away. Like they used to do in the old days. They'd take their king and they'd run it over here and hide it over here. But it's a long run. It's a marathon. Even before I can start running, though, there's a problem with this pawn over here. But he sees this impending G4, G5 nonsense coming.
and break in with knight f6 check or do something on this pawn. I said, yeah, that's what I'll do. I'll just play bishop c1. I said, well, why play bishop c1 now and leave my rook languishing in the corner? It was like, let's go ahead with a touch of class here, I decided. And this move just puts a nail in the coffin. This is classic overprotection from the school of Nimzovich. The e4 square is a very important square. Whereas my minor pieces are there, just putting a rook on that square overprotects the square.
rook gets up and over and in fact this rook really does a heck of a job you want to say something about the knight you're saying definitely the knight can take the pawn on f6 yeah the sacrifices I need air I have to be careful when I do it because when I sacrifice and then it opens up this position for some defense so everything has to be calculated if I sacrifice the knight now for instance without analyzing we don't have to analyze if I sacrifice the knight now look how far away my bishop is from the king and the knight's gone the knight's field
This is a very high class defense, by the way, although it's a little comical. He's running, but we'll see how far he gets. Now, instead of the knee jerk bishop c1 move, I say, hey, wait, this guy's smart. He's trying to get out of the field. I said, I'll send something a little heavier than a bishop. And I lift the rook. Because by putting the rook on g3, I can stop the king's running. The king has needed to defend that. And who knows, I might sacrifice a rook. That's right. Anything to take the clothes off that king.
move.
And he went ahead with King e8. His plan is revealed. Smart guy, huh? Rook g3, he has Bishop f8. And the king side comes together. He stitches it together. And then the king can continue on its long-winded run. So I said, hey, this guy is smart. Okay. Rook g3, King e8. I just waited. Bishop c1.
I'm like, go ahead. Put your Bishop back on f8 if you want. First of all, I'm not attacking
on and there's probably many many variations where he'd have to analyze this pawn breaking forward to deflect the bishop even if it came to that kind of situation if i were here here here so to break the blockade to break the blockade right now without provocation is unnecessary i repeat to
so bishop c1 and this is when he played queen a5 a desperate looking move it is desperate he's hitting my a palm but let's be honest he's really making room for that king he hasn't given up his idea three or four more moves he might get out of this mess and the queen was impeding the king's egress
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newspaper, the London Telegraph, the arts. He says, I'll read the whole thing. It's not long. The world champion, Vladimir Kramnik, can make a million dollars as he plays Emory Tate. No.
As he takes on the chess playing program, Diek Fritz, for a second time in a six-game match to be held from November 25th to December 5th at the German National Art and Exhibition Hall in Bonn.
start money will be $500,000, and a match victory will double that. Deep Tracesville was the world's strongest chess program, and Kramnik battled to a draw in a match in Bahrain in 2002. Your correspondent, that's Malcolm Payne, your correspondent was technical director for the first half of that match, and the feeling was then that Kramnik should have won. He was 3-1 ahead, but tired in the second half. However, since then, Kramnik has had health problems, struck the phase. I don't know that D6 has the same emphasis.
So this is the end now. After Bishop takes H6. But that D6 and Queen sac line is really artistic. Although the computer doesn't know it's artistic. The units can't appreciate it. Bishop takes H6, X clamp. And he says also the Queen sac pin. That's it he took on A2 though. What do you really take on A2?
boom and by the way his flight is cut short they just canceled the last flight out of town he was trying to get the c7 the magic square to get to the faith agent but the night prevents that and he has to stay out here like the rest of us kind of passengers and he goes right there into discovery so but
A knight e4 check, as I said, he can just go back to e8 instead of trying to run.
And then to press ahead with the attack, I have to repeat the position. Check. Yeah. So this phase of the game is by no means easy. And this is one of my longest calculations of the game just before I sacrifice. And I found knight g4 check. Not merely winning the center pawn, but refocusing the knight's energy on e5 now.
check so I hit that other loose liner piece. After 9 -g4 check.
If king f6 stepping into the fire. You can't even be ready by the queen. I can do the king dog 6. If king d6 trying to hold that pawn the old fashioned way. I had prepared and now I guess Fritz confirms.
Queen f4 check. King has only one square.
and now more drama.
And the F-Powl comes open. Everybody plays.
And when he takes that, pawn takes check. And mate's on the way.
Says, G6 check, bishop takes G6.
Takes that G6 check.
Where does it go?
He goes to D7. He goes to G7, I check here, and then mate here with the pawn. Just protecting me. He goes here. Looks like it's pretty simple to just go queen here, check, and let the rook invade on F7 next.
That should do it. He can golf up the night if that's mate on the spot. It's like in the last game, we just showed that brilliant tactical game.
it up like that. Well, from an aesthetic point of view now, Queen E1 takes away all of his toys. He's going to lose his queen. She's got to be traded on the spot. And without a queen to resist, and with further simplifications coming down the E-file,
And finally,
It's an echo variation that my queen is now on the second time in the game on E1.
And that's an unusual square for the queen. So queen he won, and now back queen he won. It's a crowning move, and the game was over after queen takes queen. Queen takes queen.
And the rooks stand firm. Three extra pawns.
He traded. Then he saw the power of the rooks. Oh, the rook's trapped. He can't go anywhere. The knight hasn't held hostage, so after rook takes, rook takes.
He played about two more insignificant moves.
and resign.
Bye.