The Chess Mind

Author: Dennis Monokroussos.
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Linares/Morelia: Round 12 Recap
We're in a holding pattern, as not only Leko but everyone else drew their games. Starting with Leko's game, he introduced a novelty on move 23 against Bacrot's Petroff, and then spent the next three moves more or less undoing it. The game made it to move 41, but without any drama.

Aronian could have caught Leko with a win, but with Black against Svidler he was satisfied with a 20 move siesta. Topalov's game with Ivanchuk was lively by comparison, but he was unable to achieve anything either. The Vallejo-Radjabov game was quite interesting, however, culminating in a complex knight ending. I recommend that the reader work out the ending for herself, and will wait to annotate that game.

Round 12 Results:

Leko-Bacrot 1/2-1/2
Svidler-Aronian 1/2-1/2
Topalov-Ivanchuk 1/2-1/2
Vallejo-Radjabov 1/2-1/2

Standings after Round 12:

Leko 7.5
Aronian 7
Radjabov, Topalov 6.5
Svidler 6
Bacrot, Ivanchuk 5
Vallejo 4.5

Pairings for Round 13: (On Friday)

Topalov-Leko (last chance!)
Aronian-Bacrot
Radjabov-Svidler
Ivanchuk-Vallejo

To replay the games, click here.
Posted by Dennis Monokroussos on Wednesday March 8, 2006 at 10:50pm
ben (mail):
i have work out the knight ending of Vallejo-Radjabov game(started fr move 46). It is a draw ending. i used 1+ 1/2 hour to analyse, at the end found out a lot of rubbish thought in my analysis. For example i take a lot of time to determine the 1st move, whether e5 or knight move?(actually e5 and Nf5 just transpose to each other later on) Then after 46.e5 g3 chosen, another huge amount of time was used on comparing Ng6 and Nf5 , and blah blah......
Juz curious how long do u take to analyse and any difficulties u encounter during ur analysis. anyone mind to share with me? and Dennis?
3.9.2006 10:01pm