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hahahaha "it looks like they may have thrown away just enough pieces to stop checkmate right....wronnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnng" hahahaha I was cracking up! very funny comment and also great video!

I found e6 also, which is nice. I enjoyed this game and I DO think it is valuable even if Gelfand did not find the best defense. I can't remember the last time Gelfand was torn apart in such a fashion.

I would also say that Gashimov and Leko are two 1.e4 players whose games often get overlooked, but whose play is very instructive for a 2000 player like myself.

Bb5 still is possible after the delayed c5, it just packs slightly less punch, bc black has an extra development move, Be7; while white has just played Bd3-b5.

For example, compare two variations:

- (without Be7) Bb5+ Bd7 e6 fxe6 Qh5+ g6 Qe5 (attacking e6 and h8, black looks just about lost)

- (with Be7) Bb5+ Bd7 e6 fe Qh5+ g6 Qe5 (same threats, but...) O-O! white still has a fine position with Ne6 or Bxd7, but you see that bc of the tempo of Be7, black had an added resource, and thus they don't lose so immediately.

Hope that helps!

I must be missing something big, because I'm having a hard time understanding why the check with Bb5 didn't have the same potential after c5 as it did in the hypothetical scenario where c5 came before black's Be7.  I'm not grasping how black's dark square bishop plays into that attack.

Bc5 is a complicated line. It wasn't covered because it wasn't played in this game... I was just showing a cool game, not purporting to provide a systematic analysis of the Petroff's Defense. That wouldn't really appeal to me... and I wouldn't do a great job of it.

Rybka played bc5 after 

1 e4  e5

2 Nf3  Nf6

3 d4  Nxp

4 pxp  bc5

???

Why wasn't this line covered?

Thx

neophyte

I found e6!!

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Gelfand's opponent is GM Vugar Gashimov, newly the #1 rated from Azerbaijan, after passing Mamedyarov and Radjabov!

THX

Hey Yanning, thanks for taking up half the page.

i am sorry that we can't do videos in any language but english for now. glad some of you like it; the second game is much better, in my opinion.

i liked it

Very nice game!

nice one IM Pruess, you have a fantastic instruction style.

"well, he shouldn't have played the Petroff anyway" lol

  questo video come tutti gli altri dovrebbero avere anche la possibilità di essere ascoltati in lingua ITALIANA altrimenti per me sono inutili.

Ciao