What's nice about game 6 is that Magnus never had the 2 bishops "advantage."
P.S. I wonder if Fabio would have had better winning chances if he took the a-pawn instead of the d-pawn.
Abandon the Rossolimo Sicilian, Fabio
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Nov 17, 2018
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#23
You raise some nice points, but do you consider that Caruana is preparing, not browsing through chess.com forums and looking at this? And also, another point is that this is the main opening he is prepared for, so it is hard to so quickly start a new one.
DeirdreSkye wrote:
apotosaurus wrote:
You raise some nice points, but do you consider that Caruana is preparing, not browsing through chess.com forums and looking at this?
His loss!
Lol. But just imagine if Fabi plays the Rossolimo in game 8 and loses!
And someone at the postgame conference asks Fabio, "Mr. Caruana, did you know that you have fans who wanted you to quit playing the Rossolimo?"
"What? Really? Who are they?"
"Ummm, I just read a forum post on chess.com and some patzers there were saying you should abandon the Rossolimo."
(Carlsen smiles, happy that Fabio didn't listen to the idle chatter of patzers.)
Nov 17, 2018
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#25
Carlsen is not good enough to beat caruana anyway. Plus the commentators won't know either.
Nov 19, 2018
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#27
Chessopera wrote:
Rossolimo is the best anti-sicilian and I have had good scores with it. However, I do not recommend it for below 2000 ELO as you need to have very good understanding of positional chess.
It is hard to win with Rossolimo against Carlsen though.
The best? hahaha
Nov 19, 2018
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#28
Chessopera wrote:
Rossolimo is the best anti-sicilian and I have had good scores with it. However, I do not recommend it for below 2000 ELO as you need to have very good understanding of positional chess.
It is hard to win with Rossolimo against Carlsen though.
I advise you to check game 8 again
Game 8 isn’t a Rossolimo
Caruana's best game as White was a non-Rossolimo Sicilian. ;-)
Nov 19, 2018
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#31
I am thinking today is the last time Magnus will play 1...c5 this match, anyway.
So if so, it's kinda a moot point how Fabi responds to it.
madratter7 wrote:
madratter7 wrote: I know a lot of players probably think this match has been boring to this point, ...
Well, it's no Kasparov/Karpov 1990, that's for sure!
Or maybe I'm just biased because of the excellent book I once owned about that match. 😊
I know a lot of players probably think this match has been boring to this point, but I don't feel that way at all. It does seem like trying something completely different might be a good idea. We shall see. And of course if Magnus manages to win one of the next two games as White, it might force a change in strategy.
If Game 12 is a Sveshnikov and Fabio wins, I would be joyous and ecstatic!!
Sheesh. Fabio is hosing up the White side in Game 12. I've been watching since move 17 or so, and it looks very, very bad for Fabi. So bad, in fact, that I'm hoping that he can make it to tiebreaks, lol.
As I type this, it's move 31 or so, and Fabio has 10 minutes or so for his last 9 moves. (Watching Rensch and Hess on chesstv.)
Magnus is not the player he was. Horrible.
Nov 26, 2018
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#37
He feels very confident about the tiebreak and with good reason. It's a practical decision, but definitely not "old Magnus".
knighttour2 wrote:
He feels very confident about the tiebreak and with good reason. It's a practical decision, but definitely not "old Magnus".
How is it more practical than playing 8 more moves? It's scared not practical.
Nov 26, 2018
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#39
I don't understand the "8 more moves" comment unless you are referring to the time control. It's practical because even though he was a little better in this game there was opposite side castling and lots of imbalances. He's more likely to lose this game than he is to lose the tiebreak, IMO.
I'm utterly shocked. I really thought Magnus was going to win Game 12. Far better position, mating chances and/or torturous positional advantage, PLUS huge time advantage.
I'm just wondering how fast Fabio accepted Magnus's draw offer, lol. I mean, after the shock of seeing and hearing Magnus's peace offer, how fast did Fabio accept? I mean, if it was me, I'd shoot my hand out so fast to accept that Magnus would have had to think he blundered in offering a draw.
GM Robert Hess said several times on chess.tv that he was mad, Mad!, that Magnus offered a draw. Guest Hikaru Nakamura said he was shocked.
IM Danny Rensch said that if there is chess karma, then Fabio would win in tiebreaks because the Chess Gods are offended that Magnus didn't press for the win.
Game 12 and its draw result will be talked about for the history books.
Maybe Caruana is more clever, he is waiting to play the open Sicilian later in the match, if he played it now Carlsen can adjust and improve it; but one decisive win can end the match. Caurana is playing the waiting game, why show all your cards.