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Can Nepo try to use the King's Gambit to beat Carlsen?
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King's Gambit is not playable at top level: a pawn down white must fight for a draw.
Dec 19, 2021
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tygxc wrote:
King's Gambit is not playable at top level: a pawn down white must fight for a draw.
heh, you won't believe the stuff Rapport gets away with...
Dec 22, 2021
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#8
SHipov said about it. If White plays right it would be equall. Where is Rapport? in finals in semifinals?
Great
Jan 2, 2022
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#10
what i still dont get is why Nepo insisted on petroffs when he knew he needed to win. All that supposed opening prep and thats the best you could muster?
maybe not the King's gambit, but why not a scotch , a bishop opening to bypass the petroff draws or even a Vienna?
Jan 2, 2022
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#11
darkunorthodox88 wrote:
what i still dont get is why Nepo insisted on petroffs when he knew he needed to win. All that supposed opening prep and thats the best you could muster?
maybe not the King's gambit, but why not a scotch , a bishop opening to bypass the petroff draws or even a Vienna?
Yeah, that and he seems unnaturally passive in the press conferences.
I think at some point, consciously or subconsciously, he gave up... the way he talked during the press conference, as if he didn't understand his play, I guess he doesn't realize it himself.
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Jan 5, 2022
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#14
He probably didn't use the KG because, I'm guessing, he thought that Carlsen would be prepped against it. There's at least one line in Nepo's course that's a forced draw, and that's all Carlsen would need. In other tournaments, he's used the KG to devastating effect. He won a game at the Blitz championship in under 30 moves, and he beat Alireza at Norway Chess last month in 20 moves. I'm sure that they weren't expecting it.
Jan 6, 2022
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#15
KG is a bad opening choice for a number of reasons, and even worse in match play so...
Jan 6, 2022
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#16
llama47 wrote:
KG is a bad opening choice for a number of reasons, and even worse in match play so...
you simply havent pounded your chest like a gorilla hard enough to wield the manly big gambit energy of the KG.
Jan 6, 2022
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darkunorthodox88 wrote:
llama47 wrote:
KG is a bad opening choice for a number of reasons, and even worse in match play so...
you simply havent pounded your chest like a gorilla hard enough to wield the manly big gambit energy of the KG.
Hehe 
But yeah, bad reason #1: it's black who gets to choose whether there will be manly big gambit energy or a comparatively stale equal middlegame.
The spanish game just hasn't been cutting it for nepo as he has failed to gain anything out of all his white games. Maybe it's time for a change. Nepo just released a King's Gambit course on chessable which is very deep, meaning that Nepo has worked extensively on the King's Gambit. Since his style is very dynamic and relies on complications, could he come out on top if he used the King's Gambit against Carlsen?