MVL in another tactical slugfest today.
Sinquefield Cup 2014
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Aug 28, 2014
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#43
Carlsen may be the only player with the black pieces today who doesn't win.
(At least, he doesn't have much advantage yet. But his game's still young.)
Caruana is still in his prep and probably knows what he is doing, while Aronian's sacrifice looks more and more unintended the longer he is thinking.
varelse1 wrote:
Carlsen may be the only player with the black pieces today who doesn't win.
(At least, he doesn't have much advantage yet. But his game's still young.)
Looks bad for MVL though. Caruana still with an hour and a half and still in his prep.
If Aronian had played exd4 immediately he might have considered that his two bishops were compensation enough after e3 and Qxh1, but now it looks as if he just missed the whole thing.
Aug 28, 2014
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#48
fabelhaft wrote:
Caruana is still in his prep and probably knows what he is doing, while Aronian's sacrifice looks more and more unintended the longer he is thinking.
Houdini says Caruana can safely resign here. Komodo and Stockfish only give black a clear advantage.
Unless Fabiano has something just amazing prepped......
Caruana has obviously not blitzed into a lost position, and has looked much deeper into this than the 10 second eval at Chessbomb though.
Caruana blitzed also his 17th.
Aug 28, 2014
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#51
fabelhaft wrote:
Caruana has obviously not blitzed into a lost position, and has looked much deeper into this than the 10 second eval at Chessbomb though.
Komodo and Stockfish are begining to lose their former optimism in MLV's position.
Houdini is still convinced, however.
MVL spent more than 20 minutes each on his last two moves, while Caruana used less than a minute for his last five taken together...
You realize Caruana prepares with computers also... and he gives them more than a minute to think... this is prep, white is fine, and for practical resons black is in a lot of trouble.
Aronian went for the exchange sac, and his bishops do not look too bad here regardless what the engines say.
After MVL's 17th most engines agree that this is won for white.
fabelhaft wrote:
After MVL's 17th most engines agree that this is won for white.
The only equal move was Kf8 according to 3 different engines.
Caruana is on the way to start this with 2/2.
fabelhaft wrote:
Aronian went for the exchange sac, and his bishops do not look too bad here regardless what the engines say.
His king doesn't have much safety.
Aronian getting thumped.