Both kings are far too open for it to be anything but a draw. I can't believe either can win with best play.
You all should get watching the Aronian/Anand match right now
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What if Nakamura eats all the pawns, saccing queen for d3 last. Can the queen hold 5 pawns?
Jan 15, 2013
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#24
Nevermind, Naka just played f5. it looks like he wants to let karjakin get a queen and mate him.
Jan 15, 2013
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#26
rooperi wrote:
What if Nakamura eats all the pawns, saccing queen for d3 last. Can the queen hold 5 pawns?
black would win that rooperi.
queen would eat the 2 queenside pawns, then Q+K could hold off and win the other 3.
FirebrandX wrote:
rooperi wrote:
What if Nakamura eats all the pawns, saccing queen for d3 last. Can the queen hold 5 pawns?
In that position? Easily.
What about a queen and 5 pawns against 2 queens? 
So where can we watch this OP?
10/10 thread telling us to watch something without a link. Temtped to neg.
Jan 15, 2013
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#33
Harikrishna resigned before Magnus could play Nxf6
Good games today. Only 2 draws.
Naraga wrote:
So where can we watch this OP?
10/10 thread telling us to watch something without a link. Temtped to neg.
OH NOES, DON'T NEG ME 
You can watch games on chessbomb.com - if not, you could use google and type in 'tata steel chess'. That tends to work.
You can watch this either at the official site, or chessbomb. Just ignore the idiotic comments on the latter.
About chessbomb.com btw -- they talk about engines being a lot stronger when only showing one analysis line as opposed to three or four (called "Single PV Mode") -- what's that all about? I always thought the analysis lines were just meant to show the viewer the top moves the engine was thinking about -- I mean, obviously even if just one analysis line is shown, the computer must be considering other moves anyway. I guess it's easier for the engine to stop caring about certain bad moves in Single PV.
All home prep.. YAWN.. boring stuff. Aronian played childish and Anand used his home prep.. nothing interesting.
Jan 15, 2013
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#38
pfren wrote:
Magnus won this "easily" without a queen trade.
Magnus gave Harikrishna his chance to trade them at move 46. Guess he shoulda done so.
varelse1 wrote:
pfren wrote:
Magnus won this "easily" without a queen trade.
Magnus gave Harikrishna his chance to trade them at move 46. Guess he shoulda done so.
Resulting endgame is dead lost so no point.
move 43 Houdini puts naka 1.9 ahead. I think he is losing though
White has the draw at hand, but probably no more than that. The computer counts material, estimating the strength of Black's passer is beyond his evaluation horizon.
If white does win, then the win is study-like.
Magnus wants to make Ponz a happy man! The way he handled the opening was very speculative, but that boy does not bother at all abut such details...