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Im surprised that nobody commented on what V.Akobian missed against Kayden Troff. Rb3 and i tell my students to check with: Is the move safe? so play it in your mind and then ask the question before playing the move. If you ask you see (from John Nunn) LPDO (loose pieces drop off) - which piece is loose? the Ba4 so immediately your mind toys with black moving the Nd7 and hitting with Be8 the Ba4. So that is a discovery zwischenzug (inbetween move) which Akobian missed and Kayden didnt. Net result position demolished game over. I notice Kayden is very aware (usually) to high level tactics. That is taken for granted at the grandmaster level and an integral part of chess thinking but amazing to most of us.
Nemcova (leading the womens) did not have an easy finish in her game. Why so? Well she had an exchange sacrifice shed been eyeballing since about move 30 but she left herself 5 minutes before she played it. Too little time?! Not if you see everything. It would have been interesting if her opponent had put up more resistance after the sac but impressive nonetheless.
Most impressive was Sam Sevian's draw against Hikaru Nakamura! This kid can play! WoW! Lets see: draw against Naka, draw against Kamsky, win against So! Keep doing it Sam!
Gata said it best in the post game interview. Great future but needs to keep working. (he didnt want to say anything further for fear that it would go to Sams head) Gata's attitude was interesting. No great ambitions left - just check out the other games and have fun (speaking for himself)
We were worried about Timur Gareev? Why? The previous round he played a "normal" quiet positional game - just not like him. This round he was back on form - a Schliemann's Defence to the Ruy. Thats all that Sam Shankland needed to score his first win, a very nice finish!
Timur Gareev and Daniel Naroditsky are in a battle of their own. Whos going to finish last? Both of them have no wins so far. That would be an interesting bet. Will they finish the tournament without a win? It shows how strong the championship is. Timur Gareev was recently top 100 in the world and Naroditskys pre tournament rating was 2633!
Speaking of how strong the tournament is: Hikaru Nakamura is the only one undefeated in the tournament but he has more draws than wins (relatively rare for him) Will he remain undefeated? Another interesting bet.
I really enjoyed the interview with Rex Sinquefeld. The best part was that he didnt mind (and played along) people poking digs at him. After Rex pointed out St Louis' interesting chess history where Wilhelm Steinitz won the key game in St Louis! to come back and take the lead in the first world championship match against Johannes Zukertort in 1886, Maurice quipped: and Im sure you were there! - chuckle, chuckle. Rex also said he had the best commentary team in the world with Jennifer, Yasser, and Maurice and Maurice put in: I guess we should ask for a 25% raise! Gotta love it. Personable, down to earth, modest, comfortable.
I almost forgot to mention Gata Kamsky's beautiful win with the 2 B's now that is chess art! Gata's far to modest. He's one of my favorite chess artists.
U.S. Chess Championship 2015
St. Louis, MO
Round Eight, April 9, 2015
Two neighbours picking up the morning newspaper on their front porches:
Hi, Neighbour
Hi, Neighbour
Looks like there is going to be a heavy rain all day long.
That’s why I am staying in. I’ve got plenty of food and drink and I am going to spend the whole afternoon watching the action down South on the flat-screen. And on Sunday there will be the exciting final!
So am I. Can’t wait for Sunday either. The Masters golf course in Augusta is just beautiful this time of year. I didn’t know you were a golf fan?
I’m not. I’m looking forward to watching the last four days of the U.S. Chess Championship in St. Louis!
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Akobian-Kamsky was an early draw. It looked like Sevian was busted very early in Gareev-Sevian but Gareev didn’t play 17. Bxc4, but 17. Nce4 instead. It was all over on move 29 though.
Round 8, April 9, 2015
Gareev, Timur – Sevian, Samuel
A45 Trompovsky Attack
In the postgame interview Hikaru felt like he played like an idiot for a while – his usual self-deprecation. He said that he was down on himself because he often makes a move and as soon as that is made, he finds a better move. That type of thing won’t work against the best players in the world. Also, almost all top players are very self-critical.
A kibitzer mentions that this is an example of the Dunning Kruger Effect, which I don’t believe applies here at all. Actually, it’s a term new to me today - The Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias wherein unskilled individuals suffer from illusory superiority, mistakenly assessing their ability to be much higher than is accurate.
(ChessBase) - "Holt's amazing preparation netted him a piece for two pawns, but So retained a strong initiative. Interestingly, after So played basically the only move after Holt's preparation, the University of Texas at Dallas student sank into a 55 (!) minute think." This was on 18. Rd1. This stratagem cleverly leads your opponent to believe you have not prepared at home. The down side is that you have lost 55 minutes on your clock!
So played somewhat strangely with a further sacrifice. Holt took the material, defended precisely and won a nice game.
Round 8, April 9, 2015
Holt, Conrad – So, Wesley
D97 Grunfeld, Russian, Byrne (Simagin) Variation
Round eight certainly showed some vastly different playing styles. Sam Sevian, who had been playing so well, was completely demolished by Gareev, who threw his pawns forward with abandon, in the best tradition of say Mikhail Tal. On the flip side we have the game Onischuk - Naroditsky, one of the most impressive purely positional games I have seen in a long time. In the final position Black is a pawn up but effectively a piece down. And Nakamura's win with the black pieces was certainly entertaining.
[QUOTE=Wayne Komer;93573]U.S. Chess Championship 2015
Round Seven
April 8, 2015
This announcement today by his club:
SAINT LOUIS (April 7, 2015) – World chess legends Garry Kasparov and Nigel Short will meet later this month for the first Battle of the Legends exhibition match, to be held in Saint Louis.
On April 25-26, former World Chess Champion Garry Kasparov and famed English Grandmaster Nigel Short will play a series of blitz and rapid games at the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis (CCSCSL), rekindling the duo’s match at the 1993 World Chess Championship.
“Rapid and blitz chess are - as the name suggests, fast and furious. The smallest mistake can ruin a strategy quickly, ” Kasparov said. “It’s not often that I get to play Nigel and relive that moment on the chess world stage in 1993, and we’re both excited to have Saint Louis as the venue for this exhibition.”
April’s match at the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis will feature 10 total games spanning over two days of play, each featuring one game with a rapid time control, and four games with the faster blitz time control. The entire event will be broadcast live on www.uschesschamps.com, featuring live commentary and analysis from a world-renowned commentary team.]
There's a betting line on this 10-game (2 Rapid/8 Blitz) exhibition match. Kasparov is the 47/100 favourite with Short at 143/50. Draw odds (i.e. a 5-5 score) are a whopping 7/1.
and he says, “I expect a narrow Kasparov victory”.
From the ChessBase article, this quote:
After five games Garry Kasparov, who no longer participates in competitive chess, was dominating his old rival Nigel Short, who is active and has recently been winning all the tournaments in which he plays. Kasparov was leading by two points and then lost two in a row. Both sides helped their opponents with short-term blunders, which led one visitor asked Nigel afterwards if the entire match had been orchestrated to bring about the super-exciting finish. The British GM replied caustically: "Yes, it was all faked, just like the moon landing."
I forgot to mention the news that Kayden Troff and Sam Sevian had been chosen as Samford fellows which means that they receive a stipend which is enough to cover living expenses, opportunities for chess growth (training etc.) and travel to tournaments for a year. Exciting news and well deserved! Kayden's mom was interviewed and in a touching and revealing fashion she said that Kayden would now have a chance to go to European tournaments to improve.
Yasser commented on Troff - Naka that Kayden had his moment in the sun. Maurice countered with: Are you kidding? that game was a beating down - a brick to the head. Maurice can be forgiven for his exuberance - he grew up on the streets of New York afterall!
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