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I always like to see a gambit like that one in a high level game.
I've thought of playing some gambits on the Social Chess App I use on my Ipad but the ideas during the game don't seem to flow as easily as they did when I was younger. They seem to have players from all over the world who use that app.
U.S. Chess Championship 2015
St. Louis, Mo
Round Five, April 5, 2015
It is Easter Sunday and those of us in the East found that there were fat snowflakes falling in early afternoon but melting as they hit the ground.
A good day to stay in and watch the United States Championship.
Gata Kamsky is happier and more relaxed than I have ever seen him during interviews. There is a photo of him leaning back in his chair and laughing when Gareev played the second move in the Wing Gambit yesterday. Some people have said he was amused at Gareev’s shirt, but that cannot be true.
Gata says he has been a little bit lucky but things are going well. he cannot expect to win his sixth championship but the tournament is half over and he has played Nakamura. So is a difficult opponent for him, so he will be cautious when he plays Wesley in Round Ten.
He says he likes St. Louis and the chess family there – they are not quite the Brady Bunch but still friendly, nevertheless.
He wants to qualify for the World Cup and the World Championship cycle.
Naroditsky had the advantage over Nakamura for a couple of dozen moves. Then he played 28. e5 and that handed the game to Hikaru.
Much was made of the fact that they had a Dragon Sicilian.
Holt had Troff on the ropes until the first time control then played 43. Kh3 and Troff won the game.
So-Gareev is a French Defence, Fort Knox Variation. The idea of that is that Black takes extra time to develop his worst piece in the game – i.e. 5. Nf3 Bc6. It’s called the Fort Knox because it is hard for White to break it.
Timur played 9. h5 and Wesley answered later with h4. He appears to be another free spirit like Jobava!
Wesley thinks he might have a chance to win the tournament because Hikaru still has to play Alex and Ray.
Maurice Ashley used the expression “right the ship” at least three times today in interviews. When a ship lists or leans to one side or the other, righting the ship balances it so that it is vertical again. It appears that this can be used to say that you are normalizing your tournament performace.
Round 5, April 5, 2015
Naroditsky, Daniel – Nakamura, Hikaru
B76 Sicilian, Dragon, Yugoslav Attack
Akobian-Onischuk and Shankland-Sevian were both draws.
Goletiani was felt to have a winning game against Krush and was pouring on the pressure with 22…Bxg2 when Krush got the upper hand and eventually won the contest.
Wayne already pointed out a Maurice Ashleyism from rd 5: right the ship. I would like to point out another. In referring to Irina Krush's attempts to defend against Goletianis dangerous attack Maurice said shes digging a gimungous hole for herself (gimungous?? yup). However in the post game interview Irina was right in her assessment of the position and Maurice was wrong.
I was surprised to see Yasser trying to outdo Maurice yesterday and they actually posted a list of Yasserisms on the screen. The most ridiculous had to be when he asked Jennifer Shahade when did she first drink the poison from the Grunfeld chalice? Huh???
One example: Conrad Holt was white against Kayden Troff and was looking for revenge as lifetime he was 0-4 against Kayden. The game went into a trap in the Grunfeld where black plays Nxf2 and Nxh1 and the computer evals swung to +5 for white.
At that moment white had a few winning moves that would lead to game over (a slaughter) but you had to see 3 or 4 moves deep to get the picture. Instead there was a move that almost any chessplayer would play (Bc7) which was visually attractive. Yup Conrad played Bc7. Kayden went into a deep tank and came up with Qe3 in front of the white king - still lost (-3) but the move smelled of great cheapo potential.
The game proceeded, both players were in time pressure, and time control was reached with no blunders. At this point Conrad Holt was up two pawns with a big plus but had to choose between Kf3 attacking an attacking knight or the looked to be safe Kh3. He played Kh3. Kayden came up with g5,g4+ which conrad must have sen but thought he could trade queens and no more attack. Yup the queen exchange could happen but the rook recapturing would be lost to a Nf5 fork. So no revenge and Conrad lost to a cheapo. He rushed from the room and disappeared. Oh the pain of it!
Gata Kamsky in the post game interview said he walked by the Holt Troff game and saw the wild tactics happening and couldnt bear to watch it - an old guy like me. Give me my positional chess!
Against Gata Kamsky Ray Robson was doing well and looked to have things under control defending his kingside against Gata's potential threats. Then he did a classic mistake. In looming time pressure he was attracted to a pawn move (b3) that released good squares for his knight. Nothing wrong with the move or idea. But in further play he attempted to justify it and moved his pieces away from the kingside and finally played Kh6??!?? a real howler which attacked the Ng5 and forced it away but to a good square. The entire commentary team was stunned (Yassers face especially as he kept saying over and over Kh6?? in disbelief). I feel better of my own chess if a great grandmaster can be reduced to that.
Timur Gareev is a great blindfold player who has played 33 boards and will probably soon challenge the worlds blindfold record. However in this tournament his attempts to outpsych his opponents have led to greater confusion in his own mind. Against Wesley So he ventured a "normal" opening and obtained an equal position but after further thinking came up with h5, and then Kf8?, and Rh6?? just making his position bad. It didnt take much more for Wesley to take over. As Wesley was thinking about his last move of the game Timur offered him a handshake. As Wesley said in the postgame interview Im a gentleman so I had to shake his hand but I looked to see if he put draw or 1-0 on his scoresheet. Fortunately he chose 1-0!
R Goletani decided to go for Irina Krush's king and developed a dangerous attack. At one point she was winning but was too eager to play Bxg2 wrecking the kings position. There were better alternatives. Irina came up with an amazing defence and turned the game around. This key game was the difference between burying Irina in the middle of the pack and where she is now a half point back challenging for the lead.
Ray Robson and Wesley So who were roommates at Webster U (and took almost all the money at the Millionaires Open last year) faceoff today. Will it be interesting? I hope so.
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