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Nakamura won a 107-move Q+pawns ending against GM Malisauskas of Lithuania...
It will be interesting to download the pgn and look through that ending.
added: the final position on the official website appears to be wrong...
In the pgn I put together, at the end, Black does NOT have a pawn and White has only 1 passed pawn on the 7th - not 2.
Last edited by Kerry Liles; Wednesday, 29th August, 2012, 03:05 PM.
Reason: addendum
Nakamura won a 107-move Q+pawns ending against GM Malisauskas of Lithuania...
It will be interesting to download the pgn and look through that ending.
added: the final position on the official website appears to be wrong...
In the pgn I put together, at the end, Black does NOT have a pawn and White has only 1 passed pawn on the 7th - not 2.
Can GM Malisauskas of Lithuania... ask the arbiters for a draw in the position before he played the queen block 97....Qe5 ?
It was cool that as there was a lot of interest in this game, a high-resolution camera was set up, broadcasting into the huge lobby before you get into the playing area. It was shown on three big-screen TVs arranged in a triangle, back-to-back-to-back. And there were dozens of spectators following along as if they were right beside the board!
Nakamura won a 107-move Q+pawns ending against GM Malisauskas of Lithuania...
It will be interesting to download the pgn and look through that ending.
added: the final position on the official website appears to be wrong...
In the pgn I put together, at the end, Black does NOT have a pawn and White has only 1 passed pawn on the 7th - not 2.
Nakamura won a 107-move Q+pawns ending against GM Malisauskas of Lithuania...
It will be interesting to download the pgn and look through that ending.
added: the final position on the official website appears to be wrong...
In the pgn I put together, at the end, Black does NOT have a pawn and White has only 1 passed pawn on the 7th - not 2.
After this win, Nakamura is 2784.7 on live ratings, making him effectively tied with Fischer’s peak rating of 2785. :D
From the USCF a nice report by FM Mike Klein:
"On the chessboard, sometimes GM Hikaru Nakamura turns water into wine. Other times, he starts with vinegar. A recap of his 2012 Chess Olympiad round two: six hours of chess, the final game remaining, four queens on the board, several squandered advantages, and finally beating a grandmaster by a single tempo in an unremarkable queen-and-pawn versus queen-and-pawn endgame.
The 107-move win was not needed for match victory – the American men were already up 2.5-0.5 – but may be crucial for tiebreak purposes much further down the road. Of course none of the large crowd who stayed to watch the finale and who know Nakamura were seeing this magic for the first time. Stepfather Sunil Weeremantry offered a wry smile, teammate GM Varuzhan Akobian a more generous version, and Captain John Donaldson a muted pat on the back. GM Ray Robson, watching from the in-house television feed, guessed that Nakamura might pull it off."
... “Somewhere between moves 38 and 40 I went from better to worse,” Nakamura said. “I had to win this game like five times. I don't get it. He could have forced a draw so many times but then he started playing for a win.”
It was cool that as there was a lot of interest in this game, a high-resolution camera was set up, broadcasting into the huge lobby before you get into the playing area. It was shown on three big-screen TVs arranged in a triangle, back-to-back-to-back. And there were dozens of spectators following along as if they were right beside the board!
The United States bested Lithuania by 3.5-0.5 after Hikaru Nakamura finally broke down the stubborn resistance
of Grecian GM Vidmantas Malisauskas in a marathon 107-moves long game. Hikaru once again proved why he is a cerebral assassin.:)
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