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[languagehasmeaning]

Chess problem time!

This was the position after you played 15. e4



If instead of 15....Rac8 I had played 15....Nb8 How should white proceed?

Some of you will see the answer immediately. Please give others some time to think before responding.  I can make more difficult puzzles on another occasion.

I love puzzles! I can see the answer to this one right away (hint = white can win material by force) so I wont answer.

If you have time, additional (harder) puzzles would be wonderful. It would be even better if they came from actual GM games!

[dre1982]

Chess problem time!

This was the position after you played 15. e4



If instead of 15....Rac8 I had played 15....Nb8 How should white proceed?

Some of you will see the answer immediately. Please give others some time to think before responding.  I can make more difficult puzzles on another occasion.

This one isn't that hard. It's a move that already was discussed. But in that position it wasn't do anything.

[actmyname]

Chess problem time!

This was the position after you played 15. e4



If instead of 15....Rac8 I had played 15....Nb8 How should white proceed?

Some of you will see the answer immediately. Please give others some time to think before responding.  I can make more difficult puzzles on another occasion.

This one isn't that hard. It's a move that already was discussed. But in that position it wasn't do anything.

After Bc7 it threatens to trap the queen via Bb6.

[Taras]

I will just up and vote Be3 because even if I could find a better move it's unlikely the community will be swayed away from that choice

[actmyname]

I will just up and vote Be3 because even if I could find a better move it's unlikely the community will be swayed away from that choice

I will still go with b3.

The idea most likely for black is to push c4 to get a rook there, trade off light-squared bishops, and prop the knight onto c6.

He then gets a queenside attack.

[gotmilk_]

I will still go with b3.

The idea most likely for black is to push c4 to get a rook there, trade off light-squared bishops, and prop the knight onto c6.

He then gets a queenside attack.

I think that he will play b4 and attack a Knight. If we play Be3 he can't move c4... So I vote for Be4. If he plays than b4 we play Na4 and we have tripple attack on pawn (and potencially on Queen).

After a discussion with actmyname I vote for Bb8... If he moves that Knight we are doomed.

[actmyname]

I will still go with b3.

The idea most likely for black is to push c4 to get a rook there, trade off light-squared bishops, and prop the knight onto c6.

He then gets a queenside attack.

I think that he will play b4 and attack a Knight. If we play Be3 he can't move c4... So I vote for Be4. If he plays than b4 we play Na4 and we have tripple attack on pawn (and potencially on Queen).

b4 is a terrible move to make in that position. It really damages his structure and our bind will allow us to take advantage of that pawn on c5.

[gotmilk_]

b4 is a terrible move to make in that position. It really damages his structure and our bind will allow us to take advantage of that pawn on c5.

Depands on how would he play it after... Still if we play Be3 he can't take advantage of the pawn. At least not until the queen is there.

[actmyname]

b4 is a terrible move to make in that position. It really damages his structure and our bind will allow us to take advantage of that pawn on c5.

Depands on how would he play it after... Still if we play Be3 he can't take advantage of the pawn. At least not until the queen is there.

Think about why black played Nb8! Black will go ahead with Nc6 and then pop the knight onto d4, getting a great square! If we trade, then we block BOTH of our bishops in as well as lose our knight due to the pin.

After Nd4 if we move our queen he can play c4 and if necessary Bc5, getting a huge advantage.

[gotmilk_]

Think about why black played Nb8! Black will go ahead with Nc6 and then pop the knight onto d4, getting a great square! If we trade, then we block BOTH of our bishops in as well as lose our knight due to the pin.

After Nd4 if we move our queen he can play c4 and if necessary Bc5, getting a huge advantage.

True... in that case the best solution is Bb8.

[boolberry]

Chess problem time!

This was the position after you played 15. e4



If instead of 15....Rac8 I had played 15....Nb8 How should white proceed?

Some of you will see the answer immediately. Please give others some time to think before responding.  I can make more difficult puzzles on another occasion.

This one isn't that hard. It's a move that already was discussed. But in that position it wasn't do anything.

After Bc7 it threatens to trap the queen via Bb6.

I agree with your solution and also would like harder problems to solve

[languagehasmeaning]

I did the queries , here are the candidates:

2816 Veselin Topalov
2814 Hikaru Nakamura
2808 Fabiano Caruana
2793 Anish Giri
2784 Dmitry Jakovenko
2782 Liren Ding
2777 Vladimir Kramnik
2773 Wesley So
2771 Alexander Grischuk
2765 Levon Aronian
2762 Sergey Karjakin
2758 Evgeny Tomashevsky
2744 Maxime Vachier-Lagrave
2742 Michael Adams
2741 Radoslaw Wojtaszek
2738 Teimour Radjabov
2737 Pendyala Harikrishna
2736 Shakhrivar Mamedyarov*
2734 Yi Wei
2732 Leinier Dominguez Perez
2728 David Navara
2727 Peter Svidler
2726 Vassily Ivanchuk
2725 Nikita Vitiugov
2721 Yangyi Yu
2720 Dmitry Andreikin
2717 Pavel Eljanov
2712 Hao Wang
2707 Peter Leko
2705 Ian Nepomniachtchi
2700 Anton Korobov

* Maimdiarove's name is butchered horribly all the time and the correct spelling is unknown

A good candidat for OP is Giri Anish.



Young (21yo) from Netherlands where Bitcoin is quite popular there. He played many times Magnus Carlsen when junior, >2700, is very deep now in the Baku Tournament... and lived in Japan during 2002-2008
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anish_Giri

I'd like to thank whoever it is because this thread is highly valuable (OP is world top best player !!), due to this thread for a week now I'm learning from zero Chess and it's a real blow, I like it very much spending a lot of time to learn openings and play. I was also digging a lot of information about the best players, their games, the history of Chess and when doing this I fell on this player and thought... well it could really be him !

BTW, the best free and ad-free chess website I've found is http://www.lichess.org have a look (they also have an app).

Nice find!

I did not know any of the current top players had a positive record against Carlsen
http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chess.pl?pid=107252&pid2=52948
LIFETIME RECORD:
Classical games: Anish Giri beat Magnus Carlsen 1 to 0, with 9 draws

Even Kasparov was LUCKY to have a positive record again Carlsen based on 2 rapid games in 2004 when Carlsen was 13 years old! Carlsen was easily winning the game they drew
http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chess.pl?pid=52948&pid2=15940

Eljanov has not played Carlsen nearly as much
http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chess.pl?pid=49456&pid2=52948
LIFETIME RECORD:
Classical games: Magnus Carlsen beat Pavel Eljanov 2 to 0.

Nakamura played Carlsen a lot with a horrible record (based on his rating)
http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chess.pl?pid=10084&pid2=52948
LIFETIME RECORD:
Classical games: Magnus Carlsen beat Hikaru Nakamura 11 to 0, with 18 draws.

Anand may have played Carlsen the most (because of WC match)
http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chess.pl?pid=52948&pid2=12088
LIFETIME RECORD:
Classical games: Magnus Carlsen beat Viswanathan Anand 10 to 8, with 37 draws.

[Hueristic]

17. Be3

That's the reason we moved h3.

+1 for
17. Be3

For anyone that wants to join more than 1 chess game at once:
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It is good to see more people playing chess. I just visited the thread but will not be participating in the game. I will plan to stop back from time to time to observe the technical discussions. Privacy is important to me.

Who has seen Pawn Sacrifice? Any reviews?
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Check out http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108065/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1a if you havn't seen it.

[jjacob]

I will just up and vote Be3 because even if I could find a better move it's unlikely the community will be swayed away from that choice

Looks like Be3 is the move to make. 

[Timelord2067]

I will just up and vote Be3 because even if I could find a better move it's unlikely the community will be swayed away from that choice

Looks like Be3 is the move to make. 

You've discounted one (or is it two?) votes for Bb8... Might be others... might pay to go back and check a little closer>....

[actmyname]

I will just up and vote Be3 because even if I could find a better move it's unlikely the community will be swayed away from that choice

Looks like Be3 is the move to make. 

You've discounted one (or is it two?) votes for Bb8... Might be others... might pay to go back and check a little closer>....

His graph was prior to the Bb8 move.

[boolberry]

Who is everyone hoping will win in Baku?

Only 4 players are left

http://www.bakuworldcup2015.com/content/26

[dre1982]

Who is everyone hoping will win in Baku?

Only 4 players are left

http://www.bakuworldcup2015.com/content/26

I hope for Anish Giri but after today it will be hard to win tomorrow with black against Svidler.

[boolberry]

I will just up and vote Be3 because even if I could find a better move it's unlikely the community will be swayed away from that choice

Looks like Be3 is the move to make.  

You've discounted one (or is it two?) votes for Bb8... Might be others... might pay to go back and check a little closer>....

His graph was prior to the Bb8 move.

Anyone have the updated move count? I think Be3 is still far ahead

[newb4now]

How about Qc2-e2?

That way if he ever moves his knight to d4 we can safely capture it without worrying about losing our knight after c5xd4 because of it being pinned to our queen.