I was only able to find *one* case of a Four Knights game (which can be reached via the Petrov by 1. There are other roads, some transpositional, that one may take against the Petrov the problem for Leko is that he seems to have little tournament experience in them. But that was seven years ago, and he may not have done any preparation on these lines. His record with it has been good: I found ten games, and Leko scored +8 =2 -0, including a win over Timman in 1997. But based on this small sample, I must say that things look grim for Peter.ġ.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.d4 does look like Leko's best choice here, and I was surprised he didn't venture it in game 3 (if nothing else, then as a way to probe the depth of Kramnik's preparation). I have been able to find only about 30 games where Leko has faced the Petrov (though I suspect someone with a better database may be able to find more). These are just general ideas with no in depth analysis. Of course I still have to check all the variations (I went through some, but not enough to give the final verdict).
Qf4? gave the draw away.ĭuring the game I liked the idea of placing pawn on g5 and Queen on e7 (if possible - playing pawn to h4) thus the king is closed and white threatens both - checks on 8th horisontal and big diognal. Qh6? (probably missing the trap on h6) and 44. He went for h pawn push but made 2 mistakes - 1) placed queen on h6 (it was a square for pawn) 2) did not exchange on g6, which could have led to a draw (though about this I'm not so shure). IMO Leko had good chances to implement either of the plans. With this threat black rook can't leave the 8th rank, so they can't double against the f pawn. The ideas are 1) loosen blacks king protection with pawn push h5 and pawn exchange on g6 2) push a pawn to g5 (or h6) thus closing the black king and threatening perpetual on the 8th rank and the long diognal (a1-h8). But after a closer look during the game I came to a conclusion that white has enough resources to draw. While observing the game I also thought that black should win that endgame, because a pawn falls and then the rooks are exchanged for the queen and grabing the f pawn reaching a K+2P vs K+3 pawn endgame (as it did happen in the game). Kxf3 Kf6 0-1īrobishkin You are right that two rooks are stronger than queen in this endgame. My mistake! Kramnik with the win in Game 1, in a remarkable performance:ġ. It's extremely simple to use-just visit the link, type in whatever name you want to use, and start chatting!Īs for predictions, these two guys have like 40 draws out of 50 games played with each other.probably par for the GM course, so I'll say 3 decisive games out of the 14, with advantage to Leko (just to go against the grain). If we could get lots of GK members in there to watch the games, I think it would be a good time. Some of you may remember that sspiroff set up a chat channel at /cgi-bin/cgiirc/irc.cgi, and a few of use users have been keeping it warm since. I've also been hoping to drum up interest in live chat on the games by GameKnot members.
I haven't located another site with a live java viewer, for instance, though we'll see on Saturday. Championship Chat I learned yesterday that chess.fm will be doing a live internet broadcast of the games (visit so that may be the easiest way to get move-by-move updates.
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