I cannot see this appearing on Anands home prep looking for a plus so
maybe the Gelfand pawn sac was unexpected.
Unless....They have run through a box and it likes the pawn plus not
considering how difficult it is to convert. (does it?).
I'm following it on chessdom and I see they are now considering swapping
Queens was a bad idea. I too was wanting Qg3 - which has just been mentioned.
It seems to fit in with the pawn on h4 if Black plays g6 he always has to consider h5.
But I cannot as yet judge (to my standard) the ramifications of Bxc4 bxc4
and Bb4+.
It has finished. A draw.
These GM's are seeing positions and say it's an easy drawn Rook ending.
To me it all seems unclear and both sides can win or lose it.
I messed about with the final position on winboard. It looked OK till I looked
again. (see OOPS! there is better than 8.f3). See what I mean about players
of our ilk can easily chucking these positions.
I've enjoyed all the pawn sacs in this WCh. It's something I'm not terribly good at over the board. I prefer to hang on grimly and try to force the opponent to prove their compensation (which is not always a good idea, especially when they really DO have compensation).
c4 as played earlier by Gelfand would not have been one of my immediate candidate moves; I may have got there after quite a bit of thought but only after seeing how ineffective Black's light squared bishop might become. Even then I would have this nagging instinct just to hang onto it.
Originally posted by vishyanandThat's what I've been saying for the past two games. Anand should complicate the position as much as possible and force Gelfand to play through until the next time control. Anand was up a pawn and Gelfand had 15 minutes to play 18 moves! That has to be an easy win, no?
I don't understand Anand's decision. Gelfand was taking lot of time even for last few moves. So, surely Anand, could have put the question to Gelfand to make accurate moves till move 40.
Edit: Here's the tiebreaker schedule:
The tiebreaks are on Wednesday at 15:00h Moscow time (03:00h CEST, 07 a.m. New Your) and will consist of four 25mins+10s rapid games, then five pairs of 5min + 3s blitz, then sudden death.
Originally posted by 93confirmedr u sure about the wednesday's schedule?
That's what I've been saying for the past two games. An
Edit: Here's the tiebreaker schedule:The tiebreaks are on Wednesday at 15:00h Moscow time (03:00h CEST, 07 a.m. New Your) and will consist of four 25mins+10s rapid games, then five pairs of 5min + 3s blitz, then sudden death.
Originally posted by sonhousePossibly but why risk it (especially at this level) when you can push for a relatively easy time win without much risk? I hope the journalists get more insight from him on this after the match.
It sounds to me like he was saying, I'll give him the draw and just win in blitz.