White to move. What is the best way for White to proceed?
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1.Be6+ Kg7
2.Be3 Rc7
3.Bxb6
And black will lose his rook
5th round with blind scores in.
1.
Carlsen 4.5
2.
Anand 4
Aronian 4
Ivanchuk 4
Topalov 4
3.
Karjakin 3.5
Leko 3.5
Morozevich 3.5
4.
Mamedyarov 3
Kramnik 3
5.
Gelfand 2.5
Van Wely 2.5
I think you picked up the wrong standings after round 4. The actual standings after 4.5 rounds (i.e., the blind half of round 5) are:
Topalov 5.5
Aronian 5.5
Ivanchuk 5.5
Leko 5
Carlsen 5
Anand 4.5
Kramnik 4.5
van Wely 4
Karjakin 4
Morozevich 4
Mamedyarov 3.5
Gelfand 3
The official site often is a round behind in its “combined” standings, and the Week in Chess is picking up some of the same inaccuracies.
1.
*Anand 5
2.
Carlsen 4.5
3.
Aronian 4
Ivanchuk 4
*Kramnik 4
*Leko 4
*Topalov 4
4.
Karjakin 3.5
*Mamedyarov 3.5
*Morozevich 3.5
5.
Gelfand 2.5
Van Wely 2.5
Just starting 2:00pm GMT -5
Karjakin – vanWely
Aronian – Ivanchuk
Gelfand 0 Carlsen
Sorry about the above mistakes.
1. Bh6 Re8
2. Bxg6 Bf8
3. Bg5 Be7
4. Bxe8
White picks up a P and the exchange is the best I can find.
1. Bh6 Re8
2. Bxg6 Bf8
3. Bg5 Be7
4. Bxe8
1…gxf5 looks a lot more appealing than 1…Re8.
Ok it looks like the first post is right and white picks up the exchange.
1.Be6+ Kg7
2.Be3 Rc7
3.Bxb6
Aronian in the lead after 5 rounds on Amber.
1.
Aronian 6.5
2.
Anand 5.5
Carlsen 5.5
Ivanchuk 5.5
Kramnik 5.5
Leko 5.5
Topalov 5.5
3.
Karjakin 5
4.
Mamedyarov 4
Morozevich 4
van Wely 4
5.
Gelfand 3.5
I have some minute improvements for Black:
1. Be6!+ Kh8 ( 1..Kg7? 2. Be3! e4 3. Qd2 Rb5 4. Bh6+ picks up the exchange)
2. Be3! e4 puts the question mark to the Queen. If i.e. 3. Qd2 than 3..Rb5 and if 3. Qe2 than follows 3..Rc3.
So White needs to work a little bit harder. On 3. Qd2 Rb5, 4. Bh6 Re8 5. Bf7 wins the exchange.
3. Qe2 Rc3 4.Qb2 Qc7 5. Bxb6 Qxb6 6. Qxc3 wins a pawn plus the exchange.
>>>I have some minute improvements for Black:
Those were improvements for White?
1. Bxg6
1….hxg6?
2. Qxg6+
2..kh8
3.Bh6
3..Ne8
4 BxRf8
1. Bxg6
1….hxg6?
2. Qxg6+
2..kh8
3.Bh6
3..Ne8
4 BxRf8
I don’t see anything really wrong with 1…hxg6. Why the “?”?
The hole in this line is 3…Ne8. Take a look at 3…Rg8 instead.
PS – Glad to see somebody else fall for the same red herring I wasted a lot of time looking at. 1.Bxg6 just looks so natural, doesn’t it? But it’s not the best move.
1.Be6+ Kg7
2.Be3 Rc7
3.Bxb6
Well, Black doesn’t have to pitch a whole rook — he can just swallow his medicine and punt the exchange on c5. But he loses whatever he does once White finds 1.Be6+ and 2.Be3.
1.Be6+ Kh8
2.Be3 e4
3.Qe2 Rc3
4.Bd4 and the rook is lost (plus the threat of Qe4)
Oh no, there’s
4… Rd3 but still
5.Qe4 Rd1
6.Rd1 looks good for white