[chessmind] Dennis Monokroussos: Amber Day 8: The Good and the Ugly

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Posted by Dennis Monokroussos:
Amber Day 8: The Good and the Ugly
http://chessmind.powerblogs.com/posts/1206427508.shtml


   As promised, or at least threatened, [1]here are a couple of games
   from Sunday's rounds at the [2]Amber Rapid & Blindfold tournament in
   Nice, France. Both are blindfold games, but that's where the
   similarities end. The first game, Carlsen-Mamedyarov, was a very
   interesting game that holds up on its own merits, without any
   qualifiers about its being a blindfold contest. The second game,
   however, shows a peculiarly blindfold error, one that has occurred
   more than once in this event. van Wely's problem in his game with Leko
   was not that he forgot Leko's move, but apparently that he misread it
   in the first place! As I note in my commentary, he might have been
   able to realize his error, but that chance vanished in what may have
   been a moment of overconfident euphoria. Next time, he might take a
   page out of Anand's book (see the round 6 video covering his blindfold
   game with Karjakin).
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References

   1. http://chessmind.powerblogs.com/files/amber2008_rd8.htm
   2. http://www.amberchess2008.com/