[chessmind] Dennis Monokroussos: This Week's ChessBase Show: Nepomniachtchi-Rublevsky

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Posted by Dennis Monokroussos:
This Week's ChessBase Show: Nepomniachtchi-Rublevsky
http://chessmind.powerblogs.com/posts/1221027288.shtml


   1990 was a banner year for chess prodigies. First and foremost,
   there's Magnus Carlsen, who already, albeit unofficially, reigns atop
   the FIDE rating list. Next, there's Ukranian superstar Sergei
   Karjakin, currently #15 in the world and still possessor of the record
   for the youngest grandmaster in history. And then there's the young
   French star Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, who has skyrocketed the past few
   months to #24 in the world (unofficially) with a 2715 rating. By
   rating, those are the big three, but although he's not quite in the
   top 100 yet - officially - another rapidly rising star is the Russian
   Ian Nepomniachtchi.
   This year, he has already won the super-strong Aeroflot Open, which
   qualified him for Dortmund, he won the Ordix Open in Mainz (a
   ridiculously strong rapid event), and is currently leading the
   [1]Russian Championship Higher League with a 2806 TPR. These
   outstanding results have not gone unnoticed, and his praises have been
   sung even by such an elite grandmaster as Peter Svidler.
   If Svidler thinks he is worth paying attention to, then we should as
   well. And in a way, we already have: just a few weeks ago, we
   presented one of his games in [2]another ChessBase show. That game,
   however, was a loss; this time, we'll see him in a more positive
   light. The game is from the 2006 Russian Championship Super-Final, an
   elite event such that even qualifying was a tremendous accomplishment.
   As we'll see, his game with Sergei Rublevsky, then the defending
   champion and a future World Championship Candidate, proved that he
   belonged.
   Nepomniachtchi quickly took Rublevsky out of familiar Kan/Taimanov
   paths, and the creative play never stopped. Nepomniachtchi castled in
   a situation that involved both a pawn sac and the destruction of the
   pawns around his king. The ingenious ideas never stopped, whether they
   involved maneuvers or tactics. I'd describe them, but then that might
   take away from the freshness of the game. It's one to experience and
   savor, so I hope that unless you spend a great deal of time on it
   beforehand, that you not watch it in advance.
   Naturally, I do recommend that you join me tonight - Wednesday night
   (9 p.m. ET) - as I present this wonderful game in the Broadcast room
   of the Playchess.com server. For those who haven't attended before,
   it's an audio/video presentation. The moves and analysis appear on
   your screen, while my audio commentary comes simultaneously. Best of
   all, it's free to watch (live; watching afterwards in the archives
   involves a nominal fee - further details [3]here).
   Hope to see you there!

References

   1. http://www.rcc2008.org/eng/index.htm
   2. http://chessmind.powerblogs.com/posts/1215311695.shtml
   3. http://chessmind.powerblogs.com/posts/1114234449.shtml