Round 5: Norway Chess "Chess Struggle in Practice"
"The readers has of course noticed - and will notice again & again - that I avoid detailed description of....variations. The two sides go to battle by various routes and they cannot all be described..." - David Bronstein
What is a move? What is a moment? What is that which moves?
Can you see a move in isolation without the moment and that which stays in that moment of movement!?
If we can do that, then we can find a meaning for a solitary move....by 'meaning' what I mean is a finite value; finite attribute....and....
....and if I do that or capable of doing that, then this will be the last sentence that I can write on Chess....!
....if anyone succeeds in finding some finite idea in Chess, Chess will die and so will I....& you!
Said, Thomas Merton, "Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another."
Do the words have meaning in isolation....we presume so....preposterously! The words combine together through a chemical reaction that happen in the void between what is dreamed....seen.... observed and what is felt....realised (!?); and we give it the name poetry, prose or in broad...."literature"!
A great literature should conceal more than what it reveals. It should be indescribable; for if you can describe, it loses its fluidity.....for if you describe, it loses its virginity too.....!
One should not try to find a method, a finite meaning in a literature, but it should develop enough triggers for self thought... find one's own meaning
British Author Terry Pratchett said, "Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one"!
Chess moves are movement of ideas and is subjected to the demands of the moment....the invisible coalition of two minds in every passing moment....with great fluidity.....and virginity!
As Bronstein prefered not to rape it with variations, I too do not wish to...... but just to revel in it, its virgin beauty...
Come on....join me for today's musings!
Magnus Carlsen - Alexander Grischuk
11.....Nd5
Either Grischuk did not like his horse, or the one on d5...or all the four Knights....! Those who read my 'wanderings' regularly, would remember the story of that great horse which kept disappearing and appearing....
12.Nd5 Nf6; 13.ab5
Of course, some would have automatically played 13.Ne7 (13.Nf6!?).
13.....Nd5!?
I had pre-warned you....!
14.ed5 ab5; 15,Ra8 Qa8; 16.Qd3!
The dialogue gains momentum. I have a firm conviction, being a passionate music lover, that the Chess moves are also like 'musical notes' - their form and finesse reside neither in the notes in isolation nor in tandem with others, but in the interluding silence!!
16....OO; 17.OO Bc8; 18.Be3 Bd7; 19.Rc1 h6; 20.Qd1!!
Is there an indelible rule that "!!" should only be attached only to a "brilliant" move!?
If so, the move Qd1, with its precursor Qd3, is brilliant! I asked the Queen "where art thou...., your highness".... "Ashole", she chided - the unparlimentary usage was provoked by my abject ignorance.....!
.....And as a second thought, she came near me and whispered in a confiding tone.... "just to make way for that Rook...."!
20....Qb7; 21.Ra1
Probably, as it happens in the Cricket field when a captain chooses a particular placement of his fielders, so does Magnus thought that the Rook looked better back in the pavilion, than in the playing ground, for this particular game and its formation and may be factoring opponent's mind too!
21....Ra8; 22.h4!
Always an useful move and favoured by top players on most occasions, in such formations, or more precisely in such situations when one believes that there are no further useful moves left, until the opponent provokes one!
22.....Ra6; 23.b3 Bd8; 24.c4 bc4; 25.bc4 Bb6; 26.c5! Bc5; 27.Bc5 dc5; 28.d6! Qb6; 29.Ra6 Qa6; 30.Bd5!
Forget the pedantry centralisation, the hidden meaning of the move rests in the cunning Qh5!
30.....Qc8?! 31.Qb3!
Assessment of the position: The deer looks beautiful for me, .....but for someone else...tasty!
31.....Be8; 32.Qc3 c4; 33.Bc4 Bd7; 34.Qb3 Qe8; 35.Qf3 Kf8
What is he doing here? Somewhere here or later, the move ....e4 was imperative.
36.h5
....and for that reason, this move could have waited for 36.Bd5! This time it is a centralisation move, controlling e4 square!!
36.....Kg8?
36.....e4! now, and failing which, prepare for it by Kh8 in the next might have....
Why a normal move, at times even inferior move, deceives depends on who plays it and when! On such occasions, the mind has tendency to get swayed and blinded even to the obvious! We will see the monster version of this in another game in this round!
37.Qe4 Bc6? 38.Bd5 Bd7; 39.Kg2 Kh8; 40.f4 ef4?
That was the last chance to play e4 or transact that e5 pawn for the one on h5 with 40....f5.
The move played replaces lost on time!
41.Qe8 Be8; 42.Bf7 Bc6; 43.Kf2 fg3; 44.Kg3
Black discovered the meaning for Carlsen's move in this game and hence it ends here!
Black Resigned!
Jon Ludvig Hammer - Veselin LUCKY Topalov
What is a move? What is a moment? What is that which moves?
Can you see a move in isolation without the moment and that which stays in that moment of movement!?
If we can do that, then we can find a meaning for a solitary move....by 'meaning' what I mean is a finite value; finite attribute....and....
....and if I do that or capable of doing that, then this will be the last sentence that I can write on Chess....!
....if anyone succeeds in finding some finite idea in Chess, Chess will die and so will I....& you!
Said, Thomas Merton, "Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another."
Do the words have meaning in isolation....we presume so....preposterously! The words combine together through a chemical reaction that happen in the void between what is dreamed....seen.... observed and what is felt....realised (!?); and we give it the name poetry, prose or in broad...."literature"!
A great literature should conceal more than what it reveals. It should be indescribable; for if you can describe, it loses its fluidity.....for if you describe, it loses its virginity too.....!
One should not try to find a method, a finite meaning in a literature, but it should develop enough triggers for self thought... find one's own meaning
British Author Terry Pratchett said, "Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one"!
Chess moves are movement of ideas and is subjected to the demands of the moment....the invisible coalition of two minds in every passing moment....with great fluidity.....and virginity!
As Bronstein prefered not to rape it with variations, I too do not wish to...... but just to revel in it, its virgin beauty...
Come on....join me for today's musings!
Magnus Carlsen - Alexander Grischuk
11.....Nd5
Either Grischuk did not like his horse, or the one on d5...or all the four Knights....! Those who read my 'wanderings' regularly, would remember the story of that great horse which kept disappearing and appearing....
12.Nd5 Nf6; 13.ab5
Of course, some would have automatically played 13.Ne7 (13.Nf6!?).
13.....Nd5!?
I had pre-warned you....!
14.ed5 ab5; 15,Ra8 Qa8; 16.Qd3!
The dialogue gains momentum. I have a firm conviction, being a passionate music lover, that the Chess moves are also like 'musical notes' - their form and finesse reside neither in the notes in isolation nor in tandem with others, but in the interluding silence!!
16....OO; 17.OO Bc8; 18.Be3 Bd7; 19.Rc1 h6; 20.Qd1!!
Is there an indelible rule that "!!" should only be attached only to a "brilliant" move!?
If so, the move Qd1, with its precursor Qd3, is brilliant! I asked the Queen "where art thou...., your highness".... "Ashole", she chided - the unparlimentary usage was provoked by my abject ignorance.....!
.....And as a second thought, she came near me and whispered in a confiding tone.... "just to make way for that Rook...."!
20....Qb7; 21.Ra1
Probably, as it happens in the Cricket field when a captain chooses a particular placement of his fielders, so does Magnus thought that the Rook looked better back in the pavilion, than in the playing ground, for this particular game and its formation and may be factoring opponent's mind too!
21....Ra8; 22.h4!
Always an useful move and favoured by top players on most occasions, in such formations, or more precisely in such situations when one believes that there are no further useful moves left, until the opponent provokes one!
22.....Ra6; 23.b3 Bd8; 24.c4 bc4; 25.bc4 Bb6; 26.c5! Bc5; 27.Bc5 dc5; 28.d6! Qb6; 29.Ra6 Qa6; 30.Bd5!
Forget the pedantry centralisation, the hidden meaning of the move rests in the cunning Qh5!
30.....Qc8?! 31.Qb3!
Assessment of the position: The deer looks beautiful for me, .....but for someone else...tasty!
31.....Be8; 32.Qc3 c4; 33.Bc4 Bd7; 34.Qb3 Qe8; 35.Qf3 Kf8
What is he doing here? Somewhere here or later, the move ....e4 was imperative.
36.h5
....and for that reason, this move could have waited for 36.Bd5! This time it is a centralisation move, controlling e4 square!!
36.....Kg8?
36.....e4! now, and failing which, prepare for it by Kh8 in the next might have....
Why a normal move, at times even inferior move, deceives depends on who plays it and when! On such occasions, the mind has tendency to get swayed and blinded even to the obvious! We will see the monster version of this in another game in this round!
37.Qe4 Bc6? 38.Bd5 Bd7; 39.Kg2 Kh8; 40.f4 ef4?
That was the last chance to play e4 or transact that e5 pawn for the one on h5 with 40....f5.
The move played replaces lost on time!
41.Qe8 Be8; 42.Bf7 Bc6; 43.Kf2 fg3; 44.Kg3
Black discovered the meaning for Carlsen's move in this game and hence it ends here!
Black Resigned!
Jon Ludvig Hammer - Veselin LUCKY Topalov
74.Kc6??????????????????TTTTTOOOOOPPPPPAAAALLLLLLOOOOOVVVVVV
I should be a fool to show you that 74.f5 =
Levon Aronian - Fabiano Caruana
39....Qg3??
It doesn't lose and why "??", you might ask. But it is precisely because of that "Why" ! Why...why...why allow the White King to march forward at your expense!? The move may not lose immediately or may not lose at all, but it shows clear path for White....and Knight is known to limp at times, especially in positions like these.
Whether it is 1100; 2600; 2800, the blindspot is a blindspot!
The White King did eat up all the pawns on the other side of the board to reach....
....this lost position for Black and he did lose the game in a few more moves.
The other two games witnessed no such mishaps.....and so....
Let me remain!
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