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FIDE World Cup 2. MVL's Narikala against Grischuk. So, Svidler, Fedoseev, MVL, Rapport advance. Narikala Fortress is an ancient symbol of Tbilisi's defence Photo: Eurasia travels.

Yesterday we had the endgame masterclass in the game between Levon Aronian and Daniil Dubov, where both players had g- pawns and Aronian had a rook versus Dubov's bishop. Today, in the tiebreaks, the very crucial encounter between MVL and Grischuk saw the same material balance, just that instead of both sides have g- pawns, it was h- pawn and rook vs g- pawn and the bishop. The position is very instructive and something that we can all learn from.

MVL setup a very nice fortress (hence, the title of this article!). But first let us understand the background. MVL against Grischuk was the match that made day 1. World Cup very memorable Photo: Amruta Mokal. The first two classical games of the match between MVL and Grischuk had ended in draws.

The two 2. 5' + 1. Grischuk was clearly better with an extra pawn. As both the 2. 5'+1. MVL was able to get in the first win of the match with the white pieces. All he had to do in the second game was to get the half point to qualify for the quarter finals.

But MVL, being MVL, played the game in the most ambitious fashion. Grischuk won an exchange and extinguished his opponent's initiative. Finally we reached the following endgame: In the above position if White plays h. The win is easy to demonstrate but requires some finesse.

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White first gets his rook to a. When the bishop moves from f. Be. 3 Ra. 3 Bf. 4 Rf. Once the rook has an eye on the bishop, the king comes up via h.

It's diagonal c. 1- f. Grischuk did not play h. Black to play g. 4 followed by g. This was a substantial improvement for Black and after the game MVL thought that the following position was a fortess: How should white win? A lot of schematic thinking is required here to win. Let's try to break down into steps: 1.

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Firstly White should get his king to f. Rg. 4. Now Black will have to keep his king on the h- file because if it goes to the f- file, then the h- pawn simply runs down the board. Once the king is on the h- file, the rook must push the black king back to h.

This is possible because the white king can move to f. Once the king goes to h. Now it is very important to get this position with black to play. If it is White's move he can move his rook to g. Once you get the above position with black to play, it is zugzwang. I can see you asking zugzwang for what?

Well, the reason is that white king must get to h. If White is able to do that then he wins easily, as he gets his rook to g. So getting the king to h. In the above diagram, black to move can either play Kh.

Be. 1. Kh. 8 is met with Rg. Kh. 7 loses to Kg. Kh. 5 coming up. And if instead of Kh. Black plays Be. 1, straightaway Kg. Kh. 5. This means that you are able to get your king to h. What next? 4. The black king can either go to h.

Be. 1 is refuted with Re. Bf. 2 Re. 7+ Kg. 8 Kg. So instead of Be. Kh. 8 is possible, but White now chooses to push his pawn with h.

Kh. 7 is met with Rg. Black king going to last rank will lose to Kg. And Be. 1 is met with Re. Bf. 2 Re. 7+ Kg. 8 Kg. To.. Kf. 8 in the above position, you must find the only move to win, Re.

Not so difficult. Now the king cannot move, the bishop has to and then White advances his h- pawn. There are so many subtleties and so many little moves that White has to make in order to win the game.

One of the very important things that White must be careful about is not pushing his h- pawn. On h. 3 it is safe.

And it helps to keep the pawn away from the radar of black's bishop. In the game Grischuk couldn't understand that his pawn must remain on h.

He pushed his pawn to h. The key line being .. Be. 1 Kg. 5 g. 2!

Kh. 5 Bxh. 4. And there you see the downside of pushing the pawn to h. Replay the game with all the analysis: Some more instruction on this endgame by GM Effstratios Grivas will soon follow. Chess. Base wants to ensure that you become an expert in rook vs bishop endgames! The various expressions of Alexander Grischuk. Immediately after the game he knew that he was winning, but it was too late!  Photo: Amruta Mokal.

We have the entire game on the Chess. Base India Youtube channel in video. The game was 1. 0'+1.

The videos are split into five parts. Here is the first one: This is the part I of the second rapid game. If you enjoy it, you can follow the next parts here. Maxime Vachier- Lagrave was extremely tired after the game, but gave us a brief summary of his match with Grischuk. Wesley So vs Baadur Jobava. If there is one reason why we will see less chess fans at the playing venue from tomorrow, it is because Baadur Jobava was eliminated.

Jobava is a big icon in the country and I realized this today when there was complete silence in the press room as he lost his match to Wesley So. Baadur with his solid play throughout the tournament had given Georgians a lot of hope. After all beating Yu Yangyi and Ian Nepomniachtchi was never easy.

But Wesley So, proved to be a much harder nut to crack. Every Georgian was cheering for their local hero Baadur Jobava! We show you the atmosphere in the press room while the game was in progress. Baadur tried really hard, but Wesley showed his class in the first rapid game  Photo: Amruta Mokal. In the second game Wesley played the Petroff and was able to draw to qualify to the next round. Towards the end there was some drama related to three- fold repetition which we were able capture in a video: The game that knocked out Baadur Jobava. The arbiters confirm that it is a three- fold repetition  Photo: Amruta Mokal.

Wesley speaks about his win over Jobava, the resurgence of Petroff and what he thinks about his next opponent Vladimir Fedoseev. Richard Rapport vs Evgeny Najer.

This was a battle of styles. While Rapport likes to play unconventional chess and goes for super complicated stuff, Najer has a much more controlled style of play.

He likes to play logical chess and his moves usually follow a plan or a scheme that he has formulated. The match was hard fought with each and every game going down to the wire. After three draws (two classical games and one rapid), the deadlock was finally broken in the second rapid 2. If you too would like to play this line with 1. Nf. 3 d. 5 2. c. 4 d. Bologan's latest DVD on the Reti where he talks about this line.

In general he presents a repertoire for White beginning with 1. Nf. 3. Reti - A Repertoire for White. Starting with 1. Nf. Reti is designed for those players who like strategy, manoeuvres and plans.

Bologan presents a repertoire based on 1. Nf. 3 giving you options for all major replies. More.. Richard Rapport has already beaten Wei Yi and Li Chao at this event. Can he beat his third Chinese opponent — Ding Liren?  Photo: Amruta Mokal. Evgeniy Najer beat Aleksandrov, Vitiugov and Caruana. A very successful World Cup 2. Photo: Amruta Mokal.

Peter Svilder vs Bu Xiangzhi. Peter Svidler explained that beating Magnus Carlsen one game in a row doesn't make Bu Xiangzhi "a mythical beast which you need to be extremely afraid and totally alter your strategy," adding, "he remains an incredibly strong player, that I have the utmost respect for, but that was what I thought before." Svidler was able to beat Bu Xiangzhi 2- 0 in the rapid and advance to the quarterfinals. Svidler beating his opponent with the black pieces was the most crucial result of the match.

Bu was under too much pressure to win the second rapid game with black and collapsed. He is 4. 1 years old, and twelve days of gruelling chess is surely difficult. But Peter looks to be in good shape as he takes on Maxime Vachier Lagrave in the quarterfinals  Photo: Amruta Mokal.

Peter Svidler talks about his match with Bu Xiangzhi. The disappointment of getting knocked out. Bu Xiangzhi with his coach after the completion of the match against Svidler  Photo: Amruta Mokal.

Although he is out, Bu will cherish this tournament for eliminating Magnus Carlsen.

Why Your Team Sucks 2. Green Bay Packers. Some people are fans of the Green Bay Packers.

But many, many more people are NOT fans of the Green Bay Packers. This 2. 01. 7 Deadspin NFL team preview is for those in the latter group.

Read all the previews so far here. Your team: Green Bay Packers.

Your 2. 01. 6 record: 1. Yep, you wasted another year of Aaron Rodgers’s prime. You are Atlanta Braves- ing him. Suck it. How do you have Aaron Rodgers and fall behind 3.

NFC title game?. Your coach: Mike Mc. Carthy. That’s how. He’s still here, and Dom Capers is still the defensive coordinator. Until the day you people die (and it’s coming soon; I’ve seen the way you eat), you will be stuck with Beav calling isolation plays with his 1. Capers orchestrating a defense that only looks good against any offense that can’t play offense. I can’t believe you got beaten senseless by the Skins.

Your quarterback: Aaron Rodgers. How come you never call you mother anymore, Aaron? Every year, the Packers go through a rough patch (last year’s example being a four- game skid and a 4- 6 start) and you can rest assured that’s enough to cause every last idiot Packers fan to lose their shit and wonder if it’s the end of an era. Go here if you don’t believe me. They’ll probably still blame every Rodgers slump this year on Olivia Munn even though those two aren’t fucking each other anymore.

What’s new that sucks: LOL who are you kidding? It’s the Packers. They do nothing. Ted Thompson spends the entire offseason napping in a barcalounger. True, they brought in Martellus Bennett to replace Jared Cook, and they grabbed Jahri Evans to help make up for the loss of T. J. Lang, and they cut Eddie Lacy for being the weight of your average season ticket holder, but come on.

Everything the Packers do is to ensure model consistency, so that Rodgers will spend another season running for his life before the team ultimately shits down its own throat in the playoffs. They can’t keep anyone healthy. Half the team will spend all winter in that sideline medic igloo. The only receiver who doesn’t go through Pleistocene- length cold stretches is Jordy Nelson and he’s a fragile little white man with hair like a seal pelt. For real, I’m shocked Jordy hasn’t been clubbed by a hunter and mounted on the wall of a Rhinelander log cabin.

Their best running back is a converted wideout and their second- best running back is an actual wideout. They’ll both get hurt and Mc. Carthy will still try to “establish the run” 2. The cornerbacks are abominable. Clay Matthews still has a tiny face and I hate him. YOU’RE NOT THOR, BUDDY.

What has always sucked: This is the part where, as ethics require, I must disclose that I am a Vikings fan (or Vi. Queens, as Green Bay fans so cleverly put it), and that the Packers DISGUST me with their never- ending, small- town, Thornton Wilder horseshit. Look at these assholes: These are the dumbest fans in the NFL. It’s not close. Ask any other fan of any other team who the stupidest fans they’ve ever encountered are, and they will tell you: Green Bay. Every fan is a 3. This is the only franchise where fans have more brain damage than the former players. If you’re unfortunate enough to be stuck near a Packers fan, you will be subjected to hours of cheese breath and contradicting takes about players they aren’t even aware are no longer on the roster.

Any time the Packers win by fewer than 2. I guarantee you that Rodgers hates every waking second he has to be in Green Bay. Who wouldn’t? Apart from the Packers, the most exciting thing that happens in Green Bay is when the local Chili’s offers a new drink special. The fans are dumber than styrofoam and the media is even worse: This is your model NFL team.

This is every last FOOTBALL IS FAMILY lie tucked into one fanbase and handed a stack of forged ownership certificates. This is the Notre Dame of the NFL. Every time Rodgers completes some bullshit Hail Mary (goddammit, opposing teams, bat the ball down), every Packers fans may as well cry out WAKE UP THE ECHOES and jerk off into their mittens. These people think they’re magic. They think they’re SPECIAL. They think they deserve all these great quarterbacks and neat football action that they’ve been arbitrarily handed by a Blind God.

They think they’re the American idyll. They are not. They’re humps. Frauds. Narcissists. SHITBAGS. They are emblematic of a very specific kind of American reverse dysmorphic disorder, where you look in the mirror and see some All- American stud instead of the sad, worthless asshole you really are.

I’d rather cut myself than live like a Packers fan, sitting around my whole life waiting for some podunk team to do something exciting so that I can leech off their success because I myself can barely move. GO TO HELL. I’m not bitter. Watch The Ace Of Hearts Online Forbes. I’m not bitter at all.

WHY DIDN’T ANYONE TACKLE ANTONIO FREEMAN WHEN HE GOT UP?! Did you know? Ty Montgomery started out as a wideout before the team discovered running back was his natural position. Get ready to hear that 4,0. What might not suck: Nothing. Fuck you. And fuck Paul Ryan with a tree. Watch Aloft Online. HEAR IT FROM PACKERS FANS! Nic: You can straight up see in Rodgers’ expression how sad he is to be playing for skinny Andy Reid. Stephen: WHY THE FUCK IS DOM CAPERS STILL HERE Andrew: Wisconsin is the Arkansas of the Midwest, and Green Bay is its Hot Springs.

Karl: Our defense made Blake Bortles look like a good quarterback. Landon: Mike Mc. Carthy and the Packers fan base effectively fat- shamed Eddie Lacy out of Wisconsin, and that is ironic for all of the obvious reasons. Matt: Their yearly rash of injuries to important players seems to stem from the fact that their training staff confuses hamstrings with ham sandwiches. Molly: I now head into the playoffs wondering what new, unique way my soul will be crushed in the NFC Divisional or Championship game. Nate: The Packers suck because month- old tuna fish sandwiches left out to sop in a puddle of excrement are infinitely more fresh than whatever Dom Capers has cookin’ up, and we all know it. Aaron: I can’t decide if I want to write a screed against the entitled part of the fanbase that whines incessantly about not winning a championship every year, or if I want to rail against the team for seeming content to be the third- best team in the NFC every year.

Jesse: Dom Capers. David: A regular jar of capers could coach better than Dom Capers.

Justin: Capers has a lower approval rating among Packer fans than Trump at a Black Lives Matter rally held in Mexico. Grant: I texted a couple of friends at 2: 5. Sunday of the NFC title game saying “I’ve never felt more confident in a Packers playoff win.” The game started at 3: 0. The game was over by 4: 0. NSP: Every Packers season features about 8 life- altering plays courtesy of Aaron Rodgers and a continual sense of dread on how they’re going to piss away yet another year of his prime without another Super Bowl appearance.

Zach: At some point this quarterback streak is going to end and it will be all “if only’s” and “what if’s” as we inevitably go back to 8. Packer incompetence. Elijah: Any Packers fan under the age of 3. At least half of these “best fans in the league” will bail just as soon as Aaron Rodgers leaves. Watch The Case For Christ Mediafire. Fuck Brandon Bostick. Rick: Packers playoff losses just leave me dead inside.

I don’t even get angry. I move so quickly behind the white hot rage of the cavalcade of failure that I just turn off my television and stare at the black mirror until someone tells me the game is over, at which point I sulk so badly for the rest of the night my toddler thinks I’m being dramatic.

I’m from Boise, Idaho. I have never been to Wisconsin. I’m fairly certain that living far away from Wisconsin and never having been there places me in the vast majority of Packers fans. Ty: The Dom Capers Defense consists of letting the other team score 3. Aaron Rodgers performs literal miracles on the football field to tie the game up at the two minute warning. Katie: Aaron Rodgers will die with one Super Bowl ring.