does this look like a man who gives a **** about time?

I don't even flag in 40% of my games, and I play 5 0.

I need updated odds!

I have very little idea what's going on in any of the games so far, very difficult positions. Grischuk's h4 lunge is pretty gung-ho

Wow disgusting. 17 move draw in Ivanchuk-Gelfand from a very interesting position.

No live commentary today?

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i'm gonna claim a draw by repetition, gg wlrs

claim reverted to a loss due to slowness of pony

they're called knights

kramnik looks in pretty good shape as of move 21 especially with radjabov's clock. grischuk-carlsen position looks pretty interesting too with the open h file, white uncastled in a pin and 2 pawns hanging.

Grischuk with a solid 20 minutes on the clock for 24 moves, too.

Aronian bringing it on with g5 (or possibly torching his position)

How would y'all go about trying to win Carlsen's position if you were black? Seems like it would be a tough position to play for a win unless Grischuk falls apart in time pressure.

boo magnus. As Black I'd try to improve things - ideas like putting something to c4, playing Kg7, Rfe8, dream of Rh8 ideas. No grand plan

And Grischuk-Carlsen is officially 1/2-1/2. Very curious to see how Svidler-Aronian turns out. If Aronian loses, he'll be a full point behind Carlsen with 3 rounds to play. That would be a steeeeeeep mountain to climb.

levon aronitilt

Speaking of Aronian, did y'all see his shirt from yesterday? Nice.

Houdini saying that Aronian's 23...b5? is a blunder and giving white an advantage of around +2 now.

Can someone help me out? After white's 23.c6, Houdini is saying virtually the only move to keep the game equal is 23...Nd5. Why is that the only move there? This is over my head.

Edit: I promise to quit spamming this thread.

It was an itsy-bitsy, teeny-weeny, yellow polka dot Armenian.

Tex I'm shocked it's still equal

Do you mean now, or if black had played 23...Nd5?

not that i have any great insight into this position that you dont considering im only a 1500-1600 player, but just following along the houdini lines this seems to be the only way to force an exchange of the c pawn and the queens which should equalize the position. allowing that dangerous passer that is pretty easy to protect from a rook behind it but ties down black a lot because they have to stop it.

so its clear moving the b pawn is bad. but why are other moves bad? that is, why cant we force an exchange of the c pawn with our b pawn afterwards with another move? i think maybe Nd5 works because of the pressure it puts on both the queen and the f4 pawn protecting the knight on e5. and i didnt really go into the other moves too in depth, but its possible all the other moves are just weakening to your position in some way. any queen move allows c7, rooks and bishop have basically nowhere to go and something like bxc6 just seems like awful chess and a horrible position