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Zagrebelny

White to move and win

Online game commentary ends on cosmic note

By mishanp on February 21, 2010

In the Topalov-Aronian game at Linares Topalov missed a beautiful, hard-to-see but not hard-to-calculate, combination. His previous good luck combined with Aronian’s previous bad lack inspired a remarkable summary from one commentator.

Posted in Russian | Tagged Aronian, Linares, Topalov, Vasiliev, Zagrebelny | Leave a response

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