Anand PAWN STORMS Kramnik's Sicilian, Godiva 

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I'm sure Kramnik saw it. He must have seen something he didn't like.

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Only around 1400 elo but I would meet Bb7 with Bg2. The whole idea of Bh3 is just to keep the enemy bishop under wraps so that I can play f6 (after the capture of the knight), so I'll just match your bishop and aim for f6 with the win of the tempo. If you trade, you've just put my queen opposite your king with my pawns ready to open lines. If you leave your bishop there and go for a5 anyway, then you've blocked your rook. As black, I would take this move off the table intuitively simply because the white light square bishop is active on the open diagonals and I'd be blocking my rook. Hell, in a blitz game I may even be willing to scrap my rook as white if I think I can bust open the position fast enough with, for example, g6 since my white bishop will become a best piece on e6. There's lots of active pieces so I doubt it's a losing move, but I definitely feel like it gives white the initiative, which is why I'm refraining from posting any specific lines. Nothing concrete that just wins, but I like white in all the lines I find afterward. Black feels too slow after this

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I think white would simply have f6. It's the same kind of mistake pointed out later in the video, if your opponent makes a threat, don't respond reactively if you could make a stronger threat. Bxh1 loses to fxe7, and anything else just helps white continue the attack

Glad you liked the game. I run Stockfish 16.1. With my setup I give it at least 15 seconds and run 2 lines mostly. It doesn’t take long in my case to reach a significant depth. It depends on the complexity of the position. After considering what white’s 17th move should be for 15 seconds, it hit depth 30.

@@ChessNetwork I see. Yeah I only do lichess analysis via my phone, takes much longer to get past depth 20, particularly in complex positions.

It seems the immediate f6 and giving up the queen is a way of transforming White's advantage. The computer sees the material advantage of rook and 2 Bs vs Queen as significant enough to be winning regardless of the attacking potential. I would guess whites winning strategy is to trade down into a winning endgame

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