History does not repeat itself, but it does rhyme… (Mark Twain)
Interestingly the recent 5 passed pawns blog post came about from my internet game where the position was as follows:
DDT3000-hell, ICC 2015
I now realize this almost exactly mirrors the infamous Karjakin – Eljanov game 6 from round 6 of the Baku World Cup that was played only a couple of weeks before that:
Karjakin-Eljanov, 2015
If Black plays a6 and b5, the position is almost exactly the same, except that the queenside pawns are shifted 1 file to the right.
Karjakin-Eljanov, 2015 (analysis)
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