Quiz special Anand
Anand became World Champion in 2007 at the world championship tournament in Mexico.
We will present some of the finest games by Anand, with emphasis to the middlegame aspects, combinations and tactical moves.
Try to emulate him in the following five positions :
1.Black to play and win (Ivancuk-Anand 1988)
Puzzle 1 : Solution here
2.White to play and win (Anand-Illescas 1992)
3. White to play and win (Anand-Gelfand 1996)
4.Black to play and win ( Karjakin-Anand 2006)
Puzzle 4 : Solution here
5. White to play and win (Anand-Morozevich 2007)
Replay the entire game here, or jump to the 52nd move 52..h2 to see the tactical solution found by Anand :http://www.chessdom.com/wcc-mexico-chess-2007/live/anand-morozevich
Puzzle 5 : Solution here
Solutions uner each diagram. Calculate well !
Happy New Year to everyone !
Please note that you can find more brilliancies from Vishy Anand on http://www.chesscafe.com/text/informant61.pdf
Game from diagram 4 is annotated by Vishy Anand himself (Informator 96/183) on http://www.chesscafe.com/text/informant56.pdf
1 comment:
Very enlightening and beneficial to someone whose been out of the circuit for a long time.
- Kris
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