Tuesday, December 29, 2020
AirthingsMasters live with Carlsen,Nakamura,MVL,Wesley So, etc
Airthingsmasters live replay here
official site chess24.com
Monday, December 28, 2020
Wesley So's brilliant finish against Daniil Dubov : AirthingsMasters 2020
official websites chess24.com and https://championschesstour.com/
Saturday, December 26, 2020
Sicilian Kan theory: quick overview
Here we will review a quick opening guide for black : sicilian Kan with e6 and a6.
Youtube link : Video explaining Sicilian Kan opening for Black
Thursday, December 17, 2020
King's Indian Defense : Hikaru Nakamura brilliancy against Wesley So
Hikaru won a brilliant game against Wesley So in Sinquefield Cup 2015.
Here's the game with annotations
Nakamura best game: Gelfand-Nakamura 2010 King's Indian Defense
Gelfand-Nakamura best game 2010
Hikaru Nakamura
Wednesday, December 16, 2020
Daniel Naroditsky tactics
Naroditsky-Garyev 2020 US Online Qualifier
White to play and checkmate ( Final Combination)
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Full game here with Daniel Naroditsky post game comments
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Daniel Naroditsky Youtube Video on this game here
Sunday, December 13, 2020
Saturday, December 12, 2020
Sunday, December 6, 2020
Hedgehog sicilian with Black: Svidler's model games
Sicilian Hedgehog System with Sicilian Kan Bc5,Be7 and h7-h5!? by Svidler
analysis and main lines against White's other moves given below
Key position for main game Mons-Svidler 2014
Position after 11...h5!?
Saturday, December 5, 2020
Artemiev's model game against Hedgehog system from Magnus Carlsen
official site: http://www.chess.com
Artemiev wins against Magnus Carlsen game 4 on Speed Chess Championship. Hedgehog system for Black.
Artemiev makes g3-g4 work for him. A promising player.
Thursday, December 3, 2020
Monday, November 30, 2020
Friday, November 27, 2020
Nakamura wins second blitz against MVL to tie the score (Skilling Open) chess24
#championstour
the players
the game annotated
Thursday, November 26, 2020
Wednesday, November 25, 2020
Tuesday, November 24, 2020
Hikaru Nakamura wins against Firouzja with hidden tactics
the players
the game played in skilling open (Champions Tour) on chess24.com
Monday, November 23, 2020
Sunday, November 22, 2020
London System with 2 Bf4 : tips and traps for White
Carlsen,Nakamura,Naroditsky all play the London System, either with White or with Black.
Here we cover
1d4 Nf6 2 Bf4 e6 3 e3 b6
1d4 d5 2 Bf4 e6 3 e3 Nf6
1d4 Nf6 2 Bf4 g6 3Nc3!? d5
Thursday, November 19, 2020
Netflix Queen's Gambit final game ( episode 7) Harmon-Borgov Moskow 1968
Kudos to Netflix (www.netflix.com) for the Queen's Gambit series.
Here's a photo of the game ( credit: Netflix)
more pictures
Credit: Netflix
Garry Kasparov and Bruce Pandolfini were chess advisors. Garry Kasparov chose the final game which is inspired from the real game Ivanchuk-Wolff 1993 but was improved upon to make it more dramatic.In the episode 7, Elizabeth Harmon plays USSR world champion V. Borgov.
and here's the game replay
Credit: Netflix
Monday, November 16, 2020
trying the sicilian with 2..a6!? main themes
1e4 c5 2Nf3 a6!?
an interesting try to get opponent out of the main lines quickly
Sunday, November 15, 2020
Agressive blitz repertoire against the Scandinavian main line 1e4 d5
A lot of players play the scandinavian online, i.e 1e4 d5
This is a interesting sideline which is promising for white, especially in speed chess and online.
1. e4 d5 2. exd5 Qxd5 3. Nc3 Qa5 4. Bc4
Typically, Black develops the knight on f6, plays c7-c6 to move the queen back to c7.
4..Nf6 5. d3 c6 6. Bd2 Qc7
Here White can either play positionally with 7 Nf3, or decide to be more ambitious with 7 Qe2 preparing 0-0-0 and advancing f,g and h pawns.
Visually, I am representing in the next diagram the possibilities for White
The main line is as follows with 7 Qe2
7. Qe2 Bf5 8. h3 e6 9. g4 Bg6 10. f4 Be7 11. Nf3 Nbd7 12. O-O-O
Black must find counterplay as White is already threatening f4-f5! in the diagram above.
If you want to play more positionally, the line with 7 Nf3 goes like this:
7. Nf3 Bg4 8. h3 Bxf3 9. Qxf3 e6
White can still play g2-g4 in this line, attacking f7 after g4-g5. White can castle 0-0 or even 0-0-0.
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Game replay above
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Grandmasters opening tricks: Miniature wins with Black
selection of blitz and classical chess games.
miniature and opening traps for Black.
against 1 e4, 1d4 and 1Nf3.
Wins under 23 moves.
Saturday, November 14, 2020
Attacking with the sicilian kan
Here's an interesting set-up for Black, leading to double edged positions.
You can see Black's preparing to attack white's kingside. This is especially effective as White tends to castle kingside at least 50% of the time against the Sicilian Paulsen/Kan.
Judit Polgar was one of the first to use this set-up
But this was used more recently by J.Xiong
and also Fabiano Caruana
and Anish Giri
Friday, November 13, 2020
Thursday, November 12, 2020
Monday, November 9, 2020
Sunday, November 8, 2020
Hikaru's Vienna Weapon against Naroditsky
Hikaru played 1e4 e5 2 Nc3 Nf6 3f4!? and won an instructive game against GM Narodistky in a blitz game played on Oct 30, 2020
Saturday, November 7, 2020
Thursday, November 5, 2020
NimzoIndian Themes on Qc2 for Black with Nc6,d6 or 0-0,d5
Nimzo Indian Qc2 Variations and Themes
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