Saturday, September 26, 2009

Game of the day (Nunn-Georghiu 1983)

Classic Attacking game against Sicilian Defense


You can control the display by clicking squares on the board:
Click on B2 to stop Autoplay. Click again to activate.
Click E2 for slower Autoplay
Click E1 to play 1 move at a time. Click D1 for takeback
Click A1 for start of the game, H1 for end

Finally click Esc for help or Square G8

Copyright/Credits for applet: Paolo Casaschi, pgn4web (see http://code.google.com/p/pgn4web/)

Tuesday, September 22, 2009

How to attack against the Sicilian Defense : follow the GMs !

White to play and win in the three positions below.

All positions come from the sicilian opening with Black ( specifically Sicilian Kan/Taimanov), and White is playing the attack quite well ( strong GM each time !)


1-Spassky-Capelan



2-Nunn-Gheorgiu



3-Anand-Polgar




Note:
The reader interested in the solutions can replay the entire games (and additional thematic sicilian games, featuring wins from the black side too) through this link:

http://theory.top10chess.com/template.html

This link is using a new reader developed by Paolo Casachi (Pgn4Web).

Tuesday, September 15, 2009

The King Hunt (from recent top GM games)

Three positions where White managed to scalp the opponent's king.

1)White to play
Aronian-Volokitin 2008




2)White to play
Caruana-Berg 2008


3)White to play
Adams-Topalov 2006