Carlsen plays So in final (Skilling Open Chess24) : Live feed here

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Nakamura wins second blitz against MVL to tie the score (Skilling Open) chess24

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MVL wins first blitz game against Nakamura

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Nakamura second win in the Najdorf : Rapid Skilling Open chess24

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Nakamura wins against MVL's Najdorf Day 2 Game 1

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MVL beats Nakamura Day 1

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Champions tour #chess24 live games here

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Tactics at ChampionsTour Skilling Open (Chess24)

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Tactics during first 3 days

Hikaru Nakamura wins against Firouzja with hidden tactics

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Maxime Vachier Lagrave wins against Le,Quang Liem in Skilling Chess24 tournament

 

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Firouzja wins a crazy game against So : Chess24 Champions Tour Nov 2020

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Carlsen wins against Radjabov (November 2020 : Chess24 Skilling open)

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Fischer-Spassky Game 6 World Championship 1972 analysis

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

Netflix Queen's Gambit final game ( episode 7) Harmon-Borgov Moskow 1968

Kudos to Netflix (www.netflix.com) for the Queen's Gambit series.

Lots of presss coverage

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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.

Here's a photo of the game ( credit: Netflix)

and here's the game replay

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trying the sicilian with 2..a6!? main themes

 1e4 c5 2Nf3 a6!? 

an interesting try to get opponent out of the main lines quickly

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.

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

6 spectacular or famous combinations

repertoire scandinavian Nov 2020 Nf3!?

Crushing attacks agains the Sicilian defense

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

my game against Fabiano Caruana

GM Fabiano Caruana 

Hikaru Nakamura win in the Saemisch Variation NimzoIndian Defense with Black

NimzoIndian Themes on Qc2 for Black with Nc6,d6 or 0-0,d5

Nimzo Indian Qc2 Variations and Themes

And replay here

NimzoIndian Saemisch analysis with b6,Ba6,Na5 lines

NimzoIndian 5Nge2 Ba6!? lines

 

Main line with b3,Be2 and a4

8Qf3 sideline

8cd5 Kf1 line

NimzoIndian 4f3 d5 repertoire for Black

NimzoIndian 4e3 5Nge2 , model game with 5..Ne4!?

Magnus Carlsen wins against Hikaru Nakamura on chess24.com

Magnus Carlsen beats Iranian player MaghSoodloo : Game analysis

Here's the pivotal game, a Berlin Defense where Black increased his advantage gradually.

Fire on the board: playing the Nf3,e3,b3 system

 The Nf3,e3,b3 system is a great weapon in blitz. White puts one bishop on d3, another one on b2, and attacks the kingside.

White is literally setting the board on fire, and can bring the whole point quickly.

and here are the arrows to display where your pieces go.

and here is how Nakamura used this system to win a blitz game against Alireza Firoujza in 21 moves.

The entire game is annotated with variations and comments