Nakamura best game: Gelfand-Nakamura 2010 King's Indian Defense

 

Gelfand-Nakamura best game 2010

Hikaru Nakamura 

Ding Liren wins Brilliant Game against Magnus Carlsen in King's Indian Defence: chess24 magnus tour finals Aug 2020

In this entry, I will analyze a game where Magnus plays the King's Indian Defense with Black and Ding outplays it with near perfect play. lots of tactics to calculate and Ding was up to the task.

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Great example where Ding Liren quickly built pressure againt Magnus who wasn't really up to speed with KID structures. Ding has mastered positions with 1d4 and g3,Bg2 fianchetto. His calculation ability is world class level even though he started poorly in candidates 2020 first half and will not challenge Magnus for World Championship ( it will be either Nepo,MVL or Caruana again).

Ding was impressive with the line starting with 24Bh6! and played perfectly until 31 Qf4 checkmate. Magnus could have defended better if he found Bd4+ in several instances but instead lost very quickly

Tricky position

Black to play

In this position, Black to play. Can you work out the unfolding tactics ?

King's Indian Defense & Attack by Hikaru Nakamaru today !

Fireworks start around move 20 ! A few comments on the following site:
http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1554908

I'd say that in the pure tradition of former world champs Robert J. Fischer and Gary K. Kasparov, Nakamura has now created his own KI Brilliancy !!

Beliavsky-Nakamura Amsterdam 2009 , after 28 Ba7
Black to play 28...?

You can play through older but classic King's Indian Defence games here, including the famous Kasparov wins against Korchnoi and Piket: http://games.top10chess.com/kingsindiandefence.htm

Amber 2008 game: Kramnik-Topalov

Kramnik-Topalov 2008, 1-0 Amber (Rapid)

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. Nc3 Bg7 4. e4 d6 5. Nf3 O-O 6. Be2 e5 7. O-O Na68. Be3 Ng4 9. Bg5 Qe8 10. Re1 exd4 11. Nd5 d3 12. Bxd3 c6 13. Ne7 Kh814. Nxc8 Rxc8 15. Bf1 Nc5 16. Qxd6 Nxe4 17. Qa3 f5 18. h3 Ne5 19. Bf4 Nd720. Qxa7 Bxb2 21. Rab1 Bg7 22. Qxb7 Ndc5 23. Qb6 Rf7 24. Ng5 Rb7 25. Qxb7! Nxb726. Rxb7 Kg8? 27. c5! h6 28. Bc4 Kh8 29. Be5 hxg5 30. Bxg7 Kh7 31. Bf8 Kh832. Be7 Rb8 33. Rxe4 1-0


This is the remarkable 2008 rapid Amber game between Kramnik and Topalov. Note White's 25th move with a strong attack in this King's Indian with 7..Na6.

Annotations and game replay here and here :

http://chessmind.powerblogs.com/files/amber2008_rd5.htm

http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1488135

Link to the 2008 tournament:
http://www.amberchess2008.com


These two players will be present in the 2009 edition starting next week...

King's Indian Defence Combinations

Today's excercises are derived from the King's Indian Tactical Themes only. Good luck!

I.Black to play and win

II.Black to play and win

III.Black to play and win

IV Black to play and win

V Black to play and winVI Black to play and win

Most positions come from famous games, with the Black side led by top players such as Najdorf,Kasparov,Nunn and Radjabov (for the very last position).You can play through all six games and therefore check if your guess is correct on the following link:

http://games.top10chess.com/kingsindiandefence.htm