FIDE 2021 World Cup Alireza Firouzja, Magnus Carlsen, Fabiano Caruana

 

danya games April 12 2021

a few games by GM Daniel Narodistky esp London system against Le Minh "Wonderful time" and Alirea Firouzja match as well

Hikaru Nakamura wins against Firouzja with hidden tactics

the players

the game played in skilling open  (Champions Tour) on chess24.com

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

 

Hikaru Nakamura against Alireza Firouzja

 Hikaru won the Speed Chess Championship today on chess.com

He just signed with TSM https://tsm.gg/ 

White to play (Hikaru is White, Alireza Firouzja is Black)

Replay here

He just signed with TSM https://tsm.gg/  

Alireza Firouzja bullet win in Taimanov variation Aug 26 2020 Katara

 Alireza Firouzja shows us the black side of a tricky Taimanov line.

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 e6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nc6 5. Nc3 Qc7 6. Ndb5

6.. Qb8 7. Be3 a6 8. Bb6 !?
Black has to take it and defend.

8..axb5 9. Nxb5
-First idea 9...Ra5 10.Nc7+ Ke7 11.Qf3! Re5 12.Qa3+ d6 13.0–0–0 f6 14.Qa4. 
The queen in  this variation goes to f3 and then a3 with pressure on a3-f8 diagonal.
-The second idea is 9..Bb4+ followed by Ba5 to indirectly cover c7.
lets look at this line.
9.. Bb4+ 10. c3 Ba5 11. Nc7+

11..Qxc7 12. Bxc7 Bxc7 13. g3 Nf6 14. Bg2 O-O 
How to continue here ? Lets see Alireza Firouzja in Katara Event Aug 26 2020 win easily.