Hikaru Nakamura games against Maxime Vachier Lagrave : Speed Chess Championship 2020

 

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Live Speed Chess Final Hikaru Nakamura versus Maxime Vachier Lagrave

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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.

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

Maxime Vachier Lagrave wins Speed Championship tuesday against Firouzja on chess.com- June 2020

Let's go the key moments of the last game. MVL is white, Firouzja is Black, they play a 3 minutes + 1 second increment

First position. MVL is white and has an interesting possibility to start an attack. can you find it?

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the answer is 16 Rxd7! sacrificing the exchange

Position 2. Firouzka played ..Qe7 to bring his queen to the defense. Thats logical but he missed White's strong reply White to play can you find it ?

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the answer is 19e5! threatening exf6 and if Black answers 19..fe5, White goes 20Ng5!

Position 3. Game continued and reached the last critical position on move 28. What would you play with white ?

MVL decided to go for 29 Qxf6 exchanging queens, but Nxf6 or N6xc5 followed by Nxf6 was winning on the spot. He converted in the rook endgame with 2 pawns up. MVL was pushing the entire game and Black never equalized.

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Speed Chess Championship Titled Tuesday

Today Vladislav Artemiev won the Titled Tuesday Blitz on chess.com they renamed it Speed Chess Championship (SCC) Grand Prix and takes place every Tuesday. Speed of play is 3 minutes+ 1 second increment. www.chess.com

Titled players play a swiss open and the first 8 qualify for Knock-Out tournament phase. There were strong players like Giri and Fedoseev but not Nakamura as he was playing the Abbey Rapid against Dubov.

 Artemiev won the tournament, facing Sergey Karjakin in the final. He eliminated Oparin and Giri before, his online blitz rating is 3175.

 Here's the final game, he plays the Sicilian Kan/Taimanov with Black. Karjakin had the advantage, could not convert, was running low on time and lost !

 Artemiev username is SibElephant. Probably means the elephant from Siberia. Sergey goes by SergeyKarjakin.

Artemiev(SibElephant) Black

 

Karjakin(SergeyKarjakin) White