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Garry the Great

  • GM GNarayanan
  • | Mar 21, 2009
  • | 4864 views
  • | 51 comments

Note from dpruess:

Saturday is the one day that chess.com does not have a weekly columnist. On this day we will endeavor to bring to you chess perspectives from a variety of excellent chess writers. This week we present an article from the 19 year old Indian Grandmaster, GN Gopal. In 2007, Gopal made all three norms required for the Grandmaster Title within a six month period. Gopal has an aggressive and dynamic style of play-- much like his chess hero of whom you will hear more in this article. He favors 1.e4, and as black the Najdorf Sicilian and Gruenfeld Defense. He is definitely an expert on the topic he has chosen for today, so we are fortunate to be treated to this article:

 


























Comments


  • 4 years ago

    Sabresfan

    que voulez-vous? Devant le grand maitre,on ne peut que saluer qu'avec admiration !Smile

  • 4 years ago

    Philip_Lu

    nice

  • 4 years ago

    hmmn

    The power and flexibility of Mr. Kasparov is evolutionary. He has absorbed

    the lessons of previous masters and is showing us (on the fly as it were) how

    to defend and attack at the same time....beautiful. I aspire to this in my games

    and very occasionaly in a primitive way I succeed. Grandmaster Gopal many

    thanks for a peek into our future.

  • 4 years ago

    kaichess

    Kasparov is really Great!

  • 4 years ago

    acyberguy

    How sweet it is...this makes me go APE! LOL

  • 4 years ago

    Sawin

    I know this game from a game collection of Kasparov, and there were much more commentary...but it is still one of Kasparov's best Naidorf-games.

  • 4 years ago

    JoakimBjornander

    Awesome!

  • 4 years ago

    colfk

    Amazing sacrifice!

  • 4 years ago

    gotmilk

    Yeah for readability, another suggestion I have is to have one game thats advanceable without interruption, followed by static diagrams that read more like a magazine article when annotating.

  • 4 years ago

    merchco

    Also would it be possible for just one board to be posted per example I know most people playing Chess are not Grandmasters but we are not stupid and we can see the game and the different parts with one board as the commentary underneath explains why tyhe need for so many different boards beggers believe. Its so annoying and delays being able to scan up and down from board to comments quickly as the computer loads all the games One Board is enough.Sorry for giving out but its very frustrating.

    Thanks

  • 4 years ago

    ahill713

    I was very puzzled by 25... Bxe4, but after looking at the variation it's a set up for Be5+. if white takes 26 dxe4 it leads to 26...Be5+ 27 Kb1 27... Qc2#.  there are several ways to slow black down by throwing pieces in front of the king, but the ultimate idea is it leads to a forced mate very quickly.

  • 4 years ago

    merchco

    movsesian fell asleep at the end and made some very basic errors I am only new to chess and am not rated highly but me grandmother could have made better choices near the end of that game. So some people might put that down to the brillance of Kasporov but I am sure he wouldn't more the weakness of his opponent.  

  • 4 years ago

    GreenBlueRed

    Hi,Gopal.This is Ganesh Bhat here.I like this game very much and I know that if you are going to annotate and comment;a full book is needed and it'll be out of scope here.Anyway Thanks to you and Gokul!It was a very nice game and I am still using this  game to explain the ideas of exchange sac.at c3 and Prospects of the Najdorf Sicillian to my students!

  • 4 years ago

    Warp

    Thanks for this piece!

  • 4 years ago

    ashwath

    wow... that was just a brilliant artilcle..

    thnx alot G.N.Gopal

  • 4 years ago

    boyerbcb77

    Amazing to see how he responds to white defense.  Shifting his attack if I could only see what he does.  Thanks

  • 4 years ago

    Sothilde

    Amazing game

  • 4 years ago

    PawnOfAThousandPawns

    Greeeeat game!

  • 4 years ago

    JG27Pyth

    Fantastic game! And the commentary was very good, but I could have used a few more variations annotated. I'm sure some of the less experienced players are puzzled by moves like 25.Bxe4 ... why not dxe4? And the exclamation point for Rb8... are there tactics I'm missing there? or is the exclamation point because Garry's repositioning of the Rook is very strong despite being 'quiet?'

    I was greatly impressed in this game by the way Kasparov moves from one powerful idea to another... He doesn't 'fall in love' with one idea and try to force it. He seems to find a fresh way of attacking the King every other move. What a monster. 

  • 4 years ago

    WScott336

    Great article and game!  Thank you.

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