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Winning against Nakamura

Submitted by IM IMCheap on Mon, 11/09/2009 at 5:14am.

GM Hikaru Nakamura (FIDE 2715) aka Smallville needs no introduction - we have already published an article on his epic battle against Alexander Grischuk. IM Vlad Akselrod (FIDE 2446) aka Raix, a second of WGM Natalia Pogonina and Peter Zhdanov, has finally had a chance to play against arguably the best bullet player in the world.

Vlad lost 3 games in a row (remember that the time control was 1 min per game for each player!), but the 4th one was sweet revenge:

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Raix - Smallville (click to see the game)

Bottom-line: believe in yourself, fight till the end, and you may end up winning in chess...and life in general!

Originally published at Pogonina.com

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Comments:

by RTurietta - 21 months ago
Las Cruces, NM United States
Member Since: Apr 2010
Member Points: 41

Good Job, Vlad. Beating Nakamura even once at Blitz or OTB is an accomplisment, I am sure... Natalia, do you always tease the lad so? :-)

by ivan_the_truble - 23 months ago
Ukraine
Member Since: Jan 2010
Member Points: 670

A win's a win, Natalia, so stop teasing. Nice job, Vlad!

by leonelcm - 2 years ago
Mexico City Mexico
Member Since: Feb 2008
Member Points: 897

Interesting game, thanx for sharing...

by musiclife - 2 years ago
Portland, OR United States
Member Since: Jun 2008
Member Points: 664

I've only recently started enjoying bullet chess, as I've realized that I have to switch mindsets from 'find the best move' to something closer to 'in the shortest time, find the least losing move,' or 'go on intuition with little to no calculation.'

by eaglex - 2 years ago
Seoul South Korea
Member Since: Mar 2009
Member Points: 521

smallville is nakas icc username

by skewer2000 - 2 years ago
Leesburg United States
Member Since: Oct 2007
Member Points: 1164

Natalia, do you have Alisa Melekhina's e-mail address?  I'm a big fan.

by kunduk - 2 years ago
kolkata India
Member Since: Feb 2009
Member Points: 964

great.. Smile

by nibir - 2 years ago
Dhaka Bangladesh
Member Since: Apr 2008
Member Points: 11375

Sorry i didn't notice the site name Embarassed

by nibir - 2 years ago
Dhaka Bangladesh
Member Since: Apr 2008
Member Points: 11375

what does it mean by "aka smallville" ? is it Nakamura's username in some other site where he plays or here on chess.com ??Undecided

by WGM Natalia_Pogonina - 2 years ago
Saratov Russia
Member Since: Jul 2009
Member Points: 2236

Come on, did you guys really blunder like that?! Are you at least ashamed of your play? Smile

Glad you won though, Vlad. Naka's very tough!

 

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