Here is a game from the XXI Magistral Ciudad de Leon, GM Ivanchuk - GM Shirov with full annotations and commentary: In this game we saw white take a slower approach in meeting the Sicilian Defense starting with 3. Nc3 as opposed to 3...
Here is a game from the 2008 Bosna Tournament, GM Morozevich - GM Movsesian with full annotations and commentary: In this game we saw two different phases of the game. First we saw the battle during the closed part of the game...
Here is a game from the 2008 US Championship Women's section, WIM Epstein - WIM Tuvshintugs with full annotations and commentary: In this game we saw white choose the Ponziani Opening starting with 3. c3 which led to a ver...
Here is a game from the 2008 Limburg Open, IM Swinkels - GM Berg with full annotations and commentary: In this game we saw a battle of structure versus open lines. Black decided early to go for the doubling of white's pawn...
Here is a game from the 2008 US Senior Open, IM Kaufman - IM Foygel with full annotations and commentary: In this game we saw black play some slow opening moves which allowed white to take a lead in development. Then white was...
Here is a game from the 16th Sigeman & Co Chess Tournament, GM Timman - GM Hillarp Persson with full annotations and commentary: In this game we saw black play the very common and thematic exchange sacrifice in the Sicilian with ...
Here is a game from the XIV International Tournament of Dos Hermanas, GM Shirov - GM Vallejo: In this game we saw a very sharp battle starting with 5. g4!? all the way to the end of the game. There were many critical points where the...
Here is a game from the 2008 Russian Team Championship, GM Svidler - GM Alekseev with full annotations and commentary: This game was a perfect example of the power of transpositions in chess. The game started off with white pl...
Here is a game from the 2008 Russian Team Championship, GM Yemelin - GM Popov with full annotations and commentary: This was quite an interesting game. First we saw white employ 4. Nc4 which is a rare choice in the Petrov de...
Here is a game from the 2008 Sydney International Open, GM Jones - IM Bitansky with full annotations and commentary: This was a very interesting game where we saw both players castling their kings to opposite sides of the boar...
Here is a game from the 2008 Amber Rapid tournament, GM Ivanchuk - GM Karjakin with full annotations and commentary: In this game we saw Ivanchuk play the spectacular queen sacrifice 14. Qxe6+ in this highly theoretical posito...
Here is a game from the 2008 Amber Rapid tournament, GM Kramnik - GM Anand with full annotations and commentary: This game started out slowly but it rapidly turned into a wild battle as the two highest rated players in the wor...
Here is a game from the 2008 Reykjavik Open, GM Hao Wang - FM Dagur Arngrimsson with full annotations and commentary: In this game we saw white take on a nice, simple, and effective kingside attack in the Ruy Lopez for which b...
Here is a game from the 2008 Linares tournament, GM Leko - GM Ivanchuk with full annotations and commentary: In this game we saw that black played the Caro-Kann to combat 1. e4 where black establishes a pawn on d5 early in the...
Here is a game from the 1st Pfalz Open, FM Dyballa - GM Greenfeld with full annotations and commentary: In this game we saw that black used an Alekhine type maneuver with the early 2...Nf6 and we almost transpose into an Alekh...
Here is a game from the 2008 Morelia/Linares tournament, GM Shirov - GM Anand with full annotations and commentary: This game is a perfect example of the power behind the thematic exchange sacrifice on c3 in the Sicilian. Bla...
Here is a game from the Women's section of the 2008 Moscow Open, WFM Kiseljova - WGM Pogonina with full annotations and commentary: This game is a good illustration of the battle between material and piece activity. Early ...
Here is a game from the 2008 Moscow Open, GM Zviagintsev - FM Slugin with full annotations and commentary: This game clearly illustrates the importance of development. As we saw in the game white sacrificed a pawn early and bl...
Here is a game from the 2008 Corus Group C event, GM Negi - GM Grivas with full annotations and commentary: This is a good example of the dangers of taking a "poisoned" pawn or piece. In this game black decided to pl...
Here is a game from the 2008 Corus Honarary Group, GM Ljubojevic - GM Timman with full annotations and commentary: This game is a nice illustration of the power of knights in closed positions. Both of the black knights were ab...
Here is a game from the current 2008 Corus Group B event, GM Short - GM L'Ami with full annotations and commentary: This game is a good example of creative opening play and imagination in chess. It shows that you do not al...
Here is a game from the recent Rilton Cup, GM Kulaots - GM Ernst with full annotations and commentary: This game is a perfect illustration of the typical Sicilian battle. First we saw both players castling on opposite sides of...
Here is a game from the recent Groningen Chess Festival, FM Heemskerk - GM Skatchkov with full annotations and commentary: This game clearly illustrates the strategy of Hypermodern play. The idea white used was to control the ...
Here is the game from the current Russian Superfinals, WGM Kosintseva - WGM Tairova with full annotations and commentary: This was a nice game which showed a lot of creativity by black. WGM Tairova did not accept the idea to p...
