Personal Mona Lisa of GM Bartłomiej Macieja
GM Macieja is one of those strong chess players who is not well known outside of the professional chess players' circle (even though he was European Champion in 2002!) Meanwhile, he has an achievement that would be very interesting for the general public. As far as I know, he played the game with the greatest number of consecutive checks in Grandmasters' encounters. In the next game, watch moves 45-47 where both sides delivered 5 consecutive checks!
(Just like in most of my articles I give you a chance to test your attacking skills, so the games are given as a Quiz. Please remember that you can always replay the whole game from the first move if you click "Solution" and then "Move list".)
The game has just started and it is only White's 5th move, what interest can there be? And yet, White manages to show his aggressive intentions in the very early stage of the game. How?
