Daily Calculation Exercises - Day 19 | Rossolimo variation in the Sicilian Defense
I created 10 exercises from the game I played yesterday in the Hungarian Superleague against the young Hungarian Talent Endre Csiki, who just made an International Master norm the day before the game.
I analyzed a few variation where white has a mating attacks:
Another checkmate:
I blundered this countermove:
How can white win?
What should black do in the middlegame?
White pushed the e-pawn. How should black react?
How can white keep his advantage?
One more final checkmate:
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I played him 2.5 years ago when I got a winning advantage, went to the bathroom and he made an illegal move which saved him the game. Neither of us did not recognized the move was illegal. I think it was a long queen move.
This time I decided to be more aware if there will be time trouble.
He played the Rossolimo variation of the Sicilian defense. We followed theory in the first 15 moves and there I allowed him to weaken my pawn structure. We got opposite colored bishops with rooks and queens and his bishop was much better. He used a lot of time and started to make weaker moves and I was fighting for the activity. He had less than 1 minutes and I thought he missed a simple tactics which won the queen, but looks like I missed the tactics how he could win back the queen and the position simplified to a draw:
I used this course to prepare for the game: Nightmare of the Rossolimo
In the morning I went to run around 15 minutes to get fresh air for my brain to prepare for today's game:
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I was the coach of the month and you can read an interview about it at https://www.chess.com/article/view/coach-of-the-month-im-attila-turzo
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See you tomorrow!
Attila Turzo
International Master
