Most Ridiculous Castling Move Ever?! - Top 10 of the 2010s - Dubov vs. Giri, 2019
Daniil Dubov is Magnus Carlsen's professed chess hero. The young Russian grandmaster play vigorous, incisive chess, packed with pawn sacrifices and daring positional conceptions. Against Anish Giri, he played a move for the ages: 19.0-0-0!?! - my favorite move of the last decade and quite possibly my favorite chess move of all time...
Top 10 Games of the 2010s
- #1: Aronian vs. Anand, 2013 (blog)
- #2: Wei Yi vs. Bruzon Bautista, 2015 (blog)
- #3: Alphazero vs. Stockfish, 2017 (blog)
- #4: Aronian vs. Kramnik, 2018 (blog)
- #5: Carlsen vs. Karjakin, 2013 (blog)
- #6: Gelfand vs. Nakamura, 2010 (blog)
- #7: Dubov vs. Giri, 2019
- #8: Bai Jinshi vs. Ding Liren, 2017 (blog)
- #9: Aronian vs. Carlsen, 2017 (blog)
- #10: Firouzja vs. Zarkovic, 2019 (blog)
Lessons:
- Chess is a more creative game than ever!
- Piece activity is king in the modern chess era.
- Specifics beat principles: trading queens after 0-0-0 was best.
My brief annotations are below.
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