Check! Check! Checkmate

Hello everyone!

I am absolutely buzzing this week — I’m close to the most fantastic achievement of my chess career!

As you may know, the Chess.com portal announced a competition for the best game to be added to the ongoing Immortal Games Collection in the Chess.com/library.

Over 2,500 brilliant games were submitted to the contest, even from grandmasters and world chess champions!

Incredibly (no, fantastically!), my game made it into the Top 10 finalists in the nomination for the Most Beautiful Bullet Duel! Honestly, this is a huge honor for a chess dude like me — the kind of guy who learned the game in public parks and still forgets to hit the electronic clock half the time.

The internal fire of chess beauty, coupled with your support, is all I need on this journey.

This is where I need your help. If you find my game beautiful, please consider voting! Let's make history: for the first time in the contest's history, the award could go not to a grandmaster or a chess professional, but to an amateur!

You can vote right here https://www.chess.com/news/view/vote-chess-com-immortal-game

My nominated match was a Bullet game against a Polish player. The final combination was inspired by my experience playing the Scandinavian Defense and, perhaps more dramatically, by the sheer audacity of Paul Morphy’s legendary Opera Game. If you love Morphy, I think you’ll find some striking similarities!

Nominated game on Youtube channel

I also submitted a couple of other action-packed games. 

My another Immortal LIVE

I sent this Caro-Kann attack to the Queen Sacrifice category — what do you think about this game below? (I think it was rejected because the committee was skeptical about my low-rated opponent's ability to play into such a beautiful mess!)

Nominated in "Queens Sacrifice"  

Finally, my friend, the legendary Ukrainian Grandmaster Mikhail Golubev, is also nominated in the main "Immortal" category. You absolutely must see his masterpiece and vote for it too — the new "Immortal" may become his work tomorrow!

Thanks for reading, and be safe!