Hi chess people! I'll show you how to hunt kings today from my 3+2 blitz games. The first example is one of my most accurate games, played against a fellow derp. Attacking themes of this game are: catching the king in the middle by sacrificing mat...
Greetings from beyond the Wall. In this blitz game I'll show you what my opponent did wrong in the opening. At the point you say "Fine, fine... I get it, you should develop your pieces," you'll witness a Joeyesk chekmate which will prove the point...
We'll witness the best preperations very very soon. In less than 2 weeks, on 11th March the tourney kicks off. The participants and how they are qualified: Vishy Anand, unlucky of the previous World Championship match Veselin Topalov, by the hig...
In the "spectral variations" series I'll share spectacular variations from recent superGM games which players didn't figure out over the board, but my trusty Stockfish 7 revealed for us to enjoy. I hope we can discover more positions with lots of...
Mission accomplished. I got my rainbow icons challange fulfilled. In this King's Indian Defense game, my opponent forgot to develop his queenside pieces, instead went to trap my bishop by weakening his kingside. I had huge development advantage. ...
Do you remember the nightmate from romantic era? Please check that game's annotation before scrolling this game where I shared my Falkbeer Countergabit experience. Well, it happened similarly to one of my friends from live chess. Sneaky sneaky tra...
Do you remember My Games #17? I used same counterplay idea (open g-file) for this game. But against a higher -actually highest- rated and a very drunk opposition. A strong player I like to watch in the live chess entered my 3+2 unrated seek: Capta...
After the most amazing round of LonDRAW Chess Classic (Rd.7) I wanted to play some crazy games. MVL's tactical domination over Anand, Aronian's hyperactive pieces against Topalov's king and Carlsen's stunning endgame play against Nakamura made me ...
Tactically terriflying game. I'm really surprised why my king is so safe in the middle. Center game is always full of trickiness. Also this game shows one of bishops strenght over knights: Bishops can pin. Conclusion: No need to castle anymore....
I was searching for 3+2 unrated to get a strong player opposition. Then he came with 2215 rating and a profile picture of Goku (from the anime Dragon Ball, oh cmoon you gotta know that). I lost the first game on time and he accepted my rematch off...
Hi people! Why 960? We need 1 dark square bishop and 1 light square bishop. We have 4 dark squares and 4 light squares on the rank. 4 x 4 = 16 way to put them on the board. So we have 6 squares left. To castle long (a-side) and short (h-...
Greetings my fellow chessassins, This is a terrible 3|2 blitz game where I planned awesome looking ideas and didn't really look at my opponent's threats, and eventually checkmated him with stunning tactics. Yeah, that is what happens at 1600-1700...
This is the 2nd tiebreak game of the second round. 25 minutes + 10 seconds increment. Previous 2 classical time control games, and the first rapid tiebreak game were drawn. FYI Aronian is eliminated in this 2nd round by Areschenko. ¯\(°_o)/¯ Excl...
A brilliant attacking game by GM Levon Aronian who also won the Sinquefield Cup in the end. GM Wesley So neglected development especially castling. One mistake and Aronian caught So's king in the middle, offered a "free" Knight for the crushing at...
Sinquefield Cup 2015 reminds me St. Petersburg 1914. Not that I was alive in 1914 (-_-) Alekhine, Capablanca, Lasker, Marshall, Nimzowitsch, Rubinstein... One can learn a lot about chess just from studying only that tournament. Well, Sinquefield 2...
p1: 7...g5 p2: 16...dxc5 p1: In Sicilian Rossolimo land, Carlsen retreated LSB Bd3 instead of Bf1, with the idea of c3 and dropping back the bishop Bc2 pointing towards Topalov's kingside, and claiming the center with d4. After 6...b5 7.c4...
You know I like showing off my wins against strong opponents. My opponent with the white pieces was ~2150 level. We both made some blunders but it was prety exciting. I made a dangerous Bishop sacrifice on h3. More of a positional than tactical. ...
Today Russian Championship candidates played the second round. Vitiugov went for the Horwitz Bishops (bishops on adjacent diagonals) in the Semi-Slav and leave the Knight on f3 alone to be taken by the Bishop on g4; compromizing the pawn structre ...
GM Pavel Eljanov, Ukraine#2, fearlessly accepts the gambit in Semi-Slav and plays precisely to the end against one of the most entertaining GMs of all time Richard Rapport. A couple of flashy moves and a couple of trap trys... Let's jump right...
