Selected Yasser Seirawan Games (Analyzed)

Yasser Seirawan's FIDE Profile can be viewed here.

Yasser Seirawan has been in the world Chess circuit since the early 1980s. He gained substantial recognition after qualifying for the 1985 and 1988-1990 Candidates Tournaments. In the 1985 tournament in Montpellier he scored 7/15 placing joint 10th, and in the 1988-1990 tournament in St John, a knockout tournament, he was knocked out by Jon Speelman in the preliminary round. 

Yasser Seirawan is widely known for his expert commentary in live broadcasts on the Internet during important events. He has been named by the chess historian Edward Winter as one of the top five Internet broadcasters.

GM Yasser Seirawan on his birthday in 2018. Pic courtesy: St. Louis Chess Club.

Here are a few remarkable games (analyzed) of GM Yasser Seirawan. Enjoy!

P.S. GM Yasser Seirawan is a reputed chess author and a witty commentator. He is married to WFM Yvette Nagel, daughter of Dutch politician Jan Nagel.

I possess quite a few number of books by Yasser Seirawan; pretty brilliant, I must say.

• Play Winning Chess - Introduction to chess and some basic strategies
• Winning Chess Tactics - Introduction to tactics with puzzles
• Winning Chess Strategies - How to use small advantages and use strategies to gain them
• Winning Chess Openings - Brief descriptions of the most popular openings, and opening strategies
• Winning Chess Endings - Introduction to the endgame
• Winning Chess Brilliancies - Notable games analyzed by the author
• Winning Chess Combinations - How to recognize the main combination patterns.

Here are most of the games between Seirawan and Vishy Anand. Enjoy!

GM Viswanathan Anand at the Chess Classic Mainz 2009.