Alekhine's Gun against Dutch Def!!!
No blunder, not big mistakes on my opponent's side. Just bad opening choice and unprecise moves here and there. I played in my favourite positional style and that's was enough to completely demolish my opponent with no risk on my side.
Opening phase was rather uninteresting with some queen pawn debut very solid and dull choices by my opponent. The ending has arisen in which everything else was fairly even except my opponent's pawns were on wrong squares making his bishop bad, ve...
In this game my opponent went in Carlsen's footsteps by playing Bird's Defence in Ruy Lopes. As you probably remeber during last Chess Olympiad Carlsen lost game to Saric. I chose Bc4 instead of manline S:d4 and very early sacrified a piece for lo...
This game explores an interesting sideline in Budapest Gambit. Black won nice game in purely tactical style!
Generalnie gra przeciwko obronie holenderskiej nie należy do moich mocnych stron, ale tym razem w debiucie ograłem mojego przeciwnika. Mogłem nawet zagrać lepiej gdybym wykorzystał to, że mój przeciwnik opóźniał ruch d5 i zagrał Se5. Po drodze mus...
This fascinating endgame taught me of single most important rule of playing in the few pieces endgames. Check annotations to find it. Hope you will find the game interesting and my conclusions instructive. Befriend me to be notified about next ...
I am d4 player but occasionaly I try e4 just to fresh things up a little. This game however although started as French, quickly transposed to Sicilian and then, surprisingly, to Benoni structures. Although my opponent was some 300 ELO weaker he n...
This is my fully annotated game in Nizmo Indian 4. Qb3 variation which I decided to present as it shows how some typical strategies for Nimzo might work, how to play this opening positionally and where to use tactics. My opponent and I both were p...
This is a game from European Individual Chess Championships 2014 between Denis Khismatullin (2714) and Polish prodigy 16-years-old Jan-Krzysztof Duda (2563). I can only describe this game as absolutely stunning: full of combinations, paradoxical m...
I decided to share some of the most interesting game of mine with annotations. This one sees my Black pieces figting against dreaded Maroczy Bind set up by my opponent in Sicilian. As this strategy of often met I believe it may be useful for you t...