Third millenium chess??

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JavierGil

 
I decided to take a look at this game rather accidentally. I think It was one of those days when the big boys were playing in the world blitz championship, and I was curious to see if the quality of the games played by the young minds would be any better (it definitely was!). When I came across this game, my first impression was: oh my god, this was a HUGE swindle! However, the more I studied it, the more I realised how wrong I was: it was not a swindle at all, it was an incredible masterpiece!
Lukasz Jarmula is a young (17) International Master from Poland. What I find incredible about this game is his ability to sense (by means of intuition) that he had enough compensation for the pawns he was giving up.  I'm not exagerating here:not even the strongest chess engines can come close to guessing the validity of those pawns sacs (!!).
Definitely a masterpiece in this case!



 

gluestix

very nice article

madhacker

"By the way, what is this called, a Najdragon? A Dragorf? :)"

I thought it was called the Dragondorf. Seriously though, this is a serious spanking. I love games like this, where the opponent's mobility is reduced to near-zero.


solskytz

You really need to see and understand the strategic points and lines in order to play like that with confidence and sacrifice pawns as if they are chaff. 

It definitely takes a high degree of chess understanding to dominate a 2400+ player in this wise. 

Oofee1

WOW.  White font ahead    Hi Javier

JavierGil

Glad you liked it, gluestix.

Madhacker: yes, not easy to get one of these, but they do happen, yes.

Solskytz: Agreed. Those were some deep pawn sacrifices.

Hi Victory-win! Smile