It seems, for whatever reason, opponents went down material and Morozevich was very good at consolidating that advantage. Examples might include an early Alekhine Defense against Judit P. And two wins against rival Ponomariov, WC 2001 and World blitz 2009.
Related is a good YouTube video v. young talent Dubov. Looks like an Albin counter gambit from maybe the 2012 Moscow Blitz.
I feel like his main trick is dynamic defense - he's constantly hanging pieces with a tactic in his back pocket, and sometimes (particularly in blitz) even the best of the best fall for one. Unsung is his technique - a very wiley endgame player once the pieces are traded. I guess I started all of this expecting some kind of Mikhail Tal clone and instead was treated to a spectacularly different kind of genius.
Thanks for the games, I'm looking them up right now!
Greetings all - I've been studying the (weird) games of one Alexander Morozevich and thoroughly enjoying myself....win, lose, or draw, very few of his games are uninteresting. However, a girl can only do so much research, so I'm throwing the question to the community: Do you have favorite games by Moro? Were you watching in the 90s when he crushed some of the best players with some of the worst openings? Feed my intellectual curiosity, for I need mor Morozevich.