Endgame: Perpetual mate-pursuit.
I played a game today where I had an easy win but I blundered to this drawn position: So I started to threaten checkmate every move so he couldn't make progress with his pawns. It is the only way to ...
Can you find the mate in 13?
I played an online blitz game today and found out that I had a forced mate in 13 moves from the position below:
Annotated Game 5 - D44: Semi-Slav Defense: Botvinnik Variation
Hi. This game is taken from a recent tournament I played. Time controls: 90min+30sec, after 40 moves 30min+30sec added. Themes: Semi-Slav Botvinnik Variation, Exposed King, Mating Net, Knight Outpost, Deflection, Fork His las...
Annotated Game 4 - B12: Caro-Kann Defense: Advance Variation, Botvinnik-Carls Defense
Hi. This time I've commented on a blitz game I played. Normally it is not so intresting because there are too many mistakes made in such games but I thought it showed the power of initiative in opposite color bishop positions quite well. The time ...
Annotated Game 3 - D19: Slav Defense: Czech Variation, Classical System Main Line
Hi all. This game was played here on chess.com and is an online chess game with time control of 3 days/move. Themes: Slav Defense, Dutch variation, knight endgame, pawn structure, good and bad bishops Feel free to leave comments below....
Annotated Game 2 - D00: Queen Pawn Game: Steinitz Countergambit (2. ...c5 vs London)
Hi, here is another game. This time it is an OTB game from a tournament. The time controls are 90min+30sec. Themes: Caro-Kann Exchange, Minority Attack, Rook Endgame, King and Pawn Blockade, Deflection Feel free to leave comments below...
Annotated Game 1 - D00: Queens Pawn Game: Veresov Attack, Alburt Defense
Hi everyone. This is my first blog post in my first blog ever. I thought I'd try to analyze games I play by annotating them so I thought I might aswell share the annotations because there might be people intrested in a certain opening or themes. A...
