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As a player who prefers to play positions with masses of complications, where neither player is quite sure what is going on, it makes sense that Mikhail Tal is one of my favourite players of all time. But this slightly less crazy game of his is ve... | Read More
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A game won from Keres by Botvinnik in the Nimzo-Indian Defence, this is a great example of dynamic and energetic play. Keres makes a few inaccuracies, fails to develop, and Botvinnik is on him!
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Found this game today looking through some master games in the Stonewall Dutch. It's a pretty simply understood miniature: here it is, with my annotations and analysis.
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Hi all,
Just played a pretty nice OTB game, my first in a while - and certainly my first in a while against some not too shabby opposition too.
To give you some idea of the setting: it was played in my student bar, pint of Guinness in handÂ... | Read More
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This game is a game of three thirds. In the opening, White is allowed to gain a small advantage via an opening error by Black. This recedes in the middlegame, where Black comes back into it, winning a pawn. But White has improved the position of h... | Read More
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Hey folks!
I know its been a long time since the last game of the week! But here is a perfect game to showcase - a real battle, with White exerting a positional clamp on Black and tightening it such that, even whilst there is no material gain, Wh... | Read More
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Had a spare half-hour so thought I'd do another game. Here it is. In this one, I go behind fairly early on after some opening mistakes, eventually emerging an exchange and a pawn down. However, I manage to set up a blockade, meaning that White ha... | Read More
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This time, I submit a very exciting game. Beginning with the explosive King's Gambit, I give up my queen, and in combination with a middlegamge promotion threat, this suffices to put me ahead in material and position. But then I misevaluate my opp... | Read More
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Ok, this week's game is called "Sudden Death".
In essence, after coming off worse in the opening stages, White springs a combination to win a pawn back. Imagine his shock when Black allows him to win the pawn, then counters with an improbable loo... | Read More
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Right, so as I promised, here's a game I lost. It was a toughly fought game, White expanding on the kingside but neglecting his queenside too much as Black expanded over there. It was Black who managed to plant his pieces in the better positions a... | Read More