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5 Puzzles: QGA, Classical 6...a6

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Submitted by WTHarvey on Tue, 10/14/2008 at 7:27am.

This is another huge favorite of both Anand and Kramnik (See my recent blog post on the Sveshnikov/Pelikan).  Anand has played this 32 times as Black and Kramnik has led with it 34 times as White.  It could very well be the critical game of the Championship is a D27 QGA.  To review, the games begin, 1.d4 d5 2.c4 dxc4 3.Nf3 Nf6 4.e3 e6 5.Bxc4 c5 6.O-O a6.  Here are a few crucial positions from miniatures.  None of these games lasted 20 moves.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

More D27 QGA puzzles can be found at wtharvey.com/d27.html

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Comments:

by WTHarvey - 12 months ago
Alexandria, VA United States
Member Since: Jul 2007
Member Points: 145

Thx ADK. 

Btw, I deleted '#5' to eliminate confusion.

by ADK - 12 months ago
Santa Clarita, CA United States
Member Since: Aug 2007
Member Points: 16240

I like these puzzles WTHarvey.Smile

ADK

by WTHarvey - 12 months ago
Alexandria, VA United States
Member Since: Jul 2007
Member Points: 145

JCR.  That was actually played in the game.  Quite devastating too.  Thx !

by JCRchess - 12 months ago
Connecticut United States
Member Since: May 2008
Member Points: 404

In the 5th puzzle, why not 2.) Ne5!  [ If 2.) ... Nxe5  then 3.) Nxe7+] , winning the Queen!

by apocalypse74 - 12 months ago
Israel
Member Since: Aug 2008
Member Points: 70

ohh nice one's! coldent do any of them^^

i love'd the last one. its painful^^

 
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