Michael Adams

Submitted by oginschile on Fri, 03/07/2008 at 5:09am.

Occasionally in my chess studies I will look at a player who I haven't really taken much notice of. I'll go to chessgames.com and just peruse through their games. I find it's fun to explore the brilliance of players who history may largely forget.

This first started with Miguel Najdorf. For years I thought of him only as Bobby Fischer's whipping boy. I'd seen a few of Fischer's brilliancies against Najdorf, and thought to myself "Sheesh, this guy is a chump... he got worked."

Well who didn't.

But one day I wanted to see who this Najdorf was due to my study of the sicilian opening. I looked through his more popular games on chessgames.com and was floored by the combinations this guy played. Since then I've kept an open mind to all Grandmasters, realizing that they are called Grandmasters for a reason.

Michael Adams is an extremely strong positional player, but he knows how to deliver the knockout blow, as the following puzzles suggest. In both of them the first move prompted resignation from the opponent.

Find the move... and the reason for resignation.

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Comments:

by mu4436 - 2 months ago
Marshall Islands

Member Since: May 2008
Member Points: 7

Great postings! Just like what you did at chess.ac !

by allahdin - 3 months ago
khartoum Sudan

Member Since: May 2008
Member Points: 4

hello, you make great moves, i am on the move until i get your point..then we can play together....goodluck

by armis - 5 months ago
Vilnius Lithuania

Member Since: Aug 2007
Member Points: 30

Thanks

I used to think that positional players are just sooo boring. Karpov,Petrosian, Kramnik and such and they just don't have the guts to play like Tal and Kasparov. But truth to be told the more I grew as a chess player the more I seemed to like the way they played. Same goes for the "weaker" players. I only looked how the BIG guys played but quite often other GM aren't that bad either