By chess on January 27, 2012
The Arctic Securities Chess Stars Tournament with Vishy Anand, Magnus Carlsen, Judit Polgar and Jon Ludvig Hammer was played on 28-30th August, 2010, in Kristiansund, Norway. Carlsen took the trophy after beating World Champion Anand in the final.
The game of our interest was played in the first round between Anand and Hammer. Anand is famous for his fantastic endgame technique in the positions where he has Bishop(s) and space advantage.
After a long struggle from the Italian opening, the players have reached the diagrammed position.
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By chess on January 27, 2012
Grandmaster Ivan Sokolov, for many years one of the world’s leading chess players, is commenting the games from Sao Paulo – Bilbao Grand Slam live on Chessdom.com, together with his colleagues from the “Chess Evolution” team.
Author of six chess books, out of which “Winning Chess Middlegames”
was one of the best selling chess books in the world of 2009, and the most recent “Ruy Lopez Revisited”
was published about six months ago.
Regular commentator since 2007 in Tata Steel Chess, Wijk aan Zee, Super Tournament.
His insights on the 3rd round game between Paco Vallejo and Magnus Carlsen are posted bellow, please note that this was a real-time commentary.
Paco Vallejo – Magnus Carlsen
Sao Paulo Masters Final, round 3
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By chess on January 27, 2012
There was a saying: “When Tal sacs, take and check. When Fischer sacs, take and resign. When Petrosian sacs, just resign”.
What about Botvinnik? The famous strategist made many positional sacrifices, but usually with no escape for his opponents.
We’ll take a look at Knight sacrifice for two pawns. Pawns alone are not enough of compensation for a piece. So player has to seek for positional elements in his favour, but elements which have “permanent” (long-term) character. Some of those positional elements are: supported outpost, strong pawn center, open file, opponent’s strong pieces elimination etc.
White: Mikhail Botvinnik
Black: Ludek Pachman
Oberhausen 1961
This was a rather uneventful King’s Indian game with lots of pieces’ shuffling, but finally Pachman pushed f6-f5 and provoked White’s reaction.
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