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A Hidden Motive
I picked this extremely interesting position from Volokitin/Grabinsky book “Perfect Your Chess”. The sample from the game GM Dejan Antic – GM Bosko Abramovic is included with the chapter “Find the Win” and it is black to move. Obviously, the e3-pawn is located deep inside the enemy’s territory and the first instinct is to try [...]
Henri Rinck
We’ve already mentioned a famous Russian chess composer Aleksej Selesniev, and now it’s time to pay a tribute to a brilliant French artist Henri Rinck. According to Wikipedia, he had published an impressive number of endgame studies, namely a total of 1670. Rinck’s favourite theme was domination, but he also explored the ways on how [...]
Vishy Anand – Jon Ludvig Hammer
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 [...]
Paco Vallejo – Magnus Carlsen Annotated
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 [...]
Botvinnik’s Piece Sacrifice
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 [...]
