Aug-01-12 Bacrot vs Degraeve, 2010
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Eirik: Why is this game lost? Cannot black simply play 31...Kh7, after which 32.b3 Ra3 33.Qxb4 Ra6 will save him? Maybe black lost on time...
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| | Mar-06-12 N Pogonina vs N Dzagnidze, 2009 
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Eirik: Why didn't black play 15.b4? It seems like a stronger move than Nh5.
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| | Nov-27-11 Nakamura vs Kramnik, 2010 
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Eirik: I think Kramnik definitely deserved to win this game. Nakamura's opening was extremely agressive but a little dubious. Kramnik defended very well all the way, and in blitz it's harder to defend such an outrageous attack than actually attacking, I think, because the window of ...
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| | Sep-02-11 Alekhine vs A Fletcher, 1928 
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Eirik: This combinaton is features in Reinfeld's classic book "1001 winning combinations". Personally I found the solution pretty quickly. So I don't think that the combination per se is so difficult, the really difficult part is bringing about the position in which such a beautiful ...
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