Feb-21-21 Rubinstein vs Teichmann, 1907 
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| MordimerChess: Finally a game from Carlsbad 1907 in which Akiba played some tactic. Of course, all his position built forced the tactic on some point, but still... very nice miniature. Full video analysis:
https://youtu.be/JVvBqoUoxQc
Enjoy, learn, share! ... |
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Feb-20-21 Duras vs Rubinstein, 1907
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| MordimerChess: Games of Akiba looks so logical and easy to understand, but 100 years later the engines shows that pressure he put on the "equal positions" gave him +2 advantage before he even attack. Seems like 22. e5 would work well, ex:
22. e5 dxe5 23. Nxe5 Rxe5! 24. Rxe5 Ng4! 25. Bf4 ... |
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Feb-18-21 Rubinstein vs Tartakower, 1907
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| MordimerChess: I like the theory that Akiba wanted to non-verbally say "Dude, just give up" by playing 25. Kf1 and I included that idea in my game analysis: https://youtu.be/5s3JtUBe56Y
However we also have to think that it was just another precise move by Rubinstein, preventing Qa5 if ... |
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Feb-16-21 Carlsen vs Shankland, 2021
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| MordimerChess: <0ZeR0> One of my subscribers just wrote in a comment that he owns that course and 2. Qa4 line isn't covered there :) |
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Feb-10-21 Duda vs Dubov, 2021
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| MordimerChess: After winning in 11th round Dubov was on fire and on the way to quarterfinals... From the other hand, Duda lost to outsider Dominguez and he said in the interview that he had no practical chances to advance to next phase, so he just played Bd3 which isn't part of his opening ... |
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Feb-10-21 Carlsen vs Nakamura, 2021
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| MordimerChess: Good game by Hikaru... and another one which he couldn't capitalize. It was costly as he was eliminated from tournament. Full video analysis:
https://youtu.be/aZYtkBRpsk0
Enjoy! |
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Feb-10-21 Duda vs J van Foreest, 2021
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| MordimerChess: <mandor> Glad you enjoyed it! |
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Jan-30-21 A Tari vs A Esipenko, 2021
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| MordimerChess: "Oh no! My rook!" :D
Aryan said in the interview that the move is one of "what players dream of"! Andrey missed the end of tactic started with exchanging pawns and knights, pawn on h5 got undefended. Also Andrey had better way to block queen side before playing f5 than ... |
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Jan-27-21 Duda vs Carlsen, 2021
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| MordimerChess: Magnus had a winning position but played too fast. In a critical moment, 11 seconds. 36...Kf7 was winning. But JKD found couple of pretty impressive moves like all this Bc1-d2-g5-h6 line, wow! Full video analysis:
https://youtu.be/fyI_pqFsjmA
Enjoy! |
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Jan-27-21 Giri vs N Grandelius, 2021
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| MordimerChess: Nils Grandelius bought the course from Anish Giri about Najdorf and played novelty which was proposed by Anish 16...Rc8 He got a very promising position, in the interview of Giri, the decisive mistake was 28...Kf8, stockfish doesn't agree but after a couple of moves, it makes ... |
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