tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-81747254651645364342024-03-14T09:54:37.551+05:30Chess StrikeChess Strikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00506623608301587782noreply@blogger.comBlogger395125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8174725465164536434.post-5960100343697937482017-05-22T23:07:00.000+05:302017-05-22T23:07:14.960+05:3012-year old Magnus Carlsen’s amazing queen sacrifice<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;">Attack</span> is one of the most important and essential skills in chess. You cannot win a chess game if you cannot attack. But many chess players don’t know where to attack and how to start an attack. The right plan is required to deliver a proper and successful attack.<span id="more-32386" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;"></span></div>
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Even the first undisputed world chess champion, Wilhelm Steinitz, used to say that “<em style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;">Only the player with the initiative has the right to attack.</em>”</div>
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Today our guest coach CM Tryfon Gavriel has prepared a very instructive video lesson for you. In this video, he will show you a great game played by the 12-year old Magnus Carlsen, where the current World Champion had delivered a successful attack with an <span style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: underline; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;">amazing Queen sacrifice</span>.<br />
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You’ll also learn about the following in this lesson:</div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://chess-teacher.com/affiliates/idevaffiliate.php?id=1511&url=2511" target="_blank">Watch the YouTube video by CM Tryfon Gavriel</a></span></b></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 12pt; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;">Tryfon Gavriel is a FIDE Candidate Master (CM) with a rating of 2170. He has over 35 years of playing actively both online and offline.</span><br />
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;">P.S.</span> Did you enjoy watching the game? What is your impression about Tryfon’s lesson? Feel free to write your thoughts and feedback in the comments below.</div>
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Chess Strikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00506623608301587782noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8174725465164536434.post-39273863216995041542017-05-20T23:11:00.002+05:302017-05-20T23:11:33.725+05:30Get GM Igor Smirnov’s best collection of premium videos for FREE!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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In recent times many of my students had requested for me to provide them (and also you) with instructive video lessons. As some of you might know, I’ve a busy schedule and that’s why I was not able to prepare video lessons regularly for you. However, I’m doing my best to coordinate with our guest coaches and give you high quality lessons.<span id="more-33983" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;"></span></div>
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Chess Strikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00506623608301587782noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8174725465164536434.post-62771020853326701392017-05-16T23:22:00.000+05:302017-05-20T23:22:28.411+05:30Learn how to analyze chess games like a PRO!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Recently we encouraged you to submit your chess games in a <a href="http://chess-teacher.com/affiliates/idevaffiliate.php?id=1511&url=2507" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #337ab7; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease, background-color 0.3s ease, border-color 0.3s ease, box-shadow 0.3s ease;" target="_blank">blog-post</a> and informed that we’ll analyze the game(s) that gets the maximum number of ‘votes’. First, I’d like to thank everyone who took interest and submitted their games! <img alt="🙂" class="emoji" draggable="false" src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/2/svg/1f642.svg" style="background: none !important; border: none !important; box-shadow: none !important; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline !important; height: 1em !important; margin: 0px 0.07em !important; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px !important; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out; vertical-align: -0.1em !important; width: 1em !important;" /><span id="more-33851" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;"></span></div>
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The winner is Narayan Joshi, who has got four ‘votes’ for his game – congratulations! I’d like to appreciate other students who had submitted their games as well, and that’s why I decided to do something special and useful for everyone.</div>
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In order to help you learn how to analyze YOUR games, I’ve prepared a FREE mini-course “<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;">How to analyze your chess games?</span>“. In this course I’ll teach you the universal approach to analyze a chess game.</div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;">1.</span> How to analyze your games?</div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;">2.</span> How to analyze your games? (Part-2)</div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;">3.</span> How to analyze your games? (Part-3)</div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;">4.</span> Conclusions</div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;">5.</span> Practical part-1</div>
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In the previous article we talked about the typical problems many chess players have. You may want to refer to the first part <a href="http://chess-teacher.com/affiliates/idevaffiliate.php?id=1511&url=2505" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #337ab7; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease, background-color 0.3s ease, border-color 0.3s ease, box-shadow 0.3s ease;" target="_blank" title="What obstructs most chess players?">here</a>. In short, people read A LOT of chess books, but the benefit is MARGINAL<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;"> </span>at best. Why is this the case?<span id="more-32366" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;"></span></div>
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I’ll tell you something seemingly obvious, yet it will have a tremendous effect! There is a HUGE (I mean, extremely HUGE) difference between <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;">reading</span> and <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;">studying</span>. Unfortunately, most players don’t fully understand this, so let me explain this difference in detail:<br style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;" /><img alt="reading studying" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-14465" src="https://chess-teacher.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/read-study.jpg" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; height: auto; margin: 0px auto 1.313em; max-width: 100%; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out; vertical-align: middle;" width="57%" /></div>
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How much time do you spend <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;">reading </span>a book? Usually you will spend for one book from a few days till several weeks. Thus, reading can be quick.</div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;">Studying</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;"> </span>a text book can take a month or a lifetime! I’m not exaggerating. For instance, studying a religious book can take a lifetime, and <span style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: underline; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;">even then you may still not fully understand it</span>. This is closely connected with the next item.</div>
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Once you have <em style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;">read</em> a book, you never read it again. It seems boring and unnecessary. When you <em style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;">study</em> certain material, you try to implement it in your practice. In this case you’ll need to repeat the process several times to make sure that you <span style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: underline; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;">understood completely</span> before proceeding.</div>
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<img alt="repeated study" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-14465" src="https://chess-teacher.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/eat-sleep-study-repeat.jpg" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; height: auto; margin: 0px auto 1.313em; max-width: 100%; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out; vertical-align: middle;" width="30%" />Once you’ve applied this knowledge in a practical application, you will develop new questions. You will then need to study this material <em style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;">again</em> to find solutions for your new questions. This process may occur many times until you finally get <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;">100% effect</span> out of this knowledge (book).</div>
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When you read a book or watch a video, the author of this material is active. He prepared some materials and is providing them to you. You go over this material, however, by yourself, without really doing anything active. This is <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;">passive learning</span>, much the same as when you watch a new Hollywood movie – you are a passive viewer.</div>
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When you <em style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;">study</em> something, you are <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;">independently active</span>. You try and develop solutions yourself, and only after that will you compare your ideas with those of the author. You try to <em style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;">understand</em> every author’s idea. If you don’t understand something – you don’t skip it, but study the material over and over again until all insight come to you.</div>
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You try to understand and remember everything. After that you go and try it in practice. You may fail, but you keep trying until you train this new skill enough to get good results.</div>
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As you may have guessed, <em style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;">reading</em> is easy. That’s why most of people like it so much! You <em style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;">read</em> something, you feel like you should be getting smarter. You digest ready-made material with little or no effort required from you. This comfortable situation makes you feel good because it is not difficult.</div>
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<img alt="study hard" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-14465" src="https://chess-teacher.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/study-hard.jpg" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; height: auto; margin: 0px auto 1.313em; max-width: 100%; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out; vertical-align: middle;" width="50%" /><span style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: underline; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;">Studying</em> is much harder</span>. Here <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;">you have to face your weaknesses, admit them and then put in a hard effort to confront them</span>. You need to spend a lot of <em style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;">time</em> and <em style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;">effort</em>, do unusual things and <em style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;">develop new habits</em>. Inwardly you have to admit that somebody is smarter than you in this area, which is painful for a lot of people.</div>
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A few months after you <em style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;">read</em> something, you only remember the most general ideas from that material.</div>
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Let’s create a little test. Have you <em style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;">studied</em> any of <a href="http://chess-teacher.com/affiliates/idevaffiliate.php?id=1511_26" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #337ab7; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease, background-color 0.3s ease, border-color 0.3s ease, box-shadow 0.3s ease;" target="_blank" title="GM Igor Smirnov chess courses">my paid courses</a>? Do you remember the titles of each video lesson? What rules were presented in each lesson? How many practical tasks were presented in this course?</div>
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If you only <em style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;">study</em> my <a href="http://chess-teacher.com/affiliates/idevaffiliate.php?id=1511_13" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #337ab7; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease, background-color 0.3s ease, border-color 0.3s ease, box-shadow 0.3s ease;" target="_blank" title="GM igor Smirnov chess lessons">free lessons on the RCA blog</a>, do you remember the lessons you’ve read two months ago? What were we talking about then?</div>
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Unfortunately, most people can only give very general answers. It means you have <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;">NOT</span> <em style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;">studied</em> these lessons. When you study something seriously, you won’t forget it later because it is learned. <span style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: underline; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;">It becomes a part of your nature, your new habit</span>.</div>
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In many countries people shake hands after a meeting. You never forget to do this. You don’t need to write it in your notebook – it is automatic and becomes a habit.</div>
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There is some good news for you here. I’ve been an active chess coach for the past 12 years. During this period I’ve charged $0 (in other words, helped for free) and as much as $100 per hour. I’ve noticed an interesting thing: <span style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: underline; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;">the more the student pays, the better results he/she gets</span>.</div>
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I always try to do my best, so my coaching is the same but the students’ ATTITUDE<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;"> </span>is very different. For instance, those who paid a lot never come late to the lesson. Free students sometimes even skip the lessons.</div>
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Those who made serious investments write down all important information. Some of them even use a voice recorder, so as to repeat the lesson later on. Those who paid little never do. After an expensive lesson, a student always performs his home tasks (even when it seems unnecessary for him).</div>
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In the same way, you will probably eat the dish if you paid a lot for it in a restaurant (even if the dish looks unusual for you). It seems silly to pay for something and then not use it. We avoid making silly mistakes.</div>
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After a free lesson, a student decides by himself which tasks to perform and how. So he distorts the training and doesn’t get any real results.</div>
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All in all, when you pay for something you take it <span style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: underline; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;">much more seriously</span>. That’s why some tricky guys download tons of free chess materials from the internet, but their real progress is miserable. It’s just fair.</div>
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<img alt="Progress" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-14465" src="https://chess-teacher.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/progress.png" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; height: auto; margin: 0px auto 1.313em; max-width: 100%; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out; vertical-align: middle;" width="50%" />After you <em style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;">study</em> something new, you can take a qualitative leap forward. You develop new (more effective) skills. You change (improve) your way of playing. You start getting outstandingly great results.</div>
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After <em style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;">reading</em><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;"> </span>something, you feel good. You may be enthusiastic. But when it comes to practice – nothing changes.You still get the same results as before. This upsets you. You want to bring your mood up again and… you start <em style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;">reading</em> another exciting book…</div>
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Now that we have discussed this topic in great detail, it’s time for you to ask yourself “<em style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;">Am I <span style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: underline; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;">reading</span> or <span style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: underline; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;">studying</span> chess materials?</em>” Be honest with yourself. Be objective and take all criteria (your results) into account.</div>
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Chess Strikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00506623608301587782noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8174725465164536434.post-81027281458158240432017-02-02T23:15:00.000+05:302017-05-20T23:15:58.793+05:30What obstructs 95% of chess players?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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There are literally millions of chess books and tutorials that are available to us these days and all chess learners study from this same pool of material.<span id="more-32370" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;"></span></div>
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<img alt="" class="aligncenter" height="145" src="https://chess-teacher.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/PileofBooks2.jpg" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; height: auto; margin: 0px auto 1.313em; max-width: 100%; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out; vertical-align: middle;" title="PileofBooks2" width="95" />However, only a very small group of players (less than 5%) will experience any significant progress. <span style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;">The majority of players (95%) will unfortunately experience only slight advancement or, worse, no progress at all.</span></div>
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How to deal with such a sad situation? There are <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;">two typical approaches</span>:</div>
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1. The players belonging to the first group are a little confused and they ask themselves the question (or send the question to me <img alt="🙂" class="emoji" draggable="false" src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/2/svg/1f642.svg" style="background: none !important; border: none !important; box-shadow: none !important; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline !important; height: 1em !important; margin: 0px 0.07em !important; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px !important; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out; vertical-align: -0.1em !important; width: 1em !important;" /> ), <em style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;">“</span></em><em style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;">Why am I not progressing despite all of my desire and efforts?<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;">“</span></em> If you are in this group, please accept my congratulations – you have very good chances for improvement!</div>
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2. The second group of players <span style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: underline; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;">prefers to believe in what they want to believe</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;">.</span> They think that they are “<em style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;">experienced,</em>” “<em style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;">advanced,</em>” “<em style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;">experts</em>” or that they “<em style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;">know all the chess basics already,</em>” etc. However, there is a well-known refutation proverb, “<em style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;">If you are so smart, then why are you so poor?</em>” In regards to chess, this proverb basically translates to: “<em style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;">If you know so many things about chess, then why your rating is so low?”</em></div>
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<li style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.7; list-style: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-size: 12pt; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;">“I don’t want to memorise opening lines, because I like creativity.”</em></span></li>
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Being under the delusion of their “<em style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;">advanced</em>” level, such people produce a lot of lame excuses for their poor practical results. They also start blaming chess books, authors, teachers, etc. OK, maybe a certain book was bad, but it’s quite unlikely that <em style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;">all</em> of them are bad, right? So maybe the problem is not there?</div>
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All in all, if you are a 2000-rated player and honestly believe that you’ve learned all of the main strategic and tactical motifs – you are in this second group. In this case, I wish you good luck, because there’s nothing else that can help you. Yes, I’m not here to say pleasant things, but to tell you the <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;">REAL</span> situation.</div>
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Now let’s get back to the first group of people, who wonder, <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;">“Why am I not progressing despite all of my desire and efforts?</em></span><em style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;">“</em></div>
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Please think about this question. I’ll give you the answer in the next lesson, but in the meantime <span style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: underline; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;">your independent thinking is very important</span>. <img alt="🙂" class="emoji" draggable="false" src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/2/svg/1f642.svg" style="background: none !important; border: none !important; box-shadow: none !important; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline !important; height: 1em !important; margin: 0px 0.07em !important; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px !important; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out; vertical-align: -0.1em !important; width: 1em !important;" /> Perhaps you’ve learnt A LOT from chess books (or other tutorial materials). Why didn’t it bring you A LOT of a progress?</div>
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This is the second part of the article about the typical scenarios of the tactical motif in chess, which is called Double attack. If you have missed the first part, you can find it <a href="http://chess-teacher.com/affiliates/idevaffiliate.php?id=1511&url=2499" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #337ab7; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease, background-color 0.3s ease, border-color 0.3s ease, box-shadow 0.3s ease;" target="_blank" title="Typical double attack scenarios">here</a>.<img alt="" class="wp-more-tag mce-wp-more" data-mce-placeholder="1" data-wp-more="" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out; vertical-align: middle;" title="Read More..." /></div>
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How do you <a href="http://chess-teacher.com/affiliates/idevaffiliate.php?id=1511&url=2500" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #337ab7; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease, background-color 0.3s ease, border-color 0.3s ease, box-shadow 0.3s ease;" target="_blank" title="Evaluating a chess position">evaluate this position</a>? At the first glance, the position looks a little better for Black, because White has weaknesses in his pawn structure.</div>
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Have you spotted that the Rook on b1 is unprotected? It is difficult for someone to discern this immediately. In any case, the game continued in a forcing way: <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;">41…Nh2 42.Rf2 Nxf3+ 43.Rxf3</span></div>
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Perhaps you can spot a very obvious double attack now. The Bishop captures on e4 and both of White’s Rooks are hanging. Black makes this move in the game and White resigns instantly.</div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;">1.</span> The double attack is the most common and one of the most powerful tactical weapons in chess.</div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;">2.</span> We have three different scenarios:</div>
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<li>Scenario 1: One White’s piece attacks two Black pieces.</li>
<li>Scenario 2: One White’s piece attacks the King and another White’s piece attacks the opponent’s unprotected piece.</li>
<li>Scenario 3: Last, but not least, the White’s Queen is threatening checkmate and another unprotected piece.</li>
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First, we must understand deeply the three main scenarios and then try to apply them in practice. Usually the practical examples are little more complicated, but if you have understood them then everything will be clear to you and you will gain a lot of wins.</div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;">Exercise-1</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;" /><img alt="double attack chess" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-14465" src="https://chess-teacher.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Exercises_1.png" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; height: auto; margin: 0px auto 1.313em; max-width: 100%; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out; vertical-align: middle;" width="55%" /><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;">White to play</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;">Exercise-2</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;" /><img alt="double attack chess" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-14465" src="https://chess-teacher.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Exercises_2.png" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; height: auto; margin: 0px auto 1.313em; max-width: 100%; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out; vertical-align: middle;" width="55%" /><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;">Black to play</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;">Exercise-3</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;" /><img alt="double attack chess" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-14465" src="https://chess-teacher.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Exercises_3.png" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; height: auto; margin: 0px auto 1.313em; max-width: 100%; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out; vertical-align: middle;" width="55%" /><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;">White to play</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;">Exercise-5</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;" /><img alt="double attack chess" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-14465" src="https://chess-teacher.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Exercises_5.png" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; height: auto; margin: 0px auto 1.313em; max-width: 100%; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out; vertical-align: middle;" width="55%" /><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;">White to play</span></div>
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After calculating all possible variations, you’re welcome to check the solution in the PGN files <a href="http://chess-teacher.com/affiliates/idevaffiliate.php?id=1511&url=2501" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #337ab7; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease, background-color 0.3s ease, border-color 0.3s ease, box-shadow 0.3s ease;" target="_blank" title="Double Attack">here</a>.</div>
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Vasily Smyslov, a Russian Grandmaster and former World Chess Champion (from 1957 to 1958) used to say that in chess, we have <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;">four strong weapons</span>. These are:</div>
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<li>The check,</li>
<li>The double attack,</li>
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<li>The unprotected pieces.</li>
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I hope that the first weapon (the check) is a pretty straightforward idea. You should attack the King in order to checkmate him.</div>
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In many cases, the King or other pieces can run away from a threat. For example, we attack a Bishop and he moves away. We attack him once again and he escapes the threat one more time! Therefore, we need a stronger attack. This stronger technique is the <span style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: underline; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;">double attack</span>.</div>
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When we attack two of our opponent’s pieces with one our piece, we call it a double attack. We have three possible scenarios.</div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;">Scenario 1</span><br />
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In scenario 1, Black can choose which of the two Knights he would like to keep on the board. Probably he will choose to save the Knight that is closer to his King. In scenario 2, White should protect his King and, after that, Black can capture the Bishop.</div>
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<img alt="double attack chess" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-14465" src="https://chess-teacher.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Picture_3.png" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; height: auto; margin: 0px auto 1.313em; max-width: 100%; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out; vertical-align: middle;" width="55%" />Scenario 3 is a combination of the first and second scenario. Here, we can see the idea. White’s Queen is threatening to checkmate on h7 and the unprotected Rook on a8. Black is forced to protect the h7 square, so he will lose the Rook on a8.</div>
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Note: usually it’s the Queen that performs the attack in this third scenario.</div>
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These are the three main scenarios of the double attack. If we are lucky, these may appear in our games and we can find them easily. <img alt="🙂" class="emoji" draggable="false" src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/2/svg/1f642.svg" style="background: none !important; border: none !important; box-shadow: none !important; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline !important; height: 1em !important; margin: 0px 0.07em !important; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px !important; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out; vertical-align: -0.1em !important; width: 1em !important;" /> In most cases, however, the chess game is little more complicated. Perhaps 1-2 forcing moves will happen and then we should see the double attack. Or a double attack will be combined with another tactical motif.</div>
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In the first practical example, we can spot the unprotected Rook on e7. If we attack this Rook with the move Knight to f5, then it will escape, for he can move somewhere else. As the great American player used to say, “Chess is time”. By this, he meant that we may have a plan but the opponent has his own plan, too.</div>
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Here is a practical tip for you. If you would like to win some time, then you should attack the King! So here White plays the best move – Queen to f6. This is a double attack on the King and the e7-Rook. Black moves his Queen to g7, what else does he have?</div>
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So we can see the updated position in the diagram below. It is White’s turn. Will White capture the rook as he had planned to one move ago?<br />
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Now we are in a relaxed mood because our clock is not ticking, so let’s think about this position once again. White would like to capture the rook on e7 but cannot do so right now. White should win time. How can we win time? Of course, this can happen by giving a check.</div>
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Therefore, White plays the best move, Queen to h4. Black is forced, once again, to cover his King, and then White captures the Rook on e7.</div>
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Chess Strikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00506623608301587782noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8174725465164536434.post-39471310557765111062017-01-13T13:20:00.000+05:302017-05-20T15:13:13.258+05:30How to evaluate a position at the various stages of the game?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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However, in some cases, you might be a pawn up (or have some material advantage) but yet, your opponent has the initiative or better pieces’ coordination or vice versa. Have you ever been in such situations? <img alt="🙂" class="emoji" draggable="false" src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/2/svg/1f642.svg" style="background: none !important; border: none !important; box-shadow: none !important; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline !important; height: 1em !important; margin: 0px 0.07em !important; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px !important; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out; vertical-align: -0.1em !important; width: 1em !important;" /></div>
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If so, here is my question to you: how do you evaluate the positions, when the regular factors for the evaluation don’t help?</div>
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Remember, if your evaluation of the position is wrong, then you will choose the wrong plan to continue the game and you’ll end up playing the wrong moves. Therefore, the <span style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: underline; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;">evaluation of the position in a correct way is very important</span>.</div>
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That’s exactly what we’ll see today – our guest coach <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;">IM Alex Kundin</span> has prepared a very instructive video lesson for you on this topic. In this video, he will teach you how to evaluate the position during of the <span style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: underline; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;">different stages</span> of the game. You can watch the video lesson below:</div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 12pt; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;">Alex Kundin is an International Master from Israel with a current FIDE rating of 2323.</span><br />
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There are thousands of the chess tutorials including chess books, DVDs, courses, video lessons, etc. As I often say, it is practically impossible to follow them all to make an improvement in your game. Remember, ‘<em style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;">Less is more</em>’ – that’s why I’m going to keep it short and simple for you. <img alt="🙂" class="emoji" draggable="false" src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/2/svg/1f642.svg" style="background: none !important; border: none !important; box-shadow: none !important; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline !important; height: 1em !important; margin: 0px 0.07em !important; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px !important; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out; vertical-align: -0.1em !important; width: 1em !important;" /><span id="more-29674" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;"></span><br />
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Today, I’ll give you <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;">10 best tips</span> to follow in order to make your training simple and yet achieve better results. Let’s get started!</div>
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You will never be able to hit a target that you cannot see. Yes, setting a target/goal is the first thing you have to do. It can be the target of attaining a norm, increasing ‘X’ ELO points within ‘Y’ time, beating titled players, or even becoming the World Champion! <img alt="🙂" class="emoji" draggable="false" src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/2/svg/1f642.svg" style="background: none !important; border: none !important; box-shadow: none !important; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline !important; height: 1em !important; margin: 0px 0.07em !important; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px !important; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out; vertical-align: -0.1em !important; width: 1em !important;" /></div>
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Be aware: set and work for one goal at a time. Overloading yourself will not be productive.</div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 12pt; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;">“<em style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;">Set your goals high, and don’t stop till you get there</em>.” – <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;">Bo Jackson</em></span></span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;">2. Play against the stronger opponents</span></h3>
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Please, don’t get this in a wrong way that I’m scaring you. <img alt="🙂" class="emoji" draggable="false" src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/2/svg/1f642.svg" style="background: none !important; border: none !important; box-shadow: none !important; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline !important; height: 1em !important; margin: 0px 0.07em !important; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px !important; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out; vertical-align: -0.1em !important; width: 1em !important;" /> You cannot make an improvement unless you increase the benchmarks and fight for it.<br />
<img alt="weak vs strong" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-14465" src="https://chess-teacher.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/strong-vs-weak-cultures.jpg" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; height: auto; margin: 0px auto 1.313em; max-width: 100%; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out; vertical-align: middle;" width="55%" />Of course, you could keep winning against the weaker opponents but, honestly, will that help to improve your progress? It can be fun – everyone likes to keep winning without being afraid to lose or to face a stronger opponents.</div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 12pt; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;">“<em style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;">Everything you want is on the other side of fear.</em>” – <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;">Jack Canfield</em></span></span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;">3. Prepare an opening repertoire</span></h3>
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The exact definition of an “opening repertoire” is the set of openings a player is specialized in. This might be a bit boring because there are hundreds (maybe even thousands) of opening variations today – thanks to ECO code for making it easier for us to identify them.</div>
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You may go through the games of top GMs who play your opening line, check the short games in your opening to know and to avoid the mistakes in the early stage of the game.</div>
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You can learn more about the opening stage, opening repertoire from our <a href="http://chess-teacher.com/affiliates/idevaffiliate.php?id=1511&url=2495" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #337ab7; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease, background-color 0.3s ease, border-color 0.3s ease, box-shadow 0.3s ease;" target="_blank" title="RCA opening courses">opening courses</a>.</div>
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<img alt="analyze chess games" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-14465" src="https://chess-teacher.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/analyze.jpg" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; height: auto; margin: 0px auto 1.313em; max-width: 100%; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out; vertical-align: middle;" width="35%" />It is very important to know yourself. For this, you have to study yourself – you should analyse your own games to <span style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: underline; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;">know your strengths and weaknesses</span>. In fact, I’d insist that you analyze your lost games first. It can be hard for you to do so but I believe no ‘medicine’ that cures the disease is ‘sweet’. <img alt="🙂" class="emoji" draggable="false" src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/2/svg/1f642.svg" style="background: none !important; border: none !important; box-shadow: none !important; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline !important; height: 1em !important; margin: 0px 0.07em !important; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px !important; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out; vertical-align: -0.1em !important; width: 1em !important;" /></div>
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Only if you analyze your lost games, you will be able to find your mistakes so you will correct them and avoid repeating them. Although, you can keep analyzing your won games (to know your strengths) as secondary while, analyzing the lost games is PRIMARY.</div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 12pt; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;">“<em style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;">Defeat should never be a source of discouragement, but rather a fresh stimulus.</em>” – <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;">Robert South</em></span></span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;">5. Have a training plan</span></h3>
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Planning is one of the most important skills in chess. Having a neat and effective training plan (or training schedule) will boost your training, and you will make a steady progress.</div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;">6. Blindfold chess</span></h3>
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<img alt="blindfold chess" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-14465" src="https://chess-teacher.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/blindfold.jpg" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; height: auto; margin: 0px auto 1.313em; max-width: 100%; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out; vertical-align: middle;" width="35%" />Imagination (the inner vision) plays a vital role in the game of chess. In simple words, imagination makes it possible to experience a whole world inside the mind. But how can this skill help you? Well, calculation and visualisation plays a major role in chess, too, right?</div>
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You can achieve this through the blindfold exercises – solve puzzles without a board, go through drills, and even play a game without a chessboard. It might be hard in the beginning but, remember, practise makes a man perfect!</div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 12pt; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;">“<em style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;">A strong memory, concentration, imagination, and a strong will is required to become a great chess player.</em>” – <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;">Bobby Fischer</em></span></span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;">7. Flip the board</span></h3>
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This is quite similar to the previous tip. Flipping the board (reverse) helps you to think as your opponent. This way, you will virtually play against yourself and this improves your calculation/visualisation skills as well.<br />
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;">8. ‘E’ for Explore!</span></h3>
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Every chess player has his/her own playing style. A player might like to play attacking chess (like Tal/Fischer) and some have the style of playing positional chess (like Kramnik/Karpov). I’d advise you not to limit yourself to one particular style or the way of approaching a game.</div>
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Try playing different openings, different style of playing the game – just explore. This is something the World Champion <span style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: underline; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;">Magnus Carlsen recommends</span>, too! <img alt="🙂" class="emoji" draggable="false" src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/2/svg/1f642.svg" style="background: none !important; border: none !important; box-shadow: none !important; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline !important; height: 1em !important; margin: 0px 0.07em !important; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px !important; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out; vertical-align: -0.1em !important; width: 1em !important;" /> If you stick to one particular opening or style, you will not learn much.</div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;">9. Cut yourself some slack</span></h3>
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Relax, practise yoga or meditation, warm yourself up by solving simple chess puzzles, have your favourite drink/food when playing a tournament/game. Take regular breaks, get enough sleep (8-9 hours) – you may even do physical training.</div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 12pt; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;">“<em style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;">Your body has to be in top condition. Your chess deteriorates as your body does. You can’t separate body from mind</em>.” – <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;">Bobby Fischer</em></span></span></div>
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If you gave up, it means you never wanted it. When you feel like quitting, think about WHY you have started (your goal in tip 1).<br />
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 12pt; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;">“<em style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;">Winners are not those who never failed but those who never quitted.</em>” – <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;">Edward Louis</em></span></span></div>
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Chess Strikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00506623608301587782noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8174725465164536434.post-2187441923846292302017-01-03T13:14:00.000+05:302017-05-20T13:19:40.471+05:30Psychology of defense in chess<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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As I said earlier, defense is a very important chess skill. At least in about 50% of a chess game, we need to defend. Many players struggle to get out of hard positions, and crumble under pressure. If you study this course carefully, you will be able to defend correctly against all level of players.</div>
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Even someone like YOU, an RCA student, has admitted this truth in the comments section of our <a href="http://chess-teacher.com/affiliates/idevaffiliate.php?id=1511&url=2494" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #337ab7; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease, background-color 0.3s ease, border-color 0.3s ease, box-shadow 0.3s ease;" target="_blank" title="Typical mistakes in chess">previous article</a>:<br />
<img alt="RCA student" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-14465" src="https://chess-teacher.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/student-comment.png" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; height: auto; margin: 0px auto 1.313em; max-width: 100%; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out; vertical-align: middle;" width="95%" />Let me emphasize the statement with a practical example – the third game between Magnus Carlsen and Sergey Karjakin in the recent <a href="http://chess-teacher.com/affiliates/idevaffiliate.php?id=1511&url=2086" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #337ab7; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease, background-color 0.3s ease, border-color 0.3s ease, box-shadow 0.3s ease;" target="_blank" title="World Chess Championship 2016: Magnus Carlsen vs Sergey Karjakin">World Chess Championship match</a>.</div>
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Carlsen is a pawn up, and he played <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;">66.Ng4+</span>, trying to win the Black’s e7-bishop. White has a clear advantage, but Black can generate counter-play with the h-pawn, and his King may run to the queenside. If Black King or Rook manages to capture the White’s b3-pawn, then the game will end in a draw.</div>
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Can you find a way for Black to save the game? Can you think like <a href="http://chess-teacher.com/affiliates/idevaffiliate.php?id=1511&url=2032" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #337ab7; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease, background-color 0.3s ease, border-color 0.3s ease, box-shadow 0.3s ease;" target="_blank" title="Karjakin's defense against Carlsen">Karjakin – the ‘minister of defense’</a>? <img alt="🙂" class="emoji" draggable="false" src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/2/svg/1f642.svg" style="background: none !important; border: none !important; box-shadow: none !important; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline !important; height: 1em !important; margin: 0px 0.07em !important; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px !important; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out; vertical-align: -0.1em !important; width: 1em !important;" /></div>
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The game continued as follows: <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;">66…Kf7 67.Re6 Rxh3 68.Ne5+ Kg7 69.Rxe7+ Kf6 70.Nc6 Kxf5</span><br />
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Karjakin gave up his bishop and got an outside passed pawn for compensation. As said above, Black’s main goal is to capture the b3-pawn and draw the game with a great satisfaction. However, White still has chances to win the game. Yes, Carlsen missed a golden opportunity to win the game here. Can you find it? <img alt="🙂" class="emoji" draggable="false" src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/2/svg/1f642.svg" style="background: none !important; border: none !important; box-shadow: none !important; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline !important; height: 1em !important; margin: 0px 0.07em !important; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px !important; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out; vertical-align: -0.1em !important; width: 1em !important;" /></div>
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Yes, the World Champion missed the winning move 71.Re1! We can clearly understand that sometimes, the <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;">PERFECT DEFENSE</span> is what all we need to stay alive in the game, escape with a draw from tough positions.</div>
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Karjakin’s defense would have definitely impacted Carlsen’s psychology and winning confidence, as the latter failed to find the winning move. Thus, we can see that even though our defense does not directly save us from the game, the process is ‘indirect’ – breaking our opponent’s confidence to win. <img alt="🙂" class="emoji" draggable="false" src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/2/svg/1f642.svg" style="background: none !important; border: none !important; box-shadow: none !important; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline !important; height: 1em !important; margin: 0px 0.07em !important; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px !important; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out; vertical-align: -0.1em !important; width: 1em !important;" /></div>
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Chess Strikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00506623608301587782noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8174725465164536434.post-4971017936214710512016-12-30T13:09:00.000+05:302017-05-20T13:09:38.606+05:304 typical chess mistakes in defense you should never make!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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We are humans and we make mistakes, this is normal. There are some typical cases in which chess players make the same mistake(s) repeatedly. In this lesson about defense, you will recognize and understand those mistakes. It will help you avoid those mistakes in your future games and it will drive you in cloud nine! <img alt="🙂" class="emoji" draggable="false" src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/2/svg/1f642.svg" style="background: none !important; border: none !important; box-shadow: none !important; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline !important; height: 1em !important; margin: 0px 0.07em !important; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px !important; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out; vertical-align: -0.1em !important; width: 1em !important;" /><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 13.5px; line-height: 0; position: relative; top: -0.5em; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out; vertical-align: baseline;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;" /></span></div>
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When we are playing a game, our opponent sits opposite to us and he/she wants to win as much as we want to. Don’t forget that we are not the only one playing the game, and what is more important we are not the only ones who are playing to win. Thus, we should pay attention to our opponent’s threats and we should ask ourselves: <em style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;">what does she/he have in mind?</em></div>
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Topalov who plays with the White pieces in the game above, played Nd2. This was the decisive mistake because after 35…dxc3 White has huge problems. Two connected passed pawns are very strong and Black managed to win the game afterwards. The game continued: 36.Nc4 Re8 37.Rxb7+ Qxb7 38.Qxe8 Qb1+ [38…Qb1+ 39.Qe1 c2–+] 0–1</div>
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A blunder is like a slipping on a banana peel. Sometimes, even the TOP grandmasters can make such terrible mistakes. It is not something they intend to do; it is simply a mistake, an error. After the blunder, the position immediately collapses.</div>
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Adams who plays with the Black pieces is forced to move his King. The correct reply is Ka7 in order to protect the Knight on b6. Instead, he played Ka8 and lost a piece after the forcing variation: 34.Rxd8+ Rxd8 35.Qf6</div>
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This is a double attack to both the unprotected d8-rook and b6-knight. White won the game afterwards. 35…Nc4 36.Qxd8+ Ka7 37.Qd3 Nxb2 38.Qf5 Qa1+ 39.Kd2 Nc4+ 40.Ke2 Qxc3 41.Qxc5+ 1–0</div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;">Mistake #3 – Counting on your opponent to play not in the best way</span></h3>
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In the above game, Nakamura played the move 13.Ne2 very quickly. Perhaps he confuses his <a href="http://chess-teacher.com/affiliates/idevaffiliate.php?id=1511&url=1992" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #337ab7; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease, background-color 0.3s ease, border-color 0.3s ease, box-shadow 0.3s ease;" target="_blank" title="Chess opening preparation">opening </a><a href="http://chess-teacher.com/professional-opening-preparation" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #337ab7; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease, background-color 0.3s ease, border-color 0.3s ease, box-shadow 0.3s ease;" target="_blank" title="Chess opening preparation">preparation</a> or he just would like to confuse his opponent. Please let me remind you that he is one of the best blitz players in the world. Unfortunately, Blitz is very different from classical chess.</div>
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After the forcing variation: <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;">13…Nxe4 14.Bxd8 Nxd2 15.Be7 Rf7 16.Bxc5 Nxf1 17.Rxf1 b6 18.Bb4 Ba6</span> we are getting to the following position:</div>
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White has strategically lost the position because the pawn on c4 is a very weak one and Black’s plan is very simple. Black will double his rooks on the c-file and they will capture the weak pawn. Black won the game easily.</div>
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The most dangerous strategy is to leave your King in the center of the board, because the center usually can be opened easily. Thus, my advice is to castle as soon as possible and keep those pawns snug (f2,g2 and h2) right in front of your king.</div>
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Many chess players leave their King in the center for long time, and because of that they lose their games. I hope that you will not make this mistake and will secure your King. <img alt="🙂" class="emoji" draggable="false" src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/2/svg/1f642.svg" style="background: none !important; border: none !important; box-shadow: none !important; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline !important; height: 1em !important; margin: 0px 0.07em !important; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px !important; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out; vertical-align: -0.1em !important; width: 1em !important;" /></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;">Why defense?</span></h3>
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Defense is a very important chess skill. In at least 50% of chess games, we need to defend. In some games, we play with the Black pieces and White makes the first move; for that reason, White has the opportunity to start the attack/initiative. On some other occasions, one will make a mistake and be forced to defend. Thus, defense is as important as attack.</div>
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This course is suitable for beginners and intermediate-level players, but it will be helpful for advanced players, too. Even if your ELO is 1900+, this course will help you improve your defensive skills and you’ll learn some new things.</div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;">Key topics covered in the course</span></h3>
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<li>How to defend in the opening?</li>
<li>Stop losing material</li>
<li>How to evaluate a position?</li>
<li>Simplification in chess</li>
<li>Economic defense</li>
<li>How to consolidate and save a lost position?</li>
<li>Active defense and counterattack</li>
<li>A fortress</li>
<li>Psychology of defense</li>
<li>Dealing with gambits</li>
<li>Three main methods</li>
<li>Eliminating errors</li>
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Chess Strikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00506623608301587782noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8174725465164536434.post-79467869846261828152016-12-28T13:02:00.000+05:302017-05-20T13:09:55.506+05:30GM Igor Smirnov’s Holiday spirits Part-2<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Nowadays people still use large chess sets….<br style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;" /><img alt="huge chess set" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-14465" src="https://chess-teacher.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/igor-smirnov-chess-set.jpg" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; height: auto; margin: 0px auto 1.313em; max-width: 100%; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out; vertical-align: middle;" width="75%" />In Salzburg (Austria), you can play chess on the ground. Salzburg is famous as the home town of genius composer Mozart.</div>
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<img alt="Salzburg museum" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-14465" src="https://chess-teacher.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/salzburg-museum.jpg" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; height: auto; margin: 0px auto 1.313em; max-width: 100%; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out; vertical-align: middle;" width="75%" /><em style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;">Mozart’s room became a museum</em></div>
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Sometimes Magnus Carlsen is called the ‘Mozart of chess’, highlighting the similarity between these two prodigies.</div>
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It was interesting to know that Mozart’s father was a music teacher and wrote a famous book about the art of violin-play. The ‘genius’ results of his son are not so mysterious… they were a combination of proper teaching and hard work.</div>
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Christmas is a time of wonders.<br style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;" /><img alt="Igor Smirnov alien" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-14465" src="https://chess-teacher.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/smirnov-alien.jpg" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; height: auto; margin: 0px auto 1.313em; max-width: 100%; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out; vertical-align: middle;" width="75%" />Who is this alien behind me? Did he land on Earth with this massive UFO?<br style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;" /><img alt="Olympic stadium Munich" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-14465" src="https://chess-teacher.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/smirnov-olympic-stadium-munich.jpg" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; height: auto; margin: 0px auto 1.313em; max-width: 100%; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out; vertical-align: middle;" width="75%" />Not quite.:) The architectural construction around me is the Olympic stadium in Munich (Germany). It’s very futuristic though.</div>
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Nevertheless, even a gigantic opponent can be defeated, as painted on the wall in Regensburg (Germany).<br style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;" /><img alt="Regensburg wall painting" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-14465" src="https://chess-teacher.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/wall-painting.jpg" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; height: auto; margin: 0px auto 1.313em; max-width: 100%; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out; vertical-align: middle;" width="75%" />If you want to know how, study my new course “<a href="http://chess-teacher.com/affiliates/idevaffiliate.php?id=1511&url=2490" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #337ab7; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease, background-color 0.3s ease, border-color 0.3s ease, box-shadow 0.3s ease;" target="_blank" title="Chess course "Defending Champion"">Defending Champion</a>”. <img alt="🙂" class="emoji" draggable="false" src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/2/svg/1f642.svg" style="background: none !important; border: none !important; box-shadow: none !important; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline !important; height: 1em !important; margin: 0px 0.07em !important; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px !important; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out; vertical-align: -0.1em !important; width: 1em !important;" /> On a serious note, this image showcases the Bible story about David and Goliath.</div>
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May this holiday season bring joy and happiness to you and yours! I wish you a Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays once again, and a very Happy New Year in advance. <img alt="🙂" class="emoji" draggable="false" src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/2/svg/1f642.svg" style="background: none !important; border: none !important; box-shadow: none !important; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline !important; height: 1em !important; margin: 0px 0.07em !important; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px !important; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out; vertical-align: -0.1em !important; width: 1em !important;" /></div>
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Chess Strikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00506623608301587782noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8174725465164536434.post-30143501894599874032016-12-25T12:59:00.000+05:302017-05-20T12:59:44.897+05:30Merry Christmas & Happy Holidays!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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In this article I’d like to share my Holiday spirits with you. Have fun! <img alt="🙂" class="emoji" draggable="false" src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/2/svg/1f642.svg" style="background: none !important; border: none !important; box-shadow: none !important; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline !important; height: 1em !important; margin: 0px 0.07em !important; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px !important; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out; vertical-align: -0.1em !important; width: 1em !important;" /> In this Christmas season, I’ve visited the country that originated the tradition of Christmas trees – Germany.</div>
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The custom was brought to North America by German-speaking immigrants to Pennsylvania and Ohio in the 18th century.</div>
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Germans are also the ones who established a tradition to illuminate streets during the Christmas time.</div>
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In the residence of Bavarian kings (who ruled this German region in 1508-1918), I’ve found marvelous chess board.<br style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;" /><img alt=" alt=" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-14465" src="https://chess-teacher.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/gold-chessboard.jpg" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; height: auto; margin: 0px auto 1.313em; max-width: 100%; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out; vertical-align: middle;" width="75%" />It’s made of gold and precious stones, and should be worth a whole lot of money.</div>
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In ‘Deutsches museum’ there was one of the old models of electronic chess boards.<br style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;" /><img alt=" alt=" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-14465" src="https://chess-teacher.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/igor-smirnov-chess.jpg" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; height: auto; margin: 0px auto 1.313em; max-width: 100%; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out; vertical-align: middle;" width="75%" />You can play your move on the board, while the computer shows you its reply on the screen. Large machinery was required to make this computer work.<br style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;" /><img alt=" alt=" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-14465" src="https://chess-teacher.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/igor-smirnov-wife.jpg" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; height: auto; margin: 0px auto 1.313em; max-width: 100%; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out; vertical-align: middle;" width="75%" />Ok, here I’m kidding. <img alt="🙂" class="emoji" draggable="false" src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/2/svg/1f642.svg" style="background: none !important; border: none !important; box-shadow: none !important; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline !important; height: 1em !important; margin: 0px 0.07em !important; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px !important; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out; vertical-align: -0.1em !important; width: 1em !important;" /> It’s irrelevant to the chess comp from the previous photo.</div>
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Nevertheless, in this photo, my wife stands near to the old version of the computer (back in those days where a comp could hardly fit into your pocket!).</div>
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Chess Strikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00506623608301587782noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8174725465164536434.post-43819131878893523322016-12-19T12:56:00.000+05:302017-05-20T12:57:24.356+05:30What can you learn from our chess course "Defending Champion"?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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In my previous article, I wrote that we’ll be launching a new chess course called “<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;">Defending Champion</span>” soon. The authors of this course are FM Marko Makaj (our guest coach) and myself (Igor Smirnov). Also, we gave a little preview (video lesson) for the course, if you missed it, you can find it <a href="http://chess-teacher.com/affiliates/idevaffiliate.php?id=1511&url=2489" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #337ab7; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease, background-color 0.3s ease, border-color 0.3s ease, box-shadow 0.3s ease;" target="_blank" title="Defending chess champion">here</a>.<span id="more-29664" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;"></span></div>
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Today I’d like to share with you a few more details of the course and how it will help you master the art of defense! <img alt="🙂" class="emoji" draggable="false" src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/2/svg/1f642.svg" style="background: none !important; border: none !important; box-shadow: none !important; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline !important; height: 1em !important; margin: 0px 0.07em !important; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px !important; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out; vertical-align: -0.1em !important; width: 1em !important;" /> First, you can find the cover image of the course below:<br style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;" /><img alt="Defending Champion" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-14465" height="400" src="https://chess-teacher.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Defending-Champion-cover.png" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; height: auto; margin: 0px auto 1.313em; max-width: 100%; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out; vertical-align: middle;" width="400" /></div>
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The course is suitable for beginners and intermediate level players, but it will be helpful for advanced level players, too. Even if your ELO is 1900+ (or even 2000+), this course will help you improve your defending skills and you’ll learn some new things. Therefore, <span style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: underline; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;">anyone can study this course</span>.</div>
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Defense is a very important chess skill. At least in about 50% of a chess game, we need to defend. In some games, we play with Black pieces and White makes the first move, and for that reason, White has the opportunity to start the attack/initiative.</div>
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<img alt="Defending Champion" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-14465" height="305" src="https://chess-teacher.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/defense-attack.png" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; height: auto; margin: 0px auto 1.313em; max-width: 100%; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out; vertical-align: middle;" width="545" />In some other occasions, one will make a mistake and he or she is forced to defend. Thus, defense is as important as attack. After all, that’s how <a href="http://chess-teacher.com/affiliates/idevaffiliate.php?id=1511&url=2032" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #337ab7; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease, background-color 0.3s ease, border-color 0.3s ease, box-shadow 0.3s ease;" target="_blank" title="Sergey Karjakin defends against Magnus Carlsen">Sergey Karjakin manged to survive some of the early games of the recent World Championship against Magnus Carlsen</a>. <img alt="🙂" class="emoji" draggable="false" src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/2/svg/1f642.svg" style="background: none !important; border: none !important; box-shadow: none !important; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline !important; height: 1em !important; margin: 0px 0.07em !important; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px !important; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out; vertical-align: -0.1em !important; width: 1em !important;" /></div>
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If you carefully study the course, then you will be able to <span style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: underline; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;">defend correctly</span> against all level of players. You will learn a lot of new ideas and at the end of the course, you’re provided with the right way of thinking. We’ll give you a complete system which you can apply, for sure, after the study of the course.</div>
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<li><span style="font-size: large;">No. of video lessons – 15</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">No. of practical parts – 9</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">Course duration – 305 minutes</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">There are almost 100 analyzed games in the practical part</span></li>
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Chess Strikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00506623608301587782noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8174725465164536434.post-71591288206695996842016-12-16T10:10:00.000+05:302017-05-20T10:10:45.764+05:30How to become a defending champion in chess?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Remote Chess Academy (RCA) is very happy to announce that its new course is almost ready – it’s called “<span style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: underline; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;">Defending Champion</span></span>”.<span id="more-29663" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;"></span></div>
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As you can learn from the title of the course, this course deals with one of the most important topics of the chess game – <span style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: underline; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;">defense</span>. The authors of this course are FM Marko Makaj (our guest coach) and myself (Igor Smirnov).</div>
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The course will be released soon, so please stay tuned! <img alt="🙂" class="emoji" draggable="false" src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/2/svg/1f642.svg" style="background: none !important; border: none !important; box-shadow: none !important; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline !important; height: 1em !important; margin: 0px 0.07em !important; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px !important; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out; vertical-align: -0.1em !important; width: 1em !important;" /> Meanwhile, let’s talk more about this topic and have a little preview of the course.</div>
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Nowadays, many chess players face huge problems when it comes to defending the position when the opponent is attacking.<br style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;" /><img alt="Defending in Chess" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-14465" height="272" src="https://chess-teacher.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/defend.jpg" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; height: auto; margin: 0px auto 1.313em; max-width: 100%; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out; vertical-align: middle;" width="490" />While contemplating about this topic, we’re faced with the following questions:</div>
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<li><span style="font-size: large;">When to defend and when to ignore opponent’s attack/idea?</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">Do you always have something ‘better’ not to resign?</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">How to stop losing initiative/material?</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">How to make counter-attack (instead of just defense)?</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">and the list goes on..</span></li>
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But the main question is “<em style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;">How to make a perfect defense or fortress?</em>” – like the one we’ve seen in the recent World Championship match where <a href="http://chess-teacher.com/affiliates/idevaffiliate.php?id=1511&url=2032" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #337ab7; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease, background-color 0.3s ease, border-color 0.3s ease, box-shadow 0.3s ease;" target="_blank" title="Sergey Karjakin defends against Magnus Carlsen">Karjakin showed off his extraordinary defensive skills</a>. <img alt="🙂" class="emoji" draggable="false" src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/2/svg/1f642.svg" style="background: none !important; border: none !important; box-shadow: none !important; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline !important; height: 1em !important; margin: 0px 0.07em !important; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px !important; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out; vertical-align: -0.1em !important; width: 1em !important;" /></div>
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All your questions and doubts will be cleared in the upcoming course. Meanwhile, we’d like to offer you a small preview of the course to help you be prepared for the course. <img alt="🙂" class="emoji" draggable="false" src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/2/svg/1f642.svg" style="background: none !important; border: none !important; box-shadow: none !important; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline !important; height: 1em !important; margin: 0px 0.07em !important; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px !important; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out; vertical-align: -0.1em !important; width: 1em !important;" /> You can watch the video below:</div>
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Chess Strikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00506623608301587782noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8174725465164536434.post-13123538376751377972016-12-09T10:06:00.000+05:302017-05-20T10:07:33.505+05:30How to use your rook effectively?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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The most commonly misunderstood piece in chess is the rook. Many players have real problems with their rooks and don’t know how to play with them.</div>
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Today, <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;">IM Vangjel Buli</span> has prepared a new text lesson for you. He will teach you with an illustrative example – a game he played in the Accelerated Dragon variation of the Sicilian Defense. There is one famous Russian <a href="http://chess-teacher.com/affiliates/idevaffiliate.php?id=1511&url=1386" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #337ab7; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease, background-color 0.3s ease, border-color 0.3s ease, box-shadow 0.3s ease;" target="_blank" title="Chess Rules - the ultimate guide for beginners">rule</a> about rooks – find all the reasons why you should place one rook on an open file and then move the other rook!</div>
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Let’s imagine that we have two rooks, one on f1 and the other on a1. Let’s imagine that we have only one open file, the e-file. We should think hard and find reasons for deciding <span style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: underline; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;">which rook we should move to e1</span>.</div>
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If we decide to place the f1-rook there, then we should bring the other rook, the a1-rook, to e1! This is a very well-known rule and it is useful in practice. What I’m trying to say is that some rook moves are mysterious. But after this lesson, you will understand clearly <span style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: underline; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;">how to play with rooks</span>.</div>
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The rooks should go to open files. I hope this is very clear to you. <img alt="🙂" class="emoji" draggable="false" src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/2/svg/1f642.svg" style="background: none !important; border: none !important; box-shadow: none !important; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline !important; height: 1em !important; margin: 0px 0.07em !important; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px !important; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out; vertical-align: -0.1em !important; width: 1em !important;" /> What can we do if there is no open file in the position? How should we place our rooks in this situation?</div>
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White has finished the opening tasks and developed all of his pieces. How should he play now? This is the critical moment for White because he has a lot of options. Should White play f4, or Nd5, or capture on c6, or develop the queen with Qd2, or play something else?</div>
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The position is about equal and has good potential for both sides. Please think for 3-5 minutes from White’s point of view and try to find the best move for White.</div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;">11.Re1! </span>We should place the rooks on open files, when we have open files. As the game proceeds, it is possible to exchange some pawns or to exchange some pieces. If we exchange some pawns, then one file can open. Similarly, we can exchange some pieces and then we can have an open file that way.</div>
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Usually in the Accelerated Dragon variation, White castles on the queenside and, after that, prepares the attack on Black’s kingside. In this particular variation, Black forces White to castle short. White cannot attack Black’s monarch, so he needs to play in the center. The most typical move for White is to play the knight to d5. If Black exchanges this central knight, then White will recapture with the e-pawn and we will have a semi-open file there.</div>
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This is the key to the position! White wants to put pressure on the semi-open e-file and, more specifically, on the backward pawn on e7.</div>
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Before placing the knight on d5, <span style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: underline; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;">White is preparing this plan with the mysterious move Re1</span>. This move is connected with all actions in the center. White is planning ahead and trying to coordinate all of his pieces in order to open a file for his rooks.</div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 12pt; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;"><img alt="" class="snzpicon" src="https://chess-teacher.com/wp-content/plugins/spp-super-styles/images/icons/info.png" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; margin-right: 5px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out; vertical-align: middle;" /><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;">Suggestion:</span> you may like to see the video lesson “<a href="http://chess-teacher.com/affiliates/idevaffiliate.php?id=1511&url=2487" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #337ab7; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease, background-color 0.3s ease, border-color 0.3s ease, box-shadow 0.3s ease;" target="_blank" title="Magical chess rooks">Magical Chess Rooks</a>” by GM Levan Aroshidze.</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;">11…Rac8 12.Qe2!? </span>White intends to bring the rook to d1; for that reason, 12.De2 is a simple evacuation <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;">12…Nxd4 13.Bxd4 Bc6 14.Rad1 b5</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;" /><img alt="chess puzzle" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-14465" height="375" src="https://chess-teacher.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/rook2.jpg" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; height: auto; margin: 0px auto 1.313em; max-width: 100%; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out; vertical-align: middle;" width="375" /></div>
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Black cannot capture the e4-pawn because the pawn on d6 is falling. You can see that clearly in the following variation:</div>
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14…e5? 15.Be3 Bxe4 <em style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;">(15…Nxe4?? 16.Nxe4 Bxe4 17.Bd2+- </em>Black loses the bishop<em style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;">)</em> 16.Rxd6 Bc6 17.Red1. White takes control of the d-file and has more active pieces</div>
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The idea for Black is to take on d5 with the bishop and then to exchange the bishop on g7 with that of his opponent on d4, in order to enter into the ending with a good knight vs bad bishop on b3.</div>
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Now we can clearly see what the aim of the mysterious rook move was. White has strong pressure on e7, the bishop pair and a more promising position.</div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;">16…Rfe8 17.c3 Nd7 18.Bxg7 Kxg7 19.Rd4!</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;" /><img alt="chess puzzle" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-14465" height="375" src="https://chess-teacher.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/rook4.jpg" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; height: auto; margin: 0px auto 1.313em; max-width: 100%; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out; vertical-align: middle;" width="375" /></div>
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If we compare the White and Black rooks, then we can see that White’s heavy pieces are much more active. Black pieces, including queen and rooks, are not standing well, have no active role, and possibly need to defend the e7-pawn in particular.</div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 12pt; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;"><img alt="" class="snzpicon" src="https://chess-teacher.com/wp-content/plugins/spp-super-styles/images/icons/info.png" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; margin-right: 5px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out; vertical-align: middle;" /><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;">Suggestion:</span> learn <a href="http://chess-teacher.com/affiliates/idevaffiliate.php?id=1511&url=1637" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #337ab7; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease, background-color 0.3s ease, border-color 0.3s ease, box-shadow 0.3s ease;" target="_blank" title="Open files in chess">how to use an open file in chess</a> now.</span></div>
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By contrast, White’s heavy pieces are very active, control a lot of space and are now ready to jump into the attack. Black’s king is not well protected. Black manages to exchange the dark-squared bishops in order to achieve a good knight vs bad bishop on b3, but now he will pay the price. The dark squares and the fianchetto formation are really weak.</div>
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White uses his <span style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: underline; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;">positional advantage</span> to transfer his heavy pieces to the kingside and start attacking there. His plan is to play the queen to d2 and the rook to h4.</div>
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We place the rooks on open files or try to open files for them. With his last move, White is trying to open files against the king. White would like to exchange some pawns and open files for the rook on h4.</div>
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Tactics serve a good strategy. Black’s knight is pinned, so White uses this fact to transfer the rook to the semi-open e-file and press the weak e7-pawn.</div>
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White uses the rook lift technique. Another common way to develop the rooks is to transfer them in front of pawns. We can do that by moving the rook from the first to the third rank. We can see now that the rook is very active and ready to go to f3, in order to pin the knight, or it can go to g3 and put pressure on the g6-pawn. Black resigns.</div>
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2. You should put your rook behind a pawn only if this file will be opened in the near future.</div>
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3. You can use the rook lift technique to transfer your rook to in front of your pawn.</div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14pt; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;">Vangjel Buli is an Albanian International Master. He started playing chess at eight years of age with the “Partizani Club” in Tirana, the capital city of Albania. He has been a junior champion, and with the Partizani team won a lot of team medals at junior championship level.</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14pt; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;">He went to Italy in 1994 because of political troubles in Albania and has studied hard, achieving Master, FIDE Master, and then IM titles. His FIDE ELO rating is 2406.</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14pt; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;">He has stopped playing professional chess in tournaments but is an instructive teacher in many chess clubs in Florence. He has helped a lot of players to become Masters or Fide Masters, so I’m sure his coaching can help you to improve your game.</span></div>
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The third edition of Millionaire Chess took place from 6-10 October 2016 at Atlantic City.<span id="more-29658" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;"></span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 12pt; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;">Millionaire Chess is committed to revolutionizing the conventional models of chess tournaments globally. By holding high-stake tournaments in destination capitals, it is intended to encourage players of all ages and skill levels to play, study and enjoy the game they love. Its mission is to run the best chess tournaments the world has ever seen and to help raise the bar for chess tournaments worldwide.</span></div>
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The RCA team is very proud to say that one of our students from Nellore (India), <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;">V. Prudhvi Kumar</span>, rated 1699, has had a fantastic event – <span style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: underline; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;">he won the U-1800 section</span> and laughed all the way to the bank with $12,000 (approx. Rs. 8 lakhs).</div>
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<em style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;">V. Prudhvi Kumar</em></div>
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Prudhvi hails from Nellore in Andhra Pradesh and is trained by Riyaz Ahamad SK. He enjoyed playing the games and scored impressive and crucial victories. Prudhvi scored 5.5/7, qualifying for the Millionaire Monday event in the U-1800 section.</div>
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In the grand finale, he was pitted against Artem Verdiya, who had not even dropped half-a-point in the entire event. The first two games, held in 25-minute time control, ended in draws. A two-game match with 15-minute time control became necessary to break the tie.</div>
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Prudhvi was Black and has lost a pawn. But his opponent has just blundered with 17.Bb5?<br style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;" /><img alt="V Prudhvi Kumar chess game millionaire chess" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-14465" height="375" src="https://chess-teacher.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/prudhvi-vs-verdiya-chess.jpg" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; height: auto; margin: 0px auto 1.313em; max-width: 100%; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out; vertical-align: middle;" width="375" /></div>
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Can you find the winning trick that Prudhvi found to take the lead? <img alt="🙂" class="emoji" draggable="false" src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/2/svg/1f642.svg" style="background: none !important; border: none !important; box-shadow: none !important; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline !important; height: 1em !important; margin: 0px 0.07em !important; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px !important; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out; vertical-align: -0.1em !important; width: 1em !important;" /></div>
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In the next game, Prudhvi was White. His opponent just played 49…Rxf5, grabbing a pawn. Both players have their pawns on the two extremities of the chessboard.</div>
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How would you play here as White? Can you find the best continuation for White?</div>
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<img alt="V Prudhvi Kumar chess game millionaire chess" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-14465" height="375" src="https://chess-teacher.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/prudhvi-chess-game.jpg" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; height: auto; margin: 0px auto 1.313em; max-width: 100%; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out; vertical-align: middle;" width="375" /></div>
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In the above game, Prudhvi has lost his queen with the compensation of a rook, knight and a pawn. It’s White’s turn now. Black’s king doesn’t look safe. Can you find a quick way to finish the game?</div>
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After calculating all possible variations, you can check all the games played by Prudhvi <a href="http://chess-teacher.com/affiliates/idevaffiliate.php?id=1511&url=2485" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #337ab7; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease, background-color 0.3s ease, border-color 0.3s ease, box-shadow 0.3s ease;" target="_blank" title="V Prudhvi Kumar wins Millionaire Chess">here</a>.</div>
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Now let me share some interesting photos that you should not miss! <img alt="🙂" class="emoji" draggable="false" src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/2/svg/1f642.svg" style="background: none !important; border: none !important; box-shadow: none !important; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline !important; height: 1em !important; margin: 0px 0.07em !important; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px !important; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out; vertical-align: -0.1em !important; width: 1em !important;" /></div>
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<img alt="V Prudhvi Kumar chess" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-14465" height="320" src="https://chess-teacher.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/prudhvi-young.jpg" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; height: auto; margin: 0px auto 1.313em; max-width: 100%; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out; vertical-align: middle;" width="262" /></div>
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<em style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;">A young Prudhvi Kumar</em></div>
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<em style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;"> </em><br style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;" /><img alt="V Prudhvi Kumar chess coach Riyaz Ahamad" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-14465" height="375" src="https://chess-teacher.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/prudhvi-coach.jpg" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; height: auto; margin: 0px auto 1.313em; max-width: 100%; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out; vertical-align: middle;" width="395" /></div>
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<em style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;">Prudhvi with his coach Riyaz Ahamad SK</em></div>
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I know this student personally and his coach. Here is a photo of Prudhvi’s coach, Riyaz, along with me and my wife. <img alt="🙂" class="emoji" draggable="false" src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/2/svg/1f642.svg" style="background: none !important; border: none !important; box-shadow: none !important; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline !important; height: 1em !important; margin: 0px 0.07em !important; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px !important; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out; vertical-align: -0.1em !important; width: 1em !important;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;" /><img alt="V Prudhvi Kumar chess coach Riyaz Ahamad Igor Smirnov India" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-14465" height="365" src="https://chess-teacher.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/igor-india-coach.jpg" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; height: auto; margin: 0px auto 1.313em; max-width: 100%; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out; vertical-align: middle;" width="650" /></div>
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<img alt="Chess news India Prudhvi Kumar Nellore" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-14465" height="375" src="https://chess-teacher.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/local-chess-news.jpg" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; height: auto; margin: 0px auto 1.313em; max-width: 100%; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out; vertical-align: middle;" width="448" /></div>
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Finally, it’s really an amazing news story for RCA – our students <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;">keep making progress</span> after studying our courses. This proves that our <a href="http://chess-teacher.com/affiliates/idevaffiliate.php?id=1511_26" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #337ab7; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease, background-color 0.3s ease, border-color 0.3s ease, box-shadow 0.3s ease;" target="_blank" title="Remote Chess Academy Courses">chess courses</a> are of <span style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: underline; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;">HIGH QUALITY</span> and that they work, as you can see from the ‘success stories’ of several other of our students <a href="http://chess-teacher.com/affiliates/idevaffiliate.php?id=1511&url=2486" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #337ab7; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease, background-color 0.3s ease, border-color 0.3s ease, box-shadow 0.3s ease;" target="_blank" title="RCA Students">here</a>.</div>
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And, most importantly, if you have had such an experience, or won crucial games in a tournament, please do share them with us – we’ll be very happy to know that and glad to publish your ‘success story’ on the RCA site for you. <img alt="🙂" class="emoji" draggable="false" src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/2/svg/1f642.svg" style="background: none !important; border: none !important; box-shadow: none !important; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline !important; height: 1em !important; margin: 0px 0.07em !important; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px !important; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out; vertical-align: -0.1em !important; width: 1em !important;" /></div>
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Read detailed <a href="http://chess-teacher.com/affiliates/idevaffiliate.php?id=1511&url=1600" style="border: none; color: #d23c44; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="GM Jaan Ehlvest's review">review by former world no. 5 player, GM Jaan Ehlvest</a>!</div>
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<img alt="design" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-14465" src="http://chess-teacher.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/design.png" height="61" style="border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); display: block; margin: 20px auto; outline: none; padding: 0px;" width="338" />We’ve had some great entertainment over the past twenty days with some amazing games from two great chess players, Magnus Carlsen and Sergey Karjakin, in the World Championship match. The former <strong style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">successfully retained his title</strong> after the tense tie-break games. If you missed the tie-break games, you can find them <a href="http://chess-teacher.com/affiliates/idevaffiliate.php?id=1511&url=2083" style="border: none; color: #d23c44; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="World Chess Championship 2016: Magnus Carlsen vs Sergey Karjakin tiebreak games">here</a>.</div>
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Now sit back and relax, as we’ll see this 20-day journey summarized by 20 interesting, cool and funny photos. <img alt=":)" class="wp-smiley" src="http://chess-teacher.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif" style="border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;" /></div>
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<img alt="carlsen vs karjakin world championship" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-14465" src="http://chess-teacher.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/1_drawingcolors.png" height="370" style="border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); display: block; margin: 20px auto; outline: none; padding: 0px;" width="470" /><strong style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">#1</strong> – The players after drawing colours <em style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">(photo: Albert Silver)</em></div>
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<img alt="Carlsen sad, Karjakin happy" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-14465" src="http://chess-teacher.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/5_carlsen_unhappy.png" height="360" style="border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); display: block; margin: 20px auto; outline: none; padding: 0px;" width="605" /><strong style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">#5</strong> – Karjakin looks like he has won a free mountain bike, while Carlsen looks like his crush won’t text him back. <img alt=":)" class="wp-smiley" src="http://chess-teacher.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif" style="border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;" /></div>
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<strong style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">#7</strong> – Carlsen feeling the pressure during Game-8: “Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown….”</div>
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<strong style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">#8</strong> – That’s probably how Magnus Carlsen’s fans would have reacted to Game-8</div>
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<strong style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">#11</strong> – A frustrated Magnus Carlsen has left and did not attend the press conference</div>
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<strong style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">#12</strong> – A photo edit by a chess fan, Bobby Fiske, before <a href="http://chess-teacher.com/affiliates/idevaffiliate.php?id=1511&url=2088" style="border: none; color: #d23c44; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="World Chess Championship 2016: Magnus Carlsen vs Sergey Karjakin Game-9">Game-9</a>, saying: “<em style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">The World Champion is fighting for his chess life!</em>”</div>
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<img alt="Karjakin vs Carlsen Game-10" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-14465" src="http://chess-teacher.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/13_carlsen-karjakin-game-10.jpg" height="343" style="border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); display: block; margin: 20px auto; outline: none; padding: 0px;" width="540" /><strong style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">#13</strong> – The second decisive game of the WC match, <a href="http://chess-teacher.com/affiliates/idevaffiliate.php?id=1511&url=2055" style="border: none; color: #d23c44; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="World Chess Championship 2016: Magnus Carlsen vs Sergey Karjakin Game-10">Game-10</a>, where Carlsen levelled the score</div>
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<strong style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">#14</strong> – Chess is brutal! The first crack in Karjakin’s World Championship dream</div>
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<strong style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">#18</strong> – The winning moment – 50.Qh6+ is the way to wrap up the best possible (Carlsen’s) birthday gift!</div>
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<strong style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">#19</strong> – The crowd sang “Happy Birthday” to Magnus Carlsen – click on the image to watch the video clip.</div>
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<img alt="Magnus Carlsen World Champion 2016 trophy" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-14465" src="http://chess-teacher.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/20_carlsen-world-champion-2016-trophy.jpg" height="375" style="border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); display: block; margin: 20px auto; outline: none; padding: 0px;" width="607" /><strong style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">#20</strong> – Magnus Carlsen with the trophy – enjoying his best birthday! <img alt=":)" class="wp-smiley" src="http://chess-teacher.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif" style="border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;" /></div>
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Chess Strikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00506623608301587782noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8174725465164536434.post-82014853965591354022016-12-01T21:26:00.000+05:302016-12-01T21:26:20.097+05:30Carlsen-Karjakin tiebreaks: Magnus is the World Champion!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<img alt="design" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-14465" src="http://chess-teacher.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/design.png" height="61" style="border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); display: block; margin: 20px auto; outline: none; padding: 0px;" width="338" /><strong style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">Magnus Carlsen has won the World Chess Championship,</strong> once again! He defended his title against Sergey Karjakin in a dramatic tie-break full of tension, with the final score of 3-1.<br />
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<em style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">He’s done it, again! <img alt=":)" class="wp-smiley" src="http://chess-teacher.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif" style="border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;" /> (photo: Anastasia Karlovich)</em></div>
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Carlsen retained his title successfully, dominated in the rapid and made a beautiful combination in the last game. However, confidence in his total domination against the other players is seriously damaged by Karjakin. Carlsen, who played quite ‘badly’ this World Championship, had made many mistakes and lost many opportunities, failing to convert winning positions into win.</div>
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Once again, he’s had problems with creating serious and principle opening repertoire, with White. The <a href="http://chess-teacher.com/affiliates/idevaffiliate.php?id=1511&url=2030" style="border: none; color: #d23c44; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="World Chess Championship 2016: Magnus Carlsen vs Sergey Karjakin Game-8">eighth game</a> cost too much to his self-confidence. In the rest of the match, he tried to be extra-careful and not take too many risks. In this series of games,<span style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline;"> one little mistake can be crucial</span> and it could be the last one of the match. This could be the reason for his quick draw in the <a href="http://chess-teacher.com/affiliates/idevaffiliate.php?id=1511&url=2074" style="border: none; color: #d23c44; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="World Chess Championship 2016: Magnus Carlsen vs Sergey Karjakin Game-12">twelfth game</a> in classical rounds.</div>
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Karjakin gave his best as anybody could imagine in his wildest dreams. He had a good opening preparation, kept his nerves, and achieved some cool draws in difficult situations, with <a href="http://chess-teacher.com/affiliates/idevaffiliate.php?id=1511&url=2032" style="border: none; color: #d23c44; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Karjakin's defense against Carlsen">his amazing defending skills</a>. He had a real chance to win the World Championship match, because he was a full point ahead after winning the eighth game. In the <a href="http://chess-teacher.com/affiliates/idevaffiliate.php?id=1511&url=2055" target="_blank">tenth game</a>, he had a forcing drawish continuation, but unfortunately for him, he didn’t manage to find it. After that, there was no turning back and Magnus won a marvelous game!<br />
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Karjakin proved that attack wins the game, but <strong style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">defense saves crucial games</strong>. Remote chess Academy is creating a new chess course related to this topic. This course will be ready soon and you should definitely not miss it, because you can learn all of the <span style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline;">TOP-secret techniques</span>. Thus, who knows, you may be the next challenger against Magnus Carlsen! <img alt=":)" class="wp-smiley" src="http://chess-teacher.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif" style="border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;" /></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">Carlsen – Karjakin World Championship (Tiebreak-2), 30.11.2016</span></div>
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This is the first interesting moment of the tie-break match. It was the second rapid game, where Carlsen was playing White. He has done everything right and he has the winning combination. Black’s rook is attacking the bishop on b4 and White decides to move it; but he missed a <span style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline;">very nice counter-blow</span>, the move Be6! After this move, White can achieve the winning picture.</div>
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Black cannot prevent the checkmate on g7. <strong style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">75…Rb7 76.Bxg7#</strong></div>
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This is a very interesting moment. Carlsen, who has more active pieces, makes a fantastic <span style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline;">breakthrough</span> on the queenside in order to control the d4-square. White would like to exchange the c3-pawn or remove it from its position.</div>
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This is an amazing fighting move. Black’s intention is to control that open a-file. He sacrifices the pawn in order to control and dominate the dark squares.<br />
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Black has a fantastic position. All Black pieces are very active and they are <span style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline;">attacking the vulnerable g2-pawn</span>. However, White could survive here by hitting the queen with the move Rb1.</div>
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Unfortunately, Karjakin captures the pawn on c7 and this was the final mistake of the game. We could say that this was his biggest mistake in the entire match. Carlsen finished him off with the move Ra1. The Queen on e1 and the Bishop on f1 is attacked, so White can’t do anything, but to resign.</div>
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This is the position of the final game. Magnus manages to find a <span style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline;">beautiful combination</span> in order to win the game. Can you find the best moves for White? <img alt=":)" class="wp-smiley" src="http://chess-teacher.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif" style="border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;" /><br />
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With this glorious queen sacrifice, Magnus Carlsen has won the World Chess Championship for the <span style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline;">third time</span>.</div>
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You can download the PGN of all the tie-break games <a href="http://chess-teacher.com/affiliates/idevaffiliate.php?id=1511&url=2084" style="border: none; color: #d23c44; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="World Chess Championship 2016: Magnus Carlsen vs Sergey Karjakin tiebreak games">here</a>.</div>
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I hope you enjoyed the games as I did. <img alt=":)" class="wp-smiley" src="http://chess-teacher.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif" style="border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;" /> I hope the games motivate you to play more games, and for that reason, I wish you good luck with your games!</div>
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Chess Strikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00506623608301587782noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8174725465164536434.post-72156665027131504692016-11-30T21:49:00.000+05:302016-11-30T21:49:46.771+05:30Magnus Carlsen’s immortal chess game (and his birthday)!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<img alt="design" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-14465" src="http://chess-teacher.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/design.png" height="61" style="border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); display: block; margin: 20px auto; outline: none; padding: 0px;" width="338" />Today, 30 November 2016, the chess prodigy from Norway, <strong style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">Magnus Carlsen, is celebrating his 26<sup style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">th</sup> birthday</strong> – the Remote Chess Academy (RCA) wishes this great player a very Happy Birthday! <img alt=":)" class="wp-smiley" src="http://chess-teacher.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif" style="border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;" /><br />
<img alt="Happy Birthday Magnus Carlsen" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-14465" src="http://chess-teacher.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/happy-birthday-magnus-carlsen.jpg" height="400" style="border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); display: block; margin: 20px auto; outline: none; padding: 0px;" width="616" />I’ve prepared a very interesting video lesson for you – it’s “<strong style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">Magnus Carlsen’s immortal chess game</strong>”! I’ve selected the best game ever played by Carlsen; at least, it has to be one of his best games. It’s a really beautiful and instructive game.</div>
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He played this game against Judit Polgar, which is interesting because it was played between, arguably, one of the best male and female chess players of all time. Moreover, it was a <span style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline;">blindfold game</span>; they were playing without a chessboard, which makes it even harder to play.</div>
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Now let’s look at some of the interesting photos of Magnus Carlsen, because it’s ‘party time’! <img alt=":)" class="wp-smiley" src="http://chess-teacher.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif" style="border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;" /><br />
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<em style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">Little Magnus gets going. Here he is at nine months… (source: Hun on Chess)</em></div>
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<em style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">and here he is at one and a half years old (source: Hun on Chess)</em></div>
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<em style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">Magnus Carlsen vs Håvard Vederhus in 1999 (source: Hun on Chess)</em><em style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"> </em></div>
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<img alt="Magnus Carlsen young chess" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-14465" src="http://chess-teacher.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/young-magnus-carlsen.jpg" height="360" style="border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); display: block; margin: 20px auto; outline: none; padding: 0px;" width="480" /><em style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">And he was determined at a very young age! <img alt=":)" class="wp-smiley" src="http://chess-teacher.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif" style="border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;" /> </em><em style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"> (source: Hun on Chess)</em></div>
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<img alt="Magnus Carlsen young chess" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-14465" src="http://chess-teacher.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/magnus-carlsen-blindfold-chess.jpg" height="271" style="border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); display: block; margin: 20px auto; outline: none; padding: 0px;" width="480" /><em style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">Let’s not forget his amazing talent at blindfold chess (source: Hun on Chess)</em><em style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"> </em></div>
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<img alt="Magnus Carlsen World Champion 2013 Chennai" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-14465" src="http://chess-teacher.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/carlsen-world-champion-2013.jpg" height="375" style="border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); display: block; margin: 20px auto; outline: none; padding: 0px;" width="250" /><em style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">He beat Vishy Anand in Chennai and became the World Chess Champion in 2013 …</em></div>
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<img alt="Magnus Carlsen World Champion 2014 Sochi" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-14465" src="http://chess-teacher.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/carlsen-world-champion-2014-sochi.jpg" height="375" style="border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); display: block; margin: 20px auto; outline: none; padding: 0px;" width="534" /><em style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">And he successfully retained his title in 2014, in Sochi</em></div>
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Can he retain his title, on his birthday, against Sergey Karjakin? <img alt=":)" class="wp-smiley" src="http://chess-teacher.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif" style="border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;" /> You can watch the tie-break games <a href="http://chess-teacher.com/affiliates/idevaffiliate.php?id=1511&url=1953" style="border: none; color: #d23c44; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="World Chess Championship 2016: Magnus Carlsen vs Sergey Karjakin LIVE">LIVE here</a>.</div>
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Chess Strikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00506623608301587782noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8174725465164536434.post-41209202487639826952016-11-30T21:39:00.001+05:302016-11-30T21:39:16.536+05:30Carlsen-Karjakin Game-12: Fastest game of the Match<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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After eleven hard-fought games, the twelfth and final game of the World Chess Championship was a brief, dull draw. Only 30 moves and 35 minutes needed for the players to blitz out their game. The twelve classical games of the Match are tied, with the score 6-6 each, and they will go to a series of <strong style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">tie-break games on Wednesday, 30 November</strong>. One way or another, the World Champion will be determined on Wednesday.<span id="more-24514" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">Magnus Carlsen (2853) – Sergey Karjakin (2772) </strong></span><br />
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Carlsen chose not to take up a fight today and settled for a quick draw by playing one of the most solid variations against the Berlin Defense. Karjakin seemed to be happy with a draw as well.</div>
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<strong style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">5…Nd6 6.Nxe5 Be7 7.Bf1 Nxe5 8.Rxe5 0-0 9.d4 Bf6 10.Re1 Re8 11.Bf4 Rxe1 12.Qxe1</strong></div>
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This is the first interesting moment of the game. White sacrificed a pawn on d4 in order to double Black’s d-pawn. Karjakin, who immediately rejected the offer, played cautiously and easily neutralized Carlsen’s minute advantage. If Black had accepted the poisoned d4-pawn, then White will put huge pressure in Black’s position.</div>
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The following variation is characteristic: 12…Bxd4?! 13.Bxd6 Bxb2? 14.Bxc7 Qf8 (14…Qxc7?? 15.Qe8#) 15.Nc3 Bxa1 16.Qxa1±</div>
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White has a big advantage here. He has two minor pieces for the Rook. Carlsen, who is able to generate more threats <span style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline;">plays more actively</span> with his White pieces.</div>
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Black’s plan is to place the Knight on g7 and after that the Bishop on f5. This will keep the symmetry and Black will manage to exchange more pieces. The practice has proven that the symmetry in the position is hard to crack.</div>
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<strong style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">15.Na3 c6 16.Nc2 Ng7 17.Qd2 Bf5 18.Bxf5 Nxf5 19.Ne3 Nxe3 20.Qxe3 Qe7</strong></div>
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Karjakin is continuing to use his well-known strategy, exchanging pieces. This is the safest way for a draw. The board is almost empty. In the press conference afterward, Carlsen apologized to the fans and said that he felt no need to risk being too aggressive.</div>
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This is the final, good decision that secures the draw. Black will play f6, Kf7 and then they will exchange the Rooks. White has no chance to continue fighting, so the game ended up in a draw after a few moves.</div>
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<strong style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">23.Kf1 f6 24.g4 Kf7 25.h3 Re8 26.Rxe8 Kxe8 27.Ke2 Kd7 28.Kd3 Ke6 29.a4 a6 30.f3 Be7 ½-½</strong></div>
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The tie-breaks will go in the following manner:</div>
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This will be the third time the tie-break games have been used to decide a World Championship Match. The first time was in 2006, when Kramnik beat Topalov. The second was in 2012, when Anand beat Gelfand. Hence, much more interesting and fast games are ahead. And by the way, it’s <strong style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">Carlsen’s birthday on the 30th</strong> – can he make it his best birthday ever? <img alt=":)" class="wp-smiley" src="http://chess-teacher.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif" style="border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;" /> <strong style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"> </strong></div>
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The eleventh game was a fighting one, but ended up in a draw after 34 moves. Sergey started with the move 1.e4 which gave him the best results in his previous games.<span id="more-24480" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"></span><br style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;" /><img alt="Magnus Carlsen vs Sergey Karjakin Game-11" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-14465" height="375" src="http://chess-teacher.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Carlsen-vs-Karjakin-Game-11.png" style="border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); display: block; margin: 20px auto; outline: none; padding: 0px;" width="382" /></div>
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<strong style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.0-0 Be7 6.d3 b5 7.Bb3 d6 8.a3</strong><br style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;" /><img alt="Magnus Carlsen vs Sergey Karjakin Game-11" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-14465" height="375" src="http://chess-teacher.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/wcc-11.1.jpg" style="border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); display: block; margin: 20px auto; outline: none; padding: 0px;" width="375" /></div>
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White would like to keep the light-squared Bishop in the game and control the b4-square at the same time. White hopes for a long game and a closed setup, with plenty of maneuvering.</div>
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Magnus, who played the move Na5 in Game-2, played Be6 in Game-11. Sergey was ready to face 9…Na5 again, so Black chooses a different move.<br style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;" /><strong style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">10.Nd5 Nd4</strong></div>
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This move, which is well-known as Black’s best here, was first played by Peter Svidler of Russia back in 2013.</div>
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This move is harmless for Black. Magnus can develop his pieces and normally equalizes the game. It is more critical to capture on e7 and then to pin the Knight on f6. 12.Nxe7+ Qxe7 13.Bg5</div>
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<strong style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">12…Bxf6 13.Bxe6 fxe6 14.f4</strong><br style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;" /><img alt="Magnus Carlsen vs Sergey Karjakin Game-11" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-14465" height="375" src="http://chess-teacher.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/wcc-11.4.jpg" style="border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); display: block; margin: 20px auto; outline: none; padding: 0px;" width="375" /></div>
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Sergey who made a natural move kept all of his options open. He had a lot of alternatives like the Qg4 or Rf3 and h3. White should focus on the kingside, while Black, on the queenside. Thus, the next move, c5-c4, is a very natural reply for Black.</div>
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<strong style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">14…c5 15.Qg4 Qd7 16.f5 Rae8 17.Bd2 c4 18.h3 c3!?</strong></div>
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Karjakin released the tension with the move f5 and allowing trades. Perhaps he no longer believes that he has any advantage. Carlsen has more than equality, so he tries for <span style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline;">positional unbalance</span>.</div>
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<strong style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">19.bxc3 d5 20.Bg5!</strong><br style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;" /><img alt="Magnus Carlsen vs Sergey Karjakin Game-11" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-14465" height="375" src="http://chess-teacher.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/wcc-11.6.jpg" style="border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); display: block; margin: 20px auto; outline: none; padding: 0px;" width="375" /></div>
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White should exchange the Bishops in order to keep the position as solid as he can. After this move, Black’s winning chances are not good.</div>
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<strong style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">20…Bxg5 21.Qxg5 dxe4 22.fxe6 Rxf1+ 23.Rxf1 Qxe6 24.cxd4 e3!?</strong><br style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;" /><img alt="Magnus Carlsen vs Sergey Karjakin Game-11" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-14465" height="375" src="http://chess-teacher.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/wcc-11.7.jpg" style="border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); display: block; margin: 20px auto; outline: none; padding: 0px;" width="375" /></div>
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Magnus tried to push for the win with the passed-pawn, but Sergey finds a forcing way, perpetual check, to get the draw. Thus, the game ended in a draw.</div>
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Don’t miss the twelfth and the final game of the World Chess Championship match. You can watch it <a href="http://chess-teacher.com/affiliates/idevaffiliate.php?id=1511&url=1953" style="border: none; color: #d23c44; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="World Chess Championship 2016: Magnus Carlsen vs Sergey Karjakin LIVE">LIVE here</a>. Magnus’s sister stated that Magnus will win. We will have to wait and see if she is right or not. <img alt=":)" class="wp-smiley" src="http://chess-teacher.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif" style="border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;" /></div>
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The player who wins the final game, wins the title! If the game is drawn, the match will go to a series of tie-break games on Wednesday, starting with <strong style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">four rapid games</strong> played at a time control of 25 minutes per player per game, with 10 seconds added after each move.</div>
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If that does not produce a winner, the players will play <strong style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">four blitz games</strong>. And if the players are tied after that, they will play an “Armageddon” game, in which White will have five minutes and Black only four, but Black will only have to draw to win the title.</div>
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What do you think? Can Carlsen retain his title and continue his reign, or can we see a new World Champion being crowned? <img alt=":)" class="wp-smiley" src="http://chess-teacher.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif" style="border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;" /> Feel free to comment your predictions below.</div>
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