Game of the Week

It was very easy to choose this Game of the Week, although the Candidates (part 2) is back with us, one game played in the Thanet Early Summer Swiss had spectators glued to their mice. I can only guess how the two participants felt during the game and, more importantly, how they felt once the game had finished.

The game started very quietly, with the opposing armies, to some extent, ignoring each other and instead just developing and getting ready for battle. However once White sacrificed a piece for two pawns and the opportunity to get at his opponent’s King we saw a true battle.

I won’t give the result away here, suffice to say that the game twisted and turned. Please just enjoy the game and applaud both players for a great game of chess

 White:  pm5       Black:  Ferrarifan

Game of the Week

It was very difficult to choose the Game of the Week, not because no interesting games were played but because there were too many exciting battles. The Thanet Early Summer Swiss again turned up a good selection of good fighting games, however my choice this week may well be the most exciting game played ( so far ) in 2021

All club players can play a decent game, given a generous time limit and a following wind: Super GMs on the other hand can play magical games even at the quickest speed.

Here is a game, played online, between Hikaru Nakamura and Shakhirya Mamedyarov .

Please enjoy the game – I am not qualified to add any comments, if you want to see more please watch the excellent video on YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqEkCwRuf7s

 White:  Hikaru Nakamura       Black:  Shakhirya Mamedyarov

The 13th

As we have reached Puzzle number 13, what better example than a brilliancy from Garry Kasparov

Kasparov was born on 13th April and became the 13th World Chess Champion

Here is a position from 1999

White Garry Kasparov Black Vladimir Kramnik

White to move

Puzzle no. 12 Solution

Black to play – this game ended in a draw, could you do better?

Black wins with the following beautiful combination

  1. —–   Nh4+
  2. Kh2 ( if  Kf1  Qd1 and if  Kg1  Rc1, Rf1 Qg2 )  Qg2
  3. Rxg2  Nf3+
  4. Kh1    Rc1
  5. Rg1    Rxg1 mate