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In almost every chess game there comes a moment when you just can't go on without tactics. So it is vital to train tactics properly - and Master Class Tactics offers you the perfect tool for this!
Abdusattorov set the course for the eventual rapid-section victory in the first round of the day, when he got a win with white over Rauf Mamedov. The Uzbek star’s poise was, once again, extremely impressive.
It was a beautiful game in other respects as well, with a number of unusual positional imbalances dictating the nature of the struggle.
Unlike, for example, the Tata Steel India Rapid and Blitz event, the tournament in Baku combines the scores of the rapid and blitz sections to crown a single champion. So, for each player, there are still 18 points up for grabs. In the blitz, which will be played on Thursday and Friday — following a rest day — a normal pointing system will be in place.
Currently four points behind Abdusattorov, Chinese grandmaster Wang Hao still has good chances of catching up in the blitz. In round 2, Wang profited from his opponent’s mistake in a drawn rook ending with equal material. The Chinese was facing Abdulla Gadimbayli, the lowest-rated in the field — who, surprisingly, managed to beat Gukesh in round 6.
Karsten Müller shared instructive analysis of the aforementioned endgame.
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In this video course, experts (Pelletier, Marin, Müller and Reeh) examine the games of Viktor Korchnoi. Let them show you which openings Korchnoi chose to play, where his strength in middlegames were, or how he outplayed his opponents in the endgame.
Korchnoi presents many of his most brilliant efforts from the years 1949-2005, among them, games against Smyslov, Geller, Tal, Huebner, Karpov, Kasparov, Spassky and Short.
No other World Champion was more infamous both inside and outside the chess world than Bobby Fischer. On this DVD, a team of experts shows you the winning techniques and strategies employed by the 11th World Champion.
In this video course, experts (Pelletier, Marin, Müller and Reeh) examine the games of Viktor Korchnoi. Let them show you which openings Korchnoi chose to play, where his strength in middlegames were, or how he outplayed his opponents in the endgame.
We refer to the line that begins 1 e4 c6 2 Nf3 d5 3 exd5 cxd5 4 Ne5!? There are various ideas associated with this move; tricks on c6 and f7, the reinforcement of the knight with f2-f4 leading to White kingside pressure, the annexation of the two bishops.
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