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🔸Nutcracker Rapid 2017 Moscow
🔸Round 1
⚪️Gelfand,Boris (2697)
⚫️Artemiev,Vladislav (2691)
🔸0-1
🔸Round 1
⚪️Gelfand,Boris (2697)
⚫️Artemiev,Vladislav (2691)
🔸0-1
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🔸Nutcracker Rapid 2017 Moscow
🔸Round 2
⚪️Mamedyarov,Shakhriyar (2799)
⚫️Yuffa,Daniil (2522)
🔸1-0
🔸Round 2
⚪️Mamedyarov,Shakhriyar (2799)
⚫️Yuffa,Daniil (2522)
🔸1-0
▪️Paul Morphy
▪️ American chess player
♦️ Paul Charles Morphy was an American chess player.
♦️ He is considered to have been the greatest chess master of his era and an unofficial World Chess Champion. He was a chess prodigy.
▫️ Full name Paul Charles Morphy
▫️ Country United States
▫️ Born June 22, 1837 New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
▫️ Died July 10, 1884 (aged 47) New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
▫️ World Champion 1858–62 (unofficial)
♦️ A fantastic and informative game of Morphy 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼
♦️ About this game:
" 🔸 This game will make an impression on you.
🔸The most instructive part of this game is how Morphy gives his opponent no time to do anything!
🔸After poor opening play (do not bring your queen out too early without GOOD reason!) by black he gets caught in a whirlwind of problems and from move 7 onwards every move is more or less forced!
🔸Morphy uses a powerful strategy (which you should attempt to emulate) of developing his pieces with a gain of time (piece comes out and hits the enemy queen, forcing her to move again instead of doing something productive) and pushes his opponent around until the final checkmate. "
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▪️ American chess player
♦️ Paul Charles Morphy was an American chess player.
♦️ He is considered to have been the greatest chess master of his era and an unofficial World Chess Champion. He was a chess prodigy.
▫️ Full name Paul Charles Morphy
▫️ Country United States
▫️ Born June 22, 1837 New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
▫️ Died July 10, 1884 (aged 47) New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
▫️ World Champion 1858–62 (unofficial)
♦️ A fantastic and informative game of Morphy 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼
♦️ About this game:
" 🔸 This game will make an impression on you.
🔸The most instructive part of this game is how Morphy gives his opponent no time to do anything!
🔸After poor opening play (do not bring your queen out too early without GOOD reason!) by black he gets caught in a whirlwind of problems and from move 7 onwards every move is more or less forced!
🔸Morphy uses a powerful strategy (which you should attempt to emulate) of developing his pieces with a gain of time (piece comes out and hits the enemy queen, forcing her to move again instead of doing something productive) and pushes his opponent around until the final checkmate. "
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▪️ Paul Morphy vs James Mac Connel
▪️ New Orleans | 1849
@UnityChess▪️ Paul Morphy vs James Mac Connel
▪️ New Orleans | 1849
▪️ Download PGN file 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼
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▪️ New Orleans | 1849
@UnityChess▪️ Paul Morphy vs James Mac Connel
▪️ New Orleans | 1849
▪️ Download PGN file 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼
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📘 28.a4!
A clever move that prevents black to play Rc7-Nd4 and obtain the equality.
28...b×a4 (Nc7 29.Re1)
29.Bc4 Nc7
(29...Rc7 30.B×e6 f×e6 31.Ka2 +-)
39.Rd1 Ra8 31.Rd7 +-
A clever move that prevents black to play Rc7-Nd4 and obtain the equality.
28...b×a4 (Nc7 29.Re1)
29.Bc4 Nc7
(29...Rc7 30.B×e6 f×e6 31.Ka2 +-)
39.Rd1 Ra8 31.Rd7 +-
📘 33...B×f3?? 34.Rf8+?
Mamedyarov's blunder. Both players here overlooked the obvious mate in two moves, by 34.Rh7+ Kg8 35.Qg7#
34...R×f8 35.R×e6 N×e6 36.g×f3 =
Mamedyarov's blunder. Both players here overlooked the obvious mate in two moves, by 34.Rh7+ Kg8 35.Qg7#
34...R×f8 35.R×e6 N×e6 36.g×f3 =
📘 21.h4!
With the idea of h5 and Qc2. From now on, Black has a difficult defence.
21...Qf8 22.h5 Nce7 23.Rfe1 Kh8 24.Qc2 Qg8 25.Nd6 +-
With the idea of h5 and Qc2. From now on, Black has a difficult defence.
21...Qf8 22.h5 Nce7 23.Rfe1 Kh8 24.Qc2 Qg8 25.Nd6 +-
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32.Kh2?
A miscalculation by Rublevsky which is completely exploited by the opponent.
32...Rh4 33.Nf5 Qc7+ 34.Qg3 Be5 35.f4 R×f4! 36.Kh1? R×f5 0-1
32.Kh2?
A miscalculation by Rublevsky which is completely exploited by the opponent.
32...Rh4 33.Nf5 Qc7+ 34.Qg3 Be5 35.f4 R×f4! 36.Kh1? R×f5 0-1
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14.Qf2
Generally, the queen does indeed go to g3, to put pressure on g7 and support e4-e5; but here, since Black has regrouped with 11...Re8 and 13...Bf8, the queen has surprising possibilities on the f-file, even if the prospects don't appear very promising at the moment. The pawn-breaks e4-e5 and f4-f5 now start to come into consideration.
14.Qg3 Nb4 and the c2-pawn becomes a target.
14.f5 White reveals her intention soon. 14...Nf6 and then 15...Ne5.
14.Qf2
Generally, the queen does indeed go to g3, to put pressure on g7 and support e4-e5; but here, since Black has regrouped with 11...Re8 and 13...Bf8, the queen has surprising possibilities on the f-file, even if the prospects don't appear very promising at the moment. The pawn-breaks e4-e5 and f4-f5 now start to come into consideration.
14.Qg3 Nb4 and the c2-pawn becomes a target.
14.f5 White reveals her intention soon. 14...Nf6 and then 15...Ne5.
📘16...Bg4!
"Anand's improvement, threatening to shatter White's kingside. It had to be well calculated because the black pieces could be hanging in many variations," commented Kavalek in 'The Huffington Post'. From this comment we can conclude that it's not enough to have an idea that looks correct, you also have to check that it works tactically.
16...Rab8 and 16...a5? would be faced 17.Bxd7 Qxd7 18.Qxc5=
"Anand's improvement, threatening to shatter White's kingside. It had to be well calculated because the black pieces could be hanging in many variations," commented Kavalek in 'The Huffington Post'. From this comment we can conclude that it's not enough to have an idea that looks correct, you also have to check that it works tactically.
16...Rab8 and 16...a5? would be faced 17.Bxd7 Qxd7 18.Qxc5=