✴️ #about_Seirawan
🔸 Yasser Seirawan
🔸American chess grandmaster
🔘Country: United States
🔘Born: March 24, 1960 (age 58)
Damascus, Syria
🔘Title: Grandmaster (1980)
🔘FIDE rating: 2620 (August 2018)
🔘Peak rating: 2658 (November 2011)
🔰 Yasser Seirawan is an American chess grandmaster and four-time United States champion. He won the World Junior Chess Championship in 1979. Seirawan is also a published chess author and commentator.
🔰Seirawan began playing chess at 12; at 13 he became Washington junior champion. At 19 he won the World Junior Chess Championship. He also won a game against Viktor Korchnoi, who then invited Seirawan to Switzerland, where Korchnoi was training for his 1981 world title match against Anatoly Karpov.[3]
🔰Seirawan qualified for the 1985 and 1988-1990 Candidates Tournaments. In the 1985 tournament in Montpellier he scored 7/15 placing joint 10th,[4] and in the 1988-1990 tournament in St John, a knockout tournament, he was knocked out by Jon Speelman in the preliminary round.
🔰Seirawan won the 2011 and 2012 Dutch Open Blitz championship. He is widely known for his expert commentary in live broadcasts on the Internet during important events. He has been named by the chess historian Edward Winter as one of the top five Internet broadcasters.
♦️ A memorable game by Seirawan👇
▪️Yasser Seirawan vs Vassily Ivanchuk
▪️Groningen,FIDE WCH k.o NED (1997), Groningen NED, rd 2, Dec-11
▪️King's Indian Defense: Six Pawns Attack (E77)
♦️ Review and download PGN file👇
@unitychess
🔸 Yasser Seirawan
🔸American chess grandmaster
🔘Country: United States
🔘Born: March 24, 1960 (age 58)
Damascus, Syria
🔘Title: Grandmaster (1980)
🔘FIDE rating: 2620 (August 2018)
🔘Peak rating: 2658 (November 2011)
🔰 Yasser Seirawan is an American chess grandmaster and four-time United States champion. He won the World Junior Chess Championship in 1979. Seirawan is also a published chess author and commentator.
🔰Seirawan began playing chess at 12; at 13 he became Washington junior champion. At 19 he won the World Junior Chess Championship. He also won a game against Viktor Korchnoi, who then invited Seirawan to Switzerland, where Korchnoi was training for his 1981 world title match against Anatoly Karpov.[3]
🔰Seirawan qualified for the 1985 and 1988-1990 Candidates Tournaments. In the 1985 tournament in Montpellier he scored 7/15 placing joint 10th,[4] and in the 1988-1990 tournament in St John, a knockout tournament, he was knocked out by Jon Speelman in the preliminary round.
🔰Seirawan won the 2011 and 2012 Dutch Open Blitz championship. He is widely known for his expert commentary in live broadcasts on the Internet during important events. He has been named by the chess historian Edward Winter as one of the top five Internet broadcasters.
♦️ A memorable game by Seirawan👇
▪️Yasser Seirawan vs Vassily Ivanchuk
▪️Groningen,FIDE WCH k.o NED (1997), Groningen NED, rd 2, Dec-11
▪️King's Indian Defense: Six Pawns Attack (E77)
♦️ Review and download PGN file👇
@unitychess
13. Nxc6??
Vietnamese GM has miscalculated.
13.Qe2=
13... Qxc4! 14. Nxe7+ Kh8 15.Qxc4
15. Na3 Qxc2 16. Nxc2 Rfe8 17. Bd6 Ne4 18. Ba3 Bf6)
15... Bxc4 16. Nd6 Bxf1 17. Kxf1 Rae8 18. Nxe8 Rxe8 19.Bd6 Bf8 0-1
Vietnamese GM has miscalculated.
13.Qe2=
13... Qxc4! 14. Nxe7+ Kh8 15.Qxc4
15. Na3 Qxc2 16. Nxc2 Rfe8 17. Bd6 Ne4 18. Ba3 Bf6)
15... Bxc4 16. Nd6 Bxf1 17. Kxf1 Rae8 18. Nxe8 Rxe8 19.Bd6 Bf8 0-1
35... Nef5?
In this complicated position, Black could not find the only way to win the game.
35... Ne4! 36. Qxf7 Ng3+ 37. Kg1 Nxf1 38. Kxf1 Nf5 and now:
A) 39. Rxa6 Qxb2 -+
B) 39. Ra2 Qb3 -+
C) 39. g4 Qg3 -+
36. Rxf5 Nxf5 37. Qxf5 Qxb2 38.
Qf3 Qb1+ 39. Kh2 Qb8+ 40. Kh1 Qd6 =
In this complicated position, Black could not find the only way to win the game.
35... Ne4! 36. Qxf7 Ng3+ 37. Kg1 Nxf1 38. Kxf1 Nf5 and now:
A) 39. Rxa6 Qxb2 -+
B) 39. Ra2 Qb3 -+
C) 39. g4 Qg3 -+
36. Rxf5 Nxf5 37. Qxf5 Qxb2 38.
Qf3 Qb1+ 39. Kh2 Qb8+ 40. Kh1 Qd6 =
16. Bxh7+?
Iraqi Fide master made a wrong decision.
16. Qg4!+ Kh8 17. dxe5 Nd7 18. O-O +- White would be better in view of Black's weak king position and his passive pieces.
16... Kxh7 17. Qh5+ Kg8 18. Qg6+?
18. Bh6 Rf7 19. Qg6+ Ng7 20. Nce4 dxe4 21. Nxe4 -/+ would have put up more resistance.
18...Ng7 19. Nh5 Qh4+ 0-1
Iraqi Fide master made a wrong decision.
16. Qg4!+ Kh8 17. dxe5 Nd7 18. O-O +- White would be better in view of Black's weak king position and his passive pieces.
16... Kxh7 17. Qh5+ Kg8 18. Qg6+?
18. Bh6 Rf7 19. Qg6+ Ng7 20. Nce4 dxe4 21. Nxe4 -/+ would have put up more resistance.
18...Ng7 19. Nh5 Qh4+ 0-1
26. Qh1??
A strange blunder.
White should have played 26. f3 a6 27. Ne4 =
26... Rxd6 0-1
A strange blunder.
White should have played 26. f3 a6 27. Ne4 =
26... Rxd6 0-1
10...g5!
Black grabes his chance to launch an attack on the kingside.
11.Bg3 h5!
And one practical encounter continued
12.Ba6
12.h3 may lose White a pawn after 12...h4 13.Bh2 Nxh2 14.Kxh2 Bd4-/+
12...Bxa6 13.Qxa6 Bb6 14.Qa4 Qe6 15.h4 0-0-0 16.Nd2 gxh4 17.Bxh4 Rdg8 18.Qf4 Nxe5-+
Black grabes his chance to launch an attack on the kingside.
11.Bg3 h5!
And one practical encounter continued
12.Ba6
12.h3 may lose White a pawn after 12...h4 13.Bh2 Nxh2 14.Kxh2 Bd4-/+
12...Bxa6 13.Qxa6 Bb6 14.Qa4 Qe6 15.h4 0-0-0 16.Nd2 gxh4 17.Bxh4 Rdg8 18.Qf4 Nxe5-+