9/25/2024 – This is what winners look like. At the end of the Chess Olympiad, Arne Kaehler brought the gold medallists in front of the ChessBase camera: Gukesh, Arjun, Vidit, Harikrishna and Divya shared their thoughts and answered to Arne's tricky questions!
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"I don't think I am a loser"
Many were not sure whether it was more difficult to make the right decisions in their games during the Olympiad or to answer Arne Kaehler's tricky questions...
The gold medallists from India answered Arne's random questions in good spirits!
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His answers immediately provoked a statement from the ever-witty Anish Giri.
It's safe to say this opening is the sideline of sidelines and is ultimately designed to be the choice for players wishing to 'just play chess', since neither side can profess any deep knowledge regardless of whether thay have played it before.7...Rb81:028.Nh421Be44:178...Bg49.h3Bh510.e4Nf611.exd5Nxd512.0-0Be713.Nf5Bf614.Ne3Nxe315.Bxe30-016.Qb5Bg617.Rad1Ne718.Qe2Nd519.Bc1c620.Nc4Qc721.h4h622.Ne5Bxe523.dxe5Rbd824.h5Bh725.Rd4c526.Rdd1½-½ Gelfand,B (2678)-Aronian,L (2745) Astana Satty Zhuldyz Blitz 2023 (6)9.f34:05Bg6710.Nxg634hxg6711.e410
White has had a solid opening with a good amount of space and center control. That said, White's queen on b3 and knight on a3 add nothing to White's situation other than being able to claim they are not on their starting squares. Finding a better home for them will be one of the first orders of the day. As to Black, he now simply seeks to finish his development, possibly push b5-b4 with the help of his rook and eventually reposition the Nc6 to c4 later down the road, freeing the c-pawn and giving it more to do.11...Nf63:0412.Bg512:43Be72:0013.Bxf626gxf66:5614.exd55:48exd53115.Nc21715.f4!was much stronger as it attacks d5, and forces Black to reply withBxa3The idea isn't so much to exchange the bishop as it is to free e7 for the knight so d5 can be defended.16.Qxa3Qe7+17.Qxe7+Nxe7and the position is quite balanced.15...Na51:4816.Qb5+23c6517.Qe215Nc411:1118.b326Nd62319.0-08
19...Kf88:59 Why not 0-0? One reason is to prepare Kg7 if and when the time calls for it, but this alsoallows the black queen to move immediately, and not need to stick around protecting the Be7. Now after Qa5, if Re1 then Black can play Re8 in reply.20.Ne12:06Qa53:22 While White is not in any immediate danger, his pieces around the king are all hampering each other and unable to support constructive operations until the Gordion Knot is unraveled.21.Rc114Nf512:4222.b41:14Qc71:5623.f411a54624.a36Re82:3625.Qd228Nd63426.Nc27f53:4627.Rfe132Kg72:2228.Re29Ra81:0629.Ree17:10Bf65:2630.Re21:59axb45:2831.axb47Ra2632.Ree128Rha84933.Ra11:32Qb61:5334.Reb119:20R8a44:32 Preparing to triple on the a-file with the addition of the queen.35.Qc159
35...Qa7!3:14 An essential finesse.35...Qa6would be a blunder, Since White now has36.Bf1Qa8Why is this so big a deal that it qualifies as a blunder? For the simple reason that the game winning tactic played in the game after, would no longer be possible. Arjun had seen and calculated this already, and it was no coincidence.36.Rxa216Rxa2537.Rb22:14Nb54138.Rb36
Allowing a beautiful final tactic to wrap up the game in style.38...Nxc3‼1:0939.Rxc310:12Bxd4+1340.Nxd41:20Ra150–1
The Indian chess grandmaster Vidit Gujrathi with an ELO of over 2700 (June 2023) is one of the best 20 players in the world. For the first time, the sympathetic top player presents himself in a video course. Let a world-class player show you tactical moti
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Arne KaehlerArne Kaehler, a creative mind who is passionate about board games in general, was born in Hamburg and learned to play chess at a young age. By teaching chess to youth teams and creating chess-related videos on YouTube, Arne was able to expand this passion and has even created an online course for anyone who wants to learn how to play chess. Arne writes for the English and German news sites, but focuses mainly on content for the ChessBase media channels.
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