In the seventh round of the Prague Masters tournament, Aravindh Chithambaram played a fantastic game with the black pieces that will undoubtedly go down as one of the highlights of chess history. He came out of nowhere with a knight sacrifice to overwhelm Anish Giri, who was about to launch an attack on the black pieces and take the lead in the tournament. But it wasn't to be...
Giri was clearly well prepared for the game: he played a Queen's Gambit with a London-type bishop. Many Black players don't like this kind of pressure on the h2-b8 diagonal and possibly in connection with the queen on b3.
You find the opening interesting, but you don't know how to improve the way Giri played or or understand which ideas Chithambaram pursued? Then go to our shop page and view the relevant products!
On the page „Openings A-Z“ is a seach board:
This is the start screen, where the search board is waiting for your input on the right and the corresponding search results are displayed on the left. In the default setting, all openings can be seen on the left (using the scroll bar).
Now simply enter the first moves of the above game on the board using the mouse: 1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Be7 4.cxd5 exd5 5.Bf4
Black's reply...d5 already reduces the list of results to three main categories and a few sub-categories in the Queen's Gambit:
When 2.c4 is entered, the London System and the Colle Opening disappear from the list. After the black reply...e6, only the Queen's Gambit Declined remains:
What do you do with this result? There are two possibilities:
On the one hand, you can simply scroll down a little further. If you had this area in your field of vision before, you would have seen that the search results became more accurate with each move you made. After 5.Bf4, the result looks like this:
So there are seven suggestions that match the opening. If you now click on your favourite from this list, you will see the complete product information for the course and other products from the respective author.
You can also click on the list of results for the Queen's Gambit Declined. This will take you to a results page where, in this case, you can see even more results. Of course, you can also click on the cover to go to the product description page from here.
You think you've known ‘your’ opening for years and nothing can shake you so early on? And then your opponent, who isn't really known for playing such daring openings, plays 5...f5 in the Ruy Lopez and your plan is thrown out of kilter. A few moves later you resign because you were overwhelmed by the new position.
You don't want it to happen again? Then enter the moves and see if you can work out how your opponent came up with this uncharacteristic idea: 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 d6 5.c3 f5 – You see this:
... and you can already guess: your opponent has an advantage in terms of knowledge. He has probably already studied the course on this variation, which is only a few weeks old, and if you want to continue playing Spanish against him, it might be worth taking a look at Tim Wall's video series.
| Advertising |
