Game of the Week #459
The exciting "Kader-Challenge" of the German Chess Federation finished with four players on 5.5 out of 9: Alexander Donchenko, Dmitrij Kollars, Matthias Bluebaum and Daniel Fridman. Donchenko was declared the winner on tiebreak. He impressively beat both Fridman and Rasmus Svane, but both games where essentially decided by an unforced error at the end of the opening stage. We decided to select Bluebaum-Heimann as the Game of the Week, as it is a most impressive strategical masterpiece, in the style of the current world champion.
Warm-up question: What would you play here with White?
M. Bluebaum vs A. Heimann, Magdeburg 2021
When it comes to strategy, one of the key things that chess professionals understand much better than amateur players is the role of the bishop which is the key theme on this video course.
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The continuous stream of new ideas in the Sicilian makes 1..c5 the most popular answer to 1.e4. On this DVD I do give an introduction to the most important Sicilian systems.
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