If you want to see fearless chess with both colours, do check out Parham Maghsoodloo’s games. The ever excitable 20-year-old Iranian star won the 2018 World Junior Championship in Gebze, when he confessed that he worked on his chess for about ten hours a day!
I will be looking at two games in the Kalashnikov Variation that both feature a kingside pawn avalanche for Black and both feature an octopus knight deep in the heart of White’s position. One of them is a slightly unusual variety, but nonetheless still highly effective. Both games were played online, with the young Iranian defeating former world champion Vishy Anand and Russian star Kirill Alekseenko.
We’ll start with a mate-in-two problem by Swedish composer Sven Ture Ceder, who published the following problem in 1938:
Try your own moves!
You'll find older broadcasts in the Power Play category. To watch these you'll need a ChessBase Premium Account.
If you want to learn more about the Kalashnikov, do check out Nicholas Pert’s DVD on the “Sicilian Stunner”!
Daniel King is the prolific author of the Power Play series which numbers 28 volumes to date. The Tactic Turbo for the King’s Gambit is the subject of his most recent DVD.
Here’s a teaser:
