A top-level miniature
Nowadays, we hardly ever get to see miniatures in top level chess, but when it happens it’s often a spectacular game!
In this week’s game, Ian Nepomniachtchi came up with a very spectacular new idea against the Berlin and managed to defeat Hikaru Nakamura in impressive style by launching a massive pawn storm on the kingside. By sacrificing two pawns, the Russian relied on his key pawn on e6, which basically dominated all of Black’s pieces on the back rank.
As the analysis shows us, things are far from clear and both sides have to play very precisely. However, being caught by surprise with this new concept, the American player was already getting low on time when he made the final mistake.
Can you spot the winning move for White?
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This week’s show
Alexei Shirov shows on this DVD how White can develop pressure and seize the initiative with 5.Re1 against the Berlin Wall.
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Special attention will be paid to Intermediate Moves, Quiet Moves, Sacrifices on Empty Squares, Mating Patterns, Ignoring Opponents Threat, Calculation in Defence and Method of Comparison. Plus 50 interactive examples to test your knowledge.
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23.Rxf8+ 23.Rxf8+ Kxf8 24.Bxe7+ Kxe7 25.Rxg7+ Kf8 26.Rf7+ Kg8 27.Nf6+ Kh8 28.Nxh5 cxd4 29.Nf6 1–0 - Start an analysis engine:
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Nepomniachtchi,I | 2789 | Nakamura,H | 2736 | 1–0 | 2021 | C67 | Magnus Carlsen Inv KO | 1.12 |
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