11/25/2009 – Games full of tactical ups and downs and mating motifs rightly charm every
chess fan, and so it will come as no surprise that a successful attack
on the king always represents a dainty morsel for all chess lovers. We have
selected and annotated two attractive attacking games from the Russia Cup
in Saint Petersburg. In the first of them (diagram) we see how
Ian
Nepomniachtchi sets about an uncastled Sicilian king. In the second game, a
Ruy Lopez,
Alexei Fedorov managed to reduce to rubble the castled position
of the black monarch. IM Michael Kopylov for
ChessBaseMagazine Online.
