Top GM spent 1:43 min on move four – in Armageddon blitz!
4/8/2012 – It's a rapid chess knockout event with absolute world-class players. In a blitz Armageddon tiebreak game player A chooses the Petroff with the black pieces, and on move four he falls into a deep think – for almost two minutes! Can you guess who the player was – hint: one of the fastest in the world – and how the game ended? Watch this exciting Easter video with wonderful commentary.
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Anand spent 1:43 min on move four – in Armageddon blitz!
It happened at the Intel/PCA Rapid Chess Grand Prix, back in 1994, with the likes of Kasparov, Kramnik, Anand, Ivanchuk, Shirov, Korchnoi, Timman at the start. In round one Vishy Anand, wearing oversized glasses (we all did that at the time) played two draws against Ilya Smirin. An Armageddon blitz game was required. Smirin getot white on a coin toss, and with six minutes on his clock, to Anand's five, he has to win.
Enough said – just sit back watch the game unfold, and listen to the superb commentary by Maurice Ashley and Daniel King. It sent shivers down the backs of a mainly lay audience in New York – and down our backs too, when we watched it again 18 years later.
Here's the wonderful game for you to study and analyse:
And encore? Here's a heart-stopping PCA blitz game in London a year later. The commentators explain it all.
We remind you that both commentators are star authors of our Fritz Trainer series. If you enjoyed their commentary of the Smirin-Anand blitz you might consider some one-on-one lessons from them:
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