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chess opening #27137 (4)Meran Mayhem Annotated by sarasani (1868): Hi everyone, this game was part of a training match for an upcoming tournament. Played O.T.B., without use of a Game DB or openings book.
The Slav Defence, my opponent's favourite reply against 1.d4.
The Meran complex contains a large number of variations. The Meran variation of the Semi-Slav Defense is reached when after 1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.Nf3 Nf6 4.Nc3 black plays 4...e6.
The most…Sarasani vs. Rick |
chess opening #34640 (4) |
chess opening #48628 (13)Anand's Immortal Annotated by chess_writer (1200): Magnus Carlsen has described this game as "A Game for the Ages". Watch the world champion sacrifice a rook and demolish World number 2 Levon Aronian in just 23 moves.
My annotations begin where the action begins i.e. on Move 11.
Capturing the white pawn before the white bishop has been moved to d3 results in a loss of tempi for black. Now Aronian has to capture on c4 with his…Levon Aronian (2825) vs. Viswanathan Anand (2772) |
chess opening #13137 (10)Botvinnik Game #4: Underpromotions are always fun Annotated by raskerino (1822): I haven't annotated a game in the botvinnik since my first three annotations, so while this will be similiar to the game Van Wely-Smeets (as these game are the same until move 19). The botvinnik may be analyzed to death, but to the uninitiated, such as I (though I'll do my best), it's wonderously absurd in it's tactical spectrum. I'll start annotating at move 7. And we enter the…GM Topalov vs. GM Kramnik |
chess opening #13804 (5) |
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