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Annotated by ionadowman (2080): Speculative sacrifices in the opening - gambits - often lead to exciting games. The gambiteer risks material for the sake of less tangible advantages, but the tension mounts as he tries to realise those advantages. When it is the queen that is being invested, then the tension is at fever pitch. How can the gambiteer so much as break even on his investment? Such examples are uncommon, but… |
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Annotated by ionadowman (2080): This is one of those games between players of widely disparate ratings in which the 'underdog' finds herself with what seems to be a big, if not winning, advantage going into the endgame. But the trick is to bring home the full point. You can bet the 'uberhund' won't lie down for the axe! So, having obtained the edge, the job ain't over yet. It's just beginning! Grand Prix Attack. A good,… |
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Annotated by paddl3s (1200): I'd recently got ripped apart with this line by a 150 graded player in an OTB match where I played 3...d6 and was hit by an f4-f5 push very early. I've since had some coaching on the line by a player at my club and so was glad to be able to try it out! The idea is to play g6 and fianchetto the black bishop and then kick out in the centre with d5. Decided to break out with d5 before… |
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Annotated by dmisra (1558): The WINDMILL- a DREADED trap, leading to a win on move #29, always satisfying. Also involving a neat deflection trick on move 20. I read about the windmill 3 months ago and was dying to practise it. Repeated use of a dicovered check. Amazing what you can pick up by reading a book- Killer chess tactics- Keene et al. Pl comment freely and pl rate. Fasten your seat belts for here we go... The… |
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Annotated by yodean (1619): YoDean vs easy19 why cant they ever get black vs white right?????? So I am annotating this game, for one reason, I haven't annotated but one other and I only got about halfway through the game doing it ... then finished it out later. The other reason is as per my comment to my opponent...
"I am going to annotate this one since I only partially annotated another, also, annotating against a… |
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Annotated by easy19 (2076): The Annotation Project - Grand Prix attack with Queen sacrifice
Here i play a game against myself on the real board.
I spend about a day playing ( 15 hours) and it proved to be very hard to beat me whiteout cheating me beating me. (making inferior moves)
One thing i proved is that it is not easy to win with black. I always said that black should win if played well I proved myself… |
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Annotated by oddodddodo (1200): Freddy invited me to Gameknot to play some games in the Bryntse Gambit (or to use the name he made up, the Demolition Derby Attack). I gave a lecture on this variation at ChessLecture.com, called "Nuke the Sicilian! How to Sac Your Queen on Move Six and Win." This game is absolutely a wonderful example of how the attack should go -- but just when you think White is going to win, Freddy plays… |
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Annotated by a_random_guy (1908): Hello everybody! Today I played in a simul against a french international master, named Arnaud Rainfray, who visited my local chess club. We were about 10 people to play against him at the same time. After losing the first two games badly, I decided to take a stand... I start off with e4, as it often leads to wild tactical play. My opponent responds with a Sicilian, common among high level… |
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Annotated by charleshiggie (2091): I'd not played my old friend Joanne Stevens for a while, so it was about time we played again. What resulted was a very complicated and interesting game. Jo played a queen sacrifice, where white doesn't quite get enough material for the queen, but has compensation also in that black has a disjointed position, with the black king caught in the middle, and in difficulty in completing development… |
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Annotated by mbingham (1748): And I'm playing Tom again. He's had alot of really solid OTB results recently -- much better than mine, in fact. I'm not feeling confident enough to experiment with d4 vs him today. I play *my* game. e4! Excellent. We don't get alot of Sicilians, the two of us. I'm eager to play these because I'm experimenting alot with NM Dana MacKensie's "Nuke The Sicilian" variation of the Grand Prix… |
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Annotated by dmisra (1558): Queen sacrifice- my first I think. Cracking game where we both castled on opposite sides and tried to attack the other's king. Can you spot his brilliant trap on move 25 and if I say so myself, my nice move on #36 which allowed me to wrap it up. Pl comment freely, I am sure you will enjoy this high octane ride. Thanks also to tomoa who sent a nice message on defeat. PLEASE RATE Queen sacrifice-… |
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Annotated by jstevens1 (1891): Hi everyone!
I bet you are asking yourselves, disaster for whom? Well, you only need one guess. This performance was as bad as the Fried Fox Pork Chop Affair. I am taking part in a mini-tournament organised by the Master Mater called The Annotations Project. This is where we will be brainstorming an opening which involves a Q for 2 piece sacrifice arising out of the Sicilian Grand Prix… |
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Annotated by yoshark (1409): This is the start of Freddy's many game tournament. This game ends in a drawn though as white I threw the win away. Normally during this tourney white will go for blacks king quickly. But as my opponent develops I notice the poor placement of the pieces so I continue to develop and attack when I'm ready. This is the best response for white. I thought be bishop would be… |
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Annotated by sonata296 (1643): This is a game from the Knights coaching project, this is a project set up by id=easy19 to train middle-rated players such as myself, it was a thematic mini-tournament which started from move 6 This is probably the best move, because after 7. Nxf7 comes 7......Qd4 and black has many many chances to take over the initiative... Only move here.. Attacking my knight and I' m in check… |
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Annotated by koijja (1200): My opponent was much better player than I am if you look by the rating but I was able to play good game until I made really stupid mistake. I would be happy to get advices from other players. Normally I play 2.Nc3 but as I have trained this one so I wanted to give a try in this game. 3.exd5 is played normally in here but I prefer to play this one. This was little surprise as my opponents… |
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Annotated by wasspwot (1683): more normal is 2 .. d5 3 exd5 Qxd5 4 Nc3 Qd8 5 Nf3 = ? breaking the tension in the centre. Better was 4 Nc3 Nc6 5 Bb5 Nge7 6 o-o = ? somewhat slow .. 5 .. Nge7 better ! the best move preparing Nf5 8 .. cxd3 9 Bxd3 Ng4! 10 Qe1 or 11 .. o-o 12 Na3 the position is level with few imbalances. o-o might be better here permitting a degraded pawn structure though Black is not… |
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