A friend has been trying to talk me into playing in the lichess 45/45 league. I’ve been playing some 15+15 games to establish my classical rating and I just finished this one.
Overall I am pleased with the game, though you will see that there are many areas in which I could improve here.
I’m curious what the readers think…
Til Next Time,
Chris Wainscott
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Starting today and proceeding for the next several days the game of the day will be a bit different.
These games are taken from the Gelfand-Svidler rapid match at the 2nd Gedeon Japhet tournament from 2014.
What makes them different is that the players gave in depth interviews about each game. So I will give not only the games, but the YouTube videos of the interviews as well!
Til Next Time,
Chris Wainscott
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I’ve been looking at some various positions that I might want to play. I’ve been thinking about playing the mainline Marshall instead of playing anti-Marshall setups as White.
So I was looking at this position:
Here the main move for White is by far 17.Nd2. It’s almost universal. I was looking at a different move which I am working on, but I then started asking myself, why not 17.Bd1 in this position? Doesn’t that force the light squared bishops off?
So I was trying to determine the consequences of giving up the light squared bishop for White. Then I turned the engine on. The engine shows that there is a brutal tactical refutation after 17.Bd1.
Have a look. The solution appears at the end of the post.
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Chris Wainscott
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Solution: 17…Rxe3 18.fxe3 Bxg3. Here everything wins. Feel free to analyze all of the lines with or without an engine.