A little Quiz

Question: What is missing here?
Hint: It’s not the fighting spirit.

 

 

 

Answer: The draw in 17 moves.

Drawmeister of the Day

Spacebarring

Yet another game that you can reproduce at home by just pressing SPACE on your keyboard. You just won’t get paid for it.

An amazing Blitz Game

Getting old

I can’t remember the last time when Radja was playing for a win with white, can you?

Maybe he should start a career as commentator. In a mic-grabbing contest, he could even give Svidler a run for his money.


Source: Freshmen Media on Youtube

Same procedure as every year

There we go again

Another all-engine game, starting with the novelty on move 16. How do you create them? Just keep pressing the SPACE-bar.

Thank god for Azeri-Chess!

There wasn’t much going on as of late and this blog became a bit quiet, but finally we have reason to expect regular updates again: The Drawmeisters are back at work. Needless to say, this only happens in Azeriland, because nobody else invites them anymore. Needless to say, today’s first draw is in the books after 43 minutes.

Did I mention that Shak was Sergey’s second against Magnus? To be fair, he did beat Wesley yesterday, which was soooo sad.

US Champs 11th round

Two games caught my attention: First we have a line, featured on this website, that resulted in a 2815-performance by Naroditsky in this game and let’s not forget that this is the guy who played 6.h4 in the Najdorf. Wesley didn’t mind, because a draw suits his tournament strategy.

The second game features the good old French, which is arguably the worst opening ever, except whenever white tries to prove an advantage, he loses. Note: This time Fabi made the time control with two queens.

Meanwhile in St. Louis

Caruana as black made the time control in this position


… and lost 39 moves later.

Play it safe!