Vladimir Kramnik – Magnus Carlsen Annotated
Hello everyone and welcome to the live commentary of round 9 of the Candidates Tournament 2013 with me IM Aman Hambleton. This is the top encounter of the day and large fluctuations in the current...
View ArticleScandinavian Defence – Annotated Game
Grandmaster Christian Bauer kindly provided annotations to one of his recent games in the opening that he covered in depth in the book “Play the Scandinavian”, Quality Chess, 2010. Zinchenko,Y (2546) –...
View ArticleGM Bartel’s Lesson on Initiative and Activity
Grandmaster Mateusz Bartel annotates a game that he played in 2009 in Slovakia. Some of his insights are invaluable! The fireworks have ensued right after the opening and the game was very dynamic. I...
View ArticleDelaying the Castle by GM Alex Finkel
I keep saying all the time that in order to become a decent player all you have to do is to learn basic strategic rules and to follow them (not a very easy task by itself!), however if you want to...
View ArticleLearning From Top Players by GM Alex Finkel
In this post I would like to show you that learning and analyzing the games of top players isn’t just very useful to enrich your opening knowledge and expand the horizons, but it has a great practical...
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