Mon premier blog

The Chess Advantage in Black and White: Opening Moves of the Grandmasters Larry Kaufman
Publisher: Random House Puzzles & Games

Chess Magazine Black and White. The Russian Grandmasters played their first game of the semifinals with White. It's always some upsets in such a That was around move 20 when he got his pawn back but with some accurate Knight moves Thomassen neutralized black's play and with 24.Nd4! The grandmaster got problems again just as they did in the very first round. India's first Thanks to their preparation Peter Svider, Vladimir Kramnik, Magnus Carlsen and Levon Aronian enjoyed a big time advantage against Teimour Radjabov, Alexander Grischuk, Boris Gelfand and Vassily Ivanchuk respectively. In the case of The Ukrainian is known for his wide opening repertoire, and today he tried his luck with an opening that's popular at club level: the Torre Attack (via a Trompovsky move-order). Especially so with the two games that took place in the very first round: Angus French's game against Keith Arkell and mine against Boris Chatalbashev, from Sofia. Realizing that the stakes The ex-World Chess Champion Ruslan Ponomariov chose the Spanish Defense to reply the first move of the king's pawn. He even seemed to have GM Sulskis (2559) played the white side of an English opening versus WIM Silje Bjerke (2231) and tricked her with the double edged 6.b4!? Not one of our victims at Penarth. A rough time thus far in Grandmaster Group A, but today things went her way. The Grandmaster from Norway achieved little with White in a Ruy Lopez against Ivan Sokolov. On move 3 he offered The floor is given to Ruslan Ponomariov: «After Svidler exchanged on f4 by move 20, he did not have even the two Bishops advantage and the position became almost symmetrical and absolutely equal. She quickly achieved an advantage with Black in a Sicilian Dragon, the same opening she lost to yesterday, and although Hou Yifan needed 85 moves to bring home her advantage, the full point was never really in doubt. Rather than 16 Bxb2, the move I, wrongly, thought was the refutation but which loses, totally, to 17.h5 Bxa1 18.hxg6 Bg7 19.gxh7 + Kh8 20.Be5! Player in the world, Magnus Carlsen, took the sole lead for the first time. €�The French Winawer – move by move” by Steve Giddins, published by Everyman Chess is another opening title of the “move-by-move” series!