A few people have asked me for games I have annotated move by move. I have quite a few such games at chess.com. Here is a link to those games. If the link does not work, you can go to chess.com, search “chessiq”, go to my blog, and then search blog for “annotated” and you [...]
Oct
10
2009
10
2009
Oct
6
2009
6
2009
Annotated Fischer 002: Fischer – Bolbochan
In the following game, Fischer plays White against the Sicilian Najdorf. This game was annotated by Fischer.
Four things stood out for me in this game:
1. Fischer knew the game was won by move 20, because he had a “Knight Outpost” on d5. It took another 17 moves to execute his win. As some people say, [...]
Sep
27
2009
27
2009
Annotated Miniature 3: Gedult – Sachs
This is a Queens Gambit Declined game. White sacrifices a pawn for rapid development. Black picks up two pawns and sort of gives up a piece hoping to trick White into a a checkmate position. He ends up being checkmated as he protects his Queen at the expense of the King! Comments are welcome.
Annotated Miniature [...]
Sep
10
2009
10
2009
Annotated Miniature 2: Bird – Lasker
This game features the Danish Gambit where White sacrifices several pawns for rapid development, and then tries to sacrifice a piece which Black declines, and at the end, I could not find a better a way to explain what happened, without paraphrasing what Jesus said regarding setting your priorities straight. I hope you enjoy the [...]
Sep
7
2009
7
2009
Annotated Miniature 1: Mayet – Anderssen, 1851
Studying miniatures has many benefits. First, almost always, the winner wins quickly because the loser did something (really bad) that s/he should not have done in the opening. Second, related to the first reason, one learns what not to do. Third, related to the first and the second, one learns how to finish off a [...]
