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News

Blitz Chess Tactics

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Thursday, 26 December 2013

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How does White finish off the opponent in blitz mode?

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GM Mamedyarov - GM Karjakin annotated by GM Naiditsch

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Wednesday, 25 December 2013

By GM Arkadij Naiditsch, #1 German chess player, FIDE 2737

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Attention: Chess Evolution has a special Christmas offer for you, dear Pogonina.com reader. Subscribe for the weekly Top GM Secrets bulletin and enter the "Christmas2013" bonus code to get a 25% discount!

Mamedyarov is probably one of the most fighting players currently. In some of his interviews he even said: " I just don't know how to make draws"! And of course he didn't disappoint his fans in this game either. After an interesting opening White quickly takes over and ends the game with a sparkling attack.

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Chess Review TV Program

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Wednesday, 25 December 2013


This is a Youtube version of a TV chess program that has been broadcast for ages on one of the Russian sports channels. The hosts are GM Sergey Makarichev and his wife Marina.

In this week's episode:

-World Mind Sports Games: blitz
- Sergey Karjakin and Hou Yifan - winners of the WSMG blitz tournament
- London Chess Classic, knock-out stage: Anand - Kramnik, Adams - Svidler, Caruana - Gelfand, Gelfand - Adams, Nakamura - Kramnik, Nakamura - Gelfand
- Hikaru Nakamura, the winner of London Chess Classic

Sorry, you will have to follow Bobby Fischer's example and learn Russian to understand what the people are saying!

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Chess Week on Twitter

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Wednesday, 25 December 2013
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Pogonina.com offers you a selection of the top-10 chess tweets from last week - a digest of the most important chess news in one short post.

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Monday Tactics: Oldies

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By GM Kevin Spraggett, Canada, FIDE 2544
Kevin's blog (parental advisory)

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 You may delay, but time will not.  
―     Benjamin Franklin
 

GM  Bondarevsky, Igor

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IM Sliwa, Bogdan

Hastings, 1961.  Position after Whites 15th move (15.Qa3).  The Black Bishop is attacked.  White was counting on grabbing some material against the Russian grandmaster, but a very unpleasant suprise is in store instead

BLACK TO PLAY AND WIN!

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GM Anand - GM Kramnik annotated by GM Balogh

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Monday, 23 December 2013
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By GM Csaba Balogh, Hungary, FIDE 2648

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Attention: Chess Evolution has a special Christmas offer for you, dear Pogonina.com reader. Subscribe for the weekly Top GM Secrets bulletin and enter the "Christmas2013" bonus code to get a 25% discount!

We are already in the KO part of the London Chess Classic rapid tournament. The first encounter between the two former World Champions was drawn, while in the second game Kramnik crushed Anand convincingly with the black pieces. Let's examine how it happened.

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Attacking in Chess: Reserves

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Sunday, 22 December 2013

By IM David Pruess, USA, FIDE 2347

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A video lecture by our friend IM David Pruess on the prerequisites of launching a successful attack.

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Chess Tactics

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Galkin (2595) - Kovalenko (2643), 2013
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White has previously played Rfg2. What is wrong with this consolidating move?

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David vs. Goliath: Upsets of the Week

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Saturday, 21 December 2013

By candidate master Peter Zhdanov, editor of Pogonina.com

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In this special weekly column we will be looking at the most unexpected upsets that happened last week. Players usually face opponents of a similar level. Considerably less frequent are situations when a significantly lower-rated player succeeds in beating a much stronger adversary.

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Chess Review TV Program

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Thursday, 19 December 2013


This is a Youtube version of a TV chess program that has been broadcast for ages on one of the Russian sports channels. The hosts are GM Sergey Makarichev and his wife Marina.

In this week's episode:

- Chennai, India, the venue of the Anand-Carlsen match: a city of contrasts
- World Mind Sports Games, Bejing, rapid chess
- Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, President of the International Mind Sports Association
- London Chess Classic rapid tournament: Adams - Anand, Sadler - Svidler, Rowson - Kramnik, Jones - Gelfand

Sorry, you will have to follow Bobby Fischer's example and learn Russian to understand what the people are saying!

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