Best chess games (September) - Natalia Pogonina's report for ChessPro |
| Written by Peter Zhdanov | ||||||||||||||||
| Tuesday, 03 November 2009 | ||||||||||||||||
 Each month ChessPro publishes a list of the best chess games of the month, compiled by well-known experts: grandmasters, chess analysts & journalists. WGM Natalia Pogonina has been invited to become a member of the panel of judges for the September issue of the hit-list. Thanks to that, you can now see the most exciting games yourself, and compare your impression of them with the opinion of Natalia & her colleagues. Top-10 games (September, 2009) according to grandmaster Natalia Pogonina 1. Grischuk - Shirov A great endgame play, even such an endgame expert as Shirov couldn't put up resistance 2. Riazantsev - Sjugirov A beautiful and suprising sacrifice in exchange for a chance to put pressure on the opponent's position. Black could have defended more solidly, but finding the right moves in that position was tough 3. Howell - Bacrot A nice knight sacrifice, and precise play which led to Black's win without giving White any chances to escape 4. Karjakin - Grischuk The dance of enraged knights in this game leaves an indelible impression 5. Sokolov - Bologan Unevident and beautiful sacrifice combo 6. Bologan - Sutovsky A great Ra7-c5-Qa8 plan, and nice subsequent play 7. Tiviakov - Moiseenko This can rarely be seen nowadays: bc; then the king marches to the queenside, b4, and then a pawn march on the kingside. Very nice! 8. Dworakowska - Shen Yang An inspired and beautiful attack 9. Navara - Bologan A surprising positional queen sacrifice 10. Bologan - Eljanov White leaves the kingside pawns unprotected, and marches with his king to the Black's castle, leaving Black absolutely hopeless. Very smart! You can see the games themselves and rankings by other masters at ChessPro 
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