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A New ChessVideo Show: A look at one of my Chicago games

On ChessVideos.tv, I've been presenting USCL Games of the Year, but not for the next couple of weeks; instead, we'll have a look at a couple of my own games. This week we'll look back to one of my games from the 8th North American FIDE Invitational, played last month in Chicago, IL. The game is my fourth round win over young Indian IM Arjun Vishnuvardhan, a Sveshnikov Sicilian where I was able to exploit my opponent's inaccuracies in the opening to win in thematic fashion.

Have a look - the shows are free and can be accessed on-demand.

Posted by Dennis Monokroussos on Tuesday March 11, 2008 at 8:20pm

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Paul:

Very nice game Dennis, nicely executed. In regard to that sweet knight move that you asked us to come up with on our own near the end (trying to avoid spoilers), I'm quite annoyed that I didn't come up with it, and I think you're absolutely right that sacrifices are much easier to see when there's a capture involved. I don't think either that it's just that the Opponent Must Choose To Lose Material Or Accept The Sacrifice, but that we're trained to look for spectacular captures, not moves to squares, and just don't see them in the first place, as you suggest.

Andy Soltis in The Inner Game of Chess says that, if I'm remembering this properly, we have to always investigate (1) checks, (2) captures, and (3) invasion squares. I never got the hang of number three, but I think it's a good way of formalizing it.

Thanks for the blog and the videos; I happily give you my free time.

3.11.2008 11:34pm

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Ken (mail):

I saw you play that game live, and enjoyed hearing your thoughts on the game last night when I watched the video. In regards to that knight move, I remember spending some time on that move, but I think I rejected it because when you moved your knight, I thought you'd made a mistake (obviously not though). Also in the game when you moved your Queen into the corner of the board, I had wondered what you were up to, and your comments on your plans were educational. Think that was my favourite of all your videos so far, although I've not seen about half of the ones you have listed.

3.15.2008 10:30am

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