The Grand Prix Attack Bb5 System with GM Perelshteyn

King’s Indian Defense by GM Kritz
Posted on August 12,2013 By William in Strategy & Game Review, Chess Openings. The King’s Indian Defense is the most double-edged response for black against 1. d4, by far maintaining the most decisive results of all the queen pawn opening systems. The reason for this is very simple – black immediately creates imbalances in the position by allowing white to create a large space advantage in the center (normally with pawns on c4, d4, and e4) while black calmly develops his kingside fianchetto and plans a targeted strike in th[…]

Carlsen vs Vallejo – Closed Sicilian Domination
Posted on August 08,2013 By William in Strategy & Game Review, Chess Openings, All Articles w/ Videos. Carlsen opens with 1. e4 and Vallejo-Pons responds with the Sicilian Defense with 1. ..c5, however from there the opening takes a strange twist in move order and ends up with a Closed Sicilian by Carlsen. It seemed that black got the worst of the opening because he essentially wasted an important tempo with an early ..a6 and also white managed to achieve an annoying way of stopping black from castling early in the game. Carlsen achieved a sizable[…]

The Grand Prix Attack Bb5 System with GM Perelshteyn
Posted on August 05,2013 By William in Strategy & Game Review, Chess Openings, All Articles w/ Videos. The Grand Prix Attack is one of the most popular sidelines for white against the Sicilian Defense, sidestepping the main lines in favor of a more narrowly targeted battle in the opening. The Grand Prix Attack Bb5 systems are highly regarded by many leading Grandmasters as the positional ideas behind his early bishop maneuver are fundamentally very solid – white plays to exchange his light-squared bishop early in the game, and then strives to plac[…]

Carlsen vs Nakamura – Insane Tactics in the Queen’s Gambit
Posted on July 31,2013 By William in Strategy & Game Review, Chess Openings, All Articles w/ Videos. Carlsen opens with 1. d4 and Nakamura responds with the Slav Defense. Carlsen plays an early exchange on d5 and play steers towards the Charousek Variation of the Queen’s Gambit. I was not extremely impressed with Nakamura’s choice of opening with black as Carlsen was able to gain an extremely rapid lead in development followed by a very solid position and finally mobile pawns in the center. Carlsen skillfully exploited a superior position by emb[…]

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