World Chess Championship – Round 7 – Coverage by GM Ronen Har-Zvi
World Chess Championship – Round 7 – Coverage by GM Ronen Har-Zvi
Posted on November 18,2013 By OnlineChessLessons.NET Contributor in General Chess Articles. Game 7 of the world chess championship match brought no news for the defending champ and the chess world. One more game with the white pieces, one more easy and simple play and game from Carlseen with a draw. True, Anand stopped the bleeding, but with 5 games to go, and down 2 points, the title seems getting far far away from the former champ. Thank you to Grandmaster Ronen Har-Zvi for this exclusive coverage for OnlineChessLessons.NET[…]
Play Positional Chess like A Grandmaster by GM Damian Lemos
Posted on November 18,2013 By William in Strategy & Game Review, All Articles w/ Videos, Classic Games (Pre 2010), Beginner’s Corner. Understanding positional chess is one of the hardest things to learn for a beginner chess player because there are not 100% concrete rules. Of course you can say there are principles like ¨don´t place your pawns on the same color as your bishop to set up for a more favorable endgame¨ however there are ALWAYS exceptions in chess. One of the best positional players in the history of the game is Bobby Fischer, an incredibly intuitive player who ¨nev[…]
World Chess Championship 2013 – Round 6, Carlsen vs Anand
Posted on November 16,2013 By William in Strategy & Game Review, Chess Openings, Tournament Updates, All Articles w/ Videos. The 2013 World Chess Championship began with 4 fighting draws but challenger Magnus Carlsen has gained serious momentum in rounds 5 and 6 with impressive wins against the defending World Chess Champion Viswanathan Anand. In the below chess video, we will take a look at just how Carlsen was able to break down Anand’s defenses 67 moves. By move 37, the position had looked very equal with a slight edge for black, but Anand tried to force matters to […]
Round 5 – FIDE World Chess Championship – Anand vs Carlsen
Posted on November 15,2013 By GM Damian Lemos in All Articles w/ Videos. In this video Grand Master Damian Lemos analyzes round 5 of the World Chess Championship between Carlsen (White) and Anand ( Black). Magnus opens the game with the English opening ( his previous White games he played the Reti opening, not getting much ). After a couple of moves we get a triangle variation of the Semi-Slav defense. The resulting position is quite unexplored and we get a pre endgame soon where Black seems to have the edge due to hi[…]
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Nice one.