Central Domination
1 • CM eltenedor •- Mark Moiseevich Stolberg - Mikhail Botvinnik
- Bent Larsen - Efim Geller
- Aron Nimzowitsch - Massimiliano Romi
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AlphaZero vs. Human GM Games
1 • CM eltenedor •- Kasparov's h-pawn march, Winawer French
- AlphaZero's h-pawn march, Winawer French
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Exploiting Doubled Pawns
1 • CM eltenedor •- Mikhail Botvinnik - Samuel Reshevsky
- Boris Spassky - Robert James Fischer
- Eugenio Torre - Nona Gaprindashvili
- Paul Morphy - Abram Arnold
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Modern (Pirc) Defense Games
2 • CM eltenedor •- Carlsen win w/ a6+b5
- Practice 5+3 game
- David vs. Michael sparring in person
- Martyn Kravtsiv - Alireza Firouzja
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KIA training game with Michael
1 • CM eltenedor •- 12/23/22
- Fischer win - exploits weaknesses everywhere
- Movsesian miniature - Nxe5 tactic
- Movsesian vs. Gelfand endgame - c3, Nc4, Nxe5 tactic (again)
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Queenside Attacks
3 • CM eltenedor •- How you can use a Qside attack to strike at the center and across the board
- Classic Alekhine's Gun which featured a memorable attack on the c-file
- The wrath of the "dragon tail" if white plays a Closed Sicilian
- Because it's so bizarre! But similar: Qside attack then hold off Kside attack
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Defending the castled king
1 • CM eltenedor •- !? lichess bullet instinct
- Vicious counterattack
- Evacuation
- Shortening the file
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Botvinnik playing his Botvinnik System
2 • CM eltenedor •- Mikhail Botvinnik - Vitaly Sergeevich Sherbakov
- Mikhail Botvinnik - Berndt Soderborg
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Responses to KID
1 • CM eltenedor •- Saemisch Variation
- Chapter 2
- Chapter 3
- Chapter 4
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- zorro1984
Tarrasch Defense Overview
1 • CM eltenedor •- Karpov ties down Kasparov's pieces, creates favorable endgame
- A classic; isolani morphs into hanging pawns that never advance, backward pawn
- Isolani advances to d4 for dynamism and attacking chances
- Isolani provides piece activity, Spassky creates weaknesses of his own
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What is modern chess?
2 • CM eltenedor •- For context: 1) Romantic Era Chess, sacrifice or die trying
- Steinitz's "Science of Chess"...antiquated, really?!
- 4) Classical chess: hold center, generally principled and often subtle play
- 3) Hypermodern chess of early 20th: small center provocation, guerrilla warfare
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