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Opening: Kings Indian: 5.Be2
Annotations by: Earl of Norfolk
From the analysis: A favourite strategy of playing the opening in chess is to trick one's opponent into playing a variation he would not normally adopt by transposing a few moves here and there. In the game below,...
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Annotated ChessWorld GameOpening: Queens pawn game
Annotations by: Earl of Norfolk
From the analysis: Most of the interest in this game lies in the last few moves, in which Black is winning when White sets a neat trap that could have turned the tables.
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Annotated Master GameOpening: QGD: Cambridge Springs defence, Bogoljubow variation
Annotations by: Earl of Norfolk
From the analysis: Siegbert Tarrasch of Germany (1862-1934) was the principle spokeman for the Classical School of Chess. Amongst his various pronouncements was his theory of the Queen's Gambit Declined. He...
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Annotated Master GameOpening: Sicilian: closed, 2...Nc6
Annotations by: Earl of Norfolk
From the analysis: A wild game in which the combinations are exchanged like gunshots in the Old West. The loser of this game, William Napier, said of it some 30 years later, "This is, I think, my best game [ever],...
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Annotated Master GameOpening: Bishops opening: Classical variation
Annotations by: Earl of Norfolk
From the analysis: A game between two amateurs played during Philidor's lifetime. It is far from a perfect game, and in fact White's spectacular two-Rook sacrifice should objectively lose, but Black fails to make...
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Annotated Master GameOpening: Queens Indian: 4.Nc3
Annotations by: Arkba
From the analysis: Black sacrifices a piece for pawns and white resigns. I present some example lines of how the game might continue. Black (Kramnik) seems to have a good advantage but white's resignation is still...
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Annotated Master GameOpening: Reti opening
Annotations by: Earl of Norfolk
From the analysis: One of the greatest attacking players of all time is Rudolph Spielmann of Austria, the main part of whose career was during the decade prior to the outbreak of World War I. Nevertheless, he won...
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Annotated Master GameOpening: QGD Slav: 3.Nf3
Annotations by: Arkba
From the analysis: A slav variation of the QGD. White has a good middle game position and black is holding on. A critical pawn capture for white is ignored and the initiative switches to black who plays strongly...
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Annotated Master GameOpening: English opening: Agincourt variation
Annotations by: Alkhemyst
From the analysis: This game was played during the 1936 Nottingham Tournament. It received a prize given for the best game of the round (13th). It notably features an isolated Queen Pawn.
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Annotated Master GameOpening: KGA: Kings knights gambit
Annotations by: jim42078, Lord Ptarmigan
From the analysis: The old English master Howard Staunton, one of the strongest chess players of the 19th Century, destroys some poor soul in a simultaneous display - although Staunton makes a mess of the finish...
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