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A look at the recent Queen Sac that floored Carlsen.

I was not going to touch this as it’s popping up everywhere but
I found a Red Hot Pawn game with the same pattern and idea.
This is a good game, one of the best RHP games I have posted.

What I’m listening too during lock in.

My Lock In Chess Tournament with it’s own Chess Stall.

A chess sketch made up of wee gags only chess players will understand.

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Someone, possibly Rudolf Spielmann, once said of Alekhine words to the effect of: "I understand all his combinations perfectly and could execute them myself. It's how he gets into a position to be able to launch them I don't understand."

It was a bit like that with the Carlsen game. I watched Eric Rosen's video on it, and admittedly it was flagged by knowing there was a queen sacrifice, Rosen talking about stopping the King escape, and him saying: "This is the last move.", but even so I saw it in about 1/4 of a second. The problem is I'd never have played 12. c4, so after the knight's taken the pawn falls and the sacrifice isn't on...

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I was really excited in one of my recent games on here to spot a neat queen sacrifice but unfortunately didn't get a chance to play it.

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@greenpawn34 said

A look at the recent Queen Sac that floored Carlsen.

I was not going to touch this as it’s popping up everywhere but
I found a Red Hot Pawn game with the same pattern and idea.
This is a good game, one of the best RHP games I have posted.

What I’m listening too during lock in.

My Lock In Chess Tournament with it’s own Chess Stall.

A chess ske ...[text shortened]... made up of wee gags only chess players will understand.

Blog Post 451
What music are you listening to during lock down.


Al Stewart, Chicago, Eric Clapton, also a very talented Dutch girl, Lucie Horsch -

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Also not really happy about that Carlsen game as now I'm probably going to see a lot more 3. Nf3 when I play the Scandinavian ๐Ÿ™‚

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As I said all Centre Counter players are booked up to the eyelids v 3.Nc3.

More bad news:

1.e4 d5 2.exd5 Qxd5 3.Nc3 Qa5 4.b4!? was played recently at the top level


White won in 14 moves. So you will start seeing that very soon as well.

H. Nakamura - A. Firouzja Rapid online game 2020

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