In 1997 Anand managed to execute a nice and deadly combination against French top player Joel Lautier. In a messy Scandinavian middlegame one of Lautier’s bishops got trapped. This proved to be decisive in the end.
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Waldemar
Category Archives: The World’s Most Famous Chess Combinations
[video] The World’s Most Famous Chess Combinations #11: Beliavsky – Kasparov, Belfort 1988
During the 1988 World Cup in Belfort Kasparov managed to win a very nice game against Beliavsky. In his favorite Gruenfeld he seemed to be in problems but corked up some tremendous defence!
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[video] The World’s Most Famous Chess Combinations #10: Larsen – Spassky, Belgrade 1970
In this video I discuss the famous chess combination that Spassky played against Larsen during the Team match U.S.S.R. – Rest Of The World, Belgrade 1970.
[video] The World’s Most Famous Chess Combinations #9: Byrne – Fischer, New York 1956
In this video I discuss the famous combination that Fischer played against Donald Byrne during the Rosenwald Chess Tournament, New York 1956. The combination in itself I find not that transcendental – if compared to Kasparov v. Topalov, Wijk aan Zee 1999 f.i. – but the fact that the thirteen-year-old Bobby must have seen it coming and trusted to it as a way of solving his opening problems I find very impressive… I hope you do too!
[video] The World’s Most Famous Chess Combinations #8: Glucksberg – Najdorf
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[video] The World’s Most Famous Chess Combinations #7: Capablanca – Mattison
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[video] The World’s Most Famous Chess Combinations #6: Bogoljubow v. Aljechin
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[video] The World’s Most Famous Chess Combinations #5: Adams v. Torre
In New Orleans Adams played what is probably the most beautiful overloading combination in the history of chess. Poor Torre was desperately trying to keep his pieces together but in the end could not manage against the well poised violence of white’s heavy pieces.
Some people think that the game was a sham, because of it’s beauty. What do you think?
On http://www.chesshistory.com/winter/extra/adamstorre.html you can find more historical information about the two players and their game.
Anyway, check out the video, it’s well worth it!
[video] The World’s Most Famous Chess Combinations #4: Rotlevi v. Rubinstein
The great Polish master Akiba Rubinstein was a purist in the game of chess who always believed in a positional and correct way of development of the game. Despite this attitude, which meant that he avoided what looked beautiful but was in reality unsound, he is responsible for some of the most beautiful attacking games ever played. We will now look at the end of his game against Rotlevi which was played in Lodz 1907:
[video] The World’s Most Famous Chess Combinations #3: Steinitz v. Von Bardeleben
In Hastings 1895 Steinitz played in a strong field of 22 players.
The year before he had lost his world title to Lasker and only reached fifth place in the standings. However he managed to play what was probably the most spectacular combination of his live. The end was both beautiful and sad…
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