Monday, 24 January 2022

A little bit of learning

 At the risk of sounding like a cranky old man, it is all youtubes and engine this and engine that, where chess learning is concerned (*not really). In the good old days (*not that good, really) learning from books was the go. So when I coach, I still use books, including books on the middlegame written by Max Euwe. 

Having shown one of my students a couple of games where a nice kingside attack was executed, I was pleased to see him put that knowledge into practice less than 24 hours later.


Lcheng (1787) - Connor5566 (1858) [D06]
Summer Bootcamp Lightning https://lichess.org/WpWIR21U, 24.01.2022

Start positionPrevious MoveNext MoveEnd positionPlay movesStop playing
1. d4 d5 2. Nf3 Nf6 3. e3 Bf5 4. c4 e6 5. Nc3 Nbd7 6. Qb3 dxc4 7. Bxc4 Nb6 8. Bb5+ c6 9. Be2 Bd6 10. Nh4 Bg6 11. h3 Bc7 12. Nxg6 hxg6 13. O-O Qd6 14. g3 Rxh3 15. Bf3 O-O-O 16. Rd1 Rxg3+ 17. fxg3 Qxg3+ 18. Bg2 Qh2+ 19. Kf1 Nbd5 20. Qc2 Ng4 21. Nxd5 Rxd5 22. Qe2 Rf5+ 23. Ke1 Rf2 24. Qxf2 Nxf2 25. Kxf2 Bg3+ 26. Kf1 Qh5 27. Bd2 Qf5+ 28. Kg1 Bf2+ 29. Kh2 Qh5+ 30. Bh3 Qf3 31. Bg2 Qg3+ 32. Kh1 Qh4+ 33. Bh3 Qxh3# 0-1

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