A mate attack out of the blue
Дек 9, 2009 by
09.12.2009
– Today will see the first game of the final Gelfand-Ponomariov at the World
Cup in Khanty-Mansiysk. Opportunity for us to look back on an exciting moment
from the endgame Karjakin-Mamedyarov. The latter has just played 49...Rb2?
(diagram), thus giving his young opponent the unexpected chance to decide the
game by mating threats. Which surprising move helped the 19-year-old Ukraine
to secure victory now? Use this larger
diagram to work it out for yourself. Grandmaster Karsten Müller has analysed
the endgame Karjakin-Mamedyarov
for ChessBase Magazine Online.
Adrian Mikhalchishin:
Winning Structures
Great players always had and still have more than just broad theoretical knowledge. Every of them has some favourite methods, which simply help to score more points. The greatest even have favourite pawn structures! And they immediately exploited the knowledge of others - Alekhine invented some interesting structures, which were copied by his opponent in that game (Rubinstein), and later exploited by Botvinnik and then by Kramnik! More information...
Chessbase.com
Great players always had and still have more than just broad theoretical knowledge. Every of them has some favourite methods, which simply help to score more points. The greatest even have favourite pawn structures! And they immediately exploited the knowledge of others - Alekhine invented some interesting structures, which were copied by his opponent in that game (Rubinstein), and later exploited by Botvinnik and then by Kramnik! More information...
Position after 49...Rb2? How did Karjakin continue?
Chessbase.com