Annotated Games
Our first game was played in the Universities Tournament held in Armenia. A major upset by a player rated 2223 beating his opponent Ter Sahakyan rated 2601 in fantastic style. One of the best attacking games you can see recently. A must see game!
After 3 weeks of World Cup, we finally have two finalists. There have been many surprises on the way and a few lucky wins, but, as it turns out, anything is possible in chess. Nevertheless, we watched some very interesting games and a lot of fighting chess. For this week’s edition of the best games, […]
It’s been a very exciting week of chess and there is still more to come, as all eyes are on the ongoing FIDE World Cup. For this edition, we have chosen to analyze 3 games played in this very strong tournament.
For this week’s edition, we have chosen 3 games played in the recently finished top event Sinquefield Cup. We will take a look at the game where Aronian outplayed So in a complex attacking battle. The second game is a dramatic lose by the current world champion Magnus Carlsen to Veselin Topalov. And finally, the […]
In today’s article IM Renier Castallanos will analyze 3 tournament games played by one of our students Rebuen Salimu (1960 FIDE). He has successfully completed both our 21 Days to Supercharge Your Chess: The Complete Training Program and Dominate Rook Endgames with GM Alexander Ipatov significantly improving his game. He wants to take his chess […]
First game we have analyzed for the 15th edition of Three Best Games in TheChessWorld was played in the Turkish Team Championship between the Bulgarian number two (after Topalov) Ivan Cheparinov and Wesley So.
Our first game is by a frequent guest on this section of the page, the Chinese super star Wei Yi. He recently produced another gem by crushing the very solid GM Wang Yue (rated 2724). The game is a Sicilian defense in which Wei Yi develops a typical plan attacking with g4 quite early in […]
Game 1: Adams is a favorite of many chess fans around the world. An elite player whose style is very positional, and fun to observe. In the first round he beats the strong GM David Navara in a Najdorf Sicilian with the variation 6.g3!? A move that he used against Giri not so long ago […]
The Norway Masters did not go well for Carlsen from the very start. Losing on time to Topalov in the first round marked the rest of the event for him and after 4 rounds he was trailing the event with only half a point. In this game we see a spectacular attack by Anand in […]
Wesley is a machine playing chess. His extraordinary talent has turned him into one of the strongest players in the world and a lot of people see him as a serious candidate to the world crown in the future. It is not normal to see him lose a game that he had under control.