Sunday, 27 February 2022

Pirc Player Underestimates Simple Attack

Here in my latest club game against Bourne End, my opponent chose to play the Pirc again 1.e4. I seem to remember seeing some games against the Kings Indian recently where White can have their pawns placed aggresively on d4, e4 and f4. I think that this setup is known as the 'Austrian Attack'? I elected to play this setup, given that I think that the f pawn should not in any way be obsrtucted by the Knight on f3. I have used the 'Saemisch' variation in the past (for White) with limited success, learning it because my old chess mentor, Adam Sobey used to thrash me with the Kings Indian as Black every week! I guess I learned from my mistakes, but I was expecting much more of a Queenside attack from Black in this game! After the King moves on move 20, fxg6 is coming, with the possibility of Knight jumping to h5 for backup ...


As usual, any comments welcome ...

Pirc Game


Start positionPrevious MoveNext MoveEnd positionPlay movesStop playing
1. e4 d6 2. d4 Nf6 3. Nc3 g6 4. f4 Bg7 5. h3 O-O 6. Nf3 c5 7. d5 Nfd7 8. Be3 Qc7 9. Qd2 a6 10. f5 b5 11. Bh6 b4 12. Bxg7 Kxg7 13. Ne2 a5 14. g4 Nb6 15. Ng3 Nb8d7 16. h4 Ne5 17. Nxe5 dxe5 18. h5 Rh8 19. hxg6 fxg6 20. Qh6+ 1 0


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My Grand Prix Attack!

Unlike the previous post featuring the Carlsen game, my Grand Prix Attack as White was not contested by a Grand Master thankfully :) However, I remebered the basic pattern that Carlsen used -> I.e. the triangle of Queen, Bishop and Knight ... ! In fact, I even sacrificed my Knight without realising it, but given that this was a bullet game I think that I can be forgiven ... In this game Black probably made the mistake of closing the position after 10. ..d4.


As usual, any comments welcome ...

Greg_B Grand Prix Attack - Bullet Game


Start positionPrevious MoveNext MoveEnd positionPlay movesStop playing
1. e4 c5 2. Nc3 g6 3. f4 Bg7 4. Nf3 a6 5. a4 e6 6. Bc4 Ne7 7. O-O O-O 8. d3 Nbc6 9. Qe1 d5 10. Bb3 d4 11. f5 exf5 12. Qh4 h6 13. Bxh6 dxc3 14. Ng5 fxe4 15. Bxg7 Nf5 16. Qh7# 1 0


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Wednesday, 16 February 2022

Carlsen and the perfect Grand Prix Attack

Recently, I was hunting for some advice on how to play the Grand Prix Attack as White. Thankfully I found a scintillating Carlsen Bullet Game to feast on!!
Here the game would simply have concluded - 17. ..g5 18.Qxg5# or 17. ..Ke5 18.Qf4# .... What a corker!!

As usual, any comments welcome ...

Carlsen Grand Prix Attack - Bullet Game


Start positionPrevious MoveNext MoveEnd positionPlay movesStop playing
1. e4 c5 2. Nc3 d6 3. f4 a6 4. Nf3 Nc6 5. a4 g6 6. Bc4 Bg7 7. O-O Nf6 8. d3 O-O 9. Qe1 Rb8 10. f5 Nd4 11. Qh4 Nxc2 12. Bh6 Nxa1 13. fxg6 hxg6 14. Ng5 e6 15. Bxg7 Kxg7 16. Rxf6 Kxf6 17. Nxe6+ 1 0


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