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GM R.B. Ramesh 52-Week Program Dominator Of June
Introduction •
In this episode we learnt how GM Sasikiran Krishnan beat GM Artemiev Vladislav by playing like a merciless machine and squeezed the life out of his opponent.
About GM Sasikiran Krishnan • • • • •
He was born in India on 7th January, 1981. He was one of Viswanathan Anand's seconds in the World Chess Championship 2013. Born in Madras, Sasikiran won the Indian Chess Championship for the first time in 1999 and won it again in 2002, 2003 and 2013. Born in Madras, Sasikiran won the Indian Chess Championship for the first time in 1999 and won it again in 2002, 2003 and 2013. At the 2014 Chess Olympiad in Tromsø he scored 7.5/10 points on board three to help the Indian team to win the bronze medal. Sasikiran also won the individual silver medal on board three.
Features of Sasikiran’s games:• • • • •
Sacrifices Deep Calculations Many tactical opportunities Solid chess Includes many themes
In the continuing slides you will see the detailed analysis of the famous Sasikiran vs Artemiev game. This will help you to identify different ideas that can be used during in your own games. So hold your breath, buckle up and lets go for the ride.
GM SASIKIRAN K. VS GM ARTEMIEV V.
Position 1
This position reached after first 6 moves i.e. 1.e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cd4 4. Nd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 a6 6. f3 as shown in pos. 1. White can also play Be3 to which black can play either b5 or Ng4 with the idea of attacking the knight & bishop respectively. But Sasikiran went with home preparation and played f3. The position is equal but soon we will see action that will give chills.
Continued
Black responded with e6 and the game continued as 6. …e6 7. Be3 b5 8. Qd2 b4 as shown pos. 2. Now black is threatening to take on knight on c3. There are not so many good squares for the knight. So Sasikiran played Na4 with the idea of controlling b6.
Position 2
In Sicillian defense, b6 is an important square and in most of the games the side controlling this square usually wins the game. Usually its not advisable for black to play an early b4 because it remains weak and a target for white to attack.
Continued
The game continued and reached this position via 9. Na4 Nbd7 10. O-O-O Qa5 11. b3 Bb7 12. a3 Qc7 as shown in position 3. Both sides continued to adavnce their pieces to reach a solid position in the middlegame.
Position 3
But when white played a3, black responded with QC7, giving up the pinned pawn. Black could have played d5 to make a break in the centre and defending the b4 pawn with Bf8 as shown in position 4. But on d5 white has a very clever idea.
Position 4
Continued
If black had played , white would have played this amazing pawn sacrifice on . Now black ahs two options, either to capture the pawn or retrieve the pawn back to . The knight cannot move to because white has which will trap the knight and retrieving on makes no sense because it will hinder black’s pieces development. Now if the knight captures the pawn then the white has an amazing piece sacrifice. That is , now if white captures on e6 then after , the black’s queen is trapped! Brilliant move , isn’t it?
Continued The game continued after and reached this position via Black has multiple options, either he can castle or capture or maybe . As per the engines should be played and that is what Artemiev played. Sasikiran played , in view of playing ; kicking the knight off and later utilising the semi open h file and maybe pushing to exploit the pin.
Continued The game continued as follows to reach this position. Now black has two options, & . In the game, happened but let’s see what would have happened if black had played If black had played Bxd5, the best continuation would have been this Now if we analyse this position, this is clearly better for white. Well placed knights, rooks on open files, active queen where as black’s king is still in centre, queen is inactive, rooks are inactive.
Continued So after black took with pawn on , white played few forcing moves and reached this position. The position is already winning for white but not an easy win. In this position Sasikiran played , a brilliant queen sacrifice, hard to see! The idea is if black takes then
Continued So after , black played with two motives that are protecting queen and making room for the king. And this is a blunder. The correct move is . White played taking benefit of the outpost on . Blacked played , protecting the knight, giving additional square to the king and now the black queen can roam freely. But now white has a few forcing moves to win this game, Everything is pretty much forced.
Continued All are pretty much forcing moves and now black is completeky lost. Th idea of pawn sacrifice was to activate queen on the h3-c8 diagonal. Black played and now white replied with the devestating move, . And it’s completey lost for black. The game continued as
Puzzle 1
Black to move
Puzzle 2
Black to move
Puzzle 3
White to move
Puzzle 4
White to move
Principle of three moves:• • • •
Try to calculate next three moves in the game. It helps you to identify your candidate moves. Then calculate different variations with those candidate moves. This help you to be able to find the best move as well as make you able to deeply calculate any position. • It is very important to be able to deeply calculate a position as it helps you to avoid blunders.
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