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Position after 37.exf6

The situation is completely hopeless for Black. After 37...Rxe4 he would leave the queen on c7 unprotected, so he opted to trade queens 37...Qxf4 But White goes for mate! 38.Rxe7+! Kf8 39.Rh8#

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Position after: 20...Nxe6

In this game Anand shows his famous tactical ability to destroy his opponent's position 21.Nxg6!! hxg6 22.Qxg6+ Ng7 [Black loses as well after 22...Kh8 23.Qh5+ Kg8 24.Nf5 Bd8 25.Re3 for those of you who enjoy long variations, I here quote this one 25...Ng5 26.Nh6+ Kg7 27.Rg3 Rh8 28.Bxg5 fxg5 29.Nf5+ Kg8 30.Qe8+ Kh7 31.Rh3#] 23.Nf5 Bd8 24.Re3! Bringing the rook to the attack through the third rank plays a key role to carry on the attack. 24...Rf7 25.Rh3 Ne7 [25...Rd7 26.Nxg7 Rxg7 27.Qe8#] 26.Nh6+ Kh8 27.Nxf7+ Kg8 28.Rh8#

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Position after: 17...Kh8

Anand's pieces are wonderfully developed, so it's the right time to break through. 18.d5! exd5 19.e5! this move reveals a major problem in black's position, the queen on d7 is highly vulnerable, if attacked by the white bishop from f5, it would have no place to go. Black is now forced to sacrifice a piece to continue the game. 19...Qg4 [19...Ng8 20.Bf5] 20.exf6 Bxf6 21.Bxf6 gxf6 22.Qd2 Qg7 23.Nbd4 Rg8 24.g3 It's not only a piece up, White's position is overwhelming. 24...Nxd4 25.Nxd4 Bc8 26.Re7 Rd7 27.Rde1 Qg5 28.Qxg5 fxg5 29.Rxd7 Bxd7 30.Re7 Be6 31.Nxe6 fxe6 32.Rh7#

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Kramnik-Leko match

 April 25th - 29th at the National Theatre Miskolc, Hungary

Game annotated by GM Amador Rodriguez

Amador Rodríguez is a Spanish Grand Master originally from Cuba. A former trainer of Peter Leko, Amador is now a director of leading Spanish chess magazine Peón de Rey.

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.d3 d6 6.c3 Be7 7.Nbd2 0-0 8.Nf1 Be6

Anand's opponent has played very well the opening, developing all his pieces correctly. 9.Ne3 b5 10.Bc2 d5 11.Ng5 d4 12.Nf5

h6 [It's not bad, but here Black missed 12...Bxf5! 13.exf5 Qd7 seizing the initiative as White does not have a good way to protect his f5 pawn, for instance 14.Qf3 (14.g4? dxc3 15.bxc3 b4! is just great) 14...dxc3 15.bxc3 Nd5 and Black is clearly better] 13.Nxe6 fxe6 14.Nxe7+ Qxe7

The position is about equal. The game continued: 15.0-0 Rad8 16.Qe2 Qf7?! [There are no good prospects for the queen in the king side. A better try was 16...Qc5!?] 17.Bd2 [17.f4!?] 17...Qh5

After the exchange of queens Black will face a hard task in the endin, so this decision is questionableg. 18.Qxh5 Nxh5 19.g3 Nf6 20.f3 Kf7 21.Kf2 Ke7 22.Ke2

White has centralized his king and during the next few moves he will be looking to open up the position a little bit so that his bishops can create danger. 22...Rd7?! It's not a good place for the rook but it was not easy to predict how Anand was going to take advantage of this move. 23.Bb3 Rfd8 24.c4! That's it! White is now intending to play his rook to c1, to take on b5 hitting the knight on c6 24...b4?? A careless move that puts an end to the game. Now it becomes evident why playing the rook to d7 two moves ago was a bad idea. 25.Ba4 Kd6

Allowing a simple tactical blow, but removing the knight from c6 meant losing the exchange for nothing .26.c5+! Kxc5 27.Rfc1+

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ICC Quiz #2014
submitted by sdrawkcab


White mates in 2

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ICC Quiz #2026
submitted by KingsRook12


White mates in 3

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Solution to ICC Quiz #2014
submitted by sdrawkcab

1.d8=N!! Kb6 (1...Kd5 2.Rh5#) 2.Be3#

Solution to ICC Quiz #2026
submitted by KingsRook12

1.Rc8+! Qxc8 2.Qxg7+! Rxg7 3.Rxg7#