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Improve Your Chess: Highly Instructive Games - Lasker-Vidmar 1909
Opening:
Ruy Lopez: old Steinitz defense
Player(s):
Lasker, Vidmar
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NM Dan Heisman selects for you highly instructive games, that will help you improve your game! In this new series, Dan analyzes famous and not-so-famous games that he thinks will give you a tool to get to the next level.
Today show: World Champion Lasker plays the White side of the Ruy Lopez and the players castle opposite sides. Due to Black's fianchetto and despite the opening, the middlegame resembles a Yugoslav Dragon attack. Despite the date the game was played, Lasker plays the kingside attack in a modern style. Vidmar misses the "anti-positional" defense ..Bg7xBh6 and thus allows Lasker develops a winning position, where he carries off the attack masterfully.