2016 YourNextMove Blitz & Rapid | Chess in the 21st Century – WGM Tatev Abrahamyan

June 29, 2016 NHaselton Chess Lectures

Saint Louis Chess ClubWed, June 29, 2016 5:00pmURL:
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Woman Grandmaster Tatev Abrahamyan looks at five games from the second leg of the 2016 Grand Chess Tour in Leuven. Pause after each prompt and calculate lines to see if you can match the moves of the world’s best players.

2016.06.23
Fabiano Caruana vs Magnus Carlsen, YourNextMove Blitz (2016)
http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1825311
Maxime Vachier-Lagrave vs Viswanathan Anand, YourNextMove Rapid (2016): C65 Ruy Lopez, Berlin defence
http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1825191
Fabiano Caruana vs Veselin Topalov, YourNextMove Rapid (2016)
http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1825192
Levon Aronian vs Wesley So, YourNextMove Blitz (2016): A09 Reti opening
http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1825264
Hikaru Nakamura vs Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, YourNextMove Blitz (2016)
http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1825285

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