After winning in Gibraltar Masters 2019, Vladislav Artemiev scored his second big victory of the year at the European Individual Chess Championship. He shared the 1st place with Nils Grandelius from Sweden but was better by tiebreak criteria (opponents’ rating minus the lowest). Kacper Piorun (Poland) took the third place with 8 points. Artemiev played his tournament in solid Russian style, winning all his white games and drawing his black games (except for the first round, when he beat his opponent as Black). All these white games were highly interesting rich with dynamic piece play. In this video I am covering his game played in round 2 against Kaido Kulaots where with an impressive double knight sacrifice Vladislav Artemiev managed to bring his opponent’s king in the center, thus gained a slight advantage and in a long and merciless rook and double bishop endgame managed to force his opponent to resign!
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Vladislav Artemiev vs Kaido Kulaots
European Championship (2019), Skopje MKD, rd 2, Mar-19
English Opening: Anglo-Indian Defense. King’s Indian Formation (A15)
1. Nf3 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. b3 Bg7 4. Bb2 c5 5. g3 b6 6. Bg2 Bb7
7. O-O d6 8. e3 O-O 9. d4 cxd4 10. exd4 d5 11. Ne5 Nc6 12. Nc3
e6 13. Rc1 Ne7 14. Ba3 a6 15. Na4 Re8 16. c5 bxc5 17. Nxc5 Bc8
18. g4 Nd7 19. Nxf7 Kxf7 20. Nxe6 Kxe6 21. Re1+ Ne5 22. dxe5
Kf7 23. Bxe7 Kxe7 24. Bxd5 Be6 25. Bxa8 Qxa8 26. Qd6+ Kf7
27. h3 Bf8 28. Qc6 g5 29. Qb6 Rc8 30. Qe3 Be7 31. Rxc8 Qxc8
32. Rc1 Qb7 33. Rc3 Kg7 34. Qd3 a5 35. Qd4 Kf7 36. Kh2 Bb4
37. Qd3 Kg7 38. Qf3 Qxf3 39. Rxf3 Bd2 40. Rf6 Bf4+ 41. Kg1 Bf7
42. Ra6 Bd2 43. Kf1 Bg6 44. Ke2 Bc3 45. Ra7+ Kf8 46. Ke3 Bb1
47. a3 Bg6 48. e6 h6 49. Rc7 Bf6 50. Rc5 Bd8 51. Rc8 Ke7
52. f4 Bb6+ 53. Kf3 gxf4 54. Kxf4 Bd4 55. Rc6 Bb2 56. a4 Bd4
57. Rc4 Bf2 58. Ke5 Bg3+ 59. Kd5 Be1 60. Rc7+ Ke8 61. Rc1 Bd2
62. Rc8+ Ke7 63. h4 Bd3 64. Rc7+ Ke8 65. Kd4 Bb1 66. Ke5 Be1
67. Rc1 Bg3+ 68. Kd5 Bh7 69. Rc3 Bf4 70. Rc5 Ke7 71. Rxa5 Bg8
72. Ra6 Bd2 73. a5 Kf6 74. g5+ hxg5 75. hxg5+ Bxg5 76. Rc6 Kf5
77. a6 Be3 78. b4
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