Featured is an excellent chess game between Fabiano Caruana and Michael Adams from Dortmund 2013. Out of the Ruy Lopez, Berlin Defense we enter the familiar “Berlin Endgame” where the queens have been traded, and imbalances surface with the minor pieces and structure. After Caruana’s 16th Nc3, play immediately sharpens. Caruana allows Adams’s rook to become active and swipe the c2-pawn. Caruana then targets a vulnerable piece on f8 that cannot be defended. Adams must have seen this idea, and goes hunting for Caruana’s king. Shortly after the win of a piece, Caruana slips up and Adams demonstrates excellent technique with the conversion.
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Image of Michael Adams by Lennart Ootes
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1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 Nf6 4. O-O Nxe4 5. d4 Nd6 6. Bxc6 dxc6 7. dxe5 Nf5 8. Qxd8+ Kxd8 9. h3 Bd7 10. Rd1 Kc8 11. g4 Ne7 12. Ng5 Be8 13. f4 h5 14. Kf2 b6 15. f5 Kb7 16. Nc3 hxg4 17. hxg4 Rh2+ 18. Kg3 Rxc2 19. Nh7 c5 20. Nxf8 Bc6 21. f6 Rg2+ 22. Kf4 gxf6 23. exf6 Rf2+ 24. Ke3 Rxf6 25. Nh7 Rf3+ 26. Kd2 Rd8+ 27. Kc2 Rxc3+ 28. bxc3 Ba4+ 29. Kb2 Rxd1 30. Bg5 Nc6 31. Rxd1 Bxd1 32. Bf4 Bxg4 33. Nf6 Bf3 34. Ne8 Na5 35. Nxc7 Bc6 36. Kc2 Kc8 37. Kd3 Kd7 38. Kc2 Nc4 39. Na6 Bb7 40. Nb8+ Kc8 41. Kd3 b5