Saturday 29 December 2007

Winter - Alekhine, Margate 1937 part 5

Qb5! 31. Nc1 Rxc3 32. Rxe7 Bxe7 33. Qe1 Kd7 34. f5 Re3 35. Qf2 g5 36. Re1 Re4 37. Rxe4 dxe4 38. Kd2

Friday 28 December 2007

Winter - Alekhine, Margate 1937 part 4


Nc4! 27. Bc1! (if 27 bxc4 Qa4+ 28 Kc1 Ba3 and checkmate in few moves ) Nce3+ 28. Bxe3 Nxe3+ 29. Nxe3 Rxe3 30. Qf2

Thursday 27 December 2007

Winter - Alekhine, Margate 1937 part 3

Which piece is worst placed? Look at yesterday's diagram and decide where you'll move the knight (and not where he can go)!
25 Na5! b3 What's the next move?

Wednesday 26 December 2007

Winter - Alekhine, Margate 1937 part 2

R8e7 ! 24. Kd1 Qe8 25. Qf3

Tuesday 25 December 2007

Winter - Alekhine, Margate 1937

The last move (14. f4) weakens the e3 and e4 squares. Qg4! (Alekhine wants to take control of the f5 square) 15. h3 Qd7 16. Rhf1 h5! (now if 17 f5 h4 18. f6 Ng8 19. Nh1 Re8 -/+ ) 17. Ng1 h4 18. N3e2 Nf5 19. Nf3 f6 20. Nh2 Rde8 21.Bd2 Re6 22. Ng4 Rhe8 23. Rde1

Monday 24 December 2007

Alekhine - Nimzovitch, 1930, part 5

30. h4! zugzwang h5 31. Kh2 g6 32. g3 1-0
And now the new position!

Sunday 23 December 2007

Alekhine - Nimzovitch, 1930 part 4

27. Ba4! b5 (the only move because of b4-b5) 28. Bxb5 Ke8 29. Ba4 Kd8