Time to sacrifice | Bartel - Chigaev | World rapid

GM Bartel plays against more or less standard Ruy Lopez where black selects closed set-up and parties to some point play independently. White tries to play with knights on the kingside creating threats to King. Chigaev kingside looks very well defended and he starts to play for win as whites attempts to move ahead g pawns causes lots of weaknesses. At some point white is much worse. At the most basic level, White's third move attacks the knight which defends the e5-pawn from the attack by the f3-knight. White's apparent threat to win Black's e-pawn with 4.Bxc6 dxc6 5.Nxe5 is illusory—Black can respond with 5...Qd4, forking the knight and e4-pawn, which will win back the material with a good position. White's 3.Bb5 is still a good move; it develops a piece, prepares castling, and sets up a potential pin against Black's king. Since White's third move carries no immediate threat, however, Black can respond in a wide variety of ways. Traditionally, White's objective in playing the Ruy Lopez is to spoil Black's pawn structure; either way Black recaptures following the exchange on c6 will have negative features, though recapturing gains the bishop pair.[3] In modern practice, however, White does not always exchange bishop for knight on c6, preferring the retreat 4.Ba4 if chased by 3...a6. The theory of the Ruy Lopez is the most extensively developed of all Open Games, with some lines having been analysed well beyond move thirty. At nearly every move there are many reasonable alternatives, and most have been deeply explored. It is convenient to divide the possibilities into two groups based on whether or not Black responds with (3...a6), which is named the Morphy Defence after Paul Morphy, although he was not the originator of the line.[4] The variations with Black moves other than 3...a6 are older and generally simpler, but the Morphy Defence lines are more commonly played. Bartel, Mateusz (2634) Chigaev, Maksim (2631) Event: World Rapid 2019 Site: Moscow RUS Date: 12/27/2019 Round: 7.23 Score: ½-½ ECO: C77 Ruy Lopez, Anderssen variation 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.d3 d6 6.c3 Bd7 7.Nbd2 g6 8.Nf1 Bg7 9.Ng3 O-O 10.h3 Qe8 11.Bb3 Kh8 12.Be3 Ng8 13.Qe2 f5 14.Bd2 f4 15.Nf1 a5 16.g4 a4 17.Bc2 Nf6 18.N1h2 b5 19.g5 Nh5 20.Ng4 Rb8 21.b4 axb3 22.axb3 Ra8 23.Qd1 Be6 24.Rxa8 Qxa8 25.b4 d5 26.Bb3 dxe4 27.Bxe6 Nd8 28.Bb3 exf3 29.O-O Nf7 30.Bxf7 Rxf7 31.Re1 Rf5 32.h4 Qd5 33.Qc2 Ng3 34.Kh2 Ne2 35.Kh3 Rf8 36.c4 Qd7 37.cxb5 Qxb5 38.Qxc7 Qxd3 39.Ra1 Qxd2 40.Ra7 Ng1+ 41.Kh2 Rg8 42.Qc5 Qd4 43.Rxg7 Rxg7 44.Qf8+ Rg8 45.Qf6+ Rg7 46.Kxg1 Qxb4 47.Qd8+ Rg8 48.Qf6+ Rg7 49.Qd8+ ½-½ Blitz chess and rapid chess video. Live blitz and rapid chess. Rapid chess and blitz chess tournaments Blitz chess (also known as speed or fast chess) is a type of chess in which each player is given less time to consider their moves than normal tournament time controls allow. Openings, tactics and strategy are same.