Chess World.net presents Blitz #441 vs JacBror (1908) English: symmetrical variation

[TsuKing]

people who comment, please don't say who won in your comment. Say Nice game, or well played, but not nice win or bad loss

[rulo0801]

simple solution: don't read comments on videos before you watch them! and stop telling people what or what not to comment!

[TsuKing]

yeah I know, hard to resist reading the first comments :P

[Ruxistico]

Nice win. I think you are right about the Reti opening. It seems to throw some opponents off balance. Yesterday I played a 4-game rapid-match against my main rival. The fourth game was decisive and it seemed he was well prepared against my usual D4, so I chose 1. Nf3 and got a psychological edge. I managed to secure some advantage from this and eventually won the game and match. I think that it's interesting that Reti's original idea can still confuse seemlingly well-prepared opponents. 5 stars!

[dan112358]

That was a total murder.

[mavaddat]

Wonderful capitalizing on the knight outpost!!

[kookoon]

whoaaaa nice game.

maybe 15. Nc7 would have been more complicated, with treat of Bd5 and taking rooks etc. have to check on some engine- thanks for video-

[dakgootje]

15. Nc7 is, with all due respect much worse.

The played move (Bxd6) keeps the pressure and wins a clear - and important! - pawn.

15. Nc7 on the other hand gives up two pieces for a rook and all whites initiative is gone.

Or, as there are always a couple of viewers around only convinced by engines, as Rybka says: 15. Bxd6 has an evaluation of +0.97 while Nc7 has -1.74

(Used Rybka 3 human 32-bit with hashtable size of 512MB -- both moves separately calculated for 5 minutes)

[pheisar]

"Ding" Ok... !

Love your vids :)

[KalkiAwaits]

Wow...the opening did mess him up good one