Letsplaychess.com presents Anand vs Ivanchuk - Sicilian Defence : Scheveningen variation

[YsnipezYMw2]

Molest the knight, lol

[Madderhatter85]

I am studying the schveningen lately and this was truly helpful. Thanks for the efforts.

[kingscrusher]

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[DuendeDude]

Great game! From KC's view, It looks like Chuky was able to accomplish whatever he wanted, even the slowest strategical plans. what was Anand doing? he had no plan, no "trump cards", did he? Maybe trying to lodge a knight on d5, or even pressuring the king side a bit more... nothing! And what was the idea of putting the king in the middle of the board? I wish we could have Anand's views on this game.

Great game and great analysis

[bendkafka]

Ivanchuk should write a book on this tournament. These games are all brilliant. And he beats Kasparov, Karpov, Anand, and everyone else! Unbelievable!!

[nishantk02]

interesting game!!

[IHATENEDAH]

you show too much variations, even so your other videos were quite good this one is really hard to follow

[bendkafka]

Great game. Very instructive. Thanks.

[jtmv8915]

lol "molest the knight"

[samirhossain]

hahahaha, i need to pick up his vocabulary

[candymaker789]

Who else chuckled at that? I know I did. :D

[xXxWilliExXx]

The game is also very instructive in how Ivanchuk won by applying squeezing positional pressure. His pieces never actually "infiltrated" the Black position (rooks on the 7th, knights on the 6th, etc.), but instead controlled everything from afar. Black's queen, for instance, spent the whole game in the corner of the board, but this turned out to be the ideal place for it!

[rookman64]

@xXxWilliExXx you mean the WHITE position?

[xXxWilliExXx]

On retrospect, Ivanchuk's 24th move: Ndf6 was really a key move in the position. It meant that after 27...Qa7+, the White king was forced into the centre of the board because of 28. Kf1 Ng4! 29. Qg3 Bg5! On f3, the knight also controlled the key d5 square which allowed for the ...d5!! breakthrough.

[phishfooddmb]

your videos rock mate!

[DamnControl2]

Evacuation. lol

[buenotc]

NICE GAME!!!

[ashelbahi]

great stuff.

[IEatNubs6]

thank you for the game. i enjoy it very much!

[arc3celestion]

The Sicilian Najdorf is my favorite opening as black, so I particularly enjoy seeing games where black wins with it. This was another excellent example. Great commentary too, as always.

[rookman64]

@arc3celestion the opening is no the najdorf -_-

how can ppl like a comment that is just plain dumb?

[sax31]

Hurrah!!!!!

First view.

Very good game.