Killegar Chess presents: Viswanathan Anand Vs. Vladimir Kramnik, 2010 - part one

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The best game from round 12 of Corus, 2010

Category:

Gaming

Tags:

• Grandmaster
• Chess
• Viswanathan
• Anand
• Vladimir
• Kramnik
• Petrov's
• Defence
• Strategy
• Tactics
• Analysis

[colourmegone]

Am having some difficulty in accessing your videos. Don't know if it's FireFox or YouTube but when I tried to play part one I got a dialogue box asking me if I wanted to Save or Play and to specify a program if Play. Clicked Cancel to resume part two but about 4 minutes in it suddenly started playing one of your Corus videos!

[SeanGGodley]

Hiya buddy hmmmm that's strange. Maybe it was a temporary thing - is it still happening??

[geniusjas87]

I think the sound is kind of low on all your videos...

[SeanGGodley]

Try turning it up my friend!

[RandyHooHa]

Thanks for another impeccable video, Sean!

I'm not comfortable about the Caro-Kann getting lumped in with the despised Petroff, however! The Caro's tough for White to break down, but it's more than a lousy drawing weapon.

[SeanGGodley]

Ha! Okay fair enough. I'm just saying it's a little dull compared to, say, the French - but I agree it's very solid and hard to crack.

(The Sicilian is still best though).

;0)

Sean

[noxtradamentus]

I like these videos!!!

[okihelena]

@BboyTurok1990 Can't Bf1 be played then, unmasking the rook? Obviously it's a worse position than the game continuation, but I don't think the piece is lost, necessarily. Moving the bishop though loses a pawn tactically and opens up a route to the king with Bxh3, though.

[BboyTurok1990]

For those who say he could have pushed to d5, at 5:17 because queen was defending, bishop to d6 wins knight still because the knight is pinned to the queen.

[MrHeroJan]

at 5:17 he could have just pushed d5 imedeatly, i dont see the problem.. is there a hidden tactic or so?

[gunblade712]

sean, you're awesome. all of your vids helped me to understand chess better and improve my games and confidence. i know you'll get this a lot but i just gotta say it.. thanks buddy! keep up the good work!

[theaphotic]

@tufosanta not that i saw you and cilraycil are 100% correct his explanation was incorrect. Stopped watching at that point.

[tufosanta]

he could ve play d5 before playing Qg3 ...the queen would be defending the knight after the pawn is pushed ahead...did u not notice it? or theres some tactic which im missing?

great job on the videos tho sean!

[colourmegone]

It seems to be universal to YouTube. If I try to leave a video even a fraction of a second before it ends I get the problem, so it isn't just your stuff. I don't know if it's YouTube doing something different or if it's the newest 'update' of Firefox causing the problem.

[cilraycil]

at 5:30 d5 would have worked cuz the queen will then be protecting the bushop .

[colourmegone]

It seems to be the bete noir of computer problems, the 'Intermittent Fault'; probably something to do with Firefox or XP or maybe something else or then again maybe not!