Killegar Chess presents: Alexei Shirov Vs. Veselin Topalov, 2001

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A razor-sharp miniature featuring a wild Perenyi attack.

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Gaming

Tags:

• Grandmaster
• Chess
• Shirov
• Topalov
• Perenyi
• Attack
• Sicilian
• Defence
• Strategy
• Tactics
• Sean
• Godley

[gadmc2]

Damn, whay do you upload only bad Topalov' parties? What do you have against him? He is World Champion and the player with the second highest rating in the history!

[SeanGGodley]

I do not like Topalov because of the people he has on his team - Danailov and Cheparinov - and their attack on Vladimir Kramnik, which even to this day Kramnik has to justify when it is completely clear that he was absolutely innocent. I don't deny that he is a good player - but still, I do not like the person, and in the upcoming WC I will be 100% behind Vishy.

[furiosoRIOT]

wish he still rocked a mullet like back in the grandmaster video days \(o_0)/

introduction of dymanic g4 was so rad. wasnt this idea from one of Shirov's seconds in match prep?

[SeanGGodley]

I'm not sure. It's named after Bela Perenyi, who was killed in 1988, so I think it's probably older than that. Very interesting play anyway!

[rbimalumphy]

did you get this from fire on board

[SeanGGodley]

Nope! Tht's the book of Shirov's greatest games isn't it? I in fact got it from a different book. It's a great game; not surprising it's in a few!

[gtamateur]

@YtubeUserr Vishy is very solid player. Yes sometime he get exciting games but vishy style is more about getting positionnal advantage. topalov had a reputation to be agressive but after the last championship i can agree that at top level topalov dont play that agressive but vishy in my mind isnt a agressive player. For me a agressive player is Kasparov, Tail, Morozoveitch(sorry for bad spelling), Nakamura. Vishy is more like a Botvinnik, Bronstein, Fischer positionnal type of player

[YtubeUserr]

@gtamateur Vishy is more aggessive than Topalov IMO. He's got so many agressive games and miniatures. When Vishy reached the world championship venue rather late after 40 hours on the road(not his fault), Danailov refused to allow Vishy a day's rest by postponing the start of the first game! Vishy was tired and lost the first game with black pieces. What a buch of d***heads Topalov and his team are! And i don't really understand why people consider Vishy as solid? He plays exciting chess.

[gtamateur]

@SeanGGodley for myself i cannot choos my camp because you cnat compare vishy and top style. Vishy is more a solid player liek kramnik that whyt ehy give us boring wc last year but top is a really agressive player like ivanchuk and shirov so i cant choose. An you are right top have a very bad sense of loosing not like Kasparov than laugh when he loose

[downding]

Holy crap. This was really insane stuff. Kuds to Shirov's home prep work.