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After 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Black can spoil White s intentions to play the Ruy Lopez, the Scotch Game, the Giuoco Piano or the Evans Gambit by answering with 2. . d6. In a first article on this topic I described that the former World Champion Alexander Alekhine (1892 - 1946) played the Philidor Defence several times and was very successful with it. Since the article met with lively interest and some ChessBase readers also provided interesting hints, I would like to go into some more details and present some more exciting games with this opening.
Edward Lasker vs Alekhine - a positional masterpiece
The 15-year-old Alexander Alekhine played an interesting game against Edward Lasker in Dusseldorf (Germany) in 1908. Again he chose the Hanham variation, in which Black defends e5 by 3. . Nd7 instead of giving up the the centre by exchanging pawns or risking Philidor s hazardous counterattack 3. . f5?!. Through skilful manoeuvring Alekhine reduced the white KB to an ext
Victorija Cmilyte: Grandmaster and Politician
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Mind-boggling
A year before transferring back to the United States, Fabiano Caruana achieved what has been the strongest performance in his career and one of the most incredible feats in the history of competitive chess. At 22, he obtained a stratospheric 3103 Tournament Rating Performance by scoring 8½/10 points in the second edition of the Sinquefield Cup. Moreover, he did it by winning his first seven games consecutively.
The achievement reached mainstream media, with Seth Stevenson writing for Slate:
To you and me, going unbeaten and undrawn in five straight tournament games sounds impressive. But to chess aficionados, Caruana’s performance is nigh on miraculous. Caruana wasn’t merely avoiding draws and losses. In the words of one commentator, he was “spanking” his opponents.