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Analyze chess games. What types of games are there in chess? But this is not so well known, but it’s funny, I dug it myself

currently on the list: 77 games In this note, I want to collect both the best and most famous chess games in history, as well as games that have become popular as curiosities or elements of works of art. No unnecessary words, only direct links through which the game is played online, the article will be updated. To play games online, you need Javascript enabled in your browser ( wait for the game to load in a new window (tab) and click on the buttons< ... >under the board).

Classics of the genre

The first three games, in my opinion, should be known to absolutely everyone who is even slightly interested in chess... the rest is not ordered by time, but rather by “spirit” :)

Immortal. A. Andersen - L. Kieseritzky, 1851. This party even has. Andersen sacrifices a bishop, two rooks, a queen... and wins with checkmate :)
Evergreen, also known as Unfading. A. Andersen - J. Dufresne, 1852. Again a beautiful cascade of sacrifices - two knights, a rook for a knight, a queen, and checkmate on the 24th move. In "Wiki".
Opera (Night at the Opera). P. Morphy - Consultants, 1858. The bishop and rook checkmate the entire black army. In "Wiki".
Battle of Hastings. W. Steinitz - K. Bardeleben, 1895. Standard example of a combination game. Shocked, Bardeleben staggered out of the gaming room and refused to finish the game:)
R. Reti - A. Alekhine, 1925. Perhaps, black here exemplarily makes it clear what an attack is in chess. Alekhine considered this game one of his highest creative achievements.
By the way:
first Russian world chess champion Alexander Al e Khin - no Alyokhin, and hated when they called him that
G. Pillsbury - Um. Lasker, 1895/96. The interaction of black pieces and Lasker's combinational genius is something.
M. Chigorin - Z. Tarrasch, 1893. Dr. Tarrasch shows what plan and counterplay are.
Em. Lasker-M. Chigorin, 1895. The originality of the style in which Chigorin defeats the world champion is unsurpassed :)
M. Chigorin-V. Steinitz, 1889. And here the Russian master demonstrates a unique level of position assessment, and without any computers.
D. Bruhl-F. Philidor, 1783. Another striking example of positional play without any computers, the pawn race in the endgame is class.
Em. Lasker - I. Bauer, Amsterdam, 1889 - a classic example of the power of Horwitz's bishops, which were sacrificed and allowed White to win in Bird's opening
G. Maroczy - S. Tartakover, Teplitz-Schönau, 1922. Black sacrifices a rook “out of the blue” and wins beautifully
R. Reti - M. Euwe, Rotterdam, 1920. Reti boldly sacrifices 2 rooks in my favorite manner and wins on move 19.
E. Adams - K. Torre, New Orleans, 1920. A classic example of a “mad queen” persistently offering herself as a sacrifice (from White’s 18th move).
Sacrifice of three queens. E. Bogolyubov - A. Alekhine, 1922. You don’t see this often.
Checkmate Legal. C. de Legal - Saint-Brie, Paris, 1750. In Wiki. Classic way to lose quickly :)
A. McDonnell - L. de Labourdonnais, London, 1834 - classic hack, in which 3 black pawns on the second rank win
Hunt for the King, aka Fatal Attraction. Ed. Lasker-D. Thomas, 1912, "five minutes" in chess club City of London. Queen sacrifice and incredible checkmate to the black king on the g1 square. By the way, a refutation of the fact that you cannot checkmate with the king :) The funniest thing is that this not the one Lasker, in the sense, is not world champion Emmanuel Lasker, but his namesake and colleague Eduard Lasker.
A. Hoffmann - A. Petrov, Warsaw, 1844, the most famous game of the Russian master and the classic extraction of the king by black in the “Italian”.
Mill. K. Torre - Um. Lasker, 1925. This time Lasker is the one, and he loses to the young master Torre in a very beautiful ending. White's 25th move with the queen sacrifice demonstrates a classic example of the "mill", included in all chess textbooks.
“The Immortal Zugzwang Party”, F. Semisch - A. Nimzowitsch, 1923, Carlsbad. A classic example of a miniature showing how to zugzwang an opponent.
By the way:
A “miniature” is considered to be a game containing up to 25 moves inclusive
Another “Immortal”, this time by Akiba Rubinstein, who played black against G. Rotlevi, 1907. How to play the Queen’s Gambit :)
"A Thing of the Passed", M. Botvinnik - H.-R. Capablanca, 1938. This is the curious name of the game on chessgames.com. One way or another, this is Botvinnik’s most famous game. Kasparov called the diagram after 29 moves “the most famous in the history of chess.” White wins by sacrificing 2 pieces.

But this is not so well known, but it’s funny, I dug it myself

This and subsequent lists are ordered chronologically.

Marshall's Deception, S. Levitsky - F. Marshall, 1912, Breslau. After Black's spectacular 23rd move, White's seemingly flawless defense falls apart and he immediately admits defeat.
D. Breuer - D. Esser, Budapest, 1917. White's good 14th move with the king opens an all-out attack with sacrifices in my favorite style.
Em. Lasker - Ed. Lasker, 1924, New York. First a rook against two knights, then a long confrontation and an epic draw between two Laskers.
H.R. Capablanca - A. Alekhine, 1927, Buenos Aires, 1st game of the match for the world title. Capablanca sensationally and for the first time in his life loses to Alekhine, who played the French defense with black. It is curious that after this game Capa did not play 1. e4 for the entire match, and some freaks even today write this:
Once again about the complete solution 1 e4. This solution, as quite a large number of chess players know, is -French defense. This was known to Capablanca and Alekhine (see the first game of their match, after which Capablanca abandoned 1 e4), Botvinnik, Keres, Korchnoi, and so on.
L. Steiner - E. Bogolyubov, Berlin, 1928. One of the longest meditations in the history of chess is, of course, in tournaments played with clocks. Bogolyubov thought about Black's 24th move for 2 hours, after which... he blundered a piece in 2 moves and lost.
H.R. Whitecap Capablanca - K. Treibal, Carlsbad, 1929. Capa changes the pawn structure 4 times per game to win, and Victoria has a "V" shape :)
H.-R. Capablanca - V. Menchik, Hastings, 1929. After White’s 55th move in the classic endgame “Rook and Pawn against Rook,” a series of inexplicable errors begins on both sides... S. Davydyuk writes in detail about this game in the book “Captive of Chess” . Capa still wins, but only because her opponent was just as wrong as he was. Black was played by the famous Vera Menchik, the first world chess champion in history, who defeated many “male” grandmasters.
E. Ortueta - A. Sanz, Madrid, 1933. In the miracle endgame, 3 black pawns beautifully defeat the rook and knight.
D. Bronstein - V. Mikenas, Rostov-on-Don, 1941. An excellent illustration of how superiority in development leads to an inevitable attack.
P. Keres - M. Botvinnik, 1941, match for the title of absolute champion of the USSR. The most brutal defeat in Keres’ career :)
W. Mayfield - W. Trinks, US Open, 1959. What could be cooler than a “baby mat”? But this is the most curious game of 2 half moves, in which it is impossible to imagine that it was played in the 20th century in a tournament at the level of the US Championship :) A type of “stupid checkmate” with black.
M. Tal - M. Botvinnik, Moscow, 1960. Game 17 of perhaps the most famous world championship match in history, in which student Tal defeated Professor Botvinnik. White's shocking 12th move f4 and his subsequent absolutely “illogical” victory seemed to be decisive in the match. An excellent illustration of Tal's vibrant creative style.
H. Vesterinen - P. Keres, 1969. Starting from the 38th move, black makes 44 checks to achieve a draw... and achieves it :)
R. Fischer - M. Taimanov, 1971. 4th game of the dry Candidates match (6:0 in 6 games in favor of Fischer). White's game is perhaps exemplary in terms of balance.
Kaissa (USSR) - Franz (Austria), Stockholm, 1974. A game from the first World Computer Championship, which was confidently won by the Soviet program.
Lew Wenze - Hein Donner, Buenos Aires, 1978. Chinese immortal. The future founder of the Chinese chess school in aggressive style and with a queen sacrifice he “demolishes” the Dutch grandmaster with White in 20 moves.
A. Karpov - G. Kasparov, game 16 of the 1985 match. An incredible defeat of the invincible champion - with White, with an extra pawn and in a position with no obvious weaknesses.
G. Kasparov - V. Salov, Barcelona, 1989. Future V.B. Salov literally ritually melts the world champion in the English beginning.
G. Kasparov - T. Radzhabov, 2003, Linares. And here Garik sensationally lost to his 15-year-old fellow countryman, being left without a piece by move 30, after which he freaked out wildly, literally:
Kasparov, grabbing the microphone, shouted from the stage: “How could you award a prize for beautiful game a game that I lost because of a stupid mistake? You only chose her because she was the only one I lost! I regard your choice as a public insult and humiliation!" Then approaching a group of journalists, he asked who they voted for, and then exclaimed: "This is the greatest insult that journalists have inflicted on me in my entire life. You not only insulted me, you insulted chess! If you think that this game was the most beautiful in Linares, you are harming chess... Radjabov has practically already lost this game.”

Parties that inevitably became historical

Mars versus Venus, 1475. A game from the poem "Chess of Love", written by a group of poets from Valencia. Possibly the oldest recorded game, in which Castelvi (Mars) plays the whites, Vignoles (Venus) plays the blacks, and the eldest of the three poets, Abbé Fenollard (Mercury), comments on the developments. There was no notation yet, the game was described in verse.
G. Greco - NN, Rome, 1619. One of the earliest recorded games, sacrifice of the queen on the 7th move by White and win on the 8th:)
Napoleon Bonaparte - General G. Bertrand, 1820. This game is believed to have been won by the exiled Emperor on the island of St. Helena. Napoleon shows combativeness and good knowledge of tartan. Read more about Napoleon's games in Wiki
Em. Lasker - W. Steinitz, game 7 of the match for the world title, 1894. After losing this game, the first world champion Steinitz began to lose the match... in fact, it became fatal in his career.
IN AND. Lenin against... A. Hitler, Vienna, 1909 (Wiki link). Most likely, this game, in which Ilyich allegedly won, is a fake, in contrast to the considered more reliable game of Lenin, which Ilyich allegedly cheated on the writer M. Gorky in Capri in 1908.
Alas, the game with Gorky is also not the same:
“I’m not a chess player, and, frankly speaking, I don’t see the difference between chess and fishing.”
M. Gorky, quote from the book by S. Voronkov
And the game, according to experts, was played between the ships "Lenin" and "Gorky" in 1962. Source: Informator, 1962/64.
R. Reti - S. Tartakower, Vienna, 1910 - classic “educational” miniature on the theme of the double check.
H.-R. Capablanca - G. Steiner, Los Angeles, 1935 - not only a beautiful victory for Capa, but also a game with living pieces as part of the Living Chess Exhibition, the photo is on the game page.
N. Ryumin - M. Botvinnik, Moscow, 1935. It is generally accepted that this game was described by M. Bulgakov in The Master and Margarita. Pay attention to White's 33rd move, when Ryumina's king stood on g2, after which Black put in check.
“The king is on square two,” Woland said without looking at the board.
“Messire, I’m terrified,” the cat howled, feigning horror on its face, “there is no king on this square.”
L. Aronin - V. Smyslov, USSR Championship, 1951. It is believed that it was because of this draw (instead of winning the game) that grandmaster Aronin gradually went crazy. Quotes: “Aronin convincingly outplayed his partner and by the time of adjournment had a huge advantage. Having several paths to victory, to his misfortune, with the first move he made during the completion of the game, he went into a pawn endgame that seemed completely won. But it was there, in the home analysis, that V. V. Smyslov found a study draw, which he demonstrated to his partner when finishing the game..." (see from White's 42nd move) "Karen Grigoryan recalled that, when he came to Aronin, every time he saw him behind this position, thoughtfully rearranging the pieces"
"Paper Machine" Turing vs A. Glenny, Manchester, 1952. The brilliant mathematician Alan Turing developed a chess algorithm back in those years, but there was nothing to implement it on. In this game, Turing played his algorithm written down on paper against one of his colleagues. I lost, but the trouble has begun :)
Astronaut against the computer "Hall", a game from Stanley Kubrick's film "2001: A Space Odyssey", 1968. In fact, this is the Röth-Schlage game from the 1910 tournament in Hamburg, reproduced by the director in the film... blacks prophetically won, that is, computer, in 15 moves :)
Space-Earth, 1970. Soviet cosmonauts play chess with the Mission Control Center. In "Wiki".
Gioconda, or Mona Lisa, the part of V. Bagirov - E. Gufeld, so named by the winning Gufeld and promoted by him all over the world, 1973:) With comments by the author.
V. Korchnoi (black) against... the spirit of grandmaster Maroczy (1870-1951), contact with whom took place through the medium R. Rollans. The party lasted from 1985 to 1993.
6th game of the match Deep Blue - G. Kasparov, 1997. Kasparov loses and for the first time the match “Protein World Champion - Computer” ends in favor of the computer. Since then it has been like this :) In "Wiki".
G. Kasparov - the whole world, 1999. A consultation game in which the whole world, or rather the whole Internet, played against Harry. So far the first and only one of its kind... especially since Kasparov defeated the planet! Today, every amateur can be convinced that the final position of the game (FEN: 8/6P1/5K2/8/3pq3/8/5Q2/2k5 w - - 0 1) is indeed assessed as hopelessly lost for Black.
Harry Potter and friends against Professor McGonagall, from the film... unfortunately, the game created by Jeremy Silman specifically for the film released in 2001 was “cut” during the director, so the moves shown are inconsistent... , a game similar in idea to chessbase.
A. Slyusarchuk - Rybka IV, 2011 - the largest modern deception in chess. A Ukrainian rogue showman named Slyusarchuk allegedly beats the strongest at that time chess program world Rybka IV (by the way, later also declared plagiarism:), also.
B. Gates - M. Carlsen, 2014. Billy loses to the world champion in 9 moves, giving rise to countless memes and jokes.

Solving tactics, studies and chess compositions should be the first step for anyone who wants to improve themselves.

Step 2.

The next step should include studying the Masters/Grandmaster games. However, you should not jump to this step quickly. First you must get to know simple tactics , such as fork, double attack, pin, through attack, simple mating networks, etc. Without knowing the basic techniques, it will be difficult for you to analyze the games of strong players.

I would also like to add a few words about the masters' games. Ideally, when you watch a game for the first time, you study it without reading comments and see how much you can understand the different moves. Pay attention to the game plan, tactics, mistakes, transition from middlegame to endgame, etc. Put yourself in the player's shoes and try to analyze the position from their point of view. As you watch the game, stop and ask yourself: “ How would I play here?" Try to understand the ideas behind the moves.

After the preliminary work has been done, you need to re-look at the game with comments and fill in the gaps that you missed during self-analysis. This approach to learning is more productive and profitable than simply reading comments and watching the game. Some chess coaches recommend reviewing games even 4-5 times in order to better understand and remember the material studied.

Practice. Practice. Practice.

Each player must apply knowledge in practice. Playing games is absolutely necessary to improve your chess skills.

Another important condition without which self-improvement is impossible is motivation. Only a well-motivated person can spend hours playing chess, study theory productively, play practice matches and not give up further practice, regardless of the result. It is these players who quickly achieve serious growth.

Step 3.

To understand the analysis given in the books, you must understand chess notation and good knowledge of special notations. When you study a chess game, you will have to interpret moves and specials. notations automatically, without wasting time on understanding and using cheat sheets.

Some players, despite playing chess for a long time, are unable to read chess notation or quickly find the right square on the board to make a move.

If you do not know chess notation, then I can offer you a very simple exercise. When you play the game, use an unmarked board (no numbers or letters) and try to write down your move as quickly as possible. It is also necessary to quickly define fields and name them, e.g. d2, h5, a3 etc., without calculating their coordinates.

Step 4.

Every chess player should be able to identify mistakes in their own games. When analyzing your games, you should always look for ways to strengthen your game and write appropriate comments. When analyzing you need to try to answer 3 questions:

1. Where were the main mistakes made and how could you have played better? (for both players)
2. What was each side's plan?
3. What was the reason for your mistake? (little time, option not calculated deeply enough, gross mistakes, etc.))

Analyzing and commentating your games is extremely important to improve the quality of your game.

Another important point is the importance systematic training. Working on chess throughout 30 minutes 3-4 days a week You will achieve greater success than spending 2 hours training, but once a week.

Many players adhere to the wrong learning strategy, concentrating on one chess topic for a long time. For example, after studying for a very long time opening schemes or patterns of play in the middlegame. As a result, this does not give the necessary progress in chess.

Some outstanding chess coaches believe that the most effective method– study several topics during one lesson. For example, first a little theory, then analysis of the classical game, tactics and endgame.

Step 5.

The next step in chess development is to study the history of chess, along with the biography of your favorite players and their games. Choose games from such outstanding players as Botvinnik, Smyslov, Nimzowitsch, etc. and study their ideas that they applied in games.

You can also study the games of modern players, but do not forget about the classics, since the plans and ideas of the great masters of chess history are easier to understand and apply in your own games.

Another very important part of learning is participating in good chess competitions. For a player to grow, it is recommended that he participate in 5-6 tournaments a year. This way you can test all the acquired skills and theoretical knowledge through good practice.

Let's summarize.

There are 5 steps that are essential to improve your game:

1. Solving tactics, studies and chess compositions.
2. Studying master games, practice matches and working on motivation.
3. Improving the skills of reading/writing chess notation.
4. Analysis of your own games, study of the endgame.
5. Chess history and participation in chess tournaments(5-6 tournaments per year).

Olesya played the Sicilian for Black and once again the bishop C4 was played against her. A detailed analysis of this game was carried out with Olesya by her coach Oleg Kislitsyn. So,

Usually White's third move here is d4 or bishop b5, rarely the knight on c3. But the bishop on c4 is the rarest move. This is a bad move - it is unlikely that the bishop on c4 will be of much use. The only thing that justifies it is that you can’t immediately click on the bishop here.

The main move for Black here is Nf6 or e6. Olesya chose the move e6 - an excellent move that limits the white bishop.

Sicilian for blacks - collage 1

There is a very interesting point here - we (Black) are ready to pin the bishop with pawns on the queenside. If White castles here, then Black can play b5. When the bishop moves to b3, Black catches it.

But White limits the advance of b5 with a4.

Sicilian for blacks - collage 2

Black's queen is worth very well. If White plays d4 now, he could be in trouble.

If Black ate cd, then only the queen can eat on d4, otherwise we will take the bishop with the queen. Then Black moves to c6 and the resulting position is clearly in Black’s favor. White spent precious tempo saving the queen, and our queen is x-raying the bishop on c4.

Sicilian for blacks - collage 3

White clearly oriented towards the Italian party. This is one of the favorite openings for beginners, but White has minimal initiative here. 200 years ago, the Italians called this opening “the quietest game.”

White brings the bishop to e3, apparently preparing the future move d4, otherwise there is no point in e3.

With this move on e3, White brought the last minor piece into the battle. It seems that Black is a little late. In fact, in Sicilian it is normal to be a couple of pieces late.

Sicilian for blacks - collage 4

When moving to d5, it turns out that the number of attackers and defenders of the d5 pawn is equal and the cost of the pieces is approximately equal. In such a situation, White cannot exchange, otherwise he will be left without a piece.

Sicilian for blacks - collage 5

And yet the move d5 was made too early, since Bf4 could have followed and the queen would be on an unsuccessful square. It would be better for Black to play Ks6.

But in the game the game went differently. The opponent did not play Bf4, although it could have been an interesting line.

It is unclear why White went with his knight and easily gave up a piece. White cannot even win back a pawn, because a counter capture of dc is impossible due to the pin on the queen.

Hello everyone dear friends. Zhorik's dad is with you.

In today's article I will tell you about how Zhorik and I spend chess analysis of the game played online. Moreover, the analysis is very high quality.

The computer shows with arrows the moves (where it is better to go), where the error is. It shows “+” or “-” with numbers, immediately finds options for checkmates in a certain number of moves, sacrifices, combinations and everything like that.

And everything is very convenient. Once you play, you press a button and you analyze the game for each move. The computer is not stupid; it analyzes everything very well. Don't think that you are smarter than him. =)

In fact, now there are a bunch of different free and paid programs in both Russian and English languages, where all sorts of engines are connected. There are services, etc. But personally, both Zhorik and I like to analyze everyone more www.lichess.org.

If you play on a computer, it looks like this:

And if on a phone (iPhone), then like this:

The scheme is simple if you play on the lichess.org website itself. We played, after the game click - analysis:

And by clicking on each move in the table with the mouse, look at what the computer shows you. The Stockfish 8.0 engine will analyze the chess game. In fact, it’s a very cool engine, so you can’t doubt its quality of analysis.

Here is an example of a game I played with Zhorik. They tested him on his knowledge of the trap in protecting the pawn on e5, with the f6 pawn. The game had: 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 f6 3. Nxe5 fe:

You see, the computer shows with an arrow that the next move is to move, it advises the queen on h5. He also evaluates the position as +3.6 in favor of White.

In fact, you sit like that after the game, look at your mistakes and understand how easy it was to win, however.))) The opponent made mistakes here and there... Eh... I wish I could turn back time. I would arrange it for him.)))

Thanks to chess analysis your level of play improves. You start to find good moves, you start to see sacrifices, good combinations, etc.

Further. If you play not on lichess, but for example somewhere on another site or even offline with a friend in a chess club in your city or at some competitions, you sit down and write down the game on a form and want to analyze it, then again, with lichess is not a problem.

If you have a pgn file, you can import it into lichess and carry out the analysis step by step:

Also, if you don’t need analysis from the very beginning of the game, but want to analyze some chess position and find out how you could have made a better move than you actually did, then everything is just as simple here.

Come in board editor and choose whose move:

Clear the board:

Set the desired position by dragging the figures onto the board:

Press the button - “Analysis”. As a result, this is what the compm shows me:

Checkmate in 4 moves. With a rook sacrifice.)) These are the pies.

Analyze, practice and improve your playing skills. At the end of the article, I suggest you analyze the games between Sergey Karjakin and Magnus Carlsen.

Watch the games here and make your moves on lichess.org under stockfish analysis. I also advise you to analyze various.

That's all for me. Wait for new articles. We will further describe other possibilities of computer analysis. For example, there is such a mega cool program - Chessbase.

See you soon...