Holy **** have you really been watching him as long as I have? I could swear that game is from 2009-2010... ish.

Kingscrusher is an odd dude for sure, and other chess youtubers have surpassed him by now, but he'll always have a special place in my heart for being a pioneer on the chess youtube front.

So, who is this dude who just beat Caruana? On a scale of one to Wesley So, what have been the projections for Zherebukh's career. I've barely heard of him, but I don't follow chess all that closely.

RIP Art Bisguier


https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/05/u...-article-click

White mates in two.

+1

RIP Art Bisguier

Wesley So playing like a machine, won a great game today and on his way to probably winning the US Championship.

Unbeaten in 60+ games, having won the Sinquefield Cup, Olympiad, London and Tata Steel. Other than Magnus, I can't remember anyone else going on a similar streak.

Wesley So is like a buzzsaw. Destroys everything that's in his way.

In 2018, Magnus Carlsen better be ready...

Wesley So owning fools for free...

Any tips on weighing castling options? My general philosophy is to keep my castling options open as long as possible with a few exceptions: I'm playing the kings indian defense vs oddball openings, or when I'm on the attack in an open ruy lopez and I want to get my kingside rook involved. Besides that, I'll castle if and when I feel it's necessary. Occasionally, I get into an opening that doesn't present any obvious attacks; sort of an opening zugswang. I'll castle and solidify my position.

I'm guessing there's some next level stuff that I'm not aware of. Thanks.

Play kd7 as soon as possible every game

I find this is much more easily accomplished by the side with the black pieces.

lol

Doesn't mean it can't be done by white!

Now I'm wondering what is the earliest instance White has played Kd7 in a GM level game.

The earliest Kd7 I found was on move 20:

[Event "FRA-ch op-B"]
[Site "Marseille"]
[Date "2001.??.??"]
[Round "3"]
[White "Delaplace, Thomas"]
[Black "Ratel, Laurent"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "B00"]
[PlyCount "40"]
[EventDate "2001.??.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "FRA"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceDate "2001.11.25"]

1. e4 b6 2. Bc4 Bb7 3. d3 e6 4. Nc3 Bb4 5. Bd2 Nf6 6. Nge2 O-O 7. e5 Ng4 8. d4
Qh4 9. g3 Qe7 10. Nf4 Nxe5 11. dxe5 Bxh1 12. f3 Qc5 13. Bd3 Qg1+ 14. Ke2 Qxh2+
15. Ke3 Bc5+ 16. Ke4 f5+ 17. exf6 d5+ 18. Ke5 Nc6+ 19. Kxe6 Nd4+ 20. Kd7 Rf7#
0-1

This is the earliest where White played Kd7 and won - move 25:

[Event "FRG-ch 11th"]
[Site "Voelklingen"]
[Date "1970.??.??"]
[Round "3"]
[White "Longwitz, Achim"]
[Black "Both, Gerhard"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "B02"]
[PlyCount "95"]
[EventDate "1970.??.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "15"]
[EventCountry "GER"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceDate "2000.11.22"]

1. e4 Nf6 2. e5 Nd5 3. Nc3 Nxc3 4. bxc3 d6 5. f4 Bf5 6. Rb1 dxe5 7. fxe5 e6 8.
Qf3 Qh4+ 9. Qf2 Qxf2+ 10. Kxf2 Bxc2 11. Ra1 Be7 12. Nf3 O-O 13. d4 Nd7 14. Bb2
Nb6 15. Rc1 Be4 16. Ke3 Bxf3 17. Kxf3 f6 18. exf6 Rxf6+ 19. Ke4 Rf2 20. Rb1
Raf8 21. g3 Nd5 22. Bc4 c6 23. Ke5 R8f5+ 24. Kxe6 Rf6+ 25. Kd7 Rd6+ 26. Kc8 b5
27. Bxd5+ cxd5 28. Ba3 Rd8+ 29. Kc7 Bg5 30. h4 Rf7+ 31. Kc6 Bd2 32. Rxb5 Bxc3
33. Bc5 a6 34. Rb3 Ba5 35. Bb6 Bxb6 36. Kxb6 Rb8+ 37. Kxa6 Ra8+ 38. Kb6 Rxa2
39. Re1 Rf6+ 40. Kb5 Ra8 41. Rbe3 Rff8 42. Re6 Ra3 43. R1e3 Rf3 44. R3e5 Rxg3
45. Rxd5 Kf7 46. Rde5 Rg4 47. d5 Rxh4 48. Rf5+ 1-0

GM Eric Prie played Kd7 on move 27 and won:

[Event "Mislata op 43rd"]
[Site "Mislata"]
[Date "2009.08.29"]
[Round "8"]
[White "Prie, Eric"]
[Black "Vitor, Antonio"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "A47"]
[WhiteElo "2491"]
[BlackElo "2398"]
[PlyCount "103"]
[EventDate "2009.08.24"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "ESP"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceDate "2009.09.03"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. Bf4 b6 3. e3 Bb7 4. Nf3 d6 5. c4 g6 6. Nc3 Ne4 7. Nxe4 Bxe4 8. Bd3
Bxd3 9. Qxd3 Bg7 10. h4 h6 11. O-O-O Nd7 12. e4 Qc8 13. e5 dxe5 14. Nxe5 Nxe5
15. Bxe5 Bxe5 16. dxe5 Qf5 17. h5 Qxd3 18. Rxd3 Rg8 19. hxg6 Rxg6 20. g3 Rd8
21. Kc2 Rxd3 22. Kxd3 Kf8 23. Rh4 f6 24. Ke4 fxe5 25. Kxe5 Rg5+ 26. Ke6 Rg6+
27. Kd7 Rd6+ 28. Kxc7 Rd2 29. Rf4+ Ke8 30. b4 Rxa2 31. c5 bxc5 32. bxc5 a5 33.
Rh4 Rxf2 34. Rxh6 Rg2 35. Rh8+ Kf7 36. Kb6 Rxg3 37. c6 Rb3+ 38. Kxa5 Rc3 39.
Kb6 Rb3+ 40. Ka7 Ra3+ 41. Kb7 Rb3+ 42. Kc8 e5 43. c7 Ke6 44. Re8+ Kd5 45. Kd7
Rc3 46. c8=Q Rxc8 47. Rxc8 e4 48. Re8 Kd4 49. Ke6 e3 50. Kf5 Kd3 51. Kf4 e2 52.
Kf3 1-0

Nice, thanks. Sadly no Bowlgar-style queens-on-board marches.

At the Reykjavik Open today, Sopiko G. (Mrs. Anish Giri), rated 2363, had just played 17...Ng3 against GM Stefansson (2566).

Although Stockfish likes White after either 18. Rg1 or 18. Nxg3, Stefansson decided to play 18. f4??...after which Sopiko just captured the Rook, and the GM resigns.

Sounds like he lost a bet.

There's a famous example of White moving the king onto the 7th rank (not d7, though) at move 25, to the 8th at move 28, with queens still on, and proceeding to win the game

Heard chess.com has cheaters tht go undetected in 1|0 and 3|0 games...

Pretty much every site has that.

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