Diary from the Legend tournament (3)

Published 11. 08. 2020

In the third and final game of the online Legend tournament, we cannot help but look at one of the encounters of the world champion himself against Jan Nepomniachtchi. The game was still played in the preliminary group, and Black had to win to equalise the mini-match score at 2-2 and allow it to continue... with an armageddon. How to play for a win with Black in a rapid game against the world champion? If you follow online broadcasts from the highest echelons of supertournaments, you might know that Black chooses the King's Indian Defence, Dutch Defence, or—if White still wants to fight with an open face—the Pirc-Ufimtsev Defence against the most frequent opening moves. It was precisely this defence that was used in a unique, instructive, certainly entertaining game demonstrating the genius of the Russian grandmaster...

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