This Week's ChessVideos Presentation: An Attack and an Ending in Blitz
Saturday, February 20, 2010 at 12:37AM
Dennis Monokroussos in Bishop vs. Knight, ChessVideos Presentations, Slav

For your entertainment and hopefully instruction, I show a couple of relatively recent blitz games in my latest ChessVideos presentation. The first is a bishop vs. knight ending that's slightly atypical. We generally think that in static situations the knight is the superior minor piece, but while this may be true as a rule of thumb, this game showed that it's not an absolute law. The second game was shorter and livelier, a Slav of possible theoretical interest where White was able to whip up an overwhelming attack with surprising ease. The key idea here: the attacker should remember to "invite everyone to the party", to use Yasser Seirawan's apt phrase.

The video is here, and is available on-demand (and free) for the next month or so.

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