Startling Blitz Moves
Friday, March 30, 2012 at 11:29PM
Dennis Monokroussos in Hikaru Nakamura

Both are taken from recent blitz games on ICC featuring Hikaru Nakamura ("CapilanoBridge") - but both feature in games he lost. I'm not picking on him - he's an incredible blitz player - but his opponents just happened to find some nice moves, and in the first case, a really spectacular idea. Have a look.

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