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A beautiful game with a flurry of combinations from Viswanathan Anand.

Archangel Variation from Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruy_Lop...

Game Details
Viswanathan Anand vs Veselin Topalov
Hoogovens Group A (1998), Wijk aan Zee NED, rd 5, Jan-21
Spanish Game: Morphy Defense (C78)

Notation
1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.O-O b5 6.Bb3 Bc5 7.a4
Rb8 8.c3 d6 9.d4 Bb6 10.axb5 axb5 11.h3 O-O 12.Re1 Re8 13.Na3
b4 14.Nc4 bxc3 15.bxc3 exd4 16.Nxb6 Rxb6 17.cxd4 Nxe4 18.Bxf7+
Kxf7 19.Rxe4 Rxe4 20.Ng5+ Kg8 21.Nxe4 Bf5 22.Ng5 Ne7 23.g4 Bg6
24.Ne6 Qc8 25.d5 Bf7 26.Nxg7 Kxg7 27.Qd4+ Kf8 28.Bh6+ Ke8
29.Re1 1-0

Full game
https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chess...

00:00 Intro and game details
00:45 Archangel variation and theme
02:18 Small nuances in this variation
05:22 Guess the combination #1
07:25 Black's harmless blunder
09:00 Guess the combination #2
10:15 Black resigns
10:40 Why did Black resign?
13:47 Summary and Outro

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