#Chess #AnishGiri #MaximeVachierLagrave

A beautiful positional sacrifice forcing a winning endgame for White from Maxime Vachier-Lagrave

Game details
Maxime Vachier-Lagrave vs Anish Giri
Your Next Move (Rapid) (2018) (rapid), Leuven BEL, rd 8, Jun-14
Queen's Gambit Declined: Exchange Variation (D35)

Notations
1. c4 e6 2. Nc3 d5 3. d4 Nf6 4. cxd5 Nxd5 5. e4 Nxc3 6. bxc3
c5 7. Nf3 cxd4 8. cxd4 Bb4+ 9. Bd2 Bxd2+ 10. Qxd2 O-O 11. Bc4
Nd7 12. O-O b6 13. Rfe1 Bb7 14. Rad1 Rc8 15. Bb3 Re8 16. h4 h6
17. Qf4 Qc7 18. Qxc7 Rxc7 19. d5 Nc5 20. d6 Rd7 21. Bc4 a6
22. e5 b5 23. Be2 f6 24. Rc1 Rc8 25. Rc2 Na4 26. Rxc8+ Bxc8
27. Nd4 fxe5 28. Nxb5 axb5 29. Bxb5 Ra7 30. Rc1 Nb6 31. Rxc8+
Nxc8 32. d7 Rxd7 33. Bxd7 Nb6 34. Bxe6+ Kf8 35. Bb3 Ke7 36. f3
Kd6 37. Kf2 Nd7 38. Ke3 Nc5 39. h5 Nd7 40. a4 Nf6 41. g4 Kc5
42. Kd3 Kb4 43. Bc2 Kc5 44. Kc3 Nd5+ 45. Kb3 Nf4 46. Be4 Ne2
47. a5 Nd4+ 48. Kc3 Kb5 49. a6 Kxa6 50. Kc4 Kb6 51. Kd5 1-0

Full game
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00:00 Intro, game details and initial position
03:02 We have reached the critical position
03:24 Pause the video or look at the position with me
07:22 Pause the video for real and guess the move
11:19 Techniques to calculate some endgames
13:47 Coming back to the game
15:23 Outro


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