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A nice game when Hikaru was only a 2650+ GM.
Hikaru shows his strong attacking skills in this Blitz game against Loek Van Wely and plays the absolute best moves in all the positions that arise in the game.

Game Details
Hikaru Nakamura vs Loek van Wely
Corsica Masters (2007) (blitz), Bastia FRA, rd 2, Oct-29
Semi-Slav Defense: Anti-Moscow Gambit (D44)

Notation
1. d4 d5 2. c4 c6 3. Nf3 Nf6 4. Nc3 e6 5. Bg5 h6 6. Bh4 dxc4
7. e4 b5 8. e5 g5 9. Bg3 Nd5 10. Nd2 Nd7 11. Be2 Bb7 12. a4
Qb6 13. Nde4 a5 14. O-O Rd8 15. Bh5 b4 16. Qg4 Nc7 17. Nd6+
Bxd6 18. exd6 Nf6 19. Qf3 Nxh5 20. dxc7 Rxd4 21. Qxh5 bxc3
22. bxc3 Rd3 23. Rab1 Qa6 24. Be5 Rh7 25. f4 c5 26. fxg5 Rd2
27. Rxb7 Qxb7 28. Qf3 Rd5 29. g6 1-0

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

00:00 Intro, game summary and learnings
03:10 Different variations in this Semi Slav line
05:33 Guess the harmless looking move that is a blunder
07:23 Guess the move #2
11:05 Guess the move #3
12:01 Guess the move #4
14:44 Black resigns
14:54 Summary and outro

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