Learning to play easily from Alexander Shvartsman

We were very pleased to see Alexander Shvartsman at our family tournament “Bratislava open 2024”. It is very interesting to watch Alexander Mikhailovich’s game, which includes several components. Here, both the psychological component and the game aspects merge into one.
On our Youtube-канале We have started publishing all Alexander Shvartsman’s games at our tournament. Each of the participants, who got the world champion in the opponent, tried to play a draw. Practically no one has managed to do this. The closest to the coveted draw was Zinaida Alexandrova in the 6th round. But… but… but…
The author of these lines has personally experienced the grandmaster’s vision and intuition of the world champion. We publish a fragment from our party and one of the parties from our channel below. See the rest of the games on our website Youtube-канале.
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V. Teterin – A. Shvartsman, Round 4. The rivals came to this key position in the party with a good amount of time. And it was in this position, which the draughts program estimated as almost equal (+0.3 with a slight advantage of black) that white tried to find the optimal solution. After Black’s last two very precise moves of 1. 45-40 3-9 and 2. 40-34 15-20, White had a difficult choice.:
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In the end, my doubts led me to lose the option. The game was played:
3. 34-29 16-21 4. 48-42??? (oh, horror!) 20-25 5. 30-24 and 4-10!!. It was this move that fell out of my field of vision. Now white’s position was immediately lost! There is no escape from black’s maneuver: 10-15, 14-20 followed by a piece win! Conclusion: And were your doubts necessary? |
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After the attack in version 4.37-31 21-27??, I prepared the following trap:
5. 47-41! 27:47 6. 26-21! 47:24 7. 30:10!!, but if you take the checkers for black correctly, despite white’s one-piece advantage, it turns out to be a draw. This is the experience of the author of these lines playing with the world champion Alexander Shvartsman. An invaluable experience. All the games of our tournament will soon be available in our Telegram channel. |