Chess Trick to Win

There are many themes and ideas in chess which shows how to crush your opponent. Today we will see two examples where our masters opened the attacked the king. You can use these two examples in your own games. You have to look the situation when to open the f file. One indicator of the opening f file is when your opponent’s king has less pieces around his king, then you can open the file or other is when you have more pieces than your opponent on king side than you can attack with success. Lets watch these games.

Game Botvinnik vs Vidmar

[Event "Nottingham International Masters"] [Site "Nottingham"] [Date "1936.08.25"] [Round "13"] [White "Botvinnik, Mikhail Moisevich"] [Black "Vidmar, Milan Sr"] [Result "1-0"] [ECO "D40"] [PlyCount "47"] [EventDate "1936.08.10"] [EventType "tourn"] [EventRounds "15"] [EventCountry "ENG"] 1. c4 e6 2. Nf3 d5 3. d4 Nf6 4. Bg5 Be7 5. Nc3 O-O 6. e3 Nbd7 7. Bd3 c5 8. O-O cxd4 9. exd4 dxc4 10. Bxc4 Nb6 11. Bb3 Bd7 12. Qd3 Nbd5 13. Ne5 Bc6 14. Rad1 Nb4 15. Qh3 Bd5 16. Nxd5 Nbxd5 17. f4 Rc8 18. f5 exf5 19. Rxf5 Qd6 20. Nxf7 Rxf7 21. Bxf6 Bxf6 22. Rxd5 Qc6 23. Rd6 Qe8 24. Rd7 1-0 You must activate JavaScript to enhance chess game visualization.

Game Botvinnik vs Tolush

[Event "Match/City Moscow-Leningrad"] [Site "Moscow"] [Date "1965.??.??"] [Round "?"] [White "Botvinnik, Mikhail Moisevich"] [Black "Tolush, Alexander V"] [Result "1-0"] [ECO "E42"] [PlyCount "82"] [EventDate "1965.??.??"] [EventType "team-match"] [EventRounds "2"] [EventCountry "URS"] 1. c4 Nf6 2. Nc3 e6 3. d4 Bb4 4. e3 c5 5. Nge2 d5 6. a3 Bxc3+ 7. Nxc3 cxd4 8. exd4 dxc4 9. Bxc4 Nc6 10. Be3 O-O 11. O-O b6 12. Qd3 Bb7 13. Rad1 Ne7 14. Bg5 Ng6 15. f4 h6 16. f5 exf5 17. Bxf6 Qxf6 18. Rxf5 Nf4 19. Rxf6 Nxd3 20. Rxf7 Nxb2 21. Rxf8+ Kxf8 22. Rf1+ Ke8 23. Be6 Rd8 24. d5 Bc8 25. Rf7 Bxe6 26. dxe6 Rd6 27. Rxg7 Rxe6 28. Rxa7 Nd3 29. h3 Nf4 30. Ra4 Ne2+ 31. Nxe2 Rxe2 32. Ra7 Kf8 33. Rb7 Re6 34. Kf2 Rf6+ 35. Kg3 Rg6+ 36. Kf3 Kg8 37. g3 Rc6 38. Kg4 Kh8 39. Kf5 Rc5+ 40. Kg6 Rc6+ 41. Kh5 Kg8 1-0 You must activate JavaScript to enhance chess game visualization.

You have seen this game now lets look at the starting point of attack! i am showing you again so you can remember this idea and use it in your games.

[Event "Nottingham"] [Site "Nottingham"] [Date "1936.??.??"] [Round "?"] [White "Botvinnik"] [Black "Vidmar"] [Result "*"] [SetUp "1"] [FEN "r2q1rk1/pp2bppp/2b1pn2/4N1B1/1n1P4/1BNQ4/PP3PPP/3R1RK1 w - - 0 1"] [PlyCount "19"] [EventDate "1936.??.??"] 1. Qh3 Bd5 2. Nxd5 Nbxd5 3. f4 Rc8 4. f5 exf5 5. Rxf5 Qd6 6. Nxf7 Rxf7 7. Bxf6 Bxf6 8. Rxd5 Qc6 9. Rd6 Qe8 10. Rd7 * You must activate JavaScript to enhance chess game visualization.

So i hope that you remembered the idea opening f file. Please do use this idea in your next game. Good Luck!