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Fabulous Attacking Chess Game: Fabiano Caruana vs Sergey Karjakin : St. Louis Rapid (2017)

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♚Play turn style chess at Chessworld.net: http://osk03.chesshorsey.com/chessclubs/asplogin.asp?from=1053 Instructive game tags : rapid game, high level rapid game, Super GM rapid chess, Nimzo Indian defence, Rubinstein e3 deferred with Nf3 first, Pillsbury bind, light square e4 vulnerability, releasing central tension with c4, Attacking bind formation, h7 softspot, Queen attacking via h3, Queen supports winning material with nd7, winning exchange, winning material, forcing moves, when to ignore threats when you can make bigger threats, Kingside vs Queenside, attacking vs defending, parrying threats by making bigger threats, bishop sac, bishop sacrifice, line opening, king attack line opening, pieces crashing through on kingside, amazing attacking game, weaving mating net Game quality tags: brilliant, crushing, dynamic, exciting, fabulous, flashy , instructive, interesting, outrageous, prize, sparkling [Event "St. Louis Rapid & Blitz (Rapid)"] [Site "St Louis, MO USA"] [Date "2017.08.14"] [EventDate "2017.08.13"] [Round "3"] [Result "1-0"] [White "Fabiano Caruana"] [Black "Sergey Karjakin"] [ECO "E21"] [WhiteElo "2807"] [BlackElo "2773"] [PlyCount "63"] 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. Nf3 b6 5. e3 Bb7 6. Bd3 O-O 7. O-O d5 8. cxd5 exd5 9. Ne5 c5 10. f4 Nc6 11. Ne2 c4 12. Bc2 Ne7 13. Ng3 Nc8 14. Nh5 Be7 15. b3 cxb3 16. axb3 Nd6 17. Nxf6+ Bxf6 18. Ba3 Bc8 19. Qf3 Bb7 20. Bd3 a5 21. Rac1 a4 22. Qh3 g6 23. Nd7 Be7 24. Nxf8 Bxf8 25. f5 axb3 26. fxg6 hxg6 27. Bxg6 fxg6 28. Qe6+ Kh7 29. Bxd6 Qxd6 30. Rf7+ Kh6 31. Qh3+ Kg5 32. g3 1-0 ►Kingscrusher chess resources: http://osk03.chesshorsey.com/chessclubs/learn_coaching_chessable.asp ►Kingscrusher's "Crushing the King" video course with GM Igor Smirnov: http://chess-teacher.com/affiliates/idevaffiliate.php?id=1933&url=2396 ►FREE online turn-style chess at http://osk03.chesshorsey.com/chessclubs/asplogin.asp?from=1053 or realtime at http://www.chessclub.com/from/kingscrusher (use my discount code KINGICC for 10% off) ►Support the channel by donating via PayPal: http://goo.gl/7HJcDq ►Kingscrusher resources: http://osk03.chesshorsey.com/chessclubs/learn_coaching_chessable.asp ►Playlists: http://goo.gl/FxpqEH ►Follow me at Google+ : http://www.google.com/+kingscrusher ►Play and follow broadcasts at Chess24: https://chess24.com/premium?ref=kingscrusher Thumbnail Thumbnail: Caruana vs Karjakin Caruana By This photo was taken by Przemyslaw Jahr Autorem zdjecia jest Przemyslaw Jahr Wykorzystujac zdjecie prosze podac jako autora: Przemyslaw Jahr / Wikimedia Commons (Own work) [GFDL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html), CC-BY-SA-3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/) or CC BY-SA 2.5 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5)], via Wikimedia Commons Karjakin By Andreas Kontokanis from Piraeus, Greece (Karjakin Sergey) [CC BY-SA 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons

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