Amazing Chess Tactics & Games

End-Game tactics

EndGame tactics: every move is extremely important

The Icelandic-Palme Gambit is an obscure though intensely tricky sideline of the Modern Scandinavian opening for black! The Icelandic-Palme Gambit is also known as the Icelandic Gambit, or Palme Gambit (after Rudolf Palme (1910-2005), who was the first player to introduce the gambit into master play). It originated in Iceland (as you may have guessed), at a time when the Icelandic masters were looking for an alternative to the more common 3...c6. The opening can get quite sharp, and engines give less than a one pawn advantage to White, so it is not refuted or really a bad opening at all. Opening moves are following: e4 d5 exd5 Nf6 c4 e6 And here we have it! The Icelandic Gambit is on the board! dxe6 Bxe6 d4 Bb4+ This is the Scandinavian Defense opening. Nc3 Ne4 Qd3 Bf5 Be2 O-O Be2 Re8 Qf3 Qxd4 Qxf5 Nxc3 bxe3 Bxc3+ Kf1 (king f1 is a bluder) Qd1+ Bxd1 Re1#

The Longest World Championship Game Ever Played Magnus Carlsen vs Ian Nepomniachtchi - Game 6 03 December 2021 Result: 1-0 Event: FIDE World Chess Championship 2021 The 2021 World Championship match between Magnus Carlsen and Ian Nepomniachtchi was a 14-game match under the auspices of FIDE. It was played at the Expo 2020 Exhibition Centre in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, from 26 November to 10 December 2021. Nepomniachtchi had qualified as challenger at the World Championship Candidates (2020/21) tournament. The time control was 120 minutes for the first 40 moves, followed by 60 more minutes for the next 20 moves, then 15 more minutes to the end of the game with 30 seconds added per move from move 61. Draw agreements were not allowed before Black's 40th move. If 7-7 after 14 games, tiebreak games would be played to determine the winner, starting with a best-of-four rapid match at 25 minutes per player with a 10-second increment. If the match was still tied, up to five two-game blitz mini-matches would be played at 5 minutes per player with a 3-second increment, the winner of any mini-match winning the championship. If the players remained tied, an Armageddon game would determine the champion. The first five games were drawn. Game 6 was a thrilling battle where both sides had chances, but Carlsen ground out a win in 136 moves, the longest world championship game ever. Nepomniachtchi was unable to recover from this blow. He played markedly weaker in the remainder of the match, losing another three games and drawing 2. That gave Carlsen an insurmountable lead of 7½-3½, ending the match. Carlsen thus secured his fifth title and successfully defended his title for the fourth time.

Boris Spassky vs Robert James Fischer "Fischer King" Spassky - Fischer World Championship Match (1972) Spassky was forced to resign at the end. Result 0-1

Robert James Fischer vs Mikhail Tal Herceg Novi blitz (1970) (blitz), Herceg Novi YUG Apr-08 Hungarian Opening: Symmetrical Variation (A00) Result 1-0

Magnus Carlsen vs Garry Kasparov_Reykjavik (Iceland) 2004 The thirteen year old prodigy Magnus Carlsen of Norway caused another sensation on Thursday night when he came close to defeating the world number Garry Kasparov and drew his first game, perhaps the first of many against the world number one. The pair met in the opening round of the Reykjavik Rapid at Reykjavik City Hall. The arbiters struggled to keep an excited crowd silent as the youngster demolished Kasparov's position after about twenty minutes play. The former world champion appeared to miss a couple of tactical shots from the child half his height and a third of his age. After a desperate struggle Kasparov managed to avoid immediate disaster and found refuge in an endgame with opposite coloured bishops. Although Carlsen held an extra outside passed pawn, the game was a draw.