Rating 1663
Puzzle Rush Score 30
Today I enjoyed watching the last day of the the 9LX competition where Leinier Domínguez came in first place. As the positions are randomly generated the players have only 15 minutes to prepare their opening lines. I really liked this part of the broadcast as it showed the players thinking of what the key ideas where, how to develop each piece, where the weak pawns were that could be attacked or needed defending. Practical chess by grandmaster players. Also the fact that there was lots of decisive games made it an interesting viewing. It was also great seeing Garry Kasparov do such a great job against the current best players in the world.
I played this Four Knights game reasonably well (aside from one poor opening move). I found a nice deflection tactic that helped me to close the game out quickly.
I watched a video lesson on The Kings Indian by GM Simon Williams. I haven’t played the Kings Indian much so I have been trying to learn a bit more about it. He used the following game as an example. I have added a few annotations looking at some of the main ideas.