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Day 58

Leave a Comment / Climb To 2000, French Defense, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave / November 3, 2021

Rating 1821

Puzzle Rush Score 28

Daily Study Today I played three blitz games. I won one and lost two. I had good positions in all of the games (I even blundered a full bishop and was still winning) and it was blunders in time trouble that led to the losses. Today I was excited to see that Maxime Vachier-Lagrave had a win in the Grand Swiss against the French Defense using the same line I have been working on that Carissa Yip used in the U.S Women’s Chess Championships.

It would be great to see Maxime finish in the top two and secure a spot in the Candidates Tournament.

Here is the game (annotations by Peter Doggers).

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More 2021 Sinquefield Cup

The 2021 Sinquefield Cup has finished and the winner of the tournament is Maxime Vachier-Lagrave. He had a great tournament and played really well. I thoroughly enjoyed watching his games and the commentary of the event. Here is one of Maxime’s wins against Jeffery Xiong where he is able to gain a great deal of space as white in the Ruy Lopez. Another defining feature of the game is the control of the h file and if the game were to have continued you would have seen the Rook heading to h7 giving white complete control of the position.